MUSTER ROLLS OF SOLDIERS FROM LANCASTER COUNTY IN THE WAR OF 1812 By MRS. J. V. R. HUNTER AND MRS. MARY OWEN STEINMETZ Not long ago, an old record book was found in the office of the prothon- otary in the court house of Reading, Berks county, Pa., bearing the following title: "Muster Roll of the

STEINMETZ The following names of soldiers from Lancaster county, Pa., who served in the War of 1812, were copied from a military docket in the prothonotary's office in the court house at Reading, Pa., and are a continuation of similar important information to be found in Vol. XXXVI, pp. 161-165, of the Pro­

sentiments on the important measures lately adopted by Congress. Resolutions, unanimously supporting the President and government in waging war and in compelling the British to yield to the justice of our claims, were adopted.6 4 History of Lancaster County, Pa., by H. M. J. Klein, Vol. 2, p. 593. 5

Lancaster County Politics:1799 - 1810 Alan Kreider The preeminent fact of the political history of America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is the decline of the Federalist Party and the ascendancy of Jeffersonian Republicanism. Pennsylvania in many ways epitomized this trend

Record of Soldiers of Lancaster County in the War of 1812, and of Others Who Gave Service During the Period of 1784 -1815 By (MRS. D. B.) BERTHA COCHRAN LANDIS and ELEANORE J. FULTON. Note—The following comprehensive list of soldiers, who served their country as active participants in the War of

it well. The fine bullock, which Mr. Benjamin Kauff- man of Manor township, Lancaster county, Pa., generously made them a present of, was marched along and is now living in clover, near Elkton. "The Phalanx, the Lancaster Yagers and the Pequea Rangers are all quartered in a very convenient house

party," enroute to York for a scheduled 3 P.M. meeting, was delayed for forty-five minutes in Columbia because Lincoln High- way traffic was blocked by trains.) Lancaster County Congressman W. W. Greist introduced a bill asking congressional consent to the Commissioners of Lancaster and York Counties to

IN LANCASTER COUNTY The United States has had a long history of third-party movements, which, despite their usual small vote, have played a significant role in American political history and have made their contribution to the main- tenance of government by unanimity.' The first major third-party