Lancaster County in Province, State and Nation (A Bi-Centennial Review) III. Lancaster County In The French and Indian Wars (CONTINUED) By H. FRANK ESHLEMAN, Esq. THE defeat of Braddock caused consternation in Lancaster. The Penna. Gazette of Oct. 30, 1755, in an item from Lancaster says there was

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO PLACE AND UNVEIL A MARKER DESIGNATING AND COMMEMORATING THE INDIAN TOWN OF CONESTOGA, IN MANOR TOWNSHIP, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNA. To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical Society: Your committee appointed to place, and with appropriate exercises un

attitude towards the Revolutionary War. V. 16 p. 253. 1732 Quoting Smith's History of Pennsylvania, which seems to discuss the history of Quakers particularly we find it stated regarding the beginning of the Quaker sect in Lancaster County that "A meeting for worship every first and fifth day was held at

in the volume. Volume 5 is made up of the Treasury Accounts of Pennsylvania in the Revolutionary War and sections here and there, together with occasional items form the Lancaster County History in it. Volume 6 contains the State Treasury Accounts of the Revolutionary War same as Volume 5, except

COUNTY TAX IN 1774 In a volume of Lancaster County Miscellany among the manuscripts of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, are found the sums of taxes assessed against and collected from the several townships and the Boro of our County for Provincial and for County purposes in 1774

of investigations and reports in regard to a number of pensioners of wars prior to 1840 for any person or organization, therefore it is not practicable to verify the list of forty four pensioners, sent by you, who resided in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1840 and inform you for what service they