CONTENTS OF VOLU/AE L
 

CHAPTEPv I.—The period of Washington
County Histor}'—The Indians—The pioneer set¬
tlers of the Valley—Their isolation and manner of
life—The bill of fare—Their hunting parties—-
Habitation and customs—Wedding festivities.

pp. 9—IG.
 

CHAPTEE II.—The Hagerstown Valley-
Its physical aspects and beauties—Minerals—a
splendid hunting ground—Battles between Cataw-
bas and Delawares—Indian Eemains—Lack of
bread—Lord Baltimore's offer to settlers—Settlers
from Pennsylvania—Redemptioners—The settle¬
ment at Conococheague—Henry Bouquet—Chew's
farm—Hagerstown first laid out—Joseph Chap-
line founds Sharpsburg—Johnson and Jacques—
A^isit of Eddes—Burgoyne's army—Christian
Boerstler.                                              pp. 17—29
 

CHAPTEE III.—Border disputes—Mason
and Dixon's line—Thomas Cresap in border war¬
fare—Captured and carried to Philadelphia.

jDp. 31—36.
 

CHAPTEE IV.—The French and Indian
War—Braddock's march through the Valley—His
orderly book—Franklin provides wagons—the in¬
road of Indians and slaughter of the settlers—
Cresap as an Indian fighter—Fort Frederick built
—A love story and a tragedy—N'arrative of a cap¬
tive—Question of taxation.

pp. 37—58.
 

CPIAPTEE v.—Jonathan Ilager—Potomac
Company—Legal value of foreign coins—Trade
down the river to Georgetown—Hager unseated by
the legislature—Naturalized and re-elected—Ha¬
ger accidentally killed—Litigation about his prop¬
erty—Jonathan Hager Jr.—His marriage and
widow—Bartholomew Booth's school—Letter fiom
Benedict Arnold—The first church.

p)p.  59—71.

CHAPTEE VI.—The Eevolution—The first
meeting—A tea burning—Committee of observa¬
tion appointed—John Stull the President—Enlist¬
 

ment of soldiers—Michael    Cresap's    Company
marches to Boston—Cresap and Logan controversy
—Otho Holland Williams—Other soldiers—Min¬
utes of committee of safety.
!                                                         pp. 72—83.
 

CHAPTEE VII.—Washington County form¬
ed—Eesolution of the convention—The first county
court—The site of the Court House—Daniel and
Eosanna Heister—Thomas Hart—Visit of Presi¬
dent Washington—Site for the Federal City—
Eidiculing Conococheague—Hagerstown taverns—
The use of whiskey—The Washington Spy—Eosa
Orndoril—Home manufactures—Use of the Ger¬
man language—Schools at the end • of the 18th
century—Theatricals—The monster of Madagas¬
car—Postofiices—Mail carriers—Merchants and
trade—Emigration to the West—Adventures of
the Eeynolds family—Thomas Hart goes to Ken¬
tucky—Lucretia the wife of Henry Clay—The
Jail and Alms House—Political events in the last
decade of the Century—The trouble with France.

pp. 85—110.
 

CHAPTEE VIII—The whiskey insurrection
—Hagerstown a recruiting station—Yellow fever
scare—Fire company organized—James Eumsey
and the first steamboat—Washington's certificate
—liumsey's tragic death in London—Thomas
Cooper's visit.

pp. 111—123.
 

CHAPTEE IX.—Ceremonies at the death
of Washington—Causeways in the puldic square—
Washington County for Jefferson—Two thousand
celebrate on Eohrer's Hill—Duels between officers
of the TJ. S. Army—John Barnes of Montpoher
—John Thompson ilason—Alexander Neill—Else
of Wm. Clark—Scarcity of currency—Death of
Gen. Heister—John Buchanan appointed judge
—Thomas Buchanan—Mary Pottenger—Eates
fixed _ by judges—severe sentences—Nathaniel
Eochester—William Fitzhugh—Charles Carroll—■
Emigrants to Western New York—Death of Mid¬
shipman Israel.

pp. 12.5—141.