sites here today. INDIAN SUPPLIED FOOD Captain Smith states, "the Indian cabins are in the midst of fields or gardens which are small plots of ground some 20 acres, some 50 acres, some more, some less." The early explorers and first settlers depended almost entirely on the Indians for food. Capt. Smith

location and boundaries of the Martin Chartier tract : together with the site of the original residence of Martin Chartier / by D. F. Magee, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Chartier, Martin, d. 1718. French Americans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster

Pennsylvania in most interesting and enlightening records. Our Society has in its Library a copy of this Diary and there is within its covers a graphic pen picture of the period which in its gripping details and its lifelike portrayal is unsurpassed by any other revolutionary lore. His residence during the

seven men composed Steele's com- mand, including himself. It took all of Steele's indomitable will, courage and good fellowship to keep his men to their work. They were without map or chart and they had to depend alone on Steele's keen judgment and long experience to lead them true to the line towards

, factory, mill or mine which entered it throughout its flow, a distance of some twenty-eight miles by air line and probably twice that distance by the true course of the winding stream. This freedom from the usual unhealthy conditions effecting most all streams of its size greatly enhances the beauty and

province to be hereunto affixed. Witness: William Denny, Esq. by virtue of a commission from Thomas Penn, Esq., true and absolute proprietors of the province of Pennsylvania, etc." However, there seems to be an anomaly in the date and date of recording, as we shall see hereafter, for we find in the Book 3

proposition did not mature for some six or seven years afterwards; its consideration having been arrested by the breaking out of the Civil War and for the time it was well nigh forgotten. This proposition was a big and ambitious one and was no less than a great trunk line with its starting point in Wilmington

of the American rifle, identifies the French Huguenot as the originators of the arm. "In Shooting and Fishing" in 1897, she says. "The history of Pennsylvania's early settlers has been to some extent written �up. Its German, Swiss, Dutch, Irish, Welsh and French settlers given their respective places

exposure, whether used in the masts and spars of our fleets of sailing ships of that day ; or as building lumber in millions of our houses, barns, bridges, mills and factories, the quality of the Pennsylvania white pine at that day has never been equalled since by any lumber grown in the east. This wood