Zachariah Moore were appointed trustees to fix and designate a site for the erection of the House of Employment. These trustees selected a tract belonging to Matthias Slough, located adjoining the boundary of the City of Lancaster on the east, south of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, near the city

receiving a charter to construct the Columbia, Lancaster and Philadelphia Railroad, capitalized for $650,000, with permission to in- crease that figure to one million dollars. (5) Included in that group were James Buchanan, General George Porter, member of the Legislature, and Amos Ellmaker, all of

COLONIAL POLITICS In 1729, the year in which Lancaster County was erected, both James Logan, the Penn's business representative in Philadelphia, de facto governor of Pennsylvania, and Governor Calvert of Maryland commented upon a situa- tion alarming to the established order. Logan spoke of the "people