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===Diversity of settlers=== [[File:ThaddeusStevens.gif|thumb|Lithograph of [[Thaddeus Stevens]]]] The names of the original Lancaster County townships reflect the diverse national origins of settlers in the new county:<ref>[http://www.pa-roots.com/~lancaster/maps/townships.html Lancaster County Townships] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061018185257/http://www.pa-roots.com/~lancaster/maps/townships.html |date=October 18, 2006 }}. Pa-roots.com. Retrieved December 23, 2010.</ref> two had Welsh names ([[Caernarvon Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|Caernarvon]] and [[East Lampeter Township, Pennsylvania|Lampeter]]), three had Native American names ([[East Cocalico Township, Pennsylvania|Cocalico]], [[Conestoga Township, Pennsylvania|Conestoga]] and Peshtank or Paxton), six were English ([[Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|Warwick]], [[Lancaster Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|Lancaster]], [[Martic Township, Pennsylvania|Martic]], [[Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|Sadsbury]], [[Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|Salisbury]] and [[East Hempfield Township, Pennsylvania|Hempfield]]); four were Irish ([[East Donegal Township, Pennsylvania|Donegal]], [[East Drumore Township, Pennsylvania|Drumore]], [[Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania|Derry]], and [[Leacock Township, Pennsylvania|Leacock]]), reflecting mostly [[Scotch-Irish Americans|Scots-Irish]] (or [[Ulster Scots people|Ulster Scots]]) from [[Ulster]], a [[Provinces of Ireland|province]] in the north of Ireland; [[Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|Manheim]] was German, [[South Lebanon Township, Pennsylvania|Lebanon]] came from the Bible, a basis of all the European cultures; and [[Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|Earl]] was a translation of the German surname of [[Graf]] or Groff.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080105062438/http://www.lancasterhistory.org/education/lancastercounty.html Lancaster County Historical Society]. Web.archive.org (January 5, 2008; retrieved December 23, 2010.)</ref>
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