Historical Society by H, Frank Eshleman, Esq. �liquor licenses, and the minutes of the County Commissioners, and the records of wills, estates and deeds. All of the assessment lists before 1750 are gone. I think the earliest list preserved of Lancaster town and borough is that of 1754. It is printed among

The Attitude of James Buchanan (a Cit- izen of Lancaster County) towards the Institution of Slavery in the United States It is the happy and appropriate function of an historical society, with even the local limitations of ours, to fearlessly explore and faithfully chron- icle the events of general

which are as sacred in regard of the law as the rights of man. There were, too, in the North wicked slave catchers and kidnappers whose brutalities aroused the just resentment of the communities in which .they operated, even when they kept within the limits of strict and technical legal rights. It was

anything amusing in the verbosity and precision of these formal legal documents, and yet from our point of view, it is there. There is not only much that is entertaining, but much that is curious, and so, from a careful study of the old wills, still on record, this paper has been compiled. Naturally, while

I came to separate them I found the entire lot identical. The title was "The Boquet," conspicuously mis- spelled on the outer cover, though corrected on the inner page The volume was published in Lancaster, 1858, by Murray, Young & Co., and the author was James Scott Brown, "native and to the manner

HISTORY OF LOT 159 OF THE HAMILTON GRANT Those who do not look upon them- selves as a link connecting the past with the future do not perform their duty to the world.—Daniel Webster. The town of Lancaster was sur- veyed and laid out by Andrew Hamil- ton, Esq., or James Hamilton, Esq. (1), his son