valleys of the Pequea and Conestoga. It is recorded in Rupp's "History of Lancaster County" that Martin Meylin erected a boring mill near the Big Spring, in 1719. These pioneers brought with them their ideas on the art of riflemaking and soon, necessity — their own protection — compelled them to invent

Francis Bailey and he was a printer. He also was a native of Lancaster County and a most prominent and colorful character of Lan- caster's Revolutionary period. Yet, oddly enough, you will find little men- tion of him in the published local history of that period. This was the man who first bestowed upon

by clay holes.” 19 William Willis, skillful bricklayer and builder, erected the walls of York County’s first courthouse between the years 1754-56, and lived to see his masterpiece of Georgian colonial architecture become the capitol of the United States during the period from September, 1777, to June