LANCASTER COUNTY, 1329 



The same year the Conestoga Manor was surveyed 

 for the use of the proprietary, by order of the Cominis- 



tioiis, and he has often been out whole nights after thera — one 

 in particular, when they were informed that the Doanes, who 

 were celebrated tories, were encamped in a swamp near the 

 Gap, about where the Pennsylvania Hailroad passes the Gap, 

 and the associations went in pursuit of them through a tremcn* 

 dousstonn of rain, sleet, thunder and lightning, but after grea-^ 

 difficulty from underwood, briars, and in gaining their retreat, 

 thoj found some of the disaficcted in the neighborhood, had in 

 tlic mean time apprised them of their approach, and they had 

 escaped. The members of this company were in constant 

 danger of losing their lives, as many in the eastern part of the 

 county were disaffected — and they were in danger of being 

 shot even at their ordinary occupations. Amos served two 

 terms in the Revolutionary war as an Ensign of a company, 

 commanded by his uncle Capt. John S. (father of the present 

 Captain) who was also an officer in Braddock's war. Amos 

 was magistrate fur many years — a member of the Legislature 

 and of the Pennsylvania Senate, and also a member of 

 Congress," 



[Extract of a Lttter from John Slaymaher, Esq.] 

 "My father John, was in Braddock's campaign, as a 

 wagoner. lie was put to draw a cannon at the place of ren- 

 dezvous, and took it into battle on the day of Braddock's 

 defeat— he had eleven horses to it on that day, which were all 

 shot before the retreat. I have often heard him say if it had 

 not been for Washington's brave conduct in covering thjj 

 retreat, there would hardly a man have escaped. In this conflict 

 tiie most of the American troops were killed — my father cams 

 off safe. In 1776, he marched at the head of a company to 

 Bergen, in Jersey— was in the skirmish on Chesnut Hill, undt-? 

 General Bull, where Bull was taken prisoner. After his return 

 home, he was chosen County Commissioner, which ended his 

 public services. He died in 1798, aged 65 years. 



The sale of the "London Land" was in the year 1761, in 

 Philadelphia. Father paid j£800 for 346 acres of said tract. 



Note — London Lands, in Lancaster county.— It appears 

 that a land company was organized at an early date. In 



