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feri-ed his interest in his tract of one thousand acres, to 

 others; — this land is on a stream flowing into the Cones- 

 toga, " not far from land granted to the Palatines.'' It 

 was afterwards the place where the Cartliges, Indian 

 agents, resided. Another person, Benedictus Venerick, 

 late of Germany, took up two hundred acres, near the 

 Palatines, in 1715.* Between the Pequea and Cones- 

 toga creeks, near the Susquehanna, Richard Carter, an 

 Englishman, a wheel-right, located and improved two 

 hmidred acres, in 1716. The same year, Alexander 

 Bews, took up four hundred acres on the south side of 

 the Conestoga; Anthony Pretter, of East Jersey, three 

 hundred acres, near Pequea, or south side of Conestoga ; 

 and John Gardiner, Jr., from Philadelphia county, two 

 hundred acres, on the same side of Conestoga." About 

 this time, Jacob Greider, or Kreider,t Jacob Hostater, 



*In and about Smoketown, in 1715, Peter Bellas, Daniel 

 Harman, William Evans, James Smith, settled. 



fThe relentless spirit of persecution, as the number of its 

 subjects of oppression decreased, singled out individual fami- 

 lies ; of these oppressed, were the Kreiders and Hostaters — 

 these fled for life from Switzerland to Wurtemburg ; taking 

 nothing with them from, their Fatherland, except their families, 

 and small quantities of tow cloth, a few linens, and some 

 wearing apparel. Kreider remained but a short time— but 

 emigrated to America, and in company with Hostater, after 

 paying the brethren of their faith, a visit, at Pequea, settled on 

 the north side of the Conestoga, about two miles south from 

 the present site of Lancaster, where he took up «ight hundred 

 acres of land in 1716 or 1717, "among the new surveys at 

 Conestoga." 



Here, he erected a temporary shelter, a tent covered with 

 tow tjloth brought from Switzerland, which served him and his 

 family till autumn, when the tent gave way to a cabin built 

 of round, unhewn hickory saplings, and covered with bark — 

 both were abundant. 



When the weather became cold, his tawny neighbors, the 



