. (671) Benj. Loxley's report on his plant and equipment for making and bor- ing cannon is set forth page 682. Volume 2—Registry of Marriages in Pennsylvania from about 1740 to 1770 or later, appears in volume 2, covering 344 pages, and among them the records of the following Lancaster County ministers

p. 193. Before the Convention was held, there was a Provincial Conference of Committees on the subject of the Constitution for Pennsylvania, and for the Committee on the Lancaster County there were present at the meeting which met at Carpenter's Hall June 18, 1776, William Atlee, Esq., Lodowick

raised in 1745 by William Maxwell captain, and James Wilkins was its ensign. In 1747 the Pennsylvania people entered into "An Association For Defense" and several companies were formed. (5 C. R. 172). The Lancaster County Defenders were raised and organized in the west end of the county on Susquehanna

friends to tell him the Assembly think his commission is of no validity. - 3 C., 509. Border troubles stir Pennsylvania and Lancaster County. - 1 A., 370. The same subject also - 1 A., 366. Depositions on the boundary troubles. - 1 A., 396. 1734 James Mitchell appointed collector of the excise for

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

feet wide, (Docket 1772 p . 108, copied). This was done on a petition of the inhabitants of Man- heim, Leacock, Warwick and Earl. It was then an important road "from the County line to Jacob Bear's (now Martin Myers') mill in Manheim Township." (See Carter's Creel, r eferr ed to, 1 D . 293.) 1734-ROAD

- wards turned out, yet there evidently were many more such petitions, likely one in each township, because, as we notice in the list given, Jacob Erb, after giving one pound notes that he has subscribed on his township list. This will enable us to understand the extent the people of Lancaster County felt

(d) FOUR GREAT SURVEYS IN LANCASTER COUNTY Among the Taylor Papers in the Manuscript Department of the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania, are found (with a great number of others) four great surveys of lands in Lancaster County, which may well challenge our interest and which are of great value

Ferree's on King Street Thos Bull, Roger Kirk and Abiah Taylor at Peter Hoffnagle's on S. Queen Street The Lancaster County assemblymen lodgings: Jacob Strickler and Richard Keys at Mr. Barton's; Alex. Scott on East Orange Street; Daniel Buckley at Peter Hoffnagle's, and Jeremiah Brown and John Hopkins at