THE ACADIANS IN LANCASTER COUNTY. There is no history in which can be chronologically traced the struggles and changes within that small region known as Acadia, the confines of which were ex- pressly named by Henry IV. of France in his letters patent of November 3, 1603, over the country, territory

common. They had be- come much mixed with negroes, and, in the Nat. Turner insurrection, about 1833, were treated as such and driven off. Captain John Smith, in his History of Virginia, 1629, spells the name "Ac- cowmacke," and says "they use jave- lins, headed with bone, instead of stone, and dartfish

laid with a flat piece of cast iron about two feet and a-half square. This he ordered removed and relaid with brick. After removing the plate where it had lain probably eighty or a hundred years, as the house is one of the oldest in that part of the city, he had it turned over and the underside cleaned