and hardship under the Swiss Government and gave a long list of brutalities (do.). And this was the condition when the emigration to the Pequea in our own county began in 1710. Through these centuries the non-re- sistant Protestant Christians lived their miserable lives in Switzerland and Central

leading figure in Lancaster county politics. Wright was becoming old, and Ed- wards seems to have lost popularity, while he became a favorite, however, with the Governor and the proprie- tary's side of the Government. Recommissioned Justice of Peace. In 1741 he was recommissioned Jus- tice of the Peace