THE ACADIANS IN LANCASTER COUNTY. There is no history in which can be chronologically traced the struggles and changes within that small region known as Acadia, the confines of which were ex- pressly named by Henry IV. of France in his letters patent of November 3, 1603, over the country, territory

who, what and whence of the Pre-Columbian dwellers, or the misnomered peoples, Indians, of Lancaster County / by Theodore L. Urban, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Indians of North America--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Delaware Indians--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster

to have been born in Burlington, N. J., January 21, 1734. Her grandfather. John Wood, was a son of George Wood, of the Darby Quakers. John Wood married October 12, 1703, Jane, daughter of John and Barbary Bevin. John Bevin came from an ancient family, was a man of large means and lineally descended

the Sheriff. The purchaser was George Hersh, grandfather of the Hersh fam- ily, of Strasburg township. The new purchaser tore out all the woolen machinery, supplanting it with looms to weave linen, and he also made linseed oil. He built an addition to the original building for a still-house for the

Convention at Carpenter's Hall took immediate measures to call a convention to framc a Constitution, which met in Philadelphia on July 15, 1776. Benja- min Franklin was President and George Ross, Lancaster, was Vice President. The members of the Convention were: Colonel George Ross. Colonel Alexander Lowrey