Quaker, along with his uncle, bought a large �tract of wild land on the Patapsco river, in Maryland, in 1770, when An- drew was sixteen years old, and four years later, in 1774, erected dwellings and mills on it, and then and there founded the town of "Ellicott's Mills." Young Ellicott was of a

Creek, half a mile srom the Great Road, and about a mile srom Lancaster, opposite George Ross's Mill, is now repairing and likely to be ready for Business in a short Time; where People may depend upon having their Cloths carefully dressed according to Orders, in the several Branches of Business

, the petitions for the laying out of roads in the Road Dock- et of the Court of Quarter sessions between 1740 and 1775 ask for these conveniences to enable the people to more easily reach "mill and market." But horses were not numerous in these early days, and mere bridle paths were sufficient for a

his post of duty during his entire official life, save dur- ing the last two terms of Court prior to his death, when his health began to fail. He was stricken with paralysis on �Monday, August 10, and died the fol- lowing Weanesday, August 12, 1874. He resided at No. 227 East Orange street, and was

owners / by Mrs. Mary L. Robinson. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Atkins family. Mills and mill-work--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1907 Description: [24]-29 p. ; 23 cm. Series

Heinitsch , druggist, in his sixty- sixth year. In the issue of June 28, 1804, it was mentioned that Jacob Sheaffer, merchant,who was esteemed as a good neighbor and an honest man, had died in the fifty-eighth year of his age; on September 12, that Brigadier General Benjamin Mills, "an early active