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

period that have come down to us. Indeed, I know of nothing of a similar nature concern- ing Lancaster city and county at the period covered by this diary that is at all comparable with it. He was an educated man, a man of affairs, much concerned and connected with what was going on around him, a person

.)--Social life and customs. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1920 Description: 91-106 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 24, no. 5 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.24 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

Oxford Press, Chester County, dated February 9th, 1870, by Dr. C. H. Stubbs furnishes additional information relative to the status of the chrome industry in Lancaster County at that time. "Andrew Lowe and Benjamin Gibson opened a mine of chrome near State Line and obtained a large quantity of the

settling in one place, here in Lancaster County. (Votes Assembly 1718). In 1728 the products from the Susquehanna Valley were mov- ing on to Philadelphia in Conestoga's wagons in great quantities and constancy, according to Samuel Blunston (1 Pa. Arch 216). By 1755 it was stated, as we shall see later

said John Penn, Party hereto is and stands seized of one full equal and undivided fourth part of and in all that Tract or Parcel of Land called Indian Town within the said Manor of Conestoga in the County of Lancaster." Then the description of the land by metes and bounds of the said four hundred and