Penn- sylvania its first newspaper a good many years before New York had any newspaper at all. Pennsylvania's next newspaper was the Pennsylvania Gazette, first published in Philadel- phia by Ben Franklin in 1728. The Mercury ran until 1745, and the Gazette until after the Revolution. The series of

." This abbreviated record os the suit means that the defendant appeared and demanded an imparlance and a rule allowing the same was granted; that he offered Thomas Parrin as a bail, who was held in ten pounds in a bond conditioned that John Jones, this desendant, would pay the judgment and costs

to collect of this humble building, destined to be the theatre of a series of wonderful and momentous events and proceedings. Its Cost and First Events. It surely was an humble one, be- cause the law of May 12, 1729, allowed the Commissioners to raise only £300 of Pennsylvania money by taxation to

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

; John Young, 1/ 4 lot; Marks Young, 1 lot. �file:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank, 1869-1953. Title: Early Lancaster taxables--1754 / by H. Frank Eshleman, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Taxation--Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, passed through Merion, Haverford and Rad- nor; also what is now Downingtown, Coatesville and Christiana, which was then known as John Minshall's. This is practically the course of the Phila- delphia road to-day. West of Chris- tiana, however, it continued its trend south of the Pennsylvania