. Through the courtesy of his great grandson, Mr. John H. Jacobs, of Churchtown, I am enabled to place before you his will and an inventory of his personal estate. Robert Jenkins, Cyrus Jacobs, as Lancaster countains, we can look upon the history of their lives, neighbors, the men of the forges, the

henceforth shall be free." The slave population, according to the census of 1790, in Pennsylvania, was 3,417. Slavery was deemed as inconsistent with the principles of free govern- ment and many declared slave-holding a sin against God and a crime against humanity. Slave Children Born in Lancaster County

taskmasters, who :figured in much of the anti-slavery fiction, can no longer be doubted. But if the Lancaster County Historical Society exists for any purpose it is illustrated in · its apt motto: "History herself as seen in her own work­ shop." Every such shop must show some chips and filings; and

--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County --History. Indians of North America--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County --Antiquities. Manheim Township (Pa.)--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1915 Description: 163-173 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society

little, in the shape of manuscript, prior to 1750 in our Court House. Practically all there is to be found there are the Quarter Sessions and road records,the Common Pleas dockets, the appoint- ment of constables, overseers of the poor and highways, the granting of Paper read before the Lancaster County

, pro- tests and items already mentioned, which occurred in the early part of 1700 in Pennsylvania, it is no doubt true that Lancaster county had some part in those proceedings, and that negro slavery was in progress in our county at that time. In 1730 appear- ed in the Pennsylvania Gazette a list of

Lazarus Stewart Few events in the colonial history of Lancaster county have attracted more attention, or were more dis- cussed at the time and since, than the raid of the notorious "Paxton Boys" on the remnant of Conestoga Indians who lived at Indiantown, and later their second raid on the few who