for the relief of Trent and Croghan for a period of ten years. At the March Term of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County, in 1776, an action of debt was commenced by Alexander Lowrey against William Trent, to recover the sum of £4,026, 8 s. 7 d. Thereupon, Trent made the following defense

, the sum of £ 13. 4 s. 6 d. was paid George Luttman for paving the market place. In the next two years, repairs were made on the Market House as fol- lows: Sept. 14, 1775. Jacob Weaver, for sundry work, 0. 10. 6. Oct. 19, 1775. Christian Stoner, for scantling, 0. 19. 0. Aug. 29, 1776. John Miller

The Lancaster Stage Dispatch Lancaster, in the early days, was one of the busiest, if not the very busiest, stage town in the United States, and, as the old geographies tell us, it was also the largest inland city. As far back as 1754, Governor Pownall, in describing the main roads around

THE FIRST LONG TURNPIKE IN THE UNITED STATES. PART I. THE KING'S HIGHWAY. A HISTORY of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike seems to me to involve the whole early system of transportation in this Colony and State from Philadelphia to the West, and I have, therefore, concluded that the most

A LIST OF THE ORIGINAL LANCASTER SUBSCRIBERS TO THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE PHILADELPHIA AND LANCASTER TURNPIKE. When I wrote my article on "The First Long Turnpike in the United States," I was convinced that somewhere among the almost forgotten records of the State there must be a list of the

. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Witmer, Abraham. Bridges--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Conestoga Bridge (Lancaster, Pa.) Witmer's Bridge (Lancaster, Pa.) Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1916 Description: 155-174 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster

"Judge E. G. Bradford, of York," and states that his "remains were accompanied to the grave by a portion of his bereaved family and a numerous concourse of friends." Pennsylvania Hall, which was opened in 1831, is one of the leading hotels in Pottsville. Judge Bradford was in- terred in an old cemetery

of their prosperity, purpose to emigrate from Steinweiler, in the Mayoralty of Billigheim, High Bailwick Germersheim, via Holland and England, to the Island of Pennsylvania, to reside there; they have requested an accridited certificate that they have left the Town of Steinweiler with the knowledge

. Charles I. Landis. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Roads--Pennsylvania--History. Roads--Pennsylvania--Design and construction. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1919 Description: 99-107 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 23, no. 6