to attend Supreme Court at Philadelphia, and they petitioned for a county court. (Do.) A contributor informs us that Benjamin West successfully practiced his art of painting in Philadelphia, Lancaster and New York till 1759, when he went to Italy. V. 5 p. 337. 1760 Lancaster County had 436.346 acres

ambitious to plan ways and means to spread out in the culture of new crops and to export their surplus, is shown in the petition of our Lancaster County farmers for a bounty on flax, in order to get away from over-production of wheat, which they said was too heavy for profitable transporta- tion for export

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY'S HIGHWAY SYSTEM (From 1714 to 1760) By H. FRANK ESHLEMAN The writer purposes to set forth and to discuss h erein, a history of the roa ds and ·highways of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania from 1714 to 1760, that being the scope of the records of the said roads contained

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

surveyors appointed. - 3 C., 345. Further steps in the erection of a new County. - 3 C., 347. Return of division line for Lancaster County surveyed. - 3 C., 355. Great disorder up in Lancaster County region. - 3 C., 357. The Lancaster County act again before the Governor. - 3 C., 360. Results for elections

objectors are George Ross and Jacob Hiltzheimer, the latter of whom also lived here some time. The great James Wilson, prin- cipal author of the United States Constitution, also is a signer against the new instrument. One may fairly conclude from the lead of George Ross, that Lancaster County objected to