Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Papers Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society, Friday, January 7, 1921, Vol. 25: Awakening and Early Progress of the Pequea, Conestoga and Other Susquehanna Valley Settlements
This paper aims at two purposes. It is intended to set forth, (by means of the correspondence connected with the granting and selling of the orig inal tracts of land in our neighborhood) as much of the life and spirit of the first settlements here, 'as may be brought out and discovered, in that correspondence; to explain the location of the tracts of land to which the let ters refer, so that present owners may learn of the problems, conditions and circumstances attending tthe original grants in their line of title, and the true date of the first interest in the same, and the age of such tracts compar ed with other sections and tracts; to inform such present owners of the kind of person who first took up that land, and the purposes for which it was used and what part of the early community life it contributed; and to clothe, upon the skeleton history of the very earliest days of our splendid valleys, the flesh and blood, and thereby to add the life of that history, and to reveal something more of the character, aims and general community purposes of these earliest localities in our county, than is given in the bare records of title.
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