REPORT OF COMMITTER APPOINTED TO CONDUCT CELE- BRATION OF 200TH ANNIVER- SARY OF FIRST PERMANENT WHITE SETTLEMENT WITHIN BORDERS OF LANCASTER COUNTY: Laucaster, Pa., Oct. 7, 1910. To the President and Members of the Lancaster Couuty Historical So- ciety: Your committee, appointed to con- duct a

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

Lancaster County and the Swedish Settlement on the Delaware By GEORGE L. HEIGES1 When the Swedish ships, "Kalmar Nyckel" and "Fogel Grip" cast anchor at the present site of Wilmington, Delaware, on the 8th day of April in the year 1638, the formation of Lancaster County was not even being dreamed

Britain (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) Fulton (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1913 Description: 138-151 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 17, no

Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster (Pa.)--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

recorded at Philadelphia, in Book A, Vol. 5, at page 275, etc. Lancaster was named after Lancas- ter, Capital of Lancashire county, England, the English town being named after the "House of Lancaster," which term was used to designate the line of kings immediately descended from John of Gaunt, fourth son