/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank, 1869-1953. Title: The position of Lancaster County on the Missouri Compromise / by H. Frank Eshleman. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Hibshman, Jacob, 1772?-1852. Missouri compromise. Slavery--Law and

from 1803 to 1807 and 1807 to 1811 respectively / by Miss Adeline B. Spindler. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Whitehill, John, 1729-1805. Jenkins, Robert, 1769-1848. Slavery--Law and legislation--United States--History. Legislators--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa

home in Pennsylvania, largely in Lancaster county. 2. Who These Pioneers of Lancas- ter County Settlement Were; and Where They Came From. 3. When They Began the Settle- ment of Lancaster County; and, 4. With Exactness, Where They First Settled in This County. PART ONE. The European Historical

--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1911 Description: 69-85 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 15, no. 3 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.15 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article

-1921. Title: Jacob Eshleman Warfer, painter / by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Warfel, Jacob Eshleman, 1826-1855. Artists--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1912

clocks, though a few others of this type are known to have been made by other of our Lancaster makers. JACOB GORGAS was a famed clockmaker who would seem to have been the earliest among the Lancaster county makers of this type of clock. He came fromGermany to Lancaster county about 1760, and started

led from Philadelphia through the Gap to the Indian town in the Manor. In 1718 Conestoga township was laid off, embracing all that part of what is now Lancaster county between Octo- �raro creek and the main branch of the Conestoga. Postlethwaite must have come to Conestoga after that date, because his

the Farmers' Bank, of Lancaster. He filled the office of Prosecuting Attor- ney for Lancaster county, being ap- pointed in 1817. He was also Re- corder of the Mayor's Court from 1848 and 1849. He married Mary Hubley, daughter of Lieutenant- Colonel Adam Hubley,of the Eleventh Pennsylvania Battalion of

win its freedom and dedicate it forever to liberty. The County of Lancaster, as is well known, was set- tled in the main by three distinct classes of people. The great bulk of our population was the German and Dutch elements, who came in at differ- ent periods and under different lead- erships, but

, pro- tests and items already mentioned, which occurred in the early part of 1700 in Pennsylvania, it is no doubt true that Lancaster county had some part in those proceedings, and that negro slavery was in progress in our county at that time. In 1730 appear- ed in the Pennsylvania Gazette a list of