all the rich val- �leys to the east, and the tide began to pour over Susquehanna about that time. Then, that same year, came John Wright and the Barbers and Blunston and others—from old Ches- ter—and the English settlement on Susquehanna took definite form. A great wealth of history clusters about

., April 25). And by June the 16th a third regiment under Colonel Gillespie, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Anderson and Major James Whitehill (Do., June 16 ). In the midst of these military preparations news reached Pennsylvania about the end of October that peace was pro- claimed (Do., November 3). In the

their fisheries were being de- stroyed (do., p. 458). Later that fall his legal abilities seem to have been recognized, for he was put on a com- mittee to revise the laws and compile them into one body (do., p. 461). Ha was one of our first known "Digest- ers" of the laws of Pennsylvania. About the end