, where he passed the examination by answering a few questions on Coke and Blackstone. He also expressed his appreciation to the examining judge by presenting him with several bottles of Madeira. �80 JOURNAL Having thus thwarted the York County lawyers, he opened an office in Gettysburg. Before his first

84/3, 1981 131 An Unusual Discovery Prisoner-of-War Barracks in Lancaster Used During the Revolutionary War By Albert G. Overton and J. W.W. Loose Although historians have known for a long time barracks to house British and Hessian prisoners-of-war during the American Revolution were located at the

Philadelphia and meet at Lancaster, which they did on 27 September 1777. Their paths thither took a northern route, arching through Berks and Northampton counties to avoid any British patrols that might be lurking in central Chester County. Upon reaching Lancaster, members of the Congress discovered the town

confirmed by the court of quarter sessions. In 1730 Andrew Hamilton and his son, James, began proceedings to acquire a large tract of land lying astride Lancaster and Manheim Townships. On a portion of this tract James Hamilton would lay out a town which he called Lancaster. During the following few years