/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank, 1869-1953. Title: Items in the Pennsylvania Gazette concerning Lancaster County / by H. Frank Eshleman, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Pennsylvania gazette. Newspapers--Pennsylvania--History. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History

article gives the religious facts and history. V. 5 p. 331. 1730 Lancaster Town Laid Out In an article signed "Investigator" the origin and the laying out of Lan- caster Town is detailed. V. 8 p. 60. The writer states, "Governor Hamilton made an offer of two places one known as the "high plain" also by

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

. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Washington, George, 1732-1799. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Valley Forge (Pa.)--History--18th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1928 Description: 74-87 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical

, to meet in Lancaster, Pa. To prevent them from being captured by the British, the governmental documents and the small amount of money then in the treasury, were sent to Bethlehem in wagons, carefully guarded by troops. Shortly after midnight, September 18th, or, more correctly, very early on morning

church, Lancaster county, Pa.], fifty-seven miles." That night he lodged at • his kinsman's, Joseph Boude, in Lancaster. On August 8th he crossed the Susquehanna at Wright's Ferry, now Columbia, and at sundown reached Greber's, at York. On the evening of August 18th, 1766, he arrived at Fort Pitt. On

Lancaster in 1776 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MONG the rare books in the private library of the Hon. Charles I. Landis, President Judge of the Courts of Lancaster county and a for- mer president of the Lancaster County Historical Society, is one en- titled, "The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774

arrival. (See Beveridge vol. 2, page 351.) On the afternoon of Monday, June 25, he arrived in Lancaster, Pa., accord- ing to the following excerpt (which is a free trans l ation), copied from "Der Deutsche Porcupein und Lancaster Anzeigs Nachrichten" of Wednesday, June 27, 1798: "On Monday afternoon [Tune

erty. The inquiry arises whether this was the location of The Sign of the Two Highlandmen? Very likely it was, though Ross is named in 1779 as a merchant." Mr. Cresswell writes: "This [Lancaster] is a large town, but the situation is disagreeable between two hills, several good buildings and some