Commissioners, No. 1, on page 109, August 9, 1753, is the following entry: " And on the same time they agreed to build two stone bridges, One over the tail race of William Douglass's mill, in Caernarvon Township, on the Pro- vincinal Road, leading to Windsor Furnace, and the other over Conestoga Creek, on the

HISTORY OF CEDAR GROVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN EAST EARL TOWNSHIP By Hon. A. G. Seyfert In the midst of the monuments and tombstones in the cemetery around the Pequea Presbyterian Church down in Salisbury Township, stands a gigantic White Oak tree. Between the church and the Session House is a Black

as there is standing today a two-story, stone dwelling house, on the road leading from Witmer's bridge to Lampeter, known at the Lampeter road, about a mile and a half north of Lampeter. The diamond stone on the east gable end has this inscription, "Built by Peter Yordy in the year 1740." When I was

forty-nine feet in length. All of the bridges above described as of the old wooden arch truss bridge, ten in number, are inter-county bridges, built and maintained by Lancaster and Chester Counties jointly. �Now returning to the West Branch of this creek, which is not so large or long as the East Branch

12th mo. (February) 1717, directed Jacob Taylor, Surveyor General of the Colonies to survey all of the tract of land between the Sus- quehannock and Conestoga creek as far up the river as the land granted to Peter Chartiers, and they by a line running from the said river to Conestoga creek; and to make

in the meadow immediately across the road from the mill. The land was further divided by the time Martin Barr 3rd acquired a part which is recorded to include the Mansion on the east side of Beaver Creek together with the privilege of keeping up the dam on certain lands granted to the daughters. This