agricultural than after their needs were supplied through ³Alsop's Maryland, pp. 38-42. (4)Mombert's History of Lancaster County, p. 372. (5)Acrelius' "New Sweden" (Memoirs Pennsylvania Historical Society, vol. xi), p. 146. �the traffic with the traders, after which their clothing and their habits greatly

Lancaster county, about 1526. About that time, John Fiske tells us, Lucas Vasquez d'Ayllon came from Hispaniola, and "tried the Chesapeake Bay" in search of the northwest passage, and "ob- tained a grant and began to build a town."' But that town was likely south of the Pennsylvania line. Then next, about

CRESAP'S WAR The Lancaster County Border Struggle. Cresap's War was simply a series of campaigns beginning in 1735, in a struggle which at that time was about fifty years old—the border struggle between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The difficulty began as early as 1684, and was the chief cause which

Commonwealths. In journeying hither from Maryland Whitman Marshe's way led through Quaker settlements in Chester county, but he soon joined the Commissioners of his State and journeyed hither, maybe by the Buck, the Valley and Willow Street to Lancaster. That the traveler of that time fared scarcely less

Earliest Reformed Church in Lancaster County. The early history of Lancaster county gathers around its ancient churches. In colonial days, far more than at pre- sent, the church was the centre of so- cial life; and those who would study that life in its more recent develop- ments should not fail to

the Pennsylvania line / by Miss Martha b. Clark. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Hamilton, James, 1750-1833. Society of the Cincinnati. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1905/1906 Description: [71]-89 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1899. Peace to the Brave! They do not need our praising, For in all hearts is treasured every name; Yet for the future we to-day are raising A tablet to their fame. And while the trees put on their fading splendors And trail their banners like to knights of old

the limits of Pennsylvania, and northward to the endless hills and that they would not sell any land to any one but the Penns. (Do. 498). These deeds include all of what is now Lancaster county, even to the ex- treme east, for Octoraro itself flows into the Susquehanna. This quieted Susquehanna titles