History of York County, Pennsylvania

Volume 1

 

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I.
Organization of the County — Topography — Geology — The Indians 1

CHAPTER II.
Indian Conferences of 1721 and 1722 — Keith's Newberry Tract 17

CHAPTER III.
Springettsbury Manor — Blunston's Licenses 35

CHAPTER IV.
Border Troubles — The Chester County Plot — Colonel Thomas Cresap 68

CHAPTER V.
The Boundary Line — Digges' Choice — Manor of Maske — The Temporary Line — Mason and Dixon's Line 68

CHAPTER VI.
Pioneers and Pioneer Life 98

CHAPTER VII.
Early Highways — Roads, Ferries and Bridges 106

CHAPTER VIII.
Friends or Quakers 106

CHAPTER IX.
The Scotch-Irish 128

CHAPTER X.
The Germans - Mennonites - German Baptists - Dutch and Huguenot Colony — Early Marriages and Baptisms 128

CHAPTER XI.
The French and Indian War 147

CHAPTER XII.
The Revolution — First York County Troops — Battles of Long Island 157

CHAPTER XIII.
The Flying Camp - Battle of Fort Washington, Trenton and Princeton 177

CHAPTER XIV.
Battles of Brandywine, Paoli, Germantown and Monmouth — Major John Clark — General Henry Miller — Colonel Thomas Hartley 191

CHAPTER XV.
Pennsylvania Line, Pulaski's Legion and Armand's Legion at York — Quartermaster's Posts in York County 214

CHAPTER XVI.
British and Hessian Prisoners — Baron and Baroness Riedesel at York 225

CHAPTER XVII.
Associators — Muster Rolls and Pensioners 242

CHAPTER XVIII.
Continental Congress at York— First National Thanksgiving — Articles of Confederation Adopted — Proceedings in 1778 288

CHAPTER XIX.
Alliance with France — Death of Philip Livingston — Baron Steuben at York — The Conway Cabal — Gates-Wilkinson Duel — Members of Congress 313

CHAPTER XX.
Whiskey Insurrection 340

CHAPTER XXI.
War of 1812 — Rendezvous at York 341

CHAPTER XXII.
Mexican War — York County Soldiers 349

CHAPTER XXIII.
The Civil War — Camp Scott — Regimental Muster Rolls-Confederate Invasions of 1862 and 1863 353

CHAPTER XXIV.
Emergency Troops — Confederates at York and Wrightsville — United States Hospital at York 402

CHAPTER XXV.
Battle of Hanover — The Monument 425

CHAPTER XXVI.
The Spanish-American War 451

CHAPTER XXVII.
Noted Men of York County 454

CHAPTER XXVIII.
The Bench and the Bar 477

CHAPTER XXIX.
The Medical Profession 515

CHAPTER XXX.
Educational 538

CHAPTER XXXI.
The Printing Press 549

CHAPTER XXXII.
Political — Post Offices — Census Reports 559

CHAPTER XXXIII.
Slavery in York County — The Underground Railroad 590

CHAPTER XXXIV.
Turnpikes — Canals — Railroads — Telegraph — Telephone 599

CHAPTER XXXV.
Storms and Floods — Weather Observations 621

CHAPTER XXXVI.
Distilling and Tobacco Culture 628

CHAPTER XXXVII.
City of York — Early History 633

CHAPTER XXXIII.
City of York — Before and After 1800 646

CHAPTER XXIX.
City of York - Religious History 676

CHAPTER XL.
City of York— Schools, Societies, Libraries 724

CHAPTER XLI.
City of York — Visits of Famous Men 738

CHAPTER XLII.
City of York— Banks and Manufacturing 749

CHAPTER XLIII.
City of York — Public Enterprises 770

CHAPTER XLIV.
City of York — Military and Fire Department 780

CHAPTER XLV.
City of York — Markets, Inns Hotels 794

CHAPTER XLVI.
Borough of Hanover 807

CHAPTER XLVII.
Cross Roads — Dallastown — Delta — Dillsburg — Dover — East Prospect — Fawn Grove — Felton — Franklintown — Glen Rock — Goldsboro — Jefferson — Lewisberry — Loganville 855

CHAPTER XLVIII.
Manchester — New Freedom — Railroad — Red Lion — Seven Valley — Shrewsbury — Spring Grove — Stewartstown — Wellsville — Windsorville — Winterstown — Wrightsville — Yoe — York Haven— York New Salem 896

CHAPTER XLIX.
Township History — Carroll — Chanceford — Codorus — Conewago — Dover 939

CHAPTER L.
Fairview — Fawn — Franklin — Heidelberg — Hellam — Hopewell — Jackson — Lower Chanceford 966

CHAPTER LI.
Lower Windsor— Manchester and East Manchester - Manheim — Monaghan — Newberry — North Codorus — Paradise — Peach Bottom 1008

CHAPTER LII.
Penn — Shrewsbury — Springfield — Springgettsbury — Spring Garden — Warrington — Washington — West Manchester — West Manheim — Windsor York 1058

 

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Chester, Bucks and Philadelphia were the three original counties established at the first settlement of the Province of Pennsylvania, under the direction of its founder, William Penn. These counties were organized within two months after the arrival of Penn in America, under the charter granted him by Charles II, King of England, March 4, 1681.