United States Congress from 1789 to the present / by Hon. A. G. Seyfert. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Legislators--United States. Pennsylvania--Politics and government--1865-1950. Pennsylvania--Politics and government--1775-1865. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1930

/ by George Steinman, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster County (Pa.)--Boundaries. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Politics and government--1775-1865. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1903/1904 Description: [97]-109 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the

Lancaster county, about 1526. About that time, John Fiske tells us, Lucas Vasquez d'Ayllon came from Hispaniola, and "tried the Chesapeake Bay" in search of the northwest passage, and "ob- tained a grant and began to build a town."' But that town was likely south of the Pennsylvania line. Then next, about

politics of Lancaster County from 1799 to 1810, examining the ethnic and population trends, the political behavior of the various ethnic groups, the development of po- litical organization and technique, and (concentrating on the election of 1801) the issues with which the two parties waged their political

Democracy over the election of Andrew Jackson to the Presidency was soon ended by the rapid growth and political success of the Anti-masonic Party in Lancaster County, a movement as much supported by those rural Federalists who would vote for anything as long as it was not the detested Demo- cratic Party

rather to present a monograph that will be worth publishing and that will form a permanent contribution to your very valu- able publications. I have selected petitions and a few letters that I think fairly well illustrate the varied activities of citizens of Lancaster County during the period covered

also the capital of Pennsylvania from the summer of 1799 until the autumn of 1812. Carefully preserved among the archives of the Lancaster County Historical Society is an interesting old handbill, published in 1809 by the then well- known printer of Lancaster, William Greer. It is headed, "A List of