would never be the same. An Editor's Footnote To Abbeville In 1717 William Penn granted Hans Brubaker and Christian Hershey 1000 acres by the Little Conestoga Creek in Lancaster County, PA. On the southern portion Christian Stoneman in 1755 or John Stoner in 1756 built a small home. It measured 20 by 17

Pennsylvania. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 295 pp. Lord, A. C. 1975. "The Pre-Revolutionary Agriculture of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania." Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society 79: 23-42. Miller, F. K. 1936. "The Farmer at Work in Colonial Pennsylvania." Pennsylvania History 3: 115

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