History of Lancaster County: To Which Is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Early History of Pennsylvania (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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In collecting the materials necessary for compiling a History of Lancaster County, we sought access to every possible source of information, as far as our prescribed time and limited means admitted. Could we have anticipated half the difficulties we should encounter in prosecuting our researches, we would certainly have relinquished the undertaking. Although we had spent several months in search of materials, the collection was still far from being satisfactory to our ourselves, but owing to the Publisher's engagements, we were constrained to yield to his wishes and commence the arrangement of such materials as were on hand. To add to what was collected, we read, in less than one hundred days, upwards of ten thousand pages, opened correspondence with a number of gentlemen, in different parts of the county, called on scores of persons -on some ten times - who had fairly promised to collect facts, &c. - arranged the materials, re-wrote half the book twice, examined a portion of the proof sheets, now and then attended to business abroad, yet amidst all this "bustle and hurry," we aimed to trace facts to their sources; and these, it is confidently believed, are authentic.

Whether the best judgment has been exercised in the selection of the materials on hand, and the happiest arrangement adopted, is not for us to decide. We strove to make the fairest use of them. As to the diversity of style appearing in this book, we would here "interpose" the remark that, except in a few instances, the very words of authors quoted, and of contributors, were preserved. In general the usual marks of credit are given.

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