the Indians goes down as an out- standing figure in the history of the colonies in general and of early Penn- sylvania in particular. He was a younger brother of Pastor Johann Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, who was a major-general in the Revolutionary War, Vice-President of Pennsylvania, a member of the

I. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF RURAL FIELD SPORTS IN LANCASTER COUNTY By Herbert H. Beck A consideration of the purposes and value of history requires that the historian be properly qualified as a witness before the bar of posterity. In cases such as the one at hand this qualification should reach the

Myers alone who, in 1851, assigned to Nelson Hetherington. (Hetherington was Myers' son-in- law.) Produced 1,300 tons of iron a year. Abandoned in 1852 on account of difficulty in reaching ore and because: its timber supply was exhausted. 2 Shippenville Furnace, 1832. Hot blast. Stood at the junction of

family, that the enemy was in possession of the ford over the Schuylkill and the boats, so that they had it in their power to be in Philadelphia before morn- ing. The papers of Congress belonging to the Secretary's office, the War office, the Treasury office etc, were before sent to Bristol. The

massacre, Benjamin Franklin sums up the situation by saying, '"This is another story of the method in which the cowards of the frontier- revenged upon innocent and helpless old men, women and young children, the outrages of Indian warriors, whom they dared not meet." On Wednesday, December 14, 1763, Rev

just as the beneficent springhead determines the site of the Indian village and the place for the pioneer's log cabin, so the fall of the stream bed and the face of the hillside determine the position of that prime necessity of fresh settlement—the grist mill. Thus established by natural conditions the