, in Strasburg township, to North East, in Maryland. This mill was probably on Big Beaver creek, above Wm. Smith's mill, where the Zooks in our day have a fulling mill. Daniel Ferree and Isaac Lefever took out a patent for 2,000 acres of land in Strasburg township in 1733. In the year 1734 Casper

be a prejudice against the German Mennonites, and the name Strasburg was entirely ignored, and what is now known as Stras- burg and Paradise townships was in- cluded within the boundaries of Leacock township, although at that time patent deeds had been granted to the first settlers for over 20,000

, and he was encouraged to undertake a second term. This also proving satisfactory, he had by this time become so thoroughly attached to the school and children that he re- solved to continue a teacher. Many methods were introduced for the improvement of his pupils and to place the school on a better

life, while menaced by a savage foe, all to escape from British persecution, intolerance and bigotry. When settled in their new homes, in the Octorara Valley, a common im- pulse seized them, the desire to facili- tate the opportunities for the educa- tion of their children. It was here the British laws