Assessment Lists and Other Doc- uments of Lancaster County Prior to the Year 1729. About the only original Lancaster county manuscript documents, now known, dating before 1729 are: A cer- tified copy of the petition for the erec- tion of our county, signed in 1728; the letters, drafts, surveys and

grandmother told her, tells us in her "Journal" that the farmers on the Susquehanna about 1730 did not de- pend on wheat and corn, but on hemp and hops to make a living. (See Journal Hist. Soc. Pa,) To tell the number of people who lived here when the county was or- ganized in 1729 is a difficult matter. In

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

planned, extending from the mouth of the Conestoga fifteen or twenty miles up the river and back eastward into the country; and throughout England he advertised the project and attempted to sell lots there. In ]701 he had executed a carefully de- tailed plan for the government of this town and county, and

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

Government was not concerned in the fight. 1 A., 314. Germans pray to be naturalized-Lancaster County, et al. - 3 C., 393. Lancaster petitions to have a public road to Philadelphia. - 3 C., 394. Lnacaster County returned for Sheriff, John Galbraith and David Jones; Joshua Lowe and Ed. Smout for Coroners

--Lancaster. Lancaster (Pa.)--Politics and government--To 1775. Lancaster (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1909 Description: [263]-277 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 13, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.13 Location

out the entrails of the wolf." Surely there were Amazons in those early Cones- toga days! �A picture of the dangers and hard- ships of our forefathers here at home is given in the following item_ from the Gazette of May 11, 1731: "We hear from the county of Lan- caster that on the 10th of February

. Keith, Bart., Gov. of Pa., and the Deputies of the Five Nations. Printed and sold by Andrew Brad- ford." Dr. Jordan says this has never been seen in print as a pamphlet. It is quoted in Hildebrun's issues of Penn- sylvania Press, p. 58, but there is a Dublin reprint, dated 1723, in the Ridgeway Branch

�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