York County was created on August 19, 1749, from part of Lancaster County and named either 

for the Duke of York, an early patron of the Penn family, or for the city and shire of York in England.

 Its county seat is the city of York

(Abbreviated) Contents. - Volume I

CHAPTER I. CHAPTER XV. 

Organization of the County — Topography — Geol- Pennsylvania Line, Pulaski's Legion and Armand's 

ogy — The Indians i Legion at York — Quartermaster's Posts in 

York County 214 

CHAPTER II. 

Indian Conferences of 1721 and 1722— Keith's CHAPTER XVI. 

Newberry Tract 17 British and Hessian Prisoners — Baron and Bar- 

oness Riedesel at York 225 

CHAPTER III. 

Springettsbury Manor— Blunston's Licenses 35 CHAPTER XVII. 

Associators — Muster Rolls and Pensioners 242 

CHAPTER IV 

Border Troubles— The Chester County Plot— CHAPTER XVIII. 

Colonel Thomas Cresap 68 Continental Congress at York— First National 

Thanksgiving — A r t i c 1 e s of Confederation 

CHAPTER V. 

Adopted— Proceedings in 1778 288 

The Boundary Line — Digges' Choice — Manor of f^uATDTrD vtv 

Maske — The Temporary Line — Mason and 

Dixon's Line 68 Alliance with France — Death of Philip Living- 

ston — Baron Steuben at York — The Conway 

CHAPTER VI. 

Cabal— Gates-Wilkinson Duel— Members of 

Pioneers and Pioneer Life 98 Congress 313 

CHAPTER VII 

Early Highways— Roads, Ferries and Bridges 106 Whiskey Insurrection 340 

CHAPTER IX. 

The Scotch-Irish 128 

CHAPTER XII. 

Battle of Hanover— The Monument 425 

The Revolution — First York County Troops —

Long Island 157 

The Spanish- American War 451 

CHAPTER XIII. 

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CHAPTER VIIL CHAPTER XXI. 

Friends or Quakers 106 War of 1812— Rendezvous at York 341 

CHAPTER XXII. 

Mexican War — York County Soldiers 349 

CHAPTER XXIII

The Civil War— Camp Scott — Regimental Muster 

The Germans-Mennonites-German Baptists- Rolls-Confederate Invasions of 1862 and 1863 353 

Dutch and Huguenot Colony — Early Marriages 

and Baptisms 128 

CHAPTER XXIV. 

CHAPTER XXV. 

CHAPTER XXVII. 

The Flying Camp — Battles of Fort Washington, m ^ j at r a7 1 ^ 

„ ■ . i, . '^ ' Noted Men of York County 454 

I renton and Prmceton 177 

CHAPTER XXVIII 

CHAPTER XIV. „, „ , , ,, T, 

The Bench and the Bar 477 

Battles of Brandywine, Paoli, Germantown and 

Monmouth— Major John Clark— G e n e r a 1 

CHAPTER XXIX. 

Henry Miller — Colonel Thomas Hartley 191 The Medical Profession 515 

CHAPTER XXX. 

Educational 538 City of York— Military and Fire Department 780 

CHAPTER XXXI.. 

The Printing Press 549 City of York— Markets, Inns Hotels 794 

CHAPTER XXXII. 

Political — Post Offices — Census Reports 

Borough of Hanover 807 

CHAPTER XLVII. 

Slavery in York County — The Underground Rail- 

Cross Roads — Dallastown — D e It a — Dillsburg — 

Dover — East Prospect — Fawn Grove — Felton — 

CHAPTER XXXIV. 

Franklintown— Glen .Rock— Goldsboro— Jefifer- 

Turnpikes— Canals— Railroads— Telegraph — Tele- son— Lewisberry— Loganville 855 

phone 599 

CHAPTER XXXV. 

Manchester— New Freedom— Railroad— Red Lion 

Storms and Floods — Weather Observations 621 — Seven Valley — Shrewsbury — Spring Grove — 

 Stewartstown — Wellsville — Windsorville — 

Winterstown — Wrightsville — Yoe — York Ha- 

Distilling and Tobacco Culture 628 ven— York New Salem 896 

CHAPTER XXXV. 

City of York — Early History 633 

CHAPTER XLIX. 

Township History — Carroll — Chanceford — Codorus 

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

—Conewago— Dover 939 

City of York — Before and After iSoo 646 CHAPTER T 

CHAPTER XXXIX. 

Fairview— Fawn— Franklin— Heidelberg— Hellam— 

City of York— Religious History 676 Hopewell— Jackson— Lower Chanceford 966 

CHAPTER XL 

Emergency Troops — Confederates at York and 

Wrightsville — United States Hospital at York.. 402 

The French and Indian War 147 

CHAPTER LI. 

City of York— Schools, Societies, Libraries 724 Lower Windsor— Manchester and East Lancaester 

CHAPTER NTT — !Manheim — Monaghan — Newberry — North 

Codorus — Paradise — Peach Bottom 1008 

City of York — Visits of Famous Men 738 

CHAPTER XLII. 

City of York— Banks and Manufacuring 749 Penn— Shrewsbury— Springfield — Springgettsbury 

— Spring Garden — Warrington — Washington — 

CHAPTER XLIII. 

West Manchester— West Manheim— Windsor 

City of York — Public Enterprises 770 York 1058 

Illustrations,

Volume II - Biographical 

This volume embraces about 1,200 sketches of 19th-century York Countians. 

Most sketches include a variety of genealogical and biographical data.

 Colonial York County's prominence as a crucible for German, English, and Scotch-Irish immigrants accounts for this book's importance for genealogists with Pennsylvania origins