emigrants were the Scotch- Irish, although groups of 'Germans were known to leave the county as well.' Despite the emigrations, however, the Germanic settlers were in a majority in Lancaster borough, and overwhelmingly so throughout the rest of the county, with the exceptions of Caernarvon township, where

THE CITIZENS OF LANCASTER COUNTY When your vote placed me in the office of auditor, both the confidence reposed in me, and my own character, required that I should make myself as well acquainted, as circumstances would allow, with the powers and duties of the office. For that purpose I consulted the

County, conducive to the new cult of Antimasonry? McCarthy relates that "considering the soil, it is not remarkable that the seeds of Antimasonry should have spread to Pennsylvania and found lodg- ing in so well prepared a field as that which Lancaster County and the surrounding country presented." 16 To

religious doctrine. He stated that the church spires of Lancaster would be standing long after Hubbart was dead. Hubbart got his revenge in the next edition of a magazine which he published by describing Hensel as fat and full of whiskey.6 Although Hensel played a leading role in law, politics, and

controlled the proceedings."' �The Federalist Press, in the meantime, had come out in support of DeWitt Clinton. The United States' Gazette, which had been par- tial to Clinton through the late spring and summer, declared its full approval of the Lancaster meeting presided over by Lefever, as well as of the

's to accept contracts for the completion of several central Penn- sylvania branches of the Susquehanna Canal as well as the organi- zation of the Harrisburg, Mount Joy, and Lancaster Railroad. 4 With- in a decade he was president of four railroads as well as having captured the controlling interest