.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1905/1906 Description: 368-393 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 10, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.10 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

Material: Book Subject(s): Trent, William, 1715-1787? Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1912 Description: 142-142 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 16, no. 5 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.16 Location

illustrated by actual facts. A slave woman escaped from her owner, James S. Mitchell, of Cecil County, Maryland, in 1845. During her absence, as a fugitive from his service, she had given birth in New Jersey to an illegiti­ mate child. Through the ins,trumentality of agents, residing in Pennsylvania, Mitchell

appointed Prosecuting Attorney for Dauphin county, Pa., and was elected three times from the same county to the Pennsylvania House of Representa- tives. In 1814 he was elected to Con- gress, but declined, having been ap- pointed President Judge of the Dau- phin-Lebanon-Schuylkill district. A little later he

the road from Cen- treville to "Bethel," on one of the tributaries of the Conowingo creek, on the farm now owned by Leander Shoe- maker, there stood, long before the American Revolution, a whitewashed stone hut, which must have been one of the first edifices in that early-settled section of the county