THE LOCATION AND BOUNDARIES OF THE MARTIN CHARTIER TRACT, TOGETHER WITH THE SITE OF THE ORIGINAL RESIDENCE OF MARTIN CHARTIER. By D. F. Magee, Esq. The part assigned me is to locate on the ground, partly in Manor Town- ship and a small part in Washington Borough, (originally Charleston) the early

of Con- estoga Indian Town. After quite a search, on August 11, by Albert Cook Myers, Herbert H. Beck, D. F. Magee, I). H. Landis, Hershey F. Mann and F. S. Stoner, a suitable boulder was found in the ravine near the river on the Hershey F. Mann property; and a site was secured on the farm of Ira K

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

first appointment and commission of Jus- tice of the peace in Lancaster County, and it is interesting to read in de- tail the first official act performed by him, of which we find record, when he performed a marriage ceremony, uniting in wedlock his own sister, Mary Carpenter, to Daniel Fierie (Ferree

Rafting on the Susquehanna. BY D. F. MAGEE, ESQ. Rafting on the Susquehanna began as a steady business within the first decade of our existence as a nation, and gradually grew to very large propor- tions for 60 to 70 years and then gradually slackened for a decade or more and finally ceased

. The Legislature of the Union, may it always be guided by the genuine maxim of an honest, magnanimous policy, 4. The King and National Assembly of France, 5. The Marquise de Lafayette. 6. The friendly European powers. �7. The memory of those patriots and heroes who fought and fell in the glorious cause

then they were out of funds after bu ying rails and rolling stock to this point and was sometime before it could be pushed further. This was the terminal all through 1875: Col. John M. Hood was the engineer as stated, and his brother Will Hood, assisted by Joseph Galbraith, had had charge of the detail

THE SO CALLED "KENTUCKY RIFLE," AS MADE IN LANCASTER COUNTY By D. F. Magee. It is the purpose of the author of this paper to give to Lancaster County the credit which is rightly hers for the production of this famous rifle, and though in the minds of the public the name "Kentucky" is the correct

Two Famous Doctors of Southern Lancaster County By D. F. MAGEE, Esq. L ANCASTER County probably stands at the head of the list of all Counties in the State for the fame of the notable physi- cians it has given to the medical profession in the past half century or more. The name of B. Hays Agnew