Maryland. There is evi- dence of carelessness, too, in other respects, in the lists. And it may be that persons of very little property, paying little tax, were not taken. In fact, no one who lived on Pequea and Conestoga creeks were called upon for eight years after the original date of settlement to pay

committee shall meet at Philadelphia on notice from the commissioners of property or Pennsylvania, to take up the different questions arising to- gether with the said commissioners of property; and that these conces- sions shall be enrolled at Philadelphia in the Rolls Office, and are to be strict- ly

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

�Bucks Countians lodged as follows: Isaac Van Horne at Nauman's and Ralph Stone and James Erwin at John Musser's corner of East Orange and Lime Streets and Gerardus Wynkoch at Judge Henry's. The Chester County legislators divided: Jos. Hemphill lodged at A Scott's on Orange Street; Jas. Hannum at

of it formerly having been an Indian Town." There is erected on it a good stone house two stories high, a good barn and stables and other conveniences. Taken as the property of James Lowry deceased at the suit of Andrew Bogg. I beg to note in passing that the news of the fall of Lewisburg to the

JAMES ANNESLY'S (LORD ALTAMONT'S) TRADITIONAL RESIDENCE IN LANCASTER COUNTY, FROM 1728 TO 1741 — NOT A FACT — ONLY UNFOUNDED TRADITION. By H. Frank Eshleman. Rupp, in a foot note page 243 of his History of Lancaster County, says that "James, afterwards Lord Altham, was confined in the prison at

not do so. To-day, of course, is a desendant cannot pay a debt, that is the end of it, if he has not over $300 worth os property. If he has, the property over $300 is taken, and he is generally immune sorever afterwards. The first record entered in the first docket os our county's earliest Courts is

- cured election, standing lowest of the four elected. The most remarkable political event in our county's first ten years of ex- istence was the appearance and six years leadership of James Hamilton. From 1734 to 1739, inclusive, he was political boss of the county. He was of Scotch-Irish parentage