Township in his book, "The Three Earls." One *From "History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," by Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans; published by Everts and Peck, Philadelphia, 1883; p. 310. The reference to "Heller's Lutheran Church" is not an error. What we now call Salem Reformed Church at Heller's, was

in this county has been important. In addition to tables and statistics quoted herein, the fact that tobacco was not raised on a typical Lancaster County farm during the first half of the nineteenth cen- tury is shown by the farm records of John Miller, of eastern Manheim Town- ship. These account

indebted to a number of persons and sources for aid in gathering the material for this study. Mr. M. Luther �Heisey and Miss Elizabeth C. Kieffer, of the Lancaster County Historical Society, have been especially helpful, Miss Kieffer secur- ing the interesting facts from the account books and minutes of

source of raw material for the 10 Lancaster County Historical Society Papers; "The Gap Copper Mines," R. J. Houston; Vol. I, No. 7. 11 History of Lancaster County, I. Daniel Rupp, Lancaster, Pa., 1844, p. 435. �manufacture of silk, fOr during the seventeenth and early eighteenth century she had been

several hundred thousand dollars constructing canals along the Susquehanna river. All this money was ex- pended for improvements in the river above Columbia. �50 THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY THE ACT OF 1806 The first legislative act, specifically designed to build a canal connecting Lancaster

grant and two thousand by purchase,—which she divided among the settlers. It is recorded that her grandson was the first white child born in the Pequea Valley. Lydia Moore Reynolds, the mother of Admiral Reynolds, traced her an- cestry to the Protestant Irish, who early settled in Lancaster county

by The Lancaster County Historical Society, not only to the city, but also to the county and to the state of Pennsylvania. The exercises were held Sunday afternoon, October 13, 1935, on South Lime Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and the tablet was placed on the property No. 46 South Lime Street

its most illustrious benefactor; Dr. John A. Schaeffer, president of this College; Alumni and friends: "The Lancaster County Historical Society, formed to investigate and per- petuate local history and tradition, has in time past marked with substantial tablets places of unusual historical interest