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Early Local History As Revealed by an Old Document / by F EARLY LOCAL HISTORY. Although we may sometimes be in- clined to think we have well-nigh ex- hausted the sources of our history, and that there is little left for pres- ent and future gleaners, the truth is, that is altogether an erroneous and short-sighted view of the case. Be- cause there have been many gleaners, and some of them men with the true historic instinct, it does not follow that everything of value and worthy of consideration has been put on record. This is especially true when we come to apply this rule to our local history. Three extended histories of Lancaster county have been written, and several minor ones in addition. Men have been at work, who, in their investiga- tions, seem to have left no stone un- turned, no secret nook unexplored. They have searched out-of-the-way places and mined wherever traces of fact and tradition were to be found. Their diligence and industry have been richly rewarded,and, as a result, the history of our county has been as fully explored and as voluminously written as that of any other county in the State. But let no one suppose for a moment that all the finds have been made, and all the existing resources exhausted. Our history dates back more than two hundred years, and that is a long period to glean in. During all that time men and women have been do- ing and writing things many of which were seemingly of little importance at the time. Many of these things have passed away without leaving a trace behind them; many have been pre- served and utilized, and still others remain in obscure hiding places from which they are occasionally drawn by keen- scented antiquarians and historians. We have witnessed a number of such instances since our Society has entered upon the work of research and investigation. Our history has not all been written within our local boun- daries. Before we were an organized county, men of a speculative turn of mind had come and gone. They had traversed our forests and ridges; had visited our fertile valleys and camped along our many streams; had noted what a goodly land it was, and none of them ever forgot its many at- tractions. They spoke and wrote about it, and all coveted a home in this later Eden and this brings me to the more immediate purpose of this paper. Every member of this Society knows that the first permanent settlement in Lancaster county was made in 1709, perhaps a year earlier, and that the population thereafter grew so rapidly that in 1729 enough people had come here to warrant a county organization with all the requisite county machin- ery put into active operation. All this is recorded in our county his- tories; but it never occurred to any one that there might be in existence somewhere some important document, going back to a still earlier period, bearing on the erection of a county on a portion of the identical ground whereon our goodly county was after- wards laid out. Yet such are the facts as they are definitely and clearly es- tablished by a document unknown to any of us until a few short months ago, when it was sent to me for sale by a dealer in the city of New York. It became the property of President Steinman the moment his eyes rested on it. The character of this document is strangely interesting, and its contents are now for the first time given to the public. Where it passed the two hundred years of its existence is be- yond even conjecture. Doubtless it was lying in some forgotten or ne- glected place its successive owners themselves unaware of its importance and value, perhaps not even of its existence. By some fortuitous accident or circum- stance it was dragged into the light, and its story is now made public. It tells how the Proprietary of the Province of Pennsylvania, as long ago as 1696, together with some of the more enterprising men of that time. had entered into a written agreement to colonize the very spot on which we now are, build towns, roads and bridges, erect a county with all the re- quisite townships, which should be permitted to send representatives to the General Assembly; that would, in fact, have taken priority of our pres- ent county, and, of course, under an- other name. I have transcribed this interesting document, in order that it may in this way go on permanent record and be preserved for the uses of the future historian. It is possible, also, that, somewhere, at sometime an explana- tion will be found, giving the reasons why the scheme was not carried into effect. The spelling and some of the other peculiarities have been pre- served. It reads as follows: A Rare Document. Certain Concessions Granted by Wm. Penn, absolute Propty. and Gov- ernt. of the Provinces of Pensilvania and Territories thereof unto several of those Psons. who in the year 1696 Did Subscribe for Lands to be Layd out upon ye river Susquehanah as also to such other purchasors as have or shall subscribe in order thereunto in this year 1701 The Consideiaron and times of payment for ye S. (said) Lands being incerted in the Preamblos to ye S. Sub- scribers. That a Tract of Land Shall be Layd out to ye S. purchassors upon Susque- hanah River at or near ye mouth of Conestoga Creek and Extending up ye S. river upon ye several Coursos there- of Twelve miles on a Direct line or Less at ye Cnoice of ye purchassors or otherwise to begin at any place above the S. Conestoga Creek at ye Elec- tions of ye S. Purchassors Provided they be limited to fifteen miles front upon the said river as afs. upon a di- rect line and to Extend so far back as will Contain ye Quantity of Lands to be purchased as afs. Together with ye Proprietrys tenth hereinafter re- served unless ye quantity Exceed a hundred thousand acres In which Case they may add a proportionable front to ye river. That a Chief Town shall be hereaf- tre laid out by ye purchassors on any place within the S. Tract in such form and mailer as they shall think fitt In like maner they are Impowered to lay out all other Townships and lands within the S. Tract not Exceeding six thousand acres to a Township and five hundred acres in one place Except- ing ye Propriety, who may have one thousand in one place and all to be Layd out by Lott provided that every one shall have his proportion in Lands and lotts according to their Lands within the said Tract. That the S. Tract shall be a County and after there is fifty ffamilies setled therein the Inhabitants shall have power to Choose two Psons. to repre- sent them in Assembly and when there shall be one hundred ffamilies setled therein they shall have power to Choose four Psons. to represent them afterwards forever and that ye Courts of Judicature shall be kept in the S. Chief Town which Town shall have a Charter of Privileges for ye Good Government thereof and Benefit of ye People and ye S. County Shall be Called --and ye other Towns to be here- after named by ye Purchasors. And Whereas the Purchasors of ye S. Lands are to go so farr back for the same and are such Considerable encouragers of this setlemt. and it being likely that such a large Tract of Land may have a quantity of Barrens. The Propriety is willing to allow ten p. ct. besides the five p. ct. allowed by Law to Incourage the said purchasors. In Pursuance whereof a warrant shall be granted to the S. purchassors by ye Propriety or his Comissioners for Surveying or running the out Lines of ye whole Tract when thereunto required. The Surveyor General is hereby ordered to Survey or Cause the Same to be Surveyed as af. to ye S. purchassors when thereunto requested, he taking for his fees as Surveyor General fifteen pounds only and that they pay the S. Surveyor Genl. or to one of his Deputies for ye actual Survey thereof the sum of fifteen pounds they the S. purchassors finding Chainmen, axmen and Dyett. That ye S. purchassors may subdi- vide the S. Tract into Townships at such times and in such maner and by such surveyors as they shall think fitt the Propriety. allowing a Proportion- able part of the S. Surveys. That usuall Confirmacon shall be given to ye several purchassors when requested to their Content for their respective shares and lotts in the S. Tract upon payment of or giving Security for paying ye same to ye Satisfaction of ye Propriety. or his Comissioners of property And for the further Incouragement of ye S. Purchassors their heirs and Assigns to Search for Royal Mines on their own Lands the Propriety. his heirs and assigns Doth grant to each purchassor their heirs and assigns all royal mines in their respective shares or lotts of Lands they paying to ye Propriety only two fifths thereof Clear of all Charges for ye Kings part and their own and all of S. Lands Shall be fread and Cleared by ye Propriety. from all Indian Claim in Point of purchase. The Propriety. allows Lands for ne- cessary roads to ye Tract when ye Purchassors shall find it most Conve- nient for Carts c and ye purchassors are hereby Impowered to lay out ye same when they think fitt and that ye Charges of ye S.
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