, Treasurer, before the Justice and Grand Jury as in Page 108, and at the same time agreed to build two stone bridges, one across the tail race of William Douglass' mill, in Caernarvon township, on the Provincial Road lead- ing to Windsor Furnace, and the other over Conestoga Creek, on the Provin- cial Road

, 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

: It was cast at Elizabeth furnace by Baron Henry William Stiegle, in the year 1758. The best authenticated account of Elizabeth furnace is that it passed under the management of Stiegle in 1757, and that he erected a new furnace. The first furnace was built there about 1750. Elizabeth furnace was

ANN HENRY: LANCASTER COUNTY'S WOMAN TREASURER. Ann Henry, the treasurer of Lancaster county and wife of the Hon. William Henry, was the daughter of Abraham and Ursula Wood. According to the family records she was born In Bucks county, but the records of the Moravian Church, of Lancaster, show her

baptized in the Moravian Church and William and Ann Henry were bur- ied in the graveyard. �Besides the important posts which William Henry held in the colony and the new Republic and the conducting of his business, William Henry was somewhat of an inventor. He was the first man in America to apply steam to

AN OLD CONNECTICUT NEWSPAPER. By William Frederic Worner. Mr. Herbert W. Hartman, president of Follmer, Clogg & Company, man- ufacturers of fine umbrellas, has presented to the Lancaster County Historical Society an old newspaper, published in New London, Conn., on Friday, April 10th, 1778. It

), and he lest two children, Jane and Samuel. After the death of Stephen, the mill property and dam, according to a deed, a copy of which is in New York, but of which I can find no �record here, was sold by the execu- tors, Thomas Halliday and Christian Hare, at public auction, and was bought by the