(Pa.)--Politics and government--To 1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1900-1901. Description: [36]-51 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 5, no. 2 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.5 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

LANCASTER COUNTY LOYALISTS The idea of preparing an article for our society on the Loyalists of Lancas- ter county during the Revolutionary struggle occurred to me several years ago, and I at once began to gather such material towards that purpose as I could find. As the number of these Loyalists

:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Summy, John L. Title: Lancaster County finances in 1794 / by John L. Summy. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Graeff, George. Taxation--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Politics and

Lancaster county, about 1526. About that time, John Fiske tells us, Lucas Vasquez d'Ayllon came from Hispaniola, and "tried the Chesapeake Bay" in search of the northwest passage, and "ob- tained a grant and began to build a town."' But that town was likely south of the Pennsylvania line. Then next, about

): Courts--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Politics and government--To 1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1905/1906 Description: 416-430 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County

/ by George Steinman, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster County (Pa.)--Boundaries. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Politics and government--1775-1865. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1903/1904 Description: [97]-109 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the

to collect of this humble building, destined to be the theatre of a series of wonderful and momentous events and proceedings. Its Cost and First Events. It surely was an humble one, be- cause the law of May 12, 1729, allowed the Commissioners to raise only £300 of Pennsylvania money by taxation to

were at work on the Virginia and Pennsylvania borders. A letter from Washington to him shows them to have been on cordial terms. But things were changed now. He says: "I was now to see a man with whom I had formerly been upon a footing of in- timacy, I may say friendship. Politics might induce us to

How the Pennsylvania Railroad Came Through Lancaster. The casual purchase of a basketful of old books at a recent public sale threw into my possession three small manuscript volumes of rare local in- terest. They relate to an incident in the history of Lancaster city and os the public works of the