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

Early Items of Lancaster County History A great deal of interest naturally attaches to the primitive affairs in our county and that is at present very rare—that is, because items have al- ready been written up. It is only by gathering up certain items that we can eventually expect to put together

Early Local Historical Items. In the proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society for the month of October, 1907, and for the month of December, 1910, may be found lists of certain items of early Lancaster county history gleaned from the ,"American Weekly Mer- cury," the earliest

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

the Boro of Lancaster for purchasing a fire engine and for other public uses to consist of 3,200 tickets at 13 pieces of eight each, 923 of which to be fortunate." The number of prizes and the value of them were as follows : 3 of 100 total value 300 6 of 50 total value 300 12 of 25 total value 300 40

The Political History and Development of Lancaster County's First Twenty Years, 1729-1749 Partisan political sentiment existed in Lancaster county at the time of its creation in 1729, the division of sentiment being on the very question of organizing the county. The econ- omical German-Swiss

The Position of Lancaster County on the Missouri Compromise. I am requested to write a short paper on our county's attitude toward the Missouri Compromise. The So- ciety has adopted the plan of having all the papers of the year upon one or another of the various phases of Lancaster County and