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

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

Frontiers" 1790 to 1796. Lancaster County had part in all of these matters. Volume 5 is wholly made up of papers and documents on the Early Colonies on the Delaware, 1638 to 1643. Our Indian History and some of our early trade and trade routes, form part of this history. Volume 6 is wholly composed of "The

Early Local Historical Items. In the proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society for the month of October, 1907, and for the month of December, 1910, may be found lists of certain items of early Lancaster county history gleaned from the ,"American Weekly Mer- cury," the earliest