. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Shippen family. Architecture, Domestic--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1914 Description: 251-274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County

Material: Book Subject(s): Trent, William, 1715-1787? Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1912 Description: 142-142 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 16, no. 5 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.16 Location

Patterson-Andrews Genealogy About 1840 James Patterson An- drews, M. D., commenced a compila- tion of a genealogical register of the descendants of James and Mary (Montgomery) Patterson, founders of the Little Britain, Lancaster county, branch of the Patterson family, and also of the descendants of

LANCASTER, PA. �PREFACE. The preparation o:£ this sketch and contribution to our local history had been long contemplated by the Editor and Compiler. Born near the locality where the events occurred which are its subject, he has been for more than hal:f a cen­ tury intimately related with their associations

. He would vote to authorize the President of the United States to contract for suitable orna- ments to complete the east front of the Capitol, instead of directing the Committee on Finance to inquire, etc." �Persico In Lancaster. It was then the debate attained the point of more immediate local inter

Holy Scriptures. I remember that Mr. Brown, another gentleman and myself spent a night together at a neighbor's house, when there was a death in the family. Conversation turned upon the inspiration of the Bible, and I never heard or read such a clear and forcible exposition of the authenticity of the

citizens of Lancaster, held in the Court House November 27, 1819, at which Hon. Walter Franklin presided, a commit- tee of three framed the resolutions, which were adopted. They protest- ed most vigorously against the exist- ence of slavery in, or its extension into, the territories or new States. with

--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1915 Description: 174-181 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 19, no. 6 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.19 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

stealing the Gorsuch wheat. This doubt has been removed by a timely vindication of the Johnson at Christiana, which comes to me from Mrs. Sarah Moore M'Fadden, of Ken- nett Square. She was a Moore, and lived near Christiana in 1851, her father's house being an underground railway station. She writes me: "I

AN EARLY CANAL PROJECT The writer's interest in the early waterways and inland navigation of Lancaster county was somewhat quickened recently by reading an un- published letter, written at Harris- burg, August 12, 1824, to Richard B. McCabe, of Huntingdon, by Persifor Frazer, of the notable family