Tuesday of August, 1729; first Tuesday of November, 1729; February 3, 1730; May 5, 1730, and" August 4, 1730. At these five sessions sixty-four suits were entered and dis- posed of. The Beginning of Lancaster City and the Removal of the County Seat. But suddenly there was a change in the situation of

Lancaster county, about 1526. About that time, John Fiske tells us, Lucas Vasquez d'Ayllon came from Hispaniola, and "tried the Chesapeake Bay" in search of the northwest passage, and "ob- tained a grant and began to build a town."' But that town was likely south of the Pennsylvania line. Then next, about

defend the house, and put benches against the door to keep it fast. The invaders from Lancaster county then rushed against the door, but could not open it, and one of them came near the logs and told Cresap he had a warrant for him, but if he would come out he would not be harm- ed. Cresap told those

The People Who Made Lancaster County. It is a rather singular feature of most educational systems that a knowledge of the people and nations of remote regions and by-gone ages is deemed of primary importance, while the historic drama moving in the world immediately around us, and in which our own

Chester county, extending indefinitely westward from the Octo- rara. Even after the organization of Conestoga township, in 1718, a much more extensive region was popularly known as "Conestoga." In the eastern district the members of the Reformed and Lutheran Churches were in the majority, but in

constituting Lancaster county from the Indians to the whites, is to be the subject of this paper. The Earliest Purchase by Swedes. The earliest "white man's" title to Lancaster county, of which we have any knowledge or record, is that nar- rated to us by Campanius and Acrel- ius, the early Swedish historians

election of deputies to meet in convention to con- sider the resolves of Congress. Those chosen from this county were : William A. Atlee, of Lancaster, and the second Judge of the Supreme Court under the Constitution soon to be enacted. Lodwick Lowman, who was an officer in the Revolutionary war, and

from view. After these ceremonies, the exercises were adjourned to the historic church of Donegal, a few yards distant, where the Hon. Marriott Brosius, M. C., and a member of the Lancaster County Historical Society, delivered the elo- quent and valuable historical address herewith printed; a noble

company about three years previously, but the projectors sunk money and had given it up. There was another one, he writes, "A glass manufactory, which was erected about four Years ago (that would make the date 1763), in Lancaster County, seventy miles from this City, by a private Person; it is still

is supposed they were cousins. The subject of this sketch is William Hamilton and Jane McMas- ters, of Leacock township, who was a native of Belfast, Ireland, and settled in Lancaster county prior to 1745. "some authorities tell us the Hamiltons were living in the Pequea Valley in 1729—when near