of you an of- ficial favor. I wish a requisition from you to the Governor of Pennsyl- vania for those four negro men, who sold the stolen wheat to Johnson, for whom I received a requisition a short time since. These men are my slaves, and have been in Pennsylvania since November. Their names are

shops all along the frontiers of Pennsylvania and the Southern colonies. Lancaster the Gunsmith's Home. "The New England people never took to the rifle in those days, and when the Revolution broke out there was not a rifle-shop in existence any- where east of the Hudson river. In 1768 Sir William

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

without saying that the history of his life and works, published by this society, has quicken- ed interest in and an appreciation of him, as well as much enhanced the market value of his productions. For example, a family portrait has turned up in Denver, Colorado. It is owned by the widow of Leonard Eich

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

climate as it would be to people America with crocodiles, by way of the frozen regions. Unless honored with de- gredation, I shall graduate next Au- gust; and shall, at that time, be un- der the necessity of entering into a school. If you think I could be sure of employment in Pennsylvania, I should like

study and history would make such an admir- able entertainment and valuable con- tribution to local art and literature. If, for example, the co-operation of the Historical Society and the Iris Club, working through a joint com- mittee representing both could be secured to embody in the annals of the one

Society, viz., the relative social, political and commercial importance of Lancaster and Lancaster county in the Colonial and Revolutionary periods of our country's history. When there was no "Harrisburg, Altoona, Pittsburg and the West," our good city and our excellent county were "there!" Hence it is