Excerpt from Papers Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society; Friday, May 6, 1921, Vol. 25: Lancaster County Petitions Etc;, To the Supreme Executive Council, 1784 1790; Minutes of the May Meeting; No; 5 It is not my purpose to entertain you this evening with anecdotes or with interesting stories intended to please the ear for a moment, only to be forgotten. It is my purpose rather to present a monograph that will be worth publishing and that will form a permanent contribution to your very valu able publications. I have selected petitions and a few letters that I think fairly well illustrate the varied activities of citizens of Lancaster County during the period covered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Papers Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society, Friday, November 3, 1911, Vol. 15: The Slavery Question During the Terms of Office of John Whitehill and Robert Jenkins, Lancaster County Congressmen; The Whitehills and Robert Jenkins in Congress; Minutes of November Meeting The Slavery Sentiment at the Time of the Constitutional Convention. Various and decided changes of sen timent occurred as to slavery in the colonies as time progressed. None of the colonies favored the slave trade as it was carried on, and before the cotton gin was invented even South Carolina was speaking against it. With the invention of the cotton gin and the increased demand for cheap labor the sentiment in the South for slavery increased, and the slave trade was deemed absolutely essential to the prosperity of the South. In the North the sentiment against slavery (led by our own State of Pennsylva nia as far back as 1688) increased daily and vehemently. Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, and many others of the galaxy of statesmen who adorned that period had arrayed them selves strenuously against slavery, and especially the slave trade. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.