(s): Fritchie, Barbara, 1766-1862. United States--History--18th century. United States--History--19th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1919 Description: [84]-93 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 23, no. 5 Call

. 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

%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Beck, Herbert Huebener, 1875-1960. Title: The meeting of the Continental Congress in Lancaster / by Herbert H. Beck. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): United States. Continental Congress. Constitutional history--United States. United States--Politics

, September 27th, in the court house, which stood in the center of Penn square. For this reason Lancaster claims the distinction of having been the capital of the United States, even though it was but for a day. As Howe was in possession of Philadelphia, then the largest city in America, only 62 miles distant

article gives the religious facts and history. V. 5 p. 331. 1730 Lancaster Town Laid Out In an article signed "Investigator" the origin and the laying out of Lan- caster Town is detailed. V. 8 p. 60. The writer states, "Governor Hamilton made an offer of two places one known as the "high plain" also by

Collections in Aid of the Sufferers from Fire in Columbia By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, October 25th, 1822, at eleven o'clock at night, a fire originated in the back building attached to the tavern of a man named Quarles, in Columbia, Lancaster county, Pa. Before the fire could be

War, he fought on the side of the English, but seems to have become reconciled, for during the war on the frontier in 1811- 14, he was of valuable assistance to our United States troops. He was born about 1751 and died in 1830. He was fifty years of age when he visited Lancaster in 1801. Lancaster's

Lancaster / by William Frederic Worner. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Jer^ome Bonaparte, 1784-1860. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--19th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1923 Description: 127-128 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society

Population in 1800 4,292 Increase 1,116 These statistics were also published in the Lancaster Journal of Saturday, November 17th, 1810. Lancaster in 1820 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A DAM HODGSON, an Englishman, toured the United States and Canada in the year 1820. When he returned to his native

for the Presidency of the United States, and received the electoral vote of that state in 1836. He had a strong body of friends in Pennsylvania who desired him to come among them immediately after the adjournment of Congress. He was in Harrisburg, Pa., on the 19th of March, where the Legislature was