1810 reveals that Lancaster County voters were perhaps more zealous in their exercise of the franchise than was normal in early nineteenth-century Pennsylvania. �1799 1800 F=Federalist majority R-Republican majority Each election district shows the letter F if a Federalist won or R if a Republican won

County Antimasonic Party in national and state affairs. Secondly, I shall disclose how the Anti- masonic Party completely dominated local politics in Lancaster County for more than a decade, and why this particular county was so receptive to this "peculiar movement." Lastly, I shall point out many of the

for elderly women. Hensel was also on the Board of Directors of the Lancaster Charity Society and was one of its main donors. He was an outspoken ad- vocate of better roads for Lancaster City and County and supported the cause as an editor and later through a series of speeches.32 A book entitled

occupational advancement were severely circumscribed by the 1850's in Lancaster County. �The seventy-five Negroes in the occupational elite were fortun- ate in having secured their occupations during the 1850's. One- eighth of all Negroes were employed in skilled or non-manual labor in 1850, but only

a source of strength and unity which brought on a revival of Federalism un- matched throughout the State of Pennsylvania. The immediate purpose of this paper is to study the politics of the war period in Lancaster County from 1811 to 1815, emphasizing the developments which occurred within the

homestead in the township of Conestoga, Lancaster County, on the 8th day of June 1775. This was imme- diately after the battle of Lexington, and one year before the Declara- tion of Independence. Thus I saw the birth of our nation, and have lived under the first President, and sixteen of his successors. I