. �file:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank, 1869-1953. Title: Assessment lists and other manuscript documents of Lancaster County prior to 1729 / by H. Frank Eshleman, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Legal

mute reminders of a by-gone era. The history of this institution has been perhaps meager, yet of in- terest withal; and the writer now gladly gives his portion, with other data, for the present paper, prepared in part, also, by him, for a new his- tory of Mount Joy and its surround- ings, issued by the

your decision—thus: Late in the twenties and early in the thirties a company of young, practical scientists engaged in the then novel enterprise of surveying, locating and constructing a railroad across country for a distance of some eighty miles. Railroads of less im- portance were already in

the location of the place are absolutely fixed by records. At the November Sessions, 1756, of the Court of Quarter Sessions a road was laid out "from the southwest gate of the Pequea Meeting House to John Douglass' Mill," and thence south to the line dividing Lancaster and Chester Counties. The