REFEI iENCE fj i W COLLEI jTIONS S-A p // 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/pennsylvaniacoun60unse mm INDEX v- f > is*'.'*. ., ' \ 1’ | ) • 1 . ' ■■ 1 " ' > *T 1 ; r ’./• ■■ •" V ' T.~' * / • \ B c V. ‘ ! . / '■ ■ * * • i ‘ V • • * \ \ ■ • — ■ — - \ 1 / ton power to put in tie field a force not exceeding 2500 men fora term not exceed¬ ing three months. Among the other acts of the second session of same Congress was one for the “payment of $4000 for the use of the daughters of the late Count de Grasse.” The old volume contains, also copies of Indian Treaties—one with/ the Cherokees, signed by Henry Knox, Secretary of Wai and by thirteen chiefs of the Cherokee fl RARE OLD BOOK. , nation; also one with the Six Nation Indians, signed by Timothy Pickering The Laws Passed by the Third Congress Indian Agent and fifty-nine sachems, chiefs and Signed by President Washington, aiid warriors of the Six Nations Among the curious Indian names to this last treatv are “Sonh-yoo-wao-na, or Big Sky,” *‘Se- A rare book, of value to antiquarians,has qni-dong-gnee, or Little Beard,” “Ken- recently come into possession of our towns jan-an-gns, or Stinking Fish,” “Jith- man Thomas Beekley, the well known con- ikoo-ga, or Green Grasshopper,” “Ti oob- ! tractor. It is a “rfiaty, musty” old vol¬ quot-ta-kau-na, or Woods on Fire,” “Sau- ta-ka-ong-yees, or Two Skies of a Length,” ume, “Printed in Philadelphia, 1795 bv and Kan-je-a-ga-onh, or Heap of Dogs.” f/hT £h,ld8> Printer of the Laws of the There are various other matters of inter- United States/’ and is entitled “Acts Passed at the Third Congress of the United rSf Pu -r^Beg,ln and Held at the City of Philauelphia, in the State of Penn- OneVThon0n ^DdayWthe ld of December, One Thousand 3eveh Hundred and Ninety- TTmtfd fiDtde °fi the IndePet>dence of the United States the Eighteenth.” The first thing m the volume is the official certifi cate of Edmund Randolph, Seoretary of , ate, to the 'Correctness of the copies of the laws therein printed; then follow the acts ufty-six in number, passed at the first session and sixty-five acts and seven reso- lntions passed at the second session of the third Congress. Each act is siened Prede"ck Augustus Muhlenberg An Inters! ing- History of an Old Hostelry. Tnh MV* House of Representatives; John Adams, Vice President of the United In the history of Gwynedd from its States and President of the Senate, or I.z,lrd’ President pro tempore of the earliest period this lias been a noted viciu- e6 fir8t SeS3ion’ or Henry Tazewell, jity, around which cluster many memor¬ President pro tempore of the Senate the able occurrences. In 1698 John Hum¬ T.,on 0f the Tbird Congress; the phrey settled here, and the Friends held said acts being approved by “Go: Washing- their first meeting, for worship. Men¬ T^n’ freSldent of tbe United States.’’ 1 he hist act passed by the Third Con- tion is made of a road being in use from gress. first session, is one changing the flag here to the Pennypack Mills in 1702. of the United States. This act is very Soon after 1704 the road was extended forty-two words, “That from and after the first day of May, anUo dotnim from the city, by this place, to the North one thousand seven hundred and ninety- Wales meeting house, a mile and a half five, the flag of the United States be fifteen distant. A bridge near by is mentioned TTn£en ’ alternate red and white. That the as having been constructed before 1711 » b a fif ee“ 8tar8’ white ia a blue field. Among the acts of the same ses [The road leading from here to Richland sion are one to provide a naval arma- was confirmed in 1717, and was the com pae“ :tfi h°“6 “avowing Major General La jmcncement of the present Bethlehem Fayette his pay and emolument' ..bile in road. From this point to Horsham meet¬ T?u°f the Pnited State,” one “to 'tt PC8t‘offlce and post roads with- ing house the road was confirmed in 1723, United States” and one “to compen¬ and the Goshenlioppen or Sumneytown sate Gen. Arthur St. Clair.” ^ road in 1735. We see by this date that The first act passed by the Third Con- through the construction of these several fien.,den'9 toJcall* call 11out ? Ctand 7 °station aathoris5a a corps the ofp resi-mi¬ highways and the extension of settle¬ litia in the four western counties of Penn¬ ments farther into the interior this spot sylvania, for a limited time.” This was was calculated before long to become, in done to suppress the Pennsylvania “whiskv consequence, an important f' cling insurrection” and gave President Washing centre. Hie tow/ Of Bethlehem; on the Xehigh j aged sixty years, was oueJ . river, tbfi'ty-eight miles distant, was eminent divines and scholars in the Lu¬ foundcjnn 1741, and all travel froin there theran church. Christian Dull removed and flic surrounding country, as well as to the Springhouse in 1772, where he was frojn Allentown, to Philadelphia, was rated in 1776 as holding ataveru,eight acres confined to the road passing by this place. of land, a horso and cow. The Revolution It is probable that it was not long after breaking out, he actively espoused the the latter date that the first inn was lo¬ cause of his country. Owing to the con¬ cated here,'but at what exact time and by nivance of some well-to-do people in this whom we are unable to say. Benjamin vicinity concerned in furnishing supplies • Davis kept a public house at this point of provision and information to the Brit¬ from 1758 to 1774. In April, 1758, Dan¬ ish in Philadelphia, General Lacey sta¬ iel Kunckler, on his journey from Beth- J tioned a portion of his men here for a lehem to Philadelphia, with six Indians short time to make arrests and intercept in his charge, mentions stopping here. and check such practices. In a table of distances on the Bethlehem The American army suffering greatly road, published in 1769, ‘‘Benjamin in December, 1777, for clothing, at Val¬ Davis’’ is mentioned as being sixteen ley Forge, he was appointed to collect miles from the city. The first stage line such supplies in his vicinity and forward passing through the present county was them at once for their use. For the part started in September, 1703, from Bethle¬ he had taken in the war, on the organiza¬ hem to Philadelphia, making one weekly tion of the Fourth Battalion of Philadel¬ trip and stopping at this inn. phia County Militia, commanded by Colo¬ The road from this place, by the pres¬ nel William Dean, he was chosen and ent Penllyn to Boehm’s church, was laid commissioned a captain of one of the com¬ out in the sirring of 1769, and mention is panies to be raised in his township. By made in the report of its “beginning near accepting these several charges he was a stone springhouse in Gwnedd road.” placed in a delicate position, much more Here we can perceive what has led to the so through a considerable majority of the origin of the name. This fact is further surrounding population being bent on re¬ confirmed in a description of the tavern maining neutral during the contest. in 1827, wherein mention is made of a Among his other duties was to report the “durable spring of water a short distance fines of delinquents for not attending the from the door, over which is a stone milk inusterings. No sooner did the war close house.” General Lacey mentions the than slander was busy to ruin his charac¬ “Springhouse Tavern’’ in his dispatches ter and business. In the Philadelphia of 1777, and the name is also mentioned Gazette, of February 17, 1793, he was in¬ in a report of a raid made in this direc¬ duced, in consequence, to have inserted tion by the British in February, 1779. anjadvertisement offering a reward of one: That it is a striking and a peculiar name hundred guineas for the author of a re-1 there is no question, and it must, there¬ port that he was “privy in robbing a col¬ fore, have originated here from just some lector.” Some of the neutrals, or rather, such local cause. disaffected, in attending the Philadelphia Christian Dull, or rather Doll, in the market, reported there that himself and German, of whom we shall give a few wife had been guilty of murdering one or | additional particulars, succeeded Davis more travelers, who had stopped at his [ as inn-keeper. He was a native of Perki- house, for their property. To this he re¬ omen, and his father bearing the same plied in the spring of 1789, and again of¬ . name, is mentioned in the census of that fered a similiar reward. He states as to township, taken in 1756, as having seven the latter that he had seven children, I children and renting from Solomon Du- “several of them young and helpless.” fl Bois one thousand acres of land, whereof That such reports were damaging to the •• two hundred are cleared.