- enridge and that was also the trend in Lancaster County and the re- mainder of the state. George Sanderson, Mayor of Lancaster, was owner and editor of the Intelligencer in 1860, and from that period until the present, the paper has been sympathetic to the Democratic party. The Lancaster Inquirer began

. The "Circular of Terms" for the Beck Family School for Boys is a case in point. �Moravian Family School for a Limited number of Boys, Abraham R. Beck, Principal. Litiz [sic], Lancaster County, Pa. Terms. "For tuition and all domestic expenses, $300 a year, to be paid half-yearly in advance, in

An Identity of the Massawomekes: Five Nations Iroquois Lawrence Van Horn The term Massawomeke seems peculiar to the literature of Captain John Smith (1612). In 1608, he came upon separate parties of Susquehannocks and Massawomekes on his trip up Chesapeake Bay (1612:53), 376). And these

province of Pennsylvania, came from sturdy Scotch Irish stock. After James I attempted to plant a Protestant people in the County of Ulster in nothern Ireland, thousands of Scotch Presbyterians left Scot- land and settled in Ulster, Ireland. In time, however, the British crown imposed such heavy taxes on

both sides of the Susquehanna river, which was considered their territory up to this time. From the annals of the Susquehannocks and other Lancaster, Pa. In- dians, by H. Frank Eshleman, 1909, in the Lancaster County Historical So- ciety Papers, we read: "Prior to 1600—but how long before is not known

parents who came from Coleraine, Ireland to settle in Chester County, Pennsylvania. At the age of 15 he was sent to Lancaster to be apprenticed to Matthew Roesser, at that time probably the leading gun- smith in the town. Henry's mechanical ability made him an ideal appren- tice and probably he served the

�Sunday News Photo The Huebener House at Lititz close by Moravian Church Square is one of a number of charming 18th century buildings being preserved in that historic com- munity of Lancaster County. NOT FOR RAZING! Realtors and proponents of modernity would do well to avoid calling on Mr. and Mrs

built Wheatland in 1828 and later sold the property to President James Buchanan. Colonel William Bush Fordney, her �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org paternal grandfather, was a prominent lawyer in Lancaster. He served as district