THE LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL: FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS PREFATORY NOTE A complete history of the Lancaster General Hospital has not been written, due in part to the unfortunate fact that many of the early records are not extant. What is here presented is not even to be considered as a full and

Books, Papers, etc., belonging to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from Philadelphia to the Borough of Lancaster as follows." 6 From Scharff and Westcott's "History of Philadelphia." Washington, D. C., became the capital of the nation in 1800. See also "Andrew Ellicott, Surveyor of the Capital of Our

Thursday morning, Mrs. Snyder, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania. Her remains are to be interred in the cemetery of the German Re- formed Church. The funeral is to take place at 2 o'clock this day. The speakers and members of both houses are to attend. Mrs. Snyder, we are told, was about 33 years of age

proceedings in 1800 when a special sessicn of the Pennsylvania assembly had to be con- vened to choose electors, the authorities moved early to forestall any such recurrence. A special election for "electors for President and Vice President of the United States" was announced by proclamation, such election to

Member of the Legisla- ture." The communication complained about gambling houses in Lancaster, and was addressed "To the Burgesses." It contained this one sentence con- cerning lotteries: "The Legislature of Pennsylvania appears to be utterly opposed to lotteries and there is no probability of their