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

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' History of Lan- caster County, 202. (3) Statutes at Large, Vol. 4, page 133, Sec. 7. (1) Statutes at Large, Vol. 4, page 152, Sec. 2. (2) Statutes at Large, Vol. 4, p. 131. (3) Laws of Pa., Chap. 1171, Vol. 3. �A Picture of Those Early Times. What annual scenes these were! They began at the beginning of

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CRESAP'S WAR The Lancaster County Border Struggle. Cresap's War was simply a series of campaigns beginning in 1735, in a struggle which at that time was about fifty years old—the border struggle between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The difficulty began as early as 1684, and was the chief cause which

Indians, he says, were the Delawares. Lancaster county was clearly part of this grant. He also says other tribes had an Interest in the land, among others the Minquas, who "extended 93 miles into the in- terior of the country on to the Con- estoga and the Susquehanna, where they had a fort, etc." He says

method of old road records in Chester county perfected by Gilbert Cope, Esq.), there is a "return of a road from Thomas Moore's, on the west branch of Brandywine, in the great valley, to John Miller's , and to the New Castle County line," John Miller's being on the Nottingham road. And also in the same

leading figure in Lancaster county politics. Wright was becoming old, and Ed- wards seems to have lost popularity, while he became a favorite, however, with the Governor and the proprie- tary's side of the Government. Recommissioned Justice of Peace. In 1741 he was recommissioned Jus- tice of the Peace