- Author
- Evans, Melvern R.
- Date of Publication
- 1987.
reputation of being the largest inland town in the
American Colonies. Petitioning the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for
status as a city in March 1818, the citizens were not unmindful that the
Governor was a native of Lancaster, and that his wife, Mary, was a
daughter of the famed Colonel Mathias Slough, one