and hardship under the Swiss Government and gave a long list of brutalities (do.). And this was the condition when the emigration to the Pequea in our own county began in 1710. Through these centuries the non-re- sistant Protestant Christians lived their miserable lives in Switzerland and Central

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

lesser dignitar- ies and satellites in one party; and the common people in the other. (Bolles Pa. Prov. and State, 269). There were also two other parties more or less defined in the county and prov- ince, lacking in leadership and pur- pose—one believing in narrowing the functions of government and

will be laid down as far as it bounds the province, and the river Susquehanna with its tributaries near 200 miles beyond the inhabitants. "A map of each county is also intended by a greater scale in which every tract of land wili be described according to the original survey, and the names of the

--Pennsylvania. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1910 Description: 293-300 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 14, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245

, and who died in the County In- sane Asylum, was yet a law student. and likewise Washington Hopkins and Emanuel C. Reigart. The leader of the Bar was James Hopkins, and one of its brightest ornaments was his brilliant pupil, William Jenkins, �who was then in the fourth of his six successive three-year