Early Lancaster County History in the Provincial Records and Archives Read by Benj. B. Lippold (Original notes by H. Frank Eshleman) It is an old saying in the legal profession that the question is not so much what the law is, as it is where to find the law. It is also true of the undigested and

for ours, their descendants, pass down to us in tangible form the story of their lives and times. The student of our early local history is confronted all along the way with un- settled questions, matters merely hinted at and doubts without number, the solving of which will always re- main to vex and

Early Items of Lancaster County History A great deal of interest naturally attaches to the primitive affairs in our county and that is at present very rare—that is, because items have al- ready been written up. It is only by gathering up certain items that we can eventually expect to put together

. Worner supplementary to series of H. Frank Eshleman. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Pennsylvania Packet and General Advertiser (newspaper) Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--1775-1865. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1926 Description

early Columbia. But I assume that the general lines and outlines of that history are well known to you all. At any rate, a locality so long honored by the life and presence of a consummate and tireless historian as was your town, could not help having been informed of the lively past of all this region

account is copied from the Columbia Spy, to whom it was fur- nished, by "a highly respectable lady of the Society of Friends whose oppor- tunities for gathering facts, relating to the early history of the place have been numerous." Among the unusual points she makes are that the road to Lan- caster and

- ernment, to oaths, etc (do., pp. 265- 277). They early reached Northern Italy and the border of Switzerland (do., p. 279). About 1212 persecutions began to rage in Holland (do., p. 298), and at that time 108 Waldenses were burned in Strasburg, Germany (do.). Thus it raged throughout the thirteenth century

these were widely known, and most of Iii\� � them were connected with important events in her early history. The names and erection of a few of them may be Iii\� ,trJ, given : Hickory Tree, on East King street, 1722; Cross Keys, 1730; Lancaster County House, 1754; Shober's Iii\� I Hotel, 1757; Fountain