more likely that the tavern was so changed as to make it convenient for the purpose of holding the Courts, and this conclu- sion has, I think, been generally adopted. I find in the minute book of the Commissioners of Lancaster county, under date of February 4, 1729, the following entry: "Ordered that

Assessment Lists and Other Doc- uments of Lancaster County Prior to the Year 1729. About the only original Lancaster county manuscript documents, now known, dating before 1729 are: A cer- tified copy of the petition for the erec- tion of our county, signed in 1728; the letters, drafts, surveys and

and Andrew Graff, Esquires, Associate Judges of the same Court. "Do by virtue of the Presentment of the Grand Jury and the Order of the Court made thereon at the last May Sessions, Consent that the Commissioners of the County of Lancaster erect the Public Offices on the Ground within al- lotted for

of the early iron busi- ness, but as an intellectual and schol- arly family left its impress on suc- ceeding generations. David Jenkins, �the elder, had three sons, David, Jr., William and Robert. David became a farmer. William was a prominent lawyer of Lancaster, at one time, for fourteen years

established in this Borough of Lancaster, and as we the Subscribers are desirous to associate by the name of the Sun Fire Company, do mutual- ly agree to the following Articles. The above is the heading of the Constitution and By-laws, which fol- low in twelve articles, for the forma- tion and government of

- caster county. Ten copies of this pro- gramme are herewith submitted for the archives of the society. It secured the interest and attend- ance of a number of the direct de- scendants of General Hand, and of many other Lancaster county Revolu- tionary soldiers. It procured a mass- ive granite memorial

county in book T, page 939, for the "consideration of the sum of five shillings a year," conveyed unto Thomas Cookson lot No. 159. This consisted of a parcel of ground in Lancaster containing in front forty- five feet, bounded on the north by Chestnut street, on the west by a fourteen-foot alley, on the

Pocket Al- manac" for the year 1771, printed by John Dunlap, "at the newest printing office in Market street, a few doors below Second street, in Philadelphia," contains this notice: "The Lancaster stage wagon sets out from Rudolph Bonner's at the King of Prussia in Market street on Friday, and arrives