the resolution, 47 yeas to 7 noes. The Petition. MARTICK TOWNSHIP. To the Honorable the Representatives of the freemen of the State of Pennsylvania this Memorial Humbly Sheweth : That your Memorialists are of Opinion that frequent Changes in Government have a tendency to weaken it, and to Create

mentioned, married a daughter of Mr. Rhoddy, who died in the year 1733. He directed his executors to build a grist mill along Conewago creek for his son, Alexander Rhoddy, within two years after his desth. In 1745, James Rhoddy, son of above, sold the mills and 350 acres to John Forry and Joseph Sherrick

, the traders �gradually extended their operations from the forks of the Allegheny to the Lakes on the north, the Mississippi on the west and to the headwaters of the Cumberland and Tennessee on the south. In June, 1755, when General Brad- dock arrived at Big Crossing, fifteen miles above Little Meadows