. James's Church, Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Sunday evening, September 18th, 1825, after divine service, a number of ladies and gentlemen met in Saint James's Prot- estant Episcopal church, Lancaster, and formed an organiza- tion for the laudable purpose of affording medical relief to the

and County supporting the government in its attitude toward France / by William Frederic Worner. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Adams, John, 1735-1826. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--1775-1865. France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1928

and Weekly Advertiser of Saturday, Novem- ber 18th, 1820, contained an announcement to the effect that the inhabitants of Lancaster inclined to unite in the organiza- tion of an agricultural society, were requested to meet in the court house in Lancaster city, on Saturday morning, December 2nd. A full

, rector of Saint James's Episcopal church, is also entered under the list of subscribers from Pennsylvania. He was born in Lancaster, Pa., February 10, 1766, but at the time he subscribed to Wilson's Ornithology he resided in Philadelphia. Nathaniel B. Boileau, secretary of the commonwealth, to whom

occurred in Zion German Lutheran church this city, the cause of which, as we look back through the mists of nearly a century, seems childish and unwarranted. The Examiner and Herald of Thursday, January 29th, 1835, contained the following account of the event, which occurred on Saturday evening, January

. Jacob Slough's tavern on Fri- day evening, February 28th, 1817. Robert Coleman was appointed chairman, and Samuel Carpenter, Esq., secretary. A society was organized ; and a committee, consisting of Samuel White, Joseph Ogilby and James Humes, was appointed to prepare a constitution1. The Lancaster

West- cott's History of Philadelphia, Vol. 2, p. 864.) So far as I am, at pres- ent, able to discover, it was seventy years later before a representative of this "king of beasts" was seen in Lancaster. We know that in 1797 an African lion was placed on exhibition here, although this may not have been

An Early Threshing Machine in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER LATE in the summer of 1806, a threshing machine, invented in Scotland, was erected at David Witmer's mill in Lancaster county, Pa. The machine was capable of threshing 35 bushels of oats in an hour, of threshing and cleaning 100

Wednesday, February 16th, 1842. It is as follows : "Died, at Baltimore, Md., on February 4th, Mrs. Ann Moore, formerly postmistress of Lancaster, Pa., in the 73rd year of her age. "This venerable lady was well known to the citizens of Lancaster, among whom she had a large circle of acquaintances. Mrs. Moore

Simpson, James Trimble, Daniel Whitwell, Adam Weaver, Abm. Wilmer (Witmer). Under the head of "Lancaster Turnpike," the following appear. Barnard & Vanleer, Amos Slaymaker and Richard Thomas. The little town of Manheim, Pa., was represented by a lone individual,- Abm. Hackman by name; as was Maytown, Pa