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and 20th, June, Springettsbury Manor made by CoL 

 John French, Francis Worley and James Mitchell.--- 

 They had been directed, by the Governor, to take with 

 them such of the neig^hboring inhabitants as they thotight 

 fit to call to their assistance, immediately to cross the 

 river Susquehanna, and to survey or cause to be sur- 

 veyed, marked and located, the quantity of seventy 

 thousand acres, or thereabouts.* 



There was a council held at Conoy town, July, 1722, 

 ill Donegal township. James Mitchell, Esq. and Mr. 

 James Le Tort, were desired to be present with the 

 chiefs of the Conestogoes, Sawaneis, and Conoys, 

 together with seven chief men of the Nanticoke Indians, 

 who were upon a journey to the Five Nations, in order 

 to renew former friendship, and strengthen it in miity for 

 time to come. Anxious to make the best of their 

 journey, they determined upon having the best inter- 

 preter they could find at Conoy town, they made appli- 

 cation to Captain Smitii, to accompany them; but in 

 consequence of having engaged to accompany Governor 

 Keith to Albany, in August, he declined. Mr. Mitchell 

 hastened to inform Governor Keith of the presence of 

 the Nanticokes, who were a peaceable people, and 

 lived quietly amongst the English, in Maryland. 



About the year 1723, a number of Germans, lately 

 from Schoharie, New York, settled on the Swatara and 

 Tulpehocken creeks. It may be interesting to readers to 

 know how these Germans came to Tulpehocken. 



On a proclamation of Queen Anne, of England, 1708, 

 some three or four thousand Germans went in 1709, to 

 Holland, and were thence transported to England. — 



*Col. Rec. III. 195. 



