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

. It may have been a thousand years ago. But that they lived here is certain, and the pictures prove .t. Next in order, before the earliest colonization of which history tells us—that at Jamestown, in 1607— there is some evidence of a temporary colony which may have extended into the territory now

Sheriff of Baltimore an order to de- part to which he returned a threaten- ing answer, and in the afternoon marched to Barnett Weymor's where they lodged, and sent a message to Michael Tanner by his wife that they desired to see him. And upon his writing for the passport for himself and two of our people

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

uncorrelated history of a locality, that it is not so difficult a matter to write that history, as it is to find the data from which to write it. With this thought in view I desire to set forth in chronological order, and in outline, the items of our county's history found in the four principal source books or

�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