Pennsylvania in most interesting and enlightening records. Our Society has in its Library a copy of this Diary and there is within its covers a graphic pen picture of the period which in its gripping details and its lifelike portrayal is unsurpassed by any other revolutionary lore. His residence during the

men, For patriot men. who held the love Of native land all else above. No time was there to trim and train For war, nor pomp, nor show,—a plain, High call for him.—no accolade,— He went a warrior readymade ! There is no annal set apart That tells that somewhere near his heart He kept a sweetheart's

Britain and Ireland. etc., and was dated November 1, 1759, and recorded March 2, 1760, in Deed Book D-536, and reads as follows: " S. S. Pennsylvania. To wit: George II by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King, defender of the faith, etc. to all these present shall come: GREETING

and clerical forces on the Job, hundreds in number; and five thousand superintendents, bosses, for- men, laborers are seen hard at work at all points where the massive pro- portions of the great work is being moulded and growing into beautiful and symetrical form which will be a monument to 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

Pennsylvania, is called Woods Bridge, after the leading Quaker family of that section, who have long been promi- nent in Lancaster County history. It is on a road but little travelled and in poor repair, leading from Wrightsville over into Cecil County, Md. The bridge was built in 1890, and is one hundrcd and

proposition did not mature for some six or seven years afterwards; its consideration having been arrested by the breaking out of the Civil War and for the time it was well nigh forgotten. This proposition was a big and ambitious one and was no less than a great trunk line with its starting point in Wilmington

rugged, hardy daring men, who, like the old pioneers in the early days in Pennsylvania, these men were also pioneers into the entry into the forests primeval that clad the hills of the Susquehanna along both the east and west branches and reached northward even to and across the southern border line of

massacre, Benjamin Franklin sums up the situation by saying, '"This is another story of the method in which the cowards of the frontier- revenged upon innocent and helpless old men, women and young children, the outrages of Indian warriors, whom they dared not meet." On Wednesday, December 14, 1763, Rev