., Penn's Letter to John Wright in 1733. History of lands on Pequea and Lancaster County's involvement in the boundary dispute," indicate a few of the many items of Lancaster County History in this volume. Volume 8 is wholly made of Pennsylvania Marriages from 1750 to 1810; but it is limited to the records

Early Lancaster County History in the Provincial Records and Archives Read by Benj. B. Lippold (Original notes by H. Frank Eshleman) It is an old saying in the legal profession that the question is not so much what the law is, as it is where to find the law. It is also true of the undigested and

years ago." V. 1 p. 400. 1690 In the year 1690 William Penn issued proposals for a second settlement or city in the Province, upon the Susquehanna River. See V. 1 p. 400. The particulars of the proposed county and town were afterwards drawn up in writing and were recorded in Philadelphia in 1701, where

of an army of ten thousand here. recruited by some thousands more during the winter of 1777 and and 1778, many hundreds, far over one thousand at least, died; and scores of them were our own of Lancaster County. They are our hallowed dead. they are our Immortals of the Revolution-here they are lying

our own local Lancaster County ancestors. �II. Our County's Introduction Of Intensive Agriculture Into The United States FROM the very beginning of permanent settlement in Lancaster County intensive agriculture was entered upon, on a large scale. The first settlers' application for land, was for

Lancaster. For further particulars inquire of Mattheas Graeff. January 7, 1778 The Paymaster General advertised for two clerks. Andrew Kennedy, next door to the Goal in King Street, Lancaster offered six shillings a pound for good candle wick. John Carnan, at Mr. Levi Marks house, the corner of King and

(a) LANCASTER COUNTY CONTRIBUTORS TO RELIEF OF BOSTON, 1774 Among the manuscripts in the Manuscript Department of the Library of the Pennsylvania Historical Society at Philadelphia in a Volume entitled "Lancaster County Miscellaneous Papers," pp. 5 and 7 appear the following documents: "We whose

Lancaster County felt the appeal and the position of Boston. It is also to be noted that here we have evidence to a small extent of the part the patriotic women of those times helped the "cause". Catharine Reigart, Mary Ferree, Anne Elizabeth Snyder, Elizabeth Graeff, Elizabeth Gross, Mrs. Henry Helmuth

; that 1,500 Indians besides the French were on the march against them ; that people were cutting port-holes in their houses to shoot from and that many thousands of bushels of corn were stolen. (6 C. R. 655). About the end of October, reports and letters received from Lancaster County stated that