groups of roads will form part two of this discussion of early roads into Lancaster county. �file:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank, 1869-1953. Title: The great Conestoga road / by H. Frank Eshleman, Esq. Primary

George Stuart, in 1730, was elected one os the Assemblymen sor Lancaster county. He was again elected in 1732, but died in office in 1733. This was a damage suit and a jury of inquisition sat and found damages for the plaintifs, but in 1731 the finding was set aside and a new writ issued. Growdon was at

that the events set forth in them ever occurred in modest little Lancaster town; and all of them, when set down on the real stage where the stormy events recorded in them happened, not more than 600 feet from where we stand, in the now busy, surging, centre of our active city, all of them, when thus

- ed in Lancaster county, James Hamil- ton, and he was elected to the Assem- bly and stood at the head of the four members in votes received. (3 V., 219). But in the fall or 1735 Ed- wards again succeeded in election, standing next in number of votes to James Hamilton, who was very pop- ular and very

EARLY LANCASTER TAX- ABLES--1754 r A document, entitled "The Return of the Borough of Lancaster, 1754," has just come to my hands. It has never been in print, and its contents are not recorded in any book of record in the Court House or elsewhere. It consists of five sheets of pa per, not bound

can find is a passage in Volume 1 of the Colonial Records,page 299, viz.: "The Governor gave account of letters he received from the lower counties; also of a let- ter he had received from one Captain Le Tort, a Frenchman, living up in the country." This was in 1689. Cap- tain James Le Tort and his

%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank, 1869-1953. Title: Cresap's war : the Lancaster County border struggle / by H. Frank Eshleman, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Cresap, Thomas, 1702-1790. Cresap's War--1735-1737. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Boundaries. Lancaster County (Pa

the estate of Sylvester Garland, 700 acres of good land,and grist and fulling mill, For information apply to James Ander- son, minister, late of New York, now �at Donnigal, in the County of Chester, Pa., who has the power of disposing of the same." September 14, 1727 (Palatines): The ship Fame, from

their lands"between the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers" but ten years later they became dissatisfied and James Logan, showing them their old deed, pacified them (3 Do. 320). Their lands scarcely reached into Lancaster county—except perhaps near the head waters of the Schuylkill. Coming now again to the

were on it and Lincoln expressed a desire to see James Buchanan's nome, "Wheatland." The report of the Ex- press tells us as the train was pass- ing west of Lancaster Mr. Dickey took him to the platform and pointed out Buchanan's home and that Lin- coln enjoyed it and the scenery very much. The Journey