. James's Church, Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Sunday evening, September 18th, 1825, after divine service, a number of ladies and gentlemen met in Saint James's Prot- estant Episcopal church, Lancaster, and formed an organiza- tion for the laudable purpose of affording medical relief to the

ground assumed of defense or exculpation is, that the charter of the church does not permit English preaching, and that as the in- troduction of a clergyman to deliver an English sermon was a viola- tion of the provisions of that instrument, the preventive proceed- ings resorted to were justifiable." A

five days thereafter; and in the event of the president or vice- president refusing to call such meeting, any twenty members may call one on giving notice as above. ARTICLE VI. A general meeting of this society shall take place four times in each year in the borough of Lancaster, viz. on the second

Ann Moore, Postmistress of Lancaster, First Woman Appointed to Office Under the Federal Government By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XX XIV, pp. 62-3, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society, appeared an article entitled "Post- masters and Postmistresses of Lancaster." In

in writing it "James's." That the local congregation has been referred to as "St. James's" church for generations, is clearly proven by written records, legal documents, and published papers. We trust that these proofs, which cannot be successfully con- troverted, will serve to dispose of the claim

applied to the Lan- caster county court in August, 1772, for licenses to conduct public houses. 1 One hundred and thirty-nine applied ; thirty-two were for taverns in Lancaster borough, and the remaining one hundred and seven were scattered throughout the county. Lancaster county in 1772 embraced all the

announcement that the preceding Tuesday, May 1st, had been observed in the borough of Lancaster as St. Tammany's day. The item was as follows : "Tuesday last being St. Tammany's day, a number of respect- able inhabitants assembled at Swenk's spring, to celebrate the anniversary of our tutelar saint. It is

church, in 1821; and a past master of Masonic lodge No. 43 F. A. M.4 "Jeremiah Mosher lived on the south side of East King street, a few doors above Lime street. He died March 8th, 1830, and was buried in St. James's churrchyard,5 with the honors of war. A horse, carrying his regimentals and inverted

. Yeates to St. James's Church." Jasper Yeates was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Penn- sylvania, and at his death had one of the finest libraries in Lan- caster. This distinguished jurist was, unquestionably, one of the most intelligent men of the community ; and in view of the fact that a man of his