): Pennsylvania gazette. Newspapers--Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania--Social life and customs--To 1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1919 Description: 133-148 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the

--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

, ca. 1600-1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1913 Description: 123-137 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 17, no. 5 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.17

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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

The Political History and Development of Lancaster County's First Twenty Years, 1729-1749 Partisan political sentiment existed in Lancaster county at the time of its creation in 1729, the division of sentiment being on the very question of organizing the county. The econ- omical German-Swiss

harmony with the early efforts to abolish slavery in this country, among the foremost of which was the Act of Pennsylvania of 1780, our county took advanced ground on the question. The early county Quakers, German Mennonites and others felt the insti- tution wrong from the beginning, and had practically

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

. You know, of course, that John Wright was the leader •in all that was brought about here in earliest times—industrial, civil and political. His activities were, however, more generally devoted to the whole county of Lancaster and to the whole province of Pennsylvania, rather than to local affairs. The