, are found the election returns for the �province. Those for Lancaster county are: Commissioner John Allison; As- sessors, Jacob Huber, John Wright, Jr., Andrew Work, Benjamin Chambers, Hugh Bale and John Brandon. In the issue of November 24, 1743, appears an item stating that "a new map of the

. First Mention of Lancaster County Names. In the first half of the fourteenth century Germany and Austria were the theatre or field of slaughter, and here Lancaster county names first appear. In 1340 Conrad Hager was killed, and also an Eckart or Eck- hard; in 1360 a John de Landuno (whether Landis or

Early Items of Lancaster County History A great deal of interest naturally attaches to the primitive affairs in our county and that is at present very rare—that is, because items have al- ready been written up. It is only by gathering up certain items that we can eventually expect to put together

); 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

the erection of Lancaster county has long since been lost; but a certified copy of it, made 175 years ago by John Wright, was found some years ago at Harris- burg, and it is printed in our pro- ceedings and a copy also hangs in our Commissioners' office. Two petitions filed against the erection of the

- thority upon any historical subject will be a great honor to it. The plan also will give unity to the work of the year. Then, too, the public cele- bration of the sixtieth anniversary of the chief manifestation of slavery in Lancaster County (The Christiana Riot) is designed to be a great moral object

. You know, of course, that John Wright was the leader •in all that was brought about here in earliest times—industrial, civil and political. His activities were, however, more generally devoted to the whole county of Lancaster and to the whole province of Pennsylvania, rather than to local affairs. The

of its own members." Rupp also gives an account of the heat in this contest between Wright and Galbraith (Rupp, p 264). He says: "In the history of this county the year 1732 is remarkable on ac- count of a violent contest in which females played a manly part. Andrew Galbraith of Donegal and John

Indian outrages had been committed in Lan- �caster county; and also in Skohoon- iaty, or Jeniaty, but it was found that these things were false. In the issue of April 26, 1744, there is a long account of the murder of John Armstrong, an Indian trader, in or near Lancaster, and two or three of his

the hand. 1753. The issue of May 17, 1753, contains an account of the burning of several houses in and near Lancaster growing out of the dangerous practice of burn- ing off the woods in order to clear the land. The fire frequently spread and became unmanageable. Houses in Berks County were also so