neigh- bor policy with these early settlers of the Pequea Valley. Mylin family traditions say that they came to Martin Meylin's gunshop to trade. Later, as at the time of Pontiac's uprising in 1763, there were Indian troubles thirty miles to the north ; but the Pequea Party knew the red men only as

initials used by Martin Mylin (1) on the Ausbund and that he was one of only two Mylin family members who might have made guns, his son Martin Mylin (2) being the other, it is possible that the gun in the possession of the Historical Society was made by Martin Mylin (1). Unfor- tunately, unlike the