original letters, etc. These, as a whole, il- lumine the early activities of our people before 1729. The minutes of land granting here, as well as in the other parts of Penn- sylvania, from 1686 are printed in Vol. 19, Sec. Series of Pa. Archives. They give a great deal of side light light upon many early

Govern- ment works and investigations de- clare that these rock pictures were made by the early Algonquin Indians.¹ This makes them much earlier than the time of our Conestoga and other tribes of Indians. These an-, dent rock-carving Indians thus may have been here before Columbus dis- covered America

., 464) Thus a great, bloody battle was avoided. A month or two later, however, there was a real skirmish on the west bank of the Susquehanna by people of that section upon the Sheriff of Lancaster county and his deputies, who went over the river to serve writs for the collection of certain �debts (3 C

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

200 Palatines (80 families) who came over in September are many Lancaster County names. — 3 C., 327. Also see the list of others. — 3 C., 328. 1729 Governor acquaints the Assembly that the inhabitants toward Susque- hanna have petitioned for a separate County. -- 3 V., 69. Debated and ordered on the

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