THE SHIPPEN HOUSE, FOREWORD. On the evening of February 21, 1910, by invitation of the mistress of the Shippen School for Girls, a large company assembled at the home of the School, the famous old Shippen house, at the northwest corner of Lime and Orange streets, in the City of Lancaster, Pa., to

House [on] Fifth Day night." �file:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Hensel, W. U. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: Lancaster in 1777-1780 / by Hon. W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster (Pa.)--History--1775-1865. Lancaster

. Merrill, James, 1790-1841. Merrill, Samuel. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1905/1906 Description: 396-401 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 10, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.10 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

experi- ences and fortunes. Writing Letters Home. From Cross Creek, Washington county, August 14, 1801, she writes to Margaret Clark, Donegal township, Lancaster county, addressing her with the stately ceremony of the times, as "Honored Mother," and folding the foolscap sheet, after the manner of that

. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster County (Pa.)--Description and travel. Cocalico Valley (Pa.)--Description and travel. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1903/1904 Description: [256]-266 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical

%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Hensel, W. U. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Other Author(s): Evans, Samuel, Title: A centennial event / by Hon. W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Slaymaker family. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc

seriously question whether we have improved on our forebears in the fine art of "good liv- ing." �The Road to Lancaster. The first mention of Lancaster or Lancastrians in his diary is under date of February 13, 1768, when he records that he took a ride with James Webb, Jr,, Sheriff of Lancaster, "to the

" soil of old Ken- tucky. �file:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Hensel, W. U. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: A Buchanan myth / by Hon. W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Buchanan, James, 1791-1868. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa

The Attitude of James Buchanan (a Cit- izen of Lancaster County) towards the Institution of Slavery in the United States It is the happy and appropriate function of an historical society, with even the local limitations of ours, to fearlessly explore and faithfully chron- icle the events of general

power to increase it to a million— less than the present value of the trol- ley lines from Columbia to Gap. Hon- ored local names• in that early corpor- ation were those of George B. Porter, James Buchanan, Amos Ellmaker and Samuel Dale, Lancaster, and Jacob Strickler, James Given, John Barbel and James

Commonwealth, was the first person, responsive to organized society, who owned the Shippen house lot; and the Hamiltons, founders of Lancaster, were acquiring title to it and plotting this section just about the time Washington was born. When James Hamilton made title to Thos. Cookson, in 1750, he conveyed the