Pennsylvania. On November 18, 1775, a vessel as- cended the Delaware river bearing several hundred of these persecuted people, many of them being sickly and feeble, and on November 19 and 20 two more vessels as- cended the same river, bearing, all told, 454 A cadians. The ships which brought them were the

AMERICAN INDIANS. The Who, What and Whence of the Pre- Columbian Dwellers, or the Misno- mered Peoples, Indians, of Lancaster County. The treatment of a pre-historic sub- ject which seemingly is wrapped in such impenetrable mystery and veiled in the blackest night of obscurity may possibly be

A PETITION FROM MARTIC TOWNSHIP. To understand more fully the griev- ances which caused it to be signed and presented, it will be necessary to go back a year or two. In the spring of 1776 the Continental Congress advised each colony and province to take immediate measures to frame a new form of

THE ARK. Old houses have a threefold interest to the members of a society organized for local historical inquiry. They have, as a rule, a certain personal, physical individuality; with the lapse of years, they acquire a coloring of stone or tim- bers, an expression and a setting in the landscape

give the k sound, pro- nounced by the Indians as if spelled Chikis. 'I his was quite natural and pos- sibly correct from a Frenchman's point of view, as much so as the spelling of any French geographical name, but if we �follow that language we would have to change America and the United States into

different districts and appoint members of the committee to superintend each district." A Mr. Francis was cited to appear before their court. He was in- formed that dancing was contrary to the spirit of the eighth article of asso- ciation of the Continental Congress, and his dancing school must be dis

afforded them scanty asylums, we are apt to picture to ourselves a poverty- stricken people. Rupp, in his history, gives the names of over twenty thousand immigrants, many of whom found their way into Lancaster county, and they could not have been so very poor, as their fine farms and substantial buildings

, the Maryland slaveholder, who was killed in what passed into history as "The Christiana Riot," an account of which was the subject of an interesting paper some months ago read before the Society by Thomas Whitson, Esq. '1 he following is a transcription of this in- quest : LANCASTER COUNTY, as. : "An

oldest son of Joshua Brown. Jere- miah enlarged the mill by a story of bricks and the addition of another pair of burrs, after which he operated it to its utmost capacity. He kept two teams' one engaged in hauling to the mill' the other carting flour to Chris- tiana, Delaware, where it was shipped in

valuable assistance rendered in compiling and collating this record. I also want to enter my protest against a very common spelling of the term Octo- rara. The ending of the last syllable should be an a and not an o. The name Octorara is of Indian origin and was used to designate a sub-tribe of Indians