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

- tion at that date. On December 17, 1855, Emanuel Shaeffer, the President of the Lancaster Saving Institution, sold to "The Wabank House on the banks of the Conestoga, in the county of Lancaster," "all the estate, right, title, interest, property claim and de- �mend whatsoever the party of the first

/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921. Title: The oldest daily paper of Lancaster County / by F. R. Diffenderffer. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster Gazette (Lancaster, Pa.) American newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. German American newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster

. But that is not all. Our Lancaster printers were the most skillful of any in the State. I find, on page 161 of Tench Coxe's "View of the United States," published in 1794, this signifi- cant passage: "The first premium for excellency in printing was adjudged by the Pennsylvania Manufacturing So- ciety

Lancaster county before 1718, in Vol. 4, Statutes-at-Large, p. 147, the rec- ords of the great immigration of 1717 (German-Swiss Annals, p. 203, etc.,), and the assessment lists above refer- red to of 1718 to 1726, inclusive, are the chief of these source books. There are seventy names on the naturaliza

INDIAN TRIBES OF LANCASTER COUNTY. The names and the history of the In- dian tribes who have dwelt within the boundaries of Lancaster county during the historic period present a most prolific field for conjecture, doubt and confusion. I have within a week examined many pages of records and the

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

ITEMS IN THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE CONCERNING LANCASTER COUNTY. In the October number of 1907, the December number of 1910, and the May number of 1913, of the proceedings of this Society, I gave installments in consecutive order of local Lancaster county news from 1719 to 1746 found in the American