Representatives of the Freemen of the said Pro- 1 Miscellaneous Papers, Lancaster County, 1724-1772, Vol. 1, p. 157. �vince, in General Assembly met : The Petition of the Burgesses, Assistants, and other Inhabitants of the Borough of Lancaster "Most humbly sheweth, "That your petitioners did, sometime in the

, John Clement, 1876-1940. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--1775-1865. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 3-5 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 1

10th, 1750. (See Penn- sylvania Archives, Second Series, Vol. XVII, page 324.) For nearly four years he resided in Providence, Pa., as schoolmaster, and as organist of St. Au- gustine's German Church. Mittelberger described Pennsylvania as being "a healthy land. . . . It is quite populous, too

event occurred in the neighborhood of Washington Borough, Lancaster County, Pa., which placed the then prevailing custom of dueling even in a more criminal light than usual. A citizen of Columbia and another of Washington Borough met at a public place and engaged in an argument, which became so heated

DATE ON STATE HIGHWAY SIGNS CORRECTED By William Frederic Worner Students of our local history know that on May 2nd, 1729, the county of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, was created by the Lieutenant Governor, Patrick Gordon, and his council. By an Act of Assembly, passed May 10th, 1729, it was