county. But I wish to direct attention to another point. Lancaster was almost exclusively a German community in the last century, just as it has largely been in the present one. Read over the names of the men who have published papers in this city. Miller—and he was the first of all—Al- brecht, Lahti

. Diffenderffer. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1898-99 Description: 22 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 3, no. 1 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.3 Location: LCHSJL

this paper. Every member of this Society knows that the first permanent settlement in Lancaster county was made in 1709, perhaps a year earlier, and that the population thereafter grew so rapidly that in 1729 enough people had come here to warrant a county organization with all the requisite county

that there are to-day many substantial stone dwelling houses stand- • • • �� ing all over the county and in Lancaster city, whose stronir and durable walls have bid defiance to the storms of a • . - � . • century and a half, and even more, and are to-day substantial, imposing buildings, good for a few

INDIAN TRIBES OF LANCASTER COUNTY. The names and the history of the In- dian tribes who have dwelt within the boundaries of Lancaster county during the historic period present a most prolific field for conjecture, doubt and confusion. I have within a week examined many pages of records and the

some of them away, and otherwise cutting up and despoiling many parts of the same." A Visit to Lititz, Lancaster County, in 1799. In his diary, Jacob Peirce, of Long- wood, East Marlborough township, Chester county, Pa., thus describes his visit to the Moravians at Lititz, Lan- caster county: 1 Mo. 19

of his fame as it deserves, but impartial his- tory will allow her none the less the honor of having given its most bril- liant soldier to the Revolution, in her Anthony Wayne." A Wayne anecdote at Valley Forge will be allowed at this place. I found it in Futhey and Cope's "History of Chester County