Lancaster, Pennsylvania's LNP |
Lancaster County Historical Society's quarterly booklet. |
This long building was used as military stables during the Revolution. On the opposite side of the street stood the Barracks where British and Hessians were imprisoned during that period. |
An artists conception of Lancaster's Market Square in 1782. #1 is the Black Bear Tavern, #2 is the former open-air market, #3 is the site of the front-half of today's Central Markethouse. |
The following year, during the Irish Rebellion against British rule, Brig. Gen. Asgill spares the life of a condemned Irish prisoner after Asgill's wife pleaded for the prisoner's life to be spared. She remembered when her husband had the same sentence on his head in America. On July 23, 1823 Asgill dies and is buried in St. James's Church, Picadilly. Almost 200 years later, Anne Ammundsen, a resident of Britain, learns she is related to Asgill and begins doing research into his life. Six years after that she somehow obtains a copy of Captain Asgill's letter he had written to the New-Haven Gazette, but which was never published. Then in 2011 her article about the Asgill Affair is published in a British history publication. In May of 2019 she made a visit to Pennsylvania and New Jersey to visit sites related to her late relative, Captain Asgill.
Photograph of Lancaster's Central Market which is the red building, direct center. This would have been the location of the Black Bear Tavern. |
Lancaster's center city showing the Court House in the center of town. The Black Bear Tavern would have been to the right of the courthouse. |
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