-Irish--Pennsylvania. Historical markers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Donegal (Pa.)--History. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1899-1900 Description: [44]-62 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical

substance of a clause which was found in a number of indi- vidual deeds which were made 'prior to 1750, or nearly half a century before Stiegel's, to Zion Church, by the dis- tinguished Casper Wistar, of Philadel- phia, who came to America in 1717, and established what is believed to have been the earliest

times. From all this, it seems very clear that in that direc- tion all the part east of Lime street was "out of town," and likely wooded. One exception, I think, must be made to this two-square limit as comprising almost all there was of the borough at that time. A writer in the Lancaster �Journal of

: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921. Title: The Wabank House : the story of a Lancaster County summer resort / by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Wabank House (Lancaster, Pa.) Historic buildings--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Resorts--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster

. But that is not all. Our Lancaster printers were the most skillful of any in the State. I find, on page 161 of Tench Coxe's "View of the United States," published in 1794, this signifi- cant passage: "The first premium for excellency in printing was adjudged by the Pennsylvania Manufacturing So- ciety

Author(s): Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921. Title: Lancaster in 1772 / by Rev. Dr. McClure. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): M'Clure, David, 1748-1820 --Diaries. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1900-1901 Description: [106

nomenclature, few of us ever heard. By an Act passed by the General Assembly, on September 20, 1765, it was enacted "That the said borough shall be and hereby is divided into four wards in the manner following: That is to say, all that part of the said borough to the north of King street and to the east of

place of perhaps 2,000 inhabitants, while Philadelphia contained a popula- tion of perhaps 8,000 in 1730. Then, too, ours was largely a German com- munity, while Philadelphia was found- ed by English-speaking people. Lancaster has, for a half-century, enjoyed the reputation of being a lit- erary

the Board of War: "Whereas great inconvenience and mischief may happen by the going at large of divers persons who were offi- cers of the King of Great Britain and of the Proprietors of Pennsylvania, and it is highly expedient in the pres- ent situation of affairs, when the Enemy threaten an invasion