The Awakening and the Early Progress of the Pequea, Conestoga and other Susquehanna Valley Settlements, as Shown by Official Letters, etc., of the Time. (By DAVID M. LANDIS) This paper aims at two purposes. It is intended to set forth, (by means of the correspondence connected with the granting and

pages of marriages at Christ's Church and the First Presby- terian Church at Philadelphia and other nearby places are given. About 140 pages of early naturalizations in Pennsylvania are given in this volume, showing their seven years residence etc., etc. There are about 4,500 of these. These extend from

A Sidelight of the War of the Revolution.' (By HONi C. I. LANDIS) "With singular regret and concern we are compelled to address you. The good order of the Borough and the very being of its government must de- pend on the wise and prudent deliberations of the Congress upon an in- cident of the most

doubtless have continued had the former not seen fit to pursue a new policy towards the latter with respect to revenue taxation (p. 196). He states the first Act of Parliament aiming at drawing a revenue from the Colonies was passed Sept. 29, 1764. Prior to this date the Colonies taxed themselves. The

to Europe until seven years after their arrival in 1710, and lends strength to the statement that they had no news from home for this period of time, the walnut log house likely being fully completed early in 1717 before Martin Kendig's start. Rupp also states through the same informant the house was

Brecknock Town- ship, four teams, a repeating eight day clock, a repeating watch, nine hogs- heads of cider-royal and sundry sorts of household goods." HENRY WEAVER In the issue of April 9, there is set forth the great United States lottery created by resolution of Congress of November 18, 1776, for the

quarter of the century and toward the middle thereof, will give us another view of the intensive agriculture of this great county in the early times. I will there- fore give a few of them. In 1800 an authority replying to a list of questions as to where the place of greatest fertility in the United States

, Mrs. Charles Bohm and Barbara DeHuff, whose names appear on the list, have by their subscription shown their patriotism and have added a little part to that history still largely unwritten, namely the part the women played in the early life of our county and its history. It is worthy also of note that