, calls this the critical period of American history ; and wrongly the schools give it very little attention. The service of Lancaster County in the French and Indian War, was indispensable. Our county was engaged in all of the classes of war services of that conflict. We furnished a major amount of the

Indian outrages. We had men in the three battalions of the Pennsylvania Provincial Battalion, consist- ing of 7 companies of foot (Do. 61). In the Augusta Regiment of Pennsylvania, we had Ensigns Samuel Atlee and Samuel Miles, two glorious names in the Revolutionary War 20 years later, at the head of

massacre, Benjamin Franklin sums up the situation by saying, '"This is another story of the method in which the cowards of the frontier- revenged upon innocent and helpless old men, women and young children, the outrages of Indian warriors, whom they dared not meet." On Wednesday, December 14, 1763, Rev