OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 37i 



return of a member from Lancaster county, stating that vinlenco prevailed, that many 

 persons voted from 5 to 10 times, maliino- 2.:500 out of l.OOU votes. The electi.Mi was 

 ■confirmed, but the officers were brought to the House and reprimanded. 



In 1751 a large meeting was held at Lancaster which resolved upon the erection of a 

 house of emplo^-ment for the special use of settlers who had greatly suffered from want 

 of employment and the hostilities of the Indians. A farm was procured and imi>le- 

 ments of manufacture purchased. Stockings were made here, for tlie mamifactniv t)f 

 ■whicli Lancaster became soon noted. 



Lancaster in 1754. Extract from Gov. PownalFs journal: 



"To Lancaster one mile. Lancaster a growing town and making money— a manufac- 

 tory here of saddles and packsaddles, also of guns— it is a stage town— five Innidred 

 Louses — two thousand inhabitants. 



Between Lancaster and Wright's ferry, I saw the finest farm one can jMissililv con- 

 ceive, in the highest culture; it belongs to a Switzer. Here it was I saw the metlu^d of 



watering meadows by cutting troughs in the side of the hill for the .springs to run in 



"the water would run over the sides and water the whole of the ground. If the plan 

 be used in England I never saw it. 



A town called Ephrata, near Lancaster, settled by i)cople called Donkers, Doopers, 

 Dimplers, they are I think, a queer set of protestant regulars. 



In speaking of Alexandria, he says, there is one good house in it; it is Lord Fair- 

 fax's and perhaps seventy others.'' 



I copied ijart of CTOvernor Pownall's Journal for you. In the Book was the follow- 

 ing note in manuscript: 



" When Governor Pownall visited Lancaster there was not one good house in the 

 town. The houses were chiefly of frame, tilled in with stone — of logs — and a few of 

 stone. When Lancaster was laid out it was the desire of the proprietor 'to raise an 

 annual revenue from the lots; no lots were therefore sold of any large amount; but 

 settlers were encouraged to build and receive a lot, paying an annual sum as ground 

 rent — hence the large number of poor or persons in indigent circumstances who were 

 induced to settle in Lancaster. The Lancaster town was therefore too large at an early 

 period in i^roportion to the population of the surrounding country, and its inhabitants 

 svifltered as much from a want of emplojnnent as from its local situation remote from 

 water, it was not nor could it ever possibly become a place of business. The ])roprietor 

 was therefore wrong in forcing the building and settlement of Lancaster. The town 

 outgrew its strength, and looks dull and gloomy in consequence. 



Two Governors were buried in Lancaster, Governor Wharton and Governor Mittiin. 



"Lancaster, May 27th. 177S. 



"On Sunday last the remains of ins Excellency Thomas Wharton, junior. Esquire, 

 President of the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 

 Captain General and Commander-in-chief in and over the same, was interred in the 

 Evangelical Trinity Church in this borough (the elders and vestry of that church having 

 politely requested that the body might there l)e interred). The attention i)aid by Col. 

 Geo. Gibson, Lt. Col. Stephen Bayard, and Captains Brown and Huston, in conduc- 

 ing the military on the occasion of his Excellency's funeral, did them honour; and the 

 gentlemen of the borough in their military character made a very handsome ai)peaninc.'. 

 "The affection which the House of Assenddy had for his Excellency would not permit 

 his body to be can-ied by any other persons than members, twelve of whom bore liis 

 remains to the grave." 



" When the British came to Philadelphia, Robert Monis. J. M. Xesbitt and several 



others came to Lancaster for safety. 



"George Bartram, a merchant of Philadelphia, a native of Scotland, was comi>elled 

 also to come to Lancaster. He dined out with a party of Whigs and took cold, which 

 caused his death in his 43d year on the 24th of April, 1777, and was V)uried in front of 



