. 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

.) Newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1908 Description: [71]-81 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 12, no. 2 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.12 Location

Society of Pennsylvania in Philadel- phia, in the Taylor Papers. They in- clude practically the whole county. Those ante-dating 1729 themselves make a good-sized list. In many cases five or ten, or even twenty-five separate tracts, are found in one con- nected draft. One who had the leisure and

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

years. She was a birth-right Quaker, but John West was not. He came to Pennsylvania in 1714, but only joined the Meeting about 1759. It is said by Harris, in his Biographical History, that Benjamin West came to Lancaster in 1749, and that, while there, at the suggestion of William Henry, he painted his

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

Pennsylvania in 1682. In 1684 he visited the Susque- hanna, and in 1685 wrote a glowing description of the fertility of this section. In 1690 Penn had a plan made out and a prospectus issued for the building of a second city like Philadelphia, on the Susquehanna, to be the capital town of a county which he

the whole of the history of those early times. The following items from the first two newspapers of Pennsylvania give us certain phases of the life and times of our remote ancestors here in Lancaster county: The character of the commerce be- tween Lancaster and Pennsylvania in the infancy of the