townships in which they lived. This County of Lancaster, being the motherland of such a tremendous percentage of the whole Middle and Western sections of America, is sure to become more and �more important as th3 spirit of his- tory awakens and arises in the robust and active, enterprising peoples of all

1607-8, both Henry Hudson and Captain John Smith were very near what is now Lancaster county; but, perhaps, not 'United States Report on Ethnology, 1582-3, p. 47. ²Fisk's Discovery of America, vol. 2, p. 490. �in it. The former ran aground at the upper end of Delaware Bay, as he tells us in his log or

and �can give thee or the Council a more full account of the whole affair. The Proprietor's Spared Friend, "SA. BLUNSTON. "P. S. There has been a consider- able quantity of rum used on this occa- sion, which was mostly borrowed to save expense; and it would be cheaper to send up a cask to pay it back

. You know, of course, that John Wright was the leader •in all that was brought about here in earliest times—industrial, civil and political. His activities were, however, more generally devoted to the whole county of Lancaster and to the whole province of Pennsylvania, rather than to local affairs. The

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

historical movements of those times have been set out in brief outline, together with the book and page in each case where the matter is to be found. These items thus set out for easy reference are needed for another reason. It is this: If there is no more general interest in future ages than at present in