REPORT ON THE TRUE CHARACTER, TIME AND PLACE OF THE FIRST REGULAR SETTLEMENT IN LANCASTER COUNTY. To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical So- ciety: Your Committee, after having given a great deal of attention to the subject referred to them, have decided to make report upon

head poll, upon single men of the second, third and fourth days of January 1726-27. INHABITANTS OF LANCASTER COUNTY IN 1726. Conestoga Taxables 259 Conestoga (Freeman) Taxables 22 Conestoga Head-rates Taxables 9 �Donegal Taxables 60 Donegal Freeman Taxables 3 Pequea Taxables 31 384x6-2304 people. The

our own local Lancaster County ancestors. �II. Our County's Introduction Of Intensive Agriculture Into The United States FROM the very beginning of permanent settlement in Lancaster County intensive agriculture was entered upon, on a large scale. The first settlers' application for land, was for

legislation--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1911 Description: 215-218 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 15, no. 7 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.15 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

The Birth of Lancaster County The earliest human beings who have left us any evidence of their residence in what is now Lancaster county were those ancient Indians who carved the pictures upon the rocks of the Susquehanna River and on the rocks in and about adjacent streams. The United States

Pennsylvania. To be sold by B. Franklin." In the issue of December 30, 1735, appears an item showing that the people of Lancaster county were, in common with the people generally in Pennsyl- vania, tired of paying quit rents. There is a notice which stands that the people of Lancaster county have not done