exist- ence extend from 1718 to 1726, inclu- sive, except that of 1723. These lists were in the dark recesses of the base- ment of the Chester County Court House until 1879, when Gilbert Cope rescued them and much other valu- able early history, just as the County Commissioners were about to sell them

it was officially laid out by Court proceedings. One is the little old Herr stone house, built (as the date stone above the door indi- cates) in 1719, on the farm now oc- cupied by David Huber, Jr., near Wil- low Street, and the other is the Postle- thwait Hotel, at one time the Court House of the

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

to help quell the whiskey rebel- lion in western Pennsylvania. Refer- ence is made to this in the Pennsyl- vania Magazine of History and Biography. �His last visit was September 20 and 21, 1796, and there is not much known of it; it seems that he passed through Lancaster on that visit; but on his

--Pennsylvania. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1910 Description: 293-300 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 14, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245

Indians say was foolish. - 4 C., 706. Indians complain that for seven years Maryland paid no attention to their claim and that the Governor of Pennsylvania did not report to Eng- land how badly they were used as he promised to do. - 4 C., 706. The murder of Armstrong is up before Lancaster Treaty. - 4 C

owned horses, cows, sheep, bound-ser- vants, hired-servants and slaves, and how many in each case. While there is a column entitled "sheep," there is not one entered in that column to the credit of any owner. Evidently it was the New York stock brokers who first discovered the "lambs" in our town, and

castles and the battery in the harbor of Carthagena, and at- tacking the Spanish admiral with his flag ship and sinking all the rest of the Spanish vessels. The article goes on to state that Pennsylvania con- tributed loyally to this victory, and there was a great demonstration about the State House. The

Penn- sylvania its first newspaper a good many years before New York had any newspaper at all. Pennsylvania's next newspaper was the Pennsylvania Gazette, first published in Philadel- phia by Ben Franklin in 1728. The Mercury ran until 1745, and the Gazette until after the Revolution. The series of

Moses Palmer. Adam Miller of Somerset County lodged at Peter Byer's on King Street, and John M. Hunter of Lycoming Co., at Adam Weaver's on N. Queen Street. Jas. Bullock the Clerk of the House lodged with the Treasurer; Jas. Webb the assistant clerk at Weaver's; the Sargent at Arms at James Alex