the most noble and heroic nation of Indians that dwell upon the confines of America, also so looked upon by the rest of the Indians, the men being for the most part seven feet high in latitude and in magnitude and bulk suitable to so high a pitch, their voice, large and hollow, as if ascending out of

home of Martin Chartier, which land was filed upon by him about in 1710-11, and immediately built upon in a small way at or about the same date. After his death in about 1718, the title was taken in the name of his son, Peter Chartier, but soon thereafter Peter's claim to same was assigned to Richard

home. The first thought of your author was to give the full chain of title to both properties from Hamilton to Marshall, which is all of full record in the Recorders Office at Lancaster, but on second thought I believe that the case can be fully, clearly and indubitably proven to the mind of the layman

about this bridge; they having inherited the land from their father and improved the lands with buildings. They were intellectual men and good citizens, who made their mark upon the community and left descendants worthy to bear their good name. A mile or so below this is White Rock Bridge, situated in

impoverished the land from which they fled. A people who for centuries suffered from persecution under the tyranny of monarchical and popish despotism ("the paiteint de hugenot") whose enemies are said to have admitted their simple, pure and noble lives. Isaac LeFevre purchased 1500 acres of land in Strasburgh

and Immediately over and a part of the dam. The solid concrete resting upon the river bottom rises to a height of eigh- ty-six feet to the spillway, and ex- tends in unbroken line from shore to shore, and then a long succession of piers and posts cast and moulded in one mass with the base is

now a farm of but 69 acres and 80 perches. The property lies to the southwest of Earlville or Talmage and is entered by a lane running westward from the center of this village. It is owned by Simon K. Zook, who lives on it with his wife anif daughter and son-in-law. A complete chain of title for the

pass over, and ending some 4 miles below at tidewater. In 1800 note is made of the fact that the first ark came down the river safely from Columbia and on to Baltimore, carrying a load of wheat, which incident was a matter of great rejoicing in Baltimore, as showing the possi- bilities of their city

its member- ship for the time being, in their quest for a place wherein to meet, the leaders and the statesmen from the states represented therein. So we may readily believe the statements of newspaper correspondents of a later date that this hotel was the centre of the social, business and political

itself as the first narrow gauge railroad in Pennsylvania, by running its first five ton engine, the "Samuel Dickey" down over its newly laid and unballasted tracks out of Oxford, Chester County, to Hopewell Borough, three miles westward, and took on water from Hopewell run a tributary of the Octoraro on

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