CRESAP'S WAR The Lancaster County Border Struggle. Cresap's War was simply a series of campaigns beginning in 1735, in a struggle which at that time was about fifty years old—the border struggle between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The difficulty began as early as 1684, and was the chief cause which

grantors were the King and the "Great Men" of the Susquehannocks; and a writing was drawn up in the nature of a deed. All this may be found in Vol. 3, of Maryland Archives, p. 66. The next sale, that to the Swedes, is set forth in Campanius, p. 23, and it in- cluded the lands from the Delaware to the

Lincoln's Visit to Lancaster in 1861; And The Passing of His Corpse in 1865. In this paper I will endeavor to carry out the request made by this Society of me a month ago. I am by your direction to narrate the events connected with Lincoln's eighteen- minute stop-over in Lancaster on the 22nd of

THE GREAT CONESTOGA ROAD Part I.—The Laying Out and Opening of the Great Conestoga Road From Philadelphia to Rock Hill (formerly Postlethwaite's), on the Conestoga River, 1683 to 1734: (Also, Auxiliary Roads Into the Susquehanna Valley From the Delaware Settlements, Enumerated). The first great

under (1) Statutes at Large, Vol. 4, p. 133, Sec. 6. �the girder, which is to be done before ye floor be paved there." This bench and bar were accordingly supplanted by permanent ones. The room con- tained a large fire hearth, on either side of which were two pillars, set upon cut stones. Underneath the

SKETCH OF JUDGE THOMAS EDWARDS My first purpose in arranging into an article some facts about Thomas Edwards was to give a short review of his public career only. But *hen I had arranged and expanded the data on that phase of the man's life into an article I found that it required something of his