to pass through. It may be observed here, too, that veterans of the war of 1812 were pres- ent in considerable numbers; and the same day they held a meeting and passed resolutions. Peter B. Fordney Chief Escort. Mr. Peter B. Fordney was the chief of the escort guard that took Lincoln across to the

CRESAP'S WAR The Lancaster County Border Struggle. Cresap's War was simply a series of campaigns beginning in 1735, in a struggle which at that time was about fifty years old—the border struggle between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The difficulty began as early as 1684, and was the chief cause which

The Birth of Lancaster County The earliest human beings who have left us any evidence of their residence in what is now Lancaster county were those ancient Indians who carved the pictures upon the rocks of the Susquehanna River and on the rocks in and about adjacent streams. The United States

affirm) that I will, to the utmost of my power, support, maintain, and de- fend the United States against the said George III., his heirs and successors, and his and their abettors and adher- ents, and will serve the United States in the office of , which I now hold, with fidelity, according to the best

the upper part of the Welch tract, 98 in number, requesting a bet- ter accommodation, and that a roan should be laid out from Merion Meet- ing-house to Powel's Ferry, and from thence following in to the road lead- ing to Philadelphia." 1711 —The return made in 1705 states that the road was laid out

SKETCH OF JUDGE THOMAS EDWARDS My first purpose in arranging into an article some facts about Thomas Edwards was to give a short review of his public career only. But *hen I had arranged and expanded the data on that phase of the man's life into an article I found that it required something of his

Cayugas. To these were subsequent- ly, in 1715, admitted the Tuscaroras, a related tribe residing in North Caro- lina, who were driven out of that State and came North and united their destinies with their kinsmen, the Iroquois Confederacy. The Susquehanna Indians were the only tribe of our local Indians

where the present Manheim stands I cannot tell. If so, Manheim is as old as Lancaster as an early village.* Several os the parties litigant ap- pearing in these suits appear promi- nently in the pioneer history of the province and county about this time. Joshua Low, the first Coroner os the county