political leaders of the province at Philadelphia. (Pa. Arch. 314). An- drew Galbraith this year had a hard political fight with John Wright and barely secured election, standing lowest in the vote. Had not Wright's friends used a ticket which could not be counted, because not correct in form, he might have

Eshleman, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Wright, John, 1667-1749. Courts--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Judges--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Columbia (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1910 Description: 251-282 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal

ground on which to erect a church building but we have no definite date as to when the first building was erected. No records give the early history of the church; baptisms, marriages and burials were not recorded until 1821, although there were minutes prior to this period. Robert Fulton's father led

%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank, 1869-1953. Title: Early local historical items / by H. Frank Eshleman, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): American Weekly Mercury (Philadelphia, Pa.) Newspapers--Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period

pestivious insects of the early days; John Banister (1680), a Virginian clergyman who wrote "Some Observations Concerning Insects"; Mark Catesby (1679-1749), the Englishman who wrote fluently, and was the first to illustrate American entomology; and Israel Acrelius, a Swede, who collected many insects which

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

--Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1907 Description: [281]-296 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical

. Their densest settled center was Lancaster County and their domain, early extended throughout the lower Susquehanna and upper Schuylkill and into parts of the Lehigh, Valleys. More- over, the seat of their central church government was established here in Conestoga where in 1727 they first adopted their