Address to President John Adams from the Citizens of Lancaster Borough and County Supporting the Government in its Attitude Toward France By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN THE proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society of October, 1924, appears an article entitled, "John Marshall in

contacts were maintained in Lancaster City, but the initial contacts were strong. In Fulton town- ship, every farmer and skilled worker had received or had bought land at cheap prices from the wealthiest Quaker landowners in the township.27 These thirty-three Negroes of the county having busi- ness and

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO PLACE AND UNVEIL A MARKER DESIGNATING AND COMMEMORATING THE INDIAN TOWN OF CONESTOGA, IN MANOR TOWNSHIP, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNA. To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical Society: Your committee appointed to place, and with appropriate exercises un

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

. 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

tavern, on the turnpike road, nine miles from the borough of Lancaster, to celebrate the triumph of Republicanism. They were joined by a number of their fellow-citizens. After performing some military evolutions, and firing sixteen rounds in honor of the day, the company sat down to an excellent dinner

A PETITION FROM MARTIC TOWNSHIP. To understand more fully the griev- ances which caused it to be signed and presented, it will be necessary to go back a year or two. In the spring of 1776 the Continental Congress advised each colony and province to take immediate measures to frame a new form of

, as it was by those who thought the Freemasons were an "evil conspiracy" designed to take over the nation. Out of the bastion of the Democracy in lower Lancaster County — Colerain Township — came the Anti-masonic candidate for county auditor. John Caldwell was an ironmaster of sorts, a Methodist, and

Manheim Township and Its Part in the Indian History of the County This society has often been favored by papers on the way in which vari- ous sections of what is now Lancaster county figured in the history of the dusky-skinned inhabitants who knew this section to be their home and hap- py hunting