- tablishing complete title records of real estate. When we consider that for one hundred years Philadelphia was the only port of el try of the United States, through which the Ger- man-Swiss population swept into this country; and that from the valleys of the Susquehanna and the Schuylkill, these sturdy

original jurisdiction in 1727, but they assumed it, an act which caused great fear among the people of Pennsylvania. John Wright was appointed by the Assembly, April 1st, an additional member on the committee "to draw up a bill for establishing Courts of Judicature in this province" (3 V., p. 15). The

it well to give the substance of this newspaper re- port. In the issue of June 21, 1744, an ac- count is given of the Governor of Pennsylvania and the Commissioners from Maryland and Virginia setting out from Philadelphia together for Lancaster, to meet the chiefs of the Five Nations of Indians• in

1788, several may now be mentioned. We note first that this year is the 125th anniversary of the laying out of this town, the event celebrated this week. In 1789 Congress is deciding a permanent place for the government of the United States discussed and debated the advisability of fixing the seat of

moved a minuet." Reading and Lancaster. An article in the issue of July 2 states that the houses in Reading have just been counted last week and there were found to be 208 all built since the beginning of June, 1750. �We remember that Marshe in his diary in 1744 stated that Lancaster began being built

); the other two were for defense and mili- tary protection. The rank and file of the county were anti-bellum. An- drew Work was elected commissioner and Martin Mylin, Robert Allison, An- drew Boggs, Patrick Hayes, John Da- vies and Jacob Mylin, assessors (Pa. Gaz., Oct. 11, 1744). The war and defense

, Hon. Jacob Hibshman, and also give some account of his public, political and patriotic career on other questions aside from those arising in his Congressional career. Our county was opposed to compro- mises of any kind on the subject of slavery, in any section of the United States, and at any time. In

, Swit- zerland, near Uster. He also states that the names of Christian and Hans Heer, or Herr, are found in 1450 in the Canton of Glarus, Switzerland; and that an; early branch of the Herr family was settled in the upper part of the Canton of Zurich (Southeast), �called Zuricher Oberland; and that the

the whole of the history of those early times. The following items from the first two newspapers of Pennsylvania give us certain phases of the life and times of our remote ancestors here in Lancaster county: The character of the commerce be- tween Lancaster and Pennsylvania in the infancy of the

shillings per hundred weight. Household goods, boxes, etc., at the cheapest rates. The same to be performed by WILLIAM ATLEE, JOSEPH YEATES." Slavery in Pennsylvania did not extend alone to the negro race. An adver- tisement in the issue of June 26, 1740, states that "a Dutch servant man and his wife are to