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

subscribed for this valuable work, though at the time he was living, I think, in Northampton county, where he had been commissioned in 1788 a justice of the peace, and judge of the courts of common pleas and quarter sessions. The name of Benjamin Smith Barton, M. D., who was a son of the Rev. Thomas Barton

bright spot to re- pair to — and that was the "public soup house," maintained by the city government in the Grant Street police station, where pails of hot soup were ladled out to the needy. The ordinary workingman of the earlier days received low wages and as a rule lived near his place of employment

Jacob. In 1710 he acquired his first land in Lan- caster county, being a tract of about 200 acres near Lampeter Square, and in 1712 his possessions aggregated about 3000 acres along the Pequea. Al- though he continued his practice at Germantown for several years more, at the same time he bought

, than Major Ellicott always appeared to me to be in the faithful execution of the public business committed to his charge." Andrew, son of Joseph Ellicott, was born in Bucks County, January 24, 1754, and became famous as a surveyor, astronomer, scientist and mathematician. While yet a young man, he and

from his excellency, the Commander-in-chief, a general court-martial was held at Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, when Henry Mansin (who confessed himself an officer in the British army) and Wendal Myer, an inhabitant of the county, were brought before the court and charged with being spies, carrying on a

says: "A pious mother, too, with anxious care Suppliant for them preferr'd the daily Pray'r, Pointed and led them in the heav'nly road, Thro' patient self-denial unto God." This and succeeding lines, gives a true historical picture of the typical good old Lancaster home. The author stops to foretell of

which General St. Clair wrote to Wayne, it is stated that a number of troops were obliged to pass through Lancaster on their way to York. While in Lancaster, they were to be supplied with pro- visions, and General Wayne was directed to give attention to this matter in order that the march might not be