, ca. 1600-1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1913 Description: 123-137 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 17, no. 5 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.17

lived a man in England named John Page. Of him little is known, be- yond his name. He was "of Austin Pryors," or "Friars," which, in olden times, had been "a monastery of the Friars Eremite of St. Augustine, sit- uated on the north side of Broad street, Old London, and founded by Humphrey Bohun, Earl of

affair at Conestoga, and immediately issued the following proclamation: "By the Honorable John Penn, Es- quire; Lieutenant Governor and Com- mander-in-Chief of the Province of Pennsylvania and counties of New- Castle, Kent and Sussex on Dela- ware. A PROCLAMATION. "Whereas, I have received Infor- mation

THE LOCATION OF SUSQUE- HANNOCK FORT. It is no exaggeration to state that there was no point within the present bounds of Pennsylvania before Penn's arrival of equal importance to that of Susquehannock Fort, and yet for al- most two centuries its location has been a mooted question. Among the other

, as has been stated, came fo New France (Canada) at the age of eighteen years, and spent the re- mainder of his life in Canada, New York, Pennsylvania, and the regions further westward, It is of him a great historian speaks when he calls Champlain's guide and interpreter "The Dauntless woodsman