Assessment Lists and Other Doc- uments of Lancaster County Prior to the Year 1729. About the only original Lancaster county manuscript documents, now known, dating before 1729 are: A cer- tified copy of the petition for the erec- tion of our county, signed in 1728; the letters, drafts, surveys and

- caster county. Ten copies of this pro- gramme are herewith submitted for the archives of the society. It secured the interest and attend- ance of a number of the direct de- scendants of General Hand, and of many other Lancaster county Revolu- tionary soldiers. It procured a mass- ive granite memorial

council. He also requests all persons who are in arrears for military fines to make payment to the col- lector within ten days as no indulgence as to time or otherwise will be granted. In this issue is offered for rent a large three-story brick building, on Queen street, near the Court House. It has been

county in Assembly, praying modification of the law, so that they could sell more free- ly (3 V., p. 153). The election in Lancaster county for Assembly this fall resulted in the success of Anthony Shaw, Arthur Pat- terson, Thomas Lindsey and John Wright, and their vote ranged in the order I have named

office," etc. It is further stated that clerks will be in attendance in Lancaster and other sections with books for persons to subscribe for the number of tickets they desire, obliging themselves to pay for the same on or before June 25th. By Order of the Proprietors, JOHN GEORGES, Secretary. In the