con- siderable land on that side of the river, and his deed shows that he only acquired the tavern property on the west side on September 23, 1789. It is said, in Evans' and Ellis' History of Lancaster County, that he first pur- chased the land on which the tavern was built and afterwards, in 1789

Materials £.322. 13. 4. a mile, and the Labour of farming, placing and banking, &c., is about 9 d. per yard, which will be £.66 more, amounting in the whole, for Materials and Labour, to £.388. 13. 4., Sterling, for every mile of finished Road. But when we are speaking of Roads in Pennsylvania, I know it

Shawna Town, and the Indians kep pressing into his house & he unwilling that they should see what he was about, some he turned out, & others as they were coming in he pushed the door in their faces, upon which they were determined to take his Liquor, unless he would let them have it at the price settled

Bough, exhibited his account of the moneys received, as well from the line of stalls under the Mar- ket House to the butchers as from the Fair, £ 58. 13 s. 10% d., less his claim for building 108 stalls, etc., which amounted to £ 6. 1 s.; and about June 21, 1761, there is an entry that Isaac Whitelock

THE FIRST LONG TURNPIKE IN THE UNITED STATES. PART I. THE KING'S HIGHWAY. A HISTORY of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike seems to me to involve the whole early system of transportation in this Colony and State from Philadelphia to the West, and I have, therefore, concluded that the most

History of the District Court of the City and County of Lancaster, A history of the establishment and abolition of the District Court of the City and County of Lancaster may not be important to the present genera- tion, and it is easily ascertained by any one who is willing to make diligent search

present Bryn Mawr station of the Pennsylvania Railroad. John Downing became a tavern keeper about 1760; but after several years he quit that business, and was succeeded by Richard Cheyney. He kept tavern at the "Sign of the King in Arms." The Revolutionary Committee for Chester �county met at this place

stock of the Philadelphia Turnpike / by Charles I. Landis. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Roads--Pennsylvania--History. Stocks--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1918 Description: 93-100 p. ; 23 cm

. Kocherthal is to be found among the "Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York," Vol. 5, at page 52, and contains the following: "28th June, 1708. "The names, trades, etc., of the German Protestants to be settled at New York. Condition Sex Age "Names Trades of life Male Female Year