Europe until at last the outlet to America was opened as the only avenue of escape in the dawn of the eighteenth century. �PART TWO. Who These Pioneers of Lancaster County Were and Where They Came From. These ancient Godly fathers who first took up their abode at Pequea, the earliest settlement within

indexed as to names. Much Lancaster County History appears in it. Volume 2 contains "Old Proprietary Rights" and seems to be limited to land in and about Philadelphia. Volume 3 is made up of warrants for Islands in the Susquehanna River from 1793 to 1812; and of Donation Lands to Revolutionary Soldiers

corner of the Manor. 12 The Scotch-Irish who poured into Lancaster County from the New- castle region from 1720 on, finding most of the other fine land along the Pequea and Conestoga Creeks, either under cultivation by Swiss Mennonite settlers or owned by syndicates of Philadelphia and London land

application could construct from them a map of our county, in 1729, showing where all the inhabitants owning land lived at that time. The correspondence as to the early taking up of land, finding of min- erals, conflicts of claims, the move- ment and activities of the Indians, etc., is also preserved in the

just east of what is now Strasburg, in the Pequea Valley, where they purchased 10,000 acres of some of the choicest agricultural land in the province. This was the first permanent settlement in what is now Lancaster county. This colony, many of which were perse- cuted Swiss Mennonites, and French

Lancaster county and in bringing its name to the forefront, as the home of patriots, scholars and statesmen, than any other section of like extent or ter- ritory within our county's limits. Not only have they made the name of Lancaster county famous throughout the boundaries of our State, but its fame is

best road that leads from Phila- delphia to the Dutch settlements at Conestoga and Susquehanna, and is far more commodious for travelers, being dry, champion ground, and less injurious in ye said Valley than ye other road heretofore made use of." Here we have, in 1712, a statement that there was in use

. 170. �The Trade on the Susquehanna, as it existed about this time is discussed in Volume 2 p. 320. It there appears that agricultural products from Lancaster and other counties form a great part of the trade. The main trade however was exported from the upper counties. Union, Northumberland, Center

--Octorara Valley (Pa. and Md.)--History. Industries--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--19th century. Octoraro Creek (Pa. and Md.) Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1898-99 Description: [103]-113 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the

about. Ninety-one years were to elapse before Lancaster County was to come into being. The Swedish occupancy of the Delaware Valley continued for a period of seventeen years, and during that time, various purchases of land from the Indians included at least part of present Lancaster County. This fact is