Brief Outline on the Care o the Poor, the Sick, and insane 0/ Lancaster County, /0a. BY HENRY A. SHOWALTER For more than fifty years after the erection of Lancaster County the poor were supported by the several townships. Two Overseers of the Poor were elected in each township. The constables and

Lancaster is not now known. Subsequent issues of local papers do not contain any ref- ferences to these gifted musicians. Contributions from Lancaster County for the Distressed Poor of Philadelphia During the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1797 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T various times, during its earlier

at Lancaster, for the Lancaster District, of the same Commonwealth, on the fourteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, the act or instrument of incor- poration within written, together with the opinion of Samuel Douglas, Esquire, Attorney General of the

foreign power or resort to arms for the defense of all that can be held dear to freemen, the officers of the militia of Lancaster county, —feeling themselves happy under the influence of a government of their own choice, mild and equal in its operation, and perfectly satisfied that it has been, and

Society of Lancaster. Charity organization. Poor--Services for--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County --History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1930 Description: [11]-18 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 34, no. 1 Call Number: 974.9 L245