speakers here today, I will confine my task to quoting mainly the words of the recorded recitals, and giving the chain of title as it is recorded. Quoting from Book p. 28 etc., we find the following: "Richard Hill, Isaac Morris and James Logan, commissioners of property of Pennsylvania by rescript dated

Pennsylvania in most interesting and enlightening records. Our Society has in its Library a copy of this Diary and there is within its covers a graphic pen picture of the period which in its gripping details and its lifelike portrayal is unsurpassed by any other revolutionary lore. His residence during the

Col. Archibald Steele By D. F. MAGEE, Esq., LANCASTER. PA. In Archibald Steele, the eldest son of Capt. William Steele, Drumore Town- ship furnished to the Continental Army one of the bravest and one of the most loyal defenders of his country's liberties that went forth from Pennsylvania. A giant

location and boundaries of the Martin Chartier tract : together with the site of the original residence of Martin Chartier / by D. F. Magee, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Chartier, Martin, d. 1718. French Americans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster

Britain and Ireland. etc., and was dated November 1, 1759, and recorded March 2, 1760, in Deed Book D-536, and reads as follows: " S. S. Pennsylvania. To wit: George II by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King, defender of the faith, etc. to all these present shall come: GREETING

superimpos- ea upon this, with openings between each pier of fifty feet, and on top of these piers rest the driveway or boule- yard for autos. The driveway floor be- tween curbs being 22' feet wide with walkways, runway for heavy crane, etc., on north side, and a four foot solid concrete railing or sidewall

itself as the first narrow gauge railroad in Pennsylvania, by running its first five ton engine, the "Samuel Dickey" down over its newly laid and unballasted tracks out of Oxford, Chester County, to Hopewell Borough, three miles westward, and took on water from Hopewell run a tributary of the Octoraro on

I. THE OLD WOODEN COVERED BRIDGES OF THE OCTORARO By D. F. Magee, Esq. When in about 1905 the engineering corps and the executive officers of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company selected the Octoraro Creek as the sole source of their supply of pure water for their engines in use on the eastern

followed the emigrant trail south to the Carolinas and west of the Ohio River Country. The Swiss emigrants who entered the wilderness of Pennsylvania, and settled where the City of Lancaster now stands, were riflemen, and Rupp in his history of Lancaster County at page seventy-four and five , mentions that