confusions concerning it have been that it was confused with what were more recently known as the frontier forts, forts which had been built along the frontier settlements of Pennsylvania by Europeans, the first of which were built about (1) 1723. Susquehannock Fort was a fortified Indian village of the

by a small creek. I men- tion this only to show that the Ster- rett ancestry lived in the western part of Lancaster county, around Donegal, as we all know, and in other sections. Chief Justice Sterrett, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, descended from them. In the issue of April 7, 1740, there is

longest stretch of all, between the New HoIland Pike and the river, except for short sections. But we can still Iocate it accurately enough by existing township lines, for when the magistrates and freeholders of the newly erected county of Lancaster met in the summer of 1729, to lay out townships, Peter's

among the English shires. Nor, indeed, that an English name was given to the new county that was carved out of Chester in 1729 and when, in 1730, the old vil- lage of Hickory Town was changed into the county seat, that both county and county seat should bear the name of Lancaster, familiar and dear to

--Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1907 Description: [281]-296 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical

HISTORICAL NOTES FROM THE RECORDS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA.--PART I. (By CHARLES E. KEMPER) The migration of families from Lancaster, Chester and adjoining coun- ties in southeastern Pennsylvania to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia commenced actually in 1737, but from 1740 to 1745 it was in

to 1750. (C. P. 395.) In 1751, John Ramsey drove cattle from Augusta County, Virginia, to Pennsylvania, and sold them there. Davis vs. Ramsey. On July 2, 1748, Rees Thomas, Carpenter, was a resident of Lancaster County, Pa. He moved to Augusta County and died there in 1751. See Ruddle vs. Thomas

Life of William, Penn. Philadelphia, 1852. Mombert's Authentic History of Lancaster County. Description of the Prov- ince, pp. 59-71; Frames of Government, pp. 16-45 Appendix. Pound, Arthur. The Penns of Pennsylvania and England. New York, 1932. Rupp's History of Lancaster and Y ork Counties. Lancaster

The First White Man In Pennsylvania and in Lancaster County. There are probably not a half-dozen persons in this audience who can name the first white man who set his feet on the soil that to-day constitutes the great State of Pennsylvania, And yet that comparatively unknown man had one of the most

Susquehanna and endeavored to persuade them to live at peace with the white settlers of Pennsylvania. It was at this time that Lancaster County rendered the most efficient service to the frontier settlements. The people of this county joined with those of the frontier counties of Pennsylvania in expressing