County business and politics. We know for certain that in May 1715, James Logan made a journey to Conestoga and Paxtang. 9 At that time the account book of 1712-19 shows that Martin Chartier and Peter Bezaillion were James Logan's chief fur traders. In 1718 Logan still referred to Peter Bezaillion as "my

earliest history of this county struck me forcibly. I searched for an evaluation of James Logan's local importance in all our Lancaster histories and publications, but in vain. The only comments to be found on the politics of this area in the first decades of its history were made by H. Frank Eshelman. 2