County. Reformed Church--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Church buildings--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Conestoga (Pa. : Township)--History. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1900/1901 Description: [3]-16 p. ; 23 cm. Series

- ciety's Missionary for the Propagating of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. After some years,many of them,finding their settlements too confined (from the vast numbers of incomers), they, Anno Domini 1730, removed some miles to the westward into a new county, called Lancaster, and settled in a Township called

Old St. Mary's of Lancaster, Pa. : The Jesuit Period,1741-1785 Edgar A. Musser THE BISHOPS WHO GOVERNED THE CHURCH IN COLONIAL AMERICA The Catholic Church throughout the world is—under the Sovereign Pontiff—governed by bishops and archbishops, so that in almost every part of the earth it is under

, and taking up our first settlement in the township of Pequay, Lancaster county, and in the township of Salis- bury, Chester county,both in the prov- ince of Pennsylvania. We from a due sense of duty to God, finding no part of the universe agreeable to us with- out a place of public worship where we

Dr. Brevard. Samuel Polk, of this family, was ancestor of James K Polk, Presi- dent of the United States. The Jack family are found in Lancaster, York, Cumberland and Westmoreland coun- ties. Some went to Charlotte, North Carolina. James Jack carried the Mecklenburg Declaration from Char- lotte to