to the waste paper man,to "raise money for cigars," as Mr. Cope old me. The lists, of course, include only Conestoga (later East and West Conestoga), Donegal and Pequea townships, as these large, partly-or- ganized sections practically included the whole of the Lancaster county re- gion then

, coming up through southern Chester county, and incidentally, along the bor- der of Lancaster, and some have the idea that an old gentleman by the name of Thomas Garrett, in the city of Wilmington, had much to do with giv- ing them direction to their friends in Pennsylvania. Another channel seems to have

the whole of the history of those early times. The following items from the first two newspapers of Pennsylvania give us certain phases of the life and times of our remote ancestors here in Lancaster county: The character of the commerce be- tween Lancaster and Pennsylvania in the infancy of the