Andrew Jackson in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER INVol.1,page742,oftheadmirablehistoryofYorkCounty,Pa., prepared by the late George R. Prowell, and published in 1907, appears the following : "On Saturday morning, February 13th, 1819, General Andrew Jackson, then the head of the American army

adopted : "In pursuance of the call published in our newspapers by friends of General Jackson, of the city and county of Lancaster, we assemble for the purpose of appointing a committee to be charged with the pleasing duty of inviting the President of the United States to visit us whenever his high duties

July in commemoration of that glorious day on which we were proclaimed a free and independent nation. It gives me "Abbeville, [Lancaster County, Pa.] "July 3rd, 1827. �the greatest pleasure to accept it. I participate warmly in the several motives which govern the citizens of Lancaster on this occasion

was cheered down the street to the tavern. In the evening several called to see me and learn who I was. We passed several of these trees on the way, with green boughs on the top." 1 In Reamstown, Lancaster county, Pa., on the day following Christmas, an unusually fine hickory pole was erected. It was

; and Congress honored General Jackson with thanks and a gold medal. Owing to the slow methods of communication of that day, particulars of the battle did not reach Lancaster until Saturday, February 11th, 1815. There was great rejoicing in the town. The Intelligencer & Weekly Advertiser of Saturday

, presented the following preamble and resolutions, which were unan- imously adopted: "The citizens of Lancaster have heard, with feelings of the deepest regret, of the irreparable loss which the nation has sustained by the death of the venerable patriot, the distinguished soldier and the able statesman