and genteel living off my landed estate, to be proportionately borne by my legatees." Major James Mercer was a witness to the will. The following flattering extract, taken from a letter of Lieutenant Col- onel, later General, Hand, of this county, to his wife, dated Camp Pros- pect Hill, November 10

Governor Wood, of Virginia. The interesting letter I have in my hands was purchased a few weeks ago by me at an auction sale of autographs and other library wares. It was writ- ten by James Wood, and although the writer was here in Lancaster, appar- ently on a special mission, our local annals have

COLONEL JAMES CRAWFORD. On the 15th day of December, 1774, James Crawford was elected from Han- over, Pa., as one of the sixty freehold- ers' committee to "observe the conduct of all persons touching the general as- sociation of the General Congress" .... .."which committee shall divide into

COLONEL JAMES CRAWFORD, The paper read at the meeting of the Historical Society of Lancaster County on September 2, 1898, prepared by J. W. Sheaffer, of Illinois, contains some statements not borne out by historical data. General Anthony Wayne's troops never encamped in Mount Joy, in Lan- caster