and County supporting the government in its attitude toward France / by William Frederic Worner. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Adams, John, 1735-1826. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--1775-1865. France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1928

gallons of foreign spirits are now annually im- ported into this country, which cost about two million dollars, clear of freight, duty and charges. If this money, instead of being sent abroad, were distributed among our farmers at home, and applied to the purchase of corn and rye, it would greatly promote

, $ 571.33 " employees in William Diller's machine shop, 12.21 " citizens in the north-east ward, 482.87 " employees in the Lancaster locomotive works, 88.75 "Miller and Fellenbaum's machine shop, 20.00 " " C. M. Howell's marble works, 12.50 " citizens in the south-east ward, 318.66 " " " " south-west ward

. About 1802 he obtained an appointment as teacher of a school at Kingsessing, near Philadelphia. It was here that he formed the acquaintance of William Bartram, the naturalist, and Alexander Lawson, the engraver, whose tastes and instructions were invaluable in stimulating his own aspirations. He became

individual in Pennsylvania from the time William Penr returned to England in 1701 until the Treaty of Lancaster 1744 was James Logan left by Penn as Secretary of the colony and supervisor of any lieutenant-governor whom Penn might send to America. Pennsylvania history during the first half of the eighteenth

The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

The following description of the Dunkard Monastery indicates that Mit- telberger is mistaken in stating that the third road "runs to the left hand toward Lancaster and Bethlehem." Obviously, he meant Ephrata. At the latter place there was "a monastery and nunnery of Dunkers," described by

one of the commissioners to run the line between that state and Pennsylvania (the exten- sion of the Mason and Dixon Line). With him were Rittenhouse, Peters and Nevill, and as an associate to these commissioners a youth of but nineteen years, Benjamin S. Barton, son of the Rev. Thomas Barton, both of

An Early Threshing Machine in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER LATE in the summer of 1806, a threshing machine, invented in Scotland, was erected at David Witmer's mill in Lancaster county, Pa. The machine was capable of threshing 35 bushels of oats in an hour, of threshing and cleaning 100

protection. According to the records of Donegal Church one William McDowell died there on September 12, 1759, aged 77 years, having fled from his home on the "Conecaeheague" in Cumberland (now Franklin) County 1 Archibald Loudon's Narratives, Carlisle, Pa., 1811. 2 Rupp's History of Lancaster and Y ork