) 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

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

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

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, at one time the Court House for Lancaster county; and the eastern one of the two, the old Herr stone house, built in 1719, on the farm now occupied by David Huber, Jr., near Willow Street; farther east there may be several more, but I am not ac- quainted with their location. This ends all that we can

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

was framed in our little Court House as well as the spontaneous ma- chinery for carrying it out. The re- sult of this meeting was a great meet- ing and uprising of the city and county two or three weeks later. (1) Rupp's History of Lancaster County, p. 372. �The People Speak Out. On the ninth of July

Railroad Company showed its patrio- tic spirit by agreeing to transport all military bodies from Lancaster free. In the issue of the Express on the 18th of February, 1861, the time when Lincoln's train would pass through Lancaster is mentioned and it is stated that the train would arrive from Philadelphia