(or sections ofbooks) of most interest to Lancaster County historians are titled: Lancaster County Warrants, 1710-1742 (pages 567-939) Lancaster County Surveys, 1701-1740 (pages 2344-2746) Correspondence, 1683-1750 (pages 2747-3292) Miscellaneous documents and letters, 1672-1775 (pages 3293-3467) The

, at that time the leading hostelry in Lancaster. It was conducted by Mrs. Rosina Hubley, a most estimable woman.' Mrs. Hubley entertained the Baltimore committee so generously and with a lavish hospitality so fully in keeping with the best tra- ditions of the famous tavern, that on their return home

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE Having in Charge the Marking of the Site of the Postlethwaite Tavern Where the First Courts of Justice in Lancaster County Were Held To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical So- ciety: Your committee, appointed to com- memorate, in a suitable manner

speaking a saloon and beer-garden, and the matter of serving rooms and regular meals was abandoned after this portion of the property was purchased by Ben Mishler and Major Jere Rohrer after 1869-70. Two matters of interest in connection with the tavern were facts generally accepted as true though record

corner to the hill at Rock Hill, that that section was ever anything else but a few excellent farms. Yet, we all know that less than two cen- turies ago it was the most prominent place in what is now Lancaster county. Historians call it Postle- thwaite's, because John Postlethwaite had a tavern and a

The Grand Army of the Republic in Lancaster County by Glenn B. Knight It was early 1866 and the United States of America — now securely one nation again — was waking to the reality of recovery from war. In prior wars the care for the veteran warrior was the province of the family or the community

deeding it in several parts as follows: Christian Kieffer and Sarah his wife to Inland Insurance and Deposit Co. Deed dated March 31, 1855, Record Book K, Vol. 8, p. 27. Also by deed to David Longenecker, dated May 2, 1855. Recorded in Book I, Vol. 8, p. 469. Watt & Shand Sundry deeds at varying dates

of land in what is now Eastern Caer- narvon. The patent was entered on record on November 1, 1718, in Philadelphia, in Patent Book A A, Volume 1, page 376. On this land a saw mill was erected during 1718, and later, 1721, a grist mill. On April 1, 1741, part of this tract was deeded to John Jen- kins

various counties of the State, for the reason that they knew more about the necessities of the same. Boroughs were incorporated in the same way previous to this Act of Assembly, but since by the Court of Quarter Sessions. These Courts al- ways had the authority to establish and form new townships. Thus it