. Pre-eminent above all his contemporaries of the territory which is now Lancaster county, he stands as the chief spirit and genius in our county's creation, and as the princi- pal directing mind and shaping hand of its early years. The public career of John Wright began in 1718 as Justice of the Peace

the erection of Lancaster county has long since been lost; but a certified copy of it, made 175 years ago by John Wright, was found some years ago at Harris- burg, and it is printed in our pro- ceedings and a copy also hangs in our Commissioners' office. Two petitions filed against the erection of the

attitude towards the Revolutionary War. V. 16 p. 253. 1732 Quoting Smith's History of Pennsylvania, which seems to discuss the history of Quakers particularly we find it stated regarding the beginning of the Quaker sect in Lancaster County that "A meeting for worship every first and fifth day was held at

, are found the election returns for the �province. Those for Lancaster county are: Commissioner John Allison; As- sessors, Jacob Huber, John Wright, Jr., Andrew Work, Benjamin Chambers, Hugh Bale and John Brandon. In the issue of November 24, 1743, appears an item stating that "a new map of the

. You know, of course, that John Wright was the leader •in all that was brought about here in earliest times—industrial, civil and political. His activities were, however, more generally devoted to the whole county of Lancaster and to the whole province of Pennsylvania, rather than to local affairs. The

the purpose is not disclosed. See Lancaster County new members of Assembly; John Wright is again defeated. - 3 V., 183. Petition Of John Wright contesting the seat in the Assembly of Andrew Galbraith. - 3 V., 184. Both parties heard before the Assembly. - 3 V., 184. Decision in favor of Galbraith. - 3

regularly used as early as 1714, for "the peti- tion filed in Lancaster County Quar- ter Sessions Court to 'relay' it out in 1734 sets out that it has been in use for twenty years." These five terms were first Tuesday os August, 1729; first Tuesday of No- vember, 1729; February 3d, 1730; May 5th, 1730, and

Lancaster County felt the appeal and the position of Boston. It is also to be noted that here we have evidence to a small extent of the part the patriotic women of those times helped the "cause". Catharine Reigart, Mary Ferree, Anne Elizabeth Snyder, Elizabeth Graeff, Elizabeth Gross, Mrs. Henry Helmuth

for them.(5) But Governor Thomas approved it, and John Wright was bold and outspoken against it and the administration. Wright knew the displeasure which (5) Rupp's Lancaster County History, 275. �the Governor entertained toward him and at the May Sessions of 1741, from the bench of the old Court

twenty-five years earlier, which was in 1684. It would he interesting to know how many of the 109 Lancaster county Germans naturalized in 1730, who came to Pennsylvania, as the act says, between 1700 and 1718, did come be- fore 1710. There were, surety, very few. John Rudolph Bundely may have been one of