HISTORY OF LAxNCASTER COUNTY. 



INTRODUCTORY PART: 



FROM THE EAKJLIBST 3ETTT.emf.NTS in PENNSYLVANIA, 



TO THE FIRST SETTLEMENTS MADE WITHIN THE 



PRESENT LIMITS OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 



CHAPTER I. 



Colonization, remarks on — Purchases made from the Aborigines — In New 

 England — By Calvert — By Roger Williams — By the Swedes — By Car- 

 teret— Penn follows their example — Early settlements on Delaware bay 

 and river — Swedes supplanted by the Dutch — Dutch triumph short — 

 Delaware taken possession of by the English— Penn purchases New 

 Castle. 



From History it is evident that the formation of Colo- 

 nies, which is among the oldest occurrences recorded, or 

 handed down by tradition, was owing to various causes, 

 and different circumstances. Perhaps the avaricious 

 desire of man as an individual to increase his possessions, 

 and collectively as a nation to enlarge his domains, by 

 extending the boundaries of empire, and to secure a 

 country acquired by the right of discovery, taken by 

 conquest, or otherwise obtained, is a leading, among 

 many causes, of colonization. 



Colonies have been the consequences from emigration, 

 and which was either owing to a great increase of popu- 

 lation at home, in a limited territory; or, produced by 

 "civil, as well as religious oppression. Phoenecia and 



