arrival. (See Beveridge vol. 2, page 351.) On the afternoon of Monday, June 25, he arrived in Lancaster, Pa., accord- ing to the following excerpt (which is a free trans l ation), copied from "Der Deutsche Porcupein und Lancaster Anzeigs Nachrichten" of Wednesday, June 27, 1798: "On Monday afternoon [Tune

in Lancaster, Pa., at that time a city of 15,000 inhabitants—his home, and the place ever dear to his heart. The decade following the inauguration of General George Washington as President of the new Republic, witnessed the forma- tion of a number of military companies in many communities in the