Collections for the Poor in 1795 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of the "Association for the Relief of the Poor," of the borough of Lancaster, was held at the house of Chris- topher Brenner on Monday, November 2nd, 1795. John Joseph Henry occupied the chair. The committees appointed to collect

in the borough and county of Lancaster, in order to encourage industry, frugality and American manufactures, formed an association known as "The Lancaster County Society for Pro- moting Agriculture, Manufactures and the Useful Arts." Mr. F. A. Muhlenberg was chosen president. �The objects of the

controlled, the tavern and the dwellings of John Gonter, Jr. and Mr. Briggs, were destroyed. A committee was appointed in Lancaster to receive donations for the unfortunate individuals whose property was thus destroyed. The Lancaster Journal of Friday, November 22nd, 1822, stated that a total of $400.75 had

LODGINGS IN LANCASTER, OF STATE SENATORS FOR 1809-1810 By William Frederic Worner For one day, September 27th, 1777, the borough of Lancaster was the capital of the United States. On that day the Continental Congress held a brief session in the court house that stood in Penn Square. The borough was

Lancaster is not now known. Subsequent issues of local papers do not contain any ref- ferences to these gifted musicians. Contributions from Lancaster County for the Distressed Poor of Philadelphia During the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1797 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T various times, during its earlier

church building, but in this Miss Ayres was mistaken, for he was still in deacon's orders when the ceremony of consecration was performed. On December 2nd, 1820, the Rev. Mr. Muhlenberg, then in his twenty- fourth year, entered upon the cure of Saint James's, Lancaster. On Christmas Day, following, there

just described, another theatrical entertainment was given in Lancaster borough, being what we are led to believe was the third performance by Mr. M'Grath's company. The Neue Unpartheyische Lancaster Zeitung and Anzeigs Nachrichten for Wednes- day, December 7, 1791, contains the following advertisement

in the borough and county of Lancaster, in order to encourage industry, frugality and American manufactures, formed an association known as "The Lancaster County Society for Pro- moting Agriculture, Manufactures and the Useful Arts." Mr. F. A. Muhlenberg was chosen president. �

It was also stated that there were "many other surprising feats of horse- manship, too numerous to mention" in the advertisement. The performance concluded with an act entitled "The Taylor's Disaster," by Mrs. Tomlinson. The doors, for the first performance only, were opened at one o'clock in order