documents--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History --18th century. Tax assessment--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History --18th century. Land grants--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History--18th century. Deeds--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History--18th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--18th

). Lancaster county, in common -vita the rest of the prov- ince, complained of the hard times, and began to complain loudly against Penn's quit rents (3 V., 329). This year Lancaster county elected Andrew Douglass a member of its Board of Commissioners; and George Gibson, Andrew Work,Christian Stone- man, John

home in Pennsylvania, largely in Lancaster county. 2. Who These Pioneers of Lancas- ter County Settlement Were; and Where They Came From. 3. When They Began the Settle- ment of Lancaster County; and, 4. With Exactness, Where They First Settled in This County. PART ONE. The European Historical

Pennsylvania. To be sold by B. Franklin." In the issue of December 30, 1735, appears an item showing that the people of Lancaster county were, in common with the people generally in Pennsyl- vania, tired of paying quit rents. There is a notice which stands that the people of Lancaster county have not done

--Pennsylvania. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1910 Description: 293-300 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 14, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245

legislation--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1911 Description: 215-218 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 15, no. 7 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.15 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

to the land on which to build the court house and prison in Lancaster, the commissioners, of course, holding the title in trust for the county (1 Pa. Arch., p. 252). August 5th the treas- urer of the province pays into his hands the 300 pounds lent to the coun- ty of Lancaster to build the last

by a small creek. I men- tion this only to show that the Ster- rett ancestry lived in the western part of Lancaster county, around Donegal, as we all know, and in other sections. Chief Justice Sterrett, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, descended from them. In the issue of April 7, 1740, there is