"bursting at the seams," and there would be no lodgings or places to conduct the business of government. The Pennsylvania state government had arrived earlier from Philadelphia, and had established its various offices in Lancaster. The county courthouse had been appropriated for the state legislature, and

. Vondersmith, associate judge of the Lancaster County Courts, delivered an essay on "Civilization and Its Effects Upon Mankind." About ten years later Judge Vondersmith fled from Lancaster civilization ahead of the United States marshal who held a warrant for his arrest. The civilized judge, it was alleged

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Lancaster, Pa.: I.E. Barr & Co., 1869), Appendix Division X, See First, Second, Third Frames of Government by William Penn, and The Charter of Privileges, 1-50. 7. Laws of Pennsylvania (P.L. 169, 1722) republished by Carey & Bioren, 1803, vol. 1. 8. Ibid. 9. Ibid. 10. H

of highways. In practice, Lancaster County's magistrates (or lay justices) were the only local government. With Lancaster being chosen for the county seat as anticipated by James Hamilton, there was no hurry to develop the township government. On 1 May 1742 Lancaster was chartered as a borough. At

State Teachers College, and began a career as an industrial arts teacher at Greenwich, Connecticut, and in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. During his summer vacations he studied at Sturbridge Village. When his alma mater needed a teacher to instruct industrial arts students in metals, Henry was chosen

powerless to mount an assault upon Manheim Township, especially a place called Eden. �112 JOURNAL Another place where Lancastrians could find action was in Columbia, but again, the Society was restricted to vice in Lancaster. Columbia, the investigator learned, not only was on the "circuit" for bands of