Governor of Maryland, con- firms this, and the statement that Governor Johnson, of Pennsylvania, had refused to honor the requisition for the fugitive. It also illustrates �the manner of obtaining requisition. The correspondence runs thus: Baltimore County, November 29, 1849. Philip Francis Thomas, Esq

THE AMERICAN RIFLE. Upon various occasions in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, attention has been called to the importance of the rifle in the early history of the country, and to the fact that the city of Lan- caster, and its suburban water powers, furnished a centre

the United States in the Eastern District of Penn- sylvania, at Philadelphia. After serv- ing on several juries a fugitive slave case name up that was first tried in Cumberland county several times and was finally heard by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. It decided the State Courts had no

, mer-chant and Register of Wills, born tn Lancaster, son of Samuel 'and Mary Hamilton; sitting, facing left. Jane McPhail Humes, wife of John Humes, with babe in arms and her daughter. She was a daughter of John McPhail, merchant, of Philadel- phia, and Ann Mackenzie, his wife; sitting, facing left

Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: An early canal project / by W. U. Hensel, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Canals--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1913 Description: 101-105 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical

. Merrill, James, 1790-1841. Merrill, Samuel. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1905/1906 Description: 396-401 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 10, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.10 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

activity and art culture could be more profitably exercised at some early period than a practical study of the evolution of portraiture in Lancaster, accompanied by a pop- ular collection and exhibition of the numberless miniatures and portraits which adorn the households of this city and county, and whose

, formerly a Friend," If I were not restricted by the limi- tations of the present occasion to re- late this most interesting diary to Lancaster county, especially, I could scarcely withstand the temptation to make some extracts of general inter- est. Remembering how recently it is that our great local