bill to incorporate the Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster, had passed the Senate of Pennsylvania. Three years later, a notice appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 22nd, 1825, which was as follows : "A special election for a director of the Widow and

passage apply to John Hemphill, 42 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa." Society for the Support and Protection of Indigent Orphans By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER 0N Friday, July 19th, 1822, a number of ladies met in the Sun- day-school house of Saint James's Protestant Episcopal church for the purpose of forming

Society of Lancaster. Charity organization. Poor--Services for--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County --History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1930 Description: [11]-18 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 34, no. 1 Call Number: 974.9 L245

German and English papers of the city of Lancaster. They were as follows : "The members of this association have formed themselves into a society for the purpose of providing a fund for the support of the widow of any deceased member. "The association shall consist of none but such as are citizens of

will immediately abolish the embargo and restriction upon trade and prevent the calamities of war falling upon our common country." It is also interesting to note that a meeting of the inhabitants of Manheim, Lancaster county, Pa., was held on Tuesday, June 16th, 1812, for the purpose of declaring

foreign power or resort to arms for the defense of all that can be held dear to freemen, the officers of the militia of Lancaster county, —feeling themselves happy under the influence of a government of their own choice, mild and equal in its operation, and perfectly satisfied that it has been, and