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quehannah to Christian Stoneman, his mill, and from the 

 said mill to Daniel Cookson's, at the head of Pequea 

 and praying that fit persons may be appointed to view 

 and lay out the same accordingly. It is ordered per 

 curiam that Edmund Cartledge, William Hughes, 

 Charles Jones, Henry Neiff, Jolin Brubaker and James 

 Pattison, do view the place, and if they, or any four of 

 them are satisfied that there is occasion for the said road, 

 they lay out the same and make return by course and 

 distance under their hands to the next court. 



Whereas, At a meeting of the magistrates a.nd 

 others at the house of John Postlewhait, on the ninth of 

 June past, (1729) it was agreed that for the present 

 supply of this county, the sheriff should erect a building 

 sufficient to hold prisoners and should be allowed towards 

 defraying the expense, the sum of five pounds, public 

 money — which building is now nearly built. It is there- 

 fore agreed and ordered by this court that the said 

 sheriff shall with all expedition finish the said building 

 wliich when finished shall thenceforth be reputed the 

 common jail of the county of Lancaster, till the prison 

 be built, and with this order the sheriff agrees. 



November 4, 1729. — The court appointed, ordered 

 that, Tobias Hendricks and Andrew Galbraith, view 

 the prison and make report to the county and assessors, 

 accordingly, &c. 



From the following extracts — May term, 1730 — it will 

 be seen that Lancaster county had, at an early day, a 

 good supply of places to 'Ho sell ruin by the smalV^ — 

 these are the words of the petitioners. 



List of those licensed. May 5th, 1730, and rate of 

 license. 



Jacob Bear, 40 shillings; Francis Jones, 10 s. ; James 

 Patterson, 40 s. ; James Cook, 20.; Andrew Cornish, 



