trade. (37) �, (38) Among the prominent mills were Buckley's and Moore's Brothers on Octoraro; Smith's (afterwards Groff's) ·on B eaver Creek about New Pro- vidence ; Jacob Bear's (afterwards Myers') on Carter's Creelt, at Oregon, Abey's, Stoneman's and others. These determined several roads. One or two

more. The land to which he was entitled in these war- rants he had located on both sides of the Conestoga Creek in one tract, near the head of the creek, in the neighborhood of Spring Grove. now Earl township, Lancaster county. (See Taylor papers, Pennsylvania Histor- ical Society.) He built his house

in committee, in drawing a law to prevent the frontier men of Berks County, encroaching on Indian lands in 1760 and especially to prevent hunting deer there (5V, 110) ; his appointment to investigate and report on the Indian murders in 1768 on Middle Creek (6V, 110) ; and his labors in the convention

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

boundary trouble. - 1 A., 281. See list of Germans naturalized-see Act. - 4 St. L., 147. Most of them Lancaster County names-see same. - 4 St. L., 147. The Act for 300 f to build the Court House. - 4 St. L., 149. 1731 Complaint that Stephen Atkinson has dammed up the Conestoga Creek and the fish can not

worth keeping in mind as an aid in interpreting the history of the two counties mentioned. We are informed that General Braddock was long detained at Will's Creek on account of forage and provisions. Landing his troops in Virginia was said to be a most unfortunate step because neither provisions nor

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