city is left to conjecture. How long he remained in the river town and when he came to Lancaster is unknown. The first contemporary notice we have of Mr. Armstrong dates back to December, 1849, which reads as fol- lows: "We were very much gratified with a recent visit we paid to the gal- lery of Mr

, taking for her husband Captain Thomas Ewing, who was a staunch Presbyterian and a member of �the Donegal Church. Two sons were born of this marriage—the one, James, was a Captain in the French and In- dian War, and later became a General in the Revolutionary struggle on the patriot side, and the other

-1921. Title: Jacob Eshleman Warfer, painter / by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Warfel, Jacob Eshleman, 1826-1855. Artists--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1912

generous consid- eration. The Rev. Thomas Barton, pastor of St. James' Episcopal Church, in Lancaster, was one of these. His loyalist proclivities were not dis- guised nor denied. But he was a man of high character and took no part in the contest going on. He was allowed to sell his property and retire

fixtyThousand Bushels of Corn for France. When the Ambaffadore at Conftantinople asked Leave for fuch an Exportation, the grand Signior's An. swer was, that he nor only confented to it, but that it should alfo be Duty free, gladly embrace. THE FIRST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN LANCASTER, 1752. (From Sachse's German

indicated that of Colonel Nicholas Houssacker, who, after first serving as the Colonel of a Lancaster county regiment, went over to the British at the battle of Trenton, carrying about a score of his men with him. Since then some facts have come into his possession concerning Colonel Houssacker, and these

:. Mechanics' Coun- cillor. The Scott Bugle. The Daily Free Press, (Liquor organ.) 1856. The Daily Express. The Pathfinder. 1858. Lancaster Union. The Temperance Advocate. 1859. The Church Advocate. The Morn- ing Herald. (Daily). 1860. The Educational Record. The Con- . stitution. 1862. The Daily inquirer

the inter- ests of his clients rather than his own. With him personal honesty was the true foundation for all human excel- lence. Although he was always more or less of a politician, that seductive profes- sion could not win his affections from his first mistress, the law. When the anti-Masonic

Buchanan letters / by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 --Correspondence. Caldwell, James A. Barton, George W., 1807-1851. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1904/1905 Description: [37