property transactions, as well as social intercourse, with a number of whites were the wealthiest black members of their communities.28 Thus by the 1850's the Lancaster County Negro businessman was usually a life-long resident of the county and had been a prop- �erty-holder before he had advanced to his

-Masonic State Con- vention by predicting a short life for the "demagogues" in an article in the Lancaster Journal. That paper also printed the following resolution adopt- ed at a County Meeting of the friends of Jackson and Wolf (Ritner's Demo- cratic opponent) on July 15, 1829: "Resolved, that this anti

was too much for the court house of 1784 which had, like Lancaster, felt the growing pains of the community.3 Pennsylvania Public Law, #537, 1834, set the stage for action by City and County citizens concerned over the obsolete features of the court house being used in the 1850's: It shall be lawful

-five miles west of Lancaster. In its early days, that part of the Conewago Valley with which we are concerned, was claimed by Maryland as part of her colony. Pennsylvania also claimed it, and back in the 1730's and 1740's, it was a part of Lancaster County. Not until after the Mason-Dixon survey was

the authorities in the maintenance and enforcement of the same." This group called itself "The Law and Order Society" of Lancaster County, Pa. A Guarantee Fund financed by the selling of $25 shares was established. One dollar annual dues were charged to members. In addition to the usual officers, the