of credit and well deserved prominence to Manor Township. He has done something that will permanently place his name on the Historical records of his County and his State. Those who contribute time, thought or money to recording local history are public benefactors who in many ways serve the best

location and boundaries of the Martin Chartier tract : together with the site of the original residence of Martin Chartier / by D. F. Magee, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Chartier, Martin, d. 1718. French Americans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster

Township, Lan- caster County. On this land, four miles from Lancaster City, at a place called Big Spring, in Beaver valley, Phillip LeFevre, son of Isaac, made guns or rifles from 1731 to 1766, (Rupp's History p. 98). Joel Ferree, son of Phillip Ferree and Leah Dubois, born in 1731 in the Huguenot colony

was too heavy for a township or two townships to build and in this way the "County Bridge" became established as a settled plan for the relief of the travelling public. Apparently the first County Bridge to be built across the Octoraro was the stone arched bridge at Andrews Bridge, which was built by

usually locate in the County and work up a practice somewhere within their own home country. The result of this was that both in medical practice and surgical operations when such less experienced men had cases verging on the dangerous, and admitted to the family that they feared for results, and

period 1777 to 1781 was in this City in the first quarter of the block of East Orange street, east of Lime, on the north side. It has long been known that it is either one of two homes fronting on East Orange street on north side, within three hundred feet of North Lime; said homes being the residence of

1750 reciting the events of a trip made by him from Philadelphia by way of Reading and Harrisburg to Carlisle, in which be says : "From this vast forest and the expansive bed of the river, navigable to its source for craft, carrying two tons and under," Of course, Penn had never gone over the river bed

the battle for freedom and liberty of his country, which no doubt his wise vision clearly foresaw would come. Thus we find, while presiding as a Judge he became on July 9, 1774. a member of the committee from this county to protest against treatment of the people of Boston and the closing of that Port

enable the builder to add twenty-two feet in height to the top of the normal level of the spillway and this on account of the increased pressure of this greater depth of water upon the turbines 106 feet below, in- creases the power of the turbine near- ly thirty per cent. Thus when that �h. p. runs into