REPORT ON THE TRUE CHARACTER, TIME AND PLACE OF THE FIRST REGULAR SETTLEMENT IN LANCASTER COUNTY. To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical So- ciety: Your Committee, after having given a great deal of attention to the subject referred to them, have decided to make report upon

imparlance he was limited in defense to making a persect answer and could not throw the plaintiff out of Court on a tech- nicality. It is a little surprising to observe that this very first suit entered in �Lancaster county was brought by one whose name very strongly pro- claims him a member of a family

majority of the Six Nations of In- dians at the Court House to inquire (1) Pa. Archives, 1748-1756, p. 242. �why two tribes of the Six Nations—the Shawonese and Delawares—had for- gotten their treaty obligations. The Governor in his report of the meeting, which he sent to Councils at Philadel- phia, is

. Their densest settled center was Lancaster County and their domain, early extended throughout the lower Susquehanna and upper Schuylkill and into parts of the Lehigh, Valleys. More- over, the seat of their central church government was established here in Conestoga where in 1727 they first adopted their

its lots; no lots were, therefore, sold to any large amount; but settlers were encourag- ed to build and receive a lot, paying an annual ground rent—hence, the large number of poor persons who were induced to settle in Lancaster. The Lancaster Town was, therefore, too large at an early date in propor

1607-8, both Henry Hudson and Captain John Smith were very near what is now Lancaster county; but, perhaps, not 'United States Report on Ethnology, 1582-3, p. 47. ²Fisk's Discovery of America, vol. 2, p. 490. �in it. The former ran aground at the upper end of Delaware Bay, as he tells us in his log or

their duty in this respect, and that the receiver general will sit at Lancaster town from 26th to 31st next to re- �cover the arrears; and persons owing are warned to pay up or if they fail measures will be pursued that will entail expense. The prevalence of "lotteries" in Lancaster county as well as

--Pennsylvania. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1910 Description: 293-300 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 14, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245