documents--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History --18th century. Tax assessment--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History --18th century. Land grants--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History--18th century. Deeds--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History--18th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--18th

COUNTY TAX IN 1774 In a volume of Lancaster County Miscellany among the manuscripts of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, are found the sums of taxes assessed against and collected from the several townships and the Boro of our County for Provincial and for County purposes in 1774

. Petition of Ross and Caroll that Pennsylvania oppresses them. 1 A., 333 More border trouble. - 1 A., 335. Indian deed for land-it may effect Lancaster County. - 1 A., 344. The boundary troubles with Maryland. - 1 A., 347. The above found also -- 1 A. 394. When Lancaster County was organized; no one lived

). Lancaster county, in common -vita the rest of the prov- ince, complained of the hard times, and began to complain loudly against Penn's quit rents (3 V., 329). This year Lancaster county elected Andrew Douglass a member of its Board of Commissioners; and George Gibson, Andrew Work,Christian Stone- man, John

and, with that, concludes this subject. The first was in 1739 and it is re- ported as follows: "January 13, The Governor laid be- fore Council a petition from the in- habitants of the northeast side of the county of Lancaster, with a map of the province of Pennsylvania, pray- ing that

home in Pennsylvania, largely in Lancaster county. 2. Who These Pioneers of Lancas- ter County Settlement Were; and Where They Came From. 3. When They Began the Settle- ment of Lancaster County; and, 4. With Exactness, Where They First Settled in This County. PART ONE. The European Historical

came here in Lancaster County. When they turned to politics as they did about 1742, they swept everything before them. We assert again, they were equally potent with the Quaker in establishing religious liberty in Pennsylvania against the power of England, which early saw that religious liberty here at

.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1925 Description: 23-32 p. 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 29, no. 3 Notes: Books entitled Statutes at Large, Colonial Records, First Series of Pennsylvania Archives, and Votes of

--Pennsylvania. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1910 Description: 293-300 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 14, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245