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- Lancaster County was officially established in 1729 out of Chester County. The first settlement began in 1709 and was established by Swiss Mennonites in 1710 around the area of present-day Willow Street.
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Feb 17, 2018 · Europeans settled from east to west, inhabiting land in parts of Chester County that later became Lancaster County, he said. Lancaster County officially became a county May 10, 1729, and...
Irish had already effected settlements as early as 17IO in present Chester County and were pressing forward to the Susquehanna.3 The first Scotch-Irish group settlements in Pennsylvania were made in the western part of Chester County, in Lancaster County, and in the southern part of Dauphin County, as we now know these districts, though they wer...
May 8, 2017 · RICHARD HERTZLER | Staff Photographer. Peter Leman was in the migration of 80 Mennonite families to Lancaster County in 1717. This 1728 survey of his Strasburg Township land is in the state ...
in southwestern Germany, and Moravians from Saxony, came to Lan caster County. German immigrants can be found settling next to Englishmen (for example, Salisbury Township), Welshmen (Caernarvon Township), or Scotch-Irish settlers (Donegal Township). Among the Germans it is possible to distinguish, for instance, between the 114
There was a burying ground there as early as 1716, showing that the frontier settlements had at that early period gone far beyond Lanc ster.(7)EDo eg l iv d f settlers in 1716, and seventy heads of families were located there prior to the erection of the county in 1729.
It was August 24, 1908. All around me lay a perfectly beautiful country with quaint old houses and barns, the latter built on hill-side like the Lancaster County Swisser barns. Each house had its pile of wood around it, and its pile of manure; but it also had flowers in the windows and in the garden.
Most of the early settlers of Lancaster County came from the Palatinate. This page lists those families among the early settlers of Lancaster County who were the ancestors of the persons to whom this web site is dedicated. Links will be created to these families as the web pages are created. 1710. Martin and Elizabeth (Bär) Kendig. 1712.
