Prior to the Revolutionary War, and took a prominent part in the struggle sor independence. He was a member os the Provincial Con- vention, as a delegate srom Cumber- lany county, held at Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, June 18, 1775, and again represented the same county when the convention was in

government, one more in accordance with the spirit of liberty and independence. The officers who then controlled the colonies gener- ally sympathized with the Crown, and really had a majority of the citizens at thcir back. The patriots were in a mi- nority ; but what they lacked in numbers they made up in

A CENTENNIAL EVENT One of the oldest families and widest connections in Eastern Lan- caster county are the Slaymakers Their ancestors bought of and settled on the famous "London lands," along the old Strasburg and Gap roads, and they have illustrated the tenacity of the Lancaster county land-owner

promoted and served during the war. Captain Josiah Crawford, of Frank- lin county, Pa., was his brother. The brief notices of the officers in Crawford's battalion locates them in his own neighborhood, along or near �Pequea Creek. James Crawford, of Donegal, and Lancaster, and Lampeter townships, I think

office in Co- lumbia for a few years. Afterwards he moved near West Chester. Thos. E. Cochran was also admitted in 1844 in York county and in Lancaster in 1858. Frederick Gossler, son of Jacob Gossler, was admitted in 1845. He was a young man when he died, but was rapidly rising in his profession. His

township, Ire- land, in 1736, and died March 4, 1818. Moved from Leacock township, Lan- caster county, to Cumberland county �Prior to the Revolutionary War, and took a prominent part in the struggle sor independence. He was a member os the Provincial Con- vention, as a delegate srom Cumber- lany county

that Colonels Righy and Hall, of Baltimore county, Maryland, were mustering the militia preparatory to a raid into Penn- sylvania. Benjamin Chambers, a mill- wright, who had been in the neighbor- hood, was sent dqwn to Maryland by Blunston and Wright to visit the camp of the militia and ascertain the