to the waste paper man,to "raise money for cigars," as Mr. Cope old me. The lists, of course, include only Conestoga (later East and West Conestoga), Donegal and Pequea townships, as these large, partly-or- ganized sections practically included the whole of the Lancaster county re- gion then

, coming up through southern Chester county, and incidentally, along the bor- der of Lancaster, and some have the idea that an old gentleman by the name of Thomas Garrett, in the city of Wilmington, had much to do with giv- ing them direction to their friends in Pennsylvania. Another channel seems to have

the whole of the history of those early times. The following items from the first two newspapers of Pennsylvania give us certain phases of the life and times of our remote ancestors here in Lancaster county: The character of the commerce be- tween Lancaster and Pennsylvania in the infancy of the

home in Pennsylvania, largely in Lancaster county. 2. Who These Pioneers of Lancas- ter County Settlement Were; and Where They Came From. 3. When They Began the Settle- ment of Lancaster County; and, 4. With Exactness, Where They First Settled in This County. PART ONE. The European Historical

introduced Hon. Charles I. Landis, President Judge of the Courts of Lancaster County, who delivered an exhaustive paper on " Postlethwaite's and Our First Courts"; as follows: Mr. President,Ladies and Gentlemen: The positive location of historical places, and the narration of the pub- lic events which have

prominent part the Pennsylvania-Germans bore in the Civil War. Many names familiar to Lancaster county, notably Eshleman and Shenk, are found in the records of the Confederacy, where the story of their valor is recited. General �Roller paid a glowing tribute to these brave spirits. But, despite the cir