article gives the religious facts and history. V. 5 p. 331. 1730 Lancaster Town Laid Out In an article signed "Investigator" the origin and the laying out of Lan- caster Town is detailed. V. 8 p. 60. The writer states, "Governor Hamilton made an offer of two places one known as the "high plain" also by

our own local Lancaster County ancestors. �II. Our County's Introduction Of Intensive Agriculture Into The United States FROM the very beginning of permanent settlement in Lancaster County intensive agriculture was entered upon, on a large scale. The first settlers' application for land, was for

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

(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

, Wilson and Young. 19 James Ross' company was sent to Boston and joined Washington's army there in the late summer of 1775. At Lechmere Point, near Boston, Nov. 9, Alexander Creighton, of Earl Township, was killed, the first life of present Lancaster County given for Independence.2° In this company appear

(taken as a whole) a bright chapter in Lancaster County's part in the American Revolution and in the establishment of our Independence. N. B. Miss Rebecca Slaymaker states that she has knowledge of several additional subscription lists similar to the above H. F. E. (b) LANCASTER COUNTY'S PROVINCIAL 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

. Two-thirds of our Lancaster County people, and millions of people living in other parts of the United States can trace the beginning of their line in America to this list; and can fix Lancaster County as their first American ancestors' homes. Volume 18 is made up of the Pennsylvania Company's Claim to

bright chapter in Lancaster County's part in the American Revolution and in the establishment of our Independence. N. B. Miss Rebecca Slaymaker states that she has knowledge of several additional subscription lists similar to the above H. F. E. (b) LANCASTER COUNTY'S PROVINCIAL AND COUNTY TAX IN 1774 In