rapidly going on. Those letters are mounted in folios entitied "Lancaster County Miscellany" and "Taylor Pa- pers", etc., rstn the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia; but that does not stop the fading out of the ink. It is with the greatest diffi- culty even now that some of them may be

Indians in bad and cold weather spent the night in the Christian Herr House which is still standing. The number may be inferred from the remark "the house was laying full of Indians." 2nd. Rupp in his history of Lancaster County, page 74, states that Martin Mylin, son of Hans Mylin, was the first gunsmith

(d) FOUR GREAT SURVEYS IN LANCASTER COUNTY Among the Taylor Papers in the Manuscript Department of the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania, are found (with a great number of others) four great surveys of lands in Lancaster County, which may well challenge our interest and which are of great value

Iron Hill. Owing to the fact that the British under Lord Howe, took possession of Philadelphia, right after the Battle of Germantown, October 4, 1777, the Pennsylvania Gazette was not published from the month of September for some time. The Pennsylvania Evening Post, however, was published; but it was

(a) LANCASTER COUNTY CONTRIBUTORS TO RELIEF OF BOSTON, 1774 Among the manuscripts in the Manuscript Department of the Library of the Pennsylvania Historical Society at Philadelphia in a Volume entitled "Lancaster County Miscellaneous Papers," pp. 5 and 7 appear the following documents: "We whose

contains "The Associated Battalions of Militia in the Revolu- tionary War from 1775 to 1783." There are about 260 pages of Pennsylvania Soldiers' names alphabetically arranged—hundreds of them Lancaster County men. This is followed by about 550 pages of Documents Relating to the Associators and Militia

Conestoga, Cocalico, Chickies, Donegal, Octoraro, Pequea, Salisbury, Stras- burg, Branch of Conestoga and Susquehanna. The whole of Con- estoga Manor was long before surveyed and several townships were organized here, while we were yet part of Chester County. In 1730 the governor of Pennsylvania said of

, Mrs. Charles Bohm and Barbara DeHuff, whose names appear on the list, have by their subscription shown their patriotism and have added a little part to that history still largely unwritten, namely the part the women played in the early life of our county and its history. It is worthy also of note that

, Pennsylvania / by C. H. Martin. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Taxation--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1921 Description: 27-38 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical