Hamilton is said to have married Jane Noble. 12 She dled on August 20, 1784, aged 70, and is buried beside her husband. In volume 4 of the Colonial Records it is stated that William Hamilton, Gent., was appointed Coroner of the county of Lancaster on October 5, 1745, He was commissioned a Justice of the

Peaked Mountain Presbyterian Church, now called the Massanutten, of Cross Keys, the oldest of all the churches in Rocking- ham County. Mr. Hindman was a native of Londonderry, Chester County, Pa., and died in October, 1748. He is buried in the cemetery at Cross Keys. In the year 1747, he changed his

this spirit I have thought that you natives of old Lancaster county, with a full portion of this same modesty, may not be familiar with the influ- ence exerted by many of your heroic early citizens on the frontiers of our Province; how these brave men and women pushed out from old Lancaster, following