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houses and add new acquisitions of lands to their first 

 possessions.* 



To depend upon their Indian neighbors for provisions, 

 was useless — ^the Indians depended mainly upon game 

 and fish — of course, the supplies of provision were 

 scanty, and what they had they were under necessity to 

 transport from a distant settlementt for some time, till 

 the seeds sown in a fertile soil, yielded some thirty, 

 others forty fold. Fish and fowl were plenty in the 

 wilds. The season of their arrival was favorable — 

 around them they saw crowned the tall hazel with rich 

 festoons of a luscious grape. J 



♦Martin Kendig, lately an inhabitant of Switzerland, had 

 surveyed him a tract of land in Strasburg township, 1060 acres, 

 bounded by lands of Martin Meylin, Christian Herr, and John 

 Funk. Another tract of 530 acres, bounded by John Herr's 

 land. Another of 265 acres. — Recorded Sept. 1711 



Christopher Franciscus, of Switzerland, 530 acres, bounded 

 by lands of Jacob Miller, Wendel Bowman, John Rudolph 

 Bundely— in 1710, John Funk 530 acres, bounded by lands of 

 Martin Kendig, Jacob Miller.— Surveyed Feb. 28, 1711. John 

 Rudolph Bundely, late of Switzerland, 500 acres, bounded by 

 lands of Wendel Bowman, Surveyed, 1710, and Martin Mey- 

 lin, 265 acres. Christian Herr, 530 acres, John Herr, 530 acres, 

 all recorded July 3, 1711. Wendel Bowman 530 acres, re- 

 corded July 7, 1711. The warrants for all the above tracts are 

 dated 1710. 



fTheir nearest mill was at Wilmington, on the Brandywine, 

 Delaware. 



|"0f living creatures, fish, fowl, and the beasts of the wood, 

 here, are divers sorts, some for food and profit, and some for 

 profit only ; for food and profit, the elk, as big as a small ox ; 

 deer, bigger than ours; beaver, raccoon, rabbits, squirrels and 

 some cat young bear, and commend it. Of fowl of the land, 

 there is the turkey, (forty and fifty pounds weight) which is 

 very great ; pheasants, heath-birds, pigeons and partriges, in 



