referred to. Lancaster coun ty had its individual, 259 Hazard's Register, 270. 2611 Hazard's Register, 158. 271 6 Hazaru s Register, 188. �part to play in slavery, as well as in other things, and, while judg- ment is suspended, yet the figures for each decade show that our county in some cases had more

LANCASTER COUNTY'S RELATION TO SLAVERY, PARTICULAR PHASES OFSLAVERY IN LANCASTER COUNTY. The following interesting contribu- tion to the history of slavery in this county was read before the Lancaster County Historical Society by Miss Martha B. Clark: Contracts for and Commercial Trans- actions in

sufficiently interesting to be worth recording. In the earliest tax list for Lancaster in existence, in the year 1754, which Mr. H. Frank Eshleman gives us in his paper, Vol. XIII., No. 10, we learn that at that date there were seven slaves owned and held in the borough. They belonged, respectively, to "David

The Position of Lancaster County on the Missouri Compromise. I am requested to write a short paper on our county's attitude toward the Missouri Compromise. The So- ciety has adopted the plan of having all the papers of the year upon one or another of the various phases of Lancaster County and

/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Hensel, W. U. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: Aftermath supplementary to Christiana Riot, 1851 / by W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Riots--Pennsylvania--Christiana. Slavery--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society