Governor, and this was another reason why anyone • desiring or holding office, any one in politics, should flock to the sup- port of a man who stood so close to so much appointive power as did James Tin ilton. Here at Lancaster, too, James Ham- ilton was making a new fame all his own. He was not a lawyer

site along the Susquehanna. Of many marker events in which I have taken part in Lancaster and neighboring counties, there has been none whose purpose appeals to my per- sonal appetite for local historical facts as much as does this one marking Wright's Ferry. All of us interested in history have

to the land on which to build the court house and prison in Lancaster, the commissioners, of course, holding the title in trust for the county (1 Pa. Arch., p. 252). August 5th the treas- urer of the province pays into his hands the 300 pounds lent to the coun- ty of Lancaster to build the last

to help quell the whiskey rebel- lion in western Pennsylvania. Refer- ence is made to this in the Pennsyl- vania Magazine of History and Biography. �His last visit was September 20 and 21, 1796, and there is not much known of it; it seems that he passed through Lancaster on that visit; but on his