. Sener, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Theater--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Lancaster (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1902-3 Description: 43-45 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 7, no. 2 & 3

%20Project/Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Sener, Samuel Miller, 1855-1911. Title: Local superstitions / by S. M. Sener, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Superstition. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1904/1905

home after night. Some attended every day; whilst others at times would ride day and night to notify and bring on troops. One day we would call on Lancaster county, the next on York, and some- times on both in the same day, and on the most part we did not want for mer. To move an arch of such an

672, 60 shillings on each. Many of the Hamilton deeds for lots will be found by consulting Book A, Volume 6 and Book I, in the Re- corder's Office, at Lancaster. Pa. In 1729, when Lancaster county was laid out, John Wright, Caleb Pearce, Thomas Edwards and James Mitchell were the Commissioners to lay

in 1719. He was an Indlan trader, and had sons, John, Thomas, William and Peter, all of whom were also Indian traders. He gave the farm at the river to his son William. In the summer of 1726, the Rev. James Anderson received a call from old Donegal Church, which he accepted, and located in the

exiles were brought into Lancaster county through the passage of an Act of the Provincial Assembly. On February 20, 1756, a bill entitled " An Act for dis- persing the inhabitants of Nova Scotia imported into this Province into the sev- eral counties of Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester and Lancaster, and the

Lancaster County His- torical Society. It was read at the May meeting of the Lancaster County Historical Society: Lancaster, March 17, 1789. Gentlemen: The Corporation of this Borough have been instructed by the Inhabit- ants thereof, and the Adjoining Town- ships, to address you. The New Con- stitution, to

. George Ross' Pennsylvania Regiment. These two items in reference to Ross' Pennsylvania Regiment are the only ones in existence showing that there was such a regiment, there being no muster roll of it extant, and no mention of it in the State Archives. It was evidently composed of Lancaster county men

(Harris) Passmore. His grand- father, John Passmore, came from the parish of Hurst, county of Berks, England, with his parents, John and Mary (Buxey) Passmore. John Passmore was born January 12, 1774, in Newcastle, Del. At an early age he left home and went to Lancas- ter, Pa., where, after a few years