Material: Book Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1909 Description: 55-79 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 13, no. 3 Call Number: 974.9

Indians, he says, were the Delawares. Lancaster county was clearly part of this grant. He also says other tribes had an Interest in the land, among others the Minquas, who "extended 93 miles into the in- terior of the country on to the Con- estoga and the Susquehanna, where they had a fort, etc." He says

' boundary were set in the ground and could be seen sixty years afterwards. Therefore, at this date there was fur trade between the Indians anti the whites in this section. �We see the Susquehannock Indians were the inhabitants of the lower part of what is now Lancaster county about and before the date last

.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1909 Description: [237]-254 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 13, no. 9 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.13 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

this date, in Docket No. 1, of the Quarter Sessions Court of Lancaster county, page 89, is set forth a petition of many of the inhab- itants of Lancaster county, setting forth that there had been a public road laid out from Gap to Conestogoe and had been for nearly twenty years past found very

genealogy and private life to show his public career in its true niche and to give it inter- pretation. I took the advice of a senior mem- ber of this society and inquired of Mr. B. F. Owen, of Reading, who is an authority on Thomas Edwards and on that section of early Lancaster county generally. Mr. Owen

): 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

Commissioners, empowered to erect Lancaster county, "shall purchase" a piece of land and erect "thereon a Court House, etc.," it appears that it was not completed for ten years later. Under date of No- vember 3, 1737, there is a record in the Commissioners' office that "The Com- missioners mett and considered

--Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1907 Description: [281]-296 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical