gi nal s, or t he i r de - scendants, were willing to renew the work, and that some of them were the immediate predecessors of Henfrey's company. [TO BE CONTINUED.] �Old Mills and Country Ordinaries. The pioneer settlers in the " Upper End" of what is now Lancaster county dame from the north of

water course above the dam came down in the night-time and tore the dam away. The Legislature compelled Mr. Atkinson to construct a passage way in his dam to al- low the fish to ascend the stream. Mr. Atkinson died in 1739, and the mill was run by his son, Matthew Atkinson. Thomas Doyle, of Lancaster

election of deputies to meet in convention to con- sider the resolves of Congress. Those chosen from this county were : William A. Atlee, of Lancaster, and the second Judge of the Supreme Court under the Constitution soon to be enacted. Lodwick Lowman, who was an officer in the Revolutionary war, and

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

SKETCH OF JOSEPH SIMON, About the year 1742 several Hebrew families settled in Lancaster town and engaged in shop-keeping, in which calling they prospered. I will refer to one of them, who became one of the wealthiest and most prominent Indian traders within the Province of Penn- sylvania, and the