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

our own local Lancaster County ancestors. �II. Our County's Introduction Of Intensive Agriculture Into The United States FROM the very beginning of permanent settlement in Lancaster County intensive agriculture was entered upon, on a large scale. The first settlers' application for land, was for

present bounds of Lancaster County. Grubbs were distinguished for their industry and enterprise; they commenced operations in 1728." V. 8 p. 128. 1726 "First Settlemen of Columbia" Arthur Bradford writing in early days makes a brief statement of the settlement of Columbia and says that the facts he gives

The Political History and Development of Lancaster County's First Twenty Years, 1729-1749 Partisan political sentiment existed in Lancaster county at the time of its creation in 1729, the division of sentiment being on the very question of organizing the county. The econ- omical German-Swiss

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

) Rupp's History of Lancaster County, p. 41. �First Steps Taken By Penn. But a project looking toward a settlement and the organization of a county here on the Susquehanna was inaugurated by Penn as early as the year 1690. What was done towards this end is as follows: In the year 1690 Penn issued pro

.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1925 Description: 23-32 p. 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 29, no. 3 Notes: Books entitled Statutes at Large, Colonial Records, First Series of Pennsylvania Archives, and Votes of