progenitors of a new hospital for Lancaster — the newspapers announced that a charter had been granted on that day by the courts to the Lancaster General Hospital. Established to the extent now of having a charter and a board of directors of twenty-four leading citizens of city and county, it became

presented to Governor McKean. "The map, of which this is a facsimile, was sent by Thos. McKean, then governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to the Legislature, together with the annexed report. It was hung up in the House of Representatives at Lancaster, until the removal of the seat of government to

October 11 was election day and a greater number of Pennsylvania voters went to the polls on that day than on any previous similar occasion. More than one hundred and eleven thousand votes were cast. Simon Snyder won by a plurality of 28,400, but in Lancaster County, the county of his birth, he lost by

Lancaster on November 19, Governor McKean issued a proclama- tion which called upon the duly elected electors "of a President and Vice President of the United States to serve at the election in their behalf to be held at the Seat of Government (being the Borough of Lancaster in the County of Lancaster

enough interest in the prospect of having the capitol at Lancaster to the extent of assembling in a public meeting and drafting a letter, which was addressed to the members of the General Assem- bly from the County of Lancaster. It was published in the Lancaster Journalon January 29, 1796, and read in

Lancaster, he mistakenly said it was being held at Newtown. In part he wrote to Strahan as follows on July 4, 1744 "A treaty is now holding at Newtown in Lancaster County, a place sixty miles west of this city, between the governments of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania on one side, and the United Five