Historical Society by H, Frank Eshleman, Esq. �liquor licenses, and the minutes of the County Commissioners, and the records of wills, estates and deeds. All of the assessment lists before 1750 are gone. I think the earliest list preserved of Lancaster town and borough is that of 1754. It is printed among

Lancaster subscribers to the original company. I sought earnestly for it, but at that time in vain. I knew that a report had been made to the Governor of the State by the Commissioners ap- pointed to take the subscriptions, and, therefore, even after the publication of that article, I continued the search