Brief Outline on the Care o the Poor, the Sick, and insane 0/ Lancaster County, /0a. BY HENRY A. SHOWALTER For more than fifty years after the erection of Lancaster County the poor were supported by the several townships. Two Overseers of the Poor were elected in each township. The constables and

Pequea Colony. We may add another word on this point which furnishes the strongest proof that the 1709 company which Guy brought over in his ship was not the Pequea colony, and that theie was not one of the Lancaster county names among them. Nor were the six remaining Mennonite families (whom �Jacob

%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Robinson, Mary N. Title: Sidelights on slavery / by Mrs. Mary N. Robinson. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Slavery--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Slaves--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County

Early Local Historical Items. In the proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society for the month of October, 1907, and for the month of December, 1910, may be found lists of certain items of early Lancaster county history gleaned from the ,"American Weekly Mer- cury," the earliest

uncalled for in the post office at Lancaster. There are about seventy in all. All the names are Scotch- Irish or English. There are no German names among them. This fact seems to attest the fact that Scotch-Irish and English were on the move, while the Germans remained in their original settlements. The