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

note, page 291 of Vol. 5, of the Jesuit .Relations, that splendid history of seventy-two volumes made up of the diaries and doings of the Jesuits as they wrote them on the spot. It is there stated that Brule was with Champlain and that Champlain sent him among the Hurons, and that the Hurons in turn

of Conestoga, for a warrant for these men, but he says the justice only made sport of him, and told him he could not expect any fa- vors in Lancaster county (do. 313). He also charged that John Cartledge offered a reward to any one who would burn Cresap's house, and drive him and his family south (do

Early Items of Lancaster County History A great deal of interest naturally attaches to the primitive affairs in our county and that is at present very rare—that is, because items have al- ready been written up. It is only by gathering up certain items that we can eventually expect to put together

-- to have a key or index-topical to all of Lancas- ter County's relations to those times in this Province, as it then was, in those early days. A careful research from the beginning of our county down to 1750 has been made, and all the local items and references to the county's appearance in the

the Black Horse North Queen Street. The York County delegation lodged at Col. Francis Johnston's, but the location is not given. Thos. Campbell, Alex. Coheal, Alex. Turner and Wm. McPherson so lodged; and Yost Herbach and Jacob Hostetter lodged at Peter Byers' on King Street. Of the Cumberland County