East 3 D.N.

APLAN DESIGNED FOR THE

TOWN OF LANCASTER, MARCH 1730,

reduced from the Original in the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth at Harrisburg.

supply of fish. Atkinson altered his dam with a twenty feet passage for boats and fish."-Rupp.

In 1732 a violent contest for a member of Assembly took place between Andrew Galbraith and John Wright. On that occasion Mrs. Galbraith rode through the town at the head of a numerous band of horsemen, friends of her husband. In consequence of her activity, her husband was elected.

In 1734 an Episcopal Church was built in Conestoga, fifteen miles from Lancaster, (locality unknown), and a Lutheran Church in Lancaster. The seat of justice was removed this year from Postlethwaite's to Lancaster. The hottest summer experienced in the county.

In 1736 the first German Reformed Church, a log-building, nearly opposite the present church, was dedicated; after the completion of the new church in 1771, it was converted into a private dwelling and occupied as such until January 14, 1836, when it was destroyed by fire. Rev. John Jacob Hook, or Hock, V. D. M., was German Reformed Pastor in 1736.—Rupp.

August 5, 1736, at a court of General Quarter Sessions: Doctor William Smith, a vagabond and beggar, being convicted before the court of being an impostor, it is the judg ment of the court that he receive, in the town of Lancaster, ten lashes, and be conducted from Constable to Constable, and be whipped with ten lashes, in the most public place. till he comes to the bounds of the county, at Octoraro, and there be dismissed.-Rupp. In 1738, the number of taxables, in Lancaster county, was 2,560. About the year 1738, many emigrants from the Palatinate, Germany, settled in Brecknock township: among these were Jacob Guth, Christian Guth, who erected the first grist mill in the township; John Mussleman, Francis Diller, who erected the first distillery in Brecknock; Jacob Schneder, Francis Eckert, Herman Deis, Christopher Waldhauer, William Morris, Englishman, and some others.-S. Bowman's Letter, in Rupp.

In 1739, the Scotch Presbyterians were at their request excused from "kissing the Book," when giving evidence under oath.

In 1742 Lancaster was incorporated as a borough by George Thomas. A copy of the charter is given in Division X.

In 1743 a German Reformed Congregation was organized, near Adamstown, called "Modecrick Church."

Oct. 3, 1744 a meeting to organize St. James' Episcopal Church was held at Lancas ter. The Rev. Richard Locke, an itinerant Missionary, was the first officiating Minister. The project of erecting a small stone church, initiated April 15, 1745, was not consummated until 1753.

This year, Murhancellin, an Indian chief, murdered John Armstrong and his two men on Juniata; he was apprehended by Captain Jack's party, but released after a confinement of several months in Lancaster prison.

John Musser, [1744] complained to the Governor that the Indians barked his walnut trees, in the town, designing the bark as covers to their cabins; he asked £6 for damages and was granted £3.

In 1745, the Roman Catholics procured a lot, from Hamilton's estate, on which a few years later they built a small log church, which was consumed by fire in 1760; the building now used as a School House, was founded in 1762.

In 1745, the German pastor of the Lutheran Church united part of his congregation with the Moravians, an act which created much excitement among the Lutherans who alleged that they were compelled to hear a doctrine which they did not approve, or else to resign their church. This year the "dark swamp," once in the centre of Lancaster. was attempted to be cleared of wood, and a drain made to carry off the water.

In 1746, the Rev. Mr. Locke, an Episcopal Missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, reports the town of Lancaster to contain 300 houses.

In 1749, James Webb complained to the General Assembly of the undue election and

return of a member from Lancaster county, stating that violence prevailed, that many persons voted from 5 to 10 times, making 2,300 out of 1,000 votes. The election was confirmed, but the officers were brought to the House and reprimanded.

In 1751 a large meeting was held at Lancaster which resolved upon the erection of a house of employment for the special use of settlers who had greatly suffered from want of employment and the hostilities of the Indians. A farm was procured and implements of manufacture purchased. Stockings were made here, for the manufacture of which Lancaster became soon noted.

Lancaster in 1754. Extract from Gov. Pownall's journal:

"To Lancaster one mile. Lancaster a growing town and making money—a manufactory here of saddles and packsaddles, also of guns-it is a stage town-five hundred houses-two thousand inhabitants.

Between Lancaster and Wright's ferry, I saw the finest farm one can possibly conceive, in the highest culture; it belongs to a Switzer. Here it was I saw the method of watering meadows by cutting troughs in the side of the hill for the springs to run inthe water would run over the sides and water the whole of the ground. If the plan be used in England I never saw it.

A town called Ephrata, near Lancaster, settled by people called Donkers, Doopers, Dimplers, they are I think, a queer set of protestant regulars.

In speaking of Alexandria, he says, there is one good house in it; it is Lord Fairfax's and perhaps seventy others."

I copied part of Governor Pownall's Journal for you. In the Book was the following note in manuscript:

"When Governor Pownall visited Lancaster there was not one good house in the town. The houses were chiefly of frame, filled in with stone-of logs-and a few of stone. When Lancaster was laid out it was the desire of the proprietor to raise an annual revenue from the lots; no lots were therefore sold of any large amount; but settlers were encouraged to build and receive a lot, paying an annual sum as ground rent-hence the large number of poor or persons in indigent circumstances who were induced to settle in Lancaster. The Lancaster town was therefore too large at an early period in proportion to the population of the surrounding country, and its inhabitants suffered as much from a want of employment as from its local situation remote from water, it was not nor could it ever possibly become a place of business. The proprietor was therefore wrong in forcing the building and settlement of Lancaster. The town outgrew its strength, and looks dull and gloomy in consequence.

Two Governors were buried in Lancaster, Governor Wharton and Governor Mifflin. "LANCASTER, May 27th, 1778.

"On Sunday last the remains of his Excellency Thomas Wharton, junior, Esquire, President of the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Captain General and Commander-in-chief in and over the same, was interred in the Evangelical Trinity Church in this borough (the elders and vestry of that church having politely requested that the body might there be interred). The attention paid by Col. Geo. Gibson, Lt. Col. Stephen Bayard, and Captains Brown and Huston, in conducting the military on the occasion of his Excellency's funeral, did them honour; and the gentlemen of the borough in their military character made a very handsome appearance. "The affection which the House of Assembly had for his Excellency would not permit his body to be carried by any other persons than members, twelve of whom bore his remains to the grave."

When the British came to Philadelphia, Robert Morris, J. M. Nesbitt and several others came to Lancaster for safety.

"George Bartram, a merchant of Philadelphia, a native of Scotland, was compelled also to come to Lancaster. He dined out with a party of Whigs and took cold, which caused his death in his 43d year on the 24th of April, 1777, and was buried in front of