this spirit I have thought that you natives of old Lancaster county, with a full portion of this same modesty, may not be familiar with the influ- ence exerted by many of your heroic early citizens on the frontiers of our Province; how these brave men and women pushed out from old Lancaster, following

, ca. 1600-1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1913 Description: 123-137 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 17, no. 5 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.17

Wharton,the latter being at that time the Presi- dent of the Executive Council of the State, which was holding its sittings in the city of Lancaster, and because most of the parties referred to later on passed through the city and where their relatives and friends met them at their release. The story with

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movements of the Susquehannocks covering this period mainly through references from the Maryland Ar- chives and Jesuit Relations. As I did not have access to these, I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to the valuable work on Lancaster County Indian History recently pub- lished by H. Frank Eshleman for

out, and it deserves to be noted that a mill was built on it, which served as a township marker when Lancaster County was created in 1729. The mill at that time was operated by David Priest. Later, it was owned by Hans Brubaker of Lancaster Township, who bequeathed it to his son, Hans or John, Jr.67

The First White Man In Pennsylvania and in Lancaster County. There are probably not a half-dozen persons in this audience who can name the first white man who set his feet on the soil that to-day constitutes the great State of Pennsylvania, And yet that comparatively unknown man had one of the most

were taught gratuitously, and its doors were open to all. By an Act of Assembly it was required that the laws should be read in the schools." William Penn in the Conestoga Valley On the tablet erected in Manor Township by the Lancaster County His- torical Society, marking the site of Conestoga

M. Franklin, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Names, Geographical. Pennsylvania--Names. Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Names. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1898-99 Description: [45]-53 p. ; 23 cm. Series

Shenandoah Valley was Louis Michell, a Swiss, who ived in Chester Co., now Lancaster Co., Pa., in the period of 1706-7, as shown by the Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, in the month of February, 1707. See Vol. 3. He was acting on behalf of George Ritter and others, of berne, Switzerland