believed it was unlawful to buy or keep negro slaves, yet slavery was retained, and Delaware is ranked with the South among the slave-holding States. South Carolina held slaves from the beginning. Although many settlers of North Carolina were Qua- kers, this colony soon adopted sla- very. Georgia was the

Pennsylvania tax levied upon the owners of the bondsmen. Only by an act of the General Assembly in 1780, however, was the fate of slavery sealed. This act provided for the gradual abolition of slavery. No Negro child born in Pennsylvania after the year 1780 would be considered a slave by law. Those children

that such slavery in said children shall be ex- tinct and shall be abolished." The statute also enacts that every person who shall be the owner of a negro or mulatto slave within this State shall before the first day of November, next, deliver in writing to the Clerk of the Peace of the county the name

, outbuildings, livestock held, and total value of real and personal property. In unusual cases, such as for West Goshen Township (West Chester) in 1835, they contain a list of persons with money at interest and a list of poor and Negro children whose parents were unable to educate them. The county dog tax

death on 9 March 1976 came after a two year battle with cancer. Dr. Shain discussed the accompanying ode with the editor only a few days before entering the hospital the last time. Rabbi Shain was born in Boston in 1906, the son and grandson of rabbis. He was a graduate of Hebrew Teachers College of

missionary enterprises of the Moravian Church. While traveling after his student days, he came to an art gallery at Duesseldorf, and viewed the famous "Ecce Homo" painting, with the inscription "This have I suffered for thee, what hast thou done for Me?" His answer was the rededication of his life. On

hospitality within. William Penn at the beginning of the founding of the colony seems to have set an example in this respect for he disapproved of the door that adorned his main entry way, and after his return from England, he ordered a new front door because, "the present one is more ugly and low." The

of July Anno Domini 1781, personally appeared before me the Honorable Thomas McKean Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Penn- sylvania, Edward Shippen, Esquire, one of the subscribing witnesses to the Release or Instrument of writing indorsed on the back of the within written Deed and made Oath

The Attitude of James Buchanan (a Cit- izen of Lancaster County) towards the Institution of Slavery in the United States It is the happy and appropriate function of an historical society, with even the local limitations of ours, to fearlessly explore and faithfully chron- icle the events of general