over to work it out. This man Rinne owned and operated a mill near Roland's Church, Lancaster County. He was one of the Committee of Observation, the purpose of which was to seek out those persons who maintained a traffic in goods of foreign origin to the detriment of local products. Early in the

chief burgess in 1759-1760. He was county treasurer from 1756 to 1762, and for some time a commissioner of the county. Living in the town during its early development, he bought up much land from the Hamiltons and from Samuel Bethel. In 1758 he bought from Isaac Whitelock, the Quaker, land constituting

, Researcher, of the Historical Society of York County, in a book store in York, Pa. In the Eby Family Bulletin, Number 4, edited by Franklin Stanton Aby, M.D., in 1924, we find the following statement on page 12, indicating the value the family historians placed upon this very Bible, and also showing the self

John Rohrer of Lancaster County Condensed from a paper by Albert L. Rohrer, of Maplewood, New Jersey. When one attempts to search the records of John Rohrer, he is at once confronted with a perplexing handicap, — there were three John Rohrers who were contemporaries in Lancaster County, Pa., and

government. Moreover, the Susquehanna Valley was populated heavily by Scot Presbyterians who viewed the Quaker-dominated provincial government with rebellious contempt. Clearly, any new county would have to be fitted with a local government and political structure that would accomplish two objectives: (1) it

Patterson-Andrews Genealogy About 1840 James Patterson An- drews, M. D., commenced a compila- tion of a genealogical register of the descendants of James and Mary (Montgomery) Patterson, founders of the Little Britain, Lancaster county, branch of the Patterson family, and also of the descendants of

would never be the same. An Editor's Footnote To Abbeville In 1717 William Penn granted Hans Brubaker and Christian Hershey 1000 acres by the Little Conestoga Creek in Lancaster County, PA. On the southern portion Christian Stoneman in 1755 or John Stoner in 1756 built a small home. It measured 20 by 17