Items of Local Interest from the Pennsylvania Gazette, from 1761 to 1770.1 BY H. FRANK ESHLEMAN, ESQ. 1761. The issue of January 15 recites that the French garrison at Detroit are at Lancaster, on their way to Philadelphia and also a number of the people that were prisoners there, are also in the

available bound ssues of the Pennsylvania Ga- zette from June 20, 1778, to the end of the year and therefore I have made search of the files of the Pennsylvania Evening Post to supply the ommission of notes of local importance which results because the said numbers of the Gazette are missing. There are not

. 200. In 1777-8 the Pennsylvania Packet or General Advertiser was published at Lancaster having been removed from Philadelphia upon entering of the British. V. 1 p. 173. 1778 Two Governors were buried in Lancaster, Governor Wharton and Gov- ernor Mifflin. May 27, 1778 Gov. Wharton was buried there and

of Indians." In the issue of June 5, it is stated : " We hear from Wills Creek that the wagons and horses lately contracted for in the county of Lancaster, York and Cumbcrland Counties were safely arrived at the camp and gave great satisfaction to the General and the other officers, being for the

ITEMS IN THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE CONCERNING LANCASTER COUNTY. In the October number of 1907, the December number of 1910, and the May number of 1913, of the proceedings of this Society, I gave installments in consecutive order of local Lancaster county news from 1719 to 1746 found in the American

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

; 19-E. & E.-42; 20-Do. 43-45; 21-Do. 46. �tered at Valley Forge; marched out from there with Washington in June, 1778, and fought in the Battle of Monmouth. Many of them also followed the later fortunes of war to the end, in the south, with Wayne and other leaders. Conspicuous among the Lancaster

(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