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

(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

have held to that view and doctrine considerably over 200 years, since here. In 1532, at Soffingen, Switzerland, the ancestors of our first settlers of Lancaster County, in reply to a command by the Swiss Government, that they must adhere to and support the State Church of Switzerland, declared that

.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1925 Description: 23-32 p. 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 29, no. 3 Notes: Books entitled Statutes at Large, Colonial Records, First Series of Pennsylvania Archives, and Votes of

�Bucks Countians lodged as follows: Isaac Van Horne at Nauman's and Ralph Stone and James Erwin at John Musser's corner of East Orange and Lime Streets and Gerardus Wynkoch at Judge Henry's. The Chester County legislators divided: Jos. Hemphill lodged at A Scott's on Orange Street; Jas. Hannum at

(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

Lancaster County felt the appeal and the position of Boston. It is also to be noted that here we have evidence to a small extent of the part the patriotic women of those times helped the "cause". Catharine Reigart, Mary Ferree, Anne Elizabeth Snyder, Elizabeth Graeff, Elizabeth Gross, Mrs. Henry Helmuth

Early Lancaster County History in the Provincial Records and Archives Read by Benj. B. Lippold (Original notes by H. Frank Eshleman) It is an old saying in the legal profession that the question is not so much what the law is, as it is where to find the law. It is also true of the undigested and

.)--History--17th century--Errors, inventions, etc. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1925 Description: 33-36 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 29, no. 3 Notes: Book entitled "Memoirs of an unfortunate young nobleman, returned from a

Lancaster to Coventry Iron Works, in 1738. (See 4 C. R. 267.) The issue of April 24 contains the particulars of a notorious jail break- ing and delivery here in Lancaster. May 8, John Hamilton advertises for sale, a tract of 206 acres of land at Octoraro, Lancaster county. An item of May 8 shows the size of