Col. Archibald Steele By D. F. MAGEE, Esq., LANCASTER. PA. In Archibald Steele, the eldest son of Capt. William Steele, Drumore Town- ship furnished to the Continental Army one of the bravest and one of the most loyal defenders of his country's liberties that went forth from Pennsylvania. A giant

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

Chester County side and passing through the big Ross farm as we have passed by the Worth farm and the old Whiteside homestead, we come to Mt. Vernon Bridge, which is on the State Highway route through Coleraine towards Oxford, now being improved by the State. It was built originally in 1865 and is of a

., and other land marks of a similar nature, lakes and rivers and streams. �This Deed was the resultant fruit of a Treaty held at Fort Stanwix and embodied in its recitals the conclusions reached by said Treaty. It will be noted it was made and executed some six years after the United States or Colonies

and on to the Ohio and the Mississippi Valley. Many of them were built, but nearly all excepting four or five proved financial failures. The state government became well nigh bankrupt with the failures of these canals to earn any income or pay interest, and finally when the railroads got to running

. His home was here. He was Surveyor General of the United States for a long period; and to him was entrusted the settlement and boun- daries of the vast territory gained by the U. S. from the Spanish Government beyond the Mississippi. Notes from Articles of W. U. Hensel and F. R. Diffenderfer. The art

handled the offices of this county under the authority of the King of England and the proprietors and their officials at Philadelphia. Loved and respected by the people of this county and relied upon by the leaders of the people within the county and state, who found him both a just Judge and a staunch

events of tremendous importance to this government had just taken place to the envoys sent to the government of the new republic of France by the U. S. to establish diplomatic relations with the French Republic. The Envoys from this country were Col. Chas. Pinckney, Elbridge Gerry and John Marshall. The

solicitor for the company. Afterwards on the 27th of May, 1921, as solicitor for the company I presented the petition and had decree of dissolution entered of the charter which was granted by the State Legislature July 1, 1868, or about fifty-five years before. This railroad was unique and stood alone in