. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Other Author(s): Cassel, Abraham Harley, 1820-1908. Title: An anti-slavery reminiscence / by W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): United States. Fugitive slave law (1850) Trials. Riots--Pennsylvania--Christiana. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical

Lan- caster and foremost in Old Trinity. The Eichholtz portraits owned and highly prized by Mr. Sayres are five in number, as follows: Samuel Humes (the elder), of Lan- caster, sitting, facing left. Mary Hamilton Humes (his wife), daughter of James Hamilton, _____ cock. John Humes, of Philadelphia

AN EARLY CANAL PROJECT The writer's interest in the early waterways and inland navigation of Lancaster county was somewhat quickened recently by reading an un- published letter, written at Harris- burg, August 12, 1824, to Richard B. McCabe, of Huntingdon, by Persifor Frazer, of the notable family

successively at Hubley's, Reigart's and the Hamilton Club to mingle their meridional wit and soda. Samuel Parke, whose spe- cial pleading later was the terror of Thaddeus Stevens, was just getting ready for admission. John R. Mont- gomery, esteemed by his students as the most gifted lawyer of his genera- tion

appellation which Buchanan made memorable in Court circles, when he was Minister to St. James, By the way, in 1785, on Mar- ket street, above Fourth, in Philadel- phia, Samuel Nicholas kept a tavern called "The Conestoga Wagon." On June 25, 1783, when Hiltzheimer returned home from his ride, with his wife and

their day, reached the highest places and wieldest the largest influence in the Federal Government. The lives of Thaddeus Stevens and James Buchan- an, neither native to the county, and both becoming illustrious represent- atives of it, covered substantially the �same period of time. Mr. Buchanan came

autobiographical notes that he ever entertained any notion of leaving Lancaster or that there was any such incident between his admission to the Bar and his early entry into public life. Moreover, on September 13, 1813, we find his father, writing to James, then at Lancaster, giving an account of how a Federalist

illustrated by actual facts. A slave woman escaped from her owner, James S. Mitchell, of Cecil County, Maryland, in 1845. During her absence, as a fugitive from his service, she had given birth in New Jersey to an illegiti­ mate child. Through the ins,trumentality of agents, residing in Pennsylvania, Mitchell

, the Maryland slaveholder, who was killed in what passed into history as "The Christiana Riot," an account of which was the subject of an interesting paper some months ago read before the Society by Thomas Whitson, Esq. '1 he following is a transcription of this in- quest : LANCASTER COUNTY, as. : "An

EARLY LANCASTRIAN. WILLIAM TRENT. William Trent, son of William Trent, for whom the city of Trenton, N. J., was named, had a military ca- reer. In Cooley's Genealogy of Early Settlers in Trenton and Ewing, 1883, it is said at page 289: "Major Trent is again found July 6th, 1776, at Fort Pitt, in an