. A. page 505. Recorder's office, Lancaster. • Patent Book A., Vol. 16, page 138. Recorded in Harrisburg, Patent Rolls. Later the West half of it was conveyed to Joseph Staman by Edward Smout and wife, Elizabeth, May 1, 1751, in which deed it was described for the first time as being in Hempfield

later, as stated by Rev. Conrad Templeton, the present (6) limits of Lancaster County was known as Conestoga. In 1717 all of what is now Manor Township South of the Charleston road was surveyed and reserved as Penn's Conestoga Manor and since 1729 we have Lancaster County and then this was part of

prominent and extensive rifle makers of Lancaster County as also probably the last to regularly follow the business was Henry E. Leman, of Lancaster City, who began manufacturing in 1832 and after following it pretty much all his life died in Lancaster in 1887. The original shop in which he learned his

Lancaster Counties, as the Octoraro the main creek continues to be the boundary clear to the State line where it passes into Maryland at or about the Horse Shoe below Woods Mill. It first takes the name of Octoraro as it leaves the Christiana Dam, which dam was supplied with water from Buck Run, Williams

liquidation and reorganization three times, th4 final division of its assets among its last stockholders was $250 per $100. Its first inception as was its final dissolution was thoroughly Lancaster countain; for the first trial surveys were made by William H. Brown, then a boy still in his early twenties

by England after the tea episode; and we find him soon thereafter named as one of the active members and leaders on the Committee of Safety of Lancaster County. In the same manner we find him holding Court as President Judge, is- suing writs and entering judgments under the caption and by the

and young flocked to see him, and here as everywhere, he drew all to him by his friendly manner." The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 26, 1796, contains the following comments on the celebration of Washington's birthday of that year. "Monday being the anniversary of the birth of the President of

covered by this business, railroads and canals were practically unknown and even after their development were totally inadequate to handle this kind of traffic. As Lancaster County then included in its territory all of the land in the �Susquehanna Valley for some miles above Harris' Ferry and Clark's

much to do with the renown and public recognition which they gained. The subjects of this paper, Doctor Benjamin Franklin Sides and Doctor James A. Peeples of Southern Lancaster County, did not become as well known nor so famous perhaps because both of them confined their work mainly to the section in