: Hensel, W. U. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: The Shippen House / by Hon. W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Shippen family. Shippen House (Lancaster, Pa.) Lancaster (Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc. Lancaster (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical

The Attitude of James Buchanan (a Cit- izen of Lancaster County) towards the Institution of Slavery in the United States It is the happy and appropriate function of an historical society, with even the local limitations of ours, to fearlessly explore and faithfully chron- icle the events of general

Commonwealth, was the first person, responsive to organized society, who owned the Shippen house lot; and the Hamiltons, founders of Lancaster, were acquiring title to it and plotting this section just about the time Washington was born. When James Hamilton made title to Thos. Cookson, in 1750, he conveyed the

I came to separate them I found the entire lot identical. The title was "The Boquet," conspicuously mis- spelled on the outer cover, though corrected on the inner page The volume was published in Lancaster, 1858, by Murray, Young & Co., and the author was James Scott Brown, "native and to the manner

official capacity, participating in a treaty making with the Indians. He resided for some years at Lancaster, Pa. where his second and third children were born. For a much longer per- iod and until 1768 he ma de his resi- dence at Carlisle, and was appointed by Governor Hamilton Judge of the Court of

. He would vote to authorize the President of the United States to contract for suitable orna- ments to complete the east front of the Capitol, instead of directing the Committee on Finance to inquire, etc." �Persico In Lancaster. It was then the debate attained the point of more immediate local inter

Patterson-Andrews Genealogy About 1840 James Patterson An- drews, M. D., commenced a compila- tion of a genealogical register of the descendants of James and Mary (Montgomery) Patterson, founders of the Little Britain, Lancaster county, branch of the Patterson family, and also of the descendants of

LANCASTER, PA. �PREFACE. The preparation o:£ this sketch and contribution to our local history had been long contemplated by the Editor and Compiler. Born near the locality where the events occurred which are its subject, he has been for more than hal:f a cen­ tury intimately related with their associations

still living, our local, State and National politics experi- enced convulsions such as are scarcely possible to-day. Among these phenomena two notable illustrations were the Anti Masonic crusade and the Know Nothing movement. Both were national, but each had emphatic significance in our own commuity