to be found in the unpublished Logan papers. James Logan's intrigue in managing the Cresap War on the Susquehanna, making it appear in the records to be a spontaneous clash between border ruffians, is another interesting episode in Lancaster County his- 4 Colonial Records II, p. 244-46. 5 Ibid. 235

crowding in and breathing an air of freedom." 3 Governor Calvert remarked, "This Superiority, as I may term it, of the people over the Government , seems Un- naturall."4 Just before the formation of our county, the western part of Chester County, which became Lancaster County, was already well settled