exiles were brought into Lancaster county through the passage of an Act of the Provincial Assembly. On February 20, 1756, a bill entitled " An Act for dis- persing the inhabitants of Nova Scotia imported into this Province into the sev- eral counties of Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester and Lancaster, and the

who, what and whence of the Pre-Columbian dwellers, or the misnomered peoples, Indians, of Lancaster County / by Theodore L. Urban, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Indians of North America--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Delaware Indians--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster

buried at the Old Octoraro meeting house, Chester county. William Henry, in the fifteenth year of his age, was sent to Lancaster to learn the trade of a gunsmith with Matthew Roeser. He made Lancaster his home and soon became the head of a large es- tablishment for the manufacture of guns. His residence