exiles were brought into Lancaster county through the passage of an Act of the Provincial Assembly. On February 20, 1756, a bill entitled " An Act for dis- persing the inhabitants of Nova Scotia imported into this Province into the sev- eral counties of Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester and Lancaster, and the

went in turns from the East to the West. There was an effort made to orga- nize an amateur press association in Lancaster county, and the subject was well ventilated in its several papers; but the project fell through, owing, in part, to slower communica- tion in 1877 than now existing, when trolley

who, what and whence of the Pre-Columbian dwellers, or the misnomered peoples, Indians, of Lancaster County / by Theodore L. Urban, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Indians of North America--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Delaware Indians--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster

. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: The American rifle / by prepared by Hon. W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820. Gunsmiths--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Rifles--History. Industries--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster

in 1719. He was an Indlan trader, and had sons, John, Thomas, William and Peter, all of whom were also Indian traders. He gave the farm at the river to his son William. In the summer of 1726, the Rev. James Anderson received a call from old Donegal Church, which he accepted, and located in the

Holland lands disposed of to actual settlers. In this connection I may introduce some facts of interest concerning an old watch, which was made for and was owned and carried by Joseph Elli- cott. It was brought to this county about twenty years ago by a drover from the West, who said it had been found

All Early Letter by Thaddeus Stems, In an address on "Thaddeus Stevens as a Country Lawyer," which I pre- pared sor the Pennsylvania State Bar Association last June, and subsequent- ly elaborated and illustrated sor publi- cation in the Lancaster County Histor- ical Society proceedings, I avowed

): Newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1907 Description: [175]-194 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 11, no. 5 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.11

building in this county, and the country et large. A New Highway Called For. The foregoing brief account of the early road making has been prepared as introductory to an attempt made by the people of this city and county in 1770 to have a new King's highway built between Lancaster and Philadel- phia, by a

buried at the Old Octoraro meeting house, Chester county. William Henry, in the fifteenth year of his age, was sent to Lancaster to learn the trade of a gunsmith with Matthew Roeser. He made Lancaster his home and soon became the head of a large es- tablishment for the manufacture of guns. His residence