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

Commissioners' Office, Lancaster County Courthouse, is the oldest found for Conestoga Township, and has never appeared in print.) David Jones Jacob Good Abrhame Burkholder John Stinman John Mundorff Roudolph Wilson Benedick Ashliman Adam Coul James Malson Jacob Rupley Michol Haubershik Hannis Nickle Klein James

been ordained; but, at last, after serv- ing for several years as a "reader," he yielded to the importunities of the people, and in 1725 assumed the pas- toral office. The Reformed people of Conestoga were a little slower in effecting an or- ganization. For several years their de- votions had been led

CONESTOGA. REMINISCENCES OF AN OLD TOWNSHIP When we think of the treatment the Palatinates (from whom most of us have descended) received from their oppressors in their native land, when their homes were destroyed and they were compelled to flee for their lives to such parts of the world as