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From: Pete & Lois Wilson <>
Subject: [PALANCAS-L] Land Quality & Land Prices
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 08:33:09 -0400

Folks...

I would like to verify the folloowing quotation with specific examples:

"The principal mineral constituents of the soil of the lower
Lancaster county are silica, clay.
slate or argelite, micaeous earth, and serpentine, ingredients unaided
by fertilizers that are anything
else than favorable to an abundant yield of farm products. Hence it is
plain that our ancestors,
unaquainted with our modern fertilizers, were not so successful in
acquiring from the products of
the farm the accumulated wealth of their German neighbors, who had
anticipated the English and
Irish emigrant by settling to the north in fertile valleys of the Pequea
and Conestoga." ["Southern Lancaster County, " (Philadelphia Weekly
Press, June 21, 1872.)

I have the following information on one piece of land that is located in
southern Lancaster County (Colerain Twp.):

200+ acres sold for

(1)1,600 pounds in 1781 (Lancaster Co. Deeds Q:576]
(2) 500 pounds in 1797 [Lancaster Co. Deeds A-3:475]
(3) 800 pounds in 1809 [Lancaster Co. Deeds Z-3:400]

I would greatly appreciate it if you could provide the above information
on property in Pequea and Conestoga Twp. (sw of Lancaster City), or
other townships farther north during the same time period.

Regards,

Pete Wilson

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