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

to the land on which to build the court house and prison in Lancaster, the commissioners, of course, holding the title in trust for the county (1 Pa. Arch., p. 252). August 5th the treas- urer of the province pays into his hands the 300 pounds lent to the coun- ty of Lancaster to build the last

to help quell the whiskey rebel- lion in western Pennsylvania. Refer- ence is made to this in the Pennsyl- vania Magazine of History and Biography. �His last visit was September 20 and 21, 1796, and there is not much known of it; it seems that he passed through Lancaster on that visit; but on his