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are as shall here follow. The last of the series of items above referred to is found printed in the January, 1922, pamphlet of this Society, page 3, etc. THE PENNSYLVANIA PACKET OR GENERAL ADVERTISER Saturday, November 29, 1777 Printed by John Dunlap, in Queen Street (Price 15 pence) Lancaster

Pennsylvania soldiers at Valley Forge were concerned. all state business was done in Lancaster. The greater number of commands left from, halted in, met in or passed through Lancaster and were reviewed there. The correspondence relating to the conduct of War, while the seat of operations was in this state from

acts he was set to cutting timber to make pipe staves, "which comomdity" he says "is a con- siderable branch of the traffic of that country." Telling us about the condition of redemptioners, in this neighborhood so near Lancaster County he says, "the hardships of an American slavery. . . are infinitely

spot was fixed upon and the plot of Lancaster made in 1730 in regular squares, open lots were reserved, in the center and adjoining the pub- lic square, for the court house, public offices, market, etc. The long swamp (which ran in the rear of Dr. DuFresne) was drained by a ditch cut into roar- ing

neglect to utilize the wool from the sheep. By 1770 an elaborate textile man- ufactory was carried on here by our industrious German-Swiss women. From May, 1769, to May, 1770, woolen and linen goods, consisting of clothing and bed clothing, curtains, etc., of thirteen varieties made by the Lancaster

returns for Assembly, coroner and Sheriff, etc. - 3 C., 370. Act to erect Lancaster County. - 4 St. L., 131. Chechocecan writes to Gordon and says that when they sold Penn land he deeded back a strip a mile wide on each side of Brandywine to the head of the river. - 1 A., 239. 1730 A petition of many

Ferree's on King Street Thos Bull, Roger Kirk and Abiah Taylor at Peter Hoffnagle's on S. Queen Street The Lancaster County assemblymen lodgings: Jacob Strickler and Richard Keys at Mr. Barton's; Alex. Scott on East Orange Street; Daniel Buckley at Peter Hoffnagle's, and Jeremiah Brown and John Hopkins at

(taken as a whole) a bright chapter in Lancaster County's part in the American Revolution and in the establishment of our Independence. N. B. Miss Rebecca Slaymaker states that she has knowledge of several additional subscription lists similar to the above H. F. E. (b) LANCASTER COUNTY'S PROVINCIAL AND

(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

early roads la id out. The mill was the most frequent r eason given and the church next. The markets of Lancaster, Phi!adelphin, Christiana Bridge, near Wilmington, and of North East, at h ead of Chesa- peake and of such places as Rock Run in Maryland, etc., were the ot- jective points for purposes of