. 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

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

I. EXTRACTS FROM MORAVIAN DIARIES AT BETHLEHEM (Relating to Early Events in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) Made by Dr. John W. Jordan and Sent by Him to Hon. Charles I. Landis, at Lancaster, Pa. DIARY I. 1768 Feby. 12 Hopson & Henry with 2 other citizens settled a dispute with Mel- choir Schneieder and

, 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