Proprietaries and Gov- ernours in chief of the province of Pennsylvania,a certain Tract of Land situated on Tulpehocken creek of 5,165 acres, who by their Patent did erect it into a Manor, and named it the Manor of Plumton." It has been suggested that this name was given on account of the many wild plum trees

by a small creek. I men- tion this only to show that the Ster- rett ancestry lived in the western part of Lancaster county, around Donegal, as we all know, and in other sections. Chief Justice Sterrett, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, descended from them. In the issue of April 7, 1740, there is

course, he passed along the Pennsylvania shore also and possibly landed on Pennsylvania territory, and must,after Hendickson, be the explorer to have come within sight of our shores, The First Permanent Settlement in Pennsylvania. The next explorers to come along were a party of Dutchmen sent out from