The Early Settlement and History of Little Britain Township, Including Fulton Township The first survey and grant of lands in Lancaster county was in this town- ship, Little Britain, which included in its early settlement the territory now called Fulton township, and consti- tutes the extreme

Early Items of Lancaster County History A great deal of interest naturally attaches to the primitive affairs in our county and that is at present very rare—that is, because items have al- ready been written up. It is only by gathering up certain items that we can eventually expect to put together

- ernment, to oaths, etc (do., pp. 265- 277). They early reached Northern Italy and the border of Switzerland (do., p. 279). About 1212 persecutions began to rage in Holland (do., p. 298), and at that time 108 Waldenses were burned in Strasburg, Germany (do.). Thus it raged throughout the thirteenth century

Wright; H. F. Eshleman's Map of Early Highways, and Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County. ²²Second Pennsylvania Archives, vol. 7, p. 464. ²³Holms' "New Sweden," Lindstrom's Map, and p. 157. �trade was carried on between the Swedes and the Susquehannas, or Minquas, as they called them thirty years

our racial history presents differ- ences of blood and our religion ex- hibits diversity of sects. Under the sheltering roof of the Conewago, the Cornwall and the Brecknock hills there abide a composite citizenship and social life that hold within their settlement and their development a story of rare

an age-long custom. History does not record a time when monuments were not the customary means of commemorating great events, historic occasions and distinguished services. Standing in the midst of your people, on a central and commanding site, in the shadow of your ancient church, this shaft will

Odds and Ends of Local History. It will be very generally conceded, I believe, that the four or five histories of Lancaster county which have been given to the public during the past sixty years have covered the field fairly well, both in their fullness of detail and their accuracy in the state

. There is no record of the breaking up and early cultivation of this wild country. There must have been more or less of frontier hardship going to the conversion of virgin forest into tillable and producing land. We only know that the immigrants throve, and in the end left to their successors the goodly

OLD LANCASTER, This paper makes no pretension to being exhaustive. Most of it is only a "twice-told tale," familiar to many of you. There is too much of interest in the early history of this fair city of ours—too much of importance—for this to be more than a brief sketch of a few prominent items

was born in Scot- land, in 16'16, and of his early history and parentage but little is known other than that he was a descendant in direct line from Sir Gilbert Hamil- ton. He had evidently been involved in some political difficulty at the Eng- lish Court, for, when he came to this country, he went