maps made by Isaac and Jacob Taylor, surveyors for William Penn's sons; some letters and other correspondence of John Wright, Tobias Hendricks, Edmond Cartledge, Robert Barber, and a few others; a few early patents, title deeds and other land contracts; a few road petitions and proceedings; some anci

the fork of the Conestoga and Mill Creek, and John Cadwallader, all three preachers, died in Antigua, off Central America, and arc buried side by side there. The Pennsylvania Gazette of February 2, 1743, has an account of this. 7Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 30, p. 291. (8

CRESAP'S WAR The Lancaster County Border Struggle. Cresap's War was simply a series of campaigns beginning in 1735, in a struggle which at that time was about fifty years old—the border struggle between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The difficulty began as early as 1684, and was the chief cause which

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

records of early Pennsylvania. These records are the Col- onial Records, the Votes or Records of Assembly, the Statutes at Large, and the Pennsylvania Archives. These repositories of our local history, as well as of the local history of every section of Pennsylvania, in early times, not being adequately

EARLY LANCASTER TAX- ABLES--1754 r A document, entitled "The Return of the Borough of Lancaster, 1754," has just come to my hands. It has never been in print, and its contents are not recorded in any book of record in the Court House or elsewhere. It consists of five sheets of pa per, not bound

%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank, 1869-1953. Title: Early local historical items / by H. Frank Eshleman, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): American Weekly Mercury (Philadelphia, Pa.) Newspapers--Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period

--Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1907 Description: [281]-296 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical

�Bucks Countians lodged as follows: Isaac Van Horne at Nauman's and Ralph Stone and James Erwin at John Musser's corner of East Orange and Lime Streets and Gerardus Wynkoch at Judge Henry's. The Chester County legislators divided: Jos. Hemphill lodged at A Scott's on Orange Street; Jas. Hannum at

THE FIRST WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN LANCASTER CITY: A COM- PARISON WITH THE MALE VOTE; YOUTHFUL AND AGED VOTERS COMPARED By H. Frank Eshleman The local history which I present to you, herein, is only six years old. It is valuable, however, because of what it records generally, and also because it