Lancaster, he mistakenly said it was being held at Newtown. In part he wrote to Strahan as follows on July 4, 1744 "A treaty is now holding at Newtown in Lancaster County, a place sixty miles west of this city, between the governments of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania on one side, and the United Five

M. Deaver," said the Lancaster New Era, and to those of this generation it may be explained that Dr. Deaver was a native of Drumore Township in Lancaster County and at that time a leading surgeon in Philadelphia. �r Horse drawn ambulance of the hospital about 1907. Driver is "Teddy" Powell, and to

. When Lancaster Was Pennsylvania's Capital By GEORGE L. HEIGES Philadelphia's Loss — Lancaster's Gain The frame of government for William Penn's colony in the new world was published in 1681. At the same time the colony was fittingly named "PENNSYLVANIA" by King Charles II. In October, 1682, the

October 11 was election day and a greater number of Pennsylvania voters went to the polls on that day than on any previous similar occasion. More than one hundred and eleven thousand votes were cast. Simon Snyder won by a plurality of 28,400, but in Lancaster County, the county of his birth, he lost by

Lancaster on November 19, Governor McKean issued a proclama- tion which called upon the duly elected electors "of a President and Vice President of the United States to serve at the election in their behalf to be held at the Seat of Government (being the Borough of Lancaster in the County of Lancaster

Lancaster 1802 True republicanism is gaining ground in Pennsylvania. In the county of Lancaster, we can state from the most positive evidence, that nearly all the moderately, well-meaning men among the democrats are disgusted with the late public measures. They . . . begin to feel that the government is