): Pennsylvania gazette. Newspapers--Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania--Social life and customs--To 1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1919 Description: 133-148 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the

be destroyed. The Assembly in- formed him that it would be of ill consequence to them to interest them- selves in that matter of protecting the stamps at all. The issue also states that John Hughs, appointed stamp distributor for Pennsylvania, declares and publicly states that he will do nothing

--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

, 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

--18th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--18th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1918 Description: 21-26 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 22, no. 2 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.22 Location: LCHSJL

�Bucks Countians lodged as follows: Isaac Van Horne at Nauman's and Ralph Stone and James Erwin at John Musser's corner of East Orange and Lime Streets and Gerardus Wynkoch at Judge Henry's. The Chester County legislators divided: Jos. Hemphill lodged at A Scott's on Orange Street; Jas. Hannum at

The Public Career of John Wright, Esq. John Wright, Esq., of Columbia, on the Susquehanna, was the acknowl- edged and unquestioned "father" or Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. By unanimous consensus of authoritative opinion, and by common consent, this name and title belong to him and his memory

. You know, of course, that John Wright was the leader •in all that was brought about here in earliest times—industrial, civil and political. His activities were, however, more generally devoted to the whole county of Lancaster and to the whole province of Pennsylvania, rather than to local affairs. The

Pennsylvania" (Vol. 3 V. A. 65). The Quakers and Germans both were opposed to them. The Irish and the English favored them. The first distinct political party cleavage in this county was upon the question of "the common people's in- terests versus the proprietors' inter- ests" (The Penns). 1729. Judge Edwards

against other colonies for her own welfare. All the Colonies did the same ; and this was laid down generally, as the policy, by each Colony, of collecting part of the ex- pense of its Government, from other Colonies. The Supreme Court of the United States under the Constitution, had a hard task on hand to

prosper the public councils of the whole. To inspire our Commanders both by land and sea, and all under them, with that wisdom and fortitude which may render them fit instruments, under the Providence of Almighty God, to secure for these United States, the great- est of all human blessings, "Independence

maps made by Isaac and Jacob Taylor, surveyors for William Penn's sons; some letters and other correspondence of John Wright, Tobias Hendricks, Edmond Cartledge, Robert Barber, and a few others; a few early patents, title deeds and other land contracts; a few road petitions and proceedings; some anci