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Helic,of Sixty-one, W. A. Imbody~pTc^e3r'u|D’)odv picked a Miltonic■•• V M on the street on Monday last bearing da - July 5, 1861. It contfiins president Li. coin’s first address, an account of the fL raising at Mr. Geo. Baker’s Mill, whit, was made a great event, and advertise » —Y coal oil at $1.30 per gallon besides mai ■ ,¥ fit STORK other items of interest. Frick and Fur,- were the editors at that time although tl junior editor had “gone to the from Miltonian.
[FOR THE AMERICAN. Old Document.—The following is a copy of petition Ihe Famous Duel Between Brady; filed in the archives at Harrisburg : To the Honorable the Representation of the Freemen of the State of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly and Lew Eiditv Years Ap. met at Philadelphia the twenty-second day of October, < | A. D. 1787. The petition of the subscriber, an inhabitant of the & town of Sunbury, in the county of Northumberland, A FIGHT THAT WAS and State of Pennsylvania, most humbly showetb, That there was a grant made by the Honorable NOT CHILD’S PLAY. Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, Esqs., unto Robert King his executors, administrators and assigns by their patent, bearing date the 14th of Augnst, 1772, for the Siome Features of Battalion Day keeping a ferry, over the main river of Susquehanna, at the town of Sunbury, in said county, and the said on the Pennsylvania Frontier. patent being conveyed by Robert King to Adam Haver- I ling, on the 30th of November, A. D. 1773, and by the | said Adam Haverling conveyed unto Stophel Getting, on j the 17th day of April, 1775, and by the said Stophel Get¬ OLD SHIKILLEMY AND HIS STORY ting conveyed unto Abraham Dewitt, on the 9th day of October, 1779, and by Eleanor Dewitt (Alias Coldern), ad¬ ministratrix of Abraham Dewitt, deceased, conveyed Some Epochs in the History of Sunbury unto your petioner, on the 25 day of October, 17—, and as he hath water craft made on purpose for said ferry During the Present Century—The before there was any on Sunbury side, and now hath sufficient craft in good order, and having the rights as Horse Races of Its Early Days. transferred by the sundry recitals, and is in peaceable possession, therefore humbly requests of your honorable The Town as a Canal Boat body to grant him the privilege of keeping said ferry Port of Entry. upon the terms your honors shall think just and rea¬ sonable for a term of years, and your petitioner as in duty bound, will pray. - JOHN LYONS. It was battalion day in Sunbury. Every¬ We the under named subscribers do certify that the body from everywhere was in town, and above petitioner, John Lyon, hath had said ferry some the long line of dusty nondescript vehicles time in possession, and that he hath attended to and sturdy Northumberland horses and Uie same regularly, aud hath kept his water craft in mares stretched down either side of Sha- gt'od order. mokin Street to Fawn, with branohes ex-. We therefore request of your honors to grant his re¬ II quest, and you will oblige, gentlemen, your most obedi¬ ! tending east and west out Deer Street to ent humble servants. the very edge of the plotted ground which Jas. Crawford Daniel Montgomery, John Lukens had laid out for the propne- Wm. Bonham, Samuell WallisWallis, Benjamin Lyon, James McCune, taries forty years before. Jas. Buchanan, Abraham McKinney, And what a rare old wit, or rank gram Daniel Reese, Enoch Skeer, James Davidson, Jacob Anderson, rasrian, this self-same John Lukens, Sur D. Braay, John Kidd. veyor General to the Penns, was, Eis sal Robert Wilso: Wilson. ■_ JoanJohn Mead, ary was one pound per diem, with expens ■ ' A PORTION OF THE DRIVE ALONG THE RIVER FRONT. _ --animosities, which “cWIIeaTdr" a resort to for himself ana tne tore of one horse. It f fists or clubs was by general consent post¬ cost a matter of £100 to survey and plot poned until “muster day" with the result this town of Sunbury under the stockades of Fort Augusta; and in the bill of ex¬ penses, yet preserved among the documen¬ tary relics of the eighteenth century, there appears this item by the pen of Lukens:— Sunbury folk dispensed ginger cakes and “To cash paid Captain Hunter, William root beer, candy, lemonade, and pickeled Wilson and Peter Withington for provisions oysters to the rural population whose ca¬ and liquors for myself and horse while lay¬ pacity for such luxuries on this occasion seemed practically limitless. ing out the town, £37.14.9.” But for the majority of the straDgers But it was forty years almost to a day the insipid delights of lemonade, even if from the date of that remarkable bill that made from the fragrant fruit brought from saw the marshalled hosts of Northumber¬ f r Messina and packed on horseback from land militia mustered on the river’s bank Philadelphia, had no attraction They, the men, wanted something stronger, the in annual review. fire-water which the Onondagas and the In- And it was a great day for Sunbury, as ouois delighted in, whisky ; and that too the appearance of Court House Square bore with claws on it; and so the taverns were testimony. In all its length the Square— [ the center of attraction after the three hour always and ever a distinguishing feature muster had broken up and tne cornstalk of the towns in Penn’s province—resembled regiments had disbanded for a year, or the abiding place of the camp-followers of until the next review. . There were half a dozen or so of taverns a victorious army. Hen in all the strange in Sunbury in 1812; rare old houses, _gonc and uncouth variety of rural costume of vears~ago with the Conestoga wagon, now eighty years ago swarmed under the trees, replaced by more imposing structures per¬ while here and there pretty lassies in dim-! haps but whose proprietors are not o.rn ity and homespun, and matrons robust and j whit’mom hospitable than their predeow- sunburnt as became the daughters of pio-' sors of 100 years ago. On the east side of neers, sat in the shade and gossipped or t're sou a re where the imposing edifice of viewed with careless eye the sanguinary the Presbyterian Church now stands was fistic encounters which sprang up all « hotel while at the corner of Market ana through the square at intervals like mimio Second rtood another. Where the old jail whirlwinds on a dusty street. stands at the corner of Center Alley was ttie BATTALION DAYS IN 1812. Farmers’ Hotel, while the site of shepres¬ ent court house was occupied by sti.l an Battalion days meant something more other hostelry. The quiet home of the than a muster iQ the days jf the second Widow Donnel on the eastern side of the war with the Mother Country. It combined ' square at the corner of Market and second SU the features of a military review, a ’Streets directly op |i sountry fair, a horse market, and a general House, was then ajl ettlement day. The adjustment of petty [ by Michael Kutzn PUBLIC AUCTION, ON MARKET STREET, ON SATURDAY MORNING. the '‘Indian"Queen,” “Stage Toacb,’ age, a brave impetuous fellow, ever ready ■‘Cross Keys.” to back up his convictions with his sword. These houses of entertainment for man He came of a family of fighters on the and beast were rallying places for the frontier, the name and deeds of one ot widely scattered inhabitants of the town¬ them at least being preserved to all time in ships of Northumberland. Militia officers the Northern tier by a monumental re¬ came in their faded regimentals, farmers membrance in a quiet cemetery in Lycom¬ and hunters in homespun clothes and ing County. , ^ . rabbit skin caps, and horse jockeys and On this muster day, General Hugh Brady cattle dealers from Readingtown and rode into Sunbury without any thought or \ Pottsville and some even from Pbiladel- ! dream of what was to befall him before ' phia. But the worst element of all were (night. He was connected with the com¬ i the renegades, the social outlaws, and fiee- missary department of the army o. 1812, ; ing criminals from the East with which the and as the enlistment of recruits was still frontier of Pennsylvania swarmed, and who in progress, the obtaining of supplies for i quartered to Sunbury as the only outpost of the growing army was of paramount im¬ < the Eastern .settlements, which had any ^ portance. considerable population. The review was in progress; the militia THE WHIPPING POST. from Point and Rush and Sbamokin, and / The strictest measure of the law was the other Townships were still going through their evolutions when General imeeted out to such of these as violated its Hugh rode up to the door of Mike Kutz- 'commands. The whipping post, which ner’s tavern, opposite the old Court | then stood in the Court House Square House, and dismounted. He was widely I almost opposite the massive portal of the known, and many a familiar salutation old jail, had a plentitude of victims, while was exchanged as he strode into the public the sterner and more barbarous punish¬ room of the hotel. ment of branding on the cheek was once in NO PROHIBITIONISTS IN 1812. a great while resorted to. There was a There was no Prohibition party in that still more ignominious punishment, re¬ _year of Our Lord, 1812, in Pennsylvania. ceived for the most heinous crimes, that of slitting one or both ears of a malefactor; It was not considered a breach of good but Sunbury in all its early history only manners to pour out a slug of whisky in a saw this awful penalty paid once, public tavern and drink the health of your and that by a wretched horse thief and friend or friends, and so General Hugh suspected murderer, from beyond the New Brady did not scruple to stand before tne York State line. low, massive, and unadorned wbiteoak But on this particular Battalion day an bar and call for a glass of the best in the episode occurred which threw all other bouse. If he bad contented himself with events of it and succeeding muster days this one glass, this portion of the old for years into the background; an historic stories of Sunbury would never have been event for Sunbury, but which unfortu¬ written. But Brady wasn’t that sort of a nately escaped the notice of chroniclers for man; he knew a good thing when he saw over two generations, and was finally res¬ it, or tasted it,and so he called for another, cued from oblivion by the pen of that ar¬ and possibly half a dozen more during the dent antiquarian and earnest historical ensuing four hours, and the exchecquer of student, Dr. R. HI Awl. Michael Kutzner tavernkeeper, was pro¬ THE FIGHTING BP.ADY. portionately increased as the contents of General Hugh Brady was in the volun¬ his cask diminished at the bidding of the teer army of 1812. He was a great raw- fighting Brady. boned man, of splendid proportions, over There was another man equally re- Unowned for his courage as General Brady of 6 feet in height, a giant in stature and cour-
1459- |_ "LEVY STOOD LEANING AGAINS THE WALL, EXHAUSTED, but sxill DEFIANTI! the United States Army. IX whs a lawyer f by profession, a soldier by choice. the other,or northern side,two more windows*! It was Captain Daniel Levy, a man of gave no unobstructed view of the Susque-1 Diark and a citizen of distinction. He was hanna, 500 yards distant. ot medium height, smooth face, compact The bar room was very plainly furnished. 1 build and of ready Wit. It was a part of 1 v VAhti har> w,tij a d°zen bottles on General Hugh Brady’s business in Sunbury > a shdf behind it,stood close to the east wall to sea Captain Daniel Levy. There were ot the room, with a door on the left, as one some details of equipment for the army to entered which opened into the dining-room be \discussed aDd while General Hugh Around the room were arranged a half dozen Brady waited at Kutzn^r’s, Captain D niel wooden and rush-bottomed chairs while Levy watched the evolutions of the town-' on either side of the rude hearth stood two ship soldiery oil the southern bank of the i broad-seated wooden settees, or settles. sujquehanna in front of ex-Senator 31a-1 There were bills of sale, and notices of ' clay s stone mansion. strays and assessments, and a picture of j When Captain Levy at last entered the Washington on the white wall, while the bar-room of Kutzner's, he was dusty and' space between tbe heavy wooden sill of the . ^ery 3Dd this condition of his no doubt west windows was oceupied by e narrow •.ended to hasten the episode in which he I oaken table for the accommodation of was one of the principal actors. such of the guests as might desire to make kutzner’s bar room. oub bilJs or \vnfce letters for the semi-weeklyl The public tap. or bar room of Michael mail to Heading and Philadelphia. Kutzner’s tavern, was of the characteristic THE FAMOUS DUEL. ind of SO years ago. It was about 20x25 : After the two soldiers had pledged each with an unusully high ceilmg for other in mutual glasses at the white oak hotel. The main entrance was from bar they adjourned to the table between the public square, and on the same side of windows. Under ordinary circumstances he room two small windows with a dozen they would have been the cvuosure of all lall lights of glass set in heavy sashes eyes, but on this day the drinkers at the 1 iked out upon tlie Court House green. On bar, the militia men and the townspeople who happened to drop in, regarded them . tlTinterest at a distance. For this rea- companions bad worked so industriously, ln the origin of the famous duel was throwing up a barricade between the bellig-J : ever Known. erents that they were forced to stop fight-' / The pair bad been sitting at the oaken ihg. All the furniture in the room except! /table between the windows for quite a i the old settees was piled up between tbe (while with various papers spread out be¬ j men. When Brady sheathed his dented tween them, when the few men in the room blade with an oath and panting called for heard a few fierce expletives, and the next instant the two men bad leaped to their a drink from the frightened tavemkeeper, fee*. The lie was passed. Of this there is Levy stood leaning against the wall ex¬ f scarcely a doubt. As they sprang from the hausted but still defiant, with his sword chairs two swords flashed in the light of the point on the floor and his hand pressed to IM (sitting sun as it streamed through the his side. windows. Before the men who remained It was a duel to be proud of; one of the in the room, Samuel Awl, the father of Three Guardsmen kind as when Athos and Dr.R.H.Awl, and Michael Kutzner and D’Artagnan stood up and fought their way a couple of soldiers, could stir, there was out of the cavern between Paris and the ■ the sharp ring of steel on steel and the coast. ' swords of the two soldiers clashed together But of all the hundreds of the curious (across the table. who hung outside Mike Kutzner’s place in It was no fairy Frenh play, that duel in Sunbury that afternoon and pressed their Mike Kutzner’s bar room that afternoon. faoes breathlessly against tbe little square The deadliest insults had passed over a panes of glass to catch a glimpse of the (question which has never been made known, tierce combat within Dot one thought to and each man fought for his life. All the leave behind the story in writing of that advantage was in Brady’s favor; he was the unique event. taller of tbe two,and his arm was the long¬ After tbe lapse of two generations and. est and strongest. But Levy never wavered forty years after the brave and impetuous ' or yielded in the outset. It was fatal for Brady had passed to his grave, in Detroit, him to fight across the table, so inclining (the story is told anew. Not perhaps as the away he got clear of it, and once in tbe respected Dr. Awl would and has told it in (middle of the floor he made a desperate a paragraph of crisp facts, but embellished (lnnge at bis opponents breast. The blow as tbe circumstaucas warrant from a liberal (fell short,and then with his giant’sstrength and romantic view. Captain Levy rt o - (Brady aimed a blow «t his antagonist’s ered. His wound was severe, but not oaa- swordarm. hoping to disable and then kill Jgerous. Amicable relations were established 'him. The vicious assault was parried, and ( between the duellists but they were never panting and cursing tbe two men fought the firm friends they were before that un- like mad men around the room. A single j happy but dramatic episode. Brady, he served his country faithfully and died out misstep, a stumble over a chair,would have been fatal to either, for with boiling blood j in Detroit, in 1851, at a ripe old age. and blending passion neither would have THE CONTRAST. hesitated to commit what would have prac- I The contrast between the turbulent : ticaily been murder. lepisodes of those distant years, the brawl¬ VIGOROUS PEACEMAKING. ing muster days and the boisterous nights To tbe coolness and bravery of Awl and when teamsters gathered around the broad Kutzner was due the fact that life was not hearth in Kutzner’s bar room and the pre¬ sacrificed. Entreaties were in vain, and, sent is one of those rare pictures sometimes (so, as tbe duel wageck the spectators began conjured up by the ail powerful and trans¬ i the most novel efforts at peacemaking that mitting hands of time and circumstance. I perhaps were ever heard of on this con- The old house, with its two stories and dor¬ jtinent. Seizing one of tbe wooden chairs, mer windows, stands just where it. did on that and watching his opportunity, Samuel eventful day eighty years ago, but the rude :Awl flung it between the two combatants. entrance has disappeared with the narrow , I Kutzner did the same, but regardless or windows and tiny lights of glass. It is tbe ; these obstacles the men fought across them. old tavern modernized with Gothic doorway J And at this point came the climax. and modern windows; all its ancient asso¬ Brady had been steadily fighting down his ciations fled with tbe rearrangement of its (antagonist, but the admirable defense and ro. ms. Instead of the bright light from a 4 : cleverness of Levy had enabled him to ' blazing fire shining upon the rough fea¬ \ escaDe injury. Suddenly Brady raised tures of frontiers men and horse traders.ttie | himself on his tip toes and,regardless of his subdued flame of a parlor lamp reveals a * unguarded position, raised his sword to home of happiness and contentment with bring it down with awful force upon Levy’s its central figure, a silver haired old lady, I head. Tbe latter saw the blow coming, the widow Amelia Donnel. rounding out I turned his bead slightly, and raised his the full period of a life whose grace and I sword on guard to catch it. So powerful beauty are its crowning triumphs. 1 was ths impetus of this assault that the There is an old ruin on the eastern out¬ (svsord of Brady, cleaving downward, cut skirts _of Sunbury which the maroh of off the end of Levy’s queue—which he al¬ modern progress~will soon wipe out of ex¬ ways wore, being a a lawyer—and breaking istence. It doesn’t amount to much either down the guard of his antagonist. indicted as to location or pioturesqueuess, but be¬ a severe wound on his left shoulder. cause it marks the site of ^ort Augusta Levy staggered back, and again Brady beneath whose palisades and four-pouDders delivered a fierce downward stroke, which (Sunbury grew and flurisbed one hundred . missed its object.but the point of the sword odd years ago, it is an object of veneration scored a deep cut in the heavy sill of one of to the antiquarian. About all that remains the windows. For^nearly fifty years this iof the historic stronghold is the wreck of i mark of Brady’s* 1 .ord remained on tbe win¬ the magazine, a miserable hole in the dow sill of Kutzner’s old place, and was (ground. only removed when the property was re¬ But what wonderful stories that hole in modeled. the ground could tell if its stone and ce¬ STOPPED BY A BAREICADE. ment could talk ; of criminals sentenced i-o 1 This ended the duel, for Awl and his imprisonment within its walls; of heavy hearts in the bodies of brave men when they SENATOR WOLVERTON’S RESIDENCE, FORMERLY THE MacCLAY MANSION, THE OLD EST HOUSE IN SUNBURY.
saw their stock of ammunition and food WcfouBt', lots of it. It was no child’s play growing Jess and less daily with no hope of for the 400 men in his command to build succor; of frontier episodes more thrilling a fort in the wilderness, with hostile sav¬ than anything ever read between the oovers ages watching to pick off every straggler; of a Beadle’s novel or a nickel library. and his demand for something to stimulate bis soldiers was iu accordance with the HE WANTED BUM. condition of affairs in Sunbury, and the It is not necessary to trace out in this the social and soldierly customs of the times. story of Fort Augusta, the stronghold and ONE GOOD INDIAN. predecessor of Sunbury. It was constructed But beyond Fort Augusta, further hack in 1756, to resist a rumored invasion of into the history of this portion of the West French and Indians who were coming across Branch Valley, there rises the figure of the the mountains to desolate the West Branch historical figure of Sunbury and Northum¬ Valley. Colonel William Clapham, with a berland. It is Sbikellimy, the one Indian regiment of men, marched from Hunter’s ! whose cardinal virtues have been sung in mill, six miles north of Harrisburg, and warmest praise by Historian Meginness. began its construction in July of that year-,j This rare old redskin is described as a an historic year in the annals of Indian “Good Indian, a noble, trusty representa¬ warfare in Pennsylvania. Just previous to tive of everything that is grand and beauti¬ this the famous Colonel Bouquet con¬ ful in the Indian character; who never structed the fort and block house at Fort proved recreant to his word, betr ved a Duquesne, now the one historic point in white man, nor condoned a crime.” Shikel- the city of Fittsburg. limy’s virtues have been further recog¬ The building of Fort Augusta was marked nized; he has had a modern Summer resort bv a continual course of suppiessed matiny hotel named for him, one hundred and and rebellion among ttie men in Colonel fifty years after bis bones were laid to rest Clapbam’s regiment. They were under-, beside the broad river. paid, underfed and overworked. The Sbikellimy was one of the vice-kings of difficulties experienced in getting provisions i the six nations and bis town called Sham- to the defenders of the fort were something okin stood upon the plain where now the enormous. Everything had to be trans¬ prosperous little city of Sunbury holds its ported by water in bateaux, broad bnt- ; municipal sway. Shikelliuiy was an Oneida torned and clumsy boats, and these weie by birth and it was upon this plain of Sh«m- pushed against the current of the river by , okin that he lived and died and was stout men using “setting poles. jburied. He was the father of Logan, the But the fort was built at last, and then, If ■ 1"" "m,':r— r famous Indian chief, politician,warrior and, with a long, hard Winter on the frontier, ■rh orator. facing them and a woeful lack of pro¬ RELICS OF SBIKELLIMY. visions, Colonel! Clapham sent a mes¬ I V sage to GovernoriDenny—one message only All that remains tofday of the famous among scores of other complaining ones— vice-king of the Six Nations reposes in a that his men! needed provisions be¬ small glass case in the residence of Mr. M. sides “axes, tpmahawks, spades, nails, L. Hendricks, on Third jStreet, Sbamokin. wagon masters and rum.” It was And what a rare and valuable collection a blunt, straightforward, soldierly de¬ | Mr. Hendricks has gathered together. He mand for what; Colonel Clapham con sidered necessities. He wanted “rum” and, has refused large sums for his collection, ' and he is likely to for years to come, con- THE NORTHUMBERLAND JAIL. sioering that he is a thorogh-paced anti¬ religious fanatics of his time. The ri¬ quarian and the possessor of the finest pri¬ valry, bitter, uncompromising and lasting, vate collections of eurois and relies in the United States. One large room on the between these two towns, began before a ground floor of his house is devoted 10 the town site existed on either side of the river, arrangement of something like 5000 sneci- and although the elders on both sides say mens. * that the old spirit of envy and jealousy One of the most interesting objects in the has died out, the fact remains that it is al¬ whole collection is a string of blue beads most as strong as ever save that the present 1 ‘he Price paid in part, for the splendid generation seems to possess the ability of -State ot Pennsylvania. Jn the course of hiding its operations more effectually than :iat his explorations and excavations among the their forefathers. ce, . old graves in the Indian cemetery of Sham- “ When the Penns first discussed the ad¬ on okin, now Sunbury, Mr. Hendricks came visability of establishing a county town
history of the National Government. He was born in New Garden, Chester County, •;July 20, 1737, and when only’ 19 years of age participated in the French and Indian War as an ensign. He studied law subse¬ quently and in 1760 was admitted to the York County bar. He entered the patriot army and partici¬ pated in the battles ot Princeton and Tren¬ V! ton. In 1789, after serving in the Assem¬ bly he was elected a United States Senator, his colleague being Robert Morris. He died on his farm near Harrisburg in 1804. i The house of Maclay was the first one of' any pretensions erected within the bound- One of the Oldest Houses in Sunbury. On the .; aries of Sunbury. It was of stone, square, River Front. and imposing, and stood in its original Rhape until a few years ago when State1 night, where the jockeys and gallants and! Senator S. P. Wolverton had the old place beaux came up smiling with artistio “soap modernized, retaining, however, ail the| locks” curliDg around their temples and original features as nearly as possible in their hair well plastered down with shining the remodelling process. bears’ grease and tallow. What the dancing But William Maclav little dreamed what lacked in grace aud elegance it made up the result of that failure to locate the town in vigor. The popular figures then across the river in the “forks”wouid he; he * were French four, straight four and the did not foresee that 100 years of heated buckwheat thresher. hatred and jealousy and bickering would For years after the town was laid out the result. But it did just the same; and all only communication by road with the ' along down the years since then the taunt-! settlements to the East was over the “Kings! ing names of “Bully rums” for the Sunbury Highway,”FTiohrarav thet.hp roadmarl ViP.itPPPnbetween FortF’ AugustaAn omul a men, and “Pine Knots” for the Northum¬ and Reading opened on April 23, 1770. berland people, have been bandied across In 1801 the Sunbury mails went out once a; the wide river and echoed in derision week to Center and Berks .Counties, In■ '■ among the hills and shouted out in the 1820 the same to Harrisburg left Market! midst of bloody melees. For years and ! Street on Mondays and Fridays at 6 A. M. - years the sight of a “Bully rum” over in aud reached the State Capital the following, Northumberland was the signal for an at¬ day at 10 A. M. The fare for the trip was tempt to run out him out of town or involve $4," and fifty pounds of personal baggage; the unfortunate in a quarrel where the were allowed to each traveller. One hun-; “Pine Knots”eould have a chance to punch dred and fi } pounds of baggage were1 his head and send him back across the Sus¬ considered > /divalent to one person and! quehanna with a pair of decorated optics. were paid ,-ior accordingly. In 1829 the; So bitter was the feeling between the rival stage for 4iladelphia left Sunbury at 9 A.' towns that when the Legislaturelwas ballot- i M. and reached Philadelphia, by way of ing for a site for the capital Northumber- Pottsville and Reading, the night of the! j | land was within one vote of capturing the following day. ! capital prize, but a member of the Assem¬ But it was not until the canal reached bly from Sunbury cast bis vote against it Sunbury that it began to hold its municipal and the greatest opportunity that ever was head higher than all its neighbors aud put _ presented to the town in the"forks” slipped on metropolitan airs. There is something ’”om its grasp through the revengefulness exceedingly humorous about the annouuoe- a neighbor._ _ ) • ,4 ■ ...—. -etthenews- land thereupon" lie married them as tTiev >ers recorded the arrivals and clearances Steen an" Charley left toiVn the of slow moving canal boats with all the nip.hi they were married: went to Harris¬ burg on their wedding tour, and there both gravity that might be attached to the move¬ enlisted in the service of the Union army ments of an ocean liner in a Philadelphia Jaattie had put on male attire again and daily of to-day. thus matters progressed until the discov¬ Clearances—Entered the canal on the 8th ery of her being a female was made known , on their second trip this season to PbiJadel- and she deserted. h d Duck ] phia.both the Sunbury Union and Augusta One of the greatest days in ail the his¬ tory of Sunbury was November 26, 1835 The people turned out en masse, the bells rang, flags waved, and liquid refreshments The Miltonian. flowed like water. It was the occasion of the opening of the Danville & Pottsville Railroad to Sunbnry, Of course, the rail-1 JOE A. LOGAN, Editor. road proper in that early period did not make much of a showing, for on this par¬ ticular day the oars came into town over MILTON, Pa., Sept. 4, 1885. tbe iron tracks dragged along by horse | Ptiwer. But it was an opening, anyhow, 'and that was enough, even if it was three WARRIOR RUN CHURCH. i years before steam was introduced on the lline. Coal was first introduced into the Historical Sketch Read by the Pastor, J county seat of Northumberland in October, | 1836. In that month the newspaper an- Rev. G. A. Marr, at the Annual j nounced that two cars of coal had arrived over the Sunbury Railroad from Shamokin Reunion, August20, 1885, mines, and that C.G. Donnel and George Prince bad purchased it at S3.50 per ion. and Published by -Briefly sketched these are the epochs in Request. the history of this beautiful town Iyin<* like a gem beside that riband of silver, the Susquebanna.as it winds to the gateway sentence from composed of a of the sea. Of the town itself to-day noth¬ ing now need be said. Its lasting pros¬ perity is assured, for its people live in a land of plenty. ragF-pga «s
a quiet period when the flock’ during still waters” seem to have been ,Past»res and supply us with the second 6 abundant> "ill one is convinced that God r,^ark that When we survey the hlstmvefr5welling P’ace, which lias endured timvnu* •? congregation than a century, we art* of, ,n01'e edge God as thelfabltaSn iSr0 acknowl- storm and change has stom lYkiCi!i ^d, every HATTIE ROBISON’S EXPLOITS multitude of changes whim, l.ke adamant. The hundred years hadgbeeebich throughout fifteeii The Story of Her Adventures During one attitude and^urling Set ihH? Isr?f1 from the Lat« War. Mr. Editor: Considerable interest has [been manifested by our old citizens in the [story of llattie Robison's connection with |tbe forty-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania smss I Volunteers, as related in the war iiews of &»«&£££ ITm: Inquirer, and will be read with much interest by many people throughout the State. The true circumstances of the case are these: ‘-In the latter part of August, 1SS1, gather to-day of this smn fn^f-as *51* " e can Gardner & Co.’s railroad circus exhibited evinces his fatherly care!” PYouf?e?f f£ul'°i‘ at Sunbury. The day following, John insideide of every structure*strict.,™_ whi?? >e,e aas.? ththou*®)ou£i Steen, who was known here, accompanied an invisible and1 ind’lstruiwlhm11 iha?Jhere vv^ by a young man probably 18 years old, made with hands but bUIldlng, n0i came to town and stopped with John was the true habitation n?arfcand that til! Paust.with whom lie was acquainted. Steen I elements cannot effect n nf:,!he,. People. The introduced, his companion as Charley Rob¬ durability, aidehamm w ?i,'e b>it reveals it: ison, who, in riding a horse, fell and frac¬ adjust itself to Sefs llTn lts abiijty tc tured several ribs, and said they would stop in town until he was well. Charley eternal dwelling place esfahilsi?iS^s'the hold,the KttiSnffiSjt the Fa the I had a sweet, rich musical voice, could sing within its walls as onefimol a“d triumphan land dance to perfection and soon became a change may take nlme in lly- . Change afte general favorite with the boys. He never appeared satisfied unless surrounded by -the habitation vlsfbll ma!ll erna feature the old “Hall’s corner gang.” He was a but the durability of thoTm&P60??16 tuvisible- typical boy of the war time, and could Iand thepermanmicyof6^? iTsUfio
"aL- urn M a minister of Christ at funerals, be wasl the kind buTcTctermiued courage of one ' determined to exercise that control or man alone, one faithful servant of God. power in a way that would show his utter It is perfectly useless to preach the Gos¬ disapproval of such liquor-drinking fu¬ pel to men and women who are drunk or nerals. And he, therefore, announced it half drunk. Mr. (Junkin was well aware publicly before his Milton congregation of this truth and so he very properly re¬ and also before his congregation at the fused to go and preach the Gospel to liq¬ “Pine’s Grove” church near McEwens- uor-drinking funeral parties, some of ville, that he would, from after that date, whom at least would be too full of liquor attend no funeral for any person or any¬ or drunk to hear, understand and profit where that intoxicating liquors of any by the preached word of God. 0, that kind were to be handed round among the we had a Jnukiu in every pulpit of God’s people as a drink. And the thing was , church ou earth. But we, unfortunately, soon tested, for shortly after this Daniel have thousands of preachers in our day Vincent, of Turbut township, departed yet, who knowingly preach, Sunday after this life, and his sons Isaac and John re¬ Sunday, to intoxicating liquor-makers, quested Mr. John L. Watson (still living V liquor-sellers and liquor-drinkers and half and now a resident of Milton) to call upon drunken men and women without ever Rev. Junkin and ask him to officiate at opeuing their lips or saying one word Daniel Vincent’s funeral. Mr. Watson against the evils and sin of such conduct. accordingly did so and informs me that If such preachers don’t know better, then Mr. Junk in’s immediate enquiry was : they are “blind leaders of the blind,” “Well, are they going to hand any liquor which is bad enough snrely. But if they around at the funeral ? for if they are, I know better (as I am iucliued to think won’t come.’, To which Mr. Watson re¬ they all do) then they are still worse, to- plied, • ‘No sir, for I told them that I had wit : hypocrites and traitors to Christ of heard you declare that you would not tho worst type and will be sure in the end attend any more funerals where intoxica¬ to meet a hypocrites and traitors reward
ting liquors were handed round and they and tho Bible will tell yob what that Is. j (the Vincent’s) assured me that they Mr. Junkin’s bOhstant enqdiry as a hiib- would not have any.” “Well’then said ist’er of God to men always was just this, ' Mr. Junkin, “tell them that I will attend what is right, and what is good according Daniel’s funeral.” And he did and there to God’s law ? and having discovered that was no liquor there, although the Vin¬ he fearlessly pursued that right and thatj cent’s were a wealthy and influential good through “evil Report” as well && family and could easily have afforded it good report. And therein lay his great and would have done, according to cus¬ influence and power as a divine. tom, if Mr. Junkin’s had not peremptor¬ Mr Junkin algo had the very highest ily set his face against attending such regard for the Lord’s day, frequently re- jx liquor-drinking funerals. minding his people and all others to at. And soon after this again Mr. Junkin whom he preached of the very great im- was called on to preach the funeral of portance of our keeping the Sabbath day Robert McKee, deceased, of the same holy, as God has COhflbanded us, by ab- neighborhood. And then Mr. Junkin’s | staihihg from all worldly employments prompt enquiry was : “Weil are they go¬ and worldly pleasures on the Lord’s day, ing to have any whiskey there, any liquor by attending church and reading God’s drinking there ?” And on hearing the word and instructing our children in di- answer of “No sir, not any,” Mr. Junkin vino things, and in visiting tho sick and said “Well, I’ll be on hand to preach to doing for them and others such thiugs as the people.” necessity or charity required. lie alsoi These two examples of Mr. Junkin’s refused to attend any funerals on the j firmness broke the back bone of the cus¬ Lord’s day, unless in case of actual ne-j tom of handing round intoxicating liquor ’ cessity, a thing that seldom happened. to the people attending funerals in these In my boyhood days I heard many loud parts and Mr. Junkin had no further l ' and bitter complaints against Mr. Junkin trouble with the custom so far as he was j and his ultraisms and supposed unneces¬ concerned. We thus see what a wide and | sary and foolish radicalism in mattters of radical change for the better can be pro¬ religion, temperance and politics. This duced in a community by and through excited my curiosity to go and hear his |sermons in “Shiloh church” as his Mil- ton place of worship was called I also ^ringTnto prominence and distinction, saw him pretty often in Mr. Kirkpatrick’s or render classic in the esteem of men, Milton Academy where he used to make towns and cities which sprang into be¬ short addresses to “Kirk’s students, in¬ ing under the impulse of necessity and cluding myself, one of the students. It with no promise of future greatness. In affords mo much pleasure that I am able view of this fact, historic records be¬ to say that the oftener I saw Mr. Jtmkin come valuable as time passes, and men]' and the more I heard him speak the bet- are induced to perpetuate in books or , ter I liked him, sihee I saw nothing in in enduring monuments of granite or him to disapprove of mv confidence, °but metal those events, places and charac¬ much to honor and praise him for. And ^ when I in after years, in 1861, corres- ters which have been effective factors Hponded with him when he was president in the shaping of society or the forma¬ of Washington college in Virginia, he tion of governments. gained so strong a hold upon my esteem That part of Northumberland county and affections that I really loved Mr. now comprehending the Northumber¬ Junk in for his many rare and noble qual¬ land coal field was originally purchased ities of mind and heart as a Christian and from the Indians by Thomas aud Rich- [ a Pennsylvania citizen. I received a long ard Penn under deed of 22d of August, j and highly interesting letter from him 1749. Mt. Carmel, Northumberland1 touching the Rebellion’s views of his county, Pennsylvania, situated between students in Washington college and his Little Mountain aud Locust Mountain, reasons for resigning the keys or Presi¬ scarcely antedates, in its history, the dency of that college when the Rebellion present generation. The names of of 1861 broke out and his reasons for his Richard Yarnall and Felix Lerch must own immediate return to his beloved na always be associated with its earliest tive state of Penneylvania. I wish I history. The former built the first could give you that letter for publication house within the present borough limits. ! but I cannot as it was Cither burnt in the It was known as the “Log Tavern” in I big fire or lost before that. contradistinction from “Riffert’s Tav-j J. F. WoLFINGEK. era,” which stood near the present site! of the L. V. R R. station. The datej of its erection is 1824, and its iocation From,.S <2 immediately in the rear of the present site of the Commercial Hotel. The log .(3zZ\ part was torn down, but part was frame and this remains now on the N. E. j corner of 3d and Apple, immediately' Bate, C /./lAa.. f#3-, opposite ’Squire Amour’s office. The date of the building of “Rif-j fert’s Tavern” cannot now be positive¬ MT. CARMEL ly determined, but according to the memory of Mr. Jesse Yarnall and Mr. W. H. Lerch, to whom we are indebted ITS HISTORY FAITHFULLY FOR- | TRAYED for most of the facts of the early his-; tory, it was about the year 1811. Previous to the year 1800 a Mr. Lam- AND MOST THOROUGHLY REVIEWED. berson came into this section and opened a small farm where the Grand Continued From Day to Day in this Army Park formerly existed, the base Paper—Some Interesting Remin¬ ball ground being part of a field then iscences Told by Old Citizens. cleared. He built a house near the spring which was known as the “Or Tne changes wrought in society and tchard House.” Mr. Richard Yarnall in governments by the developments j occupied the “Log Tavern” from the f science, philosphy and religion, by time of its erection until 1832, when ie industries of a people, and the mer- Mr. Felix Lerch became the proprietor andise and commerce of nations, and remained its occupant, with his family, for more than twenty* yeajs. l »i j\; ’’ pwed,’, jin* ihe’.'i' Calitjf of this discov^tht. As before stated, all the territory was ery ihe*firs’t "breaker was erected in 1853 purchased by the Brothers Penn of the, >;• ^ AiRecJating it by a brief period Indians composing the “Six Nations*’’ 1 ;■ Was*tfiej’ei'oaPi<5u of a breaker at Green Mr. Richard Yarnall’s father made a Kidge*,* fi’otn* which in 1854 coal was purchase from the State, of several shipped by rail, Mr. Edward Dixon hundred acres, probably paying fhe being the Superintendent. This first same as was paid for land in Lycoming breaker was owned by Patrick Dono¬ county a few years previously, namely, hue, who, before its completion, re¬ £5 per 100 acres, or about twenty-five ceived as partners Messrs. George Shaw cents an acre. Upon his death, Rich¬ and Richard Curnow. Mr. Curnow ard inherited above 200 acres, covered shortly after sold his interest to Dono¬ by the present location of Mt. Carmel hue and Shaw, who continued the busi¬ and its suburbs. The land afterward, ness. or about the year 1844 or ’45, passed in¬ In the fall of 1834 or ’35 an incident to the possession of Albert Bradford, of remarkable interest for those times, who began the work of laying out the and which found its full explanation in town. However, before he secured a 1852, occurred. surveyor, the property passed out of his CONTINUED NEXT ISSUE. possession. He gave it the name Mt. Carmel, because of its elevation and beautiful setting between the moun¬ From,./lL CJL L . tains and his great admiration of the story of the conflict of the old Prophet and the priests of Baal. As he was an rJ/C, .(jtfkz. earnest Episcopalian there can be no „ . a i doubt that he entertained the hope that | Bate, L//blx?/.../X tf.. Z the name would in all future years be expressive of the moral character of the L ( place, all the people combining and har- J monizing in the sentiment, “the Lord MT. CARMEL He is the Cod, the Lord He is the God.” How sadly his hopes have been disap¬ ITS HISTORY FAITHFULLY FOR- *etI ort pointed the historian is unable to des¬ TRAYED the cribe. Within the present borough ___ rut limits, in 1844 or thereabouts, a steam lar AND MOST THOROUGHLY REVIEWED. 01. saw mill was erected. The mill and ,-e and part of the Opera House lot. Two [CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY.] or three small shanties, which have The first marriage solemnized in the since disappeared, were put up in the im¬ town was in the fall of 1837, by the mediate vicinity for the accommoda¬ Rev. Peter Schindel, grandfather of a tion of the workmen on the mill. former pastor of the Evangelical Luth¬ The first discovery of coal in this sec¬ eran church. It was between Amos tion was made by Felix Lerch and Vastine and Miss Susan Lerch. Since Richard Yarnall in 1884. When fish¬ then wedding bells have often chimed, ing for trout in the Shamokin Creek, but none which have more appropriate¬ just above where the Mt. Carmel or ly and felicitously intoned a long con¬ Righter & Co’s, breaker now stands, tinued and happy married life. they found pieces of coal in the bed of The first sermon preached in the the stream, and following up the drift town was by Rev. A. B. Fisher, of the discovered a spot where the earth had German Reformed Church, in the par¬ I been washed away and the coal was ex- lor of the old log tavern kept by Felix i f • » ® • • ® The fire company, of Mt. Carm 'on P^erch, and about t&jr. yfijifi yiSftt*,, j.*: was organized May 12th, 1882, wit Joshua Potts, a local preacher, working , ^.[he following officers: W. H. Stecker, in the saw mill,! preached, the ..first; » • »• • .president; Charles Snyder, vice presi¬ Methodist sermon. John ;#..vJani THE VENERABLE MILTONIAN CEEE-I BRAKES HIS 81ST BIRTHDAY Anniversary—Surrounded by His Children and Grandchildren—A Happy Affair—A Remarkably Well Preserved Man. ^IG WALL TO Moses Chamberlin, one of our town’s oldest and most esteemed citizens cele¬ brated the eighty-first anniversary of his DEFY THE FLOOD. birth at his home on North Front street on AVednesday evening. For more than Stuibury Busily Erecting an half a century Mr. Chamberlin has Embankment to Protect i been a resident of Property. Milton and interes¬ ted in the town’s developm c n t. He I COSTLY LESSONS TAKE ROOT. was born in Union county in 1812. He was the youngest [ Last Spring’s Freshet Decided the Citi¬ son of General Wil¬ zens After Swollen Waters Showed liam Ohamb e rli n, I f who distinguished himself as a ^soldier in the Danger of Futile Talk. the early struggle of the Republic. He The Town’s Peril. came to Milton in 1833—sixty years ago —and was engaged in tbe mercantile lum¬ bering and milling business during his , Special Correspondence of “The Press.” Sunbury, Sept. 22.—Sunbury. the county earlier and more active years. He relin- - seat of Northumberland County, is built quished business some years ago and has ■ on the east bank of the Susquehanna since lived a retired life. River at the confluence of its North and Mr. Chamberlin’s family history is a West branches. Here the broad river remarkable one. He was tbe youngest is united and this union makes it fully a, mile in width. The town has a popu¬ of a family of twenty-three children—his lation of about 10,000, and extends along father having been married four times. I the river for two miles. The ground His oldest brother was killed at the battle upon which the main portion is built is of Germantown, in the Revolutionary .■ low and the people expect inundation war. There is perhaps not another liv- " with every freshet. The plan of the town ing man who had a brother—or as it is is similar to that- of Philadelphia. Its in this case, a half-brother , killed in a principal street is Market, with Arch. Race and Vine on the north and Chest¬ Revolutionary battle. Mr. Chamberlin’s nut, Walnut, Spruce and Pine on the mother was Miss Mary A. Kemble, who south. These streets run east from the was a native of New York, and a play-! Susquehanna and the streets named in mato of Washington Irving. numerical order, Second, Third, Fourth, The meeting on Wednesday was a etc., are parallel with the river and ex-i tend the entire lepgth of the town. Sun¬ happy occasion. The venerable gentle¬ bury streets extend east from the Sus¬ man was surrounded by his children, quehanna in the same order that Phila¬ grandchildren and great-grandchildren— delphia streets extend west from the four generations of the family participa¬ Delaware. In some respects Sunbury is situated ting in the pleasures of the event. similarly to Johnstown, the fated city of the Conemaugh Valley. High hills— \ ,- L__. - " ^ ’ NT SHAMOKIN DAM, ?l™St • J1101111 tains^^ikirt the town~on hree sides and the river flows nast if There have been many great floods in «ntl»e fourth. The hills run around the the river. The first known to early town from the shores of the North T£UI7ed in 1744> the second in . Branch, north of the town, to the ml n L58, the third in 1772, the fourth in 1786 and the fifth in 1800. The Indians had a tradition that a great flood occurred every fourteen years, which seems to have been verified in these five instance® Jn_a memorandum, on file at Harrisburg TmIyIh ■ b-v' Robert Martin and John M^rch1 T784heLStaie that 011 the t5th of to a hfl£a4’ the ®us -FRONT anda.'u oJrJSPRUCE streets. looking south. : mite," ««„ i>. ™.e«tu °‘,ZT\‘M, ! Branch. When the ri, ■ the West Neil, but when ls caIm aiI is , ramnant it is a men*co™es swollen and people. The Nonh r™ to. the tov?n and back by a cro°, K. ,anCh Is oniy held w.r« of above town The or“K t^.at 13 a mile and every means of Hfp thic « nin£ I from the water’s ectee f ^fnk is built Of” OW0t0bafr thnese‘IC3 ^e°f°rdeshae! land the bank of the nb hi"- This kin Flood,’’ becausTofCtheed th* 'Pump- & Wilkes-Barre Railroad S *7, Hazlet°» I of pumpkins th/t f the “reat number I the waters of the NWth hRVe preve»ted I stream Th* Jh * Were car«ed down j pouring into the to^e?0™nc* &0m 1 the 28th Jf t neX^ sreat flood was on jbank was built th* „ * roie the cross jtown severaftimes" buT1ucrkirvnt;rhed ttke i£hJ current was not swift ££ y when the Iber 1847 srreat flood of Octo- er, 1847, was tthreeuhe or four feet higher | the river was divertecHntn^i6 cour9c of | the water ran swift lv tl * a® town and! until it reached thJ th™u8"h the streets^ ! below town he main stream again EARLl SUSQUEHANNA FLOODS John Maginness, of WTniiam®no t *““nr" *• vX'-,;”,,* -;:c FRONT STREET, ABOVE PACKER, BOOKING SOUTH. orable. The waters came in the town | J was very i high, but the”North Brand through a broken railroad bank on the was not many feet above its normal! morning of St. Patrick’s Day, March 17. heighth. The water from the Wests! The river was turned from its usual Branch backed twelve miles up the| course into the streets and for two days North Branch and flooded Riverside and| Sunbury was in a sea of water. Danville Since that year improvements and the! After this flood the people of Sunbury! filling of lots has tended to gradually saw the weakness of the river front and raise th<4 grade of the streets and prop-i talked of the construction of an em-|j erties. Still the days of that flood cling bankment. The project was finally drop¬ to the minds of the elder Sunburians asj ped, and the people were of the opinion!, f vividly as if the flood was still here. The * 1 * 3 that it would be many years before an-j Northumberland County court house was j other flood came that would be of suffi¬ one of the few buildings that was not cient heighth to tax the strength of thej river front. submerged and it was made the tempor¬ ary home of hundreds of citizens until THE SPRING FRESHET. the waters subsided. ’ At that time the The fallacy of opinions and prophecies] Northern Central company was laying | was shown in five years, when Sunbury] a double track on its Susquehanna Divi-I was again threatened by the rising Sus¬ sion, from Sunbury to Harrisburg, and quehanna. The town was in great peril, f had four or five hundred Irish laborers ias the North Branch rose as steadily] employed on the contract at the Sun¬ as the West. This was on Sunday, May ; bury end. These men came into the town on St. Patrick's Day to properly 20, 1894, and the water rose thirteen feet] j .celebrate the day of their patron. The on that Sunday night. This was in the] bursting of the flood into the streets main river. There was no sleep for Sun¬ interfered with their pleasure. The ma- burians that night. Heavy rain fell and ! jority of the Irish had imbibed consider- the sky was covered with a<- pall of : able liquor and their efforts to keep out heavy clouds. The black, raging waters of the dirty, turbid water caused much continued to rise inch by Inch for two >, : amusement to the citizens of the town. This flood was caused by the melting of days. Pennsylvania and Reading Rail¬ ; the heavy snows by warm Spring rains. road trains were stopped here. There ] St. Patrick’s Day came on Thursday that was no telegraphic communication with 1 year and the town was under water for Williamsport, Lock Haven, Milton, Lew- I almost a week. The water did not be¬ isburg, Renovo and other towns on the gin to recede until Saturday night. In West Branch. The suspense was terri¬ the Spring of 1868 another flood tore! ble, and all the people could do was to \ ; through the upper railroad embankment wait and watch the waves pounding the 3 ' and flooded_ the streets of the entire weak protection of the river front. .' eastern part of the town. This freshet Again the bank at Front and Walnut ■ was not as high as that of ’Go. In De- Streets was broken and the water poured ceraber, 1878. another ice flood came upon into the Third Ward. Three-fourths of the people suddenly. It gorged in the the town was submerged. Business was North Branch and tore away the bridges. at a standstill and the people gave all A section of the Shamokin Dam, at the their attention to the flood. Railroad lower end of Sunbury, was also torn trains were in the yards and belated pas¬ away. sengers crowded the hotels. The water In June, 1889, came the flood that will rose steadily and poured over its banks ever be remembered on account of the in the Fifth Ward into the streets. terrible disaster that overtook the resi- Above the town was the staunch cross ' dents of the Conemaugh Valley. Sun¬ bank holding back the swollen North bury did not escape lightly in those Branch. For four days the water beat terrible days. The waters rose sullenly against this bank and honeycombed the and swiftly, but were kept back from stone slope walls. Had this bank given entering the town by the cross bank, away the horror of Johnstown would which had been constructed after ’78’s have been repeated. The rapid river, flood. The back water submerged cer¬ worse than ever before, would have f tain parts of the town, and a gap wasi swept the., town from its northern end to I torn in the small river bank on Front! —J river front, from the North Branch Street at. Walnut, submerging the Third bridge of the Philadelphia & Erie Rail¬ ilard. in this flood the West Branch road, at the upper end of the town, to houaf^S and, would -^ve carried rive^befoT Th»d.a'i int° the ■ SchuylKiirandT*ttie" frequency of !<3^«ernthethaeaPerU over (Papers took up the i«,„ Phe local a river bank The miec+f d ld advocated jth°erkworfh!nCa"month * Wh™** ly discussed and popular cni T* seneral- j in favor of the Pbank ^in!°? dec!ared Si? wZ f of the borough CouncilS?ee al sessions EP/ " Sf. aFudtu4eat£al J cusssed.many schemes were debated ^and dis-and jheld ‘juneeg5Ulatrhe“"efl -sthv^CS f WS,t*n The^vote J lected to go to the poHs^but nee'" ; returns were 629 for - * the officials ; against it. Ten ® ,lncrease to 221 i borrowed at three fndff d°Iiars was I -. interest. Five hundredfold Per cent- issued to mature in twentv ndS Were , .special flood tax of S90^ n J Jears- A a centenarian; . be levied after this veer P year will' ■ tax rate a mill an,S " eai Jncreasing the with the3highway nZed' ThI» ^an? CHRISTIAN CONRAD BORN IN THE -jto be appropriated, gave the\hand a'K’ j fund of almost $20 oofto boroush a YEAR 1779. work. ,WJ t0 do the proposed Council decided to , i went constructed on Front "7Ij:x TO cei-kbrI^ iT-m.u*S< £7 UtZr ’ 7 Purchase money is to he T0'l-V 1’LOT ITS HISTOr\\v clear from T' °Very inl°l flce and c cai from all focumbrances. The pur It has never been a settled questA^ onr citizens as to the time when A* ebase money for an outlot of upland to be be proper to celebrate the centei®' reebuig. For many years 1896 waf ed forward to as tbe time when tbe^' fh b’ bls bt>Irs au aforesaid lots wheresoe7i°if ^3 Lb °f tbe convenient of twenty-four fS ,,b?0St mati'on- n 7 “ap We gaiu this ^or- quarters of a foot in wirUi. r A three‘ ninetv t ? * °rigina]1y consisted of land to the said mill seat'withT* a'S other . 7 t0wn lots’ besides outlots. These egress and *e"ress at ’ th lree lngress, Tila _ , i-'ess at all necessary times_ Zz::rrot ,he <--* Ibe purchasers of said lots slidii 1 the sou h yingbetW6eu the Mill race on eran and F t AHey beyoild tbe Luth- SB eZ s (°nUed Cemet6ry’ and between f* *t!eet to a short distance beyond ountam Kan, on the premises of F. E , Hilbisli. There are forty-eight other lots school for the °f,a church and " mentioned in the map which stretch from ' land English ionirn„ ction tor the German all encumbrances0 The^AAtlear froui ?che„,e ,0 the £ 7"?' additional low a,e „„t ZZeZ. brance of the proprietor Wit d emem' “Dd SeaI tl,is ^lb day of ApriueTf. d Andrew Stbaub. (seal ) of th h i01r:. 011 the south by lands when tit1"8 ^ GlaSS‘ The date p ' 6 paper was certified to by John tn,- U e for tbe county of Hor- -oyers, a Justice of the Peace; and when the'w 7 1 Came’ Audrew ®t'raub, tbe he founder decreed that ft should “be re¬ 77‘7r’aUdi,^uelbrm of law routed for the use and benefit of persons -'Ivogod tne same to bo his act and te,rea .1.. .. concerned therein,” was the 23dof \0Vem ber, 1810. ua" fjaccording to law. Accompauing the map the followin'. ^Vitne s my hand and seal the 26th d -v I 'aIuable paper was found: ° jo,,.v Bhvh,,,. (SE;;;-j 1 Andrew Straub. -> irreeZi r,,nSOi"g il “ »iai»'r ■•»»» that Plan of Freeburg Town. /Docket 2, p. 339 Scheme of freeburg town, Penn's town- |h,n,is A,' . '".re'ieeds executed fur muds sold in this vicinity which date o P’n ", ambedaml C0UIU"' «“d «tate o l ennsyivaii’a, to-wit: The town consists U..othe.^e.ime.hh,%,,eZ:,Z. of rnlots, outlots, streets, and alleys. Each mlot to contain one-quarter of an acr® more or less. The purchasers to have From,K fy. Li, . I ijjfii. La. MOSES CHAMBERLAIN, OF MILTON, PA., AND HIS FATHER REPRESENT A SPAN OF OVER 160 YEARS BIOSES CHAMBERLAIN, WHOSE FAT HER IN THE BATTLE OF .... ,,^-GEKJIANTOWN. I HERE lives in the town of Milton, in this State, an aged law, John Lawshe, whose descendants! gentleman who unquestion¬ jare numerous and prominent. ably occupies the most Colonel Chamberlain died August 21, unique distinction of any 1817, and was buried at Lewisburg. living American; this is Mo¬ His monument may be seen on the ses Chamberlain. His father hill at the west end of the cemetery, was a colonel in the Revolutionary and It is a remarkable circumstance War, and was the father of twenty- that so many historic personages are three children, of whom Moses was buried so close to his own resting the youngest and the only survivor. place. Only a few yards distant is His brother Lewis, the first-born, was the monument of Hon. William Cam¬ killed by his father’s side in the battle eron, brother of President Lincoln’s of Germantown, Pa., October 4, 1777. I great War Secretary. A few ■ rods During the persecution of the Hu¬ south lies Colonel Henry Spyker, who guenots a prominent Huguenot ref¬ ugee named Tamerlain found his way was paymaster of the Pennsylvania militia during the Revolutionary War. to London, England. Here he changed He died only a few months prior to his name to an English equivalent, Colonel Chamberlain. Chamberlain, and continued to reside in London until that city was devas¬ A few rods east lies the famous Revolutionary hero. Colonel John Kel¬ tated by the Great Fire in 1G66. He ly, who died February 18, 1S32, and then emigrated to Ireland, where he has a monument. During the retreat died, leaving a family. Three sons of the refugee came to of Washington across New Jersey Col¬ America near the beginning of the onel (then Major) Kelly was ordered last century, one of whom settled in I to destroy a bridge in order to check Maine, another in New York, and the j the British advance. This he did -with his own hands, the bullets of the en¬ third in New Jersey. Among the children of the Jersey- emy flying thick around him as he man, whose given name is unknown, fell with the bridge he had cut in was William Chamberlain, born in two into the stream, but he was not Hunterdon county, on September 25, captured, as Lossing, in his Field 1736, only a few years after General Book of the Revolution, erroneously George Washington. says he was. William Chamberlain was a man of considerable prominence. Upon the Moses, the last survivor of Colonel [outbreak of the War of the Revolu¬ Chamberlain’s family, and whose pic¬ tion he at once entered the field in ture is herewith given, presents some the struggle for freedom. He was unique historical features. He, with| made lieutenant-colonel September 9, his father, represents a span of over! li77, of the Second Regiment of the 160 years. His remarkable position New Jersey line, and took a prominent part in the great conflict. In addition will more plainly appear when we to his services on the field he was know that two living great-grand¬ often charged with other responsibil¬ children of Colonel Chamberlain—Mrs.' ities. In November, 1777, he was di¬ David Slifer and her brother, Hon. A. | rected by Governor Livingstone to re¬ M. Lawshe, of Lewisburg—are respect-' port to Messrs. Penn and Chew of the ively 82 and 77 years of age. Mosesf Union Iron Works of Trenton, N. J., Chamberlain has, until recently, been and conduct them to the State Coun¬ a stirring business man. He engaged : cil at Worcester, Mass. At another in the tanning, mercantile and lum¬ time he was authorized to procure ber business, and now, at the ad¬ 20,000 flints for the use of the army. vanced age of 85, enjoys a well-earned j At the Battle of Germantown Colon¬ rest. el Chamberlain met with a heart-rend¬ He married first, in 1835, Miss Mary ; ing experience. Some time prior to the engagement his eldest son, Lewis, Ann Corry, by whom he had two J then a boy of 18, and a non-combat¬ daughters His second wife was Jane ' ant, was visiting his father. A battle Montgomery Watson, with whom he being imminent, the father wished the had six children, of whom William t boy to retire to a place of safety, and Frank, of Milton; Caroline, wife,: which the plucky fellow refused to do’ of ex-Judge Furst, of Bellefonte, and l> Procuring a gun, he took his. Diace in James, of Harrisburg, survive. his father’s regiment as a volunteer Of Moses Chamberlain it may be During the battle he was struck by a said that he is more than a mere relic cannon ball, which shattered a knee of an interesting past. He is keenly from the effects of which he died on alive to the spirit of the age, and in the field. hearty sympathy and touch with mod¬ Colonel Chamberlain was the hus¬ ern ideas. band of four wives, with each of During the civil war three brothers, whom he had a family. sons of John, and grandsons of Colonel - In 1791 Colonel Chamberlain re- Chamberlain, were officers, namely, j] m.oved to Buffalo [Valley, in (now) Colonel James Chamberlain, now re- ! union county, Pennsylvania. He ao- siding in Nashville, Tenn. Colonel qmred an extensive plantation on Buf- Thomas Chamberlain, now of Phila¬ delphia, and Captain Wesley Cham¬ ourg.buraCr iHeefe’hL hadfeW a grist, mlleS saw, west and of Lewis-fulline-1 | berlain, of California. mill on his place, and did an extensivf REV. A. STAPLETON. business. In this valley his third wife died immediately upon his arrival and ■ 11 he married his fourth, Miss Kimball i 1 ; whose parents, with many other Jer’ |sey people, had also recently arrived Several of Colonel Chamberlain’s cbil' 'dren, by his first marriages, also came - t to the valley. Among them his son-in iff] place and established a Moravian i mission, which continued until the breaking out of the French and In¬ Fv 0171/} dian War, in 1755, scattered the Indians. ixrca /r 6 ^^ This war was the immediate cause of the building by the provincial Date, Sfyua.£.. ' ffl authorities of Fort Augusta, in 1756, lor the protection of the frontiers. The ruins of this fort, consisting of a well preserved magazine, &c., may THE fflSTORIC WEST BRANCH still be seen at the upper extremity of Sunbury, facing the Susquehanna Interesting Sketch By Rev. A. River. During the Revolutionary Stapleton. War the place was strongly garrison¬ - J f*~ ed, and was a rallying point and There is no section of Pennsyl¬ vania more romantic and at the same place of refuge for the Northern frontiers. time so historic as the valley of the West Branch of the Susquehanna. Immediately across the North Only one hour is required to pass Branch from Sunbury is the town of from Sunbury, at the confluence of Northumberland, famous as the the North and West Branches of the home of Dr. Joseph Priestly, the river to Williamsport, yet in that father of modern chemistry and the short ride the tourist passes many discoverer of oxygen in 1774. lie places made famous both by the his¬ was one of the greatest men of mod¬ ern times. Because of his religious ' torian and poet. Sunbury, the county seat of Nor¬ views he was unjustly persecuted in thumberland county, our starting England, his native country. After K point, was laid out in 1772, on the the destruction of his laboratory by site of an ancient Indian town called a mob in 1792 he emigrated to Shau.okin, a name perpetuated by America, and died here in 1805. the thriving city of Shamokin, nine Starting now on our trip up the i miles distant. The Indian town of West Branch Valley we cross the Shamokin was one of the noted places river, and reach the opposite side at a of our provincial history. Rev. the foot of Blue Hill, the almost David Brainard, the famous Indian perpendicular escarpment of which is missionary, visited the place ia 1745. i one of the grandest topographical Conrad Weiser, the proprietary in¬ features of Pennsylvania. The terpreter, was a frequent visitor there i Hotel Shikellimy, on the summit, and was an intimate friend of the perpetuates the name of the Indian j great and good Chief Shikellimy. Chief. A run of five miles on the ■ In 1742 the Count Zinzendorf, Union county side, and Winfield, a founder of the Moravian Church, ac- small village, is reached. Here is l ; companied by Conrad Weiser, and an historic spot. Just before ar ILI others, visited the place on a mis- riving at the station a large stone [ sionarv tour. Count Zinzendorf barn is seen on the left side of the preached to the Indians, many of track. Within a rod of the opposite whom were Christians, among them side of the track stood the home of j the Chief Shikellimy, who died here Major John Lee, who was here jin 1749, one of the most notable cruelly massacred by the Indians in 4trophies of the Christian faith in the August, 1782. Several of his fami¬ I Tew World. lie was the father of ly, and other persons who were a no less celebrated Chief Logan. visitants, shared the same fate, while 1748 Bishop Camerhoff and the Mrs. Lee and her infant were carried 'onary Ziesberger visited the away captive by the savages, and .both filled by them near Jersey . '• - • _y£u V -- ■*/** ■ If -liHE Shore, when they f ountf the3isbfves pursued. | had settled here some years b.fore A run of five miles further brings the Revolutionary War broke out. us to Derrstown, now Lewisburg, When hostilities began he recruited the county seat of Union county. a company and marched to the front, As we reach the town the railroad his company being part of the curves sharply around the Bucknell Twelfth Regiment of the Pennsyl¬ University grounds. Immediately vania Line. II is sons, Samuel, to our light we discover a small James and John, were also in the stream entering the river. Here 'war. Samuel was a lieutenant and was the site of Ludwig Derr’s trad¬ became famous as a fighter. After ing post and mill, erected in 1772, the war he became a ‘-Ranger” and and so famous in frontier history. the hero oi several works on romance It was the only mill in the valley not j and adventure. At the battle of I destroyed during the Revolution. | Brandywine Captain Brady was bad¬ Three miles, and within sight of ly wounded, and returned home to Milton (on the east side of the river), Muncy. The Indians becoming w-e suddenly come to a limestone troublesome, he erected a stockade fort for the safety of his and other ridge. Just before reaching this we observe an unusually fine, slightly families. In 1778 Captain Brady’s son James wuh a party of men, wen* some elevated piece of ground to our left. miles distant to harvest some wheat when This was the site of Chief Shikelli- they were attacked by the savages and my s “capitol ’ before his removal to young Brady was scalped and left for’dead I A..rescm“K Parly, however, found him still Shamokin, as already noted. Here ! alive and took him to Fort Au "usta ' was also the block house of Peter 1 where he died in a few da„ C bwartz, which was known as Fort fnU,AuPr,Lnih’1"78-C‘',P‘airi Brady was killed by the Indians within halt a mile of Swartz in the Revolution, and here presently’ °° ? hiM we will pass was killed by the Indians in 1778, P 5®fnty- Arter tb>s sad event the family John Bashore, son-ir.-!aw of Peter removed down the river for safetv The s°n this illustrious family was Swartz, and great grandfather of the Hugh Brady, born in 1768. In 1792 he late Hon. Charles S. Wolfe, of Lew- joined the army of General An Sony islurg. Way ne and served in the campaign agS the Indians in Ohio. Ile also served 3 Passing Milton, on the opposite ^atd.stinctmn.nthe War of 1812, and side of the river, in the couise of V successive promotions rose to the rank several miles, we stiike some bold tTe\r;/rF°‘rt.'io ihe v»iwsS2 hills which we pass and come to the /l85jy- *e died at Detroit, Michigan, in east end of White Deer Valley. To Two miles above Money we arrive at the left as we pass the hill, and just Ha Is Station. Getting out on the station before we reach White Deer Station, platform a beautiful sight meets o„r ° On the opposite side ot the river the Bald we cross a stream at the mouth of Eagle Mountain rises in majesticgiaudeur i which stood the grist and boreing A few hundred yards from the station is mill of Mrs. Catharine Smith, built euV,e),0fff0rt Mudc-7’ which was destroy-1 ed by the British in the devolution 1 in 1775, and destroyed by the In the grave yard we see on the hill nearby dians in 1779. Great numbers, of s.umber the remains of Captain Brady gun barrels were bored here for the while a fine monument erected to his mem’ Continental Arm}'. o-y with elaborate ceremonies in T879 stands at Muncy. The stone ,nation w We speed bv Montgomery, the see further on was erected in 1769 by the' site of another Revolutionary fort, noted frontier Quaker, Samuel Wall s. It and in a few moments cross the (btSrfiT\by invaders«t the taking of I the fort, but the walls remaining intact it 1 river to the historic town of Muncy. was afterwards repaired. Resuming our The chief interest of this place is the journey, in a few moments wc are in Wil fact that a mile north of the town barn sport. A. STAPLETON Eewisburg, Pa. was the home of Captain John Brady, who, with bis distinguished family’ are among the most noted characters of frontier history. Captain Brad Itamsport, the well-known newspaper man and historian, who has for many years contributed to newspapers and magazines under the nom de plume of "John of Lancaster. ” Sir. Meginness’ Address. Regent and Daughters oe the Ameri can Revolution, Sunbury : I esteem it a high honor to be invited to appear before the Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, of Banbury, and whilst I may not be able to tail them anything new regard¬ ing tbe object of their organization, or point out historic facts not already known, a few words of encouragement in the good work in which they are en¬ gaged may not be out of place. There is no richer held along the Sus¬ quehanna in which the Daughters can Sunbury Chapter Daughters of the exercise the object of their mission more Revolution Hold a Meeting. fully than in Sunbury and its surround¬ ings. Greater atrocities may have been committed at Wyoming, but when it ADDRESS BY JOHN OF LANCASTER comes to results and whatgrsw out of them, Sunbury must be considered as fareupo ior It was the point of con Very Interesting Historical Data and centrati on for forces which exerted a Biography of Decal Patriots—The mighty inflreu e in behalf of ' 030 who were struggling for liberty Sunbury Chapter Members Maintain Sunbury enjo/a the d s.iub.~^ of hav Patriotic Remembrance of Colonial ing been selected as the point for the and Revolutionary History. erection of the greatest defensive work during colonial ti nes, and when the war The Sunbury Chapter of the Daughters for independence broke ont it wa3 main¬ ‘of the Revolution held a meeting at tained and became a mighty factor in its achievement, Built in 1756, during the home of the Misses Donnell on Mar¬ the Eaglish-Penn regime, as a protection ket Square last Saturday'afternoon. The against the hostile Indians and the officers are, Miss Shuman, Regent; Miss threatened French encroachment, it De f Donnel, Vice Regent ; Mrs. Burrows, came an important rallying point during the Revolution, and the part it bore dnr j Secretary, and Mrs. Lincoln, Treasurer. ing that momentous struggle has been I '■At present the Chapter consists of the little understood by the present genera¬ following members: Miss Donnel, Miss tion. I shall not take up your time in Frances Donnel, Miss Clay, Miss Sha¬ recounting the thrilling incidents of its history nor detail the many bloody man, Miss Mary Shuman, Mrs. Green- tragedies which were enacted around its ongh, Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. C. M. Clement, walls before the Revolution, bnt suffice Mrs. N. 3. Engle, Mra. Barrows, of this to say that during the Indian ware i city, Mrs. J. E.Colt and Mrs. G. Van nearly one hundred and fifty lives of I white meo, women and children were ! Alen, of Northumberland. There are a taken within a radius of ten miles number of applicants for membership. around Fort Augusta by prowling sav- Be9ide3 the members present, were (Sges. Mrs. Horan, Mrs. Dr. Montelius and , Daring the Revolutionary period the central figure at the fort was Co’. Sam Miss Siiliman, Mt.Carmel; Mrs. Harvey uel Hunter, a sturdy Scotch Irishman, Schocb, Selim grove, and Mrs. Sidler, of born in 1732. He took part in the early Danville, who are members of other Indian wars and rose to the rank of cid- Chapters. tain; accompanied Bouquet's famous | expedition and was an active participant To become a member the applicant in the campaign. We bear of him at j mst be able to trace her ancestors back Sunbnry? as early as 1763, and we take the Revolutionary war and prove by it that he was one of the earliest settlers. nilitary records that one or more of When th3 county of Northumberland was organiz-d in 1772, he was commis- ncestors took part in that great eloned one of the first justices; served as Assembly man, 1772 75; on the Commit¬ regular business of themeet- tee of Safety, 1775 76, aDd as one of the aiternon an address was Council of Censors in 1783. When tb° militia of the county was organize Meginness, of Wil-L: / the orit&reakoF the Revolution, ne was chosen colonel of the First Battalion in Sinsed" Rn7ff°hr mtDy years rounaty February, 1770, and the following April Bafc, this abuse mostly came he was appointed county lieutenant and from those who fled the farthest ! by virtue of his position became’com danger and did the least to support him- mandant of Fort Augusta. “ but as the years rolled away and S duties be bad to look" after the levies of reason for his hurried action came to be militia, despatch recruits to Washing¬ weutr °nde^8t°°d, criticism steadily ton s army, as well as to keep or^anizwl weakened and it is now clear to nil iry»y companies of militia in the fi?ld at h2 Khaa'Salnlh'1 ln'’e6tl«“tOT“. tint Mar n Iadlan?. aad T°rie3 from the «o 7^r,0,wt”Sr Daring his military career hf passed through many trving times and exciting scenes, and no patri-'V of the time was eubjected to moie harrasdS and severe trials. With the British^ j£eth7°rk a>d ph51sdelphiaand savages KssiS H9 /ear, it was the policy ofLord nee and liberty had been securedf He Howe to devastate this portion of the was buried in a private lot in one of the a?d ther?f01e cut Off supplies angits of the great fort which he so ablv ^ a^hiDgton’s armr. ^ One of the memorable events of the hp. ■ 7LS time was the departure of four r>-,m pames of the Twelfth Regiment tv tineatal Line, under Col. William ’o-ioiT from Fort Augn ta in DeceiS to join the patriot army. Thebe’ corn1 has long since disappeared. g e-“ bn^aonah Scott, the wife of Colonel «sr sst ®^D.ter> shared with him the trials manded by Captains Brldy and tribulations of those stirring times Boone aad Withmgton. Theysa^mS hard service in the field, and manv nf hero1(f nunlT °S the Solution of the men endured the rigors r,f 77,tny -0l ter of 1777 78 at ValleyForge the Wln bilJr ™“8« T5iiap„ 6arly 1778, when the wf0eRRnaWuy hom th9 Valley of the ianu,bter county, and Abraham Scott 7nnwfafh occnrred b? order of Co] bbe most heartrending scenes rotber Hi* ury fails to record when ills noble woman died and where she 'Isfsfgs a3 buried; bat I apprehend there are ^embers of this Chapter (or descend Hn^ ) wh° Gan furni-h the information and chat steps will soon be taken by the ' '§S:iSSmrS:S became a panic and the excitement1^ tress and horror which folinSl *’ dl8‘ .description. Nothin^ liti it • d beSSars Ln the annals of h& VL? T°rdei colonial and Revolutionary days in the »nd Sunbnry were the ^ 4 A°gnsta mtire Susquehanna Valley I allude ?o Joints for the panic-etriVkenDtF.8.tlng Le underground magazine of Fort Au- i . sta, which was built according to the tjBTV** 'continJieToFdS teSli"™8- rt is still it °! Seel! i' - •ent state ot preservation, and if nrn 3erJy protected will easily last farin' ■ther centntv, for It, wans wdlrch” that strange neglect to t““ £ nse cf >re still firm and strong. George IT i dren what oar mSiS. °?r chil" was tnen near the end cf his reifn «« I ; ihey faced the foe thf h “n ared when Ring of England (he died in 1760) and bcalping knife to maknu.^1 -et and tbe possibie for their descendants.008 h°meS m the ."regie c&g i iHanter7wRhiehandPfn”ofSb tiQJ6a Co1- fj^sssasa •g^sss j stood manfully at hfa post S®militia> under the auspices of the English Gov to make the best dIf?° J * d PJ,6P^ed 'S0)Sl,atndtf“ m,“y "d ! jthe exultant foe did not venfnr^tle’ bnfc Fort Augusta. Its frowS ® to a8eail anlferS Aa's! dultoT whS'SK i a terror to them and thev hnfrieHiWere ownea§wnsdte py an En„T°English woman.W“ers - “S”‘w 1i tired into the fastnesses o/ the jAll re wilderness after bmT7£e?ft°hr nhe™ «j7LUC.r uD important relic should LDc^ed*-by bhe State or some patrir association that will take pains to sw""*aod ^“Assarff eerve it from decay. And it would For ordering the settlers to t domg gross injustice to the prest feeir lives on that occasion. CofoSl owner if I did not say that wenf it r for the care and protection she has giv this relic, it would now be an irreclaim¬ ( activity,'and distinguished ror engineer able ruin. ^ ing talent, he soon came into prominence. And here, let me say, the Daughters In 1780 he was commissioned president of the American Revolution have pre¬ of the associate j ustices of the Court of sented to them a magnificent opportu¬ Northumberland county. He became nity to carry out one of the patriotic county treasurer in 1782, and filled that objects of their mission by making an j ( office almost continuously until his effort at least to enlist sufficient aid to 1 death. He was a member of Assembly enable them to possess this crumbling in 1784 5 6, and attended the sessions of landmark of Colonial and Revolutionary j that body in Philadelphia. In 1801 he I times. When Washington’s army lay I was appointed, with B. H. Latrobe, the suffering at Valley Forge during the i famous engineer,to make a survey of the rigorous winter of 1777-78, Fort August j river from Columbia to tide water, to ' stood as a grim sentinel to aid in the ascertain if it could be made navigable. protection of the rear, and I claim that He was taken ill at Lancaster and died the influence it wielded during the September 20, 1801. Mr. Latrobe was ; struggle made it a silent but mighty with him, and records in his journal that factor in securing the prize for which almost his last words were : "Lord the patriots fought. A realization of Howe would not now value me at £200 this fact alone shonld serve as an in¬ sterling, dead or alive 1” centive not only for the Daughters, but 1 need scarely refer to the fact that i for all patriotic citizens, to put forth the first man elected United States | Btrong, nnited and persistent effor s to Senator was a resident of Sunbnry during ! acquire this relic ere it is too late. The the Revolutionary period, took an active Daughters might take the initiative, and part in civil and military affairs, and as ! if they determinedly entered the field, early as 1772 built a substantial stone where is the man with a spark of mansion on the bank of the river, which patriotism lingering in his heart who is Etill standing as a landmark of early conld resist their appeals in aid of so times, although I cannot but think that worthy an object ? its owner, my esteemed friend, the Hod. It is impossible in the scope of an S P. Wolverton,bas somewhat marred its address of this kind to allude to all the original beauty by trying to modernize patriotic men and women who lived and it. Hon. William Maclay was a dis¬ died in and around this historic towD. It tinguished citizen and sowed the seed, would require the space of a volume to while in the Senate, which destroyed the record their names, services and noble Federal party. He was a resident of deeds in the cause of liberty. Reference, your city for many years, and some of however, should be made to one who his descendants still live here * sacrificed his fortune and came near But these references must suffice. losing his life in the cause of liberty. Col. There are many now living in this com¬ Philip Frederick Antes, born in 1730, in munity who have descended from Revo¬ what afterwards became Montgomery lutionary ancestors. The mission of the county, had through inheritance and his Daughters is a high and holy one. As own efforts acquired sufficient propeity set forth in their constitution it is "to to be regarded as a man of wealth for cherish, maintain and extend the institu¬ his time. He early became identified tions of American freedom, to foster •*! with the patriots and held a number of true patriotism and love of country, and ft1 offices, both civil and military. He is to aid in securing for mankind all the F credited (on account of his inventive blessings of liberty. ” And above all, " r o I n genius) with being the first man to snc- I perpetuate the memory and the spirit of cesafnlly caet a cannon on this side of the men and women who achieved r the Atlantic for the Revolutionary army. j American independence, by the acquisi- j I This great work was done at the furnace tion and protection of historical spots c\ at Pottsgrove, below Reading ; and when j and the erection of monuments ; by the I / Lord Howe, the British commander, I encouragement of historical research in heard of what had been accomplished j relation to the Revolution and the pub- II he was greatly alarmed, and straight¬ | lication of its results ; by the preserva¬ way offered a reward of £200 for the tion of documents and relics, and of the head of the inventor, as he regarded records of the individual services of such a man as dangerous to the cause of Revolutionary soldiers and patriots, and the king. This offer so incited the by the promotion of celebrations of all Is cupidity of certain men, and especially patriotic anniversaries. ” [e the Tories, that his life was in constant Do the Daughters of the American c danger. And so closely was he pursued Revolution realize what a powerful in¬ that he effected his escape at one time fluence their society may be able, to) by the back door of his house while a exercise in the clo.-ing years of the nine-i file of British soldiers entered at the teenth century by fostering "true! front. Finally h9 was compelled to patriotism and love of country ?” There leave his farm and mill on Swamp Creek is a membership already of nearly j and seek safety in flight. He settled in twenty thousand in the State, and the Northumberland town, and as near as I society is not yet seven years old. The vn make it out, his log house stood on Sanbury Chapter should have a larg/ near the site of the present railway • membership, for there are scores c ition in that town. ladies in this community who are eligibly As Colonel Antes was a man of Go on, then, Daughters, in your gre' | and nobis work ; always bear m mina that the perpetuity of this mighty gov¬ ernment depends on the patriotism, the about tbenTTor a place in which virtue and the intelligence of the people ; o regu ar worship Almighty God, and let ns always fondly cherish the the sovereign creator, ruler and memories of those noble men and women who made it possible for ns to enjoy the preserver of the universe. The rich blessings which surround us. most of the settlers were of Ger¬ *R. H. Awl, ot Sunbury, is a grandson.—Eds. man origin, many of them comino- from the region of the Tulpehock-i en, were Lutherans, although there were a number of German Ketormeds among them. Lor a number of years, Mievs. Enterline', Muhlenberg and Kurtz, made oc¬ casional visits into this new coun¬ try ana preached for them, and performed the other duties of min- is(ers buried the dead, married e stuidy male pioneers to the thrifty maidens, and baptised their offspring. Melchoir Stock and others, as the records show, made applica¬ Tot Coipsiatiras and Pastors. tion to the Land Department for 92 aoreTs of hud, upon which to j . Thc first church on the west I erect a Lutheran church aDd school Iside of the Susq lehanna was erect¬ house. This tract of land was ed at Salem, the exact date is not surveyed and a warrant granted positively known, but th? best au¬ thority places it at about 1780, or ApT/4 1766, or themore applicatio than ten°’ one hundred an I eighteen years years before the breaking out of ago. The first persons who settled KevoJutionary war. in Salem and the adjacent vicinity The first church with its accom¬ came here prior to 1771, and panying school house, was at once among them and others of later erected, and they consisted of lor" date, we find the well known buddings, the church edifice being names of Fisher, Moyer, Miller, 33x40 feet, standing a short dis- Pawling, Kuster, Mease, Gember- ance above the present school lin£, Romig, Yoder, Wetzel school house, aud was capable Bolender, Erdley, Ulrich, Hum¬ with its three sided galleries, to mel. Snyder, Kessler, Row, Good, accommodate about 400 persons, : bohoch, Duck, Kratzer, Walter,’ The sum of #1950.85 was sub-: Wagner, Leitzel. Brouse, ntu-., senbed, and paid, to cover the ex-1 man, Klmgler, Zechman, Lauden-i pense of erecting the church and * slager, Luck, Jarrett, Haas, Hen-! school house. £ dricks,/ Pontius,7 Boyer,t V L. « Krause, ' The log school house stood just 1- Deilerich, Daubermin, Weiser below where the old brick chorclnt Fetter, Breon, Kreider, Stroub, j stood, and was a one story build, Ott, Hosterraan, Holtzstein, App, i mg and was a school house, as) Ivloss, Stock, Bieber, Woodlino- ! well as a dwelling house for the Glass, Biegel, Kanfz, Mitman’I master, who on Sunday attended, Woodruff. These settlers like' to the sexton’s duty, he having, dieir descendants were God-fe u- the use of the school house for hi” ‘ ing men and women, and it is but ( pay. He \v a •• also expected jn'f natural that they should look addition to making the fire m lead | in ifie singino-. i ,^ev. Michael Enterl inc was Flie was delayed until the return of! I first regular pastor, and was prob¬ the soldiers in 1814, when it was; ably called m 178'. Enterline rapidly pushed to completion.— j was succeeded by Rev. Jasensky The corner stone was laid August j who served until 1798, when the 7, 1814. The following ministers f:J congregation was supplied by Roy. were present and participated in! j Christian Espiek of Sunburv, uu- the ceremonies Revs. Conrad i til 1802, when Rev. John Herbst Walter, Jost Henry Fries, Isaac ; was called; serving two years, un¬ Gearhart. til 1801:, when he was succeeded The church was completed in I by Rev. John Conrad Walter, who 1810, and was dedicated May 12, ; served it faithfully until his death 1816, Revs. Walter and Gearhart j j which occurred in 1819. offic'ating. i In 1802 the Lutheran concrecra- The carpentering work was done j tion gave the members of the Re- by John Grubb. ! formed church who worshipped A new school house and dwell- j here, an equal right and interest in ing for the teacher was erected in i the church property, and from 1842. j this time both congregations Rev. J. P. Sbindel, sr., succeed-) worshipped together in peace and ed Rev. Walter as pastor, he serv-j harmony to the glory of God, and ed up to 1843, when Rev. C. G. the advancement of His kingdom. Erlenmyer was elected, who serv-; About the year 1810, the build¬ ed the congregation until his death ing of a new church to take the which occurred in 1876. He was | place of the old log building, was succeeded by Rev. J. F. Wampole i being seriously agitated, and in who served until 1893, when the order to raise the necessary means, present pastor Rev. S. G. Snable an act of the Legislature was pass¬ I was elected. ed in 18] 2, which bears the signa¬ ture of Simon Snyder, then Gov¬ The above pastors were of the ernor of the State, giving the trus¬ Lutheran congregation. The Re-j' tees of the congregations power to formeds were served by sell part of the 92 acres of church Revs. Jonathan Rahauser served land. Mi. John Moyer purchased from 1779 to 1792; George Geist- 28 acres and 126 perches for weit served to 1804; John Deit- $876.65!-, Samuel Boyer, sr., pur¬ rich Adams served to 1812; John chased 15-4 acres for $522,314-, Diefienbach served to 1813; Jost and 7 acres and 23 perches to Henry Fries also preached here Adam Guth for $281.76; makin" 1812-14; Isaac Gearhart served jointly the sum of $16^5.33. until about 1818; John Felix from Shortly after the above sale, a 1818 to 1824; Daniel Weiser from ubscription of $725.00 was taken v.;; 1824 to 1833; Benjamin Boyer p to assist in paying for the new from 1834 to 1840; Samuel Sei¬ hurch. bert from 1840 to 1844; J. H. The old church was not located Derr from 1848 to 1852; SaraueT [on the land given by the State, Gutelius from 1854 to 1861; C. Z. but upon land purchased from Weiser from 1861 to 1862; A. R; Samuel Hendricks, for which, and Hottenstein from 1862 to 1865. | also part of the grave yard, they J. W. Lesher from 1866 to 1869; aid $81.75. J. S. Shade from 1870 to 1871; The war of 1812 between this W. A. Haas from 1871 to pres¬ >! untry and Great Britain break¬ ent time 1898. out, the building of the church The Trio-Quarto Centennial cel¬ ebration of the ejection of the old 35 church was celebrated with great ow, Mary M. Row, survivSdTtm success in May 1891, and from*. and who for many years drew a that time up to 1897, when the pension. erection of a beautiful new struc¬ The old grave yard contains the ture was commenced, the agita- I re“ams of Lke old pioneers, as jtation of building a new and more I well as of many of their descend modern church was successfully | ants. As one walks through this kept up until it was accomplished, ancient burying ground, familiar and the new structure was dedi¬ names greet tbe vision on every cated with suitable ceremony, on hand, many of the names are cut Sunday, April 24th, 1898. upon the old gray stones in Ger¬ man characters, showing that this THE SALEM LUTHERAN AND was the mother language used by our foreparents. REFORMED CHURCH. The descendants of George Row have erected a neat monument A Foil and Concise Report of the which is placed at the east end of Dedicatory Ceremony, Sunday the cemetery, and which confronts April 24th, 1898, by Wm- K. the visitoi upon entering the su- Miller, Esq. cied enclosure, and bears an in¬ scription, announcing the fact that The Church dedicated Sunday, April he was killed by the savage pro¬ 24, 1898, is the third edifice erected for prietors of the soil. the uses of religious worship on that The men who built the first and spot. It was determined at a Congre¬ gational meeting held in the old church the second church, have long since dining the closing days of February mouldered to their kindred’ dust, 1897, that a new church should be built and the monuments erected to to take the place of the one erected in their memory in this little ceme¬ 1812. In consequence of such decision, tery is all that is left to tell that early in March, a congregational meet¬ ing was held, at which Charles Miller. they once enjoyed their earthly Henry Moyer and Samuel S. Maurer possessions, their brave and chari¬ were selected as members of the build¬ table hearts, have ceased to beat, ing committee on the part of the Luth¬ and their spirits are with the God eran congregation, and Isaac Erdley Iwho give them, and Enos Klingler for the Reformed._ The joint relationship had existed from the first creation of the church, both j‘ CHURCHES WITH WAR HIS- congregations maintaining, under the j TORIES CONNECTED. Constitution adopted in 1812, equal rights and privileges in the church pi’operty. | F*rst Row Church was Erected During the Revolutionary War. THE OLD GRAVE YARD. 1 he Second During the War I The God's acre which is located | of 1812.—The Third Was Dedi-1 immediately west of the new cated the Day Following the Ex¬ churdt/structure, has been used! piration of the President's Ulti¬ as a burying ground for more than a century. matum and the Commencement of Hostilities with Spain. It is said that the first person buried in it, was George Row. , There appears to be a strange who was killed by the Indians iU- July 1780, at Fougbt's anil, at or tahty connected with the buildiu of the Row or Salem Churches i near^ Mifflin burg. He was wound-" ed injthe breast and died in eight connection with the Wars of th Nation. hours after being shot. A wid- It is now about one hundred and) i.m ij ii .. ■i.j.'vtiiu.'... ,,i-i" ' •■■ twenty-two years since the first 3 east, sejuth and west sides. On the congregation was organized in Ahe north side Ls the pulpit, perched up- ( Salem charge. During these years on columns that raise it almost half¬ three churches were built. way to the ceiling. Underneath the The first—a log structure fash- galleries are the pews, with their oned out of the logs cut from and straight backs The church was adjacent to the site upon which it commenced in the spring of 1813, was erected, was completed about and completed in the spring of ’15. the year 1780. or about the midst of It has ever been a Lutheran and Re¬ the Colonial struggle for liberty and formed Union Church. independence. Lutheran pastors—Revs. Gear¬ The second or brick edifice which hart, Shindel, Erlenmeyer, Boyer, .was razed to the ground last spiing and Warn pole. ! to make way for the latest and Germau Reformed pastors.—Revs. most modern church building, was Fries, Weiser, Hottenstein, Derr, commenced in the middle of the Leshei and Haas. war of 1812 and was completed im¬ The Sunday-school connected with mediately after the ilose of th^s sec¬ this church was instituted in 1840. ond struggle with the fmjSt’her coun¬ At first the school was regarded as j try. a hostile invasion, detrimental to When the present or third Church the welfare of the church. This was contemplate, the goddess of seniiment finally wore away and peace smiled benignly upon cur the Sunday- school was encouraged fair land. It was completed and and prospered, and to-day numbers I yet we were in the midst of peace. two hundred.; J4s sesdSions are Ji< I The time has been set for the dedi¬ during the summer months, thou j cation, now we begin to hear ru¬ often during the winter, on spec | mors of impending war, and as if occasions, as Cbr-ist-mas. the sob« j the Salem Congregations were des* is called togethor to participate^ tined to build their churches in pe¬ attractive and instructive exercises.^ riods made memorable by biood and William K. Miller is at present the carnage, the new church will be superintendent, and is aided in his dedicated upon the day set apart good endeavors by the young men for the commencement of hostilities of the community, among whom may between the United States and be mentioned the Pawlings, Moyers Spain. and Rows 4s far back as 1811 Certainly it is within the record the land on which this church is of the historical facts in the case to built was conveyed by the State tc? . .call the Churches of the Salem Con¬ the congregation, as will appear gregations, the War Churches- from the following correct copy of From history of Juniata and Sus. Ycllcyt. a letter written by the surveyor- ROW’S CHURCH. general to George Miller and others: Jf - Surveyor General's Office, This place of worship, (the old Lancaster, June 1?, 1811. brick church built in 1814) i- loca*- ‘•Gentlemen: id at Salem. It is built of brick “Your petition to the Board ind is equal to two stories in height, of Property complaining of a sur¬ | hough the interior is all in one vey made by my Deputy on a War¬ rant granted to Molcbor Stock andr m, witti high galleries on the --- -<* ^ others, in trust for a EutHefa'h LTiJn gregation, has just come to hand. I had been previously informed of vour complaint, and immediately wrote to Mr. Thomas' Woodside, the Deputy Surveyor, directing him to call on the present Trustee of the church, and make a survey of the Land agreeably to the former lines, aud return the survey so made to this office. “There is no doubt but he will execute my Orders, which will su¬ persede the necessity of the Board actiug on your petition. Should Mr. Woodside delay the business, I advise you to call on him to re-sur¬ vey ;;tbe Land. “I am, Gentlemen, Your Obt. Hble. Servt., ANDREW PORTER, S. G. “Messrs. George Millerg George Good, John Meyer and the other signers of the Petition. This letter was addressed on the outside to “Messrs. George Miller, George Good and John Meyer, and others, Trustees of the Lutheran j Ch’^ch in Penn Township Northum¬ berland County, Penna.” Prior to 1787, or about the time the first church, the old log struc¬ ture was built, upon the site of the present building now emoraced in Salem, Penn was the only township in the territory now embraced in what are now known as the seven¬ teen boroughs and townships of the county of Snyder. We have published this word pic¬ ture of the old brick chinch edifice, the second of the three Salem or “Row” Churches, because it has been razed in the onward march of progress, and now only exists in the fond memory of those who so long worshipped within its sacred and time honored walls. Preserve this for your posterity ^ w-, VJ* 3 is : •r. - - .tv^v •'■■•• • r-w/w • . w.... i 1 -' v - A *> »t - ' > ■ ■* I »•?