rapidly going on. Those letters are mounted in folios entitied "Lancaster County Miscellany" and "Taylor Pa- pers", etc., rstn the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia; but that does not stop the fading out of the ink. It is with the greatest diffi- culty even now that some of them may be

, Hess's, Funks, Oberholtzers, Martins and Landis' and many others whose names are prominent in our County were residents of these Cantons, and per se neighbors. As an example of such persecutions and sufferings let me call your attention to the experience of Hans Meyli without doubt of the Meyli family

only the northwest corner of it. The Mennonite Tract lies in the heart of Pequea Valley, the creek passing diagonally through the center of it. The Estaugh Tract lies north of the Mennonite Tract as we have seen on Mill Creek and Conestoga River. The Strettle tract contained 3380 acres and is survey

whose hus- bands and fathers have gone to the war, from our neighbor county of Berks, appears in the issue of August 28th. According to a resolve passed August 28, the Committee of Safety and Observation distributed the salt owned by Joshua Fisher and Son and Jo- seph Sherwell in "equal proportions

(a) LANCASTER COUNTY CONTRIBUTORS TO RELIEF OF BOSTON, 1774 Among the manuscripts in the Manuscript Department of the Library of the Pennsylvania Historical Society at Philadelphia in a Volume entitled "Lancaster County Miscellaneous Papers," pp. 5 and 7 appear the following documents: "We whose

subject, Philadelphia County. Volume 17 contains the proprietary and state tax lists for Lan- caster County, for the years 1771-72-73-79 and 82, by townships, etc. Cattle, servants and the names of taxables are set forth. Volume 18 contains similar matter as to Berks County. Volume 19 contains the same of

settling in one place, here in Lancaster County. (Votes Assembly 1718). In 1728 the products from the Susquehanna Valley were mov- ing on to Philadelphia in Conestoga's wagons in great quantities and constancy, according to Samuel Blunston (1 Pa. Arch 216). By 1755 it was stated, as we shall see later

Lancaster County felt the appeal and the position of Boston. It is also to be noted that here we have evidence to a small extent of the part the patriotic women of those times helped the "cause". Catharine Reigart, Mary Ferree, Anne Elizabeth Snyder, Elizabeth Graeff, Elizabeth Gross, Mrs. Henry Helmuth

drawing or selling such liquors. Penalties will be inforced for non-compliance. (Signed) John Stretch, Collector. (Pa. Chron. Jan. 29, 1770) Philadelphia. I have been unable to determine whether Collector Stretch personally supervised these matters in Lancaster Co. or through a Deputy, and through a