242 HISTORY OF 



from Susquehanna river, and prayed his approbation of 

 the same. The Governor therefore referred the matter 

 to the consideration of the board, whether the situation 

 of die place those gentlemen had pitched on for a town 

 might be fit to be confirmed, and that a town should 

 accordingly be fixed there. But the question being 

 asked to whom the land they had made choice of now 

 belongs, and who has the property of it, because it may 

 be in such hands as will part with, or at least, on 

 reasonable terms for that use, and this not being known 

 by any at the board, it was deferred till such time as that 

 could be ascertained. But as it is presumed for any 

 thing that is yet known, to be unsurveyed land, and that 

 the right is only in the proprietor, it is the opinion of the 

 board, that it is more proper to be granted by the 

 proprietor for such uses, than by any other person. 



Mem. — "The Governor having understood that the 

 right of the land pitched upon for the toivnstead of Lan- 

 caster^ remains yet in the proprietaries, was advised to 

 approve of the place agreed on by Messrs. Wright, 

 Pierce and Mitchel, and the same was confirmed ac- 

 cordingly by a writing dated May 1st, 1730. 



According to tradition, it appears, "that on the division 

 of the county, a contention arose as to the most suitable 

 location for the seat of Justice. Wright's Ferry was 



A*braham was a defenceless Mernonitej bis son Christian took a 

 decided and active part with the Whigs in the Revolution ; he 

 w^as an officer in the army. The sword) with which he so val- 

 iantly defended his country, was presented by his widow, to a 

 relative, to Capt. George Eichholtz, while in the service of the 

 United States in 1814. 



John Jacob Eichholtz, grandfather of Capt. George, was 

 married to Christian Meyer's sister. Mr. Eichholtz was wag* 

 onmaster at the time of Braddock's defeat; and it is said, upon 

 good authority, the first brick-maker in Lancaster county. 



