. Worner supplementary to series of H. Frank Eshleman. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Pennsylvania Packet and General Advertiser (newspaper) Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--1775-1865. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1926 Description

Samuel Slaymaker on Fri- day, February 10th, on business relating to the society. About four years later, the society discontinued its library. This was due to a lack of financial backing. Doubtless the people in the community did not respond to the calls for assistance or mani- fest that interest in the

and County supporting the government in its attitude toward France / by William Frederic Worner. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Adams, John, 1735-1826. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--1775-1865. France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1928

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

Compassville, a short distance east of the line that divides Chester and Lancaster counties. It was , kept for many years by John Miller. In the survey of the old King's Highway made by order of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania in �The Sign of the Bull, Compassville, Chester County

pp. 335-51, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society. 1 Lancaster Journal, Friday, January 16th, 1829. 2 In a letter, dated Lancaster, Pa., January 14th, 1829, and addressed to John Reynolds, editor of the Lancaster Journal, Major John Getz stated that he was present at the

Wagon Loads of Gold in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE late William Uhler Hensel, a former vice-president of our Lancaster County Historical Society, and widely known as a leader of the Lan- caster bar, would, when in a reminiscent mood, often sigh for "the days of yore, when taverns were

, Isaac Weld, Jun., was a keen observer, and little of importance seems to have escaped his attention. He has furnished an interesting pen picture of life in America during the early years of the infant Republic. Weld was in Lancaster, Pa., in March, 1796. In Volume I of his valuable work, appears the