LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORY IN THE SEVERAL SERIES OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES AND OTHER PRO- VINCIAL AND STATE SOURCE BOOKS. By H. Frank Eshleman. In the proceedings of this Society for 1923 page 19, printed in the Feb- ruary pamphlet of that year may be found in chronological order all the

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

Assessment Lists and Other Doc- uments of Lancaster County Prior to the Year 1729. About the only original Lancaster county manuscript documents, now known, dating before 1729 are: A cer- tified copy of the petition for the erec- tion of our county, signed in 1728; the letters, drafts, surveys and

Switzerland, called Mennonites— persecuted, imprisoned and exiled by the Government and the established churches. At the very beginning of the settle- ment in Lancaster county their names were: Jacob Miller, Martin. Meily,Mar- tin Kundig, Hans or John Herr, Chris- tian Herr, John Rudolph Bundery, Wendall

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