LANCASTER COUNTY. 307 



Lancaster county had, for half a century, been celebrated 

 for the manfacture of guns. This business was successfully 

 carried on by John Fondersmith, a European, who located at 

 Strasburg, in 1749, where, assisted by one of his sons, he 

 made " defensive arms'' for the Revolutionary patriots. 



The late Dr. Eberle's father — a peerless genius tn steel and 

 iron — a natural mechanic — manufactured bayonets, during the 

 Revolution, not inferior to the damask blade. 



Peter Schaub, of Lancaster county, setting forth to the 

 Assembly, that when the forces under Col. Dunbar were at 

 Lancaster, on their way to Philadelphia, a considerable num- 

 ber of horses and cattle belonging to them were put into his 

 meadow, and kept there for two days, whereby the greatest 

 part of the grass was destroyed, required compensation for 

 damages sustained ; Jacob Myers and others valued the 

 damages at £11, 7s. The Assembly considered the petition, 

 September 19th, 1755. John Brubaker presented a similar 

 petition ; his damages were £8, 6s.* 



Col. Dunbar was an officer under Edward Braddockj who 

 met with a fatal reproof, July 9th, 1755, near Pittsburg, for his 

 overweening confidence and reckless temerity. 



Members of Assembly for Lancaster county, for 1743: — 

 Anthony Shaw, Arthur Patterson, Thomas Lindly, John Wright 

 — in 1744: James Mitchell, John Wright, Arthur Patterson, 

 Samuel Blunston — in 1745 and 1746: John Wright, James 

 Mitchell, Arthur Patterson, James Wright — in 1747 and 1748: 

 John Wright, Arthur Patterson, James Webb, Peter WorralL 



*Votes of Assembly. 



