application could construct from them a map of our county, in 1729, showing where all the inhabitants owning land lived at that time. The correspondence as to the early taking up of land, finding of min- erals, conflicts of claims, the move- ment and activities of the Indians, etc., is also preserved in the

sea diary, and went ' ck to the sea, and the latter, Captain Smith, in his "General His- torie of Virginia," says: "At the end of Chesapeake Bay it divides into four branches. The best cometh from the northwest from the mountains, but, although canoes can go a day's jour- ney or two up it, we could

- �ceived instructions how to act he had a pretty long conversation with their Sheriff and chief officers telling them the reason of their (the Germans') revolt and inveighing Cresap's ill be havior; and that they had rather quit their places than suffer such treat- ment (under Maryland). The Sheriff and

county can only be understood by the different fragments of information that are picked up from time to time. In the American Weekly Mercury of April 15, 1731, appears the following item: "Last Monday (April 12) about noon a wagon coming from Conestoga to this city (Philadelphia) laden with hemp, flour

Mitchell excise collector of Lancaster County. Lancaster County prisoners abused in Maryland jail. - 4 C., 160. A lot of Germans who came over in 1736 were deprived of their goods by the Government under importation laws and the Government will not give them back to them again. - 4 C., 171. Road from

�Bucks Countians lodged as follows: Isaac Van Horne at Nauman's and Ralph Stone and James Erwin at John Musser's corner of East Orange and Lime Streets and Gerardus Wynkoch at Judge Henry's. The Chester County legislators divided: Jos. Hemphill lodged at A Scott's on Orange Street; Jas. Hannum at