our society's proceedings. At the time Mr. Samuel Evans wrote his history of our county, the assessments of several townships prior to 1750 were here, because he has copies of some of them in his book. But it is very probable that some of these lists were taken out for the printer of that work and

Chesapeake." Then he goes on, "There I design to lay out a plan for the building of another city in the most convenient place for com- munication with the former planta- tions on the east, which by land is as good as done already, a way being laid out between the two rivers very exactly and conveniently, at

, who had been nine days in gathering, and were to march in two days for our Province. "Upon this news, we expected their coming until Saturday last, when he heard they arrived at Cresap's in the evening, and on Sunday about noon they came to John Hendrix's march- ing with beat of drum and sound of

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

records of early Pennsylvania. These records are the Col- onial Records, the Votes or Records of Assembly, the Statutes at Large, and the Pennsylvania Archives. These repositories of our local history, as well as of the local history of every section of Pennsylvania, in early times, not being adequately

�Bucks Countians lodged as follows: Isaac Van Horne at Nauman's and Ralph Stone and James Erwin at John Musser's corner of East Orange and Lime Streets and Gerardus Wynkoch at Judge Henry's. The Chester County legislators divided: Jos. Hemphill lodged at A Scott's on Orange Street; Jas. Hannum at