home in Pennsylvania, largely in Lancaster county. 2. Who These Pioneers of Lancas- ter County Settlement Were; and Where They Came From. 3. When They Began the Settle- ment of Lancaster County; and, 4. With Exactness, Where They First Settled in This County. PART ONE. The European Historical

Earliest Reformed Church in Lancaster County. The early history of Lancaster county gathers around its ancient churches. In colonial days, far more than at pre- sent, the church was the centre of so- cial life; and those who would study that life in its more recent develop- ments should not fail to

prominent part the Pennsylvania-Germans bore in the Civil War. Many names familiar to Lancaster county, notably Eshleman and Shenk, are found in the records of the Confederacy, where the story of their valor is recited. General �Roller paid a glowing tribute to these brave spirits. But, despite the cir

in 1730 Lancaster town- ship was of so little importance, that, although supervisors, overseers of the poor and constables were appointed in the fourteen other townships of the county, the number in proportion to their prominence, Lancaster township was the only one u2 in which no officers were

): Transportation--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History --Revolution, 1771-1783. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1916 Description: 333-345 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 19, no. 10 Call

creation of the county it is herein purposed to set forth the relations of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to the Province and later to the State of Pennsylvania and also to the Nation. We shall be able to show the remarkable service which this county contributed to province, state and nation, in our

number of splendid maps. Among them are: Map of Pennsylvania in 1681. Map of the 7200 acres of the Estaugh Tract in Lancaster County 1716. Map of 1490 acres along Conestoga 1760. Map (large map of Pennsylvania)—Scull's of 1759. Map—Reading Howell's Map, part of Pa., 1792. Map of Pennsylvania dated 1770

of investigations and reports in regard to a number of pensioners of wars prior to 1840 for any person or organization, therefore it is not practicable to verify the list of forty four pensioners, sent by you, who resided in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1840 and inform you for what service they

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

the whole of the history of those early times. The following items from the first two newspapers of Pennsylvania give us certain phases of the life and times of our remote ancestors here in Lancaster county: The character of the commerce be- tween Lancaster and Pennsylvania in the infancy of the