known, as subse- quent issues of the local papers contain no references to it. Address to John Adams by Militia of Lancaster County By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T a meeting of one hundred and fifty officers of the militia of Lancaster county on June 21st, 1798, the following address was read and

forces of Pennsylvania for nearly three centuries. From the ranks of our militia men have gone into every war in which our people have engaged and they repre- sent some of the best known leaders in our district, whether of town or country. I have had the honor to command in this country, in Porto Rico

The Militia Muster, or Battalion Day. Sixty or seventy-five years ago neither legal nor other holidays were as common in Lancaster county as they are to-day. It is true that New Year's Day received some attention at the hands of those who owned firearms; Good Friday was observed by a ma- jority of

- ditions were not satisfactory, as in the latter part of June Washington said concerning affairs at New York: "But few militia have yet come in, the whole being about twelve hundred, including the two battalions of this city and one company from the Jerseys. I wish the delay may not be attcnded with dis