maps made by Isaac and Jacob Taylor, surveyors for William Penn's sons; some letters and other correspondence of John Wright, Tobias Hendricks, Edmond Cartledge, Robert Barber, and a few others; a few early patents, title deeds and other land contracts; a few road petitions and proceedings; some anci

records of early Pennsylvania. These records are the Col- onial Records, the Votes or Records of Assembly, the Statutes at Large, and the Pennsylvania Archives. These repositories of our local history, as well as of the local history of every section of Pennsylvania, in early times, not being adequately

breeches and waistcoat, a good pair of shoes and an old felt cocked hat. The captor was promised 40 shillings reward. In the issue of February 3, 1737, the controversial correspondence be- tween John Ross and "Countryman" Higginbotham over the Pennsylvania- Maryland boundary line, as far as it touches

political leaders of the province at Philadelphia. (Pa. Arch. 314). An- drew Galbraith this year had a hard political fight with John Wright and barely secured election, standing lowest in the vote. Had not Wright's friends used a ticket which could not be counted, because not correct in form, he might have

account is copied from the Columbia Spy, to whom it was fur- nished, by "a highly respectable lady of the Society of Friends whose oppor- tunities for gathering facts, relating to the early history of the place have been numerous." Among the unusual points she makes are that the road to Lan- caster and