, 1833-1921. Title: Early local history as revealed by an old document / by F. R. Diffenderffer. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1897-98 Description: [3]-27 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of

period that have come down to us. Indeed, I know of nothing of a similar nature concern- ing Lancaster city and county at the period covered by this diary that is at all comparable with it. He was an educated man, a man of affairs, much concerned and connected with what was going on around him, a person

gi nal s, or t he i r de - scendants, were willing to renew the work, and that some of them were the immediate predecessors of Henfrey's company. [TO BE CONTINUED.] �Old Mills and Country Ordinaries. The pioneer settlers in the " Upper End" of what is now Lancaster county dame from the north of

mentioned in the inclosed order is a brother-in-law of the said George and John Rifles." John Rein was somewhere in hiding in Lancaster County. A petition from Rein to the Supreme Executive Council dated 20 August 1779, while they were still meeting in Lancaster, reads in part: The petitioner was misled by