authoress, Miss Lottie M. Bausman, described how ten Conestoga Indians,—the last collective body of the original inhabitants of Lancaster county when it was a wilderness—were murdered, by the "Paxtang Boys" on Tuesday, December 27th, 1763, in the work-house, which stood at the corner of West King and North

Indians scat- tered hereabout, as the fairly peaceable Conestogas, in the Pequea district, and at several native localities prior to the Revolution. A number of these reduced groups, however, were already on their way beyond the Susquehanna toward the Ohio river, or forced to the north- ern Pennsylvania

first view we have of this beau- tiful and fertile section is when it was inhabited by the great tribe of Susquehannock Indians, who are thus described by Alsop in his quaint, but forcible, way, about 1660: 2 "The Sus- quehannocks are a people looked upon by the Christian inhabitants as the most noble