. It may have been a thousand years ago. But that they lived here is certain, and the pictures prove .t. Next in order, before the earliest colonization of which history tells us—that at Jamestown, in 1607— there is some evidence of a temporary colony which may have extended into the territory now

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 history of Lancaster county, which bears his name, some of the earlier lists were in existence and likely seen by him,because on page 365, speaking of William Henry, he says that his name first appears on the as- sessment lists for Lancaster borough, in 1754, from which a fair inference arises

--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

not confirmed until 1721, and then only to Brandy- wine, This shows that the eastern end of the Old Conestoga Road, and may be several branches of it forming what is like a delta, was or were laid out as early as 1683 to 1690, and that �they all met in the neighborhood of Haverford or Bryn Mawr. 1693

was framed in our little Court House as well as the spontaneous ma- chinery for carrying it out. The re- sult of this meeting was a great meet- ing and uprising of the city and county two or three weeks later. (1) Rupp's History of Lancaster County, p. 372. �The People Speak Out. On the ninth of July

mana- ger, Colonel Wood, and get him to agree that Lincoln should make a short stop-over here. The Express of �February 14, 1861, says that, pursuant to this notice, a public meeting of the citizens was held in Stueben Hall. This hall was located, according to Mr. John F. Sehner, 82 years old, on the

where the present Manheim stands I cannot tell. If so, Manheim is as old as Lancaster as an early village.* Several os the parties litigant ap- pearing in these suits appear promi- nently in the pioneer history of the province and county about this time. Joshua Low, the first Coroner os the county