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

COUNTY TAX IN 1774 In a volume of Lancaster County Miscellany among the manuscripts of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, are found the sums of taxes assessed against and collected from the several townships and the Boro of our County for Provincial and for County purposes in 1774

., Penn's Letter to John Wright in 1733. History of lands on Pequea and Lancaster County's involvement in the boundary dispute," indicate a few of the many items of Lancaster County History in this volume. Volume 8 is wholly made of Pennsylvania Marriages from 1750 to 1810; but it is limited to the records

expedition of 1758, died March 11, 1759, and was buried with military honors in Christ Church, Philadelphia, Pa., on the 14th. A full account of the procession appears in the Pennsylvania Gazette of March 15, 1759. (3 A. 579). IV. Lancaster County in the Pre-Revolutionary "Inter-Bellum" In this, the fourth

.)--History--17th century--Errors, inventions, etc. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1925 Description: 33-36 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 29, no. 3 Notes: Book entitled "Memoirs of an unfortunate young nobleman, returned from a

(d) FOUR GREAT SURVEYS IN LANCASTER COUNTY Among the Taylor Papers in the Manuscript Department of the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania, are found (with a great number of others) four great surveys of lands in Lancaster County, which may well challenge our interest and which are of great value