. The earliest record of the use of that name that we could find is shown in Bridgen's Atlas of 1864, marking the site as Michael Trissler's "Rocky Spring." �to the safety of Donegal Township, "when the settlement was obliged to fly by the barbarous Indian war."5 There were rumors in those days of

Content Note: Collection of Ellmaker family papers, including original papers of the first immigrant, John Leonard Ellmaker of Germany. Papers include correspondence, genealogy charts, deeds and legal papers. newspaper clippings, photographs, articles on Jacob Eichholtz, and a diploma and teachers

Peace, to Brecknock Twp.’s Overseers of the Poor, Christian Messner and John Lesher. 24 December 1793. Transferred from Document Collection, Box 7, Folder 6, March 2015. James Welsh of Philadelphia apprenticed to John Hess of Providence Twp., Lancaster County to learn farming. 5 March 1855. Transferred