Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser, May 21, 1799; M. Luther Heisey, "How Lancaster Grew, and What People Thought of It," Lancaster County Historical Society Papers (LCHSP) XLV ( 1941 ) , 87-104; and Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches of

, style and title of "Directors of the Poor and House of Employ- ment of the County of Lancaster." The Board of Directors are empowered to receive, take, hold any lands, tenements, and to erect suitable buildings within their respective counties for the reception, use and accommodation of the poor; to

Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania, published in Philadel- phia, Oct., 1874, pp. 23 and 24. 2 A Biographical History of Lancaster County, compiled by Alex. Harris and published in Lancaster in 1872, p. 207. �Without money — without friends — and without subscribers — we started it on its career. It has succeeeded

individual in Pennsylvania from the time William Penr returned to England in 1701 until the Treaty of Lancaster 1744 was James Logan left by Penn as Secretary of the colony and supervisor of any lieutenant-governor whom Penn might send to America. Pennsylvania history during the first half of the eighteenth

Journal Ensign Hughes Prisoner of War at Lancaster, May 1779 to November 1780 Compiled and Annotated by Herbert H. Beck This diary' of a young British officer is unique in the local records of its period. Lieutenant Thomas Anburey, prisoner of war, who was in Lancaster December 17 and 18, 1778, in