-schooled rural cousins were expressing unorthodox and advanced ideas despite the prevalence of conventional views. A Lancaster bookseller of the 1750s maintained a stock of books of rare sophistication for the literati in the hinterland. The existence of libraries in mid-eighteenth century Lancaster is too

A History of Sin and Vice: Lancaster—The Fallen Angel By John W. W. Loose, FLCHS in a community remarkable for its many churches and the reputed piety of its citizenry, the very thought of sin and vice is improbable. In this time of social disintegration and family dysfunction, it is not uncommon

-speaking cantons of Switzerland. Most were farmers with �93/4, 1991 119 sufficient skills in trades such as blacksmithing, weaving, cabinetmaking, and grainmilling. Many Scots whose families had sojourned for a generation or two in Northern Ireland settled in the western and southern parts of Lancaster

regarded by their peers as having qualities of humaneness, mercy, understand- ing, integrity, high intelligence, and balanced temperament—all qualities that have been traditional for those chosen to occupy the Lancaster County bench. The bicentennial of the judiciary in Lancaster County under the

, Lancastrians had begun to think about matters his- torical. Literate Lancaster Countians had on their parlor tables Isaac Daniel Rupp's History of Lancaster County, published in 1844. During the 1850s township and county maps on wooden rods for hanging on walls became popular, especially if the maps depicted

Evolution of the Government of Lancaster: Village, Borough, City By John W" W" Loose, F"L.C"H"S" For the first dozen years of its existence Lancaster did not have a governing body of its own. Lancaster County's original townships were defined by the magistrates and citizens 9 June 1729, and were