Journal Ensign Hughes Prisoner of War at Lancaster, May 1779 to November 1780 Compiled and Annotated by Herbert H. Beck This diary' of a young British officer is unique in the local records of its period. Lieutenant Thomas Anburey, prisoner of war, who was in Lancaster December 17 and 18, 1778, in

he became General Manager of the Northern Central Railroad, its vice-president in 1861, and its president in 1864.65 As a leading officer of that important railroad, which his father had won over to Pennsylvania interests, Don did much during the Civil War to keep communications open between

president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, read a brief paper before the Lancaster County Historical Society on his great-great-grandfather, William Henry. In 1910 John W. Jordan's brother, Francis Jordan, Jr., published "The Life of William Henry," 1 which is the most comprehensive and the best