Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: The attitude of James Buchanan (a citizen of Lancaster County) towards the institution of slavery in the United States / by W. U. Hensel, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 --Views on slavery. Slavery--Law and legislation--United States--History

in a convention composed largely of lawyers and assembled to make laws; but he was no inconspicuous figure in a body which embraced in its member- ship, beside Mr. Meredith, such dis- tinguished and able men as Daniel Agnew, Wm. Darlington, S. A. Pur- viance, James Pollock, George W. Woodward, John

and Mr. Blanch- ard." Some accounts of Stevens' en- try into Pennsylvania narrate that he came here with James Merrill and John Blanchard. This letter proves that they preceded him; they were un- doubtedly his forerunners. Both these Vermonters achieved local fame. John Blanchard became �a noted

JAMES ANNESLY'S (LORD ALTAMONT'S) TRADITIONAL RESIDENCE IN LANCASTER COUNTY, FROM 1728 TO 1741 — NOT A FACT — ONLY UNFOUNDED TRADITION. By H. Frank Eshleman. Rupp, in a foot note page 243 of his History of Lancaster County, says that "James, afterwards Lord Altham, was confined in the prison at

it that An- derson had already become what was then called a "bachelor," when he heard of James Clark's curly-haired daughter, Peggy, rode down to her sather's house, stayed all night there, 'and sell in love with the object of his visit. The record os the marriage os these two loyal Leacock

THE FIRST WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN LANCASTER CITY: A COM- PARISON WITH THE MALE VOTE; YOUTHFUL AND AGED VOTERS COMPARED By H. Frank Eshleman The local history which I present to you, herein, is only six years old. It is valuable, however, because of what it records generally, and also because it

by the earli- est adventurers to the Chesapeake, one of whom, Sir James Argol, wrote to England in 1613 that he hoped to make a cut, "between our bay and the Dela- ware." Argol was apparently in the region of Lancaster County nearly as early as Captain John Smith and Stephen Brule. Vol. 4 p. 270

, biog- rapher of Robert Fulton; the Nix dorfs, Stormfeltzs, Rotes and McCul- lys, Elias Barr and A. N. Breneman, Solomon Sprecher, J. T. Springer, The- ophilus Fehn, William Kirkpatrick, George B. Markley, David Killinger, Garret Evarts, Abraham W. Russell, J. M. W. Geist, Emanuel C. Reigart, James