Who Was Jacob Hibshman, the Con- gressman from Lancaster County? John Gerhard Hibshman was a native of Switzerland, and came to this country in 1732, at the age of 19 years. Five years later, returning to his native land for his wife, he sailed on the ship St. Andrew, September 24, 1737, from

. John Whitehill, a Congressman. The son of James Whitehill, the pioneer, was born December 11, 1729, in Salisbury township, Lancaster �county. He married August 13, 1755, Ann Sanderson. John Whitehill was a zealous patriot, and was prominent in serving on committees at the time of the Revolution

THE SLAVERY QUESTION During the Terms of Office of John Whitehill and Robert Jenkins, Con- gressmen from Lancaster County from 1803 to 1807 and 1807 to 1811, Respectively. This paper is to consider the sla- very situation at that period of time which included the twenty-year limit of the tolerance