that is not likely to take place please inform me (to Grafenburg); and I shall then return—If likely to take place soon I will stay till New Years—I do not care to be present while the process of humiliation is going on— Buchanan is a very traitor [Yours] Thaddeus Stevens Ed. McPherson [Esq] L a n c a

MG0115_F003_In05_It02 Harrisburg July 7, 1863 Dear Sir No pass is necessary by [reg] of Zook— I believe Mead’s [kind] mostly will be this night at Frederick— I think Lee passed over the Waynesboro Gap (past my old Furnace—Tomorrow trains will run to Shippensburg within six miles of my Ashes— I

horses that were running at large. They then seized my bacon (about 4,000 lbs.), molasses and other contents of the store & took about $1,000 worth of corn in the mills, and a like quantity of other grain On Friday, they burned the furnace, saw:mill, two forges and rolling mill. They slept in the office

MG0115_F003_In03_It01 Lancaster April 10 1861 The bearer Samuel L. Hartman desires employment . He is a young man of good acquirements and habits—I have no doubt that he would faithfully discharge any duties allotted to him—He is a good [clk], and generally an active young man—and I should be

MG0115_F003_In03_It02 Lancaster April 24, 1861 Hon. Wm. B. Thomas Collector— Sir The bearer J. J. Cochran [Esq] our Post Master visits you to try to get some appointments under you for this county—He especially desires the employment of Judge Hibsman and H. A. Zook— They are both excellent man, and

land up to the dam on the west side of the creek. 26 February 1783. (James returned to Chester County and lived there for a time while sitting as a magistrate in Wilmington, Delaware.) (1 item, 4 pages to scan) Folder 2 Letter from James Gibbons to Christian Stauffer, charging him with making certain