paper money, to which the private issues of Lancaster County Scrip were somewhat related. BIT See Fip 'n' Bit. CROWNS French coin in rather common use following the American Revo- lution; were also issued by Germany. DERNIER English coin. Benj. Furley—Penn's land agent in the Province of Pennsylvania

). Lancaster was now known as the 6th Collection Dis- trict of Pa. At this time parties in business subject to Internal Revenue taxes were allowed, in many instances, to give bond guaranteeing their pay- ment, some o f whom deferred, but they were advised by Collector Hnmes that the bonds due at this time, and

irregularities in the Indian trade, con- sidered a dangerous man against the English, and upon several occasions held under bond guaranteeing his good behavior toward the Government and the Queen's subjects, his road never- theless formed the northern boundary of Manheim township and division of several others

public, as a means of raising additional funds, as compared to bonds issued during the Civil War and the late and more familiar issues of Liberty Loan and Victory Loan Bonds. The country was now fast approaching the titanic struggle of the War of the Rebellion, and conditions in Federal Revenues the

a few years later. At sharp contrast with a train speeding today across the county, from Conewago to Christiana in about 40 minutes, stands the passing of the funeral train, April 22, 1865, on the following schedule: Conewago siding A M. 11.56 Lancaster 1.19 Elizabethtown P M. 12.07 Gap 2.23 Mt. Joy

exchange and to the dearth of money of whatever form in the early days of our colonies, that of Pennsylvania in particular. During the heydey of Spain at which time her influence held sway over at least two-thirds of the Western Hemisphere, the Spanish "Piece of Eight" so named on account of the prominence

Two Delaware Indians Who Lived on Farm of Christian Hershey By C. H. MARTIN T HE earliest record of the family name Hershey obtainable in the Province of Pennsylvania is that of Andrew Hershey, who emigrated from Switzerland. He moved from Switzerland to Friedensheimerhof in Palatinate about the

Provincial, Continental and Federal Revenues of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. (By C. H. MARTIN) The first reference found to Provincial taxes after the formation of Lancaster Co. in 1729, in which the county figured conspicuously, was in 1736 at which time many Palatines had settled west of the