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From: Dora Smith <>
Subject: Re: [PaDgo] Lancaster County
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 11:50:20 -0700 (PDT)


I'm a bit vague myself, and by now I should be
crystal clear. At one time, Philadelphia County
WAS Pennsylvania. I couldn't tell you how much
of Pennsylvania people thought of as existing at
that time. Then, I think, Bucks and Chester
Counties. Next, I THINK, Lancaster County. Then
Berks County, I think from Philadelphia, Chester
and Lancaster Counties. Meanwhile, at some
point, Delaware County was split off from Chester
County. Very late, not until nearly 1800,
Montgomery County was formed from, I think,
Philadelphia County, though it's easy to think
part of Berks County went to Montgomery County by
the time people overlapped that county line.

I could not speak to if the entire rest of
Pennsylvania was known as Lancaster County, or if
the entire rest of Pennsylvania was known or
thought about much at all, if all that territory
that today belongs to Pennsylvania and that I
think did so by the Revolutionarly War, belonged
to Pennsylvania in 1729, and if it was divided
into counties or belonged to any county.

Can anyone point to any map that shows just what
land was in Lancaster County when it formed in
1729?

Getting back to the Land over the Blue Mountain,
which honest to God was what they called it, it
was parcelled out to people after the French and
Indian War, I didn't catch if it belonged to any
county before Scuylkill and those counties were
created - though I think I've seen places taht
were tehre, described as in Lancaster County.

People referred me to maps that just called it
the land over the Blue Mountain. The Blue
Mountain is the easternmost of the long mountain
ridges that curve around southeastern
Pennsylvania.

I didn't know I needed to print out an entire
historical map of Pennsylvania an dput it on my
wall - but I guess I do.

Yours,
Dora


--- c r honaker <> wrote:
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> >Just keep in mind how much land was in
> Lancaster Co. in 1729 when it was
> formed. Everything west (and south) of Chester
> Co. If you could not afford
> to purchase land in Philadelphia you went west.
> <
>
> I thought Lancaster Co. was formed from Berks
> and Chester counties? Ray
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