coun- �ty, noticed in the votes of assembly, are not in known existence. They were numerously signed by Germans. The drafts and surveys of land here, containing much data, as to roads, woods, etc.; and the warrants for and returns of the same, are found by hun- dreds in the library of the Historical

Chesapeake Bay. The other is a small road laid out at the August sessions, 1719, of the Chester County Courts, from west of the Octoraro, across by the Shawana Indian town into Ches- ter county, and on to Christina (now Wilmington) and New Castle. There is also mention of a road by which the old Swedes about

CRESAP'S WAR The Lancaster County Border Struggle. Cresap's War was simply a series of campaigns beginning in 1735, in a struggle which at that time was about fifty years old—the border struggle between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The difficulty began as early as 1684, and was the chief cause which

its new separate duties; and he was made, as I said before, the president judge of the county. Our cause for taking so much time in speaking of this fine old character and leading figure, in the infant days of this county, and the region which is now Columbia, is that not sufficient is known of this

Mercury of October 5, 1732, gives an account of the elec- tion that fail. The Assemblymen were George Stuart, Thomas Edwards, Samuel Blunston and Andrew Gal- braith; and the Commissioner elected was James Patterson. In the issue of December 26 of the same year, we have an item which shows the extreme

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