ambitious to plan ways and means to spread out in the culture of new crops and to export their surplus, is shown in the petition of our Lancaster County farmers for a bounty on flax, in order to get away from over-production of wheat, which they said was too heavy for profitable transporta- tion for export

phoenomenon made its appearance; and from that period these colonies were relieved from their distress, and our arms were attended with uninterrupted success to the conclusion of the war. TN COUNCIL OF SAFETY Lancaster, November 29, 1777 Whereas, many farmers and others inhabiting the neighborhood of Lan

Ferree's on King Street Thos Bull, Roger Kirk and Abiah Taylor at Peter Hoffnagle's on S. Queen Street The Lancaster County assemblymen lodgings: Jacob Strickler and Richard Keys at Mr. Barton's; Alex. Scott on East Orange Street; Daniel Buckley at Peter Hoffnagle's, and Jeremiah Brown and John Hopkins at

held throughout Lancaster County at this time. (E. and E. 30). Some of these Lancaster forces were sent to Northampton. Samuel Miles, later of great Revolutionary War fame, says he was in a company commanded by Isaac Wayne, father of Anthony Wayne. Among the officers were Alex Cul- bertson, Jas. Wright

long and 10 or more inches in cir- cumference. There is a whole column article on the subject. V. 1 p. 98. In an article in V. 4 p. 136, at p. 138, being a copy of a report made to the Senate in 1820 on the depressed condition of the state at that time, it is stated that the Farmers Bank of Lancaster

Lancaster County felt the appeal and the position of Boston. It is also to be noted that here we have evidence to a small extent of the part the patriotic women of those times helped the "cause". Catharine Reigart, Mary Ferree, Anne Elizabeth Snyder, Elizabeth Graeff, Elizabeth Gross, Mrs. Henry Helmuth

(d) FOUR GREAT SURVEYS IN LANCASTER COUNTY Among the Taylor Papers in the Manuscript Department of the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania, are found (with a great number of others) four great surveys of lands in Lancaster County, which may well challenge our interest and which are of great value

; James Webb, next, and Peter Worrel, last. - 4 V., 65. 1748 See the pay roll of John Deiner's Company. - 5 C., 179. The Lancaster Court is to dispose of a case of a man who robbed an Indian of his home and goods. - 4 V., 77. �The Lancaster County Grand Jury is ordered by the Council to prose- cute all

by the Meeting . House, etc. It is No. 112, of the Chester County records. Rupp refers to it in a note, page 42 and says it extended through Lancaster County "to the fording place .at Octorara at old Shawanastown, thence over Octorara along the Indian path, etc., Aug. sessions 1719". As it would lie