local history, it is evident that a needed service right now, is to index or digest the mass of historical data of our county so that those who wish to gather up and develop that history may find it a very easy matter to turn to such indices or digests in order to know where to find the historical mass

quarter of the century and toward the middle thereof, will give us another view of the intensive agriculture of this great county in the early times. I will there- fore give a few of them. In 1800 an authority replying to a list of questions as to where the place of greatest fertility in the United States

., 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

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

.)--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

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

issue of November 20th it is said that a report was afloat that 1,500 French and Indians had burnt Lancaster to the ground and were driving the inhabitants into captivity. The militia of New Castle County and Maryland were called out to meet the said Indians who were reported as marching on into

and Barbara DeHuff, whose names appear on the list, have by their subscription shown their patriotism and have added a little part to that history still largely unwritten, namely the part the women played in the early life of our county and its history. It is worthy also of note that the subscriptions