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

The Conestoga Wagon A Pennsylvania German Product By H. C. FREY T HE Conestoga wagon was unquestionably a Pennsylvania German product. Lancaster county gets the credit for its origin. Many claimants say that it was modeled after the old English covered wagon. Might not the old English covered wagon

. LANCASTER,June 5, 1787. TO THE GERM AN PUBLIC. FRIENDS AND COUNTRYMEN. A German newspaper, the third to be published in Pennsylvania, would seem to �be somewhat superfluous, and the pub- lishers of the two others might complain especially, and not without reason, be- cause of the trifling price, as thereby

mark the anniversaries of the Paoli massacre and the adoption of the Federal Constitution. will go down in the chronicles of the Society as a worthy chapter in the series of its illustrious records that now em- brace the Fulton, the Hans Herr, the Christiana riot and the Hand celebra- tion, all of

early Pre sidential Elections in Lancaster County By C. H. MARTIN Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, participated in each of the Presidential Elections held since the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. It occupies first place in Pennsylvania in respect to the election of George

Pennsylvania" (Vol. 3 V. A. 65). The Quakers and Germans both were opposed to them. The Irish and the English favored them. The first distinct political party cleavage in this county was upon the question of "the common people's in- terests versus the proprietors' inter- ests" (The Penns). 1729. Judge Edwards

ITEMS IN THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE CONCERNING LANCASTER COUNTY. In the October number of 1907, the December number of 1910, and the May number of 1913, of the proceedings of this Society, I gave installments in consecutive order of local Lancaster county news from 1719 to 1746 found in the American

Pennsylvania, 1777; Assistant Commissioner General, �1778 ; Member of Congress, 1784-1786 and one of the founders of the Juliana library, of Lancaster, and at the time of his death treasurer of the county. During his last illness his wife gave up everything to nurse him and prepared his business affairs. He

EXTRACTS FROM THE EARLY COURT RECORDS OF CHESTER COUNTY, PA. By H. WILSON EARLY APPOINTMENTS OF OFFICERS TO SERVE IN WHAT IS NOW LANCASTER COUNTY W ILLIAM PENN, proprietary and governor, made the first appointments of justices for the Province of Pennsylvania. Succeeding governors continued to

or perhaps better of the confederacy. In Pennsylvania we were cperating under the constitution of 1776 and one of the leading features of our government was that of a single assembly instead of the senate and house as provided for by the constitution of 1790. I have endeavored to select documents