Lancaster county before 1718, in Vol. 4, Statutes-at-Large, p. 147, the rec- ords of the great immigration of 1717 (German-Swiss Annals, p. 203, etc.,), and the assessment lists above refer- red to of 1718 to 1726, inclusive, are the chief of these source books. There are seventy names on the naturaliza

The Birth of Lancaster County The earliest human beings who have left us any evidence of their residence in what is now Lancaster county were those ancient Indians who carved the pictures upon the rocks of the Susquehanna River and on the rocks in and about adjacent streams. The United States

CRESAP'S WAR The Lancaster County Border Struggle. Cresap's War was simply a series of campaigns beginning in 1735, in a struggle which at that time was about fifty years old—the border struggle between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The difficulty began as early as 1684, and was the chief cause which

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

the whole of the history of those early times. The following items from the first two newspapers of Pennsylvania give us certain phases of the life and times of our remote ancestors here in Lancaster county: The character of the commerce be- tween Lancaster and Pennsylvania in the infancy of the

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

the history of Lancaster county, which bears his name, some of the earlier lists were in existence and likely seen by him,because on page 365, speaking of William Henry, he says that his name first appears on the as- sessment lists for Lancaster borough, in 1754, from which a fair inference arises