Early Lancaster County History in the Provincial Records and Archives Read by Benj. B. Lippold (Original notes by H. Frank Eshleman) It is an old saying in the legal profession that the question is not so much what the law is, as it is where to find the law. It is also true of the undigested and

by the earli- est adventurers to the Chesapeake, one of whom, Sir James Argol, wrote to England in 1613 that he hoped to make a cut, "between our bay and the Dela- ware." Argol was apparently in the region of Lancaster County nearly as early as Captain John Smith and Stephen Brule. Vol. 4 p. 270

settling in one place, here in Lancaster County. (Votes Assembly 1718). In 1728 the products from the Susquehanna Valley were mov- ing on to Philadelphia in Conestoga's wagons in great quantities and constancy, according to Samuel Blunston (1 Pa. Arch 216). By 1755 it was stated, as we shall see later

the pioneer set- tlers of this county were." They were greatly reinforced within a year by Swiss brethren, who took up lands adjoining them. �We must now answer particularly where they came from, and in what parts of Europe did their families anciently take their origin and rise. Hans and Christian

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

' boundary were set in the ground and could be seen sixty years afterwards. Therefore, at this date there was fur trade between the Indians anti the whites in this section. �We see the Susquehannock Indians were the inhabitants of the lower part of what is now Lancaster county about and before the date last