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pher Kucher, John Whitehill, Samuel John Atlee, Abraham 

 Scott, James Jacks, John Craig, Matthias Slough, Curtis Grubb, 

 "William Brown, James Mercer. 1783, Abraham Scott, William 

 Brown, James Mercer, John Craig, Matthias Slough, Joseph 

 Work, Adam Orth, Adam Hubley, Jacob Cook, William Parr, 

 Robert Coleman. 



CHAPTER X. 



Lancaster county after the Revolution — Germans, and. those of Gei'man 

 extraction; views on education — Franklin College established — First 

 board of Trustees — Rcichenbach ; New Jerusalem Church ; the twelve 

 articles received by that church — Improvements great in the county — 

 Columbia laid out — Lancaster city, scat of government — Late war; 

 means of Lancaster county — Notes of variety. 



Lancaster comity, in common with other comities of 

 this state, and the United States in general, during the 

 struggle of the Revolution, paid but little attention to 

 endowing and sustaining schools of advanced standing. 

 In this county, education for many years fell far short of 

 the wealth and leisure the citizens had to bestow upon 

 the education of their sons and daughters, beyond that of 

 a common school education. The citizens of this county, 

 principally Germans, have always entertained peculiar 

 views touching "college learning;" they ever preferred 

 being taxed to make ample provision for the erection of 

 poorhouses and hospitals, and the maintenance of the 

 unfortunate and poor, and cheerfully to pay towards 

 educating the children of the indigent, than to aid in 

 building college edifices, and endowing professorships. — 

 Shortly after the close of the Revolution, the subject of 

 education in this county received a new impulse. 



In the year 1787, a number of citizens of this state, of 

 German birth and extraction, in conjunction with others, 



