Early Lancaster County History in the Provincial Records and Archives Read by Benj. B. Lippold (Original notes by H. Frank Eshleman) It is an old saying in the legal profession that the question is not so much what the law is, as it is where to find the law. It is also true of the undigested and

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

of the Governors in the Fourth Series of Pennsylvania Archives. "Petitions Against Extending Market On High Street, Phila." The following petitions from the inhabitants of the county of Lancaster �praying that the market house in High street within the city of Philadelphia may not be extended farther

Patterson, in the County of Lancaster. and learning of the seizure of one of Patterson's servants, by Thomas Cresap, on the west side of the river, was prevailed upon to go to Creasap's house and inquire the reason for his conduct. (1 Pa. Archives, pp. 396 and 397). Emerson must have been a man of high

I. EXTRACTS FROM MORAVIAN DIARIES AT BETHLEHEM (Relating to Early Events in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) Made by Dr. John W. Jordan and Sent by Him to Hon. Charles I. Landis, at Lancaster, Pa. DIARY I. 1768 Feby. 12 Hopson & Henry with 2 other citizens settled a dispute with Mel- choir Schneieder and