community in Lititz. Additional nursing centers �were established at Manheim and Reamstown.8 Probably the most famous of the Lancaster prisoners was Major John Andre, who was captured in Canada on Nov. 3, 1775 by General Montgomery. Andre, a scholarly young man, became an in- mate of Caleb Cope's house at

84/3, 1981 131 An Unusual Discovery Prisoner-of-War Barracks in Lancaster Used During the Revolutionary War By Albert G. Overton and J. W.W. Loose Although historians have known for a long time barracks to house British and Hessian prisoners-of-war during the American Revolution were located at the

, 3, 8, 16, 17; Brunhouse, Robert L. The Counter-Revolution in Pennsylvania, 124; Bradbury, M.L., "Legal Privilege and the Bank of North America," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, XCVI (April, 1972), 144-145, 156-157; Alexander, John K., "The Fort Wilson Incident of 1779: A Case

through or stopping in the borough as General John Forbes began his drive against the French. Three examples of movements involving the town convey an impression of the activity in the borough. On May 29, 1758, General Forbes wrote to Colonel Bouquet to inform him that he was ordering three companies of

Regimental History of the 79th Pennsylvania Volunteers of the Civil War: The Lancaster County Regiment By Harrison C. Williams Preface The Seventy-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment was recruited from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with the exception of Company D, which was recruited from

Edward Barnholt and William Wittick: Lancaster County's Fearless Constables By John W. W. Loose Law enforcement in Pennsylvania prior to the establishment of the Pennsylvania State Police in 1905' was left to the county sheriffs, constables, and police departments of those municipalities that had

Tinkerers, Mechanics and Inventors of Lancaster County By John Ward Willson Loose A few caveats are in order. My essay is not an "in depth" study of each and every tinkerer, mechanic and inventor that ever worked in Lancaster County, nor does it attempt to single out every person who contributed in