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

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: Bonds Business records Certificates Court records Finance, Personal Indentures Invoices Letters Lotteries Minutes (Records) Probate records Receipts Schools Stocks �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Search Terms: Accounts African