Material: Book Subject(s): Conestoga Turnpike (Pa.)--History. Roads--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Maps. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1908 Description: [215]-232 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal

your land will fall and your advances to wealth be much slower ; for it is not altogether the goodness of the soil, but the number and in- dustry of the people that make a flourishing country.' (4 C. R. 315). Here he plainly says the prosperity of Pennsylvania was largely due to the Lancaster County

attitude towards the Revolutionary War. V. 16 p. 253. 1732 Quoting Smith's History of Pennsylvania, which seems to discuss the history of Quakers particularly we find it stated regarding the beginning of the Quaker sect in Lancaster County that "A meeting for worship every first and fifth day was held at

for killing a man. - 4 C., 255. More border troubles with Maryland. - 4 C., 256. Unruly Indians come to a home in Conestoga and demand liquor. Threaten lives if refused. - 1 A., 547. 1738 Lancaster County elections returns, see - 3 V., 319. Governor Thomas says the prosperity of Pennsylvania is

more. The land to which he was entitled in these war- rants he had located on both sides of the Conestoga Creek in one tract, near the head of the creek, in the neighborhood of Spring Grove. now Earl township, Lancaster county. (See Taylor papers, Pennsylvania Histor- ical Society.) He built his house

): Courts--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Politics and government--To 1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1905/1906 Description: 416-430 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County

' History of Lan- caster County, 202. (3) Statutes at Large, Vol. 4, page 133, Sec. 7. (1) Statutes at Large, Vol. 4, page 152, Sec. 2. (2) Statutes at Large, Vol. 4, p. 131. (3) Laws of Pa., Chap. 1171, Vol. 3. �A Picture of Those Early Times. What annual scenes these were! They began at the beginning of