Quarter Sessions the first Tuesday of following August. The boundary of Manheim township, as agreed upon and not since material- ly changed, was: Beginning by Peter's Road at a corner of Donegal and War- wick townships, near the head of little Conestoga creek, thence down the said road by Warwick township

Creek in the Township of Strasbur g in Chester County survey'd 23- of 8br 1710 Isaac Taylor Nothingpaidon theIc(obl.) 2120 �of Conestogoe, near the head of Pequea Creek. The following order was then issued: "Philadelphia, Oct. 10, 1710. "By a warrant from the Commissioners of Property, dated the Eighth

been my lot to encounter the name in manuscript and in print anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 times, more nearly the latter than the former, perhaps, and only about once in a thousand times is it even by accident called a river. It is the Conestoga "Creek" to most of our people, "and it is nothing more

death in 1681), purchased a tract be- tween the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers, for Wm. Penn, from the In- dians. The western boundary of this was marked by "Fort Demolish- ed"(21), which, he states, is on the Susquehanna River, about four miles above the Conestoga Creek. Penn states that a road had

burial service for Nathaniel Ellmaker Hager. 1991. Insert 9 “An Old-Timer Recalls Memorable Dinner Down at Cross Creek,” by Cynthia Parks. Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, Florida. Article is about an elite private club called Mensheviki. April 1991. Insert 10 “New book Highlights Decorating Trends

be sold for two years and eight months; also a genteel riding chair, a tencord flat, with new sails and rigging and a fishing boat. Enquire of the printer." In the issue of August 14, 1740, there is a notice that "all persons who have suffered from the late enlistment of servants in Lancaster county

would be here to attend the races in July, 1870. Certain, it is about that time the President was on a fishing trip in Pennsylvania, on Young-Woman's Creek, with the Camerons, Col. Duffy and the late John A. Hiestand as local hosts; and they may have started to drive from Marietta to Lancaster; but they

letter to the Governor (1 A., p. 363). In this let- ter he says that when, in 1729, the county of Lancaster was formed, the southern boundary was to be the Oc- toraro creek and the province of Maryland; that the line was not run, but no authority was claimed by those few families settled north of (mouth

, boarding and sleeping there and then they were building him a saw mill on Pine! Creek, which ran through his extensive farm. Four 0£ his slaves were Noah Buley and Joshua Hammond-whose time was nearly up -and two younger, about twenty-one years old, named Nelson Ford and George Hammond who had six or seven