, calls this the critical period of American history ; and wrongly the schools give it very little attention. The service of Lancaster County in the French and Indian War, was indispensable. Our county was engaged in all of the classes of war services of that conflict. We furnished a major amount of the

close of the French and Indian War, by the Treaty of Paris in 1763 (as soon as the question of what part of its cost America should pay, came up) in many quarters of our land the position taken was that, Great Britain had con- cluded "an ignominious" and "humiliating" peace in not compell- ing conquered

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