(Pa.)--Politics and government--To 1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1900-1901. Description: [36]-51 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 5, no. 2 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.5 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

Govern- ment, was read and ordered to lie on the table."(42) May 2, the survey was returned and approved by the Governor and Council(43)ThesamedaytheGovernorand Council decreed and declared the said upper parts "To be erected and are accordingly erected into a county by the name of Lancaster county" and

Salisbury township, Lancaster county, �and died in 1794, leaving his son, "lsaac, his plantation, where he now lives," and also a son, Joshua, and, I presume, the man who signed the pe- tition. WILLIAM BOYD. The following may be found in the Recorder's office, Lancaster, Pa.: "Commission of William Boyd.—To

election to assist annu- ally in taking the vote at the Court House. (4) (4) Statutes at Large, Vol. 4, p. 331. �Who Were the Court. In the Court House at the August Sessions of 1839 the Justices of Lan- caster county so divided our county. And thus was divided Lancaster county, which then was an empire of

the same act an order was passed by the Supreme Executive Council on May 6, 1778, appointing commissions to look after the estates of persons who should be attainted of treason. Everhart Michael, Philip Greenwalt, George Stewart and Fran- cis Armstrong were the agents for Lancaster county. They were

LANCASTER COUNTY FI- NANCES IN 1794 An old public document, recently brought to light, gives us an interest- ing and instructive study of the size and proportion of the county's fiscal affairs in 1794-5. This document is the acocunt from May, 1794, to May, 1795, of George Graeff, Esq., Treas- urer

Wilson, assisted by Joshua Scott, C. E.—who, by the way, published, "far and away," the best Lancaster county maps ever produced —originally located the Columbia and Philadelphia railroad, it ran outside os Lancaster, on the north, and a lateral railroad was to be constructed from the city, to connect

. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Flags--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Lancaster (Pa.)--Politics and government. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1907 Description: [162]-166 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 11, no. 4 Call Number