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

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

grandmother told her, tells us in her "Journal" that the farmers on the Susquehanna about 1730 did not de- pend on wheat and corn, but on hemp and hops to make a living. (See Journal Hist. Soc. Pa,) To tell the number of people who lived here when the county was or- ganized in 1729 is a difficult matter. In

THE ORIGINAL "TURTLE TAUBE" OF THE EPHRATA CLOISTERS The original manuscript of the "Turtle Taube" one of the most treasured documents in the world, written by the brethren in the Ephrata Cloisters more than a century and a half ago, has been turned over to the Congressional Library in Washington

Northampton. Volume 20 contains the same matter as to Cumberland. Volume 21, the same as to York. Volume 22, the same as to Bedford and Westmoreland. Volume 23 contains a variety of subjects: The Muster Rolls of the Pennsylvania Navy, occupy 192 pages; soldiers who served as rangers on the Frontier from 1778