entries in his Diary From June 27, 1777, To September 24, 1781. Marked By The Lancaster County Historical Society 1927. This was to commemorate for all time the fact that there lived in our City for a period of years Christopher Marshall, the Quaker Patriot of the Revolution who took most active interest

Col. Archibald Steele By D. F. MAGEE, Esq., LANCASTER. PA. In Archibald Steele, the eldest son of Capt. William Steele, Drumore Town- ship furnished to the Continental Army one of the bravest and one of the most loyal defenders of his country's liberties that went forth from Pennsylvania. A giant

man, ready equipped to fulfill the duties of the service required; this truth applies to every stage of our history, and was never more forcefully illustrated than in the life story of the subject of this day's theme—Emanuel Carpenter; " Judge " familiarly and affectionately called " Manny, the law

river. It is located in the State of Mary- land, and connects the west shore of Cecil County with the eastern shore of Harford County, between nigh roll- ing wood clad hills on either side, and overlooking from its lofty heights a scene of beauty that Charles Emory Smith, the then famous Editor of the

location and boundaries of the Martin Chartier tract : together with the site of the original residence of Martin Chartier / by D. F. Magee, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Chartier, Martin, d. 1718. French Americans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster

division of their main line, and the low grade road the great freight line of this Company between Harrisburg and the Philadelphia and New York terminals, they did so, as they publicly stated, because they found it to be the purest large stream of water in Pennsylvania. This is the exact fact today and

the section surrounding and north westward of that City in States of Delaware and Maryland. �The idea was to reach and drain the rich country lying between the Penn- sylvania R. R. main line, and the Baltimore Ohio line, some fifty miles south- ward of it; to tap the rich farm lands of Chester

map on which the streams of this section appear, names the Conestoga river Onestego river, doubtless from this Indian name the word Conestoga is derived. When Wm. Penn's colony located at Coaquannock (Philadelphia) (5) in 1682 this territory became a portion of Chester County, Pennsylvania. A decade

followed the emigrant trail south to the Carolinas and west of the Ohio River Country. The Swiss emigrants who entered the wilderness of Pennsylvania, and settled where the City of Lancaster now stands, were riflemen, and Rupp in his history of Lancaster County at page seventy-four and five , mentions that