GEORGE L. HEIGES 1860 - THE YEAR BEFORE THE WAR An exhaustive account of political ac- tivity in Lancaster County in 1860, the first year Countians elected a Repub- lican president, and the beginning of a tradition. One hundred years ago, with no TV or radio to report the national political

and very populous. For the heads of all those rivers, especially the Pattawomekes, the Pautuxuntes, the Sasquesahanocks, the Tock- woughes are continually tormented by them: of whose crueltie, they generally complained, and very importunate they were with me and my company to free them from these

, John Wright, a Quaker, and Thomas Edwards, a Welsh settler, over the court held in Lancaster at Postlewaite's Tavern, in 1730, says Samuel Evans in a paper in Volume IV of the Lancaster Historical Society's Journal. From the time Andrew Galbraith was elected to the General Assembly, the Pres- byterian

ANN LETORT The second in a series on noteworthy women in Lancaster County history, this article on Ann Letort by Marian Wallace Reninger brings new attention to the courage and versatility of pio- neer women. Ann Letort was a French Huguenot who came to America with her husband James in 1686. They

ANN WOOD HENRY, 1732-1798 Another sketch of a noteworthy pioneer woman in Lancaster is included in her series by Marian W. Reninger. Setting aside her own story on Ann Henry, Mrs. Reninger presents as fitting tribute to her friend and compatriot, the late Adelaide Hall, the unpublished last work of

�warm up somewhat later in August when the Jackson press printed an article contesting the Antimasonic claim that the Masons did hold or had held all the public offices in Lancaster County. This Democratic rebuttal was supposedly substantiated by a list of the Lancaster County sheriffs since 1797, and

stables which sheltered the mounts of the local militia and Continental Army men assigned to duty in Lancas- ter. Opposite were the barracks. Letters to the editors of the local newspapers condemned the altera- tions or condemned those who opposed the changes. Your Society peti- tioned City Council to

reproduced: “If the bright lights of the studio were turned on them to obtain a negative I feel certain they would turn black and be lost forever.” 25 February 1964. �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Folder 9 Miscellaneous correspondence

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