Early Lancaster County History in the Provincial Records and Archives Read by Benj. B. Lippold (Original notes by H. Frank Eshleman) It is an old saying in the legal profession that the question is not so much what the law is, as it is where to find the law. It is also true of the undigested and

. First Mention of Lancaster County Names. In the first half of the fourteenth century Germany and Austria were the theatre or field of slaughter, and here Lancaster county names first appear. In 1340 Conrad Hager was killed, and also an Eckart or Eck- hard; in 1360 a John de Landuno (whether Landis or

addition to the items supra, on Ephrata we note that a series of Rev. Peter Miller's letters are set forth dated 1772 to 1790 in which he gives a great deal of interesting history of the Ephrata monastic sect and corrects several errors concernin them, and especially erroneous propaganda concern- ing their

) Rupp's History of Lancaster County, p. 41. �First Steps Taken By Penn. But a project looking toward a settlement and the organization of a county here on the Susquehanna was inaugurated by Penn as early as the year 1690. What was done towards this end is as follows: In the year 1690 Penn issued pro

%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank, 1869-1953. Title: Lancaster County history in the several series of the Pennsylvania archives and other provincial and state source books / by H. Frank Eshleman. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster County (Pa