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

assemblymen Jacob Alter and Daniel Mitchel lodged at Sam. Clendening's on N. Queen Street, and Robt. Whitehole at David Hall's on North Queen Street. Of the Berks County assemblymen Charles Shoemaker and Peter Fraily lodged at John Bausman's, and Daniel Rose, Win.. Whitman and Daniel Udree lodged at Peter

preserves, in our archives and publications, woman's first efforts locally, in political self-government. The year 1920 was the first year the ballot was given to the women in all parts of our country and at that date women began voting in this county. The registry assessors' returns, for that year, in

only the northwest corner of it. The Mennonite Tract lies in the heart of Pequea Valley, the creek passing diagonally through the center of it. The Estaugh Tract lies north of the Mennonite Tract as we have seen on Mill Creek and Conestoga River. The Strettle tract contained 3380 acres and is survey

in Doclrnts Nos. 1 a nd 2 (re-copied ) of the Court ·of Quarter Sess10ns of the said County. Of course, the county not being in existence, prior to 17 29, the only evidence and history of the existence of roads here, prioe to that date, are found in the ·references made by petitioners for roads etc

whose hus- bands and fathers have gone to the war, from our neighbor county of Berks, appears in the issue of August 28th. According to a resolve passed August 28, the Committee of Safety and Observation distributed the salt owned by Joshua Fisher and Son and Jo- seph Sherwell in "equal proportions

soldiers in Berks County. These were Tulpe- hocken .soldiers, who went out in 1753 against the savages, and had never been paid. Thus it appears that the lottery was an almost universal means of putting across any project, needing money, which the people were not able to raise in the ordinary manner. It

so close to Lancaster County, what is stated, no doubt, applies to our own neighborhood. James says that after having served five years he had reached the age of seventeen (p. 77). At this time he says he ran away from his master (p. 78). He intended to reach the Delaware River and escape to Europe