intersection of King and Queen Streets, was deeded by Andrew Hamilton and wife to the commissioners (Ed- wards included) in trust for the use of the people of Lancaster County.9 The first session of court to be held in Lancaster took place in November, 1730; however, there is nothing to show at what build- ing

Commissioners, empowered to erect Lancaster county, "shall purchase" a piece of land and erect "thereon a Court House, etc.," it appears that it was not completed for ten years later. Under date of No- vember 3, 1737, there is a record in the Commissioners' office that "The Com- missioners mett and considered

more likely that the tavern was so changed as to make it convenient for the purpose of holding the Courts, and this conclu- sion has, I think, been generally adopted. I find in the minute book of the Commissioners of Lancaster county, under date of February 4, 1729, the following entry: "Ordered that

The Lancaster Journal of Saturday, December 1st, 1810. The Ship Conestoga By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IT is not generally known, perhaps, that a ship named the "Con- estoga",, so-called, doubtless, in honor of the famous Indian tribe for which the river in Lancaster county was named, once sailed

The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

Assessment Lists and Other Doc- uments of Lancaster County Prior to the Year 1729. About the only original Lancaster county manuscript documents, now known, dating before 1729 are: A cer- tified copy of the petition for the erec- tion of our county, signed in 1728; the letters, drafts, surveys and

encouraged by the success that had at- tended its efforts, as well as by demands for a more widely ex- tended application of its benevolence, no longer hesitated to solicit the assistance of the public. The citizens of Lancaster were called upon, not on behalf of sturdy mendicants, idle vagrants, or juvenile

Philadelphia (excepting those in the city of Lancaster which pay specie when demanded) after the 14th day of November next." 5 Lancaster Journal, Wednesday, November 4th, 1818. The Lancaster County Society for the Encour- agement of American Manufactures By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of citizens of the

Collections for the Poor in 1795 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of the "Association for the Relief of the Poor," of the borough of Lancaster, was held at the house of Chris- topher Brenner on Monday, November 2nd, 1795. John Joseph Henry occupied the chair. The committees appointed to collect