, William, 1715-1774. Indians of North America. Fur trade--United States. United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1904/1905 Description: [305]-326 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 9

Marshall has made one of the most valuable contributions to our local history that we possess. For many years he kept a diary, a "Remembrancer," as he was pleased to call it, which, I believe I risk little in saying, is the fullest, most trust- worthy and readable of all the similar productions of that

with him and started homeward rode 2 tavers fed then to Hollis fed then to Doe run fed took supper then home at bed time." Evidences of Masonic Activity in This City One Hundred and Sixty-Four Years Ago. At a meeting of the Grand Lodge of F. and A. M., of Pennsylvania, on St. John's day (last Tuesday

Gilmary Shea. Charles A. Hanna, Win- ser's Narrative and Critical History of America, and especially in Mr. Will- shire Butterfield's sketch of Brulé's explorations may be consulted. Of the French and Champlain it has been truly said: "Long before the ice-coated plains of Plymouth listened to the rugged

at the Camp at the very time the Rupp letters located him in Lan- caster county. In all the letters of the time, and the histories, we find Valley Forge spoken of as the "Camp," the words Valley Forge being not frequently used. In a letter from Wayne to Mr. Richards Peters, Secretary of War, dated at

element, some of his warmest personal and political friends were Loyalists. For a long time, the cause in Pennsylvania was in great doubt. In addition to the fact that the ruling element of the population was almost ex- clusively British, the further fact that almost two thirds of the population were

, of Pennsylvania, was made a commissary of prisoners. His wife was the granddaughter of Sir William Keith, one of the Proprietary Governors. In 1778, he was attained and proscribed. His wife made an appeal for him. In it, she said : " As to my little estate, it is patri- monial, and left me in fee

cash," issued paper currency to the extent of six thousand pounds. �Massachusetts and South Carolina were the initial colonies in the United States to introduce the use of a paper currency without a metallic reserve to sustain it, and the others were not slow,on one pretext or another, to fol- low

Wynne, was a Tory, The Quakers contributed three promi- nent Generals to the War of the Revo- lution. One of these, General Green, by the unanimous consent of military men, stands next to Washington as the great soldier of that struggle, while the other two, Generals Wayne and Mifflin,came from our own

the yard of the Work House, which adjoined the jail, on the south side, extending to West King street. The French and Indian War led to the usual results of warfare—a demor- alized community and the multiplica- tion of vagabonds. In 1763 a petition was presented to the Legislature pray- ing for an act