application could construct from them a map of our county, in 1729, showing where all the inhabitants owning land lived at that time. The correspondence as to the early taking up of land, finding of min- erals, conflicts of claims, the move- ment and activities of the Indians, etc., is also preserved in the

- son & Dixon line. An Early Visitor. But though Capt. John Smith like- ly did not actually explore what is now Lancaster county soil, it seems morally certain that a Frenchman named Eitienne Brule, in 1615 or 1618, did travel through the Susquehanna river valley. An account of this may be found in a

escape they fired two shots, etc." We can hardly imagine that such cruelties of a petty war existed here in our county, but they did. Cresap, the Ringleader, in Jail. Meanwhile Cresap, the ringleader, lay in the jail at Philadelphia during most of the year 1737, and his asso- ciates were in Lancaster

Pennsylvania in 1682. In 1684 he visited the Susque- hanna, and in 1685 wrote a glowing description of the fertility of this section. In 1690 Penn had a plan made out and a prospectus issued for the building of a second city like Philadelphia, on the Susquehanna, to be the capital town of a county which he

, skins, etc., was set on fire by the bushes which were burning near the road. The hemp burned with such violence that it was with great difficulty that they saved the horses and wagon. They lost all their hemp, four bags of flour and six bags of provender." The returns of the Lancaster County election of

returns for Assembly, coroner and Sheriff, etc. - 3 C., 370. Act to erect Lancaster County. - 4 St. L., 131. Chechocecan writes to Gordon and says that when they sold Penn land he deeded back a strip a mile wide on each side of Brandywine to the head of the river. - 1 A., 239. 1730 A petition of many