might possibly be required." On page 101. of the same Volume, a reprint from the Lancaster Miscellany, gives us additional facts on the origin of our town. The writer says that from examining documents, etc., that, "The first deed for lots in the town of Lan- caster, bear date 1735. We remark the names

, within the present county area, records of which may be found in the first two dockets of the Court of Quarter Sessions. The map made by the writer some years ago shows that those roads ramify every section, reach every township of the county and radiate from Lancaster Town in every direction to the very

draft was made to Council. After this was done, it was con- firmed by the Governor and Council. The action was certified to the Quarter Sessions Court int.er alia of Lancaster County (1 D. 84) and the court ordered the road to be forthwith cleared and rendered commodious. Orders were issued to the

dollars reward. Jacob Awl of Paxton Township, Lancaster County offered twenty dollars reward for the return of his negro man named Joe and the black mare he took with him. Wednesday, December 17, 1777 and also volume 11 Colonial Records page 369 BY THE SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF THE COMMON- WEALTH OF

Ferree's on King Street Thos Bull, Roger Kirk and Abiah Taylor at Peter Hoffnagle's on S. Queen Street The Lancaster County assemblymen lodgings: Jacob Strickler and Richard Keys at Mr. Barton's; Alex. Scott on East Orange Street; Daniel Buckley at Peter Hoffnagle's, and Jeremiah Brown and John Hopkins at

Lancaster County felt the appeal and the position of Boston. It is also to be noted that here we have evidence to a small extent of the part the patriotic women of those times helped the "cause". Catharine Reigart, Mary Ferree, Anne Elizabeth Snyder, Elizabeth Graeff, Elizabeth Gross, Mrs. Henry Helmuth

(d) FOUR GREAT SURVEYS IN LANCASTER COUNTY Among the Taylor Papers in the Manuscript Department of the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania, are found (with a great number of others) four great surveys of lands in Lancaster County, which may well challenge our interest and which are of great value

petition against erecting Lancaster County. — 3 V., 76. Petition to erect the County read. — 3 V., 77. Copy of the petition against County made out and sent to John Wright. — 3 V., 78. A second petition against Lancaster County is filed. — 3 V., 78. Warrant and return laid before the Assembly and copies of

those times. A complete list of all of them ought to be made. This mill was at or near Paradise or Pequea creek. See Docket No. 2 p . 60, (recopied) in Quarter Sessions of Lancaster County. �The issue of November 13 contains the election returns of the various counties of the State. No election figures

THE FIRST WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN LANCASTER CITY: A COM- PARISON WITH THE MALE VOTE; YOUTHFUL AND AGED VOTERS COMPARED By H. Frank Eshleman The local history which I present to you, herein, is only six years old. It is valuable, however, because of what it records generally, and also because it