OLD LANCASTER, This paper makes no pretension to being exhaustive. Most of it is only a "twice-told tale," familiar to many of you. There is too much of interest in the early history of this fair city of ours—too much of importance—for this to be more than a brief sketch of a few prominent items

LANCASTER TOWNSTEAD. Copyrighted May, 1901, by S. M. Sener. "Out upon Time! It will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before." On February 6, 1729, the settlers in the back districts of Chester county, of the province of Pennsylvania, prayed the Council of the province for a divi

LANCASTER BOROUGH. From the founding of Lancaster till 1742, it had been moving along with- out a charter, but, at this time, the in- habitants felt they needed a stronger form of Government. The town now having three hundred houses, and all kinds of manufacturing being repre- sented, the citizens

on Oct. 27, 1776. Digressing a moment, the writer would state that in Volume M, in the Recorder's office, at Lancaster, appear the following, which are of interest: Michael Welsh, late a Sergeant in Captain Harman Stout's Company,Ross' Pennsylvania Regiment, was wounded "last winter" (1777) and a

LANCASTER IN 1772, The Lancaster County Historical So- ciety is indebted to the courtesy of Prof. Jacob N. Beam, of the Depart- ment of French, at Princeton Univer- sity, for the following extract from a notable pre-revolutionary diary, which will be found below. It has been deemed proper to give a