Pequea Colony. We may add another word on this point which furnishes the strongest proof that the 1709 company which Guy brought over in his ship was not the Pequea colony, and that theie was not one of the Lancaster county names among them. Nor were the six remaining Mennonite families (whom �Jacob

Lancaster county before 1718, in Vol. 4, Statutes-at-Large, p. 147, the rec- ords of the great immigration of 1717 (German-Swiss Annals, p. 203, etc.,), and the assessment lists above refer- red to of 1718 to 1726, inclusive, are the chief of these source books. There are seventy names on the naturaliza

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

ITEMS IN THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE CONCERNING LANCASTER COUNTY. In the October number of 1907, the December number of 1910, and the May number of 1913, of the proceedings of this Society, I gave installments in consecutive order of local Lancaster county news from 1719 to 1746 found in the American

the whole of the history of those early times. The following items from the first two newspapers of Pennsylvania give us certain phases of the life and times of our remote ancestors here in Lancaster county: The character of the commerce be- tween Lancaster and Pennsylvania in the infancy of the

. (671) Benj. Loxley's report on his plant and equipment for making and bor- ing cannon is set forth page 682. Volume 2—Registry of Marriages in Pennsylvania from about 1740 to 1770 or later, appears in volume 2, covering 344 pages, and among them the records of the following Lancaster County ministers

The Political History and Development of Lancaster County's First Twenty Years, 1729-1749 Partisan political sentiment existed in Lancaster county at the time of its creation in 1729, the division of sentiment being on the very question of organizing the county. The econ- omical German-Swiss

p. 193. Before the Convention was held, there was a Provincial Conference of Committees on the subject of the Constitution for Pennsylvania, and for the Committee on the Lancaster County there were present at the meeting which met at Carpenter's Hall June 18, 1776, William Atlee, Esq., Lodowick

raised in 1745 by William Maxwell captain, and James Wilkins was its ensign. In 1747 the Pennsylvania people entered into "An Association For Defense" and several companies were formed. (5 C. R. 172). The Lancaster County Defenders were raised and organized in the west end of the county on Susquehanna

friends to tell him the Assembly think his commission is of no validity. - 3 C., 509. Border troubles stir Pennsylvania and Lancaster County. - 1 A., 370. The same subject also - 1 A., 366. Depositions on the boundary troubles. - 1 A., 396. 1734 James Mitchell appointed collector of the excise for