this family reside in Balti- more and Boston. Isaac Marauda, one of the French In- dian traders, had his trading post near Campbell's "Ordinary." His daughter, Mary, married Governor James Hamil- ton, of Pennsylvania. He died in 1732. Alexander Hutchinson lived along Little Chickies creek. On the north

deal of information; but, to understand its peculiar posi- tion and relations, it is necessary to �refer briefly to certain preliminary events. The earliest settlements of the Ger- mans in Pennsylvania may be said, in a general way, to have been made in two districts, which were then regard- ed as

, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1899. Peace to the Brave! They do not need our praising, For in all hearts is treasured every name; Yet for the future we to-day are raising A tablet to their fame. And while the trees put on their fading splendors And trail their banners like to knights of old

Between Martin Bowman and Elizabeth his wife of the Town- ship of Lebanon in the County of Lan- caster and Province of Pennsylvania, of the one part and Abraham Miller of Lebanon Township county and prov- ince aforesaid of the other part— Whereas William Penn formerly of London and then of Dublin, Esquire

." This abbreviated record os the suit means that the defendant appeared and demanded an imparlance and a rule allowing the same was granted; that he offered Thomas Parrin as a bail, who was held in ten pounds in a bond conditioned that John Jones, this desendant, would pay the judgment and costs

home in Pennsylvania, largely in Lancaster county. 2. Who These Pioneers of Lancas- ter County Settlement Were; and Where They Came From. 3. When They Began the Settle- ment of Lancaster County; and, 4. With Exactness, Where They First Settled in This County. PART ONE. The European Historical

the whole of the history of those early times. The following items from the first two newspapers of Pennsylvania give us certain phases of the life and times of our remote ancestors here in Lancaster county: The character of the commerce be- tween Lancaster and Pennsylvania in the infancy of the

Penn's Settlement on the River of Susquehannagh by A. Day Bradley Some nine years after the grant of Pennsylvania, William Penn published in London plans for the establishment of a settlement on the Susquehanna. A prospectus, Some Proposals for a Second Settle- ment in the Province of Pennsylvania

Cape Hinlopen to the Falls of the Delaware and thence westward to the Great Falls in the Susquehanna, near the mouth of the Conewago Creek." 1 The Lancaster County Historical Society held a meeting on April 1 with a program commemorating the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Found- ing of Pennsylvania

COUNTY TAX IN 1774 In a volume of Lancaster County Miscellany among the manuscripts of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, are found the sums of taxes assessed against and collected from the several townships and the Boro of our County for Provincial and for County purposes in 1774