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

persons who are one or more years in arrears are re- quired to pay their quit rents, and, in default, the receiver of quit rents or- ders a distress to be made immediate- iy, in pursuance of law. In the issue of October 4, 1739, the election figures of Pennsylvania are set forth. However, only those of

Pennsylvania in 1682. In 1684 he visited the Susque- hanna, and in 1685 wrote a glowing description of the fertility of this section. In 1690 Penn had a plan made out and a prospectus issued for the building of a second city like Philadelphia, on the Susquehanna, to be the capital town of a county which he

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

Items of Local Interest in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 4750 to 1760 Inclusive. COPIED BY H. FRANK ESHLEMAN. In our February pamphlet of 1918 appears the last installment of a series of items of local interest, and historical importance, found in the Pennsylvania Gazette, bringing those items down to

their fisheries were being de- stroyed (do., p. 458). Later that fall his legal abilities seem to have been recognized, for he was put on a com- mittee to revise the laws and compile them into one body (do., p. 461). Ha was one of our first known "Digest- ers" of the laws of Pennsylvania. About the end

- thority upon any historical subject will be a great honor to it. The plan also will give unity to the work of the year. Then, too, the public cele- bration of the sixtieth anniversary of the chief manifestation of slavery in Lancaster County (The Christiana Riot) is designed to be a great moral object

." 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