the Legisla- ture. Major James Cunningham, of Mt. Joy township, who commanded a battalion of the "Flying Camp" at King's Bridge and Long Island, and was with Colonel Lowery's battalion at Brandywine. He was a member of the Supreme Executive Coupcil. The Deputies met in convention at Carpenter's Hall

is idle. At t h e j u n c t i o n o f B i g a n d L i t t l e �Chickies Creeks Henry Shearer built a very large stone merchant mill, also idle. At the lower point of Rapho township, at the junction of the two Chick ies creeks, a Carding Mill was erected by Christian Martin one hundred and fifty years

local historians made. Colonel James Crawford did not re- side in Hanover township at the break- ing out of the Revolutionary war. He owned a farm and resided upon it along the Newport road, near Buyers- town. I believe that the Rev. Thomas Crawford was born there. I knew him when he resided near the

Snyder, now re sides at Selins Grove, Pa. Grist and Saw Mill. Willism Smith, in the year 1728, took up 152 acres of land along Beaver creek, where the village of New Providence now stands. He built a grist and saw mill in 1729. The mill, with meadow containing four or five acres, was in Strasburg