- tablishing complete title records of real estate. When we consider that for one hundred years Philadelphia was the only port of el try of the United States, through which the Ger- man-Swiss population swept into this country; and that from the valleys of the Susquehanna and the Schuylkill, these sturdy

1607-8, both Henry Hudson and Captain John Smith were very near what is now Lancaster county; but, perhaps, not 'United States Report on Ethnology, 1582-3, p. 47. ²Fisk's Discovery of America, vol. 2, p. 490. �in it. The former ran aground at the upper end of Delaware Bay, as he tells us in his log or

. And now Thomas Cresap first ap- pears in the struggle, though he takes at present no hand in it until about four years later. In certain deposi- tions given by him he says that in October, 1731, he and his man,Chance, at work at the western side of the Blue Rock Ferry, which he owned heard the signal

frontier point in eastern Pennsylvania. Some of the roughest and hardest American life occurred there. Wright established his ferry at this point on the river, and as soon as civilization opened west of the river this became the most famous ferry in America west of Philadelphia and New York. Nearly all the

Statutes at Large. These items are as follows: 1727 Great election irregularities in parts of Chester County and the citizens petition for strengthening the law — 3 Votes of Ass. 6. Much violence in the back parts and irregular taking up of land. In Donegal Township, John Scott and his wife had peaceable

Street. Jacob Folmer of Northumberland lodged at Henry Slaymaker's Spread Eagle Tavern on E. King Street, and Simon Snyder his only associate lodged at Peter Gonter's. The Westmoreland County men lodged at George Fisher's that is Jacob Powler and Michael Pugh did and Geo. Smith at Mr. Baily's on West