250 niSTORY OF 



Peace held at the liouse of John Postleivhait* in the 

 township of Concstoga, for the county i>f Lancaster, the 

 fifth day of August, in the third year of the Reign of 

 our Sovereign Lord, the second by the grace of God of 

 Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the 

 Faith, &.C. Before John Wright, Tobias Hendricks, 

 Andrew Cornish, Thomas Read and Samuel Jones, 

 Esquires, Justices of our said Lord, the King, the peace 

 of our same Lord, the King, in said county, aforesaid, to 

 keep, as also divers felonies, tresspasses, and other mis- 

 demeanors, ill the said comity, committed to hear and 

 determine assigned, &c. 



The court being opened, the sheriff, to wit, Robert 

 Barber, Esq., returns the writ of Venire Facias to him 

 directed, with the panel thereunto annexed, and the 

 following persons were sworn and affirmed on the 

 Grand Inquest, viz: James Mitchell, George Stuart, 

 Edward Smout, Edmund Cartlidge, James Patterson, 

 Andrew Galbraith, John Hendricks, James Hendricks, 

 Thomas Baldwyn, James Roddy, Francis Jones, Samuel 

 Taylor, Patrick Campbell, William Hey, John Gail- 

 braith, Matthew Atkinson, Ephraim Moor. 



DoMiNus Rex, vs. Morris Cannadt. 



And now, at this day, Morris Cannady, being indicted 

 by the Grand Inquest for this comity, for having feloni- 



'Posikichairs, in Conestoga township, 7 S. W. from Lancas- 

 ter, now Jacob FeliVs. On John Postlcwhait's decease, Charles 

 Nonis, and other persons, Trustees for the General Land 

 OHice, sold Postlcwhait's farm to Joseph Pugh, of Lancaster, 

 in June 175G. Pugh sold to Tobias Stoneman the same month, 

 to whom the children of Posllewhait, namely, Susana, married 

 to Benjamin Price, John, Samuel and Edmund, released, Oct. 

 28th, 17()L Stoneman sold in 17f)"2 to Andrew Foehl, grand- 

 father of Jacob Fehl, Esq. This farm has been held rising of 

 80 years by the Fehls. 



