The Great Historical Scenes Enacted in Lancaster's First Court House , 1739-1784. It is my purpose to draw forth and exhibit before you, in their chronologi- cal order, for a little while, this after- noon, a few pictures from the archives, the ancient records and treasuries of our county's

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and, with that, concludes this subject. The first was in 1739 and it is re- ported as follows: "January 13, The Governor laid be- fore Council a petition from the in- habitants of the northeast side of the county of Lancaster, with a map of the province of Pennsylvania, pray- ing that

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, at one time the Court House for Lancaster county; and the eastern one of the two, the old Herr stone house, built in 1719, on the farm now occupied by David Huber, Jr., near Willow Street; farther east there may be several more, but I am not ac- quainted with their location. This ends all that we can

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panic, and he was on the committee for the purpose of increasing that currency (3 V., 110). He also pushed the building of a Court House and jail for Lancaster �county, and was appointed by the Governor one of the committee to se- cure land for the same (1 A., 252). He was re-elected to the Assembly in