The Birth of Lancaster County The earliest human beings who have left us any evidence of their residence in what is now Lancaster county were those ancient Indians who carved the pictures upon the rocks of the Susquehanna River and on the rocks in and about adjacent streams. The United States

Sheriff of Baltimore an order to de- part to which he returned a threaten- ing answer, and in the afternoon marched to Barnett Weymor's where they lodged, and sent a message to Michael Tanner by his wife that they desired to see him. And upon his writing for the passport for himself and two of our people

--Pennsylvania. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1910 Description: 293-300 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 14, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245

(d) FOUR GREAT SURVEYS IN LANCASTER COUNTY Among the Taylor Papers in the Manuscript Department of the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania, are found (with a great number of others) four great surveys of lands in Lancaster County, which may well challenge our interest and which are of great value

inter- jacent lands and Travellers, leading from William Powel's Ferry on the Schuylkill, and passing by Haverford Meeting-house to ye principal part of Goshen Township, and thence contin- ued in a direct course to ye upper set- tlements on the Brandywine and do return the same with all its courses to

constitution for Pennsylvania. They complain of a great languor in our State at a time when great activity is needed to defend the United States. Also that Pennsylvania has become the rendezvous for the disaffected people of other parts of America because of its mild government. In the issue of June 18th

and Barbara DeHuff, whose names appear on the list, have by their subscription shown their patriotism and have added a little part to that history still largely unwritten, namely the part the women played in the early life of our county and its history. It is worthy also of note that the subscriptions

. Two-thirds of our Lancaster County people, and millions of people living in other parts of the United States can trace the beginning of their line in America to this list; and can fix Lancaster County as their first American ancestors' homes. Volume 18 is made up of the Pennsylvania Company's Claim to

quarter of the century and toward the middle thereof, will give us another view of the intensive agriculture of this great county in the early times. I will there- fore give a few of them. In 1800 an authority replying to a list of questions as to where the place of greatest fertility in the United States