course at the two taverns conducted by John Bender and John Sheaffer on the Horseshoe road in Earl township, Lancaster county. The race, three mile heats and repeat, was open to any horse, mare or gelding seven years of age and under. On the following day, a race of two mile heats and repeat, for a purse

home in Pennsylvania, largely in Lancaster county. 2. Who These Pioneers of Lancas- ter County Settlement Were; and Where They Came From. 3. When They Began the Settle- ment of Lancaster County; and, 4. With Exactness, Where They First Settled in This County. PART ONE. The European Historical

creation of the county it is herein purposed to set forth the relations of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to the Province and later to the State of Pennsylvania and also to the Nation. We shall be able to show the remarkable service which this county contributed to province, state and nation, in our

little, in the shape of manuscript, prior to 1750 in our Court House. Practically all there is to be found there are the Quarter Sessions and road records,the Common Pleas dockets, the appoint- ment of constables, overseers of the poor and highways, the granting of Paper read before the Lancaster County

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

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

COUNTY TAX IN 1774 In a volume of Lancaster County Miscellany among the manuscripts of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, are found the sums of taxes assessed against and collected from the several townships and the Boro of our County for Provincial and for County purposes in 1774

of flagons,—one, a pure German piece ; the others, modeled after it by a German-American pewterer whose successive and ingenious copies of the original show progressively wider departures from the authentic German form with which he began. FARMING IN LANCASTER COUNTY IN 1864 By WILLIAM FREDERIC