County business and politics. We know for certain that in May 1715, James Logan made a journey to Conestoga and Paxtang. 9 At that time the account book of 1712-19 shows that Martin Chartier and Peter Bezaillion were James Logan's chief fur traders. In 1718 Logan still referred to Peter Bezaillion as "my

COLONIAL POLITICS In 1729, the year in which Lancaster County was erected, both James Logan, the Penn's business representative in Philadelphia, de facto governor of Pennsylvania, and Governor Calvert of Maryland commented upon a situa- tion alarming to the established order. Logan spoke of the "people