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Robinson, calls for a cherry tree about thirty perches east of Spring creek arid perhaps 40 or 50 perches northerly of where Cedar run enters into Spring Biographical Sketches of Jacob Hon. j creek. A cherry tree at this point is *»er, Gen. Philip Dinner, and the called for by the Michael Troy, Lud- Important Part They Took In Nettling the Territory in the I wig Karracher, Isaac Catheral and Vicinity of Rock Forge. Caleb Jones surveys, on their official [Contributed by Hon. John B. Linn.] returns. The; earliest survey near the west end I Lewis Lewis seems to have been the ot dittany mountain was made June 3, first surveyor, officially, in the neigh 1/67 in the warantee name of Joseph borhood, and he surveyed the John Hopkins, on an application dated De¬ Hubley and Michael Hubley, both war cember 22, 1766. It included the forks rants of April 27, 1774> upon ground or mouth of the Slab cabin branch of on which Waukins Boone laid the war¬ Spring creek. Samuel Wallis patented rants on Banks, Lippencott and John it September, 4, 1767, and sold it to Reu¬ Gill, in 1/75. The Ludwig Karricher ben Haines September 29, 1768; and warrant is returned by Charles Lukens Reuben Haines made a deed for it to D. S., as surveyed Feb. 10, 1775, on David Whitehill,which is dated April 6 Spring creek between the John Wabley 1789, the year David Whitehill came to and the cherry tree above refered to. that neighborhood. He returns the Michael Troy ..as sur¬ No further official surveys were veyed March 15, 1775, immediately on made north of the Joseph Hopkins top of the Karricher, with nearly the until after the purchase of the 5th of same courses and distances, as the November, 1768. According to Wm. Matthew Troy as surveyed the same Maclays’ testimony, taken in 1800, in a day, on top of the Michael Wabley. The suit between Abraham McKinney and Adam Guier, south of Karricher, is Jacob Houser, “the end of theNittany returned as surveyed on the 12th of mountain was a land mark of the pur¬ February, 1775. chase of October 23, 1758, the line of The next surveyor upon the prem¬ that purchase proceding west from ises is Waukins Boone, in October 1775, the end of the mountain, and the In¬ who came up with five warrants in the dians appeared to be content with that names of Christopher Banks, William boundary.” We may add, the propri¬ Lippencott, Isaac Catherall, Caleb Jones etaries repeatedly refused to grant war¬ and John Gill, the locations of which he rants of survey, on applications for sold Samuel Burris. They were all land north of the end of the mountain. dated December 5th, 1774, and Boone The first survey, therefore, made j laid them in a block from the cherry north west and north of the Joseph I tree, Jones and Gill covering Guier and Hopkins was made June 4, 1774, upon Wabley; Cockerall, in part, covering an application in the name of John | Banks, and Lippencott covering Karri¬ Robinson, dated April 3,1769. This sur¬ cher and John Hubley. vey belonged to Robert Moore, who __ | ( To be continued.) lived upon it in 1775, as he swears in his testimony in the suit of Benner vs. Houser. The greater part of this sur¬ Keystone Gazette. vey is now the farm of William Thomp¬ son, adjoining Houserville. Robert FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30,1885. Moore was an express rider during the Indian troubles in 1778, and carried the Tin* Late Mrs. Mann. news, on the 9th of May of that year, to I Arthur Buchanan, who lived where Mrs. Jane Fleming Mann, relict of the late Harvy Mann, Sr., died at ---- iidence, at Boiling Springs, th'l said Atkinson, in ompany— witt aiitv, Wednesday morning, Oct. -A Boone, William Hammond aeed 75 years. Mrs. Mann was thti field Koontz, went to Spring creek daughter of the Hon. Thomas Burnside, 1 the end of Kittany mountain then m and a most estimable Christian lady, j Northumberland, and hunted - the land She was greatly beloved and respected of Reuben Haines, (the Joseph Hop¬ by all who knew her, and her funera , kins and Samuel Bayliss Jr. survey. Friday, October 9, was one of the David Whitehill’s land and the tract largest known here for a long time. where Lemont now stands) front the She was a member of the Presbyterian draughts ot thd-said Haine,, wh.ch we church and contributed largely ol hei then had in posession, and started means towards the support of rehgious at the lower end of Haines an and charitable institutions. The, fol¬ (from near the cherry tree spoken of lowing resolutions of respect were before) and ran along said lane, up passed and explain themselves. toward Nittany mountain as far as our line run (a pine on Samuel Bayliss Jr.,; and then we altered our course an run down the mountain (from the di¬ Xir hearts the lasting tea« of her^hfe. so rection of the mountain) till we took likened to that of Chris , midst in as much land as we thought would kindness and never make twelve or fifteen hundred acres, and presence a light na « inspiring then we altered our course toward hid, but constantly Spring creek and crossed said creek, went up said creek and re-crossed said Er5 tTSit0 iss creek to the place of beginning; the deponent then being a chain carrier for Waukins Boone, and being a party "«d>«.« —• *-“rir™ Christian virtues; ever des'r0f. .. ^ d Christ’s. concerned with said Boone. The depo- follow her footsteps even as he nant further saith that in running the ] i Boiling Springs, \ lRae™^®n M. Kaup, lines of the said survey he saw no marks Oct. 18f 1885, i James B. Williams. or any other signs of any other surveys. He knew said Boone had names along whereby he fixed his locations, but Keystone Gazette. does not remember who they were, and that he knows nothing of a certain FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1885. Lewis Lewis being a surveyor at that time or before in that county. rhe parts in brackets are interpolated by the author of these annotations by HISTORICAL NOTES; way of explanation, and any one who has ever been upon the ground will readily recognize the chain carriers ue- scription as correct and graphic, and e I Early Surveys in College might well say he saw no marks of and Benner Townships. Lewis Lewis’ survey of the Hubley, because Lewis’ axe marks were all within the Boone lines, except where, m two places, Boone crossed Lewis line diagonally and therefore would not be S<Is"j«nortaiit Part They likely to observe it. / GettUiie the territory in th ; A Waukins Boone was commissioned Vicinity ot R<»ch Forge. Captain, Oct. 4th, 1776, in the 12th Pa and was killed near Fort Freeland [Contributed by Hon. John B. Einnd (about a half mile from the Mai nor The deposition of one of 1S C ,^ carriers is preserved, taken June, 1J9 , ( Run church, on the public road leading before William Murray, a J^tice o from Milton to Muncy, m Northumber¬ land county) July 29,1779, in an attempt the peace of Dauphin County Go nelius Atkinson, being sworn, says . in to relieve that fort. Of the other mem- themonthof October 1774 (1775) he, the hers..of this surveymg party we have ' r 9 __ Samuel Burris conveyed his interest “Jacob Houser came up to Spring in the five tracts Boone located to Jo- creek with his lamily, to reside on the siah Matlack, of Philadelphia (house “place where the saw mill and fulling carpenter.) Burris had all the tracts “mill are now (1812) built, sometime in (patented in April 1776. Josiah Mat- ‘ the fall of the year 1788, I think lack aild Elizabeth his wife, by deed “about the last of October or the first dated 26th of December, 1789, conveyed of November in that year. There the Isaac Catherall 374 acres and sev¬ “ was a cabin built, or partly built, be¬ enty-five perches to Jacob Houser, of fore lie and his family came but not the township of Paxtang and county covered. There was a piece of land I of Dauphin. This is the survey on ( c^eare<i, by its appearance there might iwhich Houserville in College township “have been six acres of it. If I recollect stands. The consideration money was “ right there was a fence about it. Wil¬ £280.17.6, reduced to Pennsylvania cur¬ liam Connel then lived about oppo¬ rency $750. In the same year, perhaps, site where Jacob Ilouscr now lives, I (though the deed is dated March 2.