Unpublished Letters of James Buchanan By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T A meeting of the Lancaster County Historical Society held on Friday evening, January 6th, 1928, attention was re-called that James Buchanan, Lancaster county's most distinguished citizen, and the only son of Penn- sylvania to

memory of a great American, James Buchanan, who lived and died in Lancaster County, surrounded by those who ardently admired and loved him He was born on April 23, 1791, on Dunwoodie Farm near Cove Gap, Pa., the son of an immigrant from Donegal, Ireland. His father, was educated, wise, of great force of

(s): Buchanan, Edward Young, 1811-1895. Buchanan, James, 1791-1868. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1928 Description: 123-132 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 32, no. 9 & 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.32 Location

Material: Book Subject(s): Buchanan, James, 1791-1868. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1928 Description: 88-92 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 32, no. 5 & 6 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.32 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading

: Harriet Lane : (Later Harriet Lane Johnston) / by (Mrs. A.K.) Ida L. K. Hostetter. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Johnston, Harriet Lane, 1830-1903. Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 --Correspondence. Women--Biography--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical

. Title: Letters of Col. Matthias Slough to Robert Morris / by Hon. Chas. I. Landis. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Slough, Matthias--Correspondence. Pennsylvania--History--1775-1865. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1920 Description: 59-65 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal

The Awakening and the Early Progress of the Pequea, Conestoga and other Susquehanna Valley Settlements, as Shown by Official Letters, etc., of the Time. (By DAVID M. LANDIS) This paper aims at two purposes. It is intended to set forth, (by means of the correspondence connected with the granting and

also members of the Lancaster County liar, the former being admitted in 1848 and the latter in 1859. Mr. Stevens died at Washington on August 11, 1868, and he was buried in Shreiner's Cemetery, in Lancaster, on August 15, 1868. He gave no directions in his will as to his place of burial, but it is said

represented. Fortunately, a number of these letters have been preserved. I am quoting from several of them such portions as relate to Lancaster and its inhabitants. They throw an interesting side-light on conditions as they existed in that eventful year of 1777. September 24th, 1777, James Lovell wrote to

JAMES ANNESLY'S (LORD ALTAMONT'S) TRADITIONAL RESIDENCE IN LANCASTER COUNTY, FROM 1728 TO 1741 — NOT A FACT — ONLY UNFOUNDED TRADITION. By H. Frank Eshleman. Rupp, in a foot note page 243 of his History of Lancaster County, says that "James, afterwards Lord Altham, was confined in the prison at