county. But I wish to direct attention to another point. Lancaster was almost exclusively a German community in the last century, just as it has largely been in the present one. Read over the names of the men who have published papers in this city. Miller—and he was the first of all—Al- brecht, Lahti

-Irish--Pennsylvania. Historical markers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Donegal (Pa.)--History. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1899-1900 Description: [44]-62 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical

Author(s): Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921. Title: Lancaster in 1772 / by Rev. Dr. McClure. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): M'Clure, David, 1748-1820 --Diaries. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1900-1901 Description: [106

--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Debt--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1901-1902 Description: [3]-7 p. ; 23 cm. Series

The Early Settlement and Population of Lancaster County and City. It is to be regretted that our fathers and grandfathers were so indifferent to the important events of their time, to the many stirring scenes and occur- rences of that early period, as not to have put them on record for the in

. Diffenderffer. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1898-99 Description: 22 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 3, no. 1 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.3 Location: LCHSJL

Odds and Ends of Local History. It will be very generally conceded, I believe, that the four or five histories of Lancaster county which have been given to the public during the past sixty years have covered the field fairly well, both in their fullness of detail and their accuracy in the state

this paper. Every member of this Society knows that the first permanent settlement in Lancaster county was made in 1709, perhaps a year earlier, and that the population thereafter grew so rapidly that in 1729 enough people had come here to warrant a county organization with all the requisite county

never been published: George Reine's Estate. Inventory of goods and chattels taken at George Rhines, Miller, in Earl Township Lancaster County Feb- ruary 17th 1778 who fled from his �country and took refuge among the British Troops vizt.- In the front room upstairs 33 bush- els of Wheat To 1 bedstead 5

- tion at that date. On December 17, 1855, Emanuel Shaeffer, the President of the Lancaster Saving Institution, sold to "The Wabank House on the banks of the Conestoga, in the county of Lancaster," "all the estate, right, title, interest, property claim and de- �mend whatsoever the party of the first