story of our city and its citizens. �REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL TABLET The bronze tablet, 18 , by 12 inches, was informally unveiled on the east side of 215 East Orange Street, by Mayor Frank Musser and the President of the Society on "Capital Day"—September 27, 1927. It reads

daylight on morn- ing of December 31, 1775. They hoped to surprise the British garrison. They were in two divisions and attacked from two opposite sides of the city, the one command under General Montgomery and the other under Col. Arnold. The chronicler of the battle, John Joseph Henry, afterwards a Judge

itself, as it now stands, is very large, built in an excellent man- ner of stone neatly pointed and in both the type and manner of construction bears evidence from top to bottom of its antiquity. The walls of the cellar are exceedingly thick and strong, supporting the floors of the house by a number of

soon thereafter. This carried the title and possession of the land up to 1735. All of which will appear from the following deeds and transfers made and the recitals therein. Record Book B. B. page 161. Recorder's office, Lancaster. Record Book A. A. page 502. Recorder's office, Lancaster. Record Book A

will no doubt continue to be the fact for all the years to come. It was then stated by them that from its headwaters about Christiana to its mouth at Octoraro junction where it empties into the Susquehanna river just at the head of tide water, there was no impure material of any kind from village

itself as the first narrow gauge railroad in Pennsylvania, by running its first five ton engine, the "Samuel Dickey" down over its newly laid and unballasted tracks out of Oxford, Chester County, to Hopewell Borough, three miles westward, and took on water from Hopewell run a tributary of the Octoraro on

to the dignity of falls, yet there is none impassable in coming down, though very many of impossible passage in going up stream, under the smallest boat, even when under the highest possible power. The earliest mention I find in history on this point is from an extract from John Penn's Journal in

ground, tapering toward the top, and about 18 inches thick. A fine large memorial bronze tablet is attached thereto. A half-tone print of the same is herewith presented. Next followed the formal acceptance of the marker by President Beck arid his speech of acceptance is made part hereof. ADDRESS OF

used by Edward Marshall, who made the great walk, for the Penns in 1737. The following description of this venerable piece is taken from Davis History of Bucks County, Penna., 1876, pp. 507-508. There was a famous rifle maker named Decherd or Dechard at Lancaster during the revolution. According to

events of tremendous importance to this government had just taken place to the envoys sent to the government of the new republic of France by the U. S. to establish diplomatic relations with the French Republic. The Envoys from this country were Col. Chas. Pinckney, Elbridge Gerry and John Marshall. The