traversed from east to west, centrally, by a lime- stone ridge that rises and falls in an undulating wave, forming in the cen- ter of the township a bold, treeless limestone ridge called Maxwell's Hill." North the land slopes to the Little Creek, a tributary of the Con- estoga River, thence rises to the

for a shop keeper or tradesman. Any person inclining to purchase may apply to the subscriber living on the same. GEORGE GIBSON." An early counterfeiting case in the local courts and the severe penalty for the same are set out in the issue of October 17, 1751, as follows : " At a Court of Oyer and

, pursuant to an order of the Board, was read in these words: "To the Honourable Patrick Gordon, Esqr., Lieut. Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania, in Council. "Whereas, upon the Petition of the Magistrates, Grand Jury and other In- habitants of the County of Lancaster, presented to the Governour in

one of the most noted centres of its production. I, therefore, feel the story of it specially worthy of an enduring place in our annals, and it is with pleasure •and patriotic enthusiasm that I devote the time and research necessary to do justice to the subject that so closely touches the dearest