, paid to the Farmers' Bank by the said Langdon Cheves, for all that cer- tain messuage and tenement, a plan- tation in Lancaster township, begin- ning at a post in the middle of Little Conestoga Creek and lying by other lands of the Farmers' Bank, con- taining 108 acres, etc." Book I, No. 5, page 6. On

in Sadsbury township, this county. He was the son of Robert Bailey, who bought a large farm on the road lead- ing from the Gap to the Copper Mines, where he built a large mansion. Young Bailey was a practical printer. He was, like his father, a zealous �patriot, and stood high in the favor of the

SOME SHIPPEN LETTERS. Several months ago, Mr. Evans W. Shippen, os Meadville, Pa., placed in my hands sor examination, and such use as I might deem expedient, a num- ber os letters written by members os the Shippen samily os this State. While they were family letters and not os general public

INTRODUCTORY. As was to be expected from a popu- lation so conglomerate as that which comprised the early and later set- tlers of Lancaster county and city, German, Scotch-Irish and Quakers, Protestants, Catholics, with a sprink- ling of Jews, and, perhaps, still other nationalities, it was a