of Pequea and Conestoga 51937 acres." "Phil. 24th of the 7th mo. 1714 :Isaac Taylor: The bearer hereof, Christian Schlegel complaining that a certain per- son hath seated himself near the mill he has lately built, at Conestoga, by w hose means the Indians that are hereabout are likely to be very

Governor of the Province the Conestoga In- dians wished to see him. Accordingly, Gov. Gookin with a few others visited Conestoga June 18, 1711, within a year after Herr's settlement, and after pre- senting some powder and shot and trinkets to the Indians addressed them in part as follows: Gov. Penn doubts

purpose of raising a sum of money on loan at 4 per cent. to carry on the war. Five million tickets issued. Those who draw 30 or 40 dollars shall receive treas- ury bank notes as prizes payable in 5 years at 4%. The same issue notes that the Indians now in the employ of Great Britain, are now busy scalping

(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

down to that date from the four "Source Books" above mentioned; and also from the other several series of the Pennsylvania Archives, now published, seven or eight series in all. This local history lies hidden in a mass of our Pennsylvania History generally, as it is found in the several thousand of

account of it in 1755. It smouldered along 35 years and another civil war broke out because of oppression upon the Catholics. In New York, New Hampshire, Delaware, the Carolinas and Georgia, religious freedom did not come to the front. It was a subordinate matter to them in early days. Next to

Sept. 2, 1791 appears a lengthy notice for the attention of distillers within the counties of Delaware, Chester, Lancaster, Dauphin, York, Cumberland, Franklin, Huntingdon and Miff- lin, which counties comprised the 3rd Survey District of Pa.—of certain information so that parties concerned may not be

Iroquois having obtained fire-arms from the Dutch, drove their enemy Indians to the Susquehanna this year. V. 5 p. 130. 1687 A temporary or preliminary road was opened between the Schuylkill and Susquehanna this year Penn, speaking of his proposed city on the Susque- hanna where Manor Township now lies