grounds of the Lancaster Locomotive Works on the afternoon of September nineteenth followed by a night meeting in Fulton Hall. Billed as a "PEOPLE'S MASS CONVENTION" it opened with a parade which moved at ten o'clock in the morning. Wide Awake Clubs from every section of the County converged on the city

Transactions. 6. For a detailed account of the Lititz Academy and an evaluation of John Beck. as a teacher see Simon P. Eby, "John Beck : The Eminent Teacher." Lancaster County Historical Society Papers, II, 1898, 111-139. 7. A. R. Beck, "The Moravian Graveyards of Lititz, Pa., 1744-1905," loc. cit., 295-296

Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg. Wissler, Clark 1940 Indians of the United States. Revised Doubleday-Anchor Edition, 1967. Garden City, N.Y. ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR Lawrence Van Horn, a previous contributor, has been a lecturer in anthropology at Hunter College in the City University of New York

activity, whose exploits were set down in the annals of their time. Among the famous women of Lancaster County one notes the name of Ann Scott Galbraith, wife of Andrew Gal- braith. She was the first woman political worker in the history of Lan- caster County. In the year 1731 she actually made possible

both sides of the Susquehanna river, which was considered their territory up to this time. From the annals of the Susquehannocks and other Lancaster, Pa. In- dians, by H. Frank Eshleman, 1909, in the Lancaster County Historical So- ciety Papers, we read: "Prior to 1600—but how long before is not known

. Probably no woman in Lancaster's history has been more truly "a Colonial Dame." Lancaster, Pennsylvania ADELAIDE BROOKS HALL 1954 SOURCES "The Life of William Henry" by Francis Jordan, Jr. 1910. Lancaster County Historical Society Papers Vol. 54, #4, 29, #5 and others. Records of the Moravian Church of

The Antimasonic Party in Lancaster County, Pa. :1828-1843 John Edward McNeal PREFACE Political Antimasonry in the United States is a subject which, for the most part, has been neglected by historians. The best single work on the subject is Charles McCarthy's "The Antimasonic Party: A Study of Po

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resistance. Moores Memorial Library (Christiana, Pa.) owns some of the most significant manuscript material relating to the Christiana Resistance. The staff of Moores Memorial Library, part of the Library System of Lancaster County, and the Lancaster County Historical Society worked together to arrange and