A History of Brewing in Lancaster County, Legal and Otherwise Charles O. Lynch and ]ohn Ward Willson Loose PREFACE Leaning against the doorway of his brewery for a moment of relaxation after carrying many pails of water from the nearby spring, Henry Dering let the cold, clear water of the stream

is alleged, are two or three centuries old, which is rather a ripe old age and one inviting respect if not reverence. Actually, the trees were planted about 1855. We have photographs which show the sturdy saplings about 1875. We happen to be tree-lovers, too, but history must be objective! Trees

Penn, Proprietor of the Colony of Pennsylvania, com- menced the organization of his new settlement in 1682 he erected three counties, Bucks, Philadelphia and Chester. Although boundary lines were far from precise it is known these three counties extended inland on a perpendicular line to the Delaware

many volumes of history. These Presbyterian frontiersmen were said to have conquered the wilds and Indians of Pennsylvania with their nervous trigger fingers grasping their trusty weap- ons, Bibles in their coat pockets, and flasks in their hip pockets! But the Irish who came here a century later to