government, one more in accordance with the spirit of liberty and independence. The officers who then controlled the colonies gener- ally sympathized with the Crown, and really had a majority of the citizens at thcir back. The patriots were in a mi- nority ; but what they lacked in numbers they made up in

promoted and served during the war. Captain Josiah Crawford, of Frank- lin county, Pa., was his brother. The brief notices of the officers in Crawford's battalion locates them in his own neighborhood, along or near �Pequea Creek. James Crawford, of Donegal, and Lancaster, and Lampeter townships, I think

that Colonels Righy and Hall, of Baltimore county, Maryland, were mustering the militia preparatory to a raid into Penn- sylvania. Benjamin Chambers, a mill- wright, who had been in the neighbor- hood, was sent dqwn to Maryland by Blunston and Wright to visit the camp of the militia and ascertain the

county was organized. This was the first mill in the county which obtained its water power direct from the Conestoga river. After Mr. Atkinson built his dam, it proved to be a complete bar- rier sgainst the ascent of shad and other fish to the upper part of that stream. The citizens residing along the

settlers came from Strasburg on the Rhine, and the neigh- borhood came to be known as "New Strasburge" and was thus designated in 1716 by the Assesscrs or Surveyors of Chester county. There were no definite bounds to the district and it was not set apart as a township before the erection of Lancaster