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them, when they found they could no longer support 

 them against the force which the English brought upon 

 them in these parts.* 



CHAPTER III. 



Augmentation of settlements — Germans and English settle around the 

 Swiss or Palatines — Settlements in ditferent parts of the count)' — Names 

 of persons naturalized — Notice of Slaymakers — Conestoga Manor sur- 

 veyed — Names of first purchasers — Graff Thai settled — Lancaster and 

 vicinity settled — Squatters on the west side of Susquehanna — Indians at 

 Conestoga address a letter to Logan — Colonel French goes to Conestoga; 

 holds a treaty with the Indians — Logan meets the Indians on the Susque- 

 hanna — Samuel Robins sent to Virginia. 



Settlements had now been fairly made amidst the 

 Indians ; the hardships that presented themselves in the 

 incipient stage of settling, began to vanish, and almost 

 every discouraging obstacle was surmounted. "Their 

 success, the glowing, yet by no means exaggerated 

 accounts given by them, of the scenery of the country, 

 the fertility of the soil they cultivated, the abundance of 

 game with which the forest teemed, the quantity and 

 delicacy of the fish which the rivers yielded; but above 

 all, the kind and amicable relationship they cultivated 

 and maintained with tlieir Indian neighbors, all conspired 

 to make them the objects of attention, and afterwards 

 one of the prominent points whither emigration tended 

 in an increasing and continued stream.^t The perse- 

 cuted of every land, and of different tongues, settled 

 around them, in various directions of the county. 



In 1713, Christopher Schlegel, late of Saxony, took 

 up with a view to settle, though he afterwards trans - 



*Col. Rec. III. 77. fGeo. Ford's, MSS. 



