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

and Sovereign, and issue only 'in the name " Pennsylvania." See Docket of Court Quarter Sessions Lancaster County No. 3, August and November terms, 1777. During his long service as Justice of the Peace and Judge from 1735 to 1780, he lived and made his home in Earl Township, on his farm deeded to him

point where that Locust tree stood. In the survey made of said Manor which contained 16000 acres of land, Taylor gives the distance from the mouth of Conestoga Creek up the Sus- quehanna River as twenty-four hundred perches; which, if we could measure as Taylor measured it should take us to the "Locust

Pennsylvania, is called Woods Bridge, after the leading Quaker family of that section, who have long been promi- nent in Lancaster County history. It is on a road but little travelled and in poor repair, leading from Wrightsville over into Cecil County, Md. The bridge was built in 1890, and is one hundrcd and

itself as the first narrow gauge railroad in Pennsylvania, by running its first five ton engine, the "Samuel Dickey" down over its newly laid and unballasted tracks out of Oxford, Chester County, to Hopewell Borough, three miles westward, and took on water from Hopewell run a tributary of the Octoraro on

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

which in few more than a hundred words, gives it so concisely, clear and true, that we use it here in its entirety, as follows: "From a flat bar of iron, hand forged into a gun barrel, laboriously bored and rifled with crude tools; fitted with a stock hewn from a maple tree in the neighboring forest