Society of Pennsylvania in Philadel- phia, in the Taylor Papers. They in- clude practically the whole county. Those ante-dating 1729 themselves make a good-sized list. In many cases five or ten, or even twenty-five separate tracts, are found in one con- nected draft. One who had the leisure and

The Public Career of John Wright, Esq. John Wright, Esq., of Columbia, on the Susquehanna, was the acknowl- edged and unquestioned "father" or Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. By unanimous consensus of authoritative opinion, and by common consent, this name and title belong to him and his memory

persons who are one or more years in arrears are re- quired to pay their quit rents, and, in default, the receiver of quit rents or- ders a distress to be made immediate- iy, in pursuance of law. In the issue of October 4, 1739, the election figures of Pennsylvania are set forth. However, only those of

Pennsylvania in 1682. In 1684 he visited the Susque- hanna, and in 1685 wrote a glowing description of the fertility of this section. In 1690 Penn had a plan made out and a prospectus issued for the building of a second city like Philadelphia, on the Susquehanna, to be the capital town of a county which he

Items of Local Interest in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 4750 to 1760 Inclusive. COPIED BY H. FRANK ESHLEMAN. In our February pamphlet of 1918 appears the last installment of a series of items of local interest, and historical importance, found in the Pennsylvania Gazette, bringing those items down to

Pennsylvania" (Vol. 3 V. A. 65). The Quakers and Germans both were opposed to them. The Irish and the English favored them. The first distinct political party cleavage in this county was upon the question of "the common people's in- terests versus the proprietors' inter- ests" (The Penns). 1729. Judge Edwards

harmony with the early efforts to abolish slavery in this country, among the foremost of which was the Act of Pennsylvania of 1780, our county took advanced ground on the question. The early county Quakers, German Mennonites and others felt the insti- tution wrong from the beginning, and had practically

home in Pennsylvania, largely in Lancaster county. 2. Who These Pioneers of Lancas- ter County Settlement Were; and Where They Came From. 3. When They Began the Settle- ment of Lancaster County; and, 4. With Exactness, Where They First Settled in This County. PART ONE. The European Historical