Buchanan letters / by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 --Correspondence. Caldwell, James A. Barton, George W., 1807-1851. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1904/1905 Description: [37

. 1829. Boquet, or Ladies' Library Portfolio Keepsake. Anti-Masonic Opponent. 1830. Lancaster Examiner. Lancaster Beobachter. 1831. Lancaster Republican. Standard of Liberty, and Lancaster County Democrat and Public Advertiser. 1833. The Inciter. 1834. The Lancaster Register. Lancaster Union. 1835. The

MARSHALL'S DIARY IN ITS RELATION TO LANCASTER CITY AND COUNTY. Of the many names associated with the Revolutionary annals of Lancaster county, few deserve to be held in greater respect, or are better entitled to remembrance, than that of Chris- topher Marshall. At the same time I feel I am quite

. James, the brother of Andrew, was visibly touched by the charms of the daughter of the new minister just called to the Derry Church. She was beautiful and accomplished and besides had expectations through her mother, Elizabeth Gillespie, who was heiress to a handsome estate in Edinburg. It shortly came

- tion at that date. On December 17, 1855, Emanuel Shaeffer, the President of the Lancaster Saving Institution, sold to "The Wabank House on the banks of the Conestoga, in the county of Lancaster," "all the estate, right, title, interest, property claim and de- �mend whatsoever the party of the first

. Intelligencer and Weekly Ad- vertiser, founded by Robert and William Dickson. (File in State Library. (1792 and 1794 are erroneously given as the dates of the founding of this paper.) 1799. Der Lancaster Correspondent. 1805. The Constitutional Democrat, founded in July, 1805, by John Matthews. File in State

to was born. A parchment deed, one of the old- fashioned kind, such as our fathers used to pass to each other when they sold real estate, lately came into my hands. It was given by Martin Bow- man and Elizabeth, his wife, to one, Abraham Miller, to cover a sale of the one-half of thirty-five acres of

United States. He was born in Boston in 1703. Early in life he entered the employ of James Logan, and later became his partner in business. He was elected Mayor of Philadelphia in 1744. He was also Judge of the County Court. In 1752 he came to Lancaster, where he resided until his death, in 1781. He

apparently first formu- lated: At a meeting of the Commissioners of the Lancaster Street Lottery, held at the House of. Peter Diller, January 23, 1802. PRESENT. EDWARD HAND, JACOB KRUG, JOHN MILLER, ADAM REIGART, JR., ABRAM WITMER, ADAM WEAVER, JOHN HUBER, PHILIP DIFFENDERFER, JAMES CRAWFORD, CASPER SHAFFNER

- chives at Harrisburg a list of the taxables in Lancaster borough for the year 1771. Their number was 511; that is, there was that number of per- sons in the town at that time who owned real estate of some kind. lt is presumable that all, or nearly all, the real estate owners also had their own houses. If