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been taught." I have endeavored to verify the results of my investigation which I now have the honor to present to this learned society. Here I desire to extend my thanks to Hon. Wm. McGowan, Postmaster John Borland, both of Christiana, and to ' Squire H. H. Bower, of West Grove, Chester county, for

where the road leading from Lancaster to Port Deposit crosses the Conowingo, and here continued business until destroy- ed by fire in 1850. The Last One. The last mill on our noble creek is that owned by Mrs. Anna Wood, situ- ated about a mile south of Pleasant �Grove. This mill was built in 1784