grandmother told her, tells us in her "Journal" that the farmers on the Susquehanna about 1730 did not de- pend on wheat and corn, but on hemp and hops to make a living. (See Journal Hist. Soc. Pa,) To tell the number of people who lived here when the county was or- ganized in 1729 is a difficult matter. In

Evolution of the Government of Lancaster: Village, Borough, City By John W" W" Loose, F"L.C"H"S" For the first dozen years of its existence Lancaster did not have a governing body of its own. Lancaster County's original townships were defined by the magistrates and citizens 9 June 1729, and were

): Courts--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Politics and government--To 1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1905/1906 Description: 416-430 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County

the life of the Court House—they were changed by law about the time the Court House was destroyed. Here, each autumn, for forty-five years, came together the Irish from the southern hills of our county, and the northwest- ern township, on, and far across the Susquehanna, for York county, Adams and

south, the midwest, the southwest, the far west, the northwest and southern Canada, by strong, clean migrations which set out in early and later days from Lancaster County, its contribution of able souls who were champions of some of the great constitu- tional principles of our federal government and

the Black Horse North Queen Street. The York County delegation lodged at Col. Francis Johnston's, but the location is not given. Thos. Campbell, Alex. Coheal, Alex. Turner and Wm. McPherson so lodged; and Yost Herbach and Jacob Hostetter lodged at Peter Byers' on King Street. Of the Cumberland County