real estate, and went to New York, joining Howe's army as Chaplain. In a letter written by Mr. Barton, No- vember 2, 1776, he says: "I was obliged to shut up my churches to avoid the fury of the populace who would not suffer the Liturgy to be used unless the Collects and Prayer for the King and Royal

musical, hence he was often called "The Silver-tongued Mar- quis." He was pastor of the church at Cross Creek, Washington county, for thirty-two years, from 1794 to 1826. In a paper read before the Iris Club of Lancaster, Pa., by Hon. W. U. Hensel, the title "A Literary Grass Widow," in which he reviews

Conestoga Navigation Company, near the city of �Lancaster. And on the same day and in the same book, p. 136, there was another Act fixing a new method by which to pay for the lands taken by the company, and providing an appeal to the District or Circuit Court of Lancaster county in such case. Then followed

the Susquehanna for ice floating, etc." On the 9th of December, 1775, eight officers and 242 privates of the Seventh Royal Fusiliers from Canada, captured by General Richard Montgomery, came to Lancaster in charge of Mr. Egbert Dumont and a guard, with thirty women and prisoners. It was reported to

county in book T, page 939, for the "consideration of the sum of five shillings a year," conveyed unto Thomas Cookson lot No. 159. This consisted of a parcel of ground in Lancaster containing in front forty- five feet, bounded on the north by Chestnut street, on the west by a fourteen-foot alley, on the

Andrew Cornish, of the County of Lan- caster, or any five of them, view and lay out, by Course and Distance, a con- venient high Road from the said town of Lancaster to the Division Line be- tween the Counties of Chester and Lancaster." On October 4, 1733, with Lieutenant Governor Patrick Gordon, with

Delaware for sale into Lancaster county, Pa., the three slaves, with the condition that they be free when twenty-eight years old. After this was done, on April 20, 1814, Boulden sold the boy, Thomas Staats, for seventeen years, and the boy, James Staatz, for nineteen years, to John Clark, of Donegal

- known until recently, when they were discovered in one of the offices of the county Court House. Who Lazarus Stewart Was. Lazarus Stewart was the son of Lazarus Stewart, an emigrant from �the north of Ireland, who settled on the Swatara Creek, Lancaster County, in 1729, on a tract of land of three

is supposed they were cousins. The subject of this sketch is William Hamilton and Jane McMas- ters, of Leacock township, who was a native of Belfast, Ireland, and settled in Lancaster county prior to 1745. "some authorities tell us the Hamiltons were living in the Pequea Valley in 1729—when near