documents--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History --18th century. Tax assessment--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History --18th century. Land grants--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History--18th century. Deeds--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History--18th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--18th

creation of the county it is herein purposed to set forth the relations of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to the Province and later to the State of Pennsylvania and also to the Nation. We shall be able to show the remarkable service which this county contributed to province, state and nation, in our

tract sur- veyed by Amos Strettle, in Strasburg township, and by him subdivided. That purchase grew out of a 5,000- acre tract based upon a bargain (Re- corder's office—U., 108, and Rupp's Lancaster County, p. 77) with Penn. In his list in the same book (Appen- dix III., p. 436), Rupp mentions thirty

attitude towards the Revolutionary War. V. 16 p. 253. 1732 Quoting Smith's History of Pennsylvania, which seems to discuss the history of Quakers particularly we find it stated regarding the beginning of the Quaker sect in Lancaster County that "A meeting for worship every first and fifth day was held at

The Political History and Development of Lancaster County's First Twenty Years, 1729-1749 Partisan political sentiment existed in Lancaster county at the time of its creation in 1729, the division of sentiment being on the very question of organizing the county. The econ- omical German-Swiss

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

Material: Book Subject(s): Conestoga Turnpike (Pa.)--History. Roads--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Maps. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1908 Description: [215]-232 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal

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

): Courts--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Politics and government--To 1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1905/1906 Description: 416-430 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County

. Frank Eshleman, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Edwards, Thomas, 1673-1764. Judges--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1909 Description: [111]-127 p