struggles with Maryland cen- tered here. Two bandits, named Lowe, terrorized everybody a year or more, until a body of constables from Lancaster county shot and crippled them in their cabins Just opposite Co- lumbia. About 1732, nearly 200 Mary- landers appeared opposite the present Columbia and began to

Hempfield : The Beginning of Columbia On the occasion of the observance of the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the laying- out and disposal of lots in the town of Colum- bia, by Samuel Wright, it seems to me fitting that I, his senior grandson, shall put on record an authentic statement

coal-carrying cross-country railroad from Columbia, on the Sus- quehanna, to tidewater on the Dela- ware; and by grace of Joshua Scott, his map, I succeeded in locating my division, extending through Manor, Conestoga, Pequea, Providence, Dru- more and Colerain townships, to the border of Chester county

The Public Career of John Wright, Esq. John Wright, Esq., of Columbia, on the Susquehanna, was the acknowl- edged and unquestioned "father" or Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. By unanimous consensus of authoritative opinion, and by common consent, this name and title belong to him and his memory