order is directed by Jacob Taylor to Isaac Taylor, sur- veyor of Chester County. It is No. 572. A similar order bearing like date reciting a like warrant requests 500 acres to be surveyed adjoining the large tract, to Bundely and company. It is No. 573. These are the orders on which the original

this the Indians answered in part—they are extremely well pleased with the Governor's speech and as to the Palatines they are in their opinion, safely seated. In closing, after hearing of Hans Herr's trials, emigration and establishing a home in the forest among skulking Indians, I believe you have

the same proportion as that directed by the Provincial Council, held at Philadelphia; 4. "That the thanks of the meeting be voted to President George Ross, for his reasonable and excellent speech in behalf of "The Liberties of America." The proceedings of the council of safety, sitting at Lancaster

(a) LANCASTER COUNTY CONTRIBUTORS TO RELIEF OF BOSTON, 1774 Among the manuscripts in the Manuscript Department of the Library of the Pennsylvania Historical Society at Philadelphia in a Volume entitled "Lancaster County Miscellaneous Papers," pp. 5 and 7 appear the following documents: "We whose

iron cannon is noted; and no doubt Loxley's plant is included in the commendation. (505) Samuel Potts is directed to make his furnace hearth large enough to �double his output of cannon. The government desires to contract with him, This may be the Martic Forge plant. (506) Mr. Loxley is now making

more savagely fought for, and to defend it than that guaranty that "no law shall be made with regard to establishment of religion nor in- terferring with the free exercise thereof." And the same privilege and immunity are found in the constitution of every state today. No territory of equal area can

added, with profit, to the foregoing subscription lists, and therefore we add the following matter. While there are only two lists preserved, so far as we know, of the subscribers to the fund to enable Boston to hold out against British oppres- sion, and thus to help the American fight for her

it. It is true as the law now stands no man is obliged to take a license for distilling grain, but would it not be good policy to enact such a law and thereby oblige the owners of stills above a certain size, to have them registered in the counties where they live? This would enable the government to

and Hans Christy, so that the people along Conestoga pe- titioned the Assembly against the "three large dams." They state that the creek flows about 30 miles through thick wooded soil and about 250 feet wide, well suited to rafts and flats of wood. The price of wood was very high in Lancaster and