Items of Local Interest from the Pennsylvania Gazette, from 1761 to 1770.1 BY H. FRANK ESHLEMAN, ESQ. 1761. The issue of January 15 recites that the French garrison at Detroit are at Lancaster, on their way to Philadelphia and also a number of the people that were prisoners there, are also in the

under oath �or affirmation for faithful performance of their duty. The tickets to be sold by the managers in Lancaster." This advertisement is repeated in the issue of June 20, 1751. And in it the drawing was postponed to August 9. In the issue of August 22, it is stated that " Such persons as have had

references to Lancaster County, from 1682 to 1750, noted in the Statutes at Large, the Colonial Records, the First Series of Pennsylvania Archives and the Votes of Assembly, to that date. Prior to the date of the Sesqui Centennial, July 4, 1926, our Society ought to bring to light all of our county's history

�Bucks Countians lodged as follows: Isaac Van Horne at Nauman's and Ralph Stone and James Erwin at John Musser's corner of East Orange and Lime Streets and Gerardus Wynkoch at Judge Henry's. The Chester County legislators divided: Jos. Hemphill lodged at A Scott's on Orange Street; Jas. Hannum at

great abuses were committed in carrying rum from New Castle to Conestoga, and the Chief of the Conestogas him- self went to Philadelphia and com- plained that great quantities of rum were continually carried to their town so that they are ruined by it, having nothing left, but that they have even sold

seems to have been especially fitted for the task of planning the proper division of the powers of Government—of securing the people in their just rights under their Government—of preventing rulers from misusing their power, and generally, for the task of administering the activi- ties of government

and hardship under the Swiss Government and gave a long list of brutalities (do.). And this was the condition when the emigration to the Pequea in our own county began in 1710. Through these centuries the non-re- sistant Protestant Christians lived their miserable lives in Switzerland and Central