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

1835. It is "devoted to the preserva- tion of facts and every other kind of useful information respecting the state of Pennsylvania." Lancaster County was relatively more prominent among the various sec- tions of Pennsylvania in those days than it is today, and therefore the records of its activities

George Stuart, in 1730, was elected one os the Assemblymen sor Lancaster county. He was again elected in 1732, but died in office in 1733. This was a damage suit and a jury of inquisition sat and found damages for the plaintifs, but in 1731 the finding was set aside and a new writ issued. Growdon was at

bringing on the papers, records, etc. Saturday, September 27, 1777, finds them seated in the little hero Court House at Lancaster—the great Con- gress of the country. And now follow the entire proceed- ings of the government of the nation while Lancaster, for one brief day, was the seat of the Government

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

, within the present county area, records of which may be found in the first two dockets of the Court of Quarter Sessions. The map made by the writer some years ago shows that those roads ramify every section, reach every township of the county and radiate from Lancaster Town in every direction to the very

., 247-8), which was at the Cov- entry Iron Works, on French creek, as the records inform us. He was also re-commissioned Justice of the Peace and Judge in 1738 (4 C., 313). He was, however, again defeated for Assembly in the fall of 1738, those elected that year from Lancaster county being James

EARLY LANCASTER TAX- ABLES--1754 r A document, entitled "The Return of the Borough of Lancaster, 1754," has just come to my hands. It has never been in print, and its contents are not recorded in any book of record in the Court House or elsewhere. It consists of five sheets of pa per, not bound

and proceedings begun in 1718, recorded in Volume 3 of the Co- lonial Records, page 43. Only a part of it was laid out by order of any Court. Therefore, naturally, there should be proceedings early after the birth of Lancaster county for the per- fecting of it, and we will now notice these. 1734—Under

The Political History and Development of Lancaster County's First Twenty Years, 1729-1749 Partisan political sentiment existed in Lancaster county at the time of its creation in 1729, the division of sentiment being on the very question of organizing the county. The econ- omical German-Swiss