8th of June, 1777, the men were taken to Lancaster, where they worked during the summer on the farms. Congress paid them in money the value of their rations and the farmers gave them their meals and pay beside, but any one who allowed a Hessian prisoner to escape was fined $200—paper dollars. On the

Andrew Cornish, of the County of Lan- caster, or any five of them, view and lay out, by Course and Distance, a con- venient high Road from the said town of Lancaster to the Division Line be- tween the Counties of Chester and Lancaster." On October 4, 1733, with Lieutenant Governor Patrick Gordon, with

Some Early Lancaster Notables. "Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee."—Deu- teronomy 32:7. VALENTINE KRUG. The following inscription, in Ger- man, may be found on a quaint old tombstone in

, Lancaster, serving for �nearly twenty years, and making his home here, but dividing his ministe- rial duties between St. John's, at Compassville; Babgor, at Churchtown, twenty miles away, and also at New London and White Clay Creek, sixty, and New London thirty-five miles,from Lancaster. Mr. Barton was

March 28, 1820 (P. L., p. 150), which, among other things, empowered James Hop- kins,and his heirs and assigns, to cre- ate and construct a Slackwater navi- gation in the Conestoga creek, or river, from the Susquehanna river to the Lancaster and Philadelphia turn- pike road. Section 2 empowered them to

the early records of Lancaster county, and the similarity of the Christian names is very confusing to the genealogist. William Hamilton, of salisbury township, and William Hamilton, of Leacock township, were residents of the eastern part of the county in colonial clays, and extensive land owners. It

, Lancaster, Pa., pages 724 and 727, gives the deed of Thomas and Sarah Barton "To Paul Zantzinger, executed August 26, 1778. "The said Thomas Barton choosing to sell his estate, real, retire out of the State, both in pursuance of an Act of General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania, entitled an Act for