DATE ON STATE HIGHWAY SIGNS CORRECTED By William Frederic Worner Students of our local history know that on May 2nd, 1729, the county of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, was created by the Lieutenant Governor, Patrick Gordon, and his council. By an Act of Assembly, passed May 10th, 1729, it was

Compassville, a short distance east of the line that divides Chester and Lancaster counties. It was , kept for many years by John Miller. In the survey of the old King's Highway made by order of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania in �The Sign of the Bull, Compassville, Chester County

industry the county is principally indebted for the wealth and reputation it so deservedly possesses. "The county town (which in the year 1742 was incorporated into a borough, with a power of holding fairs and markets, etc.) , contains at least six hundred houses, many of which are extremely neat, and make

10th, 1750. (See Penn- sylvania Archives, Second Series, Vol. XVII, page 324.) For nearly four years he resided in Providence, Pa., as schoolmaster, and as organist of St. Au- gustine's German Church. Mittelberger described Pennsylvania as being "a healthy land. . . . It is quite populous, too

letter is indecipherable. It might be taken for an M or an A. In Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 373, it is stated that Michael Hubley served as Assistant Burgess of Lancaster Borough in 1765. �