the erection of Lancaster county has long since been lost; but a certified copy of it, made 175 years ago by John Wright, was found some years ago at Harris- burg, and it is printed in our pro- ceedings and a copy also hangs in our Commissioners' office. Two petitions filed against the erection of the

the fork of the Conestoga and Mill Creek, and John Cadwallader, all three preachers, died in Antigua, off Central America, and arc buried side by side there. The Pennsylvania Gazette of February 2, 1743, has an account of this. 7Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 30, p. 291. (8

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

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

�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

THE FIRST WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN LANCASTER CITY: A COM- PARISON WITH THE MALE VOTE; YOUTHFUL AND AGED VOTERS COMPARED By H. Frank Eshleman The local history which I present to you, herein, is only six years old. It is valuable, however, because of what it records generally, and also because it