Corpora- tion in New Holland, Pennsylvania. These two sources of documents and artifacts were invaluable in this study. In addition to the New Holland Clarion articles found at the Lancaster County Historical Society, the R.E. Whitmore family in New Holland graciously gave me access to back issues of the

Governor's Approval of Laws.—In 1756 Carpenter was given charge of the Acadian Bill after the House passed it, in order to get the Gov- ernor's approval of the same. Many of those unhappy Nova Scotians, as we know, came to Lancaster County. In 1759 he was given a similar task as to several new bills passed

The Early Architecture of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL FORMS IN LANCASTER COUNTY DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. "No chapter in the history of national manners would illustrate so well, if duly executed, the progress of social life

, Mary Hans Christian Zimmerman, Jonas Le Rime Fierie."1 Hans Hartman, Isaac Fierie, Peter Fierie, 1 History of Carpenter family by Seymour D. Carpenter. �In October, 1730, Emmanuel Carpenter was elected as one of the assessors for the county, the assessors at that time being Joshua Lower, of Hempfield

The Makers of Pottery in Lancaster County By M. LUTHER HEISEY "The wheel goes round and round, And where it stops nobody knows." S 0 RUNS a radio couplet, but the wheel of the old potter has stopped, and mechanized methods have stolen the romance from the mystic makings of forms in clay. The art of

monument to all of the peoples of Lancaster county and especially to the citizens of Conestoga township, and through you. Harry Fehl, to the family of George Fehl, we deliver its care and protection, and to his descendants and to all future possessors of the Postle- thwaite farm we deliver it in charge

Record of Soldiers of Lancaster County in the War of 1812, and of Others Who Gave Service During the Period of 1784 -1815 By (MRS. D. B.) BERTHA COCHRAN LANDIS and ELEANORE J. FULTON. Note—The following comprehensive list of soldiers, who served their country as active participants in the War of

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

and perhaps going to Ohio is the reason for no death notice in Lebanon County. 22Early Records in History of Lutheran Churches of Lebanon County. 22L. Rupp's, History of Lebanon and Berks County. 'Forge Journal,Hopewell Forge—Year 1791—Landis Valley Museum, Lancaster, Penna. "Docket #5 F14P-1 Docket

In Lancaster the families of Atlee, Barber, Carpenter, Hager, Bolenius, Eberman, Wisler, Wike, Weaver and others are not joined with obvious directness; nevertheless, they are related through the medium of one family — the Mathiot family. Huguenot Background When the Edict of Nantes was revoked in