commissioners were authorized and directed to give notice in four papers when the stock- holders should meet and organize the company by electing a President, twelve Managers, a Treasurer, and such officers as might be necessary. Each share of stock was to have one vote, but no man more than ten votes, no

Pennsylvania. Among these newcomers were the Galbraith brothers, John and James. �The former tarried in Philadelphia, but James sought the inviting lands beyond the Conestoga. As soon as he had sheltered his family under a home roof he organized a church. In less than two years, it is said, a meeting house

an English- man, but at that time in the service of the Dutch East India Company, sailed along the American coast and entered New York harbor; he also sailed up the Delaware Bay and river, but he, too, failed to ascend the latter far enough to reach Pennsylvania, but 'Parkman's Pioneers of France in

, which, half a cen- tury ago, was as familiar to our peo- ple as' the Conestoga itself; it was the Chickahominy, famous in our Civil War annals. For several years the Federal and Confederate armies faced and fought each other along its banks. Four battles were fought there in June, 1862. I have interview

, lath mill, miller's house and fifteen acres and sixteen perches of land, in two tracts, were bought at Lock No. 3 of the Conestoga Navigation Company. lt also included the surplus water power of the Cones- toga river at that point, beyond what was needed for the canal and the mills. The sum paid for

the planting of a colony of white men �within the present borders of Lancas- ter county. In June of that year, Gov- ernor Gookin and several members of the Assembly visited the Indians at Conestoga, and †he Governor made the following brief address to the red men assembled, after having made them