Diary under date March 31, 1780, find the following re- specting the purchase of this property "Gave one hundred dollars to Sus. Thornberry to pay Caleb Johnson for writing Deed of house on paper, and Ten Dollars to pay Charles Hall for his trouble in going three miles to have the Deed acknowledged. In

Lancaster County com- pany, "their fire is exceedingly accurate and they can hit within a six-inch ring at a distance of three hundred yards." Steele's soldierly qualities, personal courage and indomitable determination in action quickly impressed Washington and his commanding officer; and when Washington

and Sovereign, and issue only 'in the name " Pennsylvania." See Docket of Court Quarter Sessions Lancaster County No. 3, August and November terms, 1777. During his long service as Justice of the Peace and Judge from 1735 to 1780, he lived and made his home in Earl Township, on his farm deeded to him

of the loaded cars from the main track and return- ing the empties to make up departing trains for the quarries and cement supplies etc., etc. MEMORIES Yet to the old timers that have known this beautiful stretch of water in years past it will work a wonderful change when this great lake of smooth

location and boundaries of the Martin Chartier tract : together with the site of the original residence of Martin Chartier / by D. F. Magee, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Chartier, Martin, d. 1718. French Americans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster

boundary lines of Little Britain and Coleraine. They come together at the head of Old Pine Grove Forge Dam at a point known as "Point Lookout" which in an air line course is about twelve miles from the Gap Ridge foot hills where they both have their source. After nearly a hundred years following its first

itself as the first narrow gauge railroad in Pennsylvania, by running its first five ton engine, the "Samuel Dickey" down over its newly laid and unballasted tracks out of Oxford, Chester County, to Hopewell Borough, three miles westward, and took on water from Hopewell run a tributary of the Octoraro on

and three-quarters of an acre, together with six acres added to the hundred for roads and highways, or a total acreage of four hundred and thirty-five acres of land, neat measure, situated in Conestoga Manor, afterwards and now called Manor Township, in Lancaster County. The story of the setting aside