, vol. 1, p. 1S2. �visit of a white man to our great Sus- quehanna valley that is known. It will be a matter of curious in- terest to us, I trust, to know that nearly half a century before Penn ap- peared practically the whole of what is now Lancaster county was sold by the natives—first in 1637 to the

Pennsylvania (which included Delaware), Virginia (2) Col. Rec., Vol. 4, p. 698. (3) Mombert's History of Lancaster County, Ap., p. 68. (4) Mombert, p. 78, Ap. (5) Mombert, p. 67, Ap. (6) Mombert, p. 81, Ap. �(which included West Virginia) and Maryland to stand by them and their English King against the

Europe until at last the outlet to America was opened as the only avenue of escape in the dawn of the eighteenth century. �PART TWO. Who These Pioneers of Lancaster County Were and Where They Came From. These ancient Godly fathers who first took up their abode at Pequea, the earliest settlement within

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

have held to that view and doctrine considerably over 200 years, since here. In 1532, at Soffingen, Switzerland, the ancestors of our first settlers of Lancaster County, in reply to a command by the Swiss Government, that they must adhere to and support the State Church of Switzerland, declared that

Ferree's on King Street Thos Bull, Roger Kirk and Abiah Taylor at Peter Hoffnagle's on S. Queen Street The Lancaster County assemblymen lodgings: Jacob Strickler and Richard Keys at Mr. Barton's; Alex. Scott on East Orange Street; Daniel Buckley at Peter Hoffnagle's, and Jeremiah Brown and John Hopkins at

--Pennsylvania. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1910 Description: 293-300 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 14, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245

(a) LANCASTER COUNTY CONTRIBUTORS TO RELIEF OF BOSTON, 1774 Among the manuscripts in the Manuscript Department of the Library of the Pennsylvania Historical Society at Philadelphia in a Volume entitled "Lancaster County Miscellaneous Papers," pp. 5 and 7 appear the following documents: "We whose