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

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

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

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

CRESAP'S WAR The Lancaster County Border Struggle. Cresap's War was simply a series of campaigns beginning in 1735, in a struggle which at that time was about fifty years old—the border struggle between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The difficulty began as early as 1684, and was the chief cause which

Lancaster County felt the appeal and the position of Boston. It is also to be noted that here we have evidence to a small extent of the part the patriotic women of those times helped the "cause". Catharine Reigart, Mary Ferree, Anne Elizabeth Snyder, Elizabeth Graeff, Elizabeth Gross, Mrs. Henry Helmuth

- wards turned out, yet there evidently were many more such petitions, likely one in each township, because, as we notice in the list given, Jacob Erb, after giving one pound notes that he has subscribed on his township list. This will enable us to understand the extent the people of Lancaster County felt