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CHAPTER IX. 



Coui'se of the mother country objectionp.ble, p. 404; Military convention 

 at Lancaster, 405 ; Daniel Roberdeun and James Ewing 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 Lancaster county 

 during the Revolution, 410 ; Generd 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, 490; Military meeting at Manheim, 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; Rcichenbach: New Jerusalem Cnurch ; the 

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

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

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



CHAPTER XL 



Education : — Preliminary remarks: Importance of general education, p_ 

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

 and Irish settlers, made at first little preparation, <fec= till 1798, 439 ; First 

 schools in the tovv^n of Lancaster, 440 ; Lutheran and German Reformed 

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

 igable in his efforts to e&toblish schools, 443 ; Extract from Ccetuale pro- 

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

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

 tablishes a Sabbath school at Ephrata, 444 ; German classical school at 

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

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

 schools and Academies 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 



RELTt7io:;s Denominations. — Early missionaries among the Conestoga 

 and other Iriaiaas, p. 455 ; The Mennonites, 356 ; The Friends «nd Qua- 



