County Historical Society archives along with the restored second battle flag of the 79th PVI which was reported in the possession of the post. According to History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania by Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, the post was chartered with 20 members and during its existence had

1761 the town of Millersville, then called Millersburg, was laid out in five-acre lots by land speculator John Miller (HPTLC 1985:249). Between 1749 and 1813, parts of Lancaster County were ceded to form parts of York, Cumberland, Berks, Northumberland, Dauphin, and Lebanon counties, leaving Lancaster

visitor was introduced to THE BOOK, the Holy Writ from the inspired hands of Saints Samuel Evans and Franklin W. Ellis, also known as the authors and �12 JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY editors of the Ellis and Evans History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, published in 1883. It was

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revenge on the governor. In 1745 Wright was chosen speaker of the Assembly. His age prevented him from attending many sessions by this time. The life of John Wright was significant in the early history of Pennsylvania and Lancaster County, but it ought not obscure the fact that Wright's daughter, Susannah

, Frederic Shriver Klein, Lancaster County Since 1841, rev. ed. (Lancaster, Pa., 1955), pp. 9-11, passim. 4. Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania . . . (Phila- delphia, 1883), pp. 523-24; C. F. Schaeffer and F. A. Muhlenberg, Memorial Volume of the Evangelical Lutheran

were mustered into a regiment from Lancaster. Muster rolls on deposit in the State Archives in Harrisburg indicate men from as far away as Mississippi and England were accepted into Pennsylvania regiments. When one considers the status of African-Americans in Lancaster County and the Commonwealth in

life. 21 October 1827. Letter to Stephen Slaymaker from Adam Reigart commenting on the goodness of God and the whereabouts of many people. 27 September 1828. Letter from Stephen Slaymaker in Lancaster to his wife, Susan at Margaretta Furnace, York County. Regarding the death of Adam and news of family

Samuel Breck and The Shaping of Public Education in Pennsylvania By Dorothy B" Gerlach Because time and history tend to treat people differently, a once honored person may, at the present time, be an unsung hero. A search of old records sometimes reveals this fact. Samuel Breck seems to fall into