from his excellency, the Commander-in-chief, a general court-martial was held at Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, when Henry Mansin (who confessed himself an officer in the British army) and Wendal Myer, an inhabitant of the county, were brought before the court and charged with being spies, carrying on a

Becker, John Hershy, Jacob Summy, John Metz, Jacob Newcomer, Andrew Kemmerer, Jacob Snebely, Jr., and John Spickler, Sr. PUBLIC-HOUSE KEEPERS IN LANCASTER COUNTY IN 1772 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, there is preserved a list of tavern-keepers who

in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biog- raphy, Vol. XLV, pp. 292-3, was placed in the home of Adam Thompson in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1842. Made of mahogany, and designed by Mr. Thompson, who got his idea from the Prime Min- ister of Great Britain, it measured seven feet long by four wide