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

Pat- terson, Wm. Black and Robert Black, and westward of that the same year, 1742, William Fulton took up 393 acres, lying along the Conowingo Creek, which were surveyed to one James Gillespie, which tract was in- creased by three other pieces, making it a tract of nearly 600 acres. This seems to have

over the smaller mantel clocks, the motive power of which was a coiled spring, and the governor was a crown wheel escapement, after the manner of watches of the present day. The mechanical principle was entirely different, including as it did, the weight and cord, the anchor escapement, and the long

case clock," as they were called, first made its appearance about 1732 and they were looked upon as a great improvement over the smaller mantel clocks, the motive power of which was a coiled spring, and the governor was a crown wheei escapement, after the manner of watches of the present day. The

Isaac Taylor orig- inally, and as carried through the several transfers and conveyances as above recited; the same courses being followed after the tract was cut in two by the Atkinsons, was as follows: BEGINNING at a Locust tree by the banks of the Susquehanna River, thence East by North three hundred

you will see a new concrete bridge spanning the stream on your left, but you do not cross this bridge, neither is it a County Bridge. At this point you begin to approach rich historic ground and are at the entrance to a three-mile drive through heavily wooded steep hills on either side, and the road

pass over, and ending some 4 miles below at tidewater. In 1800 note is made of the fact that the first ark came down the river safely from Columbia and on to Baltimore, carrying a load of wheat, which incident was a matter of great rejoicing in Baltimore, as showing the possi- bilities of their city

interpreter, and who describes his view of this section of the Susquehanna river about 1634, refers to this section as part of Sir Edmond Plouden's grant of New Albion, Lord Baltimore's grant of Maryland in 1632 extended to the 40th parallel or the beginning of the 41st degree, which passes through Washington