ITEMS IN THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE CONCERNING LANCASTER COUNTY. In the October number of 1907, the December number of 1910, and the May number of 1913, of the proceedings of this Society, I gave installments in consecutive order of local Lancaster county news from 1719 to 1746 found in the American

A RUNNING STORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY FROM HAZARD'S REGISTER (1613 to 1835) Compiled by H. FRANK ESHLEMAN, ESQ. Hazard's "Register of Pennsylvania" is a publication of sixteen volumes, containing about 400 pages each, published by Samuel Hazard of Philadelphia from Jan. 1828 to the end of December

exist- ence extend from 1718 to 1726, inclu- sive, except that of 1723. These lists were in the dark recesses of the base- ment of the Chester County Court House until 1879, when Gilbert Cope rescued them and much other valu- able early history, just as the County Commissioners were about to sell them

leadership of James Hamilton. From 1734 to 1739, inclusive, he was political boss of the county. He was of Scotch-Irish parentage, though born in Virginia in 1710. But from early childhood until 1734 he lived in Phila- delphia. Thus it is very remarkable that coming to Lancaster county to live in May, 1734

-- to have a key or index-topical to all of Lancas- ter County's relations to those times in this Province, as it then was, in those early days. A careful research from the beginning of our county down to 1750 has been made, and all the local items and references to the county's appearance in the