THE GARDEN OF PENN- SYLVANIA Since Lancaster county did such a noble part in helping to lay the foundation of the new federation, what did it merit and what was the reward? Its modesty would ask for none but its reputation claimed for it the title of "the Garden of Pennsyl- vania." At the present

1705 a law was proposed to prevent Indians being brought into the provinces and sold as slaves In 1706 a law was passed which prohibit- ed the congregating of more than four negroes in one place." The same year a head tax of forty shillings was placed on imported negroes," and there was great complaint

THE LIBERALITY OF LAN- CASTER COUNTY, 1793-94 This county is accredited as gener- ous, always, when responding to a call for assistance. Whether the ca- lamity be war, floods or, as in the present case, disease, its people are ever ready to lend the "helping hand." The recent aid given the war

�reference is made later of a warning given by a friendly Indian, a "mem- ber of the Conestoga tribe" It was, however, the marauding bands of hostile Indians from the West pressing into the more thick- ly-settled and better-cultivated sec- tions of the East that caused such terror among the white inhabitants

week from there to near Darby in Chester or Delaware called Newton Square we remained about 3 weeks at this place were then taken across the Schulkill to near Chest Hill until our tour of two months was up (here we were on guard) I got a discharge from Cap Adams which I have lost then went home to

, whose use had another meaning. Given the men and arms to fight the big cause of a country's freedom, necessity compelled the fur- ther requirements of munition, food, clothing, horses and wagons. Why was it that when orders were issued for these needs Lancaster county was, in most every case, required