• Men Lancaster Was Pennsylvania's Capital BY GEORGE L. HEIGES Continued from Vol. LV, No. 1 New Year's Day in 1802 was obviously not observed as a holiday, for on that day both houses of the Pennsylvania State Assembly were in session at Lancaster, the seat of government. Reading the legislative

representatives in every department of the government, I can only implore the blessing of Providence, when I cease to exist. Thomas McKean Lancaster, December 8th, 1808 Simon Snyder Inducted As Governor In the presence of the assembled Senators and Representatives in the House Chamber at Lancaster on November 20

will ever attain.16 Inauguration Day in Washington that year did not go by entirely un- noticed in Lancaster, for while Thomas Jefferson on March fourth was being sworn in for a second term as President, the event was being recognized at Pennsylvania's seat of government by a procession and banquet

soldiers and citizens. The punitive expedition failed in its purpose when the estab- lished Mexican government showed its disfavor of American troops in Mexico. AUGUST 1916—A breakdown of the campaign contributions showed that the total number of contributors was 6,802. Of this number 4,556 paid in cash or

Pennsylvania was made up of just four counties and Lancaster was one of them. From that time until 1788 — a full half century -- when Franklin retired as President of Pennsylvania, he was well acquainted with all of Lancaster County's leaders who had been projected into the larger affairs of the province