used for the public offices of the said County, and its (title) to the ground upon which the said building stands." The present Court House was completed in 1854, and the first session of Court was held in the new building on November 20, 1854. A news item in the Lancaster Intelligencer of September 5

The Political History and Development of Lancaster County's First Twenty Years, 1729-1749 Partisan political sentiment existed in Lancaster county at the time of its creation in 1729, the division of sentiment being on the very question of organizing the county. The econ- omical German-Swiss

): Deed Book Q, Vol. 6, 408 (April 14, 1828) : Deed Book G, Vol. 7, 582 (Dec. 16, 1852); and, Deed Book W, Vol. 8, 12 (April 7, 1848). All the Deed Books are located at the Lancaster County Court House, Recorder of Deeds Office, Lan- caster, Pennsylvania. "Warner, "The Colonization Society", 105-107. 22

�of praise. Considering that it is upon this spot that the legal history of the county had its birth, and that in tile house within your sight the Courts likely first undertook to administer justice, is it not fitting that the place be marked by a stone which will stand with the everlasting hills