REPORT ON THE TRUE CHARACTER, TIME AND PLACE OF THE FIRST REGULAR SETTLEMENT IN LANCASTER COUNTY. To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical So- ciety: Your Committee, after having given a great deal of attention to the subject referred to them, have decided to make report upon

same subject and also an index of the matter included in both volumes. The scope is from 1775 to 1781. Volume 12 consists wholly of War of 1812 History and contains the rolls of volunteers. An index adds to the value of this volume. Lancaster County figures more largely than we would suppose. Volume 13

account of it in 1755. It smouldered along 35 years and another civil war broke out because of oppression upon the Catholics. In New York, New Hampshire, Delaware, the Carolinas and Georgia, religious freedom did not come to the front. It was a subordinate matter to them in early days. Next to

Governor, and this was another reason why anyone • desiring or holding office, any one in politics, should flock to the sup- port of a man who stood so close to so much appointive power as did James Tin ilton. Here at Lancaster, too, James Ham- ilton was making a new fame all his own. He was not a lawyer

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

(a) LANCASTER COUNTY CONTRIBUTORS TO RELIEF OF BOSTON, 1774 Among the manuscripts in the Manuscript Department of the Library of the Pennsylvania Historical Society at Philadelphia in a Volume entitled "Lancaster County Miscellaneous Papers," pp. 5 and 7 appear the following documents: "We whose

of Conestoga, for a warrant for these men, but he says the justice only made sport of him, and told him he could not expect any fa- vors in Lancaster county (do. 313). He also charged that John Cartledge offered a reward to any one who would burn Cresap's house, and drive him and his family south (do

Lancaster county, about 1526. About that time, John Fiske tells us, Lucas Vasquez d'Ayllon came from Hispaniola, and "tried the Chesapeake Bay" in search of the northwest passage, and "ob- tained a grant and began to build a town."' But that town was likely south of the Pennsylvania line. Then next, about

, Mrs. Charles Bohm 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