attitude towards the Revolutionary War. V. 16 p. 253. 1732 Quoting Smith's History of Pennsylvania, which seems to discuss the history of Quakers particularly we find it stated regarding the beginning of the Quaker sect in Lancaster County that "A meeting for worship every first and fifth day was held at

little, in the shape of manuscript, prior to 1750 in our Court House. Practically all there is to be found there are the Quarter Sessions and road records,the Common Pleas dockets, the appoint- ment of constables, overseers of the poor and highways, the granting of Paper read before the Lancaster County

, 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

regularly used as early as 1714, for "the peti- tion filed in Lancaster County Quar- ter Sessions Court to 'relay' it out in 1734 sets out that it has been in use for twenty years." These five terms were first Tuesday os August, 1729; first Tuesday of No- vember, 1729; February 3d, 1730; May 5th, 1730, and

- four persons, who, he says, came to Lancaster county, or, as he puts it, to the Pequea Valley settlement, in 1469. He has no list for 1710 nor 1711—his next one being 1712. Of these we report that none of them came here in 1709, nor did any others. But we agree that of the list he gives John Rudolph

panic, and he was on the committee for the purpose of increasing that currency (3 V., 110). He also pushed the building of a Court House and jail for Lancaster �county, and was appointed by the Governor one of the committee to se- cure land for the same (1 A., 252). He was re-elected to the Assembly in

this date, in Docket No. 1, of the Quarter Sessions Court of Lancaster county, page 89, is set forth a petition of many of the inhab- itants of Lancaster county, setting forth that there had been a public road laid out from Gap to Conestogoe and had been for nearly twenty years past found very