Company, of which Major Light was clerks—which office remained in the family for four genera- tions,—was located just across the street from the rear of his residence. Another major—John Andre, widely known in American history as an enemy and a spy—was housed as a prisoner of war in this block in the year

in the states referred to. And what his difficulties were, especially in Ohio and Michigan, may readily be imagined when we remember the thirty years of Indian turmoil in this western region during the period of the French and Indian War, the Pontiac Conspiracy, and the American Revolution. We in the

, and his enthusiasm *The year is not given in the original paper. Probably, it should be 1785. f In 1763 Richard McAllister founded McAllister's Town, later known as Hanover, York County, Pa. ‡Egle's History of Dauphin and Lebanon Counties, 1883, p. 187. §Ibid, p. 225. �for the enterprise spread

: 1, Grandfathers' clocks; 2, the makers of Lancaster County, and 3, deal more particularly with their own lives and ancestry, and not extensively with the family history of their descendants; to go beyond this would make the length of the paper far beyond the limits allowed by our rules. It may be a

. Wickersham was principal. Finding that the students were unable to study with war so imminent, he armed a hundred of the young men, and acting as captain, marched at their head to Wrightsville, to assist in guarding the bridge. After performing guard duty for a week, the company was relieved by the 77th

additional men and attracted to his settlement many who had gradually found their way across the mountains. THE BUILDING OF SUTTER FORT The nucleus of his settlement was his fort—Sutter Fort. The walls were 18 feet high and 2 1/2 feet thick. The interior contained 75,000 square feet. Prisons were underground

, Confirmations and Deaths, began by Frederick Theodore (?) Mel- sheimer, Evangelical Lutheran Preacher, Beckstein (Paxtang), the 26th day of April, A.D. 1783." See History of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of East Pennsylvania, 1892, p. 122. �Frederick Valentine Melsheimer By DR. STUART W. FROST It is an honor

fee simple, to be held of the said manor so as no further tenures shall be created, but further alienations shall be held of the same lord and his heirs of whom the alien did then before hold." The proprietaries of Pennsylvania, on September 17, 1735, by letters patent, recorded at Philadelphia in

of a fine spring"? Lot No. 730, of the Hamilton Tract, con- tained a spring; and a reservation concerning the lot stated that a line was to be drawn "so as to form a triangle at a spring, by cutting off ten feet from the eastern and ten feet from the southern �2 LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY