, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Folder 7 Will, Pay Stubs, Receipts Folder 7, Insert 1 Will Copy of will of Agnes Geist, New Holland. Names C. R. Weaver, Earl Township, as executor, and George A. Weaver as succeeding executor. Witnessed by H. S. Shirk and Luke W. Martin

stated in the History of New Sweden, which Israel Acrelius wrote in 1758. He said, "The land on the west side of the river [Delaware] which the Swedes had purchased of the heathen, first in Minuit's 2 time and afterward under Governor Printz, or had acquired a right to under agreement, stretched from

. Melsheimer's thirty-eight years of service in the �Lutheran ministry, with pastorates at New Holland, Maytown, Manheim, Muddy Creek, Bergstrasse, Strasburg, Annville, Jonestown and Hanover, and of the substantial, lasting influence of the early pastors of the type of Mel- sheimer, shown by the continuous

and townships in the county also responded with generous sub- scriptions. The Moravian congregation of Lancaster made a special offering ; money was collected in the common schools ; and the chil- dren of St. James's Episcopal Sunday school, Lancaster city, con- tributed. The treasurer of the fund