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

of civilized life among the several small tribes of savages who held what is now Lancaster county;° (5)Lyle's History of Lancaster County, p. 20; Colonial Records, vol. 1, p. 114. (6)Lyle's History of Lancaster County, p. 6S. �these prospectings of white men the first signs of a new order of things

of Conestoga, for a warrant for these men, but he says the justice only made sport of him, and told him he could not expect any fa- vors in Lancaster county (do. 313). He also charged that John Cartledge offered a reward to any one who would burn Cresap's house, and drive him and his family south (do

proceeded against according to law." There is also a similar notice as to a shipload of Palatines who came in the ship Pleasant. In the issue of October 4, 1733, the the Lancaster county election returns for that year are given. They are as follows: Assemblymen, Andrew Gal- braith, Thomas Edwards, John

. - 3 C. 381. The Commissioners report of a place of a townstead of Lancaster-and for Court House, etc., confirmed. - 1 A., 252. Isaac Miranda grievously complained against for irregularities in In- dian Trade near Lancaster. - 1 A., 266. Inquisition into the death of three Indians in Lancaster County

the history of Lancaster county, which bears his name, some of the earlier lists were in existence and likely seen by him,because on page 365, speaking of William Henry, he says that his name first appears on the as- sessment lists for Lancaster borough, in 1754, from which a fair inference arises

it well to give the substance of this newspaper re- port. In the issue of June 21, 1744, an ac- count is given of the Governor of Pennsylvania and the Commissioners from Maryland and Virginia setting out from Philadelphia together for Lancaster, to meet the chiefs of the Five Nations of Indians• in

notes now to be given are from the Mercury, and they will be set forth generally without any com- ment, in chronological order, the date of the issue from which each note is copied verbatim being prefixed to the �note. It should be noted, before set- ting forth these notes, that the almost complete