, Baltimore county. On this twenty-fifth day of December, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, personally appeared be- fore the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, of the State of Maryland, in and for Baltimore county, Elias Mat- thews and solemnly, seriously , and truly declared

THE AMERICAN RIFLE. Upon various occasions in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, attention has been called to the importance of the rifle in the early history of the country, and to the fact that the city of Lan- caster, and its suburban water powers, furnished a centre

pays tribute to one of our indefat- igable members when he says: "In the 'Proposals for a Second Settle. ment' on the Susquehanna river Wil- liam Penn, in 1690, says that a 'way' by land had been 'laid out' between the Delaware and the Susquehanna rivers 'at least three years ago,' and that

voluminous correspondence which is still care- fully preserved in the fire-proof de- partments of the Pennsylvania His- torical Society, and there are many evidences of the Italian painter sculp- tor's gratitude to Mr. Buchanan. It appears that his Lancaster friend of old times secured thirty-eight of his

AN OLD TIME WORTHY Jacob Hiltzheimer was a native of Manheim, Germany. He left there when nineteen years old, and arrived in Philadelphia September 5, 1748. He was apprenticed to a silversmith, but, after he had completed his trade, he very wisely preferred horse dealing, farming and open air to

Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: The attitude of James Buchanan (a citizen of Lancaster County) towards the institution of slavery in the United States / by W. U. Hensel, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 --Views on slavery. Slavery--Law and legislation--United States--History