LANCASTER COUNTY. 427 



pher Kncher, John Whitebill, Samuel John Atlee, Abraham 

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

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

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

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

 Robert Coleman. 



CHAPTER X. 



Lancaster count}'- after the Revolution — Germans, and those of German 

 extracti:)n ; views on education — Franklin College estaMislieJ— First 

 board of Trustees — Reichenbach ; New Jerusalem ('liurch ; the twelve 

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

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

 means of Lancaster county — Notes of variety. 



Lancaster county, in common with other counties of 

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

 struggle of the Revolurion, paid but little attention to 

 endowing and sustaining schools of advanced standing. 

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

 the wealth and leisure the citizens had to bestow upon 

 the education of their so is and daughters, beyond that of 

 a common school education. The citizens of this cotmty, 

 principally Germans, have always entertained peculiar 

 views touching "college learning;" they ever preferred 

 bemg taxed to make ample provision for the erection of 

 poorhousis and hospitals, and the maintenance of tlie 

 unfortu.iate and poor, and cheerfully to pay towards 

 educatii]g the cliiidren cf the indigent, than to aid in 

 building college edifices, and endowing professorships. — 

 Shortly after the close of the Revolution, the subject cf 

 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 ethers^ 



