many other original sources of information, including the local and metropolitan newspapers of that day, whose enterprise and impartiality were somewhat variable. Some of them published full reports of the trial. For the first time, however, I think, the subject has been studied with some care and

mine have already sounded the fame of the great men of this section. It does not seem to be generally known, yet it is a well-established fact, that in Little Britain township the first land within Lancaster county limits was surveyed and granted under legal and governmental regu- lations. This tract

, ex- cept as to cases then pending therein, either original or on appeal, unless the sum involved exceeded $100, and suits in the Common Pleas, where the sum in controversy exceeded $200, were, after May 1, 1826, to be trans- ferred to the District Court, and the original jurisdiction of the Common