REPORT ON THE TRUE CHARACTER, TIME AND PLACE OF THE FIRST REGULAR SETTLEMENT IN LANCASTER COUNTY. To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical So- ciety: Your Committee, after having given a great deal of attention to the subject referred to them, have decided to make report upon

our society's proceedings. At the time Mr. Samuel Evans wrote his history of our county, the assessments of several townships prior to 1750 were here, because he has copies of some of them in his book. But it is very probable that some of these lists were taken out for the printer of that work and

Frontiers" 1790 to 1796. Lancaster County had part in all of these matters. Volume 5 is wholly made up of papers and documents on the Early Colonies on the Delaware, 1638 to 1643. Our Indian History and some of our early trade and trade routes, form part of this history. Volume 6 is wholly composed of "The

Assemblymen just elected. - 3 V., 95. Three Hundred Pounds lent to build Court House and Prison. 3 V., 96. Petition for Lancaster County presented. - 3 C., 343. Action of the Council on the same favorable. - 3 C., 344. Further steps in the erection of Lancaster County. - 3 C., 345. Survey ordered and

says, "There I design to lay out a plan for the building of another city, in the most convenient place for communica- tion with the former plantations on the east, which by land is as good as done �already, a way being laid out between the two rivers very exactly and con- veniently, at least three

and Barbara DeHuff, whose names appear on the list, have by their subscription shown their patriotism and have added a little part to that history still largely unwritten, namely the part the women played in the early life of our county and its history. It is worthy also of note that the subscriptions

grandmother told her, tells us in her "Journal" that the farmers on the Susquehanna about 1730 did not de- pend on wheat and corn, but on hemp and hops to make a living. (See Journal Hist. Soc. Pa,) To tell the number of people who lived here when the county was or- ganized in 1729 is a difficult matter. In