Items of Local Interest from the Pennsylvania Gazette, from 1761 to 1770.1 BY H. FRANK ESHLEMAN, ESQ. 1761. The issue of January 15 recites that the French garrison at Detroit are at Lancaster, on their way to Philadelphia and also a number of the people that were prisoners there, are also in the

NOTES OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM PENNSYLVANIA PACKET AND GENERAL ADVERTISER FROM NOV, 29, 1777, TO JUNE 17,• 1778, COLLECTED BY W. F. WORNER SUPPLEMENTARY TO SERIES OF H. FRANK ESHLEMAN. (Read Dec. 3, 1926.) In the series of Notes from the Pennsylvania Gazette contributed by H. Frank Eshleman to the

A RUNNING STORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY FROM HAZARD'S REGISTER (1613 to 1835) Compiled by H. FRANK ESHLEMAN, ESQ. Hazard's "Register of Pennsylvania" is a publication of sixteen volumes, containing about 400 pages each, published by Samuel Hazard of Philadelphia from Jan. 1828 to the end of December

., Penn's Letter to John Wright in 1733. History of lands on Pequea and Lancaster County's involvement in the boundary dispute," indicate a few of the many items of Lancaster County History in this volume. Volume 8 is wholly made of Pennsylvania Marriages from 1750 to 1810; but it is limited to the records

(a) LANCASTER COUNTY CONTRIBUTORS TO RELIEF OF BOSTON, 1774 Among the manuscripts in the Manuscript Department of the Library of the Pennsylvania Historical Society at Philadelphia in a Volume entitled "Lancaster County Miscellaneous Papers," pp. 5 and 7 appear the following documents: "We whose

.)--History--17th century--Errors, inventions, etc. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1925 Description: 33-36 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 29, no. 3 Notes: Book entitled "Memoirs of an unfortunate young nobleman, returned from a

. (Pa. Gazette, June 14, 1770). �But they turned to silk also. Rewards were offered for the best reeled silk throughout the Province and Lancaster County led the contest. Widow Stoner raised 72,800 cocoons, Casper Falkner, 22,845, and Catharine Steiner, 21,800, all of this county. (Gazette, Mar. 17

(d) FOUR GREAT SURVEYS IN LANCASTER COUNTY Among the Taylor Papers in the Manuscript Department of the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania, are found (with a great number of others) four great surveys of lands in Lancaster County, which may well challenge our interest and which are of great value