original letters, etc. These, as a whole, il- lumine the early activities of our people before 1729. The minutes of land granting here, as well as in the other parts of Penn- sylvania, from 1686 are printed in Vol. 19, Sec. Series of Pa. Archives. They give a great deal of side light light upon many early

Susquehanna, from the mouth of the latter river up to the falls. But these titles both gave way to later English titles, etc. The First Indian Traders. This also suggests to us that it is error to say the first Indian traders in this section were French traders. Clayborne traded here in 1637 and earlier; and

near Nathaniel Rigby's, at Deer Creek, where being taken up for a spy, as he really was, and kept with them all day while they mustered, he learned their whole design, of coming up with a select army of men, drawn out of every company in the county to the number of about 300, including the officers

. Church buildings--Pennsylvania--Columbia. Columbia (Pa.)--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1914 Description: 29-41 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 18, no. 2 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.18 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal

the whole of the history of those early times. The following items from the first two newspapers of Pennsylvania give us certain phases of the life and times of our remote ancestors here in Lancaster county: The character of the commerce be- tween Lancaster and Pennsylvania in the infancy of the

uncorrelated history of a locality, that it is not so difficult a matter to write that history, as it is to find the data from which to write it. With this thought in view I desire to set forth in chronological order, and in outline, the items of our county's history found in the four principal source books or

EARLY LANCASTER TAX- ABLES--1754 r A document, entitled "The Return of the Borough of Lancaster, 1754," has just come to my hands. It has never been in print, and its contents are not recorded in any book of record in the Court House or elsewhere. It consists of five sheets of pa per, not bound

books, and I will spend no time upon it. The purposes of the treaty are set out in this newspaper report in a slightly different way from that stated in the historical books. In the issue of November 15, 1744, it is stated •that Mushmelon, the In- dian who received the sentence of death on the 5th of