British Public Records Office in London brings to light an earlier official visit to Conestoga by Pennsylvania provincial agents in 1696, and touches on the relations of the Indians there with groups farther west. It also under- scores the relative mobility of Indians, singly or in groups, during the

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

might give aid and comfort to the British could result in their property being taken from them without due process. This would have been unthinkable after the adoption of the U. S. Constitution, but during revolutions feelings run high, and the legal heritage is ignored. Not all property of persons so

members of the community, they were required to pay a special assessment "for the relief and support of the families of poor associators." In June 1777 an oath of allegiance to the new government of Pennsylvania was required of all persons. No person could travel any- where without a pass and no one who

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

area of 973 square miles, or 623,720 acres, of which more than 500,000 acres are cultivated land, divided into 9,000 farms, whose assessed valuation in 1896 was $87,262,990, and the annual products, according to the census of 1890, aggre- gated $7,657,790. It is interesting to note that the county