: Book Subject(s): Reingruber, Ludwig, 1836-1885. Artists--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1913 Description: 197-106 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 17, no. 7

little, in the shape of manuscript, prior to 1750 in our Court House. Practically all there is to be found there are the Quarter Sessions and road records,the Common Pleas dockets, the appoint- ment of constables, overseers of the poor and highways, the granting of Paper read before the Lancaster County

more likely that the tavern was so changed as to make it convenient for the purpose of holding the Courts, and this conclu- sion has, I think, been generally adopted. I find in the minute book of the Commissioners of Lancaster county, under date of February 4, 1729, the following entry: "Ordered that

prominent part the Pennsylvania-Germans bore in the Civil War. Many names familiar to Lancaster county, notably Eshleman and Shenk, are found in the records of the Confederacy, where the story of their valor is recited. General �Roller paid a glowing tribute to these brave spirits. But, despite the cir

, pro- tests and items already mentioned, which occurred in the early part of 1700 in Pennsylvania, it is no doubt true that Lancaster county had some part in those proceedings, and that negro slavery was in progress in our county at that time. In 1730 appear- ed in the Pennsylvania Gazette a list of

- phia in November, 1833, and signed the constitution thereof, three were from Lancaster county: Lindley Coates and Thomas Whitson, both of Sadsbury township, and James Miller McKim, a young Presbyterian minister from Co- lumbia. Of these three men John G. Whittier has given the following brief pen