REPORT ON THE TRUE CHARACTER, TIME AND PLACE OF THE FIRST REGULAR SETTLEMENT IN LANCASTER COUNTY. To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical So- ciety: Your Committee, after having given a great deal of attention to the subject referred to them, have decided to make report upon

short the distress and confusion of our people in general on the frontier are inexpressible." �In the issue of November 6, an item dated Lancaster states that " We have great numbers from Lancaster and York Counties coming in every day for our assistance." And another item in the same issue states: " We

well as of the pro- vince) were divided. Fetruary 20, 1729, the Quaker-English Assembly, in a message to the Governor, said "We conceive it to be of greatest conse- quence to the preservation of both the religious and civil rights of the peo- ple to prevent importation of Irish papists into

, Hon. Jacob Hibshman, and also give some account of his public, political and patriotic career on other questions aside from those arising in his Congressional career. Our county was opposed to compro- mises of any kind on the subject of slavery, in any section of the United States, and at any time. In

of a great earth- quake at Annapolis and New Castle. The account states that it was also felt at Conestoga, 100 miles distant, where "some clouds at the same time were seen to waver and dance, disappear and appear again, in an uncommon manner. Three or four evenings successively after the earthquake