most of these names were fathers and sons in continuous business. I shall confine the contents of this paper mainly to three heads: 1, Grandfathers' clocks; 2, to the makers of Lancaster county, and 3, deal more particularly with their own lives and ancestry, and not extensively with the family history

--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1911 Description: 69-85 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 15, no. 3 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.15 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article

Manheim Township and Its Part in the Indian History of the County This society has often been favored by papers on the way in which vari- ous sections of what is now Lancaster county figured in the history of the dusky-skinned inhabitants who knew this section to be their home and hap- py hunting

led from Philadelphia through the Gap to the Indian town in the Manor. In 1718 Conestoga township was laid off, embracing all that part of what is now Lancaster county between Octo- �raro creek and the main branch of the Conestoga. Postlethwaite must have come to Conestoga after that date, because his

, pro- tests and items already mentioned, which occurred in the early part of 1700 in Pennsylvania, it is no doubt true that Lancaster county had some part in those proceedings, and that negro slavery was in progress in our county at that time. In 1730 appear- ed in the Pennsylvania Gazette a list of

the whole of the history of those early times. The following items from the first two newspapers of Pennsylvania give us certain phases of the life and times of our remote ancestors here in Lancaster county: The character of the commerce be- tween Lancaster and Pennsylvania in the infancy of the