delivered to Dickinson Gorsuch, who is hereby authorized to receive and convey him to the State of Mary- land, there to be dealt with according to law. In Witness Whereof, I have here- unto affixed my name and the Great Seal of the State, this thirty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one

pieces. Evolution of the Rifle in America. "At first the Swiss at Lancaster made rifles on the model of their own rather clumsy weapons and carried ounce balls. Their barrels were thir- ty to thirty-two inches long, and were rifled to a twist of about one-half revolution in the length of the bore. The

. Samuel Humes; of Dr. Sam- uel Humes, a son, and of another son, William Humes, who married Miss Harriet Church, of Philadelphia, and was a member of the company of State. Fencibles in the War of 1812, commanded by Hartman Kuhn, a Phil adelphia descendant of Adam Simon Kuhn, a conspicuous figure in old

, now the Iris Club house. About the same time his brother, David Rit- tenhouse Porter, was Governor of Pennsylvania from January 15, 1839, to January 21, 1845. Meantime an- other brother, James Madison Porter, �of Easton, Pa., was Secretary of War under President Tyler. A son of Gov. Porter is the

. Merrill, James, 1790-1841. Merrill, Samuel. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1905/1906 Description: 396-401 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 10, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.10 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

toward the magnificent Congressional Library building. James Buchanan, then a United States Sena- tor from Pennsylvania, and who for a long time had been a citizen of Lan- caster, moved in the Senate to take up the resolution directing the Com- mittee on Finance to inquire into the expediency of

—mostly from the former city— and even some Quakers, came to see and hear it" 1768, Maxatawney, Pa. 1769. Goshoppen , Pa. Trinity Lutheran, Reading Pa. (be- tween 1769 and 1771), £230. �1770, Lancaster, Pa,, First Re- formed Church—cost £250, and still in use. 1774. Lancaster, Pa., Trinity Luth- eran and

Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: The attitude of James Buchanan (a citizen of Lancaster County) towards the institution of slavery in the United States / by W. U. Hensel, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 --Views on slavery. Slavery--Law and legislation--United States--History