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Notes. — In 1757 Elizabeth township was erected — then 

 bounded : beginning at the land of Joseph Cratser, bounding 

 upon Heidleberg, thence by the same to Cocalico township, 

 thence by Cocalico to Warwick, thence by the same to the 

 place of beginning. 



January 10th, 1759, Christian Frederick Post arrived at the 

 town of Lancaster, from his journey to the Indians on Ohio, to 

 whom he had gone to deliver a message from Governor Denny. 

 Post had started from Easton, for Ohio, Oct. 25, 1758. 



July 13th, 1760, Conrad Weiser, the Indian agent, died in 

 Heidleberg township, Berks county. 



1760, Emauuel Carpenter was appointed Presiding justice of 

 the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county. He filled 

 this office until 1780, the time of his death. "He lived beloved 

 and died lamented by all. He was in every sense an honest 

 man ; always just, liberal and tolerant. He was an arbiter in 

 all matters of dispute among his neighbors; and from his deci- 

 sions they never appealed, such was the confidence of his 

 integrity." 



He left a numerous connection of relatives and friends. His 

 remains rest in Zimmerman's grave )'ard, near Earlville, at 

 whose side rest those of his consort, Catharine Line, who died 

 1785. Their lineal descendanis are many, and are to be found 

 in the names of the Carpenters, Groffs, Ferrees, Reigarts, 

 ]\rCleerys and others. 



" In 1761, the inhabitants of Tulpchocken and Heidleberg 

 townships, raised 150 men as rangers, to guard the county lines 

 of Berks and Lancaster." 



1762, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two able and inge- 

 nious matliematicians, after their return from Good tlope Cape, 

 were employed to run the line so long the subject of angry con- 

 troversy. The business was accordingly performed agreeably 

 to directions, and stone pillars erected to exhibit clearly, and 

 fix with certainty the long disputed boundary. 



Maytown was laid out May 1st, 1762, by Mr. Doner. To cele- 

 brate the day of laying out Maytown, a fair, " a gathering of 

 loose 'heels,"' was held, and dancing performed in its best style, 

 in the middle of the main street in the "houseless town." It 

 is to be regretted that the dance could not have been performed 



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