, of Windom, Lancaster County, Pa. As we view this beautiful agricultural section today its past has been so. completely obscured that scarcely a trace remains to remind us of the role of historical importance which it has played. Let us then review and if pos- sible picture some of the scenes which

. 3d Lieut. in Light Horse Troop of New Jersey. Name on County Commissioner's list, as having been located by P. W. A. Buried in Donegal Presbyterian Churchyard. PEDAN, John: b. Dec. 20, 1777; d. Feb. 7, 1821. 1st Lieut. under Capt. Grosh. Ellis and Evans, p. 80. Klein's Hist. of Lanc. Co., Pa., p. 595

the borough of Lancaster into a city. "Resolved, That we, as freemen and friends of the State of Pennsylvania, are determined not to support any candidate, for either state or county office, (without respect to name or party) who will not, as we suppose, use his best endeavors to have the salaries of

a chasm ex- isted between the two segments of the black community. I The twenty Negro barbers of Lancaster City and Columbia borough2 who clipped the hair and shaved the beards of the white community in 1850 shared common economic and social back- grounds. They were all members of six well-to-do

period that have come down to us. Indeed, I know of nothing of a similar nature concern- ing Lancaster city and county at the period covered by this diary that is at all comparable with it. He was an educated man, a man of affairs, much concerned and connected with what was going on around him, a person