A case in point is offered in the pamphlet entitle 1 List of 104 Maga- zines Against the Distribution and Sale of Which the District At- �torneys of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania have issued Warning which quotes two letters from District Attorney, Charles W. Eaby, dated June 24, 1936 and December 8

we put together the fragments handed down to us— some of them recorded and others only tradition—we gain some en- lightenment on the introduction of the Catholic Faith in these parts during the pre-pioneer days. The first known white men to enter Lancaster County were Jesuit missionaries from the

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

settled in Lancaster County- Introduction For more than two hundred and fifty years the name LeTort has clung to a little cross roads in Manor Township, Lancaster County. No one in the neighborhood could tell you where the name came from. No one named LeTort lives there now. Historians of Lancaster are

given of this country by Martin Kendig, one of the seven heads of families who had settled in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He had landed in Philadelphia, from thence went to Germantown, then to Lancaster, and finally settled in Pequea, Conestoga Township,3 Soon afterward he married a Miss

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

Chicago, he (Stevens) joined the Lancaster delegation at Mifflin. Mr. 0. j. Dickey, elected delegate from Lancaster County, was also with the Lancaster group. The next dispatch from the Lancaster Express reporter was sent from Chicago on May 15. It follows: "The Lancaster delegation reached here this

Historical Society. Vol. 64, 1960. p. 10. 2. Ibid. p. 10. 3. R. J. Houston. The Gap Copper Mines" in Lancaster County Historical Society in The New Era!. Pennsylvania: 1897. p. 283-90. 4. Locher. p. 11. 5. H. Luther Willig. "Two Notable Mining Industries of Lancaster County" in Historical Papers and Address

covered an area from Maine to the Chesapeake Bay, paralyzing cities in the entire area. Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York, and Boston were each isolated unto itself. During this time Lancaster was the point farther-most east having communications with the rest of the world.' The forecasts gave no

of Henry Slaugh to the world to bid for a place with Chippendale, Obituary, Lancaster [Pennsylvania] New Era, May 24, 1929. 2 News item in the Lancaster [Pennsylvania] Intelligencer Journal, May 26, 1929. �Duncan Phyfe and the rest of the great and small creators of furni- ture. Mr. Slaugh who