United States Congress from 1789 to the present / by Hon. A. G. Seyfert. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Legislators--United States. Pennsylvania--Politics and government--1865-1950. Pennsylvania--Politics and government--1775-1865. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1930

coming to Lancaster. No one knew more of the history being made in Pennsylvania during the Revolution than did Timothy Matlack, who served on many committees and as a delegate to many conventions. He knew much of the inside history and the transactions of the Continental Congress during the early years

was then proposed, and met the same fate. The ques- tion was then taken on the first section of the bill, as it had been reported, and negatived, thirteen to twelve; so the bill was lost, and the government remains at Lancaster." Four years later, the subject was again introduced in the Legislature

Manor Townships Address Letter to Governor McKean By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER N March 11th, 1800, a number of Mennonites who resided in Donegal and Manor townships, Lancaster county, Pa., ad- dressed a communication to Thomas McKean, governor of Pennsylvania, which was as follows : "It is not our custom

-78." Vol. XXIII, pp. 5-14. �northeast of the actual site, started the rumor that he had come upon evidences of the soldiers' remains ; which was rather generally ac- cepted. Near the place of the Kahl brickyard and along Main street Congress erected a memorial monument to the soldiers of the

Public Meeting to Restore Lancaster's Form of Government From a City to a Borough By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ANCASTER was incorporated as a borough May 1st, 1742, and enjoyed that form of government for nearly seventy-six years when, by an Act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, dated March

time as Lancaster was not incorporated as a city until March 20th, 1818. Mennonites of Donegal and Manor Townships Address Letter to Governor McKean By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER N March 11th, 1800, a number of Mennonites who resided in Donegal and Manor townships, Lancaster county, Pa., ad- dressed a

South Queen Street As I Knew It By THEODORE DILLER South Queen Street, Lancaster, begins in Center Square and runs directly south to the City line; and beyond this point the road is continued southward, although not in a direct line, through Willow Street, Quarryville and Buck to the Maryland line

, as well as those of each repective Choir, for the Time being, are ordinarily to constitute a Part of the Com- mittee. 4. Whoever has a Mind to remove to and establish himself in Lititz, must, above all Things, first lay before the said Committee a true & just State & Account of his temporal

generations. "The time will come, let us hope, when men and women will be as willing to give to their government as they now are to receive from it;" Dr. Klein added, "When that time comes, we shall have more beautiful cities and more contented citizens." Laying emphasis upon the mural as a product of "the