appeared in the Daily Evening Express which stated: TO MEN OF COLOR ! A Mass Meeting of the able-bodied men of color will be held on Wednesday at 8 o'clock, Fulton Hall, Lancaster City, to promote recruiting for United States Colored Troops For the War Frederick Douglas and other distinguished speakers

): Capitals (Cities) Lancaster (Pa.)--Capital and capitol. United States--Capital and capitol. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1896-97 Description: [111]-113 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 1, no. 4 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.1

. September 27 is therefore the Sesqui Centennial of the day when Lancaster was the National Capital, an honor which but three other cities in the United States are privileged to have. Threatened by the British Army, which had thrown Washington's Army into retreat at Chadds Ford on the Brandywine on September

THE CONNECTION WITH LANCASTER OF A SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE By C. H. MARTIN R ECENTLY the writer purchased a copy of a book entitled, "Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence," by B. J. Lossing (1848). In glancing through this volume I found

commis- sioned a Major in Wayne's battalion. He had been, if I mistake not, an Ad- jutant of the Royal Americans; and was considered a capable discipli- narian. "He was a German, or rather a man of no country or any country; a citizen of the world, a soldier of fortune, a true mercenary. Thinking that

LETTERS OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS IN LANCASTER By William Frederic Worner It was shortly after the defeat of the American army at Brandywine, in September, 1777, that the Continental Congress, as noble a legislative body as the world had ever seen, adjourned from Independence Hall in Philadelphia

subject, however, Colonel Connolly's own narrative is si- lent. He does say that "after the peace of 1762 the North American Indians formed a general confederacy to de- stroy our frontier settlements and de- molish the garrisons. The British com- mander-in-chief was obliged to send an army to repel these

morning, a sailor, calledstewart issues Bread, Meat, Butter , Cheese in the presence of an officer of the soldiers, a little can of Rum and vinegar per man, and when all is cooked, every 6men get a wooden bowl with a number on it from bed No 1 to the end. Then the cook calls out the numbers, fills up and

- ficult to found a liberty party, although in the end Georgia sent 2,679 troops into the Continental service,—the smallest number contributed by any state, Delaware alone excepted. But her loyal governor, Sir James Wright, was an able man and raised a considerable force of Loyalists for the King's service

always a big army on paper, but never in actual service. " At the close of one campaign, there were not enough troops in camp to man the lines ; at the opening of another, when the Commander-in- Chief was expected to take the field, scarce any state in the Union," as he himself said, " had an eighth part