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Prior to the Revolutionary War, and took a prominent part in the struggle sor independence. He was a member os the Provincial Con- vention, as a delegate srom Cumber- lany county, held at Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, June 18, 1775, and again represented the same county when the convention was in

this history: Amateur Papers of Lancaster County. A son of Judge Lewis edited and published the first amateur paper printed in Lancaster, so far as I have been able to trace. This was in the year 1849. In 1855 another paper was started by John H. Carmany, and continued for about a year. The office of

Ferry. John Greer married a daughter of Hon. John Bayly, and, in connection with James Hopkins and others, laid �out the town of Falmouth, at the mouth of C___o creek,several years prior to the founding of Waterford. At this time he was keeping store, and perhaps a tavern, also, in York, Pa. The lots in

McAllister, in Paxton township, Dau- phin county, on the 19th of thE- pre- ceding October. These men came from Lancaster, York, Dauphin, Cum- berland, Northampton, Huntingdon and Mifflin counties in response to a circular, dated at Lancaster on Sept. 5. James Ewing, of York county, was made the chairman of

, 1730, a petition was presented by "the magis- trates, grand jury and other inhabit- ants of Lancaster county,setting forth that not having the conveniences of any navigable water for bringing the produce of their labors to Philadel- phia, they were obliged, at a great ex- pense, to transport them by

, but, as he was good natured at heart, everybody was his friend. For more than forty years he was the crier in the Lancaster Courts. Prior to becoming such he had been a tipstaff, and, in consequence, he had been an officer of the Court for a full half century. He was rarely sick, and never absent from

AN OLD MILL AND ITS OWNERS If you go down the entire length South Queen street to the banks of the stream which was once known as the Conestogoe, though in our par- lance os the present century we have changed the two final vowels into the softer a, you will come to "Graeff's Landing," in sormer

talent, and (here and there) by some acknowledged genius, such as Burns; a few communica- tions to the editors, and notices of marriages and deaths. Occasionally only a news item. We find that, "on the 7th inst. (of September, 1804), as Mr. James Coch- ran of this county was driving his team (the

of the State was transferred to Harrisburg, that occurring October 12, 1812.T John Tryer was clerk in the office of the Recorder and Register, receiv- ing a salary of three hundred and twenty-five dollars a year dating from February 8, 1809. However, George Hollis replaced him after a year and a half