cO · LED ANON - - ··-··- ~ · · / • • - · · - ! JOY O•# 1,.1;1,r ~ l'IIA..IIW"'"""l"''J' MAP OF .Lapcaster County, Pa. Showing Lines of Conestoga Traction Company Figures Give Population of Townships Scale I inch = 4.61 miles SUPPLEMENT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA-GERMAN AUGUST, 1909 Courtesy, Conestoga

March 17, 1806 (P. L., p. 463), which gave the Gov- ernor the power to incorporate a com- pany to make the Conestoga river navigable from the Susquehanna river to Hamilton's mill, with locks and dams. Section 8 of this Act pro- vides that the company may enter on the lands along the Conestoga after

one printed below has just been found among the papers of a descendant of the Secretary of the Library, and is offered as a valuable addition to what has already been put on record.—Ed. At a meeting of the Directors of the Juliana Library Company, at their Library Room, on the 17th Day of January

instances, the incipient congregation requires some time to become sufficiently con- solidated to venture upon the impor- tant enterprise of building a church. It is, indeed, on record that, as early as 1733, the Reformed congregation in Lancaster was already in existence. When it is remembered that the

POSTLETHWAITE'S WHY WAS POSTLETHWAITE'S CHOSEN AND THEN ABANDON- ED AS THE COUNTY SEAT OF LANCASTER COUNTY? Giving an authentic sketch of the conditions as they appeared here before the scenes were changed by the first Europeans. Also, brief sketches of the Susquehannock or Conestoga Indians, the

among the records of the Quarter Sessions Court of Chester county, found in Volume 1 of the "Original Papers," page 50, there is a record that "at a Court held the 27th and 28th of the sixth month, in 1712, a re- turn was made of a certain road, be- ginning more than half a mile north- west of Peter

$5, -five dollars, is entitled to one share of the stock of the Com- pany for erecting a bridge over the River Susquehanna, at McCall's Ferry, subject to the payment of ninety-five dollars, in such installments as shall be called for by the President and Di- rectors of said Company, transferable only