of the Lancaster County Historical Society, was help- ful on many occasions. Mr. John H. Engle kindly read and criticized the manu- script from a grammatical standpoint, and Miss Mary A. Stoner typed the final draft and offered valuable suggestions for its preparation. Among those who courteously

, hatters, wash, fish and tea kettles, bake-pans, sauce-pans, etc. etc. which he is determined to sell as low as any person can sell in Philadelphia, Lancaster, or elsewhere. PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE, July 14, 1771 Many of the German immigrants who came to Lancaster County during the eighteenth century were

Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, XVII, 455. 22 Coxe, Arts and Manufactures, pp. 62-63. 23 L. M. Bausman, Bibliography of Lancaster County, 1745-1912; Compendium of Sixth Census, p. 139. 24 Lancaster Journal, June 10. 1797, May 2, 1806. April 24, 1807, May 12, 1810, April 24, 1829; Lancaster Correspondent

- tures, pp. 58-59. 122 C. B. Trego, A Geography of Pennsylvania, p. 270. �This great increase in the productive capacity of the distilleries is to be accounted for by technological progress in the industry. Between 1805 and 1834 residents of Lancaster County alone were granted nine separate patents for