CONTINENTAL STABLES IN LANCASTER By JACOB HILL BYRNE, ESQ. T HE lot of ground on which the building of The Lancaster County His- torical Society stands, 307 North Duke street, Lancaster, was part of an original tract of 500 acres. William Penn, Proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania, by deeds

The Old Graveyard Between Walnut, Chestnut, Lime and Cherry Streets, Lancaster By JACOB HILL BYRNE, ESQ. IT was the common custom of the farmers among the early set- tlers of German origin in Lancaster County, to locate and estab- lish family burial lots or grave yards on the land which they took

majority of the German people in that day and age. I do not know when he came to America and to Pennsylvania. 1 The earliest records of him are in the recorder's office of Lancaster county in May, 1758. And, to antici- pate a little the main subject of this paper, ten years later, in March, 1768, he gave a