THE ACADIANS IN LANCASTER COUNTY. There is no history in which can be chronologically traced the struggles and changes within that small region known as Acadia, the confines of which were ex- pressly named by Henry IV. of France in his letters patent of November 3, 1603, over the country, territory

the posterity of the ten lost tribes has met with considerable favor. The erudite and illustrious Lord Kingsborough spent a fortune and ruined his health in the hopeless at- tempt to prove them to be Jews. Even William Penn was impressed with the close resemblance they bore to the Jews of England

from Ed- ward III. of England, the Beauforts and Somerset family, of England, and the Cymri Kings. William Henry was the son of John and Elizabeth Henry. He was born in Chester county, May 19, 1729. His parents came from Ireland and were married in this country. They both died on the same day and are

the Sheriff. The purchaser was George Hersh, grandfather of the Hersh fam- ily, of Strasburg township. The new purchaser tore out all the woolen machinery, supplanting it with looms to weave linen, and he also made linseed oil. He built an addition to the original building for a still-house for the