Material: Book Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1909 Description: 55-79 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 13, no. 3 Call Number: 974.9

). The political leaders at this time in our county were John Wright, Samuel Blunston, Robert Barker, Tho- mas Edwards, Andrew Galbraith, An- drew Cornish, Joshua Low, Samuel Jones, Tobias Hendricks, John Mus- grave, Caleb Pearce, Edward Smout, James Mitchel (Donegal) and George Stuart. 1733. In the

�Bucks Countians lodged as follows: Isaac Van Horne at Nauman's and Ralph Stone and James Erwin at John Musser's corner of East Orange and Lime Streets and Gerardus Wynkoch at Judge Henry's. The Chester County legislators divided: Jos. Hemphill lodged at A Scott's on Orange Street; Jas. Hannum at

United States service. as the Thirteenth Pennsylvania Regiment and wintered it at Valley Forge. Among the officers were the fol!owing Lancasterians: Jacob Rieger, Sur- geon; Thos. Boyd, Second Lieutenant; James Anderson and Samuel Evans, Sergeants; James McMichael, Sergeant; Peter Grubb, Captain; John

those oaths: "I acknowledge the United States of America to be free, inde- pendent and sovereign States; and de- clare that the people thereof owe no allegiance or obedience to George III., King of Great Britain, and I renounce, refuse and abjure any allegiance or obedience to him; and I do swear (or

The Birth of Lancaster County The earliest human beings who have left us any evidence of their residence in what is now Lancaster county were those ancient Indians who carved the pictures upon the rocks of the Susquehanna River and on the rocks in and about adjacent streams. The United States

): Courts--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Politics and government--To 1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1905/1906 Description: 416-430 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County

--Lancaster. Lancaster (Pa.)--Politics and government--To 1775. Lancaster (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1909 Description: [263]-277 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 13, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.13 Location

prison to hear him sing The facts concerning this singular case are taken from the evidence given on his trial and may be relied on as authentic." Rupp also states that Arthur Annesly (Lord Altham) married Mary Sheffield natural daughter of the Earl of Buckingham. By her in 1715, he had a son, James, the

to be provided for carrying six companies of Royal Americans during the march through Pennsylvania by way of Lan- caster. (740) Judge Yeates gives his impressions of Braddock's Field visited by him in 1776. He states that in 1758 the English buried 450 skulls and many more since. (740) Balance of

manifold sins, whereby they had forfeited every favor, and their humble and earnest supplication, that it may please God, through the merits, mercifully to forgive and blot out of remembrance. That it may please him graciously to afford his blessing on the Government of these states respectively, and

against other colonies for her own welfare. All the Colonies did the same ; and this was laid down generally, as the policy, by each Colony, of collecting part of the ex- pense of its Government, from other Colonies. The Supreme Court of the United States under the Constitution, had a hard task on hand to