. This being the nearest market along navigable water, it com- manded a large portion of the trade from this county for several years, and to the time when a public road was built to Newport on the Christiana creek, in Dela- ware. Mr. Smith bad two sons who be- came prominent in Colonial times, namely

. He had the reputation of making them better than anybody else, and he was never able to turn out half enough of them. Mr. Hersh was a very old man when he died in 1844. John Bassler died in 1858 at a good old age. He was one of the largest men in his section,weigh- ing over four hundred pounds. At