regularly used as early as 1714, for "the peti- tion filed in Lancaster County Quar- ter Sessions Court to 'relay' it out in 1734 sets out that it has been in use for twenty years." These five terms were first Tuesday os August, 1729; first Tuesday of No- vember, 1729; February 3d, 1730; May 5th, 1730, and

Chamber, though our nation shall become 1,000 or 2,000 years old. The immortal record is made—it cannot be blotted out. The Men Who Were Here. And who were the men that sat in that session of Congress at Lancaster? For New Hampshire, there was Sam- uel Fulsom; for Massachusetts, Sam- uel Adams, John Adams

grantors were the King and the "Great Men" of the Susquehannocks; and a writing was drawn up in the nature of a deed. All this may be found in Vol. 3, of Maryland Archives, p. 66. The next sale, that to the Swedes, is set forth in Campanius, p. 23, and it in- cluded the lands from the Delaware to the

greater harmony and a more cheerful readiness to assist with what was in their power, than appeared on this o c -casion,whichwaschieflyowingto the affable and courteous behavior of our Governor."* June 6, 1728: "At a Court of Quarter Session of Philadelphia, held June 3, a charge was delivered from the

English, as I divide them. A few of the men were single men. And if we take the rule of six members to each family (which was found to be the ratio in the census of 1790) it would show about 2,000 population of Lancaster borough at that time—the same number mentioned by Pownall. Forty-nine of the persons