INTRODUCTORY. As was to be expected from a popu- lation so conglomerate as that which comprised the early and later set- tlers of Lancaster county and city, German, Scotch-Irish and Quakers, Protestants, Catholics, with a sprink- ling of Jews, and, perhaps, still other nationalities, it was a

., who was the County Pro- thonotary at that time, to Governor John Penn, dated December 27, 1763, he said: "Between two and three o'clock this afternoon upwards of a hundred armed men from the westward rode very fast into town, turned their horses into Mr. Slough's (an innkeep- er's yard), and proceeded

have a little hoard of ready cash by the time the big day arrived. By the time the sum had grown to a levy, or twelve and a-half cents, the country boy began to feel he was master of the situation. That meant at least one shrivelled orange, ninety days out from some Mediterra- nean port; it meant, in

- ception to the rule. On another occasion the State Medi- cal Society also held their annual ses- sion at Wabank, no doubt at the in- stigation of the local Medical Society. The talk at the time was that the doctors had as good a time as the Judges, and passed through similar experiences. I would gladly

manuscript diary In the library at Harrisburg, will serve to show how we appeared in the eyes of the foreigners and what they had to say about us: Lieutenant Anbury's Account. "December, 1778. At Lancaster met with a curious reception. Story afloat that the country round about was to be given to Baron

coincidence that at �the moment the Continental Congress was adopting the Declaration of Inde- pendence, the Scotch-Irish squatter sovereigns of the Susquehanna Valley, in convention assembled, were declar- ing by solemn resolution for freedom and independence. The Pennsylvania Assembly instructed their

total for both city and county of about 270. Not the least surprising part of all this is that for nearly one hundred years after the first printing press was established here this was largely a German community. For a time at least there seems to have been more reading done in the German language than

, paved with brick and had a steeple. It was destroyed by fire on June 9, 1784, fifty-five years to the very day from the date when the first Court was held in Postle- �thwait's. A more imposing structure was begun on the old site in 1784 and completed in 1787, at a cost of $15,758. That is the building