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INTRODUCTORY. HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA FIRST SETTLERS ALONG THE DELAWARE – WILLIAM PENN – HIS EARLY DIFFICULTIES – DISSENSIONS IN THE COLONY – PENN’S SECOND VISIT TO THE PROVINCE – ACCESSION OF GOVERNOR KEITH – FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR – FRANKLIN’S MISSION TO ENGLAND – THE BOUNDARY LINE – STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE – CONVENTION OF 1787 … Read more
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This website is dedicated to Robert L. Kunkel About this Project This project was started by Julie Mayer when she spotted a sale on eBay of a “box” of obituaries pertaining to individuals in the eastern counties of Pennsylvania. These obituaries were collected by Robert L. Kunkel. Through the help of a number of individuals … Read more
Join the PA-Roots Team as a County Team Associate to help bring free genealogy resources to the internet! There are many opportunities for you to help PA-Roots grow and we are always excited to have new volunteers. Rather than focus on having a single person handle a single county, we are organizing our counties using … Read more
Readme First about Lookups LOOKUPS is a listing of sources with the person that has agreed to look up information for YOU. The SOURCE could be a personal book, library or other repository, but normally a book. When requesting a lookup PLEASE state your request clearly and limit the range, but submit as many requests … Read more
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus “Conewago Chapel” Edge Grove, Adams County, Pennsylvania CATHOLIC RECORDS: Baptism 1790 – 1890 Marriage 1796 – 1883 Death and Burial 1752 – 1979 Contact Kenneth W. Deatrick
Menallen Minutes, Marriages and Miscellany: Quaker Records 1780-1890 Menallen Minutes, Marriages and Miscellany: Quaker Records 1780-1890. Margaret B. Walmer. 1992. Heritage Books, Bowie, MD contact Gene Smith gsmithsan@aol.com
THE STORY of the Creation of Adams County, PENNSYLVANIA, And of the SELECTION OF GETTYSBURG As Its SEAT OF JUSTICE. An Address before the Historical Society of Adams County, on its First Anniversary, May 6, 1888. By HON. EDWARD McPHERSON, PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY. With Map of the Territory, Showing Lures, Roads, and Settlements. LANCASTER, … Read more
Lower Marsh Creek Cemetery This transcribed from the History of Adams County [1886]: Lower Marsh Creek or “Sanders’” burying ground, is located near the junction of Big and Little Marsh Creeks, in Highland Twp. The first burials date back to 1749, and the names of the aged people whose remains lie in the Lower Marsh … Read more