LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORY IN THE SEVERAL SERIES OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES AND OTHER PRO- VINCIAL AND STATE SOURCE BOOKS. By H. Frank Eshleman. In the proceedings of this Society for 1923 page 19, printed in the Feb- ruary pamphlet of that year may be found in chronological order all the

Provincial, Continental and Federal Revenues of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. (By C. H. MARTIN) The first reference found to Provincial taxes after the formation of Lancaster Co. in 1729, in which the county figured conspicuously, was in 1736 at which time many Palatines had settled west of the

of investigations and reports in regard to a number of pensioners of wars prior to 1840 for any person or organization, therefore it is not practicable to verify the list of forty four pensioners, sent by you, who resided in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1840 and inform you for what service they

Lancaster County felt the appeal and the position of Boston. It is also to be noted that here we have evidence to a small extent of the part the patriotic women of those times helped the "cause". Catharine Reigart, Mary Ferree, Anne Elizabeth Snyder, Elizabeth Graeff, Elizabeth Gross, Mrs. Henry Helmuth

creation of the county it is herein purposed to set forth the relations of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to the Province and later to the State of Pennsylvania and also to the Nation. We shall be able to show the remarkable service which this county contributed to province, state and nation, in our

(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

1835. It is "devoted to the preserva- tion of facts and every other kind of useful information respecting the state of Pennsylvania." Lancaster County was relatively more prominent among the various sec- tions of Pennsylvania in those days than it is today, and therefore the records of its activities