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not dined with a farmer in a quarter of a century. Col. Duffy's invitation was cordi- ally accepted . At 10 A.M. the guest was at the Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. George W. Childs, Col. A. L. J. Cassatt, Charles E. Pugh, J. N. Dubarry, George De B. Keim, George B. Roberts, Lieut. A. M. Thackara

.' When William Penn drafted his "frames of government" for Pennsylvania, the English system was adopted, lock, stock, and barrel. County courts were established with justices of the peace holding sessions quarterly (hence "quarter sessions of the peace court"). Not only summary offenses, misdemeanors

! With this the committee adjourned until its next meeting-21 March 1887—to be held in the Board of Trade rooms. The Board of Trade (the predecessor of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry) graciously permitted the Society to meet in its rooms without charge. Committee appointments were announced by

84/3, 1981 131 An Unusual Discovery Prisoner-of-War Barracks in Lancaster Used During the Revolutionary War By Albert G. Overton and J. W.W. Loose Although historians have known for a long time barracks to house British and Hessian prisoners-of-war during the American Revolution were located at the

very many organizations. H. Frank Eshleman was the first editor of record in the late 1920s. In 1930 William F. Worner succeeded him, and in 1935 M. Luther Heisey became the Society's third editor, serving with uncommon distinction for twenty years. The change in column width from newspaper column to 4

oyer and terminer jurisdiction (capital and very serious crimes). Provision was made that the Supreme Court could grant commissions to county courts of quarter sessions of the peace for specific trials constituting courts of oyer, terminer and general jail delivery. It is not clear from the records how