. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Witmer, Abraham. Bridges--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Conestoga Bridge (Lancaster, Pa.) Witmer's Bridge (Lancaster, Pa.) Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1916 Description: 155-174 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster

TheBeginningsofArtificialRoadsin Pennsylvania. Some time ago I came across an article published in the Pennsylvania Gazette of February 20, 1772, signed " Clericus." It indicated that the first move looking towards the building of a turnpike from Philadelphia to Lan- caster had originated among the

Tuesday in November next, all offices attached to the seat of (the) government of the State of Pennsylvania shall be removed to the Borough of Lancaster in the County of Lancaster by their respective holders, and shall after the first Tuesday in November next cease to be •exercised elsewhere, and shall

, pursuant to an order of the Board, was read in these words: "To the Honourable Patrick Gordon, Esqr., Lieut. Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania, in Council. "Whereas, upon the Petition of the Magistrates, Grand Jury and other In- habitants of the County of Lancaster, presented to the Governour in

, and he was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in June, 1786, and to practice before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on January 8, 1787. He began the practice of the law at Sun- bury, and then coming to Lancaster, he was admitted there at the May term of 1787. He was a delegate to the Constitutional

give to you the result of my inquiries concerning this subject. I know you will pardon all deficiencies. Dr. Julius F. Sachse, in his inter- esting article, entitled "Wayside Inns on the Lancaster Pike," published in volumes 21 and 22 of the proceedings of the Pennsylvania German Society, says that in

of Pennsylvania. EDWARD HAND. JOHN HUBLEY. PAUL LANTZINGER. MATTHIAS SLOUGH. ABRAHAM WITMER, �file:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Landis, Charles Israel, 1856-1932. Title: A list of the original Lancaster subscribers to the capital

no emigrants whom William Penn desired more ardently for his plantations on the Delaware and Susquehannah than the persecuted Huguenots, and many of them, even before reaching Eng- land, had heard of the advantages possessed by Pennsylvania through the statements which his agents circulated in all