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

.)--Social life and customs. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1920 Description: 91-106 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 24, no. 5 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.24 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

Oxford Press, Chester County, dated February 9th, 1870, by Dr. C. H. Stubbs furnishes additional information relative to the status of the chrome industry in Lancaster County at that time. "Andrew Lowe and Benjamin Gibson opened a mine of chrome near State Line and obtained a large quantity of the

settling in one place, here in Lancaster County. (Votes Assembly 1718). In 1728 the products from the Susquehanna Valley were mov- ing on to Philadelphia in Conestoga's wagons in great quantities and constancy, according to Samuel Blunston (1 Pa. Arch 216). By 1755 it was stated, as we shall see later

said John Penn, Party hereto is and stands seized of one full equal and undivided fourth part of and in all that Tract or Parcel of Land called Indian Town within the said Manor of Conestoga in the County of Lancaster." Then the description of the land by metes and bounds of the said four hundred and

: The invasion of Pennsylvania, by the Confederates under General Robert E. Lee, and its effect upon Lancaster and York Counties / by George Reeser Prowell. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. York County

public life is further .evidenced by the fact that the city was the capital of Pennsylvania from 1799 to 1812, when the state capital was removed to Harrisburg. The cultural and educational record of Lan- caster and Lancaster County is also out- standing, as set forth in the immortal names of great men

by the earli- est adventurers to the Chesapeake, one of whom, Sir James Argol, wrote to England in 1613 that he hoped to make a cut, "between our bay and the Dela- ware." Argol was apparently in the region of Lancaster County nearly as early as Captain John Smith and Stephen Brule. Vol. 4 p. 270