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

gallons of foreign spirits are now annually im- ported into this country, which cost about two million dollars, clear of freight, duty and charges. If this money, instead of being sent abroad, were distributed among our farmers at home, and applied to the purchase of corn and rye, it would greatly promote

, $ 571.33 " employees in William Diller's machine shop, 12.21 " citizens in the north-east ward, 482.87 " employees in the Lancaster locomotive works, 88.75 "Miller and Fellenbaum's machine shop, 20.00 " " C. M. Howell's marble works, 12.50 " citizens in the south-east ward, 318.66 " " " " south-west ward

. About 1802 he obtained an appointment as teacher of a school at Kingsessing, near Philadelphia. It was here that he formed the acquaintance of William Bartram, the naturalist, and Alexander Lawson, the engraver, whose tastes and instructions were invaluable in stimulating his own aspirations. He became

The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

The following description of the Dunkard Monastery indicates that Mit- telberger is mistaken in stating that the third road "runs to the left hand toward Lancaster and Bethlehem." Obviously, he meant Ephrata. At the latter place there was "a monastery and nunnery of Dunkers," described by

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

Ann Moore, Postmistress of Lancaster, First Woman Appointed to Office Under the Federal Government By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XX XIV, pp. 62-3, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society, appeared an article entitled "Post- masters and Postmistresses of Lancaster." In

names entered: Edward Brien, Daniel Buckley, Christian Carpenter, Andrew Caldwell, Samuel Houston, Joseph Hauriot and Jacob Strickler. Lancaster borough in 1807, the year in which this atlas was issued, was the capital of Pennsylvania. At that time there were in the little town about 5000 inhabitants, a

contains an interesting account of a court martial held in Lan- caster borough during the Revolutionary war, at which time two spies were tried, found guilty and executed. From local sources, it is discovered that this trial took place before the middle of March, and yet an account of it did not appear in