only a few years earlier, the Conestoga community, or part of it, was resident on the Schuylkill River in present upper Montgomery County (the site of the town is marked on the return of a survey dated 1689). �The embassy was successful, and warmly approved by the Conestoga Indians. As Captain Cock

county, even up to the night of November sixth, the eve of the battle of the polls. Finally the ora- tors rested their voices, having done their best and talked themselves hoarse. The Express described the campaign in the issue of November fifth "We conclude this evening our record of political

--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1912 Description: 247-250 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 16, no. 8 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.16 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

fast-thinning ranks of the Blue and the Gray to Gettysburg in final reunion. H. G. Wells, noted authority, classes Abraham Lincoln, the central figure of that great drama, among the first six men of the world's history. If that be true, no excuse need be offered to record in the annals of this Society

Presidency, in which this county played no little part. The town was honored by a visit and short address by the President-elect when he was en route to Washing- ton to be inaugurated ; and it was in mourning when his funeral �train passed through conveying the remains of the martyr to their last resting

leading to Philadelphia across Conestoga Creek, having now made report in the words and figures following, viz.: 'To the Worshipful Justices of the General Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be held at Lancaster for the county of Lancaster on the first Tuesday in August next, we, the subscribers ap

THE ACADIANS IN LANCASTER COUNTY. There is no history in which can be chronologically traced the struggles and changes within that small region known as Acadia, the confines of which were ex- pressly named by Henry IV. of France in his letters patent of November 3, 1603, over the country, territory

known, as subse- quent issues of the local papers contain no references to it. Address to John Adams by Militia of Lancaster County By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T a meeting of one hundred and fifty officers of the militia of Lancaster county on June 21st, 1798, the following address was read and

. Dear Sir, I wish you to send me a requisition, directed to the Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania, for the appre- hension of Abraham Jonson, a free colored man, who recently left Balti- more county, Md., upon the charge of having received stolen goods, the facts in the case are as follows, viz.: Said Jonson