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

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

Philadelphia and through Chester county, etc. About this time he reached Lancaster county and preached at Pequea, in the Presbyterian Church, but the paper does not have an account of this. In the issue of March 11, 1740, there is an account of Benjamin Sterrett, going home from a neighbor's house, found dead

air died in multitudes; that nothing like such heat had been known since the great heat seven years earlier. In the issue of September 25th there is an account of a very violent storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning. It is stated that the storm blew down stacks and chimneys, uncovered houses and

the hand. 1753. The issue of May 17, 1753, contains an account of the burning of several houses in and near Lancaster growing out of the dangerous practice of burn- ing off the woods in order to clear the land. The fire frequently spread and became unmanageable. Houses in Berks County were also so