A CLUSTER OF ROSES. Were any of you to take a morning stroll, say to the banks of the little river which winds its tortuous way through the fruitful lands of this, our county, you might go with some defin- ite object in view. It might be your intention to seek the uncertain site of Stephen

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

the estate of Sylvester Garland, 700 acres of good land,and grist and fulling mill, For information apply to James Ander- son, minister, late of New York, now �at Donnigal, in the County of Chester, Pa., who has the power of disposing of the same." September 14, 1727 (Palatines): The ship Fame, from

brief to a fault, they bear on every page the palpable impress of truth." ¹ Early Explorations and Settlements on the Delaware River. But let us leave our hero, if we may call him such, for a little while, and try to unravel the somewhat tangled story of the early visits of European nations to our

residence in Pennsylvania appear in the suit news and deeds cited as authorities. The first white settler in the Valley of Virginia was Adam Muller. He came to the colony in 1727, and settled on the Shenandoah river, in the present County of Page, Virginia. He was naturalized in 1742 by Gov. Gooch, and his

in the Shenandoah Valley, and this note is written to preserve their names and something of their history. John Hinton, a resident of Berks County, Pa., bought 400 acres of land from Jeremiah Harrison on Linville's Creek, now in Rockingham County, Va., on October 14, 1765. Deed Book 12, pp. 391-394

along the Delaware river in 1623, and claimed title to the land by right of discovery, under the au- spices of the Dutch West India Com- pany. They penetrated into the inte- rior along the valley of the Schuylkill, and were in undisturbed possession for fifteen years, when in 1638 the Swedes appeared in

the Cumberland Valley, George Gibson, who went to what is now Perry county, and John Wilkins, Henry Bealy, Col. James Hamilton, Lazarus Lowry and his four brave sons, John, James, Danlel and Alexander, all of whom pushed into the Allegheny and Ohio regions. The early settlers who first learned the

. Convinced, like Hamilton, that all of the knotty problems in Pennsylvania politics had been untangled, William Allen, James Hamilton, and four of their Quaker confederates announced in the summer of 1739 that they, too, would not seek re-election. 4 Never had they been so right — and never so wrong. True

similar instructions stating be shall go up the "left bank of the Sus- quehanna River, to Susquehannock Fort:" surely when he was going northward the left bank was the west bank or York county side of the river. August Herrman and His Map. What may be considered as the most reliable and positive evidence