indexed as to names. Much Lancaster County History appears in it. Volume 2 contains "Old Proprietary Rights" and seems to be limited to land in and about Philadelphia. Volume 3 is made up of warrants for Islands in the Susquehanna River from 1793 to 1812; and of Donation Lands to Revolutionary Soldiers

. 170. �The Trade on the Susquehanna, as it existed about this time is discussed in Volume 2 p. 320. It there appears that agricultural products from Lancaster and other counties form a great part of the trade. The main trade however was exported from the upper counties. Union, Northumberland, Center

later, as stated by Rev. Conrad Templeton, the present (6) limits of Lancaster County was known as Conestoga. In 1717 all of what is now Manor Township South of the Charleston road was surveyed and reserved as Penn's Conestoga Manor and since 1729 we have Lancaster County and then this was part of

shown by the lengthy petition and remonstrance of the Freeholders and other irhabitants of Lancaster County, addresed to the public protesting the proposed division of Lancaster County and setting forth among other t hings—that the present state of the country at large, when the public de- mands

committee and very few persons had seen any of them. The tumult after a time subsided somewhat, and the com- panies proceeded to their exercises, though they mustered but thinly. Some other violence happened on their return after being dismissed by their officers, but these things we hope to be spared the

very quickly made these valleys the "Garden Spot" of the English Colonies, in America. In the first four years of settlement, over 60,000 acres or nearly a hundred square miles of land here, were surveyed and mostly settled, on the Pequea and the Conestoga (Taylor Papers 3323); and in 1719, before the

." Looking further into the type of men Hans Herr represented the eulogy paid by the Historian MacCauley who visualized such settlers as hones,. laborious men, whose ingenuity and diligence could not fail to enrich any land which should afford them an asylum, may well apply. So far as Lancaster County is

Lancaster to Coventry Iron Works, in 1738. (See 4 C. R. 267.) The issue of April 24 contains the particulars of a notorious jail break- ing and delivery here in Lancaster. May 8, John Hamilton advertises for sale, a tract of 206 acres of land at Octoraro, Lancaster county. An item of May 8 shows the size of

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

before it, as time after- wards revealed, Brandywine, Germantown, Paoli, Valley Forge and after- wards the victory of Monmouth.63 Col. Mathias Slaugh's Battalion was called. in which mention is made of Capt. Jacob Glatz's Company. The other commands in the Battalion were: Captains Fred Sigler, Jacob Krug

The Early Architecture of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL FORMS IN LANCASTER COUNTY DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. "No chapter in the history of national manners would illustrate so well, if duly executed, the progress of social life