politics of Lancaster County from 1799 to 1810, examining the ethnic and population trends, the political behavior of the various ethnic groups, the development of po- litical organization and technique, and (concentrating on the election of 1801) the issues with which the two parties waged their political

Republicans on whose ticket he ran. Elected county sheriff in 1819, Mathiot later was elected mayor of Lancaster for eleven terms, and served as a member of the Lan- caster School Board from its inception in 1838 until his death in 1843. Mathiot was made a Mason in 1823, and became Worshipful Master of Lodge

The Antimasonic Party in Lancaster County, Pa. :1828-1843 John Edward McNeal PREFACE Political Antimasonry in the United States is a subject which, for the most part, has been neglected by historians. The best single work on the subject is Charles McCarthy's "The Antimasonic Party: A Study of Po

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

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

pre- sent in the 1850 or the 1860 censuses in the same four townships and communities of Lancaster County. In gathering background in- formation on this latter group, I used the same materials and manu- script sources. I made this comparison on the assumption that if these seventy-five were indeed a