unanimously approved. It was signed by John Light and the other one hundred and forty-nine officers : "TO JOHN ADAMS, ESQ., PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES : "At a period so momentous as the present, when it but too plainly appears that we must either submit to be dictated to by a �foreign power or resort to

address was as follows: TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE ADDRESS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER, PA. At this alarming crisis in our political existence, we approach you, Sir, to express our cordial approbation of the measures adopted by the Executive for the preservation of the

It was not until 1850 that Millard Fillmore, then President of the United States, had the first bathtub installed in the White House. It was made in Philadelphia, of thin cast iron. It is interesting to note that nine years before Adam Thomp- son introduced the first bathtub into this country

states in which the subscribers resided. Among those accredited to Pennsylvania we find the following citizens of old Lancaster: Simon Snyder, Robert Coleman, William Hamilton, Adam Reigart, Charles Smith and Jasper Yeates. William Henry, Jr., who was born in Lancaster, Pa., on March 12, 1757, also

B. Withers ; south-east ward, Christian Kieffer, John F. Shroder, Walter G. Evans, Neal Lagan ; Bart township, Samuel Slocum, William W. Withers ; Brecknock township, Dr. J. B. Hauer, Richard Davis ; Carnarvon township, E. D. White, Andrew Robinson ; West Cocalico township, D. B. Eberly, Samuel M

Lancaster, where so many useful manufacturing establishments are in opera- tion, the citizens will not be backward in giving countenance to the exertions of their brethren in other sections of the United States." In response to this appeal, a number of persons friendly to domestic manufactures, met at Col

people are not baptized, which is done by immersion in deep water, until they are full-grown and can give an account of their faith. In- stead of Sunday they keep the preceding Saturday. Their convent-sisters aforesaid frequently bring forth living fruits in patience." On October 10th, 1754, after many

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

the habits of business, without relin- quishing those gentle virtues peculiar to her sex." Mrs. Moore held office under six successive Presidents of the United States : John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Meeting of Distillers By WILLIAM

atlas / by William Frederic Worner. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Washington, George, 1732-1799. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Maps. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1926 Description: 105-106 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County