--Lancaster. Lancaster (Pa.)--Politics and government--To 1775. Lancaster (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1909 Description: [263]-277 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 13, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.13 Location

Chamber. These courts held aloof from politics, but decided matters of feudality and set- tled questions of appeal on the parts of the States from decisions of minor courts in favor of the Emperor. As at this date the Canton of Neufchatel was a Prussian tributary, it came under the laws of that country

, 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

became a Presby- terian minister. Hugh, the second son, settled in York county, Pa., and had a daughter who married John Purdon, a merchant of Philadelphia. These were the parents of John Purdon, the original compiler of "Purdon's Digest." William, the third son of James Ross, of Carrickfergus, first

was evidently a sarmer in very moderate circumstances, else he had been sent either to some Northern college or to Europe, as was the cus- tom at that day among the well-to-do and educated planters. As it was, his education in the public schools was brief, as we find him at the early age os ten years

-1897. Evans, Agnes. Eugenie, 1826-1920. Heinitish, Charles A. Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. Lancaster (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1905/1906 Description: [41]-55 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 10

SOME SHIPPEN LETTERS. Several months ago, Mr. Evans W. Shippen, os Meadville, Pa., placed in my hands sor examination, and such use as I might deem expedient, a num- ber os letters written by members os the Shippen samily os this State. While they were family letters and not os general public

INTRODUCTORY. As was to be expected from a popu- lation so conglomerate as that which comprised the early and later set- tlers of Lancaster county and city, German, Scotch-Irish and Quakers, Protestants, Catholics, with a sprink- ling of Jews, and, perhaps, still other nationalities, it was a