wrote his diary in year 1777 and 1781 inclusive / by D. F. Magee, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Marshall, Christopher, 1709-1797 --Diaries. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 118-120 p. ; 23 cm. Series

river. It is located in the State of Mary- land, and connects the west shore of Cecil County with the eastern shore of Harford County, between nigh roll- ing wood clad hills on either side, and overlooking from its lofty heights a scene of beauty that Charles Emory Smith, the then famous Editor of the

location and boundaries of the Martin Chartier tract : together with the site of the original residence of Martin Chartier / by D. F. Magee, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Chartier, Martin, d. 1718. French Americans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster

is 103 feet, and it is well preserved. It is on a rather unfrequented road passing from Sadsbury Town- ship into West Fallowfield Township, in Chester County. You next see on your left again after passing by the modern little park called "Brookside," your second wooden bridge known as the "Steelville

, of Windom, Lancaster County, Pa. As we view this beautiful agricultural section today its past has been so. completely obscured that scarcely a trace remains to remind us of the role of historical importance which it has played. Let us then review and if pos- sible picture some of the scenes which

followed the emigrant trail south to the Carolinas and west of the Ohio River Country. The Swiss emigrants who entered the wilderness of Pennsylvania, and settled where the City of Lancaster now stands, were riflemen, and Rupp in his history of Lancaster County at page seventy-four and five , mentions that

, probably the most famous sur- geon that United States has produced, whose fame was Nation wide ; of John Musser of Lancaster, Prof. at University of Penn- sylvania; of the two Deavers of the Buck, Harry and John B., sons of the elder Dr. James Deaver of the Buck, all of this County, are familiar names

, grew up in the Borough of Lancaster. Foremost among the good ones, the White Swan stepped into the list in 1730, just about the time when our County was dropping its swaddling clothes, and assuming its posi- tion as the leading inland town in Pennsylvania, surrounded as it was by a big growing county