compensate for this lack. The "Correspondence" section introduces, along with general family and personal communications, a significant number of "informal warrants" issued in advance or in lieu of an actual formal warrant. These include letters addressed to Isaac or John Taylor. Occasionally one finds a

members of the Es- tablished Church of England, and were great favorites with the ruling class in Philadelphia. Some Early Sheriffs of the County. The following extracts taken from a letter in the Shippen papers have a pecu- liar interest in connection with the Smiths and others. Edward Shippen to Col

a warrant dated Dec. 25, 1701 was signed for the same. 1710 In the Taylor Papers, under date of Oct. 16, 1710, there is the original order to survey 10000 acres of land on Pequea Creek to Rudolph Bundely and others, on the authority of a warrant dated Oct. 8, same year, which is therein recited. The

traversed from east to west, centrally, by a lime- stone ridge that rises and falls in an undulating wave, forming in the cen- ter of the township a bold, treeless limestone ridge called Maxwell's Hill." North the land slopes to the Little Creek, a tributary of the Con- estoga River, thence rises to the

Charles F. Rengier Estate, and No. 15 from Fabian Yecker. In 1919, with the advent of national prohibition, the Rohrer liquor store property, Nos. 24 to 26 Penn Square, extending through to No. 5 and 7 South Queen street, also became available for purchase, an opportunity of which Watt and Shand quickly

existed at such an early date, how constituted, where located, and tracing the formation of additional ones until the present time. From the organization of the county until 1784 the County and State elec- tions were held at the county seat. �By an Act of Assembly, passed Sep- tember 13, 1785, Lancaster

not officially recorded until he became taxable at the age of twenty-one, usually following his serving an apprenticeship of seven years. Extant apprenticeship indentures are extremely rare.' The first reference to Eberman is found in the Moravian Church of Lancaster's birth, baptism, and marriage

Lancaster and begun its sittings here on September 27, of that year. Its stay here was of the briefest. Fear of molestation by the enemy induced an- other move, this time to York, where it began its sittings on October 2, 1777. About the same time the General Assembly of the State seems to have deemed a

Clocks: Their Making and Their Makers in Lancaster County" Papers of the Lancaster County Historical Society Vol. XLIII, No. 5 (1939) 2 Eckhardt, George H. Pennsylvania Clocks and Clockmakers: An Epic of Early American Science, Industry and Craftmanship, New York: Devin- Adir 1955. SOME RECENT SALES OF

mine was worked for white oxide of lead. A Mr. Tamlin was em- ployed to develop the mining property, following which Mr. Spils- bury, an experienced lead-zinc mine engineer and manager, was placed in charge. Some time after 1877 Mr. Spilsbury submitted a detailed report that contrasted in many ways