of machinery few possess. Boyhood and Youth In the Pennsylvania Historical Association's quarterly journal, Pennsylvania History, Vol. XXXII, January, 1965, we learn: The birthplace of Robert Fulton, six miles south of Quarryville in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was designated a National His

more than one genera- tion in Lancaster County. 16 Some of them had been born slaves in Columbia or Fulton township, while most of the other Ne groes had come from other areas of Pennsylvania or the upper South." A num- ber of the Negroes descended from the earliest black county famil- ies had been

the second floor. About 1748 or 1749 a bell was placed in the small steeple, and by 1750 a clock with faces fronting on North and South Queen Street had been added. After having been used as the seat of justice for Lancaster County for forty-five years, the building was destroyed by a fire of

the New England Conference opened in convention on June sixteenth. After this meeting they fulfilled preaching appointments in Vermont, then crossed Lake Champlain, again rode south through New York and Pennsylvania to the Boehm homestead in Lancaster County. Writing of the incidents of his first trip

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