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From: "James L. Stokes" <>
Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] Re: What does "old Lancaster" refer to?
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 08:09:26 -0400
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The area of dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania is largely in
Pennsylvania. Maryland claimed the boundry was the 40th parallel which
roughly equivalent to where 741 and Long Lane cross Lancaster County,
everything south of that, including my house would be in Maryland. The
boundry today is where Penn thought it should be. Cresap's War was the last
effort by Maryland to establish the boundry where they thought it should be,
Thomas Cresap built his fort along the 40th Parallel in York County at Blue
Rock in the 1730s but was deposed by people from Lancaster County. There
were few settlers in York County at that time but Maryland hoped to settle
lower York County with Marylanders.

Jim
Conestoga Area Historical Society
http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacahs/index.htm


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peggy Reeves" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 4:23 PM
Subject: [PALANCAS] Re: What does "old Lancaster" refer to?


> There were other counties, besides Dauphin and Lebanon, that were formed
out
> of Lancaster County. York County, which borders Maryland, was part of
> Lancaster before 1748. The boundary between MD and PA was not settled
until
> the Mason and Dixon survey, 1763-1767. Pennsylvania claimed parts of what
> is now MD.
>
> York County, PA (once considered Lancaster Co.), borders Baltimore County,
> MD. My guess is that the Grubb family, who lived in Baltimore, might have
> been living in that same place for a long time, which they considered to
be
> part of Lancaster Co., PA. After the boundary dispute was settled with
the
> Mason-Dixon survey, they found themselves living in MD, and thus wrote
"born
> in old Lancaster" because they had always lived in the same place but
didn't
> quite know what to write in the family Bible as far as location was
> concerned.
>
> For whatever it's worth, that's my guess.
>
> Peggy Reeves
> Burtonsville, MD
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James L. Stokes" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 10:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] What does "old Lancaster" refer to?
>
>
> > There is no meaning to the term Old other than affection. Peter
Grubb
> > was from Warwick Twp. so its not a reference to pre 1785 Lancaster
County
> > (when Dauphin and Lebanon Counties were part of Lancaster County. There
> may
> > have been other Peter Grubbs.
> >
> > Jim
> > Conestoga Area Historical Society
> > http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacahs/index.htm
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Anne Kane" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 2:14 AM
> > Subject: [PALANCAS] What does "old Lancaster" refer to?
> >
> >
> > > A bible entry says that Jacob GRUBB was "born in old Lancaster" in
1777,
> > and
> > > an interment record for his sister said that she was born in "old
> > Lancaster"
> > > in 1790. Does that term have a special meaning? The 1790 census
lists
> > > Peter GRUBB, their father, in Baltimore City, Maryland.
> > >
> > >
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