previous controversy over quartering in Massachusetts, New York, and especially Pennsylvania, that complaints about it began to emerge in Lancaster. Perhaps it was inevitable that the issue should surface in the town, given Lancaster's strategic location and importance in the struggle against the French

southern side of the Ohio, between the Great and the Little Kanawha. I have dur- ing eight months lived principally on their flesh." He also says of the buf- faloes that "they had at a former period penetrated east of the Alle- gheny Mountains." Dr. Bausman, in his "History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania

, this charter made the bounds of Connecticut on the west the �Pacific Ocean, taking in the southeast- ern corner of New York State and the northern two-fifths of Pennsylvania. The difficulty about the portion of New York included in the grant was re- moved by the recognition on the part of Connecticut

Proprietaries and Gov- ernours in chief of the province of Pennsylvania,a certain Tract of Land situated on Tulpehocken creek of 5,165 acres, who by their Patent did erect it into a Manor, and named it the Manor of Plumton." It has been suggested that this name was given on account of the many wild plum trees

Philadelphia and through Chester county, etc. About this time he reached Lancaster county and preached at Pequea, in the Presbyterian Church, but the paper does not have an account of this. In the issue of March 11, 1740, there is an account of Benjamin Sterrett, going home from a neighbor's house, found dead

Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania, who are now sitting." July 5, 1722: Notice dated June 19th,—"Run away from the Iron Works near Sus- quehanna, in Maryland, one John Folks, a Welshman, and a joiner and cabinet-maker by trade, Whoever re- turns him will be well rewarded, etc. "STEPHEN ONION

, however, returning them to Virginia, where they arrived just as another English party was about starting up to their assistance. In 1640 another English party made ²Jenkin's History of Pennsylvanta; vol, I, p, 72. Pennsylvania, Colonial and Federal; vol, I. �its appearance on the river, This time they

domestic literary works. He was recognized throughout the Colonies as a master printer, and continued as the official printer for the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania until his death in 1815. There is no way of knowing what Francis Bailey, Lancaster's forgotten man, might think of his old neighborhood today