Assessment Lists and Other Doc- uments of Lancaster County Prior to the Year 1729. About the only original Lancaster county manuscript documents, now known, dating before 1729 are: A cer- tified copy of the petition for the erec- tion of our county, signed in 1728; the letters, drafts, surveys and

- ernment, to oaths, etc (do., pp. 265- 277). They early reached Northern Italy and the border of Switzerland (do., p. 279). About 1212 persecutions began to rage in Holland (do., p. 298), and at that time 108 Waldenses were burned in Strasburg, Germany (do.). Thus it raged throughout the thirteenth century

and Indian Wars are of more than passing importance ; all these noble acts were steps in the making of America. We owe it to the noble struggles of our forefathers in these days of 1755, that our country was able to grow westward to the Pacific. It was not a struggle for space or room, in 1755

the "Dutch" policy -of allowing Maryland to en- croach to the west bank of the Sus- quehanna and the south bank of the Juniata. The attorney general of the province was given 20 lbs. extra salary on condition he would overcome crime "more particularly in regard to the county of Lancaster" (3 V. A. 164

compromise, that is allowing slavery in �Missouri, but no more slavery north of 36 degrees and 30 minutes, Hibshman voted against it, because it was yield- ing the Northern position (do. 1586). He held this stand, though 12 or 14 Northern men voted for the compro- mise, so that it carried, 90 to 87. When