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HISTORY OP 



We doubt not, there may some of the descendants of 

 the F];ench neutrals, reside in the comity. Vestiges of 

 them remained in Philadelphia for a long time. "They 

 refused," says Gordon, speaking of those in Philadel- 

 phia, "for a long time to labor, but, finally, settled in low 

 huts, in a quarter of the town, where a vestige continued 

 until the year 1800." 



Those who were carried to Baltimore, soon fomid means 

 to become proprietors of much of the ground on South 

 Charles street, and erected thereon their habitations, 

 which long bore the name of French town. Many 

 of the French descendants of the old French neutrals, are 

 still there. 



Notes.— Octobei- 20, 1749, the Annual Synod of the German 

 Reformed church, met for the first time in Lancaster. Rev, 

 Bartholomaeus, V. D. M. preached the Synodical sermon.— 

 The number of German reformed ministers in America was 

 small in 1749; these were John Philip Bochm, George Michael 

 Weisp, P. B. Ricgcr, Jacob Lischy, formerly a Moravian, 

 Rev. Bartholomaeus, John Philip Leydich, Michael Schlatter, 

 missionary from Holland, two on probation, Conrad Temple- 

 man, at Swatara, J. C. Wirts, at Sacany, and two students 

 lately from Europe, David Marinus, and Jonathan Du Bois. 



January 27th, 1749-50, Cumberland county was erected— 

 Marcli 11th, 1752, Berks was erected— June 1 and 2, 1750, se- 

 vere frost— ice in many places— rye and corn injured. 



Governor Pownall in Lancaster in 1754:— "I took the road 

 from Philadelphia to Wright's Ferry, on the Susquehanna.— 

 Lancaster is a growing town, and making money— a manu- 

 factory is here of guns— it is a stage town— 500 houses- 2,000 

 inhabitants. Between Lancaster and Wright's Ferry, I saw 

 the finest farm one can possible conceive, in tlie liighest culture ; 

 it belongs to a Switzer. Here it was, I saw the method of wa- 

 tering meadows by cutting troughs in the side of the hill for 

 the springs to run in; the water runs over the sides and waters, 

 whoki ground. — PownaWs Jourml. 



