dismiss our Terrors, as he was himsels from Lancaster county, and would shed the last drop of his heart's Blood, to procure a proper Respect for every Individual srom that place. This gracious Assurance did not, however, very much tend to dissipate our Alarm: until the Gentleman, in a voice which made the

coach or on horseback, rather than to be "left in a swamp, upwards of a mile srom the place os their destination." They fur- ther show that the city and county of Lancaster then contributed for the year 1832, to the revenues os the Corn- �monwealth, $45,069.91—nearly a tenth of the whole revenue of the

:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Hensel, W. U. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: A withered twig / by W. U. Hensel, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): American Party. Politics, Practical--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Elections

. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: The American rifle / by prepared by Hon. W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820. Gunsmiths--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Rifles--History. Industries--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster

Governor of Maryland, con- firms this, and the statement that Governor Johnson, of Pennsylvania, had refused to honor the requisition for the fugitive. It also illustrates �the manner of obtaining requisition. The correspondence runs thus: Baltimore County, November 29, 1849. Philip Francis Thomas, Esq

Owen, signed and sealed the early deeds for Lancaster county lands. They are good examples of penmanship, as it is not taught in our later day schools—for boys. Driven from Boston by persecution of the Quakers, Edward Shippen's third marriage later separated him from the Society of Friends in Phila

in familiar streams." Into the historic bailiwick of my county there entered almost contem- poraneously three ruling strains that have made the composite citizenship of Pennsylvania for nearly two cen- turies. On that theatre of action there have been displayed the play and counter-play, the relation

concluded here that they had been drowned in some of the rivulets of Chester county; for it was more than a month before we heard any- thing of them. Within a few days past we have ascertained that they are in the neighborhood of Church- town, Lancaster county, progressing in their surveys. They have found

, American--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1915 Description: [4]-15 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 19, no. 1 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.19 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

now by the Iris Club—father of the brilliant and gifted Humes Porter, who one day was highest Federal officer left in Washington—in the absence of the President and all his Cabinet—and who died in Harrisburg after living for a time at the Lancaster county public home—was a member of the local Bar in