Assessment Lists and Other Doc- uments of Lancaster County Prior to the Year 1729. About the only original Lancaster county manuscript documents, now known, dating before 1729 are: A cer- tified copy of the petition for the erec- tion of our county, signed in 1728; the letters, drafts, surveys and

Province at that time. �file:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank, 1869-1953. Title: Early items of Lancaster County history / by H. Frank Eshleman, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): American weekly mercury. Newspapers

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

office," etc. It is further stated that clerks will be in attendance in Lancaster and other sections with books for persons to subscribe for the number of tickets they desire, obliging themselves to pay for the same on or before June 25th. By Order of the Proprietors, JOHN GEORGES, Secretary. In the

, Lancaster, etc. The issue of March 5 contains the following : " To be sold by Isaac Whitlock and Thos. Poultney the following houses in Lancaster : " Four houses and lots on Orange Street—one a commodious brick house and the other three square log houses—also two small lots and log houses— one on Prince

issue in our county, between the fighters and non-resistants. 1737. And now came on the elec- tion of 1737 in Lancaster county. For Assembly James Hamilton received 753 votes; Andrew Galbraith, 540; John Wright, 394, and Samuel Smith, 388. (American Weekly Mercury, October 6, 1737.) Gordon Howard was

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