McCreary, Hugh B igh a m , John Reid, David McDermeet, John Reid, Daniel McDermeet, Daniel McDermeet,Jr., Thomas Clark. The names on this petition were all English and probably of Scotch•Irish origin. Many of them were members of the Associate Presbyterian Church on "Muddy Run." Ma n y of t hem w ere in

be of more �than ordinary fertility. The ground was broken up and assiduously cultivated, habitations were erected, in the course of time roads and bridges were constructed, settlements were established, villages wcre laid out, and then bcgan to appear the village school house and the village church

township. He afterwards married Ann Middleton, of Donegal township, in this county. Some of his descendants reside in Columbia, Pa. Colonel Crawford's Fifth Battalion was called out in 1776 to serve in the field, in New Jersey. When they were encamped at Bergentown the battalion was mustered on September 4

COLONEL JAMES CRAWFORD. On the 15th day of December, 1774, James Crawford was elected from Han- over, Pa., as one of the sixty freehold- ers' committee to "observe the conduct of all persons touching the general as- sociation of the General Congress" .... .."which committee shall divide into

himself became a Quaker. Those people were not in favor with the Puritans, and after having been much harassed made overtures to Penn, who invited them to Pennsylvania. Before leaving Boston he donated a piece of ground for a Friends meeting house, on which was erected the first brick church built in

and a half south of the ferry. Maryland's valiant army retreated gracefully to the land of hom- ing and our friends in the Upp er End re- turned to their usual occupations. In the year 1720 they formed a Presby• terian congregation and built a log church at the large spring where, or near, the present

the "Three Crowns Inn" (now owned by the Chris- tian Kurtz heirs). The marriage cere- mony was performed by the Rev. Geo. Craig,who was then rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, Pequea. After his marriage, and after the ex- piration of his military service, he read law, and was engaged in the