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

purchase now vacated" (Logan Correspondence, Vol. 2, p. 289). First Attempt Failed. Thus the first attempt to create a settlement and to organize a county here on Susquehanna failed. But all this country was rich in soil and in Indian products, and the tide of white inhabitants kept moving up toward the

took Penn back to England that year, where he remained until 1699. Mary- land contended that the Susquehanna river was the southwestern boundary of Pennsylvania, and our people in- sisted that the fortieth degree of north latitude was the southern boundary. Twice temporary lines were agreed upon, and

Pennsylvania in 1682. In 1684 he visited the Susque- hanna, and in 1685 wrote a glowing description of the fertility of this section. In 1690 Penn had a plan made out and a prospectus issued for the building of a second city like Philadelphia, on the Susquehanna, to be the capital town of a county which he

London, and all Palatines indebted to him are desired to pay him for bringing them here, before he leaves, to avoid trouble. The runaway servant notices are generally •not very profitable, but there is a certain amount of history in the one I shall now give and also a certain accuracy of description of

Early Lancaster County History in the Provincial Records and Archives Read by Benj. B. Lippold (Original notes by H. Frank Eshleman) It is an old saying in the legal profession that the question is not so much what the law is, as it is where to find the law. It is also true of the undigested and