have a tendency to retain the Seat of Government amongst you . . . and thus promote the Respectability of your Borough and your own individual interest? (Signed) A Friend to the Borough and County of Lancaster —Lancaster Intelligencer January 20, 18021° Mr. Barton presented certain Resolutions agreed

state politics. President Judge of the Berks County Courts, he was projected into the political arena by his father-in-law, Joseph Heister, Revolutionary War veteran and former member of Congress and of both houses of the state assembly. Proving the foregone conclusion of the editor of the Lancaster

Lancaster on November 19, Governor McKean issued a proclama- tion which called upon the duly elected electors "of a President and Vice President of the United States to serve at the election in their behalf to be held at the Seat of Government (being the Borough of Lancaster in the County of Lancaster