Province. Some of his relatives settled in Chester county and became Friends. When John Smith brought his family to America, three sons, —George, James (the subject of this sketch), Arthur, and several daughters of whom little is now known,— were with him. He came to Lancaster county and settled west of

, Philadelphia, Pa. RATIFIERS FROM LANCASTER COUNTY Five men who ratified the Constitution of the United States, and one who was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, who are buried in Lancaster, were honored at a memorial service held Sunday afternoon, December 12, 1937, in the churchyard of St. James's

Congress of the United States. While making certain researches, I came across the names of several men, born in Lancaster county, who had represented other congressional dis- tricts in the United States ; and knowing the interest our Society takes in the success of Lancaster's sons, whether here at home

with a depot on the site of the Keystone Hotel, North Queen Street, V2 block north of the Pennsy depot.—From the Lancaster Intelligencer, August 9, 1865. Delaware River and Lancaster Railroad, from Point Pleasant to Dublin, County Line, Limerick Square and New Holland to Lancaster. Charles Tyson

, 1833-1921. Other Author(s): Ellmaker, Amos, 1787-1851. Title: Politics 75 years ago / F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt. D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Ellmaker, Amos, 1787-1851. Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. United States--Politics and government--1783-1865. Publisher

1709 or 1710 at the place where the Herrs and Mylins reside, near Willow Street." But on the next page he says they came in 1709. Rupp also states that those who came to Lancaster county came pursuant to a particular agree- ment with Penn as to land. We have shown above that those miserably poor

: 1, Grandfathers' clocks; 2, the makers of Lancaster County, and 3, deal more particularly with their own lives and ancestry, and not extensively with the family history of their descendants; to go beyond this would make the length of the paper far beyond the limits allowed by our rules. It may be a

most of these names were fathers and sons in continuous business. I shall confine the contents of this paper mainly to three heads: 1, Grandfathers' clocks; 2, to the makers of Lancaster county, and 3, deal more particularly with their own lives and ancestry, and not extensively with the family history

. Pub., Vol. 36, p. 164. As ensign, Ellis and Evans, p. 78. Pa. Arch., 6th Series, Vol. 8, p. 1341. Buried in Trinity Lutheran Churchyard, Lancaster, Pa. EVANS, Arthur: buried March 30, 1815. Volunteer from Little Britain. Buried with honors of war. L. C. H. S. Pub., Vol. 5, p. 84. Buried in St. James's