Captain John Smith explored the Chesapeake Bay in 1606, and they remained in possession of it until 1675, when they were conquered by the Senecas, a tribe of the Iroquois or Five Nations of New York, who, after that period, claimed this territory, taking the greater portion of what remained of the

The First White Man In Pennsylvania and in Lancaster County. There are probably not a half-dozen persons in this audience who can name the first white man who set his feet on the soil that to-day constitutes the great State of Pennsylvania, And yet that comparatively unknown man had one of the most

Fitzpatrick and oth- ers deserted out of the service at Ger mantown, and are supposed to have gone to Lancaster county. In the issue of September 18, 1740, we are given a view of how the peo- ple were divided on the question of King George's War. It will be re- membered that John Wright, the pre- siding

and Sixty-four, and in the Fourth Year of his Majesty's Reign JOHN PENN. By his Honor's Command, Joseph Shippen, Jun., Secretary "GOD SAVE THE KING." This second proclamation had as little weight with the inhabitants of Lancaster county as the first one had. Even the generous reward offered was no

being asked for in Lancaster county. B. 625, December 5, 1739, recorded March 4, 1748, 120 acres were sold to Peter Feake for the same rental. He had water rights on "Tulpehocken Crook" for an "Oyl Mill," and, B. 625, June first, 1743, John Dieter and Catharine, his wife, sell to the same Peter Feake