of Lancaster County. In Columbia, for example, the Negro barbers found early and continued support from the Quaker abolitionists in the form of land grants and loans. The lumber merchants, particularly Stephen Smith, James Burrill, and William Whipper, were financed, patronized, and protected by

The Antimasonic Party in Lancaster County, Pa. :1828-1843 John Edward McNeal PREFACE Political Antimasonry in the United States is a subject which, for the most part, has been neglected by historians. The best single work on the subject is Charles McCarthy's "The Antimasonic Party: A Study of Po

Province of Maryland. The first white people to settle in Lancaster County came from Europe by way of Philadelphia during the early 1700's (1709), but years earlier, long before the arrival of William Penn in 1682, Jesuit missionaries visited the Indians in their settlements along the Susquehanna. They

houses on East King Street, it brings to mind the names of those once actively engaged at these places. In imagination we can see the spirits of William L. Peiper (cashier of the Lancaster County National Bank) and John N. Lane, merchant, in ani- mated conversation on the work of the wrecking crews