Marking Historic Sites in Pennsylvania

MARKING HISTORICAL SITES27 Many New Jersey Quakers took affirmations to the state,18 and the Council of Safety allowed one who refused just seven days to get within the enemies lines.14 The Council must have trusted the members of the Society, because at one time seven Friends were brought before it, and they refused to take the affirmation or give bond for their appearance at a later date. They were kept over night and the next day dismissed "on passing their Words to be forthcoming on Wednesday next."15 MARKING HISTORIC SITES IN PENNSYLVANIA. (Continued.) The good work of marking historic sites is being continued under the leadership of Albert Cook Myers, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission. The following record is supplemental to the list published in the last Bulletin. Last Home of Martin Chartier, noted Indian trader and interpreter in early Pennsylvania and Maryland. This marker was unveiled 9 mo. 26, 1925, on the east bank of the Susquehanna River, in Washington Borough, Lancaster County. Playwicky Indian Town. The site of this town of the noted Chief Tammany was identified by Albert Cook Myers, as noted in the Bulletin, 12 (1923) : 74. The marker was unveiled 10 mo. 17, 1925, in Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 18 miles northeast of Philadelphia, and two and a half miles west of Langhorne, on the south side of the road leading from the Old Buck Tavern at Feasterville to Langhorne. Indian Walk Marker. This third marker of the famous Walk was unveiled 10 mo. 23, 1925, in Springfield Township, Bucks County, a mile south-west of Springtown, on the road leading, via Leithsville and Hellertown , to Bethlehem. This is near the spot where Edward Marshall and his associated "walkers" (or runners, as it seemed to the Indians) lunched on the first day of the now famous journey. The Great Trail. This marker was unveiled 11 mo. 14, 1925, on the west side of the road at "Roslyn Farm," a quarter of a mile south of the State Normal School at West Chester. This is near the point where the Great Trail of the Minquas or Susquehanna Indians from the Susquehanna to the Schuylkill River crossed the present Wilmington Road. Gallows Hill. This fourth marker of the Indian Walk is near the point where the "walkers" left the Old Durham Road and followed the well beaten Indian path. This marker was unveiled 11 mo. 21,· 1925, at a place, locally known as Stony Point, in Springfield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on the Old Durham Road, four miles north of the Harrow. The above markers are large, native stones to which have been attached artistic and substantial bronze tablets designed by the architect, Paul P. Cret. ^Minutes of the Council of Safety of New Jersey, 1777, 8ff. uIbid., 1777, 144.™Ibid., 1777, 175, 176. ...