...and the city of lancaster was laid out in 1729 in a tavern owned by my 5g grandfather GEORGE GIBSON called sign of the willow in what is now lancaster. if memory serves me correctly, it was gov hamilton who did the laying out. and this is off the top of my head but i think hamilton owned some lots and he was laying them out and then going to sell them? sounds just like modern day politicians, but then this is just memory so i could be all confused, sigh..... my GIBSON ancestors never got to centre county. they got as far as CUMBERLAND/PERRY shermans dale and stayed put. marcia marcia sandmeyer wilson 259 leonia ave. leonia, nj 07605 please check out my website: http://marciasandmeyerwilson.com On Jan 8, 2007, at 5:53 PM, Justin Kirk Houser wrote: > The three original counties in Pennsylvania were Bucks, Chester, and > Philadelphia Counties (1682). Lancaster County, the fourth county, > was created from Chester in 1729. > > At 04:33 PM 1/8/2007, you wrote: >> Lancaster County was one of the first three counties of PA. When it >> originated it was also a county with many Scots-Irish. So, it's >> important to keep in mind the time period in which one is >> searching. Back in the 1700's I think it might have been also >> considered a Scots-Irish county, or at least parts of it were. This >> was a surprise to me when I first started looking into my >> ancestors. I had always thought of Lancaster County as the >> "heartland" of the "Pennsylvania Dutch." That may be true now, but >> was maybe not always the case. >> Sue G. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACENTRE- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message