, Samuel Brown and Abra- ham De Normandie ; for Chester county, Nathaniel Pennock, Nathaniel Grubb and John Hannum ; for Lancaster county, Calvin Cooper, James Webb and Samuel LeFevre. The act required them within twenty days after its passage to order and ap- point the Acadians as to them appeared most

AMERICAN INDIANS. The Who, What and Whence of the Pre- Columbian Dwellers, or the Misno- mered Peoples, Indians, of Lancaster County. The treatment of a pre-historic sub- ject which seemingly is wrapped in such impenetrable mystery and veiled in the blackest night of obscurity may possibly be

buried at the Old Octoraro meeting house, Chester county. William Henry, in the fifteenth year of his age, was sent to Lancaster to learn the trade of a gunsmith with Matthew Roeser. He made Lancaster his home and soon became the head of a large es- tablishment for the manufacture of guns. His residence

building, which has for a long time been known as "The Old Oil Mill." It was, in its day, one of the busiest places in that section of Lancaster county. This building was built just about the end of the last century, either in 1798 or 1799, by Abram Hoover, for a woolen mill. He also built a good-sized dam

zeal. Cumberland and the counties west of that were controlled by Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, who at this crisis of affairs completely controlled the politics in those counties ; and they also at this time obtained a majority of their friends in the Legislature, The Legislature issued a call for the