. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . use and all that go in and out of it,—Cas-par and Sarvina Schnaberly, 1771. The house of thelate Dr. George Ross on Cumberland Street was thefirst three-story house erected in town. During the war of the Revolution Lebanon was animportant place. It was the depot of supplies ofprovisions, and the store-house for ammunition duringthe occupancy of Philadelphia by the British. Alarge number of gunsmiths were collected here atwork for the Continental army. Shoes especially werema
. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . use and all that go in and out of it,—Cas-par and Sarvina Schnaberly, 1771. The house of thelate Dr. George Ross on Cumberland Street was thefirst three-story house erected in town. During the war of the Revolution Lebanon was animportant place. It was the depot of supplies ofprovisions, and the store-house for ammunition duringthe occupancy of Philadelphia by the British. Alarge number of gunsmiths were collected here atwork for the Continental army. Shoes especially weremanufactured, and large quantities of leather people were exceedingly patriotic, and there wasalways a recruiting-officer stationed at Lebanon toenlist soldiers to fill up the depleted companies in theservice. It must not be inferred, however, that all was peaceand loyalty to the American cause at Lebanon. It istrue the war gave employment to many mechanicsfor the making of muskets and accoutrements, butnow and then there were persons who, although notat heart disaffected, caused considerable trouble. As. I_Z)raudit orJJe/janoni Ta of //<?<? 4 /3/?^,L^. TwrpTnnJD[TTiJriT[TTTryTffrn dm LEBANON BOROUGH. 135 in the recent civil war, enthusiasm carried to extremesimpugned the motives of many who were just as brave,ju<t as devoted to the cause of independence, but theirzeal was not of that exuberant kind which frequentlyoverreaches itself, and so noisy, turbulent, excitablepersons misconstrued their motives, very frequentlymaliciously. A suspected person was generally requested tohurrah for the Congress; if this was refused somepunishment was meted out to him. We have comeacross the brief record of quite a number of suitsgrowing out of this, which were tried after the warclosed. None, however, were convicted, but theyplagued their participants. One case in which Haas figured was where John Patton, of Lebanon,brought a charge of illegal imprisonment against
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