sole owners, in all sections, except in the southern, eastern and northwestern sections, of rather (and certainly com- paratively) small extent. Personal comments on the agriculture of Lancaster County about the end of the said century, similar to those which we have noticed about the end of the first

.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1925 Description: 23-32 p. 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 29, no. 3 Notes: Books entitled Statutes at Large, Colonial Records, First Series of Pennsylvania Archives, and Votes of

attitude towards the Revolutionary War. V. 16 p. 253. 1732 Quoting Smith's History of Pennsylvania, which seems to discuss the history of Quakers particularly we find it stated regarding the beginning of the Quaker sect in Lancaster County that "A meeting for worship every first and fifth day was held at

, Mrs. Charles Bohm and Barbara DeHuff, whose names appear on the list, have by their subscription shown their patriotism and have added a little part to that history still largely unwritten, namely the part the women played in the early life of our county and its history. It is worthy also of note that

) 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

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

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

our society's proceedings. At the time Mr. Samuel Evans wrote his history of our county, the assessments of several townships prior to 1750 were here, because he has copies of some of them in his book. But it is very probable that some of these lists were taken out for the printer of that work and