unwell to say much to them. The strain was eventually telling on him. One can imagine that the probability of as- sassination preyed on his mind con- tinually. However, he did make a short speech here and expressed his pleas- ure on entering the great county of Lancaster,says the report. He thanked the

. (671) Benj. Loxley's report on his plant and equipment for making and bor- ing cannon is set forth page 682. Volume 2—Registry of Marriages in Pennsylvania from about 1740 to 1770 or later, appears in volume 2, covering 344 pages, and among them the records of the following Lancaster County ministers

Pequea Colony. We may add another word on this point which furnishes the strongest proof that the 1709 company which Guy brought over in his ship was not the Pequea colony, and that theie was not one of the Lancaster county names among them. Nor were the six remaining Mennonite families (whom �Jacob

our society's proceedings. At the time Mr. Samuel Evans wrote his history of our county, the assessments of several townships prior to 1750 were here, because he has copies of some of them in his book. But it is very probable that some of these lists were taken out for the printer of that work and

Lancaster County felt the appeal and the position of Boston. It is also to be noted that here we have evidence to a small extent of the part the patriotic women of those times helped the "cause". Catharine Reigart, Mary Ferree, Anne Elizabeth Snyder, Elizabeth Graeff, Elizabeth Gross, Mrs. Henry Helmuth

of an army of ten thousand here. recruited by some thousands more during the winter of 1777 and and 1778, many hundreds, far over one thousand at least, died; and scores of them were our own of Lancaster County. They are our hallowed dead. they are our Immortals of the Revolution-here they are lying

south, the midwest, the southwest, the far west, the northwest and southern Canada, by strong, clean migrations which set out in early and later days from Lancaster County, its contribution of able souls who were champions of some of the great constitu- tional principles of our federal government and

held throughout Lancaster County at this time. (E. and E. 30). Some of these Lancaster forces were sent to Northampton. Samuel Miles, later of great Revolutionary War fame, says he was in a company commanded by Isaac Wayne, father of Anthony Wayne. Among the officers were Alex Cul- bertson, Jas. Wright