. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1907 Description: 31-32 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 11, no. 1 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.11 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

distributed free to the friends of the publisher. Mr. Carmany went to California in 1858, and there carried on a large printing plant. One of the first small papers of the Centeninal year, issued in this county, was The Philomath, a semi-monthly journal devoted to the collecting of coins, stamps, etc. This

to Baltimore, becoming a member of the Maryland Legislature. His mathematical pursuits brought him to the notice of such men as Rit- tenhouse, Franklin and Washington. In 1789 the latter commissioned him to survey the boundary between Penn- sylvania and New York. It was his �survey that gave us a

Anderson (No. 2) gave the serry and farm to his son. William Ellery, signer os the Declara- tion of Independence srom Rhode Island, in his journal or diary, records as follows: "1777, Nov. 14, stopped at Lititz and on the 15th crossed at An- derson's Ferry at noon and reached York in the afternoon. James

went to New Berlin, Union County, Pa., the town next in import- ance to the county seat. He was with Stevens in the Pennsylvania Consti- tutional Convention os 1836, and, like him, voted to give the negro the electoral franchise. He died in 1841, but his sons, Jesse and Louis, in civic and military