the country- man, both for pleasure and for profit, will be acceptable to us. Men who are well known for their ability have already, be- forehand, promised us many contribu- tiens of this kind. Our terms are as follows : Every week a whole sheet will be printed upon good paper, with neat and

safe in saying few of those old-time worthies are so little known as he. How few of us are even acquainted with his name,or that such a man ever lived in this city. This is largely due to the fact that our local historians, from Rupp, Mombert and Harris, to those of a still later day, have not even so

. There is an abund- ance of material for half a dozen in- teresting articles in the minute book, but I shall use only so much of it as will serve to show what manner of men they were who inaugurated and carried forward the scheme, and also that they made a complete success of it, being to that extent

water in the county better known than the one named above. Every t . � • resident in the county has either seen it or heard of it, and it well deserves its wicle reputation. At the base of an ,111 . � I abrupt, rocky ridge, a stream of the finest water, large enough to tmn a mill, flows quietly into a

of eighteen was an officer in a military company. At twenty he became a book seller, but when the trouble with the Mother Country began he joined the army and fought gallantly at Bunker Hill, and rose to the rank of colonel by the time Washington joined the army. Washington was much embarrassed for

Penn to let them live here. H e consented, the Susquehannocks becom- ing their sureties. They were next to the Susquehannocks in numbers. They lived on the Pequea thirty-four years. They had a town of 500 souls about two miles from Christiana. Other of their towns were in Sadsbury township and on