274 HISTORY OF 



CHAPTER III. 



Governor Thomas appointed — The county dividcc] into eight Districts 



Several new townships formed — John Wright's charge to the grand jury 



Brief memoir of Wright — Serjeant attempts to instruct the Indians — 

 Ornish apply to the Assembly for an act of naturalization — Count Zin- 

 zcndorf in Lancaster — Visits Wyoming — Indians conclude to massacre 

 him — Singular incident dissuade them — Attempts made to prejudice the 

 Assenihly against tlic Germans — Martin Mcylin's house built — Church 

 council convoked — Irish behavior or conduct at an election — Disputes 

 between Irish and Germans — Murhancellin murders Armstrong and his 

 two servants — Murhancellin arrested and imprisoned — Indian treaty held 

 in Lancaster — Indians bark Musser's Walnut trees — Lutheran excite- 

 ment in Lancaster — Liiidley Murray born — Notes of variety. 



On the death of Governor Gordon, James Logan, 

 senior member of the council, discharged the duties of 

 president, from August, 173G, to August, 1738, when he 

 was superseded by George Thomas, Esq., a planter of 

 Antigua, as Governor of the province and territories. — 

 He was appointed in 1737, "but his assumption o'f office 

 was delayed by the remonstrance of Lord Baltimore, 

 against the right of the proprietaries to the Lower coun- 

 tries. He met the Assembly of the province, on the Gth 

 of August, 1738." He was Deputy Governor till 1747. 

 During his achninistration, events of a local and general 

 character transpired, of some interest to the reader; the 

 leading ones shall be noticed. 



Pursuant to an act of Assembly, passed in 1739, for 

 the dividing the county into districts, the justices of the 

 courts of Quarter Sessions, made and agreed to the fol- 

 lowing divisions: The first district was constituted of 

 Hem])field, I^ancastcr and Hellam townships. Hellam 

 is now part of ^'ork county. The second district cm- 

 braced Donegal, Paxton, Dcrry and Hanover. The last 



