application could construct from them a map of our county, in 1729, showing where all the inhabitants owning land lived at that time. The correspondence as to the early taking up of land, finding of min- erals, conflicts of claims, the move- ment and activities of the Indians, etc., is also preserved in the

) Rupp's History of Lancaster County, p. 41. �First Steps Taken By Penn. But a project looking toward a settlement and the organization of a county here on the Susquehanna was inaugurated by Penn as early as the year 1690. What was done towards this end is as follows: In the year 1690 Penn issued pro

his man and threw them both into �the water, and tried to kill Cresap, but captured his man, Chance. Cresap finally floated to a rock and an Indian later rescued him. The Lancaster county men then took his flat and servant to the shore and kept them (1 A., 311). He went to Andrew Cor- nish, a justice

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

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

local history, it is evident that a needed service right now, is to index or digest the mass of historical data of our county so that those who wish to gather up and develop that history may find it a very easy matter to turn to such indices or digests in order to know where to find the historical mass