LANCASTER COUNTY LOYALISTS The idea of preparing an article for our society on the Loyalists of Lancas- ter county during the Revolutionary struggle occurred to me several years ago, and I at once began to gather such material towards that purpose as I could find. As the number of these Loyalists

, 1833-1921. Other Author(s): Ellmaker, Amos, 1787-1851. Title: Politics 75 years ago / F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt. D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Ellmaker, Amos, 1787-1851. Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. United States--Politics and government--1783-1865. Publisher

loyalists--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1905/1906 Description: 304-309 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 10, no. 8 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.10 Location: LCHSJL

--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Debt--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1901-1902 Description: [3]-7 p. ; 23 cm. Series

city and county have jointly published more newspapers and peri- odicals of various kinds during the past 150 years than any other com- munity of equal area and population in the whole United States. The number is about 270,so far as ascertained, with doubtless an unknown number still to be added. Of

while in Virginia, except that a number of them died. �On November 14, 1777, the Council of Safety then sitting in Lancaster, sent to Col. Smith, Lieutenant of Chester county, an order for the ar- rest of a Quaker named John James, who was accused of "being an enemy to the Cause of Liberty." The letter

movement toward the organization of the county for defence he was elect- ed a member of the Committee on Ob- servation and Correspondence; he rep- resented Donegal in a provincial con- vention held in Philadelphia in 1775; he was Lieutenant of Lancaster county and as such was charged with grave and

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921. Title: Electoral vote of Pennsylvania in 1804 / by F. R. Diffenderffer. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Elections--Pennsylvania. Presidents--Election. Pennsylvania--Politics and government--1775-1865. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical

, making a total for city and county of 275, a rec- ord which, I believe, exceeds that of any community in the United States, �having no larger population than ours, say, 160,000 souls. The more immediate purpose of this paper, however, is to bring into promi- nence the German press of the county, and its

Buchanan letters / by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 --Correspondence. Caldwell, James A. Barton, George W., 1807-1851. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1904/1905 Description: [37