all the rich val- �leys to the east, and the tide began to pour over Susquehanna about that time. Then, that same year, came John Wright and the Barbers and Blunston and others—from old Ches- ter—and the English settlement on Susquehanna took definite form. A great wealth of history clusters about

election figures of Lancaster County, of the fall of 1738, are very rare and very interesting. I do not know of them existing anywhere ex- cept in the Mercury of October 5 of that year. They are not in the Gazette, nor in any records at Har- risburg or at Lancaster. �They are as follows: For Assembly James

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

officers elected. Among them appear as assessors for Lancaster county: James Smith, Andrew Work, James Murry, Francis Reynolds, Robt. Harris and John Reynolds; and as County Commissioner, Robt. Barber. In the issue of January 15, 1741, there is a long list of unclaimed letters for people of Lancaster

stating that a+ Lancaster at a Court of Oyer and Terminer on the 26th of October Hamilton Carson was convicted of burglary and received sentence of death ; and James McConnel and Esther his wife convicted of being accessories after the fact to the burglary committed by John Webster, were both burned in

Powell and Emanuel Car- penter, its Assessors. As candidates from which the Governor should se- lect a Sheriff the county returned Rob- ert Buchanan and James Galbraith; �and as candidates for Coroner Joshua Lowe and William Caldwell; and the Governor selected Buchanan for Sher- iff and Lowe for Coroner