-bent Federalist party. After 1810, as conditions grew worse between the United States and Britain and foreign relations became strained, the Federalists of Pennsylvania united, determined to prevent a declaration of war against England. In Lancaster, the Federalists' first real opposition to the Madi

MUSTER ROLLS OF SOLDIERS FROM LANCASTER COUNTY IN THE WAR OF 1812 By MRS. J. V. R. HUNTER AND MRS. MARY OWEN STEINMETZ Not long ago, an old record book was found in the office of the prothon- otary in the court house of Reading, Berks county, Pa., bearing the following title: "Muster Roll of the

STEINMETZ The following names of soldiers from Lancaster county, Pa., who served in the War of 1812, were copied from a military docket in the prothonotary's office in the court house at Reading, Pa., and are a continuation of similar important information to be found in Vol. XXXVI, pp. 161-165, of the Pro­

MILITARY ACTIVITIES IN LAN CASTER DURING THE WAR OF 1812 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N January 8th, 1815, General Andrew Jackson won a bril- liant victory over the English troops at the celebrated battle of New Orleans,—two weeks after the treaty of peace between England and the United States