Early Conestoga Navigation The first effort to make the Cones- toga river an avenue of trade and commerce was the Act of March 9, 1771 (p. 627, Vol. 1, of Bioren laws), making that river (as well as some of the upper streams of Pennsylvania) a public highway as far as Matthias Slough's mill dam

surrender of Burgoyne, when they were sent from New York to Virginia, where they were pardoned. �Elking tells the following story: "When the Hessian prisoners were being taken from Lancaster to Win- chester, in the autumn of 1777, and came to the boundaries of Virginia, the Pennsylvania escort refused to

landmark and type of mansion built about 1740. John Wright, the brother of James Wright, kept the ferry on the west side of the Susquehabna river, and built a ferry-house there, and repre- sented York county in the Pennsylva- nia Asembly for ten years. James Wright was made a member of the American

that the 'esprit de corps' of the Pennsylva- nia troops shines out." Lieutenant William Feltman, in his "Diary of the Pennsylvania Line," is most interesting, particularly as he was from Lancaster, and writes of the soldiers of this vicinity in the march of General Wayne from York, May 26, 1781, to

faithful and affectionate Friend and Servant, "THO' BARTON. "Huntington, April 11, 1758, "directed, "Rev. Mr. Peters." Conewago and Huntington were townships in York county and Ber- mudian a hamlet in Latimer township, �also in York county, at the date of Mr. Barton's letter, but are now part of Adams

Alsace, then a French province, about 1727, and settled in Pennsylvania, and owned fifty acres of land, in 1733, in Hanover township, then Philadelphia county. The maiden name of the wife is unknown. They had two children, Lukman and Casper; the former died February 27, 1727. Casper married a second time