MASSACRE OF THE CONESTOGA INDIANS BY THE PAXTANG BOYS-A POEM By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XVIII, pp. 169-185, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster 1 County Historical Society, appeared an article entitled, "Mas- sacre of the Conestoga Indians, 1763: Incidents and Details." In this paper the

Locust street, Philadelphia, is an original paper,' yellow with age, which contains the following : "To the Honourable John Penn, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the Province of Pennsylvania, and counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware; and to the Honourable the

numerous Indian towns on the lower Susquehanna, was that known as Peter Bezaillion's i road, so named because it was the trail used by that important frontier figure during the pioneer period of the Iands through which it passed. Peter BezaiIlion, called a Roman Catholic by Governor Gookin — prob- ably

EXTRACTS FROM THE EARLY COURT RECORDS OF CHESTER COUNTY, PA. By H. WILSON EARLY APPOINTMENTS OF OFFICERS TO SERVE IN WHAT IS NOW LANCASTER COUNTY W ILLIAM PENN, proprietary and governor, made the first appointments of justices for the Province of Pennsylvania. Succeeding governors continued to

first burials in the graveyard, which probably was started at its southwest corner. They were probably some of the soldiers who died between Dec. 19, when the sick and wounded arrived at the hospital, and Dec. 28. Describing this period, on the latter date, the diarist wrote : "The misery in the

, the following of local interest are described: Chart Name of Surveyed Y ear No. of County No. Manor for of Acres of Hempfield Proprietaries 1720 2,816 Lancaster 11 Conestoga William Penn 1717 16,000 Lancaster 23 Freame Thomas Freame 1741 10,000 Lancaster (On the Swatara Creek.) (now Dauphin or Lebanon

about. Ninety-one years were to elapse before Lancaster County was to come into being. The Swedish occupancy of the Delaware Valley continued for a period of seventeen years, and during that time, various purchases of land from the Indians included at least part of present Lancaster County. This fact is