190 HISTORY OF 



current. It has been said there was once a great 

 slaughter of the Indians at that place, by a party of 

 cruel men, headed by a person named Bell. In the 

 neighborhood were many places said to be graves of the 

 Indians, and it was believed that a piece of cannon lay 

 sunk in the current. Below this, the settlers were 

 Gemians: Stinemans, Kauffmans, Herrs, Rupleys. — 

 The township (where Wright first settled) above, was 

 called Donegal by the Irish settlers, Andersons, Cooks, 

 Tates, Kays. 



In the noith-eastern part of the county, a settlement 

 was commenced about the year 1723 or 4, by Everhard 

 Ream, whose descendants still reside in the village called 

 after the first settler and proprietor. This place, like many 

 others, was occupied solely by the Indians, at the time 

 Mr. Ream located here. He ventured with his wagon 

 and horse into the woods, where he unloaded his '■'■fix- 

 tures and furniture,''^ under a large oak tree that 

 spread its extended boughs over him and his small 

 family till he had put up a rude hut of logs, which he 

 built upon what is now Lesher's farm. His nearest mill 

 was on the Brandy wine, and his nearest neighbors, the 

 Mulbachers, then living on Mill creek. After clearing a 

 small spot, he procured a warrant and located about 

 four hundred acres; afterwards, in 1725, received a 

 patent for the same. 



Some of his first or early neighbors, who had been 

 attracted by the improved spot and fine water, were 

 Bucher, Huber, Walter, KoUer, Schwarsswalder, Leader, 

 Schneider, Killion, Dock, Forney, Rupp, Balmer, 

 May, Mayer, Hahn, Rosier, Beyer, Leet, Sclilott, Graf, 

 Wolf, Feierstein, Weidman, and others. 



At the very infancy of the Pennsylvania colony, a. 

 nmiiber of Welsh, of sterling worth and excellent charac* 



