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

Pennsylvania in 1682. In 1684 he visited the Susque- hanna, and in 1685 wrote a glowing description of the fertility of this section. In 1690 Penn had a plan made out and a prospectus issued for the building of a second city like Philadelphia, on the Susquehanna, to be the capital town of a county which he

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

; John Young, 1/ 4 lot; Marks Young, 1 lot. �file:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank, 1869-1953. Title: Early Lancaster taxables--1754 / by H. Frank Eshleman, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Taxation--Pennsylvania

persons who are one or more years in arrears are re- quired to pay their quit rents, and, in default, the receiver of quit rents or- ders a distress to be made immediate- iy, in pursuance of law. In the issue of October 4, 1739, the election figures of Pennsylvania are set forth. However, only those of

Penn- sylvania its first newspaper a good many years before New York had any newspaper at all. Pennsylvania's next newspaper was the Pennsylvania Gazette, first published in Philadel- phia by Ben Franklin in 1728. The Mercury ran until 1745, and the Gazette until after the Revolution. The series of

. The number of women voting at the different precincts were as follows: Adamstown Boro, 83; Akron Boro, 45; Hart Twp., 47; Brecknock Twp., (Bowmansville District), 21, and Muddy Creek, 6; Caernarvon Township, 60; Christiana Boro, 130; Clay Township, 44; Cocalico Township, East, 93; West Cocalico

Philadelphia, passed through Merion, Haverford and Rad- nor; also what is now Downingtown, Coatesville and Christiana, which was then known as John Minshall's. This is practically the course of the Phila- delphia road to-day. West of Chris- tiana, however, it continued its trend south of the Pennsylvania

to collect of this humble building, destined to be the theatre of a series of wonderful and momentous events and proceedings. Its Cost and First Events. It surely was an humble one, be- cause the law of May 12, 1729, allowed the Commissioners to raise only £300 of Pennsylvania money by taxation to