Collections for the Poor in 1795 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of the "Association for the Relief of the Poor," of the borough of Lancaster, was held at the house of Chris- topher Brenner on Monday, November 2nd, 1795. John Joseph Henry occupied the chair. The committees appointed to collect

in the borough and county of Lancaster, in order to encourage industry, frugality and American manufactures, formed an association known as "The Lancaster County Society for Pro- moting Agriculture, Manufactures and the Useful Arts." Mr. F. A. Muhlenberg was chosen president. �The objects of the

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controlled, the tavern and the dwellings of John Gonter, Jr. and Mr. Briggs, were destroyed. A committee was appointed in Lancaster to receive donations for the unfortunate individuals whose property was thus destroyed. The Lancaster Journal of Friday, November 22nd, 1822, stated that a total of $400.75 had

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A LANCASTER PRE-REVOLUTIONARY APPEAL FOR RELIEF FROM MONEY STRINGENCY By C. H. Martin By way of introductory statement, of conditions which superinduced the appeal, which is the subject of this essay, the author desires to call your at- tention to the directive trend of silver coin as a medium of