little, in the shape of manuscript, prior to 1750 in our Court House. Practically all there is to be found there are the Quarter Sessions and road records,the Common Pleas dockets, the appoint- ment of constables, overseers of the poor and highways, the granting of Paper read before the Lancaster County

where we are reminded that a Wil- liamson Park is one of the proud pos- sessions of Lancaster, England, it is to be remembered the wrongs of the colonies were the result of a weak monarch misled by a weaker Cabinet, rather than the crime or even the blunder of a great parent nation. Here, on this

A NEWSPAPER RELIC. The Lancaster County historical Society is the owner of E. treasure in shape of a bound volume consisting of the first four years of the publication of a German newspaper with the title of the "Neue Unpartheische Lancaster Zeitung and Anzeigs Nachrichten" which, translated, would

The Political History and Development of Lancaster County's First Twenty Years, 1729-1749 Partisan political sentiment existed in Lancaster county at the time of its creation in 1729, the division of sentiment being on the very question of organizing the county. The econ- omical German-Swiss

ITEMS IN THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE CONCERNING LANCASTER COUNTY. In the October number of 1907, the December number of 1910, and the May number of 1913, of the proceedings of this Society, I gave installments in consecutive order of local Lancaster county news from 1719 to 1746 found in the American