Indians located along the Conoy creek were generally known, while here, as Conoys or Ganowese ; but, as with all these early tribes, there was much confusion in their names. This was due to their different Indian names, and the different names given them by the Dutch, Swedish, French and English Indian

, in 1897. 7 This describes in detail the provisions for laying out the settlement and erecting a coun- ty. The tract was to be laid out along the east bank of the Susquehanna and to extend north as much as twelve miles from the mouth of the Conestoga Creek. If the land purchases exceeded 100, 000

stream abound- ed in fish of many kinds. Shad, her- ring and salmon ran up the Conestoga and its tributaries, Mill Creek, the Little Conestoga, Cocalico and Muddy Creek, supplying the people in the in- terior part of the county with an abundance of this excellent fish. But when mills came along, dams

descendants were distinguished offrcers in the Mexican war, and others are now prominent in the United States Army. John Pedan owned the farm and hotel at Big Chickies creek, where Garber's mill now is. He was a son of Captain Hugh Pedan, a Revolutionary officer. He married a daughter os Zachariah Moor and

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

to carry on his Indian trade, was James Logan, secretary of the provincial council. It was Logan's money which bought for Edmund Cartlidge the large tract between the Con- estoga and the Mill Creek, southeast of Lancaster, where the first mill in this �quois Indians, one of whose number it was

, passing over the hill, and crossing the Little Conestoga at Dentlinger's mill, then down the west side of the creek, and in the In- diantown Road to the Indiantown of Conestoga. It was probably along this road that trade was carried on more than half a century before Penn's arrival, between the Dutch at

about September 1st. Tradition says he and his party trudged through the forest front Philadelphia to the Pequea Creek on foot save a few on horseback bringing what few utensils, tools and clothing their limited facilities would allow, taking refuge under an oak until the log cabin was completed. Hans

country shall be care- fully executed." The Reine Brothers. John and George Reine lived in Earl township. John appears to have been the more important personage of the two. He owned a mill, located on Mill Creek, long after and perhaps still known as Roland's Mill. When his property was seized he appealed

was a success. Robert Fulton's friend, Christopher Gumpf, sometimes invited him to go fishing along the Conestoga creek with his father who had �a boat. This boat was propelled by poles, which the boys used to go far up the stream. When Robert went for a visit to an aunt at Little Britain he made a

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

constructive drawings made by Miss Mary T. Magee, the artist, of Lancaster, daugh- ter of D. F. Magee. The meadow contains about fifteen acres and many grand old white oak trees, and through it flows the Conowingo creek. In addition to the speakers' stand and other equipments there was also a historical