Spreng­ er's daughters, Catharine, married Lawrence Knapp, a brewer; and another, Anna, married Frank Ried Diffenderffer, who was a found­ er of the Lancaster County Historical Society.1 2 Shulze and Cameron purchased Jacob Leman's brewery in 1829.1 3 Leman was the father of the famed riflemaker, Henry

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history have been known to state that the first court house in the center of Penn Square was constructed of logs. Their source was H. M. J. Klein's Lancaster County Pennsylvania: A History, published in 1924 by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company. Examination of page 328 of volume I reveals the

many generations; indeed, Lancaster County in 1790 was one of the largest slave-holding coun- ties in Pennsylvania. Newspaper accounts during the last century indicate Lancaster's Negroes were fairly well-integrated with the white residents of the southeast quadrant of the city. Census records reveal