those regions. Those Western peo- ple apply to us now for the early his- tory of their race, and will do so more and more. We, here in Lancaster county, hold a much more dignified and eminent place, historically, socio- logically,genealogically and economic- ally, than we now realize. Great uni

Lancaster county, about 1526. About that time, John Fiske tells us, Lucas Vasquez d'Ayllon came from Hispaniola, and "tried the Chesapeake Bay" in search of the northwest passage, and "ob- tained a grant and began to build a town."' But that town was likely south of the Pennsylvania line. Then next, about

their houses with axes, wounded �and carried them away prisoners, and drove the women and children forth in the month of January into the woods. Early in 1737, therefore, the Coun- cil of Pennsylvania sent orders to the Sheriff of Lancaster county to raise a sufficient number of men of the county at

to help quell the whiskey rebel- lion in western Pennsylvania. Refer- ence is made to this in the Pennsyl- vania Magazine of History and Biography. �His last visit was September 20 and 21, 1796, and there is not much known of it; it seems that he passed through Lancaster on that visit; but on his

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

Early Lancaster County History in the Provincial Records and Archives Read by Benj. B. Lippold (Original notes by H. Frank Eshleman) It is an old saying in the legal profession that the question is not so much what the law is, as it is where to find the law. It is also true of the undigested and

by a small creek. I men- tion this only to show that the Ster- rett ancestry lived in the western part of Lancaster county, around Donegal, as we all know, and in other sections. Chief Justice Sterrett, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, descended from them. In the issue of April 7, 1740, there is