306 HISTORY OF 



We doubt not, there may some of the descendants of 

 the French neutrals, reside in the county. Vestiges of 

 them remained in Philadelphia for a long time. "They 

 refused," says Gordon, speaking of those in Philadel- 

 phia, "for a long time to labor, but, finally, settled in low 

 huts, in a quarter of the town, where a vestige continued 

 until the year 1800." 



Those Avho were carried to Baltimore, soon found means 

 to become proprietors of much of the ground on South 

 Charles street, and erected thereon their habitations^ 

 which lon^ bore the name of French town. ISIany 

 of the French descendants of the old French neutrals, are 

 still there. 



Notes.— October 20, 1749, the Annual Synod of the German 

 Preformed church, met for the first time in Lancaster. R,ev. 

 Bartholomaeus, V. D. M. preached the Synodical sermon. — 

 The number of German reformed ministers in America was 

 small in 1749; these were John Philip Boehm, George Michael 

 Weiss, P. B. Hieger, Jacob Lischy, formerly a Moravian, 

 Hev. Bartholomaeus, John Philip Leydich, Michael Schlatter, 

 missionary from Holland, two on probation, Conrad Temple- 

 man, at Swatara, J. C. Wirts, at Sacany, and two students 

 lately from Europe, David Marinus, and Jonathan Du Bois. 



January 27th, 1749-50, Cumberland county was erected — 

 March 11th, 1752, Berks was erected — June land 2, 1750, se- 

 vere frost — ice in many places — rye and corn injured. 



Governor Pownall in Lancaster in 1754: — " I took the road 

 from Philadelphia to AVright's Ferry, on the Susquehanna. — 

 Lancaster is a growing town, and making money — a manu- 

 factory is here of guns — it is a stage town — 500 houses — 2,000 

 inhabitants. Between Lancaster and Wright's Ferry, I saw 

 the finest farm one can possible conceive, in the highest culture ; 

 it belongs to a Switzer. Here it was, I saw the method of wa- 

 tering meadows by cutting troughs in the side of the hill for 

 the springs to run in ; the water runs over the sides and waters 

 whole ground, — PownalVs Journah 



