--Pennsylvania. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1910 Description: 293-300 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 14, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245

The Political History and Development of Lancaster County's First Twenty Years, 1729-1749 Partisan political sentiment existed in Lancaster county at the time of its creation in 1729, the division of sentiment being on the very question of organizing the county. The econ- omical German-Swiss

. The Presbyterians had occa- sional services here prior to the year 1803, and from 1806 onward had regu- lar services; and about the sante time �their own church. The Lutherans organized their first congregation about 1806—but, of course, they existed here numerously long before that date. The Reformed

, but only of those who arrived in St. Cathrin's from the beginning of the arrivals, May 6, 1709, to June 11th, taken by John Tribbeko, Chaplain of His late Royal Highness, Prince George of Denmark, and George Andrew Ruperti, minister of the German Lutheran Church In Savoye. It also includes those taken

our society's proceedings. At the time Mr. Samuel Evans wrote his history of our county, the assessments of several townships prior to 1750 were here, because he has copies of some of them in his book. But it is very probable that some of these lists were taken out for the printer of that work and

Early Local Historical Items. In the proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society for the month of October, 1907, and for the month of December, 1910, may be found lists of certain items of early Lancaster county history gleaned from the ,"American Weekly Mer- cury," the earliest