250 HISTORY OF 



Peace held at the house of Joh}i Posfiewhait* in the 

 township of Conestoga, for the county "^f Lancaster, the 

 fifth day of August, in the third year of the Reign of 

 our Sovereign Lord, the second by the grace of God of 

 Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the 

 Faith, &.C. Before John Wright, Tobias Hendricks^ 

 Andrew Cornish, Thomas Read and Samuel Jones, 

 Esquires, Justices of our said Lord, the King, the , peace 

 of our same Lord, the King, in said county, aforesaid, to 

 kee}^, as also divers felonies, tresspasses, and other mis- 

 demeanors, in the said county, committed to hear and 

 determine assigned, &c. 



The court being opened, the sheriff, to wit, Robert 

 Barber, Esq., returns the Avrit of Venire Facias to him 

 directed, with the panel thereunto annexed, and the 

 following persons were sworn and affirmed on the 

 Grand Inquest, viz: James Mitchell, George Stuart, 

 Edward Smout, Edmund Cartlidge, James Patterson, 

 Andrew Galbraith, John Hendricks, James Hendricks, 

 Thomas Baldwyn, James Roddy, Francis Jones, Samuel 

 Taylor, Patrick Campbell, William Hey, John Gail- 

 braith, Matthew Atkinson, Ephraim Moor. 



D0311NUS Rex, vs, Morris Cannady. 



And now, at this day, Morris Cannady, being indicted 

 by the Grand Inquest for this county, for having feloni- 



*PostIewhairs, in Conestoga township, 7 S. W. from Lancas- 

 ter, now Jacob FehVs. On John Postlewhait's decease, Charles 

 Norris, and other persons, Trustees for the General Land 

 Office, sold Postlewhait's farm to Joseph Pugh, of Lancaster* 

 in June 1756. Pugh sold to Tobias Stoneman the same month, 

 to whom the children of Postlewhait, namely, Susana, married 

 to Benjamin Price, John, Samuel and Edmund, released, Oct.. 

 2Sth, 1761. Stoneman sold in 1762 to Andrew Foehl, grand- 

 father of Jacob Fehl, Esq. This farm has been held rising of 

 80 years by the Fehls. 



