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chestnut tree near the western branch of the French 

 creek, thence northeast by east three hundred and fifty 

 perches to a red oak, thence north east one hundred and 

 ninety perches to a chestnut oak near another branch of 

 the said French creek, thence north east by north two 

 thousand one hundred perches to a corner marked white 

 oak, standing by the said river Schuylkill, about three 

 quarters of a mile below the house of John Burroughs. 



Henry Hayes, Samuel Hollingsworth, Philip Taylor, 

 Elisha Gatchel, James James, John Wright, Tobias 

 Hendricks, Samuel Blunston, Andrew Cornish, Thomas 

 Edwards, John Musgrove. 



"And the upper parts of the province described as 

 aforesaid, are hereby declared to be erected, and are 

 accordingly erected into a county by the name of 

 Lancaster County.* And 'tis ordered that the same 

 be signified to the House of Representatives, and the 

 return laid before them for their direction in describing 

 the boundaries thereof in the bill now before them for 

 estabhshing courts of judicature, &c. within the same. 



"May 8th, 1729, the governor recommended to the 

 board to consider of proper persons to be appointed 

 justices of the peace of the said county of Lancaster, 

 and the following persons were named justices, viz : — 

 John Wright, Tobias Hendricks, Samuel Blunston, 

 Andrew Cornish, Thomas Edwards, Caleb Pierce, 

 Thomas Reid, and Samuel Jones, Esqrs. 



*Lancaster county was named by John Wright — "When 

 Lancaster county was laid off from Chester, my grand father, 

 says William Wright of Columbia, in a letter to George Ford, 

 Esq., gave it, its name, after the county he came from in Eng- 

 land." Wright came from Lancashire, England, in 1714, and 

 settled in Chester; in 1726 he moved to, and settled on the 

 Susquehanna, at Columbia. 



