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

) we believe the property of Mr. Purviance of the neighborhood of Warren and from which the Union, a very respectable sheet is issued."—Crawford Messenger. V. 6 p. 335. During the fall of 1777 General Wayne, whose forces were at Mount Joy, in Chester County near Valley Forge, came to Lancaster to try

. Their densest settled center was Lancaster County and their domain, early extended throughout the lower Susquehanna and upper Schuylkill and into parts of the Lehigh, Valleys. More- over, the seat of their central church government was established here in Conestoga where in 1727 they first adopted their

Pequea Colony. We may add another word on this point which furnishes the strongest proof that the 1709 company which Guy brought over in his ship was not the Pequea colony, and that theie was not one of the Lancaster county names among them. Nor were the six remaining Mennonite families (whom �Jacob

more. The land to which he was entitled in these war- rants he had located on both sides of the Conestoga Creek in one tract, near the head of the creek, in the neighborhood of Spring Grove. now Earl township, Lancaster county. (See Taylor papers, Pennsylvania Histor- ical Society.) He built his house

, at one time the Court House for Lancaster county; and the eastern one of the two, the old Herr stone house, built in 1719, on the farm now occupied by David Huber, Jr., near Willow Street; farther east there may be several more, but I am not ac- quainted with their location. This ends all that we can

the county were held at Lancaster. The litigation at Conestoga was neither heavy nor extensive, there be- ing only frve Terms and the whole list os suits numbering only sixty-sour. We know that the Court House was the Tavern os John Postlethwait, but just what and where the jail was, to wnich, as

up all the county, State and Federal officers of Lancaster county came to their Court House and subscribed the oaths which I have just read. These surely were the days of big events, of brave patriots, and stout hearts—of men who relied upon Free- dom and Freedom's God. The Winter at Valley Forge

the 13th Pennsylvania then were combined with the second Pennsylvania Regiment.2fl The third Pennsylvania Regiment was also at Valley Forge. Its officers complained of the conditions there-Jan. 4, 1778. John Brisban, of Leacock Township, Lancaster County, raised a company in 1776 and it was joined to