REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE Having in Charge the Marking of the Site of the Postlethwaite Tavern Where the First Courts of Justice in Lancaster County Were Held To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical So- ciety: Your committee, appointed to com- memorate, in a suitable manner

home in Pennsylvania, largely in Lancaster county. 2. Who These Pioneers of Lancas- ter County Settlement Were; and Where They Came From. 3. When They Began the Settle- ment of Lancaster County; and, 4. With Exactness, Where They First Settled in This County. PART ONE. The European Historical

Assessment Lists and Other Doc- uments of Lancaster County Prior to the Year 1729. About the only original Lancaster county manuscript documents, now known, dating before 1729 are: A cer- tified copy of the petition for the erec- tion of our county, signed in 1728; the letters, drafts, surveys and

THE SLAVERY QUESTION During the Terms of Office of John Whitehill and Robert Jenkins, Con- gressmen from Lancaster County from 1803 to 1807 and 1807 to 1811, Respectively. This paper is to consider the sla- very situation at that period of time which included the twenty-year limit of the tolerance

, four volumes known as "Smith's Laws on Pennsylvania." In �1812, volume 5 was issued, and in 1822 volumes 6 and 7. He also was the author of a treatise called "Land Laws of Pennsylvania." He was married to Mary, daughter of Judge Jasper Yeates, and when he came to Lancaster, he purchased a tract of land

, coming up through southern Chester county, and incidentally, along the bor- der of Lancaster, and some have the idea that an old gentleman by the name of Thomas Garrett, in the city of Wilmington, had much to do with giv- ing them direction to their friends in Pennsylvania. Another channel seems to have

, pro- tests and items already mentioned, which occurred in the early part of 1700 in Pennsylvania, it is no doubt true that Lancaster county had some part in those proceedings, and that negro slavery was in progress in our county at that time. In 1730 appear- ed in the Pennsylvania Gazette a list of

Manheim Township and Its Part in the Indian History of the County This society has often been favored by papers on the way in which vari- ous sections of what is now Lancaster county figured in the history of the dusky-skinned inhabitants who knew this section to be their home and hap- py hunting