mem- ber of the Third Battalion in 1777, and the Seventh Battalion in 1780. He was fifty years old when the war broke out. He served in many important committees in addition to his military duties. He was one of the first in the county or State who advocated in- dependence, and was a delegate to

township, Ire- land, in 1736, and died March 4, 1818. Moved from Leacock township, Lan- caster county, to Cumberland county �Prior to the Revolutionary War, and took a prominent part in the struggle sor independence. He was a member os the Provincial Con- vention, as a delegate srom Cumber- lany county

, Chester county, near the Compass. This road was laid out in 1718, and extended to Logan's Ferry, now Bainbridge. It run through a large settlement of Indian traders at Conoy Creek, and around what is now known as "Stackstown." James Le Tort took up 900 acres below Bizailon, which was put in the name of