LANCASTER IN 1772, The Lancaster County Historical So- ciety is indebted to the courtesy of Prof. Jacob N. Beam, of the Depart- ment of French, at Princeton Univer- sity, for the following extract from a notable pre-revolutionary diary, which will be found below. It has been deemed proper to give a

land in America was good and the price low, Mr. Cresswell reasoned that agriculture, being in its infant state there, could be greatly improved. Obtaining the consent of his parents to leave England, Nicholas went to Liverpool. He kept a diary from the time he left his parental home in Edale on

, pages 215-216.) Mr. Cresswell described the land in Lancaster county as being "good in general. Farmers rich and industrious. Irish and Dutch inhabitants." Under date of Monday, August 26th, 1776, the young English traveler made this entry in his diary: "Left the Duke of Cumberland, which is one of the