our society's proceedings. At the time Mr. Samuel Evans wrote his history of our county, the assessments of several townships prior to 1750 were here, because he has copies of some of them in his book. But it is very probable that some of these lists were taken out for the printer of that work and

the fork of the Conestoga and Mill Creek, and John Cadwallader, all three preachers, died in Antigua, off Central America, and arc buried side by side there. The Pennsylvania Gazette of February 2, 1743, has an account of this. 7Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 30, p. 291. (8

CRESAP'S WAR The Lancaster County Border Struggle. Cresap's War was simply a series of campaigns beginning in 1735, in a struggle which at that time was about fifty years old—the border struggle between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The difficulty began as early as 1684, and was the chief cause which

peace and an assemblyman there. He saw greater opportunity and greater need of strong men on the frontier—that is on the Susquehanna—about 1726, as the line between civilization and savagery at that time was the Susquehanna River. All beyond that river was "the wild and woolly West." In Wright's career

the whole of the history of those early times. The following items from the first two newspapers of Pennsylvania give us certain phases of the life and times of our remote ancestors here in Lancaster county: The character of the commerce be- tween Lancaster and Pennsylvania in the infancy of the

., 680. The Assembly beg the Governor to attend the Lancaster Treaty. - 4 C., 688. The Governor says he will go and attend the Lancaster Treaty as soon as war against the French is declared. - 4 C., 689. The Great Lancaster Indian Treaty of 1744. - 4 C., 698. The Indians decide that the Pennsylvania

the history of Lancaster county, which bears his name, some of the earlier lists were in existence and likely seen by him,because on page 365, speaking of William Henry, he says that his name first appears on the as- sessment lists for Lancaster borough, in 1754, from which a fair inference arises

by a small creek. I men- tion this only to show that the Ster- rett ancestry lived in the western part of Lancaster county, around Donegal, as we all know, and in other sections. Chief Justice Sterrett, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, descended from them. In the issue of April 7, 1740, there is

committed by the young men of those nations of War In- dians. The Governor and all the com- pany were handsomely entertained and treated at the house of John Cart- ledge, Esq., during their stay at Con- estogoe." July 27, 1721: "The particulars of an Indian Treaty at Conestoga between his Excellency, Sir Wm

Street. Jacob Folmer of Northumberland lodged at Henry Slaymaker's Spread Eagle Tavern on E. King Street, and Simon Snyder his only associate lodged at Peter Gonter's. The Westmoreland County men lodged at George Fisher's that is Jacob Powler and Michael Pugh did and Geo. Smith at Mr. Baily's on West