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

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

. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Washington, George, 1732-1799. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Valley Forge (Pa.)--History--18th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1928 Description: 74-87 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical

references to Lancaster County, from 1682 to 1750, noted in the Statutes at Large, the Colonial Records, the First Series of Pennsylvania Archives and the Votes of Assembly, to that date. Prior to the date of the Sesqui Centennial, July 4, 1926, our Society ought to bring to light all of our county's history

your land will fall and your advances to wealth be much slower ; for it is not altogether the goodness of the soil, but the number and in- dustry of the people that make a flourishing country.' (4 C. R. 315). Here he plainly says the prosperity of Pennsylvania was largely due to the Lancaster County

. Worner supplementary to series of H. Frank Eshleman. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Pennsylvania Packet and General Advertiser (newspaper) Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--1775-1865. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1926 Description

(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

COUNTY TAX IN 1774 In a volume of Lancaster County Miscellany among the manuscripts of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, are found the sums of taxes assessed against and collected from the several townships and the Boro of our County for Provincial and for County purposes in 1774

Susquehanna, at the place where he reached that river, and quite likely not in Pennsylvania or of course not in Lancaster County. (p. 79) He says (p. 79) that he perceived "that he was not very far from a town," but he "chose not to venture to it" and slept in the woods that night. �Early the next morning he

(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