, ca. 1600-1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1913 Description: 123-137 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 17, no. 5 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.17

ITEMS IN THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE CONCERNING LANCASTER COUNTY. In the October number of 1907, the December number of 1910, and the May number of 1913, of the proceedings of this Society, I gave installments in consecutive order of local Lancaster county news from 1719 to 1746 found in the American

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

Which Aid Us in Locating the Fort. While investigating this subject, I found no difficulty in finding material pertaining to the subject, as might be supposed of a place of such promi- nence in the past. Hundreds of ref- erences are made to Susquehannock Fort in Colonial books and official records of

King George's War and the Quakers The Defense Crisis of 1732-1742 in Pennsylvania Politics By Alan Tully To many observers the political history of colonial Pennsylvania has always appeared to be a contention-ridden affair. During the first three decades of the colony's existence factions

The First White Man In Pennsylvania and in Lancaster County. There are probably not a half-dozen persons in this audience who can name the first white man who set his feet on the soil that to-day constitutes the great State of Pennsylvania, And yet that comparatively unknown man had one of the most