movements of the Susquehannocks covering this period mainly through references from the Maryland Ar- chives and Jesuit Relations. As I did not have access to these, I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to the valuable work on Lancaster County Indian History recently pub- lished by H. Frank Eshleman for

communications to Raystown. In the middle of June three companies of highlanders de- parted from Lancaster, where they had presumably been stationed for some time, for Carlisle, under orders from Colonel Bouquet." It appears that it was during the Forbes expedition that the billeting of troops in the borough

, for the province was a vast Stretch of thickly set wood- land, and many of these Germans set- tled in Lancaster county, clearing the forest and establishing homes. Their reports sent to the Fatherland encour- aged others to come, and soon the German immigrants became so numer- ous as to alarm the

the estate of Sylvester Garland, 700 acres of good land,and grist and fulling mill, For information apply to James Ander- son, minister, late of New York, now �at Donnigal, in the County of Chester, Pa., who has the power of disposing of the same." September 14, 1727 (Palatines): The ship Fame, from

both English and German. I notice that in the Second Series of the Pennsylvania Archives, Volume 2, page 489, under the head of provincial officers and soldiers, we have for Lancaster county Captain Thomas Edwards, December 1, 1744; Lieut. Reese Morgan, December 1, 1744; "Earl Town, Lancaster county

longest stretch of all, between the New HoIland Pike and the river, except for short sections. But we can still Iocate it accurately enough by existing township lines, for when the magistrates and freeholders of the newly erected county of Lancaster met in the summer of 1729, to lay out townships, Peter's

. "Lancaster "Go. Washington." The Reasons For Their Arrest. After this introduction and the pre- sentation of the foregoing letters it will not be amiss to relate the causes and events that led up to the arrest and imprisonment of the persons re- ferred to and the sending of them to Virginia. Pennsylvania was