A PETITION FROM MARTIC TOWNSHIP. To understand more fully the griev- ances which caused it to be signed and presented, it will be necessary to go back a year or two. In the spring of 1776 the Continental Congress advised each colony and province to take immediate measures to frame a new form of

manu- facturing places. Probably the oldest was at the mouth of the Little Conestoga creek ; backwater from the building of the Slackwater navigation in 1827 ruined this. The next was the Shenk mill, on the Pequea, on the road between Coues- toga and Marticville. This was replaced ( alter a fire) by a

, perhaps, ori- ginally owned by the grandfather of the illustrious inventor,Robert Fulton. William Fulton took up 393 acres on Conowingo Creek, which, by warrant of No. 121,742, was surveyed to James Gilespie (who had married his widow) and to this he added other pieces of land, making a total of 546 acres

officers, as it were, to the proprietor, also pre-empted tracts of land in this vicinity some of which were in the Pequea Valley, then known as Conestoga, and others on the southern slope of the hills extending south of and embracing the ground upon which Christiana now stands. To return to the subject

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aristocratic coal hauler I �ever saw was the late Prof. D. Hayes Agnew. When proprietor of Pleasant Garden forge, in Chester county, he often drove the teams when the drivers were off duty. After the coal had all been removed from the pit it was then prepared for another setting of wood, which was carbonized