year, all the above described property was trans- ferred to Silas K. Eshleman and Em- ma, his wife. In 1907, Widmyer & Kinard 'became the owners and they in turn sold it in 1912 to John Henry Miller, the present owner. THOMAS COOKSON. The first owner of lot No. 159 was admitted to the Bar of Lancaster

-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

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, holding many po- sitions of trust, viz.: Appointed Jus- tice of the Peace November 3, 1779; on a committee for inquiring into the state of the Pennsylvania Treasury, February 9, 1780; a member of the Council of Censors, October 20, 1783. This so-called Council of Censors con- stituted the recognized legal

Pennsylvania Militia. In 1824, when General Lafayette visited the United States, he was chairman of the committee ap- pointed by the people of the town and county of Lancaster to do him honor, and had the compli- ment of introducing this distinguished Frenchman who had so nobly helped to gain our liberty. The

possession. "BRICE CLARK. "March 14th, 17." �The Law of 1780. Briefiy stated, the law of March 1, 1780, passed by Pennsylvania, pro- vided (1) that all negroes and mulat- toes born in Pennsylvania after the passage of the act, who otherwise would be slaves (as the children of slaves) should not be a slave

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