242 HISTORY OF 



from Susquehanna river, and prayed his approbation of 



the same. The Governor therefore referred the matter 



to the consideration of the board, whether the situation 



of the place those gentlemen had pitched on for a town 



might be fit to be confirmed, and that a town should 



accordingly be fixed there. But the question being 



asked to whom the land they had made choice of now 



belongs, and who has the property of it, because it may 



be in such hands as will part with, or at least, on 



reasonable terms for that use, and this not being known 



by any at the board, it was deferred till such time as that 



could be ascertained. But as it is presumed for any 



thing that is yet known, to be unsurveyed land, and that 



the right is only in the proprietor, it is the opinion of the 



board, that it is more proper to be granted by the 



proprietor for such uses, than by any other person. 



Mem. — "The Governor having understood that the 

 right of the land pitched upon for the townstead of Lan- 

 caster, remains yet in the proprietaries, was advised to 

 approve of the place agreed on by Messrs. Wright^, 

 Pierce and IMitchel, and the same vv^as confirmed ac- 

 cordingly by a writing dated May 1st, 1730. 



According to tradition, it appears, "that on the division 

 of the county, a contention arose as to the most suitable 

 location for the seat of Justice. Wright's Ferry was 



A'braham was a defenceless ^lenionite, his son Christian took a 

 decided and active part with the Whigs in the Revolution ; he 

 was an officer in the army. The sword, with which he so val- 

 iantly defended his country, was presented by his widow, to a 

 relative, to Capt. George Eichholtz, while in the service of the 

 United States in 1814. 



John Jacob Eichholtz, grandfather of Capt. George, was 

 married to Christian Meyer's sister. Mr. Eichholtz was wag- 

 onmaster at the time of Braddock's defeat; and it is said, upon 

 good authority, the first brick-maker in Lancaster county. 



