the barracks in Philadelphia, which was on what is now Washington Square, in the rear of Independence Hall. About the time that the Paxton Boys destroyed this Conestoga Town, largely augmented for their errand of death they headed toward Philadelphia to kill the Delawares in charge of Bernard Adam

used by Penn's commissioners to meet his obligations, and later for his heirs. In all, there were about 75 of these manors scat- tered about the State. Beginning near Philadelphia, they were estab- lished westward, as the frontier was extended. The eighth one selected was Conestoga Manor,whose boundary