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

Government was not concerned in the fight. 1 A., 314. Germans pray to be naturalized-Lancaster County, et al. - 3 C., 393. Lancaster petitions to have a public road to Philadelphia. - 3 C., 394. Lnacaster County returned for Sheriff, John Galbraith and David Jones; Joshua Lowe and Ed. Smout for Coroners

lesser dignitar- ies and satellites in one party; and the common people in the other. (Bolles Pa. Prov. and State, 269). There were also two other parties more or less defined in the county and prov- ince, lacking in leadership and pur- pose—one believing in narrowing the functions of government and

will be laid down as far as it bounds the province, and the river Susquehanna with its tributaries near 200 miles beyond the inhabitants. "A map of each county is also intended by a greater scale in which every tract of land wili be described according to the original survey, and the names of the

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