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