prominent part the Pennsylvania-Germans bore in the Civil War. Many names familiar to Lancaster county, notably Eshleman and Shenk, are found in the records of the Confederacy, where the story of their valor is recited. General �Roller paid a glowing tribute to these brave spirits. But, despite the cir

little, in the shape of manuscript, prior to 1750 in our Court House. Practically all there is to be found there are the Quarter Sessions and road records,the Common Pleas dockets, the appoint- ment of constables, overseers of the poor and highways, the granting of Paper read before the Lancaster County

town of Lancaster was soon after laid out. The Court met for the first time in the county on the first Tuesday in August (August 5), 1729. George II. was then king, for George I. died in 1727, while on a journey to Hanover. No. 1 docket of the Court of Com- mon Pleas opens as follows: "At a Court of