CONESTOGA By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XI, No. 3, pp. 75-113, of the Proceedings of The Lan- Lancaster County Historical Society, appears an article entitled, "How the Pennsylvania Railroad Came Through Lancaster." In that paper the author, the late William Uhler Hensel, Esq., de- scribed, in minute

also the capital of Pennsylvania from the summer of 1799 until the autumn of 1812. Carefully preserved among the archives of the Lancaster County Historical Society is an interesting old handbill, published in 1809 by the then well- known printer of Lancaster, William Greer. It is headed, "A List of

reported a constitution for the government of the 'American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry', which was read, approved and unanimously adopted. Every inhabitant of the county of Lancaster who feels an individual interest in the encouragement of

of our fellow citizens must hereafter depend, and in anticipation of measures which it is confidently hoped will be pursued at no distant day by the government, a number of citizens of the city and county of Lancaster have formed an association, which has adopted for its govern- ment the following

time as Lancaster was not incorporated as a city until March 20th, 1818. Mennonites of Donegal and Manor Townships Address Letter to Governor McKean By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER N March 11th, 1800, a number of Mennonites who resided in Donegal and Manor townships, Lancaster county, Pa., ad- dressed a

, secretary to the commis- sioners appointed by the governor for alleviating the distress of the citizens of Philadelphia and suburbs, furnished Paul Zantzinger, local chairman, a list of the donations received from Lancaster borough and county. Mr. Zant- zinger conceived it to be his duty for the information

of Distillers By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of distillers of Lancaster county was held at John Whiteside's tavern, in the borough of Lancaster, on Saturday, November 11th, 1815. Jacob Miller was appointed chairman, and John Rohrer secretary.' The distillers met for the purpose of preparing a

eighteenth century the German population in that state exceeded by more than one-third the total number of inhabitants. The reasons for their selection of Pennsylvania, in preference to any other colony, were that not only did William Penn's frame of government guarantee to them freedom of religious

Lancaster, and as for want of powers corporate, we may be subjected to inconvenience in the pursuit of our charitable objects: KNOW YE, that in pursuance of an act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An act to confer on certain 4 Lancaster Journal, Friday, May 20th, 1831

confined to Lancaster city. Societies were or- ganized in several towns in the county. There were two organiza- tion in existence in Columbia as early as January, 1833. The one for the white population, held its meetings in the town hall.7 Thomas Lloyd was its secretary. The colored society held its meet