any taxes—not from 1710 to 1718. My study into the many official laxities and negligences during the first �twelve years of settlement here makes it appear not unlikely that some citizens may have induced the assessor, for little consideration, to omit them. As to the people living here prior to the

) Rupp's History of Lancaster County, p. 41. �First Steps Taken By Penn. But a project looking toward a settlement and the organization of a county here on the Susquehanna was inaugurated by Penn as early as the year 1690. What was done towards this end is as follows: In the year 1690 Penn issued pro