, 76. 17 Lancaster Intelligencer, May 12, 19, 1829. �great portion of Chester county will now depend upon Lancaster for shingles, boards, scantling, staves and heading, hoop-poles, etc . . . ."18 This editor's prophecy pertaining to Chester County soon became a reality. 19 During a little over one

, 131-139. 103 Lancaster County Taxables, 1800. See Chapter II for other agricultural tool manufactures. 104 Lancaster Borough Assessment, 1814. 105 Lancaster Intelligencer, May 19, 1829. It is difsicult to picture a wooden jackscrew, and the possibility that this was an iron tool must be recognized

- ter. Lotteries, although freely employed for religious, educational, and internal improvement puposes, were practically never used to raise manufacturing capital in Lancaster County during the period of this study. Stiegel's flint glass lottery, the only lottery organized and authorized on behalf of a

acres.1 On the south the county is bounded by the State of Maryland, on the east by Chester County, on the northeast by Berks County, on the northwest by Lebanon and Dauphin counties, and on the southwest by York County from which it is separated by the Susquehanna River. The region enjoys a highly