times, and our near- ness to the Southern States, it is sur- prising that there was so little troubie and litigation connected with them. The only case of prominence was the famous Christiana riot. An import- ant case in Montgomery county was taken to the Circuit Court of the United States in 1822 for

but a plain man who did his duty and did it without ques- tion. One of the many who when Congress had changed a name which read "United Colonies" to the "United States of America" helped by his unselfish- ness to make a possibility a certainty. When General Washington changed his headquarters in April

of Pennsylvania in General As- sembly met" to be relieved of the penalties concurring with the sale of his property.(2) At this time he de- clared himself to be a "Burgher, citi- zen, and subject of Geneva," as he held an estate there which had been left him by a relative. His petition was heard with

United States, was just being completed, so that the difficulties of transportation were somewhat modi- fied at this time. Reverting again to the minutes, No vember 12th gives this statement: "A letter from Paul Zantzinger, accom- panying ten barrels of flour, six of which were manufactured at Rudy

hardships as well, but the cause of their going brought to the little borough of Lancaster an in dividual activity greater than had ever been known. Therefore, some facts concerning the general condi- tions occasioned by the war will show that the people of Lancaster, borough and county, who remained at

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districts, did not stop the Indian depredations. Many of the Indians living among the white settlers in the eastern section of Pennsylvania had become civilized, or partly so, and by 1763 the Cones- toga Indians, or the small part left of that once hostile tribe, were consid- ered friendly and harmless. In