OF LAXCASTER COUXTV. 12b 



At a Couwcil held at Philadelphia, Febry. 19th, 1729-30. 



PRESEXT : 



The Honble. Patrick Gordox, Esq., Lieut. Governor. 



James Logan, Clement Plumsted, "] 



Isaac Norris, Thomas Laurence, '[ 



Samuel Preston, Ealph Asheton, .' Esq'rs. 



William FishLourn, J 



The Governor acquainted the Board that whereas, by the liaw for 

 erecting Lancaster County, John Wright, Caleb Pierce, Thomas Ed- 

 wards and James Mitchel, or any three of them, are empowered to pur- 

 chase for the use of the said County, a convenient piece of Land to be 

 approved of by the Governor, and thereon to build a Court House and 

 Prison, and that now the said John Wright, Caleb Pierce and James 

 Mitchel, have by a Certiiicate under their hands, signified that they have 

 agreed upon a Lot of Land for the uses aforesaid, lying on or near a 

 small run of water, between the plantations of Roody Mire, Michael 

 Shank and Jacob Imble, about ten miles from Sasquehannah Eiver, and 

 prayed his approbation of the same. The Governor therefore referred 

 the matter to the consideration of the Board, whether the situation of the 

 place those gentlemen had pitched on for a town might be fit to be con- 

 firmed, and that a town should accordingly be fi^sed there. But the 

 question being asked to whom the land they had 'inade choice of now 

 belongs, and who has the property of it, because it may be in such hands 

 as will not part with it, or at least on reasonable terms for that use, and 

 this not being known by an}^ at the Board, it was deferred till such time 

 as that point coidd be ascertained. But as it is presumed for anything 

 that is yet known, to be unsurveyed land, and that the right is only in 

 the Proprietor, it is the opinion of the Board that it is more proper to 

 be granted by the Proprietor for such uses than by any other person. 



Mem. — The Governor having understood that the right to the Land 

 pitclied upon for the Townstead of Lancaster remains yet in the Proprie- 

 taries, was advised to approve of the place agreed on by Messrs. Wright, 

 Pierce and Mitchell, and the same was confirmed accordingly, by a writing 

 dated May 1st, 1730.1 



At a Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace held at Lancaster, 

 the third day of November in the fourth year of his Majesty's reign, 

 Anno 1730, before John Wright, Thomas Edwards, Tobias Hendricks, 

 Andrew Cornish, Andrew Galbraith and Caleb Pearce, Esqs., Justices of 

 our Lord the King, the Peace of our said Lord the King in the County 

 aforesaid to keep, as also divers felonies, trespasses and other misde- 

 meanors in the said County committed, to hear and determine assigned. 



The Court being opened the Sheriff, with John Galbraith, Esq., returns 



iCol. Records. 



