 The lands in and around the borough of Lewisberry were under control of the Susquehannock people until the first Quaker settlements in the 1730s.These settlements were among the first Quaker settlements in America west of the Susquehanna River.Among the group of original titleholders along the small creek that would become known as Bennett Run were Ellis Lewis, Joseph Bennett, John Rankin, John Heald, and John Hall.