CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL'S HOME IN WHICH HE LIVED AND WROTE HIS DIARY IN YEAR 1777 AND 1781 INCLUSIVE By D. F. Magee, Esq. On the date of the Sesqui-Centennial of the meeting of the Continental Congress in Lancaster, September 6th, 1927, there was placed upon the eastern end of the home of Mrs. Mary

, located west of and adjoining the present graveyard, at Carpenter's Church, to which the buildings are quite close. Col. Carpenter, the historian of the family, states that this house was built by old Heinrich, the settler who moved there and died in this house. In that we think he is mistaken. The house

: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 91-94 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 7 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.31 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

location and boundaries of the Martin Chartier tract : together with the site of the original residence of Martin Chartier / by D. F. Magee, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Chartier, Martin, d. 1718. French Americans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster

Creek (Pa. and Md.) Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1923 Description: 121-126 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 27, no. 7 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.27 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

, came out of Wilmington via way of Newark, Del., Lewis- ville, Pa., and Lombardville, Md.; there taking up the Wm. H. Brown line of 1861, it came via of Hilamans tavern, crossed the Baltimore Central road be- tween "Beatown" and Nottingham, and dropping into the Octoraro slope passed just eastward of

Rafting on the Susquehanna. BY D. F. MAGEE, ESQ. Rafting on the Susquehanna began as a steady business within the first decade of our existence as a nation, and gradually grew to very large propor- tions for 60 to 70 years and then gradually slackened for a decade or more and finally ceased

of Stehman's U. B. Church, provided chicken corn soup, cakes, ice cream, etc., Mrs. E. 0. Sneath, chairman. Of these local committees Charles M. Witmer was treasurer. All of these committees served faithfully, and promptly and nothing in- terferred with the complete success of the event. A list of

this family, Ferrees and LeFevres, not engaged in making guns or rifles erected gun powder mills and manufactured gun powder. Prior to the Revolutionary War, Isaac LeFevre, son of Joel LeFevre, had a mill on Wiconisco creek in Lykens valley, Dauphin County, Pa. In 1777, Jacob Ferree, born August 8th