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CHAPTER IX. 



Course of the mother country objectioniil)le, p. 404; Military conventioii 

 at Lancaster, 405 ; Uaniel Rolierdeun and James Evving elected Brigadier 

 Generals, 407 ; Resolutions passed and adopted, 407 ; Committee of safety : 

 convention to form the first State Constitution, 408; Pennsylvania and Lan- 

 caster county active, 409; Numerous incidents, &c. in I, ancaster county 

 during the Revolution, 410 ; General Wayne's head quarters and correspon- 

 dence with his Excellency, Thomas Wharton, President of the Executive 

 Council of Pennsylvania, 411 ; ('ongress repairs from Philadelphia to Lan- 

 caster, thence to York, 420; Military meeting at Manheiin, 421 ; Surviving 

 Revolutionary soldiers: Philip Meek, 323; John Ganter, 424 ; George 

 Leonard, Peter Mauerer, Peter Shindle, Jacob Hoover, 425; Notes, 426. 



CHAPTER X. 



Lancaster county after the Revolution, 427 ; Germans and those of Ger- 

 man extraction: views on education, 427; Franklin college established, 428; 

 First board of Trustees, 428 ; Reichenbach : New Jerusalem Ctiurch ; the 

 twelve articles received by that church, 429 ; Lnproveraents great in the 

 county, 433; Columbia laid out, 433 ; Lancaster city, seat ot government 

 434 ; Late war : means of Lancaster county, 434 ; Notes of variety, 435. 



CHAPTER XL 



EncCATios' : — Preliminary remarks: Importance of general education, p_ 

 436; Views of colonists, 437; Mennonites' views of education, 438 ; Scotch 

 and Irish settlers, made at first little preparation, &c till 1798, 439 ; First 

 flchaols in the town of Lancaster, 440 ; Lutheran and German Reformed 

 churches have schools under their auspices, 440 ; Rev. M. Schlatter, indefat- 

 igable in his efforts to establish schools, 443 ; Extract from Coetuale pro- 

 ceedings of 1760, 442; Trustees and managers of public schools, 443; 

 Germans patriotic, modest and unassuming, &c. 443 ; Ludwig Hacker es- 

 tablishes a Sabbath school at E'phrata, 444 ; German classical school at 

 Ephrata, 445 ; Academy at Ephrat.i, 445 ; Academy at Litiz, &c. 445, 446 ; 

 ^5elect Academy at Lancaster, 446 ; Franklin college, &c. 447 ; Private 

 schools and Academics in various parts of the county, 448 ; An act for the 

 education of children in the borough of Lancaster, 448 ; The Mechanics' 

 Society, 450 ; Classical Academy : Lancaster County Academy : Classical 

 Academies in the county, 451, 453 ; Seminaries: Common Schools : Sab- 

 bath Schools Lyceums, &c. 453. 



CHAPTER XIL 



Religious De:tominatio\s. — Early missionaries among the Conestoga 

 and other iHdians. p. 455 ; The Mennonites, 356 ; The Friends and Qua- 



