A RUNNING STORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY FROM HAZARD'S REGISTER (1613 to 1835) Compiled by H. FRANK ESHLEMAN, ESQ. Hazard's "Register of Pennsylvania" is a publication of sixteen volumes, containing about 400 pages each, published by Samuel Hazard of Philadelphia from Jan. 1828 to the end of December

also. The Presbyterians in early Lancaster County were also strong for religious liberty. They acted in a conspicuous way in 1739 to get rid of unnecessary legal forms and were the authors, in part, of the Presbyterian oath, which is an oath without kissing the Bible or laying the hand upon it and

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

(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

84 84 84 82 " 82 91 " 83 " 81 REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS LIVING IN LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, IN 1840 RAPHO Jacob Brown aged 85 MANHEIM Peter Maurer 83 WEST DONEGAL Peter Sheaffer EAST HEMPFIELD John Patterson WEST HEMPFIELD Isaac 0. Donnell ( ?) LANCASTER CITY John Riverson age not given Joseph

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

the bond. The people at Lancaster say we can do no harm. l have sent a line to Blunston to discharge Hendrick's goods. A Hamilton" (No. 3206) �"Phil. 16th of 2d mo. 1737. John Taylor: The proprietor has come to a resolution to settle about ten thousand acres of Conestogoe Manor and would like to speak

follows the shoemaking business as usual and hopes for a continuance of trade. He wants a heel and last maker—signed Philip Baker. We remember that Francis Bailey, in the issue of Oct. 18, 1775, adver- tised his Lancaster Almanac for 1776, which he printed near the market in King street. In the issue of

(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

arbitrary Statutes was the impious destruction of the Charter of Massachusetts Bay, could we sit tamely spectators of equal violence to our own country- men? Or in the glorious struggle for Freedom, could we deny to others their liberty of conscience? * (Letter sent by the Committee of Safety in Lancaster