) Rupp's History of Lancaster County, p. 41. �First Steps Taken By Penn. But a project looking toward a settlement and the organization of a county here on the Susquehanna was inaugurated by Penn as early as the year 1690. What was done towards this end is as follows: In the year 1690 Penn issued pro

officers spoke to him very fair and endeavored to persuade him to go down to the Governor or at least to write, both of which he refused. They told him if the Dutch would return to their duty they should have better treatment, for their failure their taxes this year should be remitted and they should not

the whole of the history of those early times. The following items from the first two newspapers of Pennsylvania give us certain phases of the life and times of our remote ancestors here in Lancaster county: The character of the commerce be- tween Lancaster and Pennsylvania in the infancy of the

(d) FOUR GREAT SURVEYS IN LANCASTER COUNTY Among the Taylor Papers in the Manuscript Department of the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania, are found (with a great number of others) four great surveys of lands in Lancaster County, which may well challenge our interest and which are of great value

were settled by Cymric Quakers in 1682, and quotes Proud, saying that the Welsh took up the said two townships and also Mer- ion, and a little later settled three townships more, Newtown, Goshen and Uwchland (See page 38). He says that the first settlement in Mer- ion was made by Dr. Edward Reese and a

reminded by an ad- vertisement in the same issue just cited, in which Christian Wertz offers $300 for return of his negro Dan, who ran away. It is dated Lancaster, August 14, 1779. The Lancaster County election returns appear in the issue of October 27. Those returned for Assembly are: James Anderson

a volume of Lancaster County Miscellany among the manuscripts of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, are found the sums of taxes assessed against and collected from the several townships and the Boro of our County for Provincial and for County purposes in 1774. Provincial Tax

.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1925 Description: 23-32 p. 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 29, no. 3 Notes: Books entitled Statutes at Large, Colonial Records, First Series of Pennsylvania Archives, and Votes of

. Their densest settled center was Lancaster County and their domain, early extended throughout the lower Susquehanna and upper Schuylkill and into parts of the Lehigh, Valleys. More- over, the seat of their central church government was established here in Conestoga where in 1727 they first adopted their