Greene, than that he had two foxhounds, Music and Vulcan. To me, personally, this part of Hempfield township is the most picturesque and colorful, and, in many ways, the most important historical region in Lancaster county. It is that, chiefly, because it was the home of John Wright and his ferry

Lancaster County; he named Bohemia and the Bohemia River within that county in which he was an extensive landowner. He was the first naturalized citizen in America, and he seems to have been the man who started the tobacco industry. These facts, which are of deep local interest, have been col- lected

his two sons, Simon and John, and their wives (McKenzie sisters), came to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, about 1775. They are reported to have been on the same ship with Colin McFarquhar, who was headed toward his pastorate at the Donegal Church, Lancaster County.3 They had been farmers in Scotland

hereunto inter- changeably set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first above written. (Signed) Justus Krow (Wax Seal) Sealed and Delivered in the Presence of Moses Hazen W. White One relic, germane to our subject, of the life and times of these mer- cenaries in northern Lancaster County, where many

The Conestoga Horse By JOHN STROHM (1793-1884) AND HERBERT H. BECK. The Conestoga horse and the Conestoga wagon were evolved in and about that part of southeastern Pennsylvania which, before it was named Lancaster County, was known as Conestoga. The region was named for a river that has its main

Elizabeth Furnace Plantation Herbert H. Beck Elizabeth Furnace Plantation, one of the historic and picturesque features of Pennsylvania, began with John Jacob Huber of Germany. In 1746 Huber acquired 400 acres of lands, with allowance of 18 acres for roads, then in Warwick Township, Lancaster

excitement, with their misery and suffering. The church diary told that "In the event of an officer's death we should be expected to give him a more honorable burial place than that is where all are huddled indiscriminately underground." How well that entry recorded the facts! The soldiers were found lying

of pioneer days and armed the Lewis and Clark expedition; these are all given full credit by the Society's authors and by authoritative Captain John G. Dillin, for their * See Vol. IX, page 59; Vol. IX, page 67; and Vol. XXX, page 47, in the Proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society. t