"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

Clio's Century: A History of Lancaster's Cliosophic Society John Ward Willson Loose Few communities in the nation can boast an anomaly quite like the Cliosophic Society. The arts of conversation and genteel discussion, alas, no longer seem to be part of our national culture. Literary societies have

had enough of Wright, and dropped him as a justice of the peace. The record reveals an interesting sidelight: the term used in the document was "Justices of the Peace and Judges for Lancaster County." Wright apparently sensed his judicial career was about to end, so at the last Grand Inquest he

elder of First Reformed Church, but later became a Moravian. When chosen to be assistant burgess in 1742, DeHoff was 38 years old. He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery. John Folkes was a tanner and an original vestryman of St. James's Church. Little is known about Abraham Johnson other than that he was a

, Pennsylvania. As a young industrial arts teacher, he came into possession by inheritance of an ancient Pennsylvania rifle — know also as a "Kentucky rifle." This and other artifacts required mending, and Henry set about learning how these antiques were made. Moreover, he developed a deep and abiding