Slaymaker, Lieutenant Smith, Lieutenant J. Ferree and Ensign Slaymaker. Meetings in Lancaster County to Oppose Slavery in District of Columbia By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING was held at the house of Samuel Kinzer on Friday evening, October 22nd, 1830, for the purpose of considering measures for the

LODGINGS IN LANCASTER, OF STATE SENATORS FOR 1809-1810 By William Frederic Worner For one day, September 27th, 1777, the borough of Lancaster was the capital of the United States. On that day the Continental Congress held a brief session in the court house that stood in Penn Square. The borough was

historic Lancaster county, who has painted a scene from a very early incident in the development of the capital town of our county. It represents the arrival of James Hamilton, who laid out this city of ours, in which nearly 70,000 people now reside. �"To create is one of the great satisfactions of life

Locust street, Philadelphia, is an original paper,' yellow with age, which contains the following : "To the Honourable John Penn, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the Province of Pennsylvania, and counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware; and to the Honourable the

bill to incorporate the Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster, had passed the Senate of Pennsylvania. Three years later, a notice appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 22nd, 1825, which was as follows : "A special election for a director of the Widow and

of the Society, Subscribers' Names, &c. John Reynolds, Pr. West King-Street, Lancaster." In the introductory, which is printed on pages 2 to 8 inclusive, Mrs. Dorothy Brien and Mrs. Ann Hopkins, the directresses, state that at that time (1822) the nature and objects of Sunday-school instruction were

States a thriving manufacturing people. Factories of great variety and value were set on foot in different sections of the country. The talent, enterprise and capital of the nation were, to a considerable degree. 1 Lancaster Journal, Wednesday, March 5th, 1817. �embarked in the patriotic struggle of

by the Paxtang boys in December, 1763. Also please note that Lancaster was the state capital of Pennsylvania from 1799 to 1812. The second court house that stood in Penn Square was taken down in 1852, and not in 1853, as is stated on page 5. There is absolutely no truth in the statement, on page 5

. Worner supplementary to series of H. Frank Eshleman. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Pennsylvania Packet and General Advertiser (newspaper) Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--1775-1865. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1926 Description

the author, Dr. F. R. Diffenderffer, describes what is undoubtedly the oldest playbill, that so far has come to light, advertising a theatrical performance in Lancaster, Pa. It bears the date January 2, 1800, and states that by the desire of Governor McKean, who intended honoring the occasion with his