refugees from religious persecution settled in what was then known as the 'Conestoga country' of Pennsyl- vania, but now Lancaster. It was a singular dispensation that brought this colony of rifle-makers to our soil under the auspices of the peaceful and non-combatant 'Proprietary' of Wil- liam Penn and

centre of the city. Without venturing a legal opinion upon any issue that may be raised, I take advantage os the opportunity, afforded �by these ancient minute books, to state and record some facts not at all inaccessible or obscure, but which have not heretofore been collected— so far as I know—and

physical en- ergy. It was the same spirit of dis- content, doubtless, that gave rise to the 'revolution' so graphically describ- ed below, and which, so far as The Weekly knows, is not mentioned in any of the histories, though, in the opinion of Elias Ellmaker, it 'exceed- ed any that has heretofore ever