fur had been a leading article of barter and trade with the Indians for many years earlier and as the animals were easily caught they were soon exterminated. Beaver Creek and Beaver Meadow (now the Big Swamp) in Clay Township are doubtless names reminiscent of a very early period, for it is unlikely

northern Maryland and Chester and Lancaster counties, Pennsylvania, known to geologists as the Ser- pentine Barrens. Its springs flow a few yards into a tributary of Carter's Run, which meets the Conowingo Creek about a half mile northwest of the Seven Springs rock. They are about a quarter of a mile west

cleared for crops, and cattle and swine were being raised. There was good fishing in Pequea and Mill creeks. The black bear, the timber wolf and the cougar, for some time, were a menace to the hogpen and the sheepfold. In 1710 the Shawanese Indians, locally called Piquaws or Pequeas, lived at Pequehan

result. Much complaint has come to us that children and youths go, daily, up and down the creek fishing, thereby tread- ing down the grass in the meadows. Parents and masters must forbid this. ** Neither of these was started. �Oct. 17, 1808. Dorel Mack caused the congregation much pro- vocation in that

called it Muhlenbergii, possibly also because distributed along the banks of the Conestoga from Brownstown to below Millersville. Probably the most impressive stand of this rare oak is along the Conestoga near its Lititz Creek confluence, where there are several vener- able and stately individuals, well

colonies of New England in exchange for other commodities. Beans, mellons, potatoes and tobacco were also among their cultivated products to which Europeans fell heir. Their women cultivated the soil, the men engaged in fishing, hunt- ing and war. When they first met Europeans, the Indians had little or no

being partly frozen — went and skated on it." April, "All my amusement at present is trout-fishing, which, as they are in great plenty, is very enter- taining. The inhabitants have a droll way of catching shad, a fish I never saw in England." May 2, "An expedition being planned against the Indians under