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Society of Pennsylvania in Philadel- phia, in the Taylor Papers. They in- clude practically the whole county. Those ante-dating 1729 themselves make a good-sized list. In many cases five or ten, or even twenty-five separate tracts, are found in one con- nected draft. One who had the leisure and

The Public Career of John Wright, Esq. John Wright, Esq., of Columbia, on the Susquehanna, was the acknowl- edged and unquestioned "father" or Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. By unanimous consensus of authoritative opinion, and by common consent, this name and title belong to him and his memory

persons who are one or more years in arrears are re- quired to pay their quit rents, and, in default, the receiver of quit rents or- ders a distress to be made immediate- iy, in pursuance of law. In the issue of October 4, 1739, the election figures of Pennsylvania are set forth. However, only those of

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

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

Items of Local Interest in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 4750 to 1760 Inclusive. COPIED BY H. FRANK ESHLEMAN. In our February pamphlet of 1918 appears the last installment of a series of items of local interest, and historical importance, found in the Pennsylvania Gazette, bringing those items down to