Includes information on Susannah Wright; Sarah H. Armstrong; Esther Barton; Hannah Brown; Juliana Clark; Catherine Ross Claiborne; Harriet Lane; Sarah Curtis; Leah Bratten Gallagher; Ann McCullough; Alice Appenzeller; Anna Lyle; Amanda Landes; Mary Martin; Bertha Cochran Landis; Elizabeth R. Martin; S. June Smith; and Psyche Cattell.
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 99, number 4 (Winter 1998), p. 178-188Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v. 99 no. 4
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v.102, no.4
Notes
Reprinted with permission from Lancaster Newspapers Inc., January 1, 2001.
Contents
Kendig Charles Bare (1913-1989)--D. Luke Biemesderfer (1894-1989)--Bertha Brossman Eby Blair (1892-1985)--Adolph Christian Darmstaetter (1887-1978)--Guy Graybill Diehm (1880-1970)--Milton Thomas Garvin (1860-1946)--William W. Griest (1858-1929)--Nathaniel E. Hager (1900-1982)--Byron K. Horne (1901-1992)--Ruth Grigg Horting (1900-1988)--Nancy Keiper Long (1884-1943)--John Piersol McCaskey(1837-1935)--Paul Albert Mueller, Sr. (1898-1956)--Frank Custer Musser (1873-1933)--Caroline Steinman Nunan (1925-)--Henning Webb Prentis, Jr. (1884-1959)--Earl Franklin Rebman (1895-1984)--Isidore Rosenthal (1872-1954)--William Shand (1889-1982)--S. June Smith--Keith Spalding (1822-)--James Hale Steinman (1886-1962)--Daniel Bursk Strickler (1897-1992)--Clifford G. Twombly (1869-1942)--Henry Stackpole Williamson (1853-1917).
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 85, no. 1
Summary
The writer has studied Lancaster, PA, court records to find the ways in which violators of the law were treated in the 18th century. The article's title comes from the practice in the early 1800's of have convicted persons placed in a pillory on Penn Square and then whipped on the bare back. The article mentions other punishments and some particular individuals sentences.