HISTORICAL NOTES FROM THE RECORDS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA.--PART I. (By CHARLES E. KEMPER) The migration of families from Lancaster, Chester and adjoining coun- ties in southeastern Pennsylvania to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia commenced actually in 1737, but from 1740 to 1745 it was in

Marion to the liberation of the South, during the Revolution. After the Revolution, he served in the State Legislature of South Carolina, and in the United States Senate. General Lee describes him as "a great and good military chiftain,' and says that he was a sincere Christian. He was a member of the

--Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1907 Description: [281]-296 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical

Porter, Gen. John Clark, Wm. Henry, and his son, Judge John Joseph Henry; William Barton, who designed the great seal of the United States; Judge Jasper Yeates, Edward Shippen, and David Ramsay, the historian. Such are a few of the names on the roll of honor, while, in later days. Bishop Samuel Bowman

in our great need, to this type of men. Congress lost no time and issued a call on June 14, 1775, for six companies of expert riflemen to be raised immediately in Pennsylvania. These troops, bringing their own rifles with them, under the command of such men as General Edward Hand, Captains James Ross

account goes on to say that the king of the Delaware Indians prom- ised to see that they were brought to punishment. There are several ac- counts of this killing in the Colonial records and other early historical books; but, as this goes into many particulars, that those accounts do not contain, I thought

by clay holes.” 19 William Willis, skillful bricklayer and builder, erected the walls of York County’s first courthouse between the years 1754-56, and lived to see his masterpiece of Georgian colonial architecture become the capitol of the United States during the period from September, 1777, to June

%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921. Title: Our early currency and its value / by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Paper money--United States. United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600

. The great Quaker could not have foreseen the angry disputes that would arise in fix- ing these apparently simple boundary lines, the questions that would arise over prior grants conflicting with his own, and the bloody controversies which had to be fought out before the present limits of the State

The First White Man In Pennsylvania and in Lancaster County. There are probably not a half-dozen persons in this audience who can name the first white man who set his feet on the soil that to-day constitutes the great State of Pennsylvania, And yet that comparatively unknown man had one of the most