REPORT ON THE TRUE CHARACTER, TIME AND PLACE OF THE FIRST REGULAR SETTLEMENT IN LANCASTER COUNTY. To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical So- ciety: Your Committee, after having given a great deal of attention to the subject referred to them, have decided to make report upon

.)--History--17th century. Pennsylvania--Politics and government--To 1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1910 Description: 301-309 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 14, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.14 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal

source, the case from another, assembled and put their names on the clock and sold it to some personal friend whom they were able to secure as a customer. �The greater number of the clocks made in this county were from the shops of •the following weil-known men: Shreiners, of Lancaster; the Ebermans, of

Pequay." Some of those named as addresses are new and not on the assessment lists. In the issue of April 9, 1741, there is an account of a great local snow stors as follows: "We hear from Lancaster county that during the continuance of the great snow, which in general was more than three feet deep, great

, skins, etc., was set on fire by the bushes which were burning near the road. The hemp burned with such violence that it was with great difficulty that they saved the horses and wagon. They lost all their hemp, four bags of flour and six bags of provender." The returns of the Lancaster County election of

REPORT OF COMMITTER APPOINTED TO CONDUCT CELE- BRATION OF 200TH ANNIVER- SARY OF FIRST PERMANENT WHITE SETTLEMENT WITHIN BORDERS OF LANCASTER COUNTY: Laucaster, Pa., Oct. 7, 1910. To the President and Members of the Lancaster Couuty Historical So- ciety: Your committee, appointed to con- duct a

activity and art culture could be more profitably exercised at some early period than a practical study of the evolution of portraiture in Lancaster, accompanied by a pop- ular collection and exhibition of the numberless miniatures and portraits which adorn the households of this city and county, and whose

on behalf of the Lancaster County Historical Society present to this community and to this county the handsome monu- ment here erected to commemorate the momentous event that happened here one hundred and eighty-six years ago. This boulder, hewn from the rocks upon which these hills and slopes have

Lancaster county before 1718, in Vol. 4, Statutes-at-Large, p. 147, the rec- ords of the great immigration of 1717 (German-Swiss Annals, p. 203, etc.,), and the assessment lists above refer- red to of 1718 to 1726, inclusive, are the chief of these source books. There are seventy names on the naturaliza

or mulatto slaves for sale, or for his own family ser- vice, should, within three months, make an entry with the Collector of Customs in each county', and pay certain duties on the said slaves, and, where there is no Collector, to make return to the Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions and pay the

conscience of the church to its duty on the great question and appeal simply to the Supreme Ruler of the universe for the rectitude of their in- tention, as their fathers had done in that same city fifty-seven years be- fore. In a few years, as the growth of the anti-slavery sentiment in Lancaster county