from 1803 to 1807 and 1807 to 1811 respectively / by Miss Adeline B. Spindler. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Whitehill, John, 1729-1805. Jenkins, Robert, 1769-1848. Slavery--Law and legislation--United States--History. Legislators--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa

. First Mention of Lancaster County Names. In the first half of the fourteenth century Germany and Austria were the theatre or field of slaughter, and here Lancaster county names first appear. In 1340 Conrad Hager was killed, and also an Eckart or Eck- hard; in 1360 a John de Landuno (whether Landis or

JOHN LANDIS, PAINTER. The first of a series of historical papers bearing on early Lancaster portrait painters, as arranged for by a joint committee of the Lancaster County Historical Society and the Iris Club, which is planning for the portraiture exhibition in November, were submitted at the

more likely that the tavern was so changed as to make it convenient for the purpose of holding the Courts, and this conclu- sion has, I think, been generally adopted. I find in the minute book of the Commissioners of Lancaster county, under date of February 4, 1729, the following entry: "Ordered that

country. In 1700 John Whiteside took out a warrant for 200 acres of land, in what was then Pe- quea township, Chester county, now Sadsbury. This John had a son, Wil- liam; who took by warrant 330 acres of land in Little Britain township in 1738, which lies immediately south of the Robert Fulton tract, and

-Irish settle- ments in America in the latter part of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, the one in Donegal township, Lancaster county, Pa., was the most notable. It became the nursery of Presbyterianism in Middle, Western and Southwestern Pennsylvania, Virginia and North

of Lancaster County, January 24, 1811—serving until December, 1819, when he re- signed. He was a member of the 16th Congress, to which he was elected in 1818, having defeated James Buchanan in the Congressional contest and serv- ing from 1819 to 1821—two years and one term. He was a very prominent

was the favor- ite son in the new county, and for Assembly received the highest vote. John Wright had lost his popularity. He was a member of Assembly in 1726; but was defeated in 1727 and In 1728. In 1729 he received a small vote, compared with Edwards. James Mitchel and Thomas Read were the other

on that servicce to bring the road to the verge of Philadelphia County, and when it falls in therewith, that Richard Harrison, Hugh Evans, Robert Roberts, Samuel Humphreys, David George and John Warner, or any four of them, continue the said road to the Ferry aforesaid, at High Street, and make

1774; oaths of office sworn by various men from 1764 to 1769; and an extract of Lancaster Borough laws enacted 22 January 1774 reporting the regulations and fines of this borough. Creators: City Council (Lancaster, Pa.); Tax Assessor (Lancaster, Pa.); Bureau of Police (Lancaster, Pa.) System of