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phia, visited Rev. John B. Rieger, V. D. M. Pastor Loci, 

 Lancaster. 



Members of Assembly from Lancaster county, for 1738, were 

 James Hamilton, John Wright, Andrew Galbraith, Samuel 

 Smith; in 1739, John Wright, Thomas Ewing, Thomas Lind- 

 ley, Thomas Edwards; in 1740, Anthony Shaw, and the same 

 as before, except Thomas Edwards ; in 1741 and 1742, Samuel 

 Blunston, and the same as before, except Thomas Edwards. 



CHAPTER IV. 



York county organized — Election frauds — Sabbath school commenced at 

 Ephrata — David Ramsay born ; Memoir of — Bart township organized — 

 House of Employment provided — General Miller — General Clark — 

 Abundant crops — Distilleries erected — Partial famine — Indian alarms, 

 and horrid atrocities — French neutrals imported — Their condition unen- 

 viable — An Act to disperse them — Cooper, Webb and Le Fevre ap- 

 pointed to execute the several provisions of the Act — Another act passed 

 relative to the French neutrals — Notes of variety. 



As the settlements extended westward of the Susque- 

 hanna, and the population augmented, the difficulty, as 

 is the case in newly settled countries, increased among 

 the orderly portion to secure themselves against thefts 

 and abuses, frequently committed amongst them by idle 

 and dissolute persons, Avho resorted to the remote parts 

 of the province, and by reason of the great distance 

 from the court or the prison, frequently found means of 

 escape. These facts were urged by the inhabitants west 

 of the Susquehanna, as with one voice, for consideration, 

 upon the Legislature. The Governor with the Assem- 

 bly, on the 19th of August, 1749, made a division of 

 Lancaster county, and the part west of the Susquehanna 

 was called York. 



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