^ 7 v~v f f2 3 /%> // V - ^ Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from This project is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries https://archive.org/details/pennsylvaniacoun64unse <* 4 4. I * s Page s Page T U V w w w X Y Z k. amin Lewis, Henry Lei John Harrison, Augustus Stoner, Wm. Adams, John Bell, Daniel Sheesley, John Black, Yvt-. t — i Chas. Gobin, Geo. W:olff. Wm, Geary, Jack Robins, Wm. Murdock, John Young, Joseph Wallis, Jacob Keberling, ■ r I John Watson, Daniel Beatty, Henry Landerslice, Robert Coldern, iX-La-— | ^ i John Dickinson. 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.