(a) LANCASTER COUNTY CONTRIBUTORS TO RELIEF OF BOSTON, 1774 Among the manuscripts in the Manuscript Department of the Library of the Pennsylvania Historical Society at Philadelphia in a Volume entitled "Lancaster County Miscellaneous Papers," pp. 5 and 7 appear the following documents: "We whose

tablet, erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, marks his country home. A stained glass window is his memorial in St. James' Church. His grave is in Christ Church Cemetery, Philadelphia. Of the 7,357 militia and 22,198 Con- tinentals furnished by Pennsylvania from 1775 to 1783, Lancaster

-Irish--Pennsylvania. Historical markers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Donegal (Pa.)--History. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1899-1900 Description: [44]-62 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical

--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Debt--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1901-1902 Description: [3]-7 p. ; 23 cm. Series

: Book Subject(s): Hessians--United States. Hessians--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 --Participation, German. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century--German mercenaries. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1899-1900 Description

necessities in living to-day, are luxuries the nabobs of that period never dreamed of." REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS AND PATRIOTS OF LANCASTER COUNTY By MRS. MARY OWEN STEINMETZ In Vol. XXXIV, pp. 145-167, of the Proceedings of The Lan- caster County Historical Society, is a paper entitled, "Revolu- tionary

Strasburg, on Friday, the 17th of February, Frederick Powel, aged about 80 years, one of the few remaining soldiers of the Revolutionary War. �"Mr. Powel was a native of Lancaster county, and, in the struggle for Independence, volunteered and was attached to a rifle corps which was, we believe, commanded by

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

, Herbert Huebener, 1875-1960. Title: The military hospital at Litiz, 1777-78 / by Prof. Herbert H. Beck. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Military hospitals--Pennsylvania. Lititz (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster

. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Militia. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1917 Description: 137-142 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 21, no. 8 & 9 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.21 Location: LCHSJL