OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 415 



liam and one whose name we liave net learned, i This defisi..n was a-roeal.lo to Iuh 

 omi mind; but to his friends and char-e it was unae.ei.tahlo; to lie "separated con 

 ihrem prediger, from tlieir preacher, could be borne witli reluctance and IieavineKs of 

 heart only. They were all too ardently attached to him to dieerfully ac-quiewe in this 

 determiimtion. Reluctantly they consented to his departine— after nnu-li anxiety mani- 

 fested ou account of this unexpected call of their pastor from them. Tlieir (sorrows 

 were alleviated by a proposal made on the part of Martin Kendi;;, that, if approval, 

 he would take Hans Herr's place — this was cordially as.sented to by all. Witlioiit un- 

 necessary delay, Martin, the devoted friend of the colony, made ready— went to Phila- 

 delphia, and there embarked for Europe; after a prosperous voyajje of five or six weeks, 

 he reached the home of his friends, where he was ret-eived with ai)ostolie ffreetin^jsand 

 salutations of joy. Having spent some time in pieliminary arrangements, he an<l a 

 company of Swiss and some Germans, bade a lasting adieu to their old homes, and 

 dissolved the tender ties of friendship with those whom they left. "With his oompanv, 

 consisting of the residue of some of those in America, and of Peter Yoitlca, Jacob 

 Miller, Hans Tschantz, Henry Funk, John Houser, John Bachman, Jacob Weber, 

 Schlegel, Venerick, Guldin, and others, he retm-ned to the nao home, where they were 

 all cordially embraced by their fathei's and friends. 



"At a meeting of the commissioners, Sept. 10, 1712 — the late connnissioners having 

 granted 10,000 acres of land to the Palatines, by their warrant dated Otli. Btli. 1710, in 

 l^ursuance thereof there was laid out to Martin Kendig, l)esides the 2,000 acix's already 

 contirmed and paid for, the like (quantity of 2,000 acres, towards Susfpielianna, of wliich 

 the General Surveyor has made a return. The said ^lartin Kendig now apix-aring de- 

 sirous that the said land may be granted and confirmed to iVIaria Warenbuer. for wliom 

 the same was taken up, or intended, and who is to pay the consideration of it. But 

 upon further consideration of the matter, it is agreed among themselves that tlic s;iid 

 land shall be confiinned to Daniel Fierre and Issac Lefevre, two of tlie said witlow's 

 sons, and the consideration money, viz: £140 at £7 per 100 acres, by agreement having 

 been for some time due, but is now to be paid down in one sum. 'Tis agreed that tlicy 

 shall only pay £10 for interest, that is £150 lor the wliole." 



"The said Martin Kendig now (Sept. 10, 1712) appearing .lesirous that the said (2000 

 acres) land may be granted and confirmed to jNIaria "Warenbuer, for trh<»a the Mine ira* 

 taken up or intended, ^x.''' 



This tract was then in Chester county, Coucstoga township, now East Sti-asbnrg. in 

 this county. It composed the farms now (1844) owned by Henry A. C'arpeiitrr. Fenx' 

 Brinton, John C. Lefevere, Joseph L. Lefevere, Jacob Hershey, Cluistian Lenian, 

 Henry and Jacob Brackbill, Theo. Sherts, Isaac B. Burrowes, Jacob Eshleman. C'liris- 

 _tian Hershey, Messrs. "V\^itmer, R.' Conyngham, Esti., R. Taggart. Phili]. K(.ster, 

 Henry Shert'z, John Shertz, F. S. Burrowes, D. Lefevre. 



In 1713, Christopher Schlegel, late of Saxony, took up with a view to settle, though 

 he afterwards transferred his interest in his tract of one thousand acres, to others- 

 this land is on a stream fiowing into the Conestoga, "not far from the lan.l grante.l to 

 the Palatines." It was afterwards the place where the Cartlidges. Indian agent.s itv 

 sided. Another person, Benedictus Venerick, late of Germany, took up two hundml 

 acres, near the Palatines, in 1715.2 Between the Pe.piea and Cnestoga cveks, near 

 the Susquehanna, Richard Carter, an Englishman, a wheel-wright, locatvd and un- 

 proved two hundred acres, in 1716. The san^e year, Alexander Ik-ws took up four 

 hundred acres on the south side of the Conestoga; Anthony Pretter, ol hast Jersc-j. 



1 Three of Hans Hevr's sons settled in what is now callcl We.t Lampeter «--;;'j; -^;,,7,;" 

 Manor township; from these sprang a numerous connexion ol Hc.-rs, no e '';';7,;,'^,7^'; ,';,"..„„,/. 

 of that name, de^cenaants of Hans Herr, are ta.xablos resul.n, wuh.n '-"..'; '^;i,;;, ^^^J, 



2. In and about Smoketown, in 1715, l>eter Hellas, Daniel Hannan, \\ .lli..m Kwn., 

 settled. 



