Lancaster County in Province, State and Nation (A Bi-Centennial Review) By H. FRANK ESHLEMAN, Esq. L ANCASTER County has had a remarkable influence in prov- ince, state and nation, throughout our entire colonial and national life as a people. Since 1929 is the bi-centennal anni- versary of the

grandmother told her, tells us in her "Journal" that the farmers on the Susquehanna about 1730 did not de- pend on wheat and corn, but on hemp and hops to make a living. (See Journal Hist. Soc. Pa,) To tell the number of people who lived here when the county was or- ganized in 1729 is a difficult matter. In

): 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

documents, etc., they are treated here in a popular style and often interpreted so that their importance and bearing in the growth of this county may be more readily understood, and also so that they may be more interesting. In, brief then what shall follow is the substance of the record of our county's

.)--History--17th century. Pennsylvania--Politics and government--To 1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1910 Description: 301-309 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 14, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.14 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal

and hardship under the Swiss Government and gave a long list of brutalities (do.). And this was the condition when the emigration to the Pequea in our own county began in 1710. Through these centuries the non-re- sistant Protestant Christians lived their miserable lives in Switzerland and Central

POSTLETHWAITE'S WHY WAS POSTLETHWAITE'S CHOSEN AND THEN ABANDON- ED AS THE COUNTY SEAT OF LANCASTER COUNTY? Giving an authentic sketch of the conditions as they appeared here before the scenes were changed by the first Europeans. Also, brief sketches of the Susquehannock or Conestoga Indians, the

Early Items of Lancaster County History A great deal of interest naturally attaches to the primitive affairs in our county and that is at present very rare—that is, because items have al- ready been written up. It is only by gathering up certain items that we can eventually expect to put together

Schuylkill and enter Philadelphia in hordes (153); a list of the recruiting officers for Lancaster County (173); a commission on for- feited estates in our county (199); action against Little Britain's tumultuous election (110); remonstrances by Lancaster County inhabitants against a State Convention in 1779

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