Lancaster is not now known. Subsequent issues of local papers do not contain any ref- ferences to these gifted musicians. Contributions from Lancaster County for the Distressed Poor of Philadelphia During the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1797 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T various times, during its earlier

/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Title: Petition of sundry citizens of Cocalico presented to the County Commissioners in 1782, reporting their distress from tempest and flood. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Floods--Pennsylvania--Cocalico Township. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--1775-1865

- monwealth against the continuance of the speaking of German which threat- ened to make of the settlement a German colony? In 1741 the German and Swiss Mennonites of Lancaster County were represented to the provincial government of Pennsylvania as being " determined not to obey the lawful authority of

, and the Ameri- can Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge. It may be of interest to learn that an inhabitant of Lancaster county, James Wright, of Columbia, had the unique distinction of being a member of both organizations. On the 8th of April, 1768, he was elected a member of

map on which the streams of this section appear, names the Conestoga river Onestego river, doubtless from this Indian name the word Conestoga is derived. When Wm. Penn's colony located at Coaquannock (Philadelphia) (5) in 1682 this territory became a portion of Chester County, Pennsylvania. A decade