%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank, 1869-1953. Title: Lancaster County history in the several series of the Pennsylvania archives and other provincial and state source books / by H. Frank Eshleman. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster County (Pa

; and if he was the same Martin, who, as a middle- aged man, suffered in Switzerland in 1639, he would have been a good deal over one hundred years old at his death. Rupp says Martin Mylin's aged father, Hans, came over in 1710, but there is no proof of this that we know (Rupp, p. 74). He was not

state authorities. (Do. 101 et seq.) The result was to strengthen their faith in religious liberty and to drive them and others of similar beliefs to Lancaster County and other regions in the valley of the Susquehanna (Do.) At the end of the said hundred years, in 1727, the old Dor- trecht Confession of

attitude towards the Revolutionary War. V. 16 p. 253. 1732 Quoting Smith's History of Pennsylvania, which seems to discuss the history of Quakers particularly we find it stated regarding the beginning of the Quaker sect in Lancaster County that "A meeting for worship every first and fifth day was held at

, Mrs. Charles Bohm and Barbara DeHuff, whose names appear on the list, have by their subscription shown their patriotism and have added a little part to that history still largely unwritten, namely the part the women played in the early life of our county and its history. It is worthy also of note that

(d) FOUR GREAT SURVEYS IN LANCASTER COUNTY Among the Taylor Papers in the Manuscript Department of the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania, are found (with a great number of others) four great surveys of lands in Lancaster County, which may well challenge our interest and which are of great value

. It may have been a thousand years ago. But that they lived here is certain, and the pictures prove .t. Next in order, before the earliest colonization of which history tells us—that at Jamestown, in 1607— there is some evidence of a temporary colony which may have extended into the territory now

the whole of the history of those early times. The following items from the first two newspapers of Pennsylvania give us certain phases of the life and times of our remote ancestors here in Lancaster county: The character of the commerce be- tween Lancaster and Pennsylvania in the infancy of the

(a) LANCASTER COUNTY CONTRIBUTORS TO RELIEF OF BOSTON, 1774 Among the manuscripts in the Manuscript Department of the Library of the Pennsylvania Historical Society at Philadelphia in a Volume entitled "Lancaster County Miscellaneous Papers," pp. 5 and 7 appear the following documents: "We whose

report of the proceedings of June 24 and the Declaration of the Deputies of Pennsylvania in Pro- vincial Conference assembled. Lancaster county had its deputies present. Thus, a note is made here of the event. It is noted (July 3) that Congress resolved that four companies of Germans he raised in