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NOTES AXD QUERIES. and Mrs. Herman A1 ricks were born upon this land. David Cook, Sr., married a j Historical, Biographical and Geneal- Stewart. Samuel Fulton probably left i ogical. daughters. His executors were James Kerr and Ephraim Moore who resided LXL near Donegal church. Robert Fulton, the father of the in- Bcried in Maryland. — In Beard’s ventor who married Mary Smith, sister of Lutheran graveyard, Washington county, Colonel Robert Smith, of Chester county, Maryland, located about one-fourth of a was not of the Donegal family. There mile from Beard’s church, near Chews- seems to be two families of Fultons, and ville, stands an old time worn and dis- are certainly located in the wrong place, j colored tombstone. The following ap- Some of the descendants of Samuel Ful- pears upon its surface: ton move to the western part of Pennsyl- “Epitaphium of Anna Christina vania, and others to New York State. Geiserin, Born March 6, 1761, in the Robert Fulton, the father of the in- province of Pennsylvania, in Lancaster ventor, was a merchant tailor in Lancaster county. Married John Beard in the year before the Revolution. He purchased of oar Lord, 1781, February 14. Lived lands in Little Brittain about the year without heritance during the life of social 1770, to which place he removed, and marriage, 27 years, 8 months and 19 days. while there the Inventor Robert Fulton She died October 20, in the year 1809, was born. He became involved and his aged 47 years, 10 months a*d G days.” farm was sold by the sheriff, and he re-

s. m. s turned to Lancaster about the year 1774, . where he died a few years later in poor BURTONS AND STEWARTS. circumstances. Samuel Evans. Columbia. Samuel Fulton settled in Donegal in the year 1724. He married Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of George Stewart, Esq., REMINISCENCES OF LONG AGO. who settled along the Susquehanna river Jacob. upon land embraced by the lower half of French the present town of Marietta. He was Miilersburg is built upon a plateau of feet elected to the General Assembly in the land eighty or one hundred above the !

fall of 1732, after a violent contest with Susquehanna river. The site is underlaid I by hard slate rock, a fact which has en- I John Wright. He died in January, 1733. abled that little town of Lykens Valley I The latter’s sou, John Stewart, who in- ' herited His land at the river, married a land to jut out square upon the river, and

daughter of xhe Rev. James Anderson. from time immemorial to resist its floods ! | His oldest son, George Stewart, married a and washings. Six hundred yards wide daughter of Captain Thomas Harris, the by twelve hundred long it is the best towE Indian Trader, who then resided at Cone- site above Harrisburg. The Wiconisco wago creek. George Stewart removed to ereek skirts its southern border, whilst

I Cumberland county, in Tuscarora Valley, Spring brauch does like duty for the and was a Colonel in the Revolutionary northern. Spring branch is headed by ' ; Army. two springs, east and back of Oakdale cemetery, and is thought to furnish ex- Samuel Fulton settled along “Peter’s j Road,” about two miles west of Donegal ceptionally good water. j

! I Meeting House. He was a surveyor and The Moravian Bishop, Cammerhoff, in

Justice of the peace. He died in April, his journal (1748) states, that passing I 1760, and left but three sons, so far as the from Bethlehem to Shamokin, he found i 1 same appears upon record. To his oldest no settled place or habitation between son, James, he gave one hundred aud sev- Fort Hunter and McKee’s (Georgetown). enty acres and his dwelling and offices, It is not known at what time a trading j house was built on Spring branch, nor James married Margaret , and had the following: who built it. It is only that in the last 1. Samuel. century sixties, that here was the home of 2. Hugh. Jacob Beauchamp, know to tradition as 3. John. French Jacob. 4. James. Although the name French Jacob is 5. Elizabeth. familiar to old residents of Miilersburg, He removed from Donegal between the none, so far as I know after enquiry, years 1778 and 1781. could give any connected account of the John; received the sum of £3, and after man—where he lived, his occupation or his mother’s death, was to receive her history. The question occurs here, how 1 share. He removed from Donegal soon did it happen that the name of a man after his father’s death. who left no landmark behind him, and Samuel; received one hundred and disappeared from the Valley a hundred thirty-nine acres. He sold his land to and twenty years ago should be retained to this day ? It is the purpose of this ! James, his brother, who sold three hun- far dred and nine acres of land to Davit’. paper to explain that conundrum, so Cook, on April 20th, 1778. Part of this land as such a puzzle can be explained. | have went to his son, Samuel Cook, Esq., who As to his origin or birth-place we of data, sold to J. Wilson, who so.d to the Rev. no knowledge. In the absence upon the William Kerr. The late Dr. James Kerr conjecture is allowable, based —; !

his- informant, did not little we know ol his character and that fire, aaded my ] tory. His forefathers were probably dare to come any farther. Gascon-French; driven by persecution, The Wiconisco creek for a few miles they found refuge, like other Huguenots, above Millersburg skirts the mountain. with the friendly Hollanders, where our But on its way to the river sheers off to | Indian trader, we will suppose, was born, the right and strikes the southeast corner and took for a name the Teutonic Jacob, of the town. At this point is a gravel good- instead of the French Jacques, ( Anglice I and sand beach, with a few _ James.) It is stated that he moved sized boulders on the shore and in the from Lancaster, brought with him channel. In the long ago this was a fa- a wife, a sister and a negro vorite place for washing clothes, the slave. It appears that he had boulders serving as stools - for the wrung a warrant for the land reaching from the out garments, prepared for the line. It head of Spring branch to the river, includ- was here that Mr. Beauchamp had one of ing the island adjoining; land which be- his remarkable adventures, as was de- 1 longed to the estate of the late Jacob Seal. tailed to me by one of Mr. Rush’s It is uncertain whether the warrant took neighbors, whose name I cannot this mo- in the town site or not. As the story goes ment recall. Jacob had turned out his he and his wife once made a business visit horses one evening to graze and next to Lancaster, leaving the girl and the ne- morning, taking his gun he went out to gro to plant corn on the island. On their look for them as a matter of course, return they met the negro on the road. but under the difficulties of a dense fog. On close questioning he confessed to hav- Passing up along the creek in his search, ing murdered the girl and to burying her he reached this particular bend and to the handed over i in the sand. He was / the place being open, he halted authorities and haDged in due time. I <• to look and listen. At that this incident from my old friend, G. fired party of had i moment he was upon by a J. Campbell, of Millersburg, one of its Indians from the opposite side. Fortu- honored octogenarians. nately he was not hit, and although his j French Jacob had a personality peculiar peril was great, his resources were equal to himself; perhaps his Gascon blood to the situation. Whether it was that may have asserted itself, or the oppor- he possessed the ring of Gyges, tunities, which to this day new settle- or the tarn-cap of Fofner, is ments afford for romance and personal not known, but by means of one 1 exaggeration—-one of those artistic monu- or the other he rendered himself invisible, liars with whom you will seldom j mental Behind this barrier he proceeded to shoot ! meet more than once in a lifetime. With down his opponents with profound de- ! an appreciative audience he filled the liberation. The muzzle-loader is a slow j Hudibras description. weapon, and by the time he had four or “He knew whatever was to be known. five disposed of, the balance, seeing no And much more than he knew he’d own.” enemy, and believing that they had met He proposed to a knowledge of the the devil, went into a panic and occult sciences, whatever that may be; fled. Jacob was a utilitarian, he could charm the festive rattler and wave drove his hogs to j the place and thus the intrusive bear back with his hand disposed of the dead bodies to the best ad- could cure all diseases with woi'ds blow , vantage. Ghosts were supposed to haunt fire from burns and scalds out the and this place when I knew it. No wonder stop flowing blood. A great wizard, the fight wasn’t fair nor square, and those a mighty Hex ! All witches held him in dusky spectres or spooks unsatisfied, may terror. Like his friend and cotemporary, still be hunting for the invisible slayer. Dr. Dcininger, of the Lebanon Valley, hc| An old lady named Sandoe, living in a could, as he stated, by simply reading his tumbledown shanty nearby, assured me witch-book—Nostradamus—transform lit- in a most emphatic manner that she had tle boys or bigger ones, too, if he so seen one of these ghosts several times. §9 pleased, into sheep heads, black cats or The narrator of the foregoing further I black dogs. stated, that Jacob possessed a silver mine A farmer named Rush, living three on Berry’s mountain; that this mine was miles east of Millersburg, once informed | guarded by a spell, and that he himself fifty-five years that me— ago— his fore- could open it only at certain phases of the

fathers had come to the Valley at a very 1 | moon. When he needed money and the early day; that once upon a time a great sign was right he would pronounce over it Berry’s fire came down Mountain, leaped an open, sesame in, , go take out a bar , and the creek and set the country in a blaze. then by the same token close it up. My French Jacob happened to be in the neigh- friend stated that he had looked for that joined the people borhood and in their ef- mine himself, but, as he said, it was no | forts to stop the fire. They exhausted use; no man would ever find it, because it themselves in vain, and sat down to rest. was guarded by a spell. French Jacob produced his pipe, went for- What was his success as an Indian ward to the fire and with a burning brand trader is at this point uncertain. Tho In- lit his tobacco, then making a mark with dians lived to the north, and McKee’s it upon a log, announced that the fire was nine miles above him, where, on would stop there, and so sat down beside account of his half-breed family, that it. He would not permit the men to work famous trader had the sway. When he lest it might break the spell. And left Spring branch is In the ! known. any more not | « — ;

\(ft the Susquehanna, aud as do a large history of Buffalo Valk{j} fiio’.sasno ‘ap- i ’ 1 jnajority of the farmers of the vicinity pears on the tax lists of 1?7'3. ’It’ seems \ at the present day. that he joined in the great Runaway And as further proof that the mill was not called of a later year. With the other fugitives after Col. Burd is the following, he icturned, built a mill, resumed his which makes no mention of Burd’s Indian trading business and lived there mill: “May, 19, 1787, John Witrner till 1790. entered into an agreement with James Burd for On the old tax lists his name is always the better enabling him to spelt phonetically, sometimes Goosliong, work aud set agoing the mill which is his occupation, sometimes Bushon. As if the writers having the privilege and liberty of using were in doubt, they frequently added in and enjoying for the term and span of one brackets [French Jacob]. When he left I whole year, commencing from the first the Buffalo Valley he struck out West of June, 1787, that certain run or stream and said he did not know where he would of water ruuning through the meadow of stop. Probably Kentucky became the James Burd, commonly known the resting place of his old age; some forty by name of “Black Meadow,” having years of the ! afterwards the name Beauchamp privilege of conveying the said run of figured as principal in a very sensational water in the race or canal formerly dug murder trial in that State, terminating and made for this purpose; also to erect a with conviction and suicide. n. n. dam across said run for better enabling him to convey said water into his race or NOTES AND QUERIES. canal, and to pay to James Burd £10 gold or silver in quarterly payments. Historical, UlograpUlcal and Genealo- John Witmer [l. s.]. gical. James Burd [l. a.]. LXII. Witness William Maxwell. John Htjbley. Robert Kino.— Imreply to a Pittsburgh James Bukd, jr. correspondent we give the following rev- I This dam was removed about the year jolutionary services of Robert King: On 1865 and the ditch conveying the water

; 8th February, 177G, he was commissioned from the “black meadow” dam to the first lieuteuant .Fourth company, First race has also disappeared, but the latter Battalion, Northumberland County Asso- not until an expensive law suit was gone -ciators. He was commissioned Oct. 4, I through with. 177G, second lieutenant 12th Peun’a, Col. It may he of interest to the reader to William Cooke, serving until the 10th of learn who have been the owners of this August, 1777, when lie wr as wounded at | mill the past one hundred and fifteen Piscataway and received leave of absence. years, aud we begin with the warranty of He was transferred to the Third Regiment the land upon which the mill stands, of the Line July 1, 1778, and in fall the of which includes the plot of “Highspire- that year was with Hartley in his cam- continued, ” The honorable proprietors I paigu against the Indians on the West of Pennsylvania granted a warrant Janu- Branch in the capacity of Forage Master. ary 1, 1761, unto William Clinton and ]In 1840 he was residing in Mifflin town- John Ladlie for two tracts of land in ship, Lycoming county, aged eighty-eight Paxtang (now Lower Swatara) township, years. —•— Lancaster (now Dauphin) county, (Prov- A GRIST MILL OF THE REVOLU- ince (now State) of Pennsylvania. The TION. first tract contained 250 acres and the second 262 acres. On the site of the present “Booser’s June 1761, the interest of John Mill” in the town of Highspire was 12, Ladlie in the second tract is transferred erected by Jehu Hollingsworth, in the year to William Clinton and the same day 1775, a two and a half story red sand stone William Clinton transfers his interest in mill with overshot wheel. This mill the first tract to Johu Ladlie. The first stood some eighty-five years, having been tract is described and bounded as follows: owned in that time by quite a number of “Beginning at a B. O. standing by the persons, when it was destroyed by fire East bank of the Susquehanna river, during the night of March 3, i880. being corner of said 262 acres, and from Some of our local historians would make a thence extending by the same N. 38 deg., us believe it was called after that noted E. 195 to a tract; thence by land lately soldier and civilian of the Provincial p. in the tenure of Henry and Thomas ’days, Colonel James Burd, but this is an Kyneck, N. 56 deg. W. 232i p. to a post error. Had Janies Burd owned or built a , thence by land of Richard Peters, Esq., mill, it would unquestionably have been S. 30 deg., p. to a W. O. by the located on what the progressive historian W. 220i banks of said river; and thence down the of the day chooses !o~ call Burd’s Run, the several courses thereof 166 which bounds the “Tinian” or Burd farm said river per. to the place of beginning. on the north and empties into the river John Ladlie, November 9, 1762, traus- I Susquehanna below Highspire, while the one half of his tract to his son Samp- mill is erected on the smaller stream, which ferred Ladlie. February 9, 1767, Sampson is the northern boundary of the town. son On j his 125 acres unto John This mill, however, Col. Burd patronized Ladlie deeded Bomberger, and March 10, 1768, John a3 did all the people for miles to the east 68036 1 ; : 4

Bomberger transferred by deed tins trjjcf |j* •*’; • so$d tli» 'A'r^to-Cbb'nard Demmy. Octo- of land unto Michael Sharer. December ’* *.* ; jfeyVi • eJ-’Y of the court, • • * bfS’ J acob 11, 1767, John Ladlie transferred the rest- Shell, .;ti'. ip pointed by Orphans’ unto Abraham Herr, and on due March Court of Daep’Jn county, on petition of Abraham and Elizabeth Herr 15, 1771, Edward Demmy, sold the same to John K Shafer. January 1773, sold to Michael 4, Buser, milk' of Middletown. Mr. Baser Sharer sold 185 acres and 15 , Michael during the same year began erecting the Hollingsworth, and De- perches to John present three-and-a-half-story frame with the balance of his farm, cember 23, 1774, stone basement mii in which he continued or 88 acres and 148 perches to John llol- the business of mill iugnntil bis death which : lingswoith. April 15, 1777, John Hol- occurred in November, 1887. Iu thespring 1 deeded the same to Abraham lingsworth year 1888,Martin Good, executo of the r of |

Reist, of Warwick township, and John 1 Mr. Buser’s estate, sold the mill property Wetmor (Witrner), of Rapho township, j to Ira and Otis Stoner Buser, two of the; Lancaster county. ; heirs; and recently they have sold the; This land was bounded on the north by same to John C. Kunkel, of Harrisburg, land of Abraham Neidig and William Pa. Kerr (now spelled Carr). The former Upon the front gable of the mill is in- farm is now owned by estate of late John serted a board with the following painted C. Kunkel, and the latter by the heirs of on it in black letters: the late Henry Zimmerman. Originally built by On January 5, 1788, Abraham and Eliza- Jehu Hollingsworth, A. D. 1775. beth Reist deeded their one-half interest Destroyed by fire March 3, A. D. 1860. to John Witmer. April 1. 1808, Henry i Rebuilt by John K. Hagey, surviving executor of John Wit- & Elizabeth Buser, A. D. 1862. mer, deceased, sold 211-1 acres to John My recollection has been that these Bishop, and at which time it was bounded letters were never allowed by Mr. Buser to on the east by Philip Greiner (now owned become illegible; whenever they showed by the Grays) and Nicholas Bressler. signs of fading they were always re- April 1814, John Bishop and wife Bar- 2, touched, an example worthy of imita- bara, for £5,000, sold to Henry Berentz tion to others in Dauphin county, the and Michael Docliterman 58j acres and possessors of property closely allied with 27 perches and in which year they plotted the history of the community, e. w. s. p. it and called it “Highspire continued,” and the ground upon which the mill stood A. REGISTER became lot No. 127. April 12, 1814, Henry Berentz and Of Members of tbe Moravian Church Caroline Louisa, his wife, and Michael Wlio Emigrated to Pennsylvania Dochterman and Catharine, his wife, sold from 1747 to 17G7. the lots with the mill thereon erected to Henry Musser, of Donegal tpsvnship, Lan- | IV. caster county, Peun’a, and Frederick There arrived in Sherbourne. On June 14, 18)5, Frederick Philadelphia, in Sep- Sherbourne and wife Margaretta sold j tember of 1742, (name of vessel not ascertained; their one-half interest to Henry Musser. Daniel Newbert and hi3 wife September 18, 1817, Henry Musser and Hannah Hosina, n. wife Mary sold the mill property to m. Hauer. He was b. in Sax- William LeBaron, of Harrisburg, Penn’a. ony in 1704, and died at Bethlehem, Jan-I uary 3, 1785. His wife was b. Sep’t. 15, December 26, 1821, Wm. LeBaron and wife ( Sarah, sold the same to Rudolph Martin, 1705, at Kuncwalde, Moravia, and died of Swatara township, Dauphin county. Aug. 4, 1785, at Bethlehem. Pa. Rudolph Martin, Sr., of Allen township, Cumberland county, Pa., died and Arrived September, 1742, at New York for Bethlehem, Pa. left a widow, Anna Martin, and she dying left the estate to issue, viz: Rudolph Mar- Mary Brandner, m. Christian Werner; d. 1760. lin, Jchn Martin (deceased) and Barbara Aug., Martin, who was the wile of Geoige John C. Franoke and Regina his wife. Hockcr. They as the heirs of Rudolph Jacob Kohn and Ann Margaret Kohn, his wife. Martin, Sr., April 19, 1833, sold the property ”to George and Samuel Redsecker, of Martin Liebisch, born in Moravia Elizabethtown, Lancaster county, Pa. 1698, and Ann, his wife, who d. at Beth- lehem, Jan’y, 1770; a daughter nn, April 2, 1836, George Redsecker, miller, A m. and wife, Catharine, of Londonderry in 1742 Anton Seyfert. township, Dauphin county, and Samuel Michael Schnall, native of Bavaria,! Redsecker, merchant, of Elizabethtown, died at Bethlehem, April, 1763. Pa., sold the same to Ephraim Eby, of West Hempfield township, Lancaster Arrived Oct. 25, 1744, on the ship Jacob, county, Po. He was the grandfather of at New York: Maurice G. Eby, mayor-elect of the city EvEMARYSpANGENBERG.Wife of BisllOp of Harrisburg. Ou March 21, 1837, Eph - Spangonberg. raim Eby, miller, and Susan, his wife, of Andrew Horn, b. 1717, in Wurtemberg;: Highspire, sold the same to Henry Fogel, d. in Lancaster county, in 1786; and his township. miller, of Swatara April 3, wife Dorothea. / "52, Henry Fogel and wife, Catharine, Samuel Reincke aud his wife Sarah.

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Arrived December, 1710, via Lewes Delaware, on the snow r John Galley: •John Peter HonMAN, shoemaker, trom J. C. F. Cammerhoff b. 1721, in Brandenburg. Prussia, and Ann, his wile, m. n. von Daniel Kliest, blacksmith, from Palilen. He died, 1751, and his widow Frankfort on Oder; d. Bethlehem, 1792. returned to Europe. Christopher Kuehnast, shoemaker, Matthias G.Godshalk, native ot Bran- from Prussia. denburg; d. Bethlehem, Aug., 1748. Andrew Krause, weaver, from Bran- Vitus Handbap and Mary his wife; re- denburg. turned subsequently to Europe. David Kunz, farmer, from Moravia; | SoenRoseen, b. 1708 in Sweden; d. in b. 1724 d. 1797. ; Lcliigh county, December, 1750. Petep. Mordick, farmer, from Holstein b. 1716; d, 1783. Arrived at New York, June, 1718, for J. Bernhardt Miller, clothier, from Bethlehem, Pa. Wurtemberg; b. 1716; d. 1757. Bernhard A. Grubb. Christian Pfeiffer. Michael Muenster, carpenter, from J. C. Bittenbaok. Paul Paulson. Moravia. Andrew Bbooksch. Godfrey Rokmklt. Martin Nitscumann, cutter, from Mo-

JonN G. Geitner. Jeremiah Sohaaf. I ravia, b. 1712, d. 1755. Joseth Hobsoh. Christian Schmidt. Carl Opitz, shoemaker, from Silesia. Hoffman. Paul Schneider George Pritschman, weaver, from Si- Matthew Kunz. John Soyffert. lesia. Samuel Witke.

Arrived September, 1748, at New York, NOIES AND QUERIES. for Bethlehem, Pa., the following single Historical, Biographical and Geneal- women ogical. Anna Rosinda Anders. Hasselman. LXIII. Catharine Barbara Keller. Elizabeth Lisberger.

! “The Daughters’ Great-Grand-Dad- Elizabeth Palmer. dies.” We are perfectly willing to — j

make corrections and revise our record, i following arrivals came on the The For instance. Moravian transport vessel the Irene, May 1. In none of the lists of the General at York: 12, 1749, New Society of the Cincinnati, were we able to NirscnMA.w. David and Phoebe And the name oE Peregrine Fitzhugh. Michael and Helena Habf.r- Anna but the certificate having been forthcom- land. ing that is to be considered direct evi- and Rosina Kuouse. Semuel dence. Apart from this we find that Joseph and Verona Mueller. Fitzhugh was taken a p. isoner at Long and Christian Jacob Ann Margaret Island, and Lewis Pintard, the agent of Sangerhausen. Congress classed him as “cornet" in “3d JonN and Ann Stoli.. Light Dragoons." David and Mary Frederick Wah- 2. Captain Henry Tew. This name nkrt. should have been Few. Hence the un- Christian Frederick and Re- Anna availing research. gina Steinm.an. Christian David, widower. BLAINE’S VIRGINIA ANCESTORS. John Schneider. a recent issue of the Leesburg (Va.) Magdalena Elizabeth Reuss. fin Mirror, Mr. N. J. Purcell prints the fol- Gottleib clothier, from Sile- Bernat, lowing:] sia. Those who have heretofore referred to Wenzel Bernhardt, baker, from Bo- Mr. Blaine’s ancestors seem to be unac- hemia: d. Nazareth, 1792; md. Rosina quainted with his Virginia progenitors, Galle, 1749. John and Elizabeth Osburn, nee Howard, Joachim Birnbaum, tailor, from Bran- who were his great grandfather and grand- denburg. mother, came with the first settlers to this Peter Drews, ship carpenter, from country in 1735 and settled on a body of Gluckstadt. land that from, that time to the present J. Philip Duerrbaum,^ 1714 in Mittlc- has been owned by their descendants, hausen; d. 1751 in Bethlehem. j Their daughter, Elizabeth, married John Even Everson, joiner, from Norway. Purcell, whose daughter, Zamer, married J. Godfrey Engle, tailor, from Bran- Neil Gillespie, the grandfather and grand- denburg. mother of Mr. Blaine, a number of whose Henry Fitsche, tailor from Silesia. aged relatives are still living who re- Elias Flex, farmer, from Silesia. rnember his grandfather, grandmother, Paul Fritsche, carpenter, | from Mora- their daughter who married Ephraim via; b. d. Nazareth, 1720; 1765. Blaine and Mr. Blaine in his childhood J. Leonhard Gattermeyer, black- Notably among these is William Osburn from Bavaria; smith, b.‘1721; d. 1755. who, although nearly 78 years of age, still Gold, mason, George from Moravia; retains his mental powers in full vigor, b. 1722 d. Nazareth, 1792. ; on account of his i and is widely known knowledge, thrift and integrity. Ido not attempt to give in detail the history of his ! 1 ;1

Virginians have a '%• stream Guards, Captain O’Hara, "1759. , ancestors. /} ^ / C> ff 1760 Charles O’Hara, A. .iUuitof keeping trace of their stock, the D. C. to Lord Granby. Guards in America, source from which he sprang has proved Lieutenant Colonel Trelawney, First to be a good one and their successors here Battalion. Brigadier General O’Hara, have justified the ancient testimonial at- of the Cold- stream, 1781. Monk, I tributed to them by Neil Gillespie, “that who originally raised the Coldstream Guards, is the men were all brave and the women called a , mere Irish soldier of fortune. ' all virtuous.” N. J. Purcell Winthrop Feb. ’93. Sargent says Braddock was of Irish Round Hill V/i. , 27, , descent, and says he was too much of an ! VINDICATION OF HISTORY.” Irishman to show the white feather. Ilis “A father was also in the Guards. In the Pittsburgh Times of the 10th i' “The packages containing Pitt” has the letters, I March the editor of “Fort journals and memoranda of James O’Hara I the following reply to the printed have been in the possession of the family article on that volume in a recent number | since his death—unopened until a year or Notes and Queries and which was of two since. If any of the writers referred Leader without proper j copied into the to by the writer in the Leader had written I cheerfully give space to it:] credit. We the military life of my grandfather, the Editor of the Times— The it “To would certainly not have been published writer of the attack made in the Pitts- now by me. His services were useful, Leader on the truth of the sketch of burg but not so conspicuous during the revolu- the life of James O’Hara, evidently never tion as afterward. Such is often the case read “Old Times,” by John Ashton, a In all wars. I will only refer to the his- book. This is one extract: well-known tory of much greater men, General Harri- ‘ Duke of York has ordered circular The son in the war of the rebellion and Gen- to be sent around to the Colonels letters eral Grant’s services in the Mexican war. regiments, desiring a return to be im- of “Mart C. Darlington office, of the num- , mediately made to his ’ ” Editor of ‘Fort Pitt. ber of Captains in each regiment under 12 Lieutenant Colonels year3 of age, and of Comment on tlie Foregoing. under the age of 18.’ March 26, 1795. It is perfectly proper to administer the “ The record of James O’Hara’s service antidote, as soon as possible after the in the South and Southwest is in print poison is taken, and in the present in- and manuscript. Account and memoran - stance we have coucluded to do it. books are not interesting publica- dum It will be readily seen that the “vindi- tions, but are certainly proofs of identity, cation” is simply assertions, and we shall his possession of land received as is also give answer thereto in our usual way, in payment of the certificates of depre- stating the facts in the case. It is true ciation given to the officers and soldiers of that about the year 1795, as -will be seen I can- the army or their representatives. by reference to John Ashton’s “Old for Dr. Denny’s misstate- not account Times,” thirty years after the reported ! ment. General O'Hara’s daughter and O’Hara ensigncy was conferred, baby son spoke to me of his revolutionary ser- | officers secured military positions iu vices. For a description of the fort at English regiments either by purchase or I Kanawha and the names of officers there royal favor, but even then these I during the Revolution, I refer to the never assumed command until they I ‘History of Kauawha,’ by G. W. Atkin- reached their majority. We have yet son. to learn that the head of the O’Hara! ’“James O’Hara’s history as Ensign in family belonged to the nobility. Suppose the Pennsylvania line, then Captain of a this really j was true, would an ensien in ! volunteer company organized for the pro- the British service acquainted with“ mili- tection of the Fort at Kanawha, is well tary tactics be content with an ensigney ; known. The history is continuous from in the primitive Continental army ? Why, : that time until his death, and it would if he had the least military training when i have been as difficult for any one to person- the war of the Revolution began, he ate him as for him to rise at once from a j could readily have secured a higher posi- life of obscurity to the important positions tion. Again, the James O’Harra who i he held during Harmar St. Clair, and went to the Ozark wrote his name with Wayne’s campaigns in the West. Before | two r’s, and therefore was not subse- the war he traded in Virginia, Ohio and quently the General j James O’Hara, but a I Western Pennsylvania Ho may have different person altogether. We have I been the James O’Hara seen at different seen the autographs of both, and the one j times on the frontier. who wrote his name with two r’s J “As to the assertion that there were no was evidently more of a fighter than a Irish in the Coldstream Guards, I offer ; soldier. He was more or less illiterate, these names and facts: On the resigna- and the “Editor of Fort Pitt” would not of General Churchill the tion command concede that for Gen. James O’Hara. of the Coldstream was given to William, The history of Kanawha, West Vir- Earl of Cadogan. He was the eldest son ginia, by Atkinson, is silent as to the ser- of Henry Cadogan, couusellor-at-law, of vices of any Jama* O’Hara, and really the Dublin, and a grandson of Major William name is not to be found in the book. Even Cadogan, Lord Tyrawley, of County did the statement asserted appear therein, Mayo, succeeded the Earl of Albemarle, we would be inclined to doubt its -ac- April 8, 1755^ Second Battalion Cold- I — — 1

curacy, as it is well inown Mr. A. was a ners of the Captain of Salvation as a very careless compiler of historic facts. meek and pious minister cf the New Tes- We have examined the archives of the tament. It is a well authenticated fact, State in vain for the name of Ensign .Tames that he was instrumental of producing a O’Hara, the subsequent General James revival among the students when at Prince- O’Hara. There never was an ensign in ton College, and in bringing into the Pres- the. Pennsylvania Line, Associators or byterian church one of its most distin- Militia of that name. The claim is cer- guished ornaments, the late RW. Dr. Fin- tainly a trumped up one. The possession ley, of Busking Ridge, the oi.^inator of of certificates of “Depreciation Pay’’ and the “American Colonization Society.” ” “Donation Land, do not prove military He was an old school Democrat and au service at all- but simply that the possessor old school theologian, of plain and primi- speculated in these things and grew rich tive habits—sincere without ostentation and without pretension pious, his journey thereby, as did many an individual in through life was marked by a guileless ( purchasing the land warrants of the poor remitting for a widows of s^diers of the war of 1812-14 simplicity, neither moment in our day. So for his exertions in the cause of Christ nor much that assertion j these exertions to the world, it would better have been unwritten proclaiming i In conclusion, with such He was invariably at his post through a devoted stu- j life and he literally died at it, having dent of history as the late Wm. M. Dar-

lington spent his last Sabbath in preaching the I and a literary gentleman we al- everlasting gospel. And when we reflect ' ways admired for his accuracy and pains- upon the fact that the good old man was taking research, it is verv strange that the in the pulpit one Sabbath and the next iu important documents (?) spoken of “re- the Church of the first born above, we may mained unopened until a year or two ’’ well say in the language of the inspira- since and yet “in the possession of his family,” tion, “ He wa'ked with God and was not, .” There is for God took him [The Centinel De- not in existence any record — , cember which will authenticate the assertions 21, 1827.] [The above was probably written by made that our General O’Hara ever was the an Rev. Dr. John Gray, who for nearly fifty officer in the British army during the 1 years was pastor of the First Presbyterian rovincial era, or an officer in service in church, of Easton and who frequently oc- the patriot army in the struggle for Inde- pendence. cupied Rev. Russell’s pulpit.*) During that period lie was a trader ou the frontiers, and from this fact, lie became a useful man during the Indian Died. Iu this borough on Friday even- wars ing last (July 1828) Mr. Jacob which followed. So much for 11, Wey- gandt, aged years 7 months, less Fort Pitt s reliability in this respect. 85 and two days. He was one of the few re- NORTHAMPTON COUNTT IN T1IR maining heroe3 of the Revolution and was REVOLUTION. formerly a member of our State legisla-

ture. His remains were interred on Sun- 1 Newspaper Notes and Sketches. day, the 13th inst., in the Lutheran burying-ground, when the “Citizen Volun- III. teers” and “Easton Cadets” attended the funeral iu full uniform, together with Died— n this borough, on Saturday a | large train last (February 10, 1827) Mr. George F. of mourning relatives and Wagner, an aged and respectable inhabit- friends . —[The Uentinel, July 18, 1828.] (August, ant of this borough, in the 76th year of On the 30th ulto. 1828), iu Al- his age. He was one of the few remain- leu township, John Weygandt, a soldier of ing patriots of our Revolutionary struggle, the Revolution, in the 98th year of his age . [The Uentinel, who so gallantly achieved the liberty — Sept. 26, 1828]. [Note. The contributor of these which we now enjo}% and was^ittended to — memoirs for his grave by a number of survivors of that would be gratified any information noble contest, together with a large con- concerning the family of the above course of his fellow-citizens, relatives John Weygandt. He was not closely related to the above-mentioned Jacob and friends. The deceased has left a wife I Wey- gandt, if and twelve children to bewail their be- any relationship existed at all.—

. E. A. reavment [The Sentinel Feb. 16, W.] — , 1827.]

Died—Suddenly, on Sunday, the 16th Died—On Friday morning, the loth itist. (December, 1827) the Rov’d Robert ultimo (May, 1829), of dropsy in the of Russell, in the 70‘h year of his age, and chest, Mr. Abraham Wotring, sen., the 30th of his ministry in the English Hopewell township, Washington county. Presbyterian congregation of Allen town- Pa., aged 79 years. The deceased was ship, in this county, over which he was one of our most valuable and esteemed ordained by the Presbytery of Philadel- citizens—was a native of Northampton phia in April, 1793. The deceased was county, in this State, which he left at an both a soldier o' the Cross and early period of his life and lived in and of the American Revolution, having near Hagerstown, Md., for many years. commissary’s de- been a militia man in the battle He had served in the during of Trenton, when the liberties of his coun- partment of the American army war, to the last try weie at stake, anl having spent one- the Revolutionary and zealous and ac- third of a century fighting under the ban- days of his long life was — : ;

tive in maintaining the political princi- •CENTENNIAL. FIRMS IN PENNSYR ples which triumphed in that glorious VANIA. struggle. [Washington, Pa., Examiner , ] [The Centinel, June — 5, 1829.] At the recent one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the house of Jor- Died—In Lower Mt. Bethel, on the 3d dan & Sons, Philadelphia, Mr. Burnet instant (March, 1835), Mr. Thomas Ross, Landreth made the following interesting in the 79th year of his age. The deceased statement took an active part in the struggle for in- He, Mr. Landreth, said that there were dependence, was taken prisoner at Fort less than forty centennial firms in the

Washington, endured . the hardships of a United Stabs, seventeen of which were prison ship amidst appalling hunger and located in Pennsylvania alone, and of death. He continued through life a firm ' these six were in Lancaster county, show- advocate of the 1 Constitution and his conn- ing the conservative and steady influence try’s rights, was laid with his fathers in of the Quaker and German element, j peace at an advanced age attended by I a Among these firms he mentioned the large assemblage of people. [Easton Sen- Francis Perot’s Sons Malting Company, tinel, March 1835.] 20, Company Chris- James M. Willcox Paper ;

j toplier Sower Publishing Company, Wil- Died in this borough, on Saturday last, liam Lea & Sons Company (Brandywine (Feb. 10, 1827), Mr. George Frederick Flour Mills), Millbourne Flour Mills, 1 Wagener, in the 76th year of his j age. Washington Butcher’s Sons, George M. The deceased was a soldier in the revolu- Steinman & Co. (hardware), Lancaster; tion, and enthusiastically devoted to the H. C. Demuth (snuff and cigars), Lancas- cause of freedom. At the storming of ter; George W. Bush & Sons (coal ship- Fort Washington, he was taken prisoner; pers and lumbermen), Wilmington, Del. and during his captivity, drew up a pa- Whitney Glass Works, Glassboro, N, J. thetic petition to the Hessian Count Francis Jordan & Sons (importers of Donop, representing the sufferings of his ! chemicals), Philadelphia; Charles A. companions and soliciting their enlarge- Heinitsch (druggist), Lancaster; W. E. ment. But little did prayers or petitions Garrett (Sr'Sons, snuff manufacturers; avail at that day—no steps were taken to David Landreth &Sons, seedsmen; Henry promote the comfort of the unfortunate Carey Baird & Co., publishers, booksellers prisoners. After he had been confined and importers; Lea Brothers & Co., pub- some time, he contrived to elude the vig- lishers; Job T. Pugh, augers and bits; ilance of his guards and made his escape. Wetherill & Brother, drugs, paints and —[Pennsylvania Argus, Feb. 15, 1827.] Ethan Allen Weavek. chemicals; Nathan Trotter & Co., tin merchants, and Harrison Bro3. & Co., white lead, paints and colors. Inciden- NOTES ANB QUERIES. tally Mr. Landreth mentioned that the type foundry firm of MacKellar, Smiths Historical, iSiograpliical ancl Genea- & Jordan and MacAllister & Co., opti- logical. cians, were nearing the century mark of LXIY. continuous business life. ROBERT KING. FeanKlin and Mrs. Piozzi. The fa- Piozzi, for many years the mous Mrs. In Notes and Queries (No. lxii) brief benefactress of Dr. Johnson, friend and reference is made to Robert King, of Ly- Benjamin Franklin, whose in writing of coming county, who served in the Revo- way, she spells “r ranklyn, name, by the lutionary war, was wounded at Piscata- other things charges him with among way, and afterwards accompanied Col. 0, written “a profane addition to bavin Thomas Hartley on his expedition to of Genesis.” What does this the Book Tioga Point in 1778 to punish the Indians. Dr. Franklin, on one occasion mean? And after mentioning that he was living communicated to Lord Kaimes a veiy in Mifflin township in 1840 there the his- beautiful allegory or parable— Abraham place, tory ends. "and the Stranger” —but, in the first Who was Robert King ? He was one Franklin did not represent it to be a part other of six brothers who came from Ireland in of the Book of Genesis, or any written iu 1773. Three of these brothers, whose Book of the Bible, though it is place, names are not now recalled, made their biblical style; and in the second way to Virginia and settled. The other he did not claim or insinuate that it was been first three—John, Robert and Adam—went h.is own. It is said to h.av6 as up the Susquehanna and settled on Pine written by the Persian poet, Sadi, version or it Creek. At that time the land belonged to early as the year 1256, and a the Indians, and it was not purchased un- was published by Jeremy Taylor, in 17 64. til the treaty of Fort Stanwix, in 1784. Franklin’s version is somewhat different The King brothers, therefore, like many Taylor’s, but it is substantially the from others, were squatters. same thing. Is this admirable allegory oi After living about a year on Fine Creek the “profane addition” to the Book they got the idea that the alluvial lands Genesis of which Mrs. Piozzi complains, along that stream were not good, and they or was there something else ? concluded to change their location. They Pa. T. J. Chapman. j ez Pittsburgh, selected “hill lands,” south of Larry’s I [

creek, settled. these where they When but Martha X., who married John Megin in 1785 ap- lands came into market they ness, the journalist and historian. plied for and obtained a patent for C40 John of Laxcastek. acres. These lands, however, proved to Williamsport, Pa. be very poor in soil, but they were covered with heavy timber. The Pine Creek XOKTHAMPXOX COUNTY IN THE lands were not, which was the cause of REVOLUTION. their removal to the hills. The brothers made a great mistake, which they regretted Newspaper Notes and Sketches. in after years, but they made up in quantity what they lacked in quality. IV. Robert entered the Continental army, as 30th of last has been stated, and was absent at the Died on the August in Kreiders- time of the Big Runaway in 1778. His vl828) at his residence county, in the 97th year brothers—John and Adam—probably be- ville, in this longed to the associated militia. AVhen of his age, Mr. John Weygandt. of the survivors Robert returned in 1778—having been de- The deceased was one tailed to join Colonel Hartley’s expedi- of the gallant band who accompanied of Quebec, and -who tion —he found his cabin burned and his Wolfe atf the siege fall.— [Argus, Easton, Sept. fields laid waste. His brothers had fled witnessed his with the other settlers to escape the ven- 19, 1828. geance of the savages. — Y., on the 17th uli. John King died April 1823, aged 75 In Lansing. N. 5, Bloom, aged years, and was buried in the Button grave- (Dec. 1828) Mr. Ephraim , 4 days. He was for two yard, which is now in the limits of the 100 years and the French war, and city of Williamsport. His brother Adam years a soldier in of Braddock’s de- had died earlier. shared in the dangers he Robert King, the subject of this notice feat. In the Revolutionary war served armory at Easton, Pennsyl- was born in 1753. In 1792 he married 3 years in the ; vania. He likewise served two campaigns Susannah Pierson and settled on his share j of the lands they had pre-empted. They in the militia, and was in the battle of had six sons and two daughters, viz: John, Germantowm. He wr as of German de- Benjamin, scent; on his removal from j Thomas, Adam, Robert, Wil- Pennsylvania, ! liam, Margaret and Susannah. John, the his native State, he became one of the j eldest of the family, was the first child first settlers of this county, and has been born in the territory which afterwards a respectable inhabitant 40 years. He constituted Mifliin township, his birth oc- was the father of the late General Bloom, curring July 5, 1794, nearly one year be who held the commission of a colonel in fore the erection of Lycoming county. the army, and was wounded in the battle

Susannah, the wife of Robert King.dicd I of Queenstown in the last war. He has left October 1, 1847, in the 88th year of her 4 surviving children, G1 grandchi’dren age. Her husband died March 29, 1848, end 110 great-grandchildrenr aged 94 years, 7 months and 27 days, and was buried in the old Sutton graveyard, In this place on Thursday night last Williamsport. For several years before (December 10, 1829) in the 75th year of his death he was entirely blind. In their his age, John Shook, a soldier of the | Rev- declining years both these old people were olution, and known for many years as the cared for by their son Robert, and at his oldest tavern keeper of this place. For j house they both died. This house stood some years past he had been afflicted with on the site of the cabin that was burned total blindness. On Sunday his remains by the Indians in the Big Runaway of were committed to the silent tomb. The 1778. members of our three artillery companies John, the eldest child of Robert and attended in uniform to pay the last sad tribute to the memory of Susannah King, died December 10, 1887, a soldier of 1776. i — Argus Easton Dec. aged 93 years, 5 months and 5 days. He , , 18, 1829. lived almost to the age of his father, and like him was blind for several years be- On Sunday, November 29, 1829, about fore his death. He lived for sixty years 12 o clock, at the residence of his son, in on the premises where he died. His wife this place, Captain John Craig, at the ad- was Martha Marshall, daughter of a pio- vanced age of 80 years. He fought in de- neer settler in Mifflin township, and they fense of our own rights in the Revolution- ary raised three sons and five daughters. War and has sunk peacefully into the grave at a “green old age.’’ — William, the youngest son of Robert [ The Easton Sontinel, and Susannah Pierson King, was born De:. 4, 1829. March 21st, 1802, and died April 15th, 1892. at the house of his son-in-law, John Peter Meddagh departed this life at his F. Meginness, in Williamsport. He was residence in Lower Mount Bethel township 90 years and 24 days old, and was in the on the evening of the 28th ult. (No- full possession of all his faculties until a vember, 1829,) in the 81st year of his age. few days before his death. He married He was among the first who volunteered to Mary )Marshall, sister of the wife of his face the enemy at the commencement of elder brother John. They had two sons our struggle for independence. He and two daughters—Martha J., Matthew, went out in what was called the Flying Euphemia and John. All Camp and met the British on Long Island. are deceased [ : —

her brought the circumstance, ordered In the engagement that ensued he was himself. back and proceeded to search her taken prisoner and conveyed on board a to which she On lifting off her bonnet, prison ship then lying off Long Island. discovered made a stout resistance, he He often described the wretched condition hair a roll of carefully concealed in her in which the American prisoners were the official papers, which turned out to be placed. Crowded in the hold, with from Burgoyne to General dispatches _ scarcely room to lay at length on the inglorious Howe, in Philadelphia, of his filthy floor, and compelled to sustain na- had been defeat and capitulation! They ture with food scarcely fit for swine, tor brought as far as near Easton, when, thrown down through a hole in the deck. entrusted better security, they were Through the course of his long life he sus- discovering her to a market woman. On tained the character of a uniform and de- bid her errand to the city, Captain Craig du- cided republican, and discharged the immediately, telling her if she : remount ties of various civil appointments with had such news to carry to the English she fidelity knd accuracy—[The Easton Sen- mmht be off as soon as she pleased. tinel, December 11 1829. , Captain Craig was concerned in many Departed this life at Bclvidere, N. J., present at affairs with the enemy, and was on Sunday, the 29tli ult. (Novcrnber,1829), He the memorable battle of Germantown. Captain John Craig, aged 80 years. In stood high in the confidence of Washing- the arduous and eventful contest of the ton sharing his friendship and hospitality, Revolution, Captain Craig was enthusias- and ceased not his active exertions in the tically devoted to the cause of his coun- cause of his country until an honorable try and rendered himself conspicuous as a peace secured the blessings which it partisan officer whose movements were now enjoys. During the remainder of his always prompt and whose enterprises and se- long life he continued to deserve were generally crowned with success. He cured the esteem aud confidence of all served cause contemporaneously with the who knew him, and finally closed his use- the late Colonel Allen McLane, and was ever • ful career in the full assurance of an frequently concerned with him in strik- lasting recompense. [The Easton Cen- ing those sudden blows against the enemy 'December 25, 1829. which, though not attended with the tinel, glory of capturing an entire army, required talents of the first order to plan NOTES AND QUERIES. and arrange and the most daring courage to execute, while they were eminently Historical, Biographical and Genoa' logical. serviceable to the common cause. On the I memorable night when Col. McLane was seduced into an ambuscade of the enemy LXV. aud fired at by nearly fifty British soldiers, though he fortunately escaped their fire The Honor Well Deserved. —The and afterwards killed the two horsemen Dauphin County Historical Society, at who were sent in pursuit of him, Captaiu its regular meeting 13th of April, elected Craig had rendezvoused near Shoemaker- George Bucher Ayres, Esq., of Phila- town, about eight miles from Philadel- delphia, ail Honorary Member of that phia, and was waiting the arrival of the society in token of their high appreciation Colonel, intending to attack one of the of his many services in the history of his marauding parties of the enemy. The native city. It was a well-deserved tribute. surprise of the Colonel prevented the meeting and the meditated attack. Wheu Monfort-Cassat. —John Monfort, son the American army lay at Whitemarsh, of Peter Monfort, b. in 1717, died May 4, after the disastrous defeat at German- 1777. He had four sons: town, Captain Craig was stationed with i. Peter, b. July 4, 1744. his troop of horse at Moortown, about ii. Francis, b, July 10, 174 G. eleven miles from the city, aud occupied in. John, b. Dec. 24, 1750. for his headquarters what is now called iv. Lawrence, b. March 3, 1 753. Stevens’ Tavern. While laying there the It is traditional that Lawrence and two intelligence was received by Washington of his brothers served in the Revolution- at Whitemarsli that the northern army, ary War. Allied to this family were the commanded by Burgoyne, had surrendered Cassats in a body to General Gates. Orders were i. David, b. April 11, 1743. immediately given to Capt. Craig to stop ii. Peter, b. April 30, 1746. and search all parties going to the city Hi. Jacob, b. April 21, 1751. as belay on the main thoroughfare. His Information is desired concerning the order previously extended no further than services of any of the foregoiDg in the ~ to intercept provisions which the country War for Independence. e! r. m, Cincinnati 0. people were in the habit of carrying to , the British, then occupying Philadelphia. The very day he received these orders his MEMBERS OP DONEGAL CHURCH 1776. men observed a woman pass, habited as if IN for market with panniers on either side, The list of members of old Donegal aqd riding a remarkably fine horse. She congregation for the year 1776 is an inter- x ^^ntopped and searched, and nothing esting study. Many of the heads of these /yting against her, she w7 as allowed to families became conspicuous patriots Vfed. But Captain Craig hearing of | war, and others during the Revolutionary 2. “John Alexander. to manhood of their families who grew 3. “Jean Hannah. in civil attairs. came to be prominent 4. “Abraham Holmes. ot these Scarcely a single descendant Mrs. Holmes. bounds of families now live within the Tibby Holmes. settle- Donegal church. They planted Elizabeth Holmes, a child.” descendants ments elsewhere, and their About the year 1770 Mr. Holmes rented the coun- are widely scattered throughout the “Bear Tavern,” on the west side of original try. The names aie copied from Canoy Creek, in Elizabethtown, from the will send entries made by the pastor. I heirs of Capt. Barnabas Hughes, which he groups you oach week two or three continued to keep until his death, about less full of names, with notes, morj or the year 1779. Mr. Holmes offered re- the of their record. There may be among wards in the Philadelphia papers for sev- descendants readers of Notes and Queries eral runaway redemptioners which he pur- be of these honored forefathers, who wid chased from the captain of the vessel res- glad that their memories have been which brought them to America. They if any cued from oblivion, and I trust were to serve for a term of years to repay to add there be, that they will not hesitate the expenses of their passage. became con- ” to the record of those who 5. “Nancy Lormer. civil affairs. spicuous in military and 6. “David Chalmers X Com. The pastor seems to have started at Mary Chalmers X Com. town- Conewago creek in Mount Joy Jos. Chalmers. ship, and rode east and southeast. It Syrus Chalmers X Com. would be well for the reader to keep this Mary Chalmers. Chalmers, a child.” m mina. ,, _ ... i James -Catechising , Rev. Golin McFarquahr 8 These notes will be contined weekly Congregation of Roll of ye members of the until the list is exhausted. Donegal," taken down November, 1779. Columbia, Pa. Samuel Evans. Mr. Muirhead’s District, viz., Mount Joy and Elizabethtown. John Jamison X NORTHAMPTON COUNTY IN THE Com., Rosanna McQueen Jamison X Com., REVOLUTION. Nancy, a child. Newspaper Notes and Sketches. There were several other children whose on the list; they were either names are not V. born subsequently to 1776 or had attained at their majority and were not living suddenly, on Friday, the 12th home. At this time Mr. Jamison was Died (August, 1831,) at his residence in living on one of his farms in Mount Joy inst. township, Jacob Postens, Esq., in township, adjoining Cap. Alex. Scott’s Stroud 78th year of his age. In the early the old road which led from Eliza- the on was a wagon master in or where Hum- part of his life he bethtown to a point near his miles the Revolutionary Army, and bore melstown now is, and about four fatigues and labor of those I of the from the former place. In 1778 he pur- share I was a Captain 'of the over chased from James Carr about one hun- days He Mountain Riflemen in the Whiskey Boys’ dred acres, which his daughter Ann Expedition, which commission he retained after his death sold to Henry I county 25 years. Bates Grubb. Some time during the in this j deceased might be truly called a Revolutionary war Mr. Jamison moved The ] north fron- '-'Man of Ross," living on the to Elizabethtown, where he kepc a store. of Northampton county, where ac- Mr. Jamison was Quartermaster in Col. tier was difficult to be procured. Lowrey’s Third Battalion of commodation Alexander always open to the weary Militia, and was at the His door was Lancaster County all fared alike. 1777. traveler. Rich or poor; battle of Brandvwine, September 11, the The naked left his premises clothed, He died in 1783. His daughter, Maria, and who hungry satisfied, the rich refreshed married James Graham, a merchant, host Columbia pleased with the urbanity of their moved from Elizabethtown to displayed house and the spirit of hospitality prior to 1800. He built the stone His remains Front khroughout his household. and kept store in it, situate on the interred on the 13th mat. m street below Walnut street, Columbia, Pa. I were ground at Stroudsburg. When the Presbyterian church was regu- burying Centinel, August 19, 1831. larly organized he was one of the first Easton of Phila- elders. He removed to the city on Friday evening Rosina married Samuel Departed this life delphia in 1810. in this borough, Elizabethtown, last (January 20, 1832), 1 Grimes, a merchant, of years, j Gen. Thomas Craig, aged 92 Margaret Jamison married Dr. John Hen- Maj. the | j days. On Sunday Pa., a prominent 1 month and 17 derson, of Huntingdon, to the re- tribute of respect was paid person. John Fleming Jamison died in last perhaps the of this venerable man, Cumbealand county in his minority. mains held in Pennsylvania, who Mrs. Rosanna Jamison was probably a oldest living sister of Capt. David McQueen, who resided at Conewago. Capt. Alex. Scott also married a McQueen. “Nancy Jamison, a child.” She died to 'Vitun Wo, to. requeued (single. fUll — 1

that his funeral ceremonies snould be accompanied with military honors. Not Skanawati, the Leader of the Iso- II with a vain desire, however, of having quois Indians, Dead. News comes from his remains particularly honored, but be- Canada of the death of John Buck, at the cause he deemed such attentions shown to j age of years, the chief councillor of the Tnbse who had acted in a military capac- 75 Six Nations, the official keeper of the 1 ity proper and right. Accordingly, pre- wampum records of the league, and the parations were made to execute his re- head firekeeper of the Onondaga tribe— quest, and his funeral was undoubtedly j

an Indian who was as greatly beloved by I attended by a a greater number of volun- his followers as was Brant by the Mo- teer troops and a larger concourse of peo- hawks, and Red Jacket by the Senecas. ple than was ever witnessed on a similar In his “Book of Rites,” Horatio Hale I occasion in this section of country says that Buck was virtually “the Iroquois Viewing him as a Revolutionary officer, j premier,” made so by “his rank, his char- who early fought and bled in the defense j actor and his eloquence.” In the treaty of his country, who was the first to pro- | of peace, after the Revolutionary war, tect the Continental Congress in its then

Great Britain made no provision for her i important deliberations, who was the Iroquois allies; they were left to the first to march to Canada, who was in the of the young republic, which, battles of Germantown, Monmouth, mercy under the laws of war, could have seized

Quebec, Brandywine and many others in i and held the Indian lauds. The United North and South Carolina, and consider- j States, however, admitted Indian owner- ing that we are now reaping the fruit of ship and made treaties with the Six Na- his services could not but exci te in all the j

tions. Great Britain offered to Brant and i

other chiefs, however, a tract of land on ' I liveliest interest and wrest from them the min ried tears of gratitude and sorrow. the Grand river, in Canada, and many | The merits of General Craig early secured of the Mohawks and scattering bands of to him the office of Colonel in the Revo- other tribes moved and settled there. The lutionary army, the duties of which he total number of Iroquois in Canada at the discharged with fidelity and zeal. last enumeration was 8,483 and in New York and Pennsylvania 5,239. While the Subsequent to the termination of the i conflict between England and the Ameri- Iroquois who remained in the Union have

can Colonies he was elected Major Gen- steadily advanced in the arts of civiiiza- i eral of the Seventh Division, Pennsylva- tion and have grown more and more like 1 nia Militia, which station he held for sev- the whites, those of the great league that eral years. He delighted to speak of his settled in Canada have changed but little, 1 military career ami the triumph of his preferring to live as their ancestors lived. country’s arms at a time when his coun- To this day the old constitution of the try was his idol and its enemies his bit - league, conceived by Hiawatha, is upheld, terst foes. But he speaks no more. His though in some slight degree it has been curtain of life has dropped and he sleeps modified. John Buck clung closer, perhaps, . than any other chief to the ways of I in death —Northampton Whiq, January 24, 1832. his fathers, in the council lie bore the title of Skanawati (Beyond the Swamp), At the 56th anniversary of Independ- which had been hereditary in his family ence held at Bath, Northampton Co., Pa., for many generations. For at least four

generations his family had i i July 4, 1832, two toasts by revolutionary been intrusted survivors were responded to as follows: with the wampum records oc the Six Na- By John Stenger, Esq. — “Old Northamp- tions, or at least that portion of them ton, her patriotism has been my pride for which the Iroquois carried to Canada. 56 years. I am now 79, and I trust that it wiil continue so by giving Jackson and Our Eap.lt Population. —One of the Wolf large majorities at the next elec- most perplexing questions that the stu- ” tions. dent of our early Pennsylvania history By Conrad— Prey, a soldier now 83 years has to meet, is as to the population of the of age “The Nullifiers, like the fly on State at any given time. The first definite the bull’s horn— if they would quit buz- census was taiien iu the year 1790. Before ’’ zing nobody would know where they are. that the population was a matter of guess work, and some of the guessers were evi- NOTES AND QUERIES. dently poor hands at it. Prior to the year 1750 the population was confined ex- Historical, Biographical anti Genea- clusively to the eastern part of the logical. Province. Even there the country was generally very sparsely settled. The list LX VI. of towns and villages, as given by Aure- lius, who wrote about the middle of the , Tories of the Revolution,—There is last century, and who, from the nature of I list of all in our possession a manuscript his public station, must have known the nersons attainted of treason in Pennsyl- facts in the case, would show an aggre- , Revolution. ' vania -Airing the War of the gate town population of only about of these very As the descendants of some 25,000 souls. True, Dr. Franklin, in one sons and daughters of men now pose as of his essays, remarks that for eve*y arti- the American Revolution, in due time san or merchant there were one hundred in Nolen and the document will be printed farmers; but this was clearly an txagger- Queries. ation, and was not to Ire taken literally, Sarah Scott, the infant,” Franklin himself, who we believe was as married, but l do not know to whom. well informed in the matter a3 any man, Captain Scott married Sarah in his examination before the Eng- McQueen daughter of John McQueen, glish House of Commons in 1766, placed who lived in Derry near Conewago creek. the white population of Pennsylvania at 8. Mary Scott. that time at about 160,000. In 1750 William Scott Com. Philadelphia contained about 2,000 houses, X Abraham Scott. or a population of say 12,0(0 souls. David Scott. Benjamin Martin, quoted by Robert Hugh Scott. Proud, put the population of the colony Peggy Scott. in 1755 at 250,000, which is manifestly This family resided in Mount too high. Proud says that in 1750 the Joy township, and were closely related to Cant. ' number of families was estimated at 20,- 1 Abe Scott’s family. 000, or about 120,000 souls: which, as 9. David McQueen. compared with Franklin’s estimate seven Robert McQueen. years later, was perhaps low. Again, too Mary McQueen. Proud gives the number of taxables iu Rosanna McQueen. '1751, as about 21,000, which would give Jo. McQueen, a child. a population at that time of about 126,000. Thomas McQueeD, a child. From a careful consideration of all the ( Iu 1776 David McQueen [facts available, I should put the popula- commanded a company iu the “Flying Camp,” tion of Pennsylvania in the year 1750 at and was at the battle of Long Island, about 130,000 souls, of whom about 25,000 Kind's ( Bridge, and I Perth Amboy. In the year j were dwellers in towns and villages. I 1777 he was captain in Colonel Lowrey’s ' Pittsburgh, Pa. T. J. Chat-man. battalion, and was at the battle of Bran- dywine. jdEMBEltS OF DONEGAL ClIUltcTl In 1780 he commanded a com- 4N 177G. pany in Col. Jacob Cook’s battalion. Capt. Abe Scott married his sister. Mary II. McQueen married James Anderson, grandson of Rev. James AndersoD, minister of Donegal [ 7. Captain Abe Scott X Com. church. Mrs. Scott, Jr., X Cora, 10. William Miller X Com. Mrs. Scott, Sr. Isabel Miller X Com. f. Polly Scott. James Miller X Com. Samuel Scott. Mary Miller. Susan Scott, a child. James Miller was second lieutenant in An Infant. Col. Lowrey’s battalion in 1777. In 1780 This family resided on the Ilummels- he was ensign in Col. Cook’s battalion. ,town road above Elizabethtown. Cap- 11. Joseph Tinsman. tain Scott was a prominent man. He was Margaret Adams. f a captain in Col. Lowrey's Battalion, and James Barnet. rvas at the battles of Brandywine and Jean Young. | ' Germantown, and in the Jersey campaign. The above seem to be grouped with the In 1780 he was Major in Colonel Jacob Miller family and may have lived with Cook’s Battalion. (Col. Cook married them. ' Mary Scott, an aunt of Capt. Scott.) He 12. Robert Mnirliead XCom [Moreheadl.

! was a member of the Legislature from He was the elder for this district and 1781 to 1786. The latter year he sold his resided on the road leading from Eliza- 1 farm in Mount township to Joy Michael betktown to Kelley’s corner, lS Mount Reitter and moved to Elizabethtown. I ; Joy township. presume he took charge of the Bear Margaret Muirkead X Com. Tavern for two or three years. When the Thomas Muirkead. Rev. MaDasseh Cutler was returning from j Joseph Muirkead. Ohio, on ;! September 26lh, 1788, lie says Joseph Syms. in his journal that he took -| ^breakfast at An Infant. Mr. Scott’s in Elicabethtoa n. This 13. James Muirkead. family, together with the Cook’s, Mrs. Muirhead. removed to the West Branch of Thomas Muirhead. the Susquehanna. Colonel Samuel Letitia Muirhead. * Hunter, of Fort Augusta, married Su- Joseph Fleck. sanna Scott, an aunt | of Capt. Scott. James and Robert Morekead were sons In the summer of 1775, Rev! Fithian of Thomas Morekead. At the close of stopped at Col. Samuel Hunter’s, where the Revolution James Morekead pur- lie met Polly Scott, daughter of Capt. chased the Glebe farm, belonging to Don- Abe Scott, and described her as a very egal church, containing about two hun- beautiful lady. At Col. Hunter’s Gen. dred acres. Mr. Moreheal removed from Wm. Wilson, of Okillisquaque Valley, Mount Joy to the Glebe land. This land met Miss Scott, who he afterwards mar- he sold about one hundred years ago and ried. One of their daughters married removed to Erie county, Pa. He was the Gcd. James Potter, of Penn’c Valley. ancestor of our late friend, Isaac More- Samuel Scott married his cousin," Mary head, of Erie. The Moreheads of Pitts- Hunter, daughter of Col. Samuel Hunter. burgh were of this family. There are no Susanna Scott married Mr. Rose. descendants of the Moreheads Hying m Donegal Samuel Evans. out of 50 associators. Bat the (condition was Columbia Pa. of having 20 settlers with in two'years , indirectly annexed to this location. For SUSQUEHANNA AND DELAWARE the* certificates being filed in the office of COMPANIES. the company and the surveys made, if [The following interesting document is there were not 20 settlers in the township in the handwriting of Judge Cooper, one at the expiration of two .years, any other of the Commissioners of Pennsylvania, to company of 50 shareholders might locate settle the claims of the Connecticut and the same township, and the first locators Pennsylvania contestants in the Wyoming were obliged to look elsewhere. But if Valley. It is of date, 1802.] any number of the first 50 under 20 did The State of Connecticut in gave a actually settle on the land, the second quit claim [this is a deception, they never set of locators were obliged to permit did] to a number of persons who stiled such settlers to remain, and to accept themselves the Susquehanna Company, of thehi as part of the company, and they a tract of land a degree of latitude in were entitled to hold the lots first drawn

j : breadth, and in longitude extending from by them. a line 10 miles east of the Northeast Their method of transacting the busi- branch of the Susquehanna by 40 miles ness of the Association was as follows: west of it. First, they appointed a committee to Among the earliest of the transactions make the location, direct the surveys and of this company, was that of granting 4 distribute the tracts by lot, each township townships of 16,000 acres each to settlers forming, according to the custom of New on certain conditions. Fifty persons were England, a corporation. They appointed a to associate for the purpose of settling a town clerk, with whom was deposited the township, 40 of whom were actually to records of the location, survey and distri- reside on it. To each of these 50 persons bution, and who, on every necessary occa- were assigned 300 acres, the remaining sion, notified the inhabitants of a tewn 1,000 acres Were to support schools and meeting and recorded the proceedings. ministers. The contests between the Pennsylvania A committee appointed for the purpose, and Connecticut claimants continued divided the township into three or four from and was very unfavorable to divisions, the first consisting of fifty lots the preservation either of public or pri- containing more or less according to the vate papers. The Indian battle in 1778 proportion of good land; this first divi- destroyed almost every trace of civiliza- sion was numbered from 1 to 50. So, tion in that part of the country, and cost likewise, was the second division and also the Americans 600 men. Hence much the third and fourth, so that the quantity difficulty has arisen among the settlers as in one lot of each of the three or four di- to the regular establishment of their chain visions (for there were not always four), of title. won 1.1 make together the 300 acres for As soon as the Proprietors of Pennsj i-

. each person associated. vania began seriously to oppose the Con- The numbers were drawn for each divi- necticut settlers, the latter found it neces- sion separately, so tiiat the person draw- sary to strengthen themselves. The hold-

ing No. 1 of the first division might draw ers of certificates of shares, therefore, who i No. 40 of the second and 5° of the third were not themselves inclined to take pos- hence, the lots falling to the share of sion, began to convey one-half of their each associator were generally remote shares to such persons as were willing to enter from each other. Condition of actual upon the land, improve, reside on, , settlement and residence were annexed to and defend it. These are the half-share these four townships, which I believe men. Of these it is conjectured there are were Wilkes-Barre, Pittstown, Plymouth about 800 families under the Susquehanna and Kingston. On account of the ser- company. The State of Connecticut vices of Col. Lazarus Stewart, the com- granted also to a company called the pany granted him and his associates the Delaware company all the lands con- township of Hanover on like conditions tained in the same degree of latitude of settlement and residence. These are and extending from Delaware River to the five Settling Townships as they are the eastern boundary of the Susquehanna called. company’s claim. These lands have also The number of associates in the origi- been laid off into Townships, and are nal 'quit claim being known, and the num- selling to Connecticut intruders on half- ber of acres in the whole tract computed, share rights; about 200 families of these grants or certificates of rhm^foof 300 are settled in Wayne county. The acres, &c., were issued for the wvhole of law, called the intrusion law, is the remainder, and divided among the not acted on in Luzerne county; one original rssociators, who occasionally sold of the Judges there informed General I. them, and they soon became a circulating that Judge Rush had declared the law un- property. As soon as the holders of 50 of constitutional. By the confirming law of these shares would associate, they had a 8th March, 1787, Pennsylvania confirmed | I right to locate and lay out a township of to the Connecticut claimants all their 16,000 acres, under the direction of the property, on condition of their preferring | general committee, in the manner above their claims to the commissioners, within mentioned, but without the satire strict from the passing of the Law and

terms of se ttlement and. residence of 40 I paying 20s for a Patent. ! 15 3 3 3 3 > > 3 3

>>3 3 ) . , ' J , » > » ’ 3 3 j 3 i » | 3 3 J > , heroes, sages and poets of Massachusetts. In Vanhorn DorraiiOT,’ \ vs. The 'Circuit' This is eminently proper. It shows the Court declared, that Law unconstitutional, Hove of the present generation for the but questions whether this opinion is not grand men who achieved distinction in confined to such Pennsylvania claims as ;tlie past. arc founded upon a complete title granted by the State of Pennsylvania, and which ! As Gossip looked upon these reminders the State could not again divest. the thought came to mind, I of the by-gone In the cases where the title still re- when will Pennsylvania take care of its mained in the State, the latter had a right great men—the men who have helped to to dispose of their lands on any condi- mold the destinies of this grand old tion they pleased, if accepted; and that State ? With the exception of a few the Legislature of Pennsylvania seemed statues iu the city of Philadelphia, where to think much, of the land occupied by else can be found any representation of the Connecticut people did still belong to men who in peace or war stood in the the State, appears from the preamble of fore front as the guardians of liberty ? No the 9th section. Many of the Connecti- State has had so many. Benjamin Frank- cut settlers did prefer their claims iD due lin, who was accidentally born in Boston, time, and some obtained certificates. spent bis whole life in Pennsylvania, and And if the Commissioners of Pennsyl- while Boston commemorates him in mar- vania, under that act, were driven away ble and bronzi, Pennsylvania has nothing. by the violence of some, this ought not General Anthony Wayne, the greatest sol- perhaps to affect the rights of others not dier of the War of the Revolution, is sim- concerned and who claimed under that ilarly neglected. Had Wayne been a New ! Law. The Supreme Executive Council England man, every city in that section pardoned all the insurgents. would have honored his memory and per- Many of the Connecticut claimants un- petuated his services to his country, so der the act of April, 1790, mean to claim that the rising generation might become , no more than those parts of tlic-ir has familiar with patriotic devotion to princi- ! which are covered by the old surveys. country. . pie and Many of them mean to claim under the confirming law by thing in Boston means of certificates I And yet, there was one then obtained from — city ought to be ashamed. the Commissioners ! of which that others appear to have preferred ‘their A visit to the “Cradle of Liberty” old claims to the Commissioners under that Fanned Hall, showed the visitor how the law in due time. march of trade encroaches upon venerated part of [The < above, Mr. Baird collected in . n- spots in our history. The lower j versation. But the fact is, that Uh ear- the hall was occupied as a meat market, .' chase from the Indians, by a set t f p, while the large room, where the heroes of called the Susquehanna company, or csll- 1776 gathered, was used as a bazar for ing themselves by that name, took place the benefit of a secret society. What j would be said if Independence Hall would I clandestinely at theCongress atAlbany 11th thus be converted? Boston can learn this July, 1 1751, two days after Mr. Penn had patriotic fervor from Philadelphia. procured an indorsed confirmation of his pre-emption right, contained in his deed of The 11th of June, the day on which the 1736; one of the witnesses to that deed Continental Congress adopted the flag of being then present. There was no charter the United States, has been designated by granted by Connecticut, nor any quit the General Society of the Sons of the claim. Franklin has been repeatedly Revolution and that of the Cincinnati as called upon to show it, and he never has it is expected annually Flag Day , when yet all time to produced auy such. ] thereafter on that day through come the glorious Stars and Stripes will be unfolded to the breeze by the descend- THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD. ants of every patriot in the land. Let This be united in by the sons of freedom.

HONOR IT IN PENNSYLVANIA Speaking of honoring the dead, who will believe it, that the owner of the farm in Frederick township, Montgomery Erect Monuments to Our Illustrious county, where rest the remains of a Provincial pioneer hero, Hmry ADtes, has Sous. - given notice to the world that unless a 10 grave- moval is made at once, that the buried and the place of “Honor to the illustrious dead” is ! stones will be plowed over? He was a perchance nowhere in this liberty-loving isepulture be early settlement of more fully exemplified than in the grand old man in the land doubt not that the of Boston. The memories of the Pennsylvania, and we city gladly take care of men of note, who were more or less Moravian Church will Henry Antes. Out upon famous in the history of Massachusetts, the bones of vandalism have been preserved in marble and bronze, this proposed the corner of many of the streets, and at has taken proper care of ' and in the Capitol of Pennsylvania , Common a Boston heroes in the war for : memories of her State, whichever way you turn, the i marked 1 the at Gettysburg—she has is reminded of the virtues of the 2 Union 'stranger | : ;,; ;;

r r - C e . ° . n r-i-p, :_ l tlie graves of some of her Governoirs/ttaj people at ‘ Highspire and other points, 1 raised a monument to a private soldier of saluted firing off shot-guns. The us by i the Revolution, William Denning, the “ John Bull, ” as I understood it, blew out blacksmith— but has she testified her ad- the next day, and was sent back as use- for the services of Conrad miration less—probably for repairs. Two Phila- Weiser, Gen. Armstrong, the hero of delphia companies furnished engines for list of notablemen Kittanning; the long this road—the Norris and the Baldwin. independence, and in the struggle for The former placed their cylinders over the) of adorned the coun- those renown who truck wheel. It seems to me no engines the past cils of the State and Nation ran over that road previous to these want century ? Some may say 1810 with more than one pair of in marble or bronze, no reminding driving wheels. It was about 1842 that the citizens who fol- but they do— the whistle came, and a little earlier the patriotism low should be taught cow-catcher. This lattersprung from the to sound principles and devotion “snow-plow” which was an early neces- Constitution—and this is the and the sity. H. R. best teacher. Dickinson, Morris, Had [If any of our “old inhabitants” can fur- Mifflin, Rittenhouse or Wayne, or later nish us authentic information concerning : transitional period in yet, the men of the the veritable “John Bull,” not onlyourj education in the State, Wolf, Audenreid, correspondent, but the r eaders of Notes Ritner and Shunk,with that of that great and Queries in general, will be gratified.]! commoner, Thad. Stevens, belonged to other localities—long ere this would their THE HAMILti FAMILY memories have been honored and their brilliant services fitly recorded. It is not Of Montgomery County, Penn’a. it is fondly that, too late—and to be hoped [Coat of Arms—Az. two bars ermine before passes away, some another decade Crest—On a ducal coronet a Leopard united and determined effort will be made sejant, ppr.] to do these men of the past revered honor. l. Robert Hamill, of Bush Mills, County Antrim, Ireland, had issue, NOTES AND QUERIES. among others, John. II. John Hamill, m. Annis Dinsmore. Historical, Biographical and Genea- Had issue, among others, Hugh. logical. III. Hugh Hamill , m. his cousin, Le- LXV1L titia Hamill, d. aged 94 years. Had issue i. Margaret; m. J. Martin. “The John Bull.”—The interesting ii. John d. aged 90 years; m. Eliza- sketch of the old locomotive, the “John beth Reynolds and had issue five children, Bull,” recently published in the Tele- of whom William, b. in Ireland, 1768; d. graph, calls to mind the opening of the 1859 ; came to Pennsylvania and settled in Harrisburg, Mount Joy and Lancaster Norristown; m., 1804,Wilhelmina Porter, railroad. The engineers of that road ran daughter of Stephen Porter, the brother against a hill near Elizabethtown, and de- of General Andrew Porter, of Penn’a. cided to make a tunnel, which was not iit. Hugh unm., died in Ireland. finished until 1837. Work on the Harris- ; vo. Letitia unm., burg and Middletown end was completed died in Ireland. v. Rachel unm., died in Ireland. in 1835. Material was brought up the m. Martha unm., died in Ireland. canal from Columbia and landed at ; 4. mi. Robert; rn. Isabella Todd. Middletown— strap iron for rails, etc. mii. Daniel m. Getty. Among other things was an English lo- ix. Ann; in., 1773, Wm.' Faries, from comotive. 1 never saw this until the whom is descended the day of opening— can’t say what month. late Robert Faries, a prominent civil engineer and conspicu- It was excursion day, and a free ride. ous in the internal improvements of the “Uncle Dan” in his white vest was con- State of Pennsylvania. spicuous. A couple of cars without IV. Robert Hamill, b. in County An- cushions and a flat car or two made trim, Irel md, in 1759; arrived in Penn- the train. Ahead of them stood the sylvania and settled in Norrristown in engine hissing steam in a fearful man- 1798. By occupation a merchant; an I ner. It too had a conspicuous brass plate Elder in the Presbyterian church; d. June on it, with the words “John Bull.” 27, 1838; m. Isabella Todd, b. 1784; d. My recollections of course may be all 1850, daughter of Andrew and Hannah wrong, all a mistake, but I give them as Bowyer, of Trappe, Montgomery county, I recall the incident. My “John Bull” Pa. They had issue, all b. in Norristown; was different from that one taken to the i. Letitia b. April 1803; m. Rev. World’s Fair. It had one pair of driving 2, James C. Howe, St. George’s, wheels, had no cow-catcher, no lamp, and Del. ii. Andrew, b. 1804; d. 1813. an ordinary sized bell. It did its Hi. Hannah, b. January. 1807; m. duty that day, took us down to Middle- 27, Rev. C. W. Nassau, of New Jersey. town, where a dinner was eaten. Gen. in. Hugh, a Doctor of Divinity, b. Feb- Cameron was manager, and George Fisher ruary 1808; m. Louisa Russel, of presided with great dignity, and made a 27, Delaware. patriotic speech. We returned in a few v. Elizabeth, b. November 10, 1809; m. I hours. I may state that on our way down Benjamin Davis, of Delaware. * I 17

d. in infancy. vi. William, b. 1811; John Cook. mi. Samuel M., a Doctor of Divinity, b. This family resided along Canoy creek, July 1812; m. Matilda M. Grace, of 6, about two miles and a half below Eliza- New Jersey. bethtown. infancy. The land is now owned or tnii. Robert b. 1814; d. in . was recently by the Lindemuths. Mrs. ix. Robert (second), b. April 21, 1816; Craig was a Whitehall. Capt. Craig m Margaret E. Lyon, of Pennsylvania was the fifth captain Huntingdon county; graduated in Col. Alexander Furnace, Lowrey’s battalion and Seminary a minister of the was at the battles at Princeton ; of Brandywine and Germantown. Presbyterian Church and a Doctor of He also served in the Jersey campaign. This Divinity. B> A< family removed to the Far West after MKMBER3 OF DONEGAL CHURCH the Revolutionary war. IN 1776. 21. Allen McLean. Agnes McLean. Niel McLean. Wm. McNiel. Jo. McMiel. 14. Widow Allison, X Com. Agnes William Allison, O Com. McNiel, a child. Martha Allison. 22. Widow Kerr. Joseph Kerr. Jean Paul, X Com. Andrew Kerr. Jo. McIntyre. Elizabeth This family probably resided along Kerr. Conewago creek, below Colebrook Fur- Rob’t Kerr. nace. John Kerr. 15. Wm. McKean, X Com. 23. Mrs. Cook, X Com. Mary McKean, X Cam. Joseph Cook. Robert McKean. John Cook. Margaret McKean. David Cook. Jas. McKean. Dorcas Cook. Wm. McKean. Margaret Cook. Hugh McKean. Jo. Wilson. Matthew McKean. This familn resided along Canoy Creek Mary McKean. (at Ridgeville). John Cook was first Eliz. McKean. lieutenant in Col. Lo /vrey’s Battalion in Hannah Jones. 1777, and was in the battles named above. 16. Jos. Young, X Com. James Cook was second lieutenant in Mary Young, X Com. same battalion and also in Col. Lowrey ’s Kath. Green. seventh battalion in 1780. David Cook, Sarah Kelsey. who married a daughter of Rev. Colin 17. Nathan Patton. McFarquahar and laid out part of the Rebecca Patton. town of Marietta, was a son of Wilson, X Com. David Cook in the list. ] 18. Sam. above James Wilson. Samuel Cook, Esq., brother of the last- Jean Wilson, Com. named, David, married the widow Ann Mary Wilson, O Com. Allison. He resided and owned several 20. Ann Wilson. hundred acres along the Peters Road, a Dorcas Wilson, O Com. mile north of Maytown. He was a 19. Robert Balance. member of the Legislature: I Martha Cour. 24. Francis Mairs X Com. Rebec Cour. Mrs. Mairs X Com. This closes out the list for Elizabeth- Wm. Mairs. town and territory north and west of that Robert Mairs. place. Not a single descendant of any of i John Mairs. the above-named families are living with- Francis Mairs. district. in the bounds of Mr. Morehead’s ! Jean Mairs. Susannah Mairs. C'anaia Quarter. Kath. Mairs. generally as Canoy, after This is known William Mairs was Ensign in Col. that name. Mr. McFarquahar the creek of Lowrey’s Battalion in 1777. No descend- face towards the river, has now turned his ants of any of above families now in traveling along the road and is evidently Lancaster county. Samuel Evans. leading from Elizabethtown to Galbraith’s Ferry (now Bainbridge.) Capt. Robert Craig, X Com. NOTES AND QUERIES. Mrs. Craig, Jr., Com. Historical, Biographical and Genoa Mrs. Craig, Sr., Com. logical. David Craig. James Whitehall Craig. LXVIII. Robert Craig. Rachel Craig. Indentures of Aprren noEsnip.—We Craig. Led- Margaret are indebted to our friend, J. H. Craig, child. Indenture Elizabeth a secker, Esq., for a sight of the Hamilton. of Thomas of Bernard Stahl to “John Slotterbeck the art. the Town of Lebanon,” to “learn | of grave-yard is well filled with the dost, trade and mystery of a cordwainer (or of this section of the shoemaker).” He was to serve upwards the early pioneers historic Cumberland Valley.] of seven years, during which time the requirements were “that the said apprentice his said master faithfully shall serve, I. his secrets keep, his lawful commands everywhere readily obey; he shall do no Here Lies the Body of James damage to his said master, nor see it done Weakly, who Departed this by others without letting or giving notice Life June 16th, 1772, aged 68 thereof to his said master; he shall not Years, waste his said master’s goods, nor lend them unlawfully to any; he shall not Here Lies the Body of Jean * * •* * contract matrimony within Weakly, Wife of James Weakly, the said term; at cards, dice or any other Who Departed this Life Nov. unlawful game he shall not play, 30th, 1768, Aged 57 years. whereby his master may have damage; be shall neither buy nor sell; To the Memory of he shall not absent himself day nor night James, Infant Son of from his said Master’s service without his Samuel & Hetty Weakley, leave; nor haunt ale-houses, taverns or Who Departed this Life play-houses, but in all things behave him- September the 4th, self as a faithful apprentice ought to do 1777, during the said term. And the said Aged 13 Months. Master shall use the utmost of his en- Ah why so soon when just the flower ap- deavor to teach, or cause to be taught, pears, and instructed the said apprentice In the Strays the brief blossom from the vale of or art, trade or mystery of a cordwainer tears. for shoemaker, and procure and provide Death view’d the treasure to the desert apparel, lodg- him sufficient meat, drink, given, ing and wishing, fitting for an appren- Claimed the fair flower and planted it in tice during said term; and shall send him heaven. to school to learn to read and write, and at the expiration of the said term to pay Here Lyes the the said apprentice the of twelve unto sum Body of John Flee- pounds in gold or silver money of Penn- ming, Who Departed sylvania, and also deliver and give unto This Life April 24th, 1763, apprentice twelve- lasths and all the said Aged 39 Years. the other tools or implements sufficient to trade.” Thi3 one carry on the said was In hundred and three years ago. memory of John Fleming, UPPER PENNS BORO’ PRESBYTE- Who departed this life RIAN CHURCH. March 24th, 1814, Aged 54 years. Records of Meeting House Springs Graveyard. Here Lyes the Body Of John Kinkead, who [It is more than probable that the Departed This Life church of Upper Pennsboro’ was organ- j August the 4th, Aged 51 ized about the same period as that of 1772, Years. Lower Pennsboro’, now Silvers’, Spring. The records of Donegal Presbytery throw Here Lyes ye Body of Mary Kinkead, little light upon this important fact. At Daughter to any rate they belonged to “the people John Kinkead, who dep. this 13th of over the river.” The location is nearly Life ye August, A. D., 1758, two miles northwest from the centre of Aged 13 years. Carlisle, and the first “meeting house” was a log structure erected prior Our Mother, to the year 1735. After the Jane Connelly, town of Carlisle was laid out, died July 14, 1864, owing to the great schism, another church Aged 72 years, was organized, but until the Re-union, that 6m & 20d. of Upper Pennsboro’ was continued. Of the history of this congregation we have Here Lyes the B- only meagre data, and if those who have ony of William had access t,o the various records of Don- Graham who egal and Carlisle Presbyteries have become Decesd April befogged, we do not intend to prepare a 24th, 1764, aged sketch thereof. On the 13th of May, 1893, 67 years a visit to the old grave-yard suggested the propriety of preserving the inscriptions on In the few grave stones in that hallowed Memory of spot, which are herewith given. Prom John appearance, however, we judge that this Sanderson ;

of N. M. Township this life February 22th, Died August 12th, 1831 1747, aged 79 years. Aged 80 years James McAllister Iu died April 23, 1855, Memory of in the 77th year of Lydia his age. Sanderson, of N. M. Township, Hear Lies the Died July 1th, 1813, Body of Mary Do- aged 60 years. nnal Who depart’d This Life October In 15th, 1747, aged Memory of 60 Years. Alexander Sanderson, Archibald McAllister, of N. M. Township, Died June 1, 1858. Died June 14th, 1823, in the 85th year aged 28 years. of his age.

In memory of Eleanor McAllister, Samuel Laird, Esquire, Died Jan. 2, 1858, who departed this Life iu the 75th year on the 27th of Septr. A. D. 1806, of her age. In the 74th year of his age. Of simple manners pure and heart up- Here Lys the Body right, of Alexander McCul- In mild religion’s ways he took delight loch, who deceas’d Elder January 15th, As , Magistrate or Judge he still 1746, Studied obedience to his Maker's will. Aged 50 Years.

A husband kind, a friend to the distress'd,

I He wish’d that all around him might be MEMBERS OF DONEGAL CIIITRCU bless’d; IN I77G. A Patriot in the worst of times approv’d, By purest motives were his actions mov’d! IV.

s He gone to rest ! now cares and sorrows 25. Colonel Bertram Galbraith. cease, Mrs. Galbraith. His spirit in the realms of joy and peace: Josiah Galbraith. Tho’ in this house his dust must still re- Samuel S. Galbraith. main, Elizabeth Galbraith. Till Jesus in his glory come again. Ester Galbraith. Ann Galbraith Sacred John Glen. to the memory of Martha Ligate. Mary Eleanor Robertson. daughter of The last three were, doubtless, servants James Young in the family. The others were children and wife of of Col. Galbraith by his first wife, Ann, Samuel Laird Esq’r, who was the daughter of Josiah Scott. Who was born October 31, 1741 She died June 26th, 1793. Col. Galbraith was almost 50 years a wife and married a second time, Henrietta Huling, 27 a widow, and died Feb. 4, 1833 by whom he had a daughter, Sarah, and a full ia the exercise of hey mental son, Bertram. Sarah married Samuel powers and with Use hope of Morris, of Harrisburg, who • was a chair- heaven. maker. Bertram remained at Bainbridge and married there. His widow and two In sons reside at Harrisburg. The widow of Memory of Col. G. married George Green, of Easton. Andrew Samuel Scott Galbraith married Sarah McAlister, Work, daughter of Joseph Work, E?q., who 1804, resided upon his farm about one mile and died Nov. 1, j Aged 73 years. a half east of Donegal Church. He mar- who died Also ried, secondly, Margaret , Margaret, April 29, 1801, aged 29 years. wife of Elizabeth Galbraith married Dr. Leckey Andrew McAllister, Murray, of Lancaster, Pa., and later of was died August, 1804, Harrisburg. A son of Doctor Murray look af- Aged 61 years. sent by the family to Scotland to Giiles- ter an estate which belonged to the great-great- Lies the Body pies, Mrs. Wm. Bertram, his Hear i the heirs. Mr. of James Young grandmother, being one of « looking un Seiner, who departed Murray became insane hen the estate and died in Scotland. Henry When Col. James Gaibraitli was sheriff I

Carpenter, of Lancaster, married a daugh- he purchased the mill and several hundred ! ter of I)r. Murray’s. acres of land near Derry Church in 1744, Jane Galbraith married David Elder, of in later years known as “Garber’s Mill. ’ ’ Middle Paxlang, Dauphin county. Here he resided when the French and In- Ann Galbraith married Thomas Bayley, dian war broke out. When Fort Hunter son of the Hon. John Bayley, who was a was erected in 1755, Col. Galbraith was member of the Governor’s Council from commissary to supply OaptainsPatterson’s Lancaster county. He was one of the and Bussey’s companies. His son was founders of the town of Falmouth, at the appointed a lieutenant when yet in his mouth of the Conewago creek. He was minority, and was stationed at Fort Hun- born January 6, 1762; died February 9, 1807. He owned large tracts of land in military life. The following extract is Lancaster county. taken from one of his letters dated at Jame3 Galbraith married Rosetta Work, Hunter's Fort, October 1st, 1757: “Not- daughter of Joseph Work. He purchased withstanding the happy situation we most of the land at Bainbridge from the thought this place was in on Capt. | Bussey’s ! other heirs, but sold it again during the being stationed here, we have had a man year 1812. killed and scalped this evening within

Samuel S. Galbraith purchased “Jones’ i twenty rods of Hunter’s barn, We all Island,” opposite Bainbridge, from his turned out, but night coming on so soon ” * brothers, William B. and James, for $10,- ! we could make no pursuit. * It is

421. When sh^d fishing went down, the I probable that Lieut. Galbraith marched value of the Island decreased very much. with Capt. Patterson’s company from William B. Galbraith removed to Har- Fort Hunter to Fort Augusta, thence to risburg and devoted a lifetime and his Fort Bedford, thence to Loyal Hannon, j ' fortune to recover many hundred acres of where a battle took place in October, 1758. land which his father located in Lykens Col. James Burd commanded the Penn- Valley, but died before patents were is- sylvania troops. sued. It is said that his attorney in ex- When the conflict with Great Britain amining Col. Galbraith’s papers discovered was impending, Col. Galbraith was one of the drafts of these tracts of iand, and then the first to take up arms and raise a bat- he took them to the land office and re- talion, which was made up in the western j ceived patents in his own name. A long parts of Donegal and Derry townships. j litigation in the courts followed. I He was elected to the general assembly in William B. Galbraith married Sarah, 1775, and to the constitutional convention daughter of John and Eleanor Hayes. in 1776. He was the first lieutenant ap- The latter was a daughter of Rev. J ohn pointed for the county of Lancaster, a Elder, and died Dec. 12, 1775, aged 29 position he held with groat credit for six years. Wm. B. G. was born October 19th, years, when he was compelled to resign on 1779, and died at Mount Joy, Nov. 24, account of impaired health. The duties 1835. Sarah, his wife, died July 11, 1839, of this office during his incumbency were aged 65 years. onerous and of the most exacting char- Esther Galbraith married Cook, James acter. He was compelled often after a to county, Pa. who moved Washington short notice to embody, equip, and pre- They had two children, Bertram and pare fQr marching orders, one or two Mary Ann. classes of tire miiitia. In the summer The oldest child of Col. Galbraith of ( was 1776 lie selected one company of volun- i named Dorcas. She was born in 1755, tceis from each of the Battalions in the and was probably not living at home county to form a Battalion in the “Fly- when Mr. McFarquahr made his roll. ing ” Camp under the command of Colo- She married John Buchaunan, Esq., of nel James Cunningham, of Mount Joy, Westmorland county, Pa. She died Sep- and Lieutenant Colonel William Hay, of tember 24, 1810. James G. BuchanDan, Deny, q'he “Fiying Camp” were her son, resided in Marietta, where he en- g-‘ged in several skirmishes in Jersey and I died Nov. 28, 1848, aged 65 years. Two around New York, and principally at the of the latter’s daughters now reside in battle pf Long Island. The “Flying Marietta. Camp ” was composed of the elite of tire Colonel Bertram Galbraith was born in nnlUm, and for gallant and meritorious i Derry in 1738 and died March 9th, 1S04. seryicej, almost every officer ' was pro- He died suddenly when away from his moted. home, which was at the ferry where Bain- When the British fleet left'New York in bridge is. His father, Col. James Gal- the summer of 1777, and sailed for Dela- braith, Jr,, was elected sheriff for Lan- ware and Chesapeake Bay, Pennsylva- caster county in 1743, when he moved nians were greatly excited aud the bat- from Derry to Lancaster borough. He tahons °f Colonels Lowrey, Greenawalt, was appointed one of the Justices for and Watson received marching orders to 1 Lancaster c ounty. He resided in Lan- go to the Delaware. Col. Galbraith and caster borough about ten years. Bertram ^ 0 or e,s an(^ fi eld officers lil f were in the Galbraith was sent to the best school in saddle night and day getting the miltia Lancaster, where he was taught among in marching order. To add to the worry- other branches surveying. Col. John ment Colonel Gabraith j and Lowrey had and George Gibson and Dr. John to face a u • . the rear. A number Connolly of I were his school companions. UPPER PENNSBORO’ PRESBYTE- non-associators in Donegal, in Maytown RIAN CIHJRCH. and the vicinity formed a secret organization to resist the draft, the payment of Records of Meeting House Springs mditia tax and fines and prevent the mili- Graveyard. tia in Donegal from being embodied. Col. L i'vrey had to detail an officer and]a num- II. ber of men to quell this incipient rebellion. One of the militia men was [It is worthy of note in this connection, killed, and several of the mob were that three of the tomb-stones were orna- wounded. The great mistake the militia mented with coat of arms. Owing to the made was in loading half of their guns nature of the stone, a mountain sandstone, with blank cartridges. After the war, these are almost wholly illegible. Al- Col. Galbraith devoted his entire time to though partially indistinct, on that over surveying land in Lancaster and Dauphin the remains of the wife of the first regular counties. On two or three occasions he pastor, the Rev. Samuel Thomson, is that was appointed one of the commissioners of the Thomson family arms. to inspect the Susquehanna river and its Here lie branches, to devise some measures to make the Body them navigable for keel boats and other of craft. His life was a busy and honorable Hannah McFar- one. He died suddenly in the Cumber lane. Born April land Valley when visiting relatives on 14th 1766 dept. business relative to his grandmother’s es- May 31th 1769. tate in Scotland. Samuel Evans. Here lies the Body of James McFarlan Born NOTES AND QUERIES. December the 24th, 1695 Dept. October 31th Historical, Biographical and Geneal- 17715 ogical. LXIX. Here lys the Body of Ranald Cham bers who Deceas’d The Life of Gen. Anthony Wayne, Decemb’r ye; 24th 1746 by that erudite scholar, Charles J. Stille, Aged 60 years. LL. D., is without exception the best contribution to American biography published Here lyes the Body in many years, and the author is certainly of William Dennison congratulated to be for the admirable Johnston Who Depart’d manner in which he has told .story the of This Life May 4th 1773 Wayne’s life. Next to General Washing- Aged 1 year and 7 ton, Gen. Wayne was undoubtedly the months. greatest hero of the War for Independ- ence. He has always been looked upon as Here lies a rough diamond among the representa- the Body of tive men of the Revolutionary era; but John and Alex- Doctor Stille brings out all the finer feel- ander McKehan. ings and qualities of that stern old hero, and our admiration warms as we read the In memory of tribute so enthusiastically and yet truly Ca’pt. William Drennan paid to Anthony Wayne. Had Wayne who departed this Life belonged to any other State of the original June 9th 1831 in the thirteen than to Pennsylvania, his fea- 78 year of his age. tures would have been represented in bronze or marble, while the current his- Mary tories of the States would be filled Coulter, with glowing accounts of his ser- Bo. 1716, vices in the struggle for liberty. D. 1772. We only read of him as “Mad” Anthony the hero of Stony Point. No greater mis- Our dear Mother, nomer was ever given to any man, and Elizabeth, none so little befitting as General Wayne. wife of Doctor Stille has done excellent service William Carotbers, not only to the State which for so long a Died Dec. 5, 1871, period has not properly appreciated the Aged 82 yrs., 4 mos. services of its great men, but to the & 20 days. nation. Looking back over the history our beloved country there is a brilliant of Mary Greason, galaxy of heroes in war and in peace, but died Nov. 2, 1854, among them all there was no purer patriot in her 68 th year. or braver soul than General Anthony of the Army of the Wayne, Revolution. William GreasoD, Born Dec. 17, 1805, Died Nov. 22, 1877, indulgent parent, andT Aged 71 yrs., 11 mos. Husband, an member of Society. & 5 days. A. worthy A few short years of evil past Ia We reach the happy shore last Memory of Where death divided friends at more. Mary Shall meet to part no son wife of Also his Benjamin Myers, Richard Parker TXT rv rliorl TVfnTP.h Died Nov. 21, 1842, Aged 30 years & 5 months. William M. Henderson, 1795, Eliza E. Carothers. Born May 28, Died Oct. 16, 1886. John Black, Parker, Died Jan. 18, 1842, Elizabeth. wife of Aged 63 yrs., 10 mos. & 14 dys. Wm. M. Henderson, Bora April 3, 1719, Isabella Black, Died Feb. 2, 1860. Died Oct. 24, 1841, Aged 56 yrs., 3 mos. William M. Henderson, & 11 dys. Born Dec. 14, 1836, Died March 12, 1862. Eliza A. Black, Died Dec. 10, 1872, Sarah E. Henderson, Aged 56 years, 3 mos Born Oct. 28, 1828, & 13 dys. Died Feb. 4, 1886.

William C. Black, Harriet S. Henderson, Died Nov. 24, 1875, Born Sep. 23, 1834, Aged 61 yrs., 7 mos. Died Feb, 8, 1838. & 13 days. David S. Henderson, Here Lys the Body of Born Sep. 23, 1834. Janet Thomson, wife Died Feb. 8, 1838. of Rev. Samuel Thomson, who Deceas’d Robert M. Henderson, Sept, ye 29th, 1744, aged Born Sept. 27, 1866, 33 years. Died Aug. 14, 1868.

In Robert M. Henderson, Memory of Born Nov. 20, 1861, Daniel Denny, Died Aug. 15, 1863. who departed this Life Octr. 18tli, 1834, Sacred Aged 72 years. to the memory of Major Alexander Parker In and his two children, Memory of Margaret and John. John Denney, who died In Octr. 3d, 1831, memory aged 68 years. of Jane Lindsey, In wife of James Lindsey, Memory of who departed this Denny Mrs. Mary life March 29th, Ramsey 1833, age 32 years this who departed & 3 months. Life April 27th 1842 in the 66th year In of her age. memory of Jane Forbes Here lies the who departed Body of John this life October Rodgers. the 3d 1830 aged 77 years 7 months tbe body of Here lies (much lamented) and 19 days. Andrew Parker who departed this life John Forbes D. 1805 The 10th day ot April A. Died Sep. 8, 1823 Aged 43 Years in the 78th year He was a kind and affectionate of his age. ;

Jane Forbes was Ann B., the widow of Andrew Died Oct. 3, 1830, Boggs, who purchased two hundred

j in the 77th year and fifty acres of land along the of her age. river and adjoining the Logan tract on northwest of where Bainbridge now is, James Forbes about the year 1730. The patent for the Died May 17, 1800 land was taken out a few years later. in the 28th year Andrew Boggs died in April, 1765, and of his age. left wife Ann and children as follows:

i. John ; married a daughter of Dr. James Jane Forbes, Johnson, a prominent officer in the Revo- Died Feb. 14, 1802, lutionary war. John removed to Cumber- in the 21st year land county, afterwards Franklin county. of her age. He engaged in the Indian trade, was sheriff of Cumberland, and also of Frank- Andrew Forbes, lin. He was a major in the Revolution- Died Aug. 16, 1854, ary war. About the year 1792 he removed in the 71st year with his brother-in-law, Colonel James of his age. Dunlop, from Franklin to Centre county, and laid out the town of Bellefonte, where John P. Forbes, they built one or two furnaces. Major Died Sep. 1, 1829, Boggs died in a year or two, and was the in the 41st year first person buried in the cemetery at of his age. I Bellefonte. His descendants are widely scattered and connected with some of the Richard Forbes, most prominent families in Pennsylvania Died Aug. 30, 1823, and Maryland. in the 33d year it. James; removed to Derry, and I do of his age. not know what became of him. Hi. Jean married Colonel James Dun- Margaret Forbes, 1 lop, who removed to Cumberland, after- Died March 28, 1870, wards Franklin county. He was a prom- in the 75th year inent officer in the Revolutionary war. of his age. He founded Bellefonte, and was the first person who built iron works in that vi- Ann Black, cinity. His son, James Dunlop, was a neiceof John Forbes, Sr., lawyer, and had been a member of the Died Jan. 12, 1856, Legislature for several terms. He was ” Aged 69 years. the author of “Dunlop’s Book of Forms. He removed to Pittsburgh and died there. Here Lys the Body of iv. Andrew; the second name on the Thomas Witherspoon, roll. He was the 6th captain in Col. who departed this life Alex. Lowrey’s Third battalion of Lan- March ye 22d, 1759, caster County Associators in 1777, and Aged 57 years. was at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown. In 1780 he was promoted In to first captain in Col. Lowrey’s Seventh Memory of battalion. He died unmarried in a year Jane Crocket, or two after the war. wife of George II*. Ann; (not on the roll) married Crocket, who de- Joseph Lowrey, brother of Colonel Alex. parted this life Lowrey. They had two daughters, Ann Jan. 25th, 1814, and Jean Lowrey, and one son, John G. Aged 48 years. Lowrey, who was a soldier in Capt. Amidst the noise, the Reitzel’s company in the “Whisky War”

| bustle and folly of of 1794. He removed from Maytown to life render praise for Bellefonte and took a clerkship at his a moment and think Uncle Col. James Dunlop’s iron works. of Eternity. He became prominent in the early history of Centre county. Joseph Lowrey MEMBERS OF DONEGAL CHURCH was driven from his home during the

IN 1776. I French and Indian war, and his dwelling and outbuildings were burnt by the In- V. dians, and his live stock driven off or killed. I do not know the exact spot of 26. Mrs. Boggs, X Com. his place of residence. The records say

| Andrew Boggs, X Com. he flea from the Indians to Maytown, | Alex. Boggs. where he deceased about 1785. Mary Boggs, Com. mi. Mary; married Captain Zichariah Andrew Boggs. Moore, who lived and owned the farm ad- John Wilson, Com. Donegal Church land on the west. I joining This family was one of the most prom- He was Second Lieutenant in Captain inent in the county. The Mrs. in Col. Lowrey’s I Boggs, Robert Craig’s company, Battalion in 1777. 1 — ; 1

also lived along Peters’ first This family viiL Alexander; enlisted as a non- | Road, near Conoy creek. commissioned officer in Col. Bertram Gal- Peters’ Road terminated at Logan’s braith’s Battalion in 1776. He had been The Bainbrijdge now is), after- a member of Captain Clark’s Company, Ferry (where Thomas Wilkins’, and in a few and was detailed to serve in the “Flying wards years it passed to Col. James Galbraith Camp” under Colonel - James Cunning- ' and the Scotts. Col. Bertram Galbraith ham in the summer of 1776, and was made the ferry famous. The first survey at the battles of Long Island, King’s made at the ferry was for Jonas Daven- Bridge and Perth Amboy. He was port in 1718 for three- hundred acres. He lieutenancy forpl- promoted to a could not pay for the land and James the close of the Bcvo iant conduct. At Logan took out a patent in his own name. married Ann Alricks, a lutionary War he The large settlement in this vicinity was Colonel Lowrey. He step-daughter cf no doubt caused by the great number of his brothers purchased the interest of near Conoy Bainbndge and Indian traders •who located and sisters in the farm at on John Halde- After his Indian Town, which was commenced to keep tavern. Samuel Evans. the farm man’s farm. mother’s death, in 1789, he sold Lan- Columbia, Pa. and tavern to Valentine Bossier, o£ township. In 1790 he Purchased caster hundred NOTES AN QUERIES. the “Bear Tavern” and several D Col. Samuel at Elizabethtown from acres Barnabas Historical, lflngr*, pineal and Genealo- Hughes, the son of Captain gical. Bear Tav- Hughes. Mr. Boggs kept the he re- ern” for about twenty years, when LXX. from Col. moved to a farm he purchased Marietta. Lowrey, now about a mile above Captain Duncan MoGeehon. —In reply northwest cor- He built a residence in the to a correspondent at Atlantic, Iowa, we now occu- ner of the square in Marietta, would state that Captain McQeehon, a to which pied by the Marietta Register native of Scotland, served under Col. Wil- died March place he removed, where he liam Crawford, and was in the unfortu- had been a 30, 1839, aged 83 years. He nate defeat ot tint oil! i;r near the San- had seven magistrate for many years. He dusky towns in 1782. Escaping from that of whom sons and two daughters, all terrible disaster, Capt. McGeehon A num- died were born at the “Bear Tavern. about 1795, aged about forty years, in Balti- ber of his descendants reside m Washington c aunty, Penm. His widow more. was pensioned by the Government, and , name The Andrew Boggs, next to last died quite aged. McFarquahr, — 5 o c on the roll, is erased by Mr. — — or which indicates that he was deceased THOMAS HARRIS was moved away shortly after the roll of J ohn And His Descendants. made up. He was probably a son Boggs and only on a visit to the family. [From Auburn, California, comes the 27. Samuel Wilson X. following information, and it Mrs. Wilson. with in- David Wilson. quiries as to the relationship of this Har- ris family George Wilson. with that of John Harris, of Margaret Wilson. Harris’ Ferry, now Harrisburg.] Eliz. Wilson, a child. I. Thomas Harris, son of ward This family resided near the Feters El Creek. Harris, of Ayres hire, Scotland, came to Road where it crossed Conoy Pennsylvania at an early date, settling 28. Jo. Jamison. His wife. on the Susquehanna in now Lancaster 29. David Jamison. county. He had at least three sons: •* 1. Robert; b. — became a doctor Robert Jamison. ; George Jamison. of medicine: resided in Philadelphia; I Margt. Jamison, com. was one cf the Philadelphia company, but Eliz. Jamison. remained in Pennsylvania; ho left the Agnes Jamison. management of his affairs in the Province fifth name of Scotia to his brother John. The first two names and the Nova We indicate nothing of his family. are erased, which would seem to know family probably re- 2. ii. Matthew; b. Jan. 12, 1735; m. their death. Their | which -. sided at the Mount Vernon farm, Sutia Jamisons 3. Hi. John b. July 16, 1739; m. Eliza- was sold to the Grubbs. The ; j they Scott. all removed io Elizabethtown, where beth b. Jan. 1735 died. One of the brothers left a dower II. Matthew Hakkis, 12, about six pounds in the farm for the use d. December 9, 1829, at Pictou, N. S. of j of Donegal church, which has been paid whither he had removed in 1769. His yearly ’for more than a hundred years. wife’s name was Sutia —— They had John Jamison was Quartermaster in Col. five sons and two or three daughters, ages Lowrey’s Battalion. His brother Robert not known, but will enumerate them. was Quartermaster Sergeant. i. Thomas (the eldest) was a surveyor Widow Wilson. and for 20 years sheriff of Pictou county, Robert Wilson. N. S. He had three children: 1. (Mrs. Johnson). Jas. Pekean. Ann ; ; ; ; ; ;

2. George. i. William b. Feb. & j R , 4, 1805 ; m.

3. Sutia (Mrs. Robinson, mother of about 1832 Anne Amison, and had nine ! the late Thomas Robinson, artist, of children, of whom three are living: Providence, R. I. 1. Margaret F.; m. J. D. McLeod.

I ii. [A son] died unmarried. 2. Mary Ann; m. W. W. Glennie. Hi. \A son] was lost at sea going 3. J. Sim; m. Emma Ives.

from Halifax to Pietou. ii. Elizabeth; b. Feb. .6, 1806; m. 1829, ! iv. Robert; studied medicine, and lived Win. Milne, of Aberdeen, Scotland. They on his father’s place, but afterwards re- removed to New England some years moved to Philadelphia, where he died. later; their children (surname Milne): v. James; settled in Nova Scotia. 1. Mary H.; m. H. W. Christian. vi. [A son] removed to Pennsylvania. 2. Isabella F. ; m. Edward H. Frink. vii. (A dau.] m. John Patterson, N. S. 3. Barbara L.; m. Alex. Wilcox. vii. A dau.] m. 4. Janette D. May. j m W. W. I ix. Jean; m. Simon Newcomb, and set- 5. John W. R.; m. Elizabeth Wood. tled in Wallace, Cumberland county, N. 6. Alex. O.; m. Emily Richards. iS. They had 3 children 7. Thomas F.; m. Emma Henderson. 1. Simon. 8. William R. unmarried. 2. Thomas. Hi. Margaret S.; b. may 4, 1807; d. 3. John; married i'n 1888; m. Thomas R. Fraser. j March 7, the U. S. ; his son is Simon Newcomb, the noted iv. Robert R.; b. Aug. 9, 1809; d. 1867; astronomer. m., first, 1834, Catharine Stout, who died III. Jons Harris, the qwaMlson of in 1853,leaving a son Robert; m., secondly, Thomas Harris, was born July 16, 1739, Anna E. Hollenbeck. and died Aprd 9, 1802. He received a v. GeergeS.; b. Sept. 17, 1812; d. 1833. [medical education at Princeton, graduat- vi. John F.; b. Feb. 18, 1814; still living in 1762 (I believe), and while there ing; m. first, 1847, Margaret Johnson and formed a friendship with Dr. Witherspoon had three children; m. secondly, 1854, [Which continued through life. There is Anne Harris and had one daughter; wife

1 in possession of his" family a let- died in 1890. ter written him by Dr. Wither- "flit. Mary Ann; b. July 7, 1815; d.1844. spoon at Philadelphia, June 1, 1773, via. Abram Scott; b. Feb. 29, 1819; while a resident of “ Cross Roads ” (now unm. 4. Churchville), Baltimore county, Mary- ix. Walter P.; b. Sept. 1, 1820; d. 1841. land; previous Runter; b. to 1767 he married Eliza- x. Thomas May 7, 1822 ; m. beth Scott, who died in July, 1815. They Mrs. Jane Renton; still living. were two of a xi. Isaac; b. Sept. m. company who sailed in the 18, 1823; , 1853, “ ” Hope from Philadelphia in May, 1767, Barbara Dawson, who died in 1855; he he being agent for seven members of the died in 1854 and lelt one daughter. Philadelphia Company to whom land had xii. Jane Hatton; b. Feb. 19, 1825; m., been granted by the “Crown.” Their Dec. 21, 1854, Burton McKay, architect; children were: removed to California in spring of 1859; i. Thomas, b. June 11, 1767; d. 1809; their children are: he had a son E-iward and a dau., after- 1. Arthur J.; b. Nov. 26, 1852; m., ward Mrs. Brown, each of whom had Oct. 10, 1888, Lillian Miller. a son Edward, thus perpetuating the 2. Barbara Dawson; b. April 10,1857; family name. m. first, in Feb., 1877, C. Cassidy, ii. Mary b. and had one son Arthur B., b.Dec., , June, 1769; m. Robert , Cock. 1877; she m. secondly, June, 1890, Hi. William, b. 1771 was sent Melville B. Everham. ; to Prince- ton; graduated an 3. Mary E.; b. Aug. 2, 1861; m. May, M. D. ; m. Susan Hunt and settled in N. J. or Penn’a. 1887, Fred. A. Stuart. Their chil- iv. Margaret, b. 1773; in. Watson. dren are: v. Elizabeth, b. a. Ray daughter, b. Feb. 16, 1888. 1775 ; m. John Moore. ; vi. John- Washington, b. March, 1777- b. Archer B.; Id. Feb. 16, 1891. m. Mary Sutia Hadley. 4. EffieR.; b. July 10, 1863; m. first 1 vii. Robert, b. Nov. 21, 1783; m. and in August. 1881, R. B. Borland, and lived and d. in Truro, Nova Scotia. their children were: via. [A dau.]-, m. John McKeac. c. Evelyn M.; b. Apr. 24, 1883; d. ’83. IV. John Washington Harris, b. Mar., 1886. March, 1777. He m., in May, 1804, his d. Roy E.; b. Sept. 9, second cousin, Mary Sutia Hadley, or- She m. 2ndly Dec., 1890, Geo. H. phaned when an infant and brought up by Thompson. her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Matthew 5. Albion Harris; h. Oct., 1865; d. Harris. In 1811 John W. Harris was Oct. 26, 1865. made deputy sheriff of Pict.ou county- 6. Amelia G. b. Dec., 1866; m. Moorhead. then was sheriff until 1857. His son’ March 6, 1892, A. C. 1868. William, succeeded and held office until 7. Maybelle N.; b. July 9, 1883. His son George held office until 1885. His only brother, J. Sim. Harris was then appointed, and still holds the office, which has been 100 years in the Harris family. The family of John W : an.l Mary Harris were: 1

had a trading post at Sawmill Run, about MEMBERS °PjDONEGfAL CHURCH a mile below Pittsburgh, on the south side of the Ohio. He also obtained a charter from the Legislature for a ferry at his VI. place. His large landed estate at Conewago went to his son 30. Daniel Elliot. John Elliot, who removed to Mrs. Elliot. Elizabethtown, where he purchased a John Elliot, a child. large number of lots. He married first (Mary, bora subsequent to date of Miss Whitmer, and secondly Miss Cobles. roll.) John Haldeman married a daughter. I regret that I am unable to locato Mr He had sons who were prominent who EH^t pnor to Dec., 1767. There were moved to the West. Mary (Polly) several of the name who traded with the Elliot seems to have resided Indians prior to the French and Indian with her grandfather Colonel Lowrey. wars, bnt whether he was of them I can- In the year 1803 she was married at Col. not determine, I think, however, he had Lowrey’s to James Hamilton, son of been trading for Col. Alexander Lowrey Hamilton, was born in Lea- I James who i prior to the date when he took out a cock township, Lancaster county, Pa. on his ! license to trade With the Indians James Hamilton removed to Middletown, own account. After peace had been de- Dauphin county, Pa., soon after his mar- clared between the English and French in riage, where he engaged extensively in the 1763-4, there was a great fusil of Indian milling business, and was one of the Traders, and the mefchants of Philadel- founders of the Middletown Bank. He phia also embarked in the Indian aiso erected a furnace. About the year trade, and sought to control that 1827, he purchased a large estate called trade at the Ohio and Mississippi. They the Middlesex estate, near Carlisle, con- were required to take out a license under sisting of a large farm, gri3t and sawmill, the laws of Pennsylvania. The Indian &c. He died in 1829, leaving his wife, trade was largely controlled for many Miry, and the following children: of years by Pennsylvanians. A number i. Alexander; b. 1806. and Virginia, un- traders from Maryland it. William, b. Oct. 5, 1811. der the lead of Col. Thomas Cresap, Hi. Sarah. established a trading post and store at id. John. Redstone, on the Monongahela river, ; v. George Plumer, b. May 4, 1818. where Brownsville now is, and undersold The last became one of the most distin- 1 the Pennsylvania traders. The latter guished members of the Pittsburgh Bar. were guided entirely by price lists fur- i He died in November, 1882. His son, of the nished them by the commissioners George P. Hamilton, of Pittsburgh, is a Indian trade. The former paid no li- prominent lawyer at the Allegheny Bar. cense fee, and disregarded all schedule Dora Hamilton, daughter of George P. prices. This alarmed the Pennsylvanians. Hamilton, married Samuel M. Felton, On the 18th day of December, 1767, Esq now of Cincinnati, largely engaged , the Indian traders at Fort Pitt drew up a in railroad management. There were petition to George Croghan, Esq., (Sir other children, but I cannot recall their William Johnson’s deputy), and drged names. Mary Hamilton m. secondly him to lay their grievances before Johnson Colonel Robert Stewart, a prominent law- and General Gage, to compel Colonel yer and ironmaster of Pittsburgh. She Cresap to take out a license under the - | was a lad) of great dignity and accom terms samp they were guided by. Ap- plishments, and is yet remembered by parently to make their petition stronger, friends who have written to me recently they alleged that Captain John Peters, a of her lovely character. Delaware chief, was murdered through Mr. McFarquahr seems to have gone the machinations of Colonel Thomas from Galbraith’s Ferry to Rankin’s Ferry Cresap. This petition was signed by at the foot of Conewago falls, thence to Devereaux Smith, James Milligan, Daniel Mr. Elliot’s, at the head of the falls. Elliot, Alex, Lowrey, Baynton, Wharton The next family he visited resided in Morgan, and & John Campbell Joseph Donegal, east side of Conewago creek, as Spear. June Daniel Elliot On 25, 1772, follows: purchased two hundred and ten acres of 31. Robert Thompson. land at the mouth of Conewago creek on Sarah Thompson. the north side, and two-thirds of an Thomas Thompson. island opposite to that creek, contaming Alexander Thompson. more than three hundred acres. This Eleanor Thompson. land ho bought from Joseph Galloway, Mary Thompson. the Tory. Here he established a Sarah Thompson. trading post and store. In the year 1775 Robert Thompson, the heal of this he married Elizabeth Lowrey (born Octo- family, died in 1779, and left a large es- ber 31, 1767), daughter of Colonel Alex. tate. Eleanor, m. James Allison. Mary, Lowrey. At the time Mr. McFarquahr m. James McAlister. This family recalled they were probably living on the moved from Donegal shortly after the Island. They had two children, John death of Mr. Thompson. and Mary. Mrs. Elliot probably died a I am at a loss to locate the road Mr. year or two after this visit. About the McFarquahr traveled back to Chickies. i close of the Revolutionary war, Mr. Elliot — —

He id not go over the Peters’ road, nor the Indian trader, has turned did he travel along the Paxtang and Cones- up unex- pectedly. located at Conoy toga road. The two families below prob- He creek Where the Paxtang and Conestoga ably resided between Ooaoy creek and road ’32, i crossed, about the year 1731 or Donegal Church. I may be able hereafter to locate them. He biiilt the “Bear Tavern” prior to 1735, where he remained until the year 32. Samuel Woods. he riiiieS Mr3. Woods, Junr. 1746, when moved three and a half further west, to creek, Mrs. Woods, Senr. Conewago Nathan Woods. Where he built a grist and saw mill. This David Woods. I Was along the road leading from the “Bear William Woods. Tavern” to a point near where Humm-ls- Jannet Woods. tpwn now is. On July 15, 1751, Thomas Margaret Woods. Harris and Ills wife, Mary, sold the “Bear "tavern” and farm at LaSarus Elizabeth Woods, a child. CdnojTO Lowrey, Peter Cross. another Indian trader. There is hot a Stollc or log left, to indicate where 33. William Mercer, X com. Captain Jannet Mercer, X com. Harris’ mill stood. The ditch which carried John Mercer, the water from the mill is visible. William Mercer. He convoyed his farm and mill to lus son, Matthew, Thomas Mercer. about the year 1765, and removed to Martha Mercer. j Deer creek, Sarah Alison. Harford county, Md. He subsequently removed from Maryland to John C. Def ranee. the Juniata Valley, where he died. 3d. Richard McClure. He married Ishmael Keys. Mary McKinney, of Dcrrv township, I now Dauphin county. The John Samuel Evans. Harris (iii) was his son | (not grandson) Columbia, Pennsylvania. ; After Matthew Ilirris sold his land at j Conewago, about the year 1767, the family NOTES AND QUERIES. j seems to have disappeared from Lancaster county. Samuel Evans. Historical, Biographical and Genea- =—= » « logical. — 4— SOME CUMBERLAND COUNTS LXXI. WORTHIES.

The Hessians Captured at Trenton. Capt. Robert Peebles. Inquiry is made for lists of the Hessians Robert Peebles, son of James Peebles, taken prisoners at Trenton, December 26, was born about 1750 ia West. Pennsbor 1776, ana who were paroled and quartered ough township, Cumberland county. His at York and other places in interior Penn- father came Irora the North of Ireland sylvania. It is doubtful if any of these and settled west of the Susquehanna about lists have been preserved, Skve among the the year 1745. The sou was brought up ferchiVCf. of Great Britain or the Hessian on the paternal farm, and received the

j principalities, as all the mercenaries were usual education afforded the pioneer set-

’ properly accounted for, the dead and miss- tlers. When the War of the Revolution ing paid for, and the living returned to was opened he was quite active in the ser- their respective Governments; they did vice, enlisi ing in the Jersey campaign of j not remain in Pennsylvania. 1776. In 1777 he was appointed one of the justices of the peace for Cum- Monument to Conrad Weiser. There berland county, but shortly after — \ is no man of the Provincial era who accepted the commission of second lieu- {

stands out in bolder relief upon the his- tenant of the Seventh Regiment of the i

; toric pages of Pennsylvania than Conrad Pennsylvania Line; promoted first lieu- Weiser; and we hail with delight the re- tenant April 15th, 1779; transferred to the commendation by Morton L. Montgomery, Fourth Regiment of the Line January Esq., of Reading, at a recent meeting of 17, 1781, and subsequently to the Third ' the Board of -Trade of that city* to erect Regiment January 1, 1?83. After the war ft monument to his memory. No one in he held the po ition of colouel in the j

I our histcry better deserves this rccogni- militia. He was appointed the first post-

I tion at the hands of the present genera- master at Shippensburg in 1790, and repre- tion. His services were of a character sented his county in the General Assembly which excites the admiration of all, and from 1802 to 1804. He died on his farm, especially of that race Which ha3 largely near Shippensburg, June 29, 1809, and is tended to make our great State the buried at Middle Spring church graveyard 1 garden

i of America. Since the lporenteut has Col. Peebles was twice married; his fir.-t

1 been inaugurated, Id tile ’“Pennsylvania- wife, Mary, died August 11, 1791, aged 30 J German Society,” with the “Society of years; his second wife, name unknown, Colonial Wars,” lend a helping hand afterwards married James Lowrey. ; so as to make it a successful one. We bid the enterprise “God speed”, with the Major William Maxwell. promise of our “mite.” William Maxwell, a native of the North of Ireland, came to Pennsylvania about Thomas Harris (W. cC Q. Ixx). — the year 1733 and settled in what was Our old friend Captai n Thomas Harris. I ~~ • ‘ -. . i v as . i

subsequently Peters township, Cumber- north along Little duckies creek, north land county, now in Franklin, where he of the present town of Mount J oy. Pat- took up a large tract of land. He must rick Hays was First Lieutenant in Cap- j have been a man of prominence, for lie tain Huah Pedan’s company in Colonel was commissioned major of Col. Benja- Lowrey’s battalion in 1777, and was in of in fall of j min Chambers ’ associated regiment the battle of Brandywine the Lancaster county, “over the River Sas- that year. He married a daughter of quahanna, ” in 1747-48, organized for the Alexander McNutt, with whom the Pat- protection of the frontiers. Major Max- tersons and Carrs were also connected. well died in October, 1777, and is proba- Susannah Hays died April 22, 1798, bly buried in the Presbyterian graveyard aged 57 years. at Mercersbut g, of which church he was Daniel Hays died July 16, 1805, aged 4 an elder in 1767. He left a wife, Susanna, years. and children as follows: James Hays, died July 3d, 1805, aged

i. Patrick. 42 years.

ii. James. 36. William Cowan, X Com. in. Mary; m. William McDowell, Mrs. Cowan, X Com. to. Catharine; m. Nathan McDowell, Samuel Cowan. o. [a dau.\\ m. George Brown. Robert Cowan. vi. Bath; in. William Reynolds. Joseph Cowan. Rebecca Cowan. Capt. James Maxwell. Margaret Cowan. James Maxwell, son of Major William 37. Samuel Robertson X Com. Robertson Com. Maxwell, Was born in Ireland about 1737, I Jean X being an infant at the period of his James Robertson. j William Robertson. father’s settlement in America. He grew I Thomas Robertson. up on the paternal farm. At the outbreak i of the French and Indian war he was in Samuel Robertson.

j the Provincial service, and was comtnis- Fanny Rae. J sioned May, 1758, one of the en- Helen Norman. J signs in the new levies commanded 38. Alathew Grier X. by Col. Hugh Mercer. He was Alary Grier X. Thomas Grier. appointed, June 7, 1777, one of the justices of the peace for Cumberland county, James Grier, a child. ; Rebecca Grier. holding the commission until March 21, I 1781. When the act creating the county Nancy Grier. j of Franklin was passed by the Assembly 39. Alexander Porter X Com. he35.was named as one of the commissioners Elizabeth Porter X Com. to erect the court house and jail. Under Samuel Porter. the constitution of 1790, Gov. Mifflin Joseph Porter. appointed him an associate judge of the Alexander Porter. courts, a position he held from August 17, Joseph Porter was Lieutenant Colonel 1791, to the year of his death in 1819. He Fifth Battalion, Lancaster county militia, I was a gentleman of prominence in the Alarch 20, 1781. early history of Franklin county. 40. Alexander Daisy X Com. Ann Daisy X Com. Jean Daisy. ROLL Of DONEGAL CHURCH IN 41. Starrat, Com. 1 77G. James X Sarah Starrat, X Com. VII. James Starrat. William Starrat. “Little Chiclteese.” Robert Starrat. Patrick Hays. David Starrat. Mrs. Hays. John Starrat. Susannah Hays. Charles Starrat, a child. David Hays. Nathaniel Starrat. James Hays. Frances Starrat. Robert Ilays. Mary Starrat. Agnew Hays. James Sterrett, sen., resided a few miles Mary Whitley. northwest of Alount Joy. He died in Patrick Hays was the son of David 1808, aged 86 years; and was born near Hays, and was born on his lather’s farm 'the place he died. along Big Cbickies creek, in Raplio town- James Sterrett, jun., m. first Miss Han- ship, about one mile and a-half below where nah, and by her had two sons, James and the Harrisburg pike crosses the creek. Samuel. He m. secondly, Margaret Mc- Patrick Hays’ father gave him several Clure, of the Cumberland Valley, and had five children, Mary Robert Sarah Wil- hundred acres of land along Little , , ,

liam and David the latter dying in in- ' Chickies creek in Raplio township, about ,

fancy. 1 two miles south of Alt, Joy. The land is Mr. Sterrett in 1806 removed to now owned by Dr. Andrew Garber, of Tusc-u’ora Valley, where he died in 1812.

' Alount Joy. Here we find Mr. McFar- Of the foregoing, Robert Sterrett, who m.

quabr, and he seems to have moved in a Margaret Patterson, was the father of the , circle around this point, and then started Hon. J. P. Sterrett, Chief Justice of the

| Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; William I m. Raclicl Thompson," by whom he hail Joseph Little. two sons, both living. Polly Young. Nathaniel Sterrett, Robert , John sod 40. Joseph Little. sons of the first James, settled in the Mrs. Little. Kishaeoquillas Valley, and left numerous Mary MacLillenny. descendants. Charles Sterrett, mentioned Isaac Helsy. by Mr. McFarquahras “a child,” removed Joseph Little was a son of Ephraim to the Genesee Valley, in New York. Little, and was born in Donegal to wn- of Dickinson Frances in. Samuel Woods, ship (now Mount Joy) November 17, they township, Cumberland county, and 1737, and died October 23, 1788. He was were the parents of Rev. James Sterrett a Revolutionary soldier. Woods, D. D., of the Presbyterian Nathaniel Little (48) was a sergeant in Church, of whose sons, Samuel S., David Captain David McQueen’s company, in W. a?.d William H., are prominent attor- Col. Lowrey’s battalion, in 1777. He was neys, while Alexander M. followed the killed in an engagement with the British footsteps of his father. in December, 1777, near Chestnut Hill. 42. Richard Johnston. He left one son, Joseph, who married Grace Hannah Johnston. Pedan, daughter of Captain Hugh Pedan, Hugh Johnston. Samuel Scott Pedan Lytle, of Mount William Johnston. Joy, is a son of Joseph and is one of a Margaret Johnston. very few of the descendants of our Ann Johnston. Scotch-Irish ancestors who are row This family removed from the neigh- living within the bounds of Old Donegal borhood during the Revolutionary war. Church. 43. Benjamin Mills. 50. Samuel McCracken. William Mills. Bathsheba McCracken, an infant. Sarah Mills. 51. Hugh Graham, X. Com. Rachel Mills. Susannah Graham, X. Com. Auny Mills. Robert Graham, 1 Part. Rachel Clark. Jean Graham. Benjamin Mills was second lieutenant Eiiz. Graham. in Col. Lowery’s Battalion in 1777 and 52. Alexander Kennedy. 1780. Joseph Kennedy, 7th Comd. 44. Mrs. Boggs, X Com. Robert Ellis. John Boggs. Nancy Davidson. Rebecca Boggs, X Com. Elizabeth Graham. Nancy Boggs, Com. Mr. McFarquahr has been travelling Elizabeth Boggs. along or near Little Chickies creek in a At this time Mrs. Boggs was a widow. westerly and northwesterly direction She was either a Sterrett or Lytle. It is from Mount Joy borough. I will leave possible that she was the widow of James him in Howard’s Valley until next week. Boggs, son of Andrew. I have not been Samuel Evans. able to get a clue to this family. They Columbia , Penna. were large landholders. 45. Thomas Wily, X Com. NOTES Rebecca Wily, X Coin. AND QUERIES. Rebecca Wily, widow, X Com. Historical, Biographical and Genea- William Wily. logical. Alexander Wily. John Wily. LXXII. Mary Wily, X Com. Rebecca Wily. "X Com.”—Inquiry has been made as Martha Wily. to the meaning of this term in “Roll of This family came from the North of Donegal church in 1776.” “Com.” is Ireland. They left the neighborhood more intended for communicant—the X, those than a hundred yearn ago. About the examined by Rev. McFarquahr; “7th same period another family of this name Comt”—refers to Seventh Command- came from the North of Ireland, and a ment, the person named probably con- descendant is one of the present trustees fessed violation of same. of Donegal church. 46. Joseph Templeton, Com. AN HISTORICAL, PAY ROLL. Ester Templeton, Com. unusual Jo. Templeton. A Revolutionary document of Jannet Templeton interest has come to light. In the absence Templeton. of many rolls of private soldiers it is Elizabeth | Mary Templeton. gratifying to obtain “An account of monies furnished by Lewis Pintard to 47. Janet Little, X Com. prisoners Ephraim Little, X Com. American officers, of war on 6.” the names Jean Little. Long Island, 177 We copy colo- Elizabeth Little. only of Pennsylvanians, yet all the in that suffered Jo, Tunnilly. nies had soldiers the army Island Hugh Rodgers. in the defeat and retreat at Long August 24 and 25, 1776. There has been 48. Nathaniel Little. respecting the Christian Little, Com. some sharp controversy service of privates in the army of the ......

. 1121L4 8 Revolution. A private was of as much 0 Thing, McAllister s, . 31 10 consequence in this trying period as an Hugh Samuel Lindsay, Montgome s 157 12 0 officer, but owing to defective care in G 9 Martin, Proctor’s. . 106 “ William I preserving the earliest rolls of Associa- s 31 10 0 ” tors their descendants are deprived of 11 0 Thomas Millard, Pa. M.. . 9 the honor all attach to ancestry so patri- 4 Joseph Morrison, McAllister s . 150 15 otic and so successful. Here and there 9 Henry Morfit, 5th Pa . 133 18 among family papers a memoranda or re- 15 5 Godfrey Meyer, Baxter’s . 150 ceipt is brought to light, often without 12 6 Robert Patton, Swoope’s. . . . 157 date, and almost invariably without avail- 9 William Preston, Knox’s Art, . 112 14 able proof to show the holder was a 1 . 192 9 soldier. Without the Quakers and other 0 John Rudolph, 5th Pa. . 150 15 non-combatant religionists, or open 3 4 Isaac Shimer, Baxter’s . 147 tories, nearly every household from the . 100 7 71 Allegheny mountains to the Delaware in 5 9 John Wm. Annis, Art’y. . 43 Pennsylvania had fathers, brothers or . v 3 Thomas Armstrong, Erwin’s, . 112 12 sons in the ranks of the early Associators, 12 7 William Bell, Clotz’s . 150 so that almost every family in the eastern 19 3 Matthew Bennet, Baxter’s. . 156 part of the Province can claim revolu- 13 0 Gabriel Blackeney, Watts’ . . . 150 tionary descent, but many are unable to 4 4 George Brewer, 4th Pa . . . 132 prove it, owing to the loss and destruction 146 19 0 Robert Brown, Baxter’s. . of important papers. One can only hope 10 Ebenezer Carson, 10th Pa, . 119 8 further information may yet be found to 9 Abner Carter, Mcllvain’s. .. 112 14 establish the identity of the privates from 3 Aaron Chew, 2d Mil . 119 12 Pennsylvania who marched to Boston, to . 10 o Henry Clayton, Swoope’s. . 31 Quebec, to Long Island and New York in . . 20 5 0 John Connelly »• • of the conflict. Upon the earliest days .. 112 14 9 any occasion of alarm the farmers of the Joseph Cox, 6th Pa ..121 2 6 interior were called upon to perform 7 John Craig, Baxter’s . 150 15 military service in and around Philadel- John Crawford, Watts’ .. 150 15 7 phia. That city behaved very well, but 0 . . 10 William Crawford, 5tb Pa . 157 the “sons of the mountains” behaved John Cunningham, 2d Lane, c o. 112 12 5 better. There were no tories amongst 10 0 Robert Darlington, Watts’. . . 31 the latter to qualify their earnestness in r Hezekiah Davis, Montgomery ’s 150 10 8 the cause. 10 0 ^Benjamin Davis, Swoope’s. . . 31 £ s. d. 9 Am'lrew Dover, „5th Pa . . 102 10 COLONELS. John Duguid, 3d Pa ..154 2 7 .. . 0 0 15 5 Michael Swoope, FI: Camp. 51 John Ir-win, Baxter’s . . 189 Robert Magaw, 6th Pa 123 6 10 Abner EVeritt, Baxter’s .. 115 16 5 19 6 ljuke Marbury, 11th P. M 128 9 10 . . 139 18 2 LIEUT. COLONEL. John Finley, 5th Pa .. 150 47 9 2 John Antill, Hazen’s 340 15 9 Samuel Fisher, Murray’s. .. MAJORS. ensigns. 43 14 4 Jacob Somer, Pa. Mil. . . • . . Francis Murray, 13th Pa 100 3 5 3 . 31 14 George Wright 43 5 9 .. 150 10 8 OAPTAINS. 31 10 0 Jacob Morgan, Swoope’s. . . . 2d Pa 112 14 7 150 15 5 Robert Stayner, Jacob Mumme, Baxter’s... . . Bernard Ward, Atlee’s 165 1 5 Thomas Reed, McAllister’s. 31 10 0 John Stotesbury, 11th Pa 79 7 7 Samuel Rutherford, Clotz’s 31 10 0 Wallace, Montgom- 112 14 9 Benjamin John Green, Bucks co . . ery’s 31 10 0 CORNET. Sam’l Culverson, Montgomery’s 31 10 0 ! 10 18 9 Peter Decker, 5tli Pa 31 10 0 John Thilsy, Baylor’s I

Baron De Uertritz, Armand’s. . 115 19 5 SURGEON. Nathaniel Galt, Pa. Navy 118 9 10 Jacob Groul, Lutz’s 31 10 0 Henry Hambright, Clotz’s 31 10 0 Edward Heston, 9th Pa 112 12 0 QUARTERMASTER. John McDonald, Swoope’s 3110 0 Ephraim Douglass, 8th Pa 139 19 5 103 19 5 Robert Sample, 10th Pa FORAGE-MASTER. Francis Grase, Pa. Navy 125 9 2 107 18 9 LIEUTENANTS. Mark ‘Garrett ADJUTANT. James Smith, Proctor’s 47 5 0 William Standly, 5th Pa 150 15 7 John Johnson, Baxter’s 150 15 0 Charles Turnbull, Proctor’s ... 139 0 2 BRIGADE MAJOR. 3d Pa 79 11 1 Joel Westcott, 148 19 G Thomas Wynn, Montgomery’s. 150 15 4 John Harper William Young, McAllister’s.. 157 15 4 SUB-LIEUTENANT. John Holliday, Watts' 150 10 8 Casper Guyer, Phila 43 13 0 Watts’ 150 13 2 Ephraim Hunter, Notes. David Jamison, Baxter’s 31 10 0 Flying Thomas Janney, 5th Pa 152 G 2 Michael Swoope, York county, James Jones, 8th Chester co.. 112 14 9 Camp. 1

•township. He located sfx hundred acres FredericklVatfs, Cumberland county, in the valley extending north from his Plying Camp. dwelling in Mount Joy township, Richard McAllister, York county, i ly- which was known from that time ing Camp. to the present as “Howard’s Valley.” Moses Hazen, a native of Ganada, com- This land was bounded by land owned by mander of a Pennsylvania regiment known the following persons, several of whom as “Congress’, Own.” were also Indian traders, and heads of Arthur Erwin, Bucks county, Flying prominent families: Thomas Baily, John Camp. Wilkins, Samuel Smith, sr., Thomas Wil- William Baxter, Bucks county, Flying kins, Michael McClearyand StewartRowan. Camp. He was killed at Fort Washing- Mr. Howard was county commissioner Ion, New York, 1776. for the yearn 1735-6-7. I do not know William Montgomery, Chester county, who his first wife was. After his chil- Flying Camp. dren and grandchildren grew up, on April Samuel John AtLee, of the Pennsylva- 16, 1751, at the Lutheran parsonage in nia Musketry Battalion. Lancaster, he married Rachel Ramsey, Thomas Proctor, of the Pennsylvania then the widow of John Ramsey, uncle of Artillery. Two officers in the army of the historian of the name. Her first hus- 1776, John and Thomas, both were taken band was Capt. John Wilkins, an prisoners at the battle of Long Island. Indian trader, who owned five hundred Nicholas Lutz, Berks county, Flying acres adjoining the Howard land. He Camp. was in Cresap’s war, and was captured Peter Kechline, Northampton county, and taken to Maryland and thrown into Flying Camp. Annapolis jail. He died in 1741. He .Armand, a French officer, afterwards was the father of Captain John Wilkins, Col. “Partisan Legion.” who married the daughter of Charles Joseph Mcllvaine, of Bucks county, Rowan, who lived with his brother, Stew- Fifth Battalion. ard Rowan, next to Howard’s. Captain Baylor, Philadelphia. Wilkins moved to Carlisle, thence to Jacob CloU, Lancaster county, Flying Pittsburgh. He married twice and was Camp. the father of ten children by each wife. Robert Brown, of Northampton county. Gordon Howard died in March, 1754, leav- He served 18 years in Congress, and fre- ing his wife, Rachel, and children as fol- fluently in the Assembly. lows: Dau- i. Benjamin |Wallace, of Hanover, Thomas, Indian trader; owned farm phin county, was a Judge after the war. near Donegal church. He married a sister of Dr. Benjamin Kush, ii. Joseph; m. a daughter of Hays, a signer of the Declaration of Independ- of Rapho. He was the last of Gordon ence. Howard’s sons who occupied his father’s Major Pintard resided in New Jersey; lands. At his dwelling, Mr. McF. made was at one time sent by the Pennsylvania his roll of the family. He died in a year Committee of Safety to Gen. Washing- or two after this roll was made out. His ton, and by him to Gen. Howe relative to widow occupied pew No. 28, in the year an exchange of prisoners. a. b. H. 1788. A hundred years ago this family entirely disappeared from Donegal. Some ROUL OF DOUEUAL CHURCH IN of them removed to Juniata Valley. 1776 . Hi. James; married Ann and had , issue: vm 1. Martha. 2. David. 52. Jo. Howard. 3. Mary. Mrs. Howard, X Com. 4. Thomas. Jas. Howard. 5. Joseph. Thomas Howard, 1 Part L. C. 6. John. Joseph Howard, 1 Part L. C. i iv. WiUiam; died in 1763. Howard. John v. Robert; m. Sarah , and re- | David Howard. moved from Donegal in 1763. Martha Howard. vi. Rebecca; m. James Allison, who also Mary Howard, 1 Part L. C. resided in Donegal. William Patterson, (died soon after Allison, also mi. [Adau.\ m. Samuel the roll was made out.) of Donegal. father of Jo. Gordon Howard, the viii. Martha; m. George Irwin, a store- Howard, was the brother of Su- keeper in York, who was living there in sanna, wife of Capt. James Patterson, 1767. deceased in the Indian trader, who ix. Susanna; m. Charles McClure, who the fall of 1735. He came to moved to Carolina prior to 1767. Donegal as early as 1720 and settled along After the death of Gordon Howard his the old Paxtang and Conestoga road (now sons endeavored to deprive his widow Lancaster and Harrisburg turnpike) about Rachel from enjoying the income of the two miles and a half west of Mount Joy one-third of their father’s property. Mrs. borough. He was from the first an In- Howard carried her case from the lower to dian trader and had his trading post on the Supreme Court, and gained her suit. Mr. Hershey, the farm now owned by She was the daughter of Robert McFar- on the south side of the road in Donegal , s

nrst wife 1 ue. His t itkFotpatv a | his farm, which land and was born on where Mount of ' was about one mile south of father The, the Little Chickies wifehad a brotner Joy borough is, along secondlyi chddreD He C1 ex- they bad n° “Robert Muirhead district’’ Hannah Boyd; and The his nephews a farm to Howard a valley. gave each of tended on the east to Donegal Church. s he tiav- left a hundred pounds After Mr. Mc.F. left Howard dwelling a He built the large stone an easterly direction. eled in of the **'«**'£?% Curry. Stance & died Archibald m 53. the creek. Mr. Scut Margaret Curry. closeno James Curry. M became When Rev. Colin McFarquahr Hugh Curry. church m the Ml the pastor of Donegal William Kelly, Com. at Mr. Scott s, 54. of 1776 he mi.de his home Mrs. Kelly. remained for lea ye rS where lie hep?. Jo. Kelly. came ovc^ fromf gScotlandotland Kelly. his family Betty farm in Ho purchased a \ thee Ruth Kelly. M het i me “ his xatnet s from the Cunninghams. Kelly was born on this family, William ' quarters jn 11 minister took his river, adjoining C?1 farm at the ? ,?* by 1 married Susannn the tavern was conducted ? north. He scOho . rev’s on the a nephew ot Mi. of James Anderson, Pednn who was Anderson daughter werei Josiah Anderson. He Samud Scott’s toothers Rso son of Rev. James A-l#nder bc^. the Howaids Scott, Abraham Scott, moved to the vicinity of landholders A an road. He was They became large alone the old Paxtang in tberrenchand county in the der Scott was a captain elected sheriff of Lancaster th ba who removed Indian wars, and was at 1777-8. Col. Kelly, 1758 l bere vear county, Loyal Hannan in the fall of Donegal to Northumberland Scotts some from sisters ot these in the Revolutionary were several and was prominent before they leU Ire family. There are no of whom married war was of the a Mr- Fe this county land. Griselda married of this family in Scott descendants married Ann , p after he left Mr. Arthur Patterson Mr. McFarquahr, ‘ he arrived at ably before they came to Kellv’s did not stop until and duiingthelnIa . at Big Chickies He was a blacksmith, Samuel Scott’s tavern swords and bayonets for ten years dian wars he made creek, where he boarded He settled Evans. soldiers and officers Samtjel for the about two Samuel Scott’s and owned Columbia Pa. near , acres of land in B thousand p rg 3 1765, age y ship. He died July , NOTES AND QUERIES. Ann, died May, l' 92 His widow, , yL j and Genea- in 1711, Historical, Biographical Agnew, born in Ireland logical. James leaned blacksmith and probably was a His with Arthur Patterson LXXIlf. his trade _ sister of Samud first, wife was a Scott, ,, wife was also a Scott, Family in Look.—News i A^it. His second The Hetrick Samuel Scott g received that the Hetrick who was his cousin. have just been | Little farm in Rapho, near family, of Pennsylvania, have fallen heirs , Agnew a the year 1731) Mr. creek. About ' to seven million dollars in Germany. We Chickies to Marsh Cieek, would suggest to those who are inclined Agnew removed Agnews were intermarried to be “ duped,” not to place any depend- ! county. The the statement, and hold fast with the Hays family. ence upon of tne Scot is evi- Moore married one what they have. Some person James he large landholder. I dently desirous of making money. There girls. He was a Chickies creek lying around loose in. Moores settled near Big are no huge fortunes came. awaiting years before the Scotts Europe or any other country, several , Com. claimants. 56. Capt. Pedan, X Mrs. Pedan, X Com. ROUE OF DONEGAL CHURCH IN Grace Pedan. 1776 . James Beard. . . Hugh Pedan’s mother, Griselda, Capt. Pedan IX was the sister of the Scotts. Hugh uncle s. Capt. was a lieutenant in his Chickeese. hrenen Big Alexander Scott’s company mthe took 55. Samuel Scott. and Indian wars. Captain Penan the Revo- Hannah Scott. charge of Scott’s tavern prior to Dunbar. he continued to keep Jo. r lutionary war, which Scotts came from the 1800 aged 75. This family of until his death in October, settled along the Pax- inCol.Lowrey north of Ireland and He was the eighth captain road, where it crossed the battles tang and Conestoga ^ittalion in 1777, and was at 1727. Mr “Big Chickeese,” in the year ^Brandywine, Germantown and in the hundred acres of Grace, Scott took up several Jersey campaign. His daughter, grist and saw mill and a i Lytlm as land and built a on the list, married Joseph hundred \ tavern, which, for more than a Her uncle Samuel Scott aceumu- previously stated. years, was a noted hostelry. He to jted money rapidly, and can.e^ own : ;

gave urm me tavern property and one Betty hundred and fifty acres. John Pedan and Moor, X Com. Moor. Samuel Pedan, nephews of Samuel Scott, James also got a farm each from Mr. Scott, Arthur Moor. That great minister of the Gospel, poli- Samuel Moor. tician and statesman, Manassali Cutler, Ephraim Moor. on his return from the Ohio took break- William Moor. fast at Capt. Scott’s, in Elizabethtown, Molly King. September 2G, 1788. From there he rode Ephraim Moore (son of James Moore, married Miss Scott) married his first nine miles to Capt, Pedan ’s at “Big who Chickeese,” and states in his journal that cousin, Elenor Patterson, a daughter of Mrs. Pedan gave him “Jerusalem cher- Arthur Patterson, who married Ann Scutt. ries and Yanderver’s apples, fine summer Zachariah Moore died in the fall of 1776.

I Spears. sweetings, bill Is. Gd.” Went to “Lan- G4. Robert caster, nine miles; saw a great many Mrs. Spears. wagons loaded with flour for Newport. ’’ Ann Spears. 57. William Wilson X. Margaret Speara. Ann Wilson. Mary Spears. Thomas Wilson. Katharine Spears. Jo. Wilson. James Richard. Mr. Wilson was lieutenant in Captain This family resided in Hempfield town- t. Pedan’s Joseph Work’s company, Col. Lowrey’s ship, about a mile below Cap land is now owned by Messrs. battalion, in 1777. This family removed tavern. The

! Musser. late Robert from the bounds of Donegal during the Hostetter and The of Columbia, was a son of the Revolutionary War. I Spear, Esq., William Spear, another son, moved 58. William Chamberlain, X. above. Mary Chamberlain. to the Juniata, and was one of the found- Arthur Chamberlain. ers of Williamsburg, Pa William Chamberlain. Samuel Evans. Columbia Pa. 59. Alexander Scott, X Com. , Mrs. Scott, X Com. Jean Kerr, Com. A REGISTER Susannah McEwen. Of Members of the Moravian Church This family resided in Hempfield town- who Emigrated to Pennsylvania ship, near his brother Samuel. from 1747 to 17G7. 60. Mrs. Mary Scott, widow, X Com. Alexander Scott. Y. Jannet Scott. Jo3iah McGibwine. Arrived, July 15, 1749. Margaret White. John George Remmer, Swabia, farmer. Mr. Rankin, Com. Christian Richter, joiner, married .j V John The father of this family was Josiah J Charlotte Eusz.

{ Scott, who died in 1765 and left a widow, Andrew Rillman, Saxony, stocking- Mary, and children wc&ycr# i. Robert. Frederick Schlegei, weaver, m. Barbara ii. Alexander-, who married first- Arnold. Hays, of the neighborhood; secgaaiy,Miss John Schmidt, Silesia, furrier, m.Doro- Slough, who, after her husbar .thea Voigt. i(p 8 death, married Gov. Snyder. John Christopher Schmidt, fringe and Hi. Ann; who at the time of nor father’s lacemaker, Saxony, m. Magdalena Gruen- death was the wife of Colonel Bertram jberg. Galbraith. JMelchoir Schmidt, carpen ter, Moravia; ^ vo. Esther, I b. 1721; d. Nov 23,1799, at Nazareth, Pa. v. Jean. ! m. Rosina Diez. 61. Thomas Bynes, X Com. Melchoir Schmidt, weaver, Moravia; m. Mrs. Margaret Bynes, X Com. Catherine Fisher. Robert Bynes. Martin Schneider, mason, Moravia. David Bynes. Carl Schultze, mason, Posen; m. Anna Marjory Bynes. Maria Ruff. Margaret Bynes. j Godfred Schultze, farmer, Lower Lu- This family removed from Big Chickies satia; m. Ann M. Dominick. to Cumberland county at or near Hoge- John Schweisshaupt, stokcing weaver, town. Marjory Bynes was the grand- Wurtemberg; m. Magdalena Ridderberg mother of Colonel A. Loudon Snowden. April 20, 1757. In the ministry a few 62. Elizabeth Scot. years. Ann Vans. Andrew Seiffert, carpenter, Bohemia. Vans. - Jo. Thomas Stach, bookbinder, Moravia. Arthur Vans. Rudolph Straeble, mason, Wurtemberg; Mrs. Pedan. " m. Dorothea Nuernberg. These parties resided at this tiur n David Tanneberger, joiner. Upper Si- j of the Scott or Pedan farms, one c. o' lesia Rosina Kernel-. ; m. the old Tavern. John Nicholas Weinland, farmer, m. 63. Mrs. Moor, X Com. Phillapina Loesch, b. Jan. 23, 1723, in Ann Moor. • ( Berks Co., Pa., d. Nov. 28, 1790. Single Women. Just Erd. , Rosina Arndt, rn. C. Kuchnast. Claus Euler. Rosina Barbara Arnold, m. F. Schlegel. Henry Feljhausen. Margaret Ballenhorst. — Feldhausen. Anna Rosina Beyer, m. Daniel Kle'st. Godfrey Fockel. I Maria Beyer. John Gottlieb Fockel. Elizabeth Bieg. Samuel Fockel. Binder. Henry Friz. Catherine . Rosina Dietz, m. Melchoir Schmidt. Andrew Fryhute. Maria Dominick, m. G. Schultze. Lucas Fuss Sophia Margaret Dressier. Christian Giersch. Margaret Drews, m. Even Everson. John George Groen. Charlotte Eis, m. J. C. Richter. Abraham Hasseberg. Maria Elizabeth Engfer. Balthaser Hege. Catherine Fichte, m. G. Berndt. Jacob Heydecker, d. Bethlehem, 1757. Catherine Fischer, m. M. Schmidt. John Jacob Herbst. Rosina Galle, m. Wenzel Bernhord. Samuel Herr. Margaret Groszer, m. John B. Mueller. Jacob Herrman. Helena Gruenberg. m. J. C. Schmidt. John Gottlob Hoffman. Roemmelt. Julia Heberland,ra. Godfrey Thomas Hoffman. Anna Maria Hammer, m. C. Opetz. Christian Henry Hoepfner. Rosina Hans, m. Paul Fritsche. Eric Ingebretsen. Margaret Heindel, Jenecke. Marie Barbara Heindel. John Theobald Kornmann. J anneber- Anna Rosina Kerner, m. D. John Gottleib Lange, saddler, d. Bet la- ger, hem, 1764. Anna Maria Koffler. John Samuel Lauck. Anna Maria Krause. Lauter. Martha Manns. H. Lindemeyer. Magdalena Meyerhoff. Christian Henry Loether. Magdalena Mingo, (negro), She was Carl Ludwig. John, a m. in Bethlehem, 1757, to Samuel Jacob Lung. convert from Ceylon. John George Messner, b. 1715 on Island Anna Maria Nitsche, m. J. G^ Engle. of Rugen; d. St. Thomas, W. I. Dorothea Nuernberg, m. R. Straeble. Christian Matthiessen. Helena Nusz, m. J. Birnbaum. Nicholas Matthiessen. Elizabeth Oertel, m. J. Schneider. Christopher Merkly. Maria Elizabeth Opitz, in. G. Putsch- Jacob Meyer. man. John Stephen Meyer. Catherine Paulsen. Philip Meyer. Anna Ramsberger, b. in Norway; died John Muensch. Lititz, Pa., 1757. Melchoir Muenster. Margaret Catherine Rebstock. John Jacob Nagle. Anna Catherine Remer, m. B. Flex. John Michael Odenwald. Anna Maria Roth, m. Geo. Gold. Nielhock. Juliana Seidel, b. 1728, Nassan; m. Rev. John Matthew Otto [biographical sketch P. C. Bader, 1754; she d. Dec. 8, 1788. has been given in Notes and Queries]. Anna Maria Schmotter. John Ortlieb. Rosina Schuling. Pell. Magdalena Schwartz. Hans Petersen. Rosina Schwartz. Frederick Jacob Pfiel. Dorothea TJhlmann, m. J. L. Gatter- John Michael Pitzmann. meyer. Jacob Priessing. Divert Vogt, m. John Schmidt. John Henry Richling. Susanna Weicht, m. M. Nitschmann; John Richter. murdered by Indiaus Nov. 1755. Godfrey Roesler. Catherine Wentzel, m. H. Fitsche. Daniel Ruenger. John Nitschmann, leader of the Colony, Michael Sauter. ordained a b. 1703, in Moravia; in 1741 Paul Jansen Sclierbeck, d. Bethlehem, Bishop. Returned to Europe, 1751; d. Aug., 1758. May 6, 1772. Henry Schoen. George Schweiger. In June of 1750 the Irene arrived at Christian Schwartz. New York, ha ving on board the “Jorde Gottfred Schwartz. Colony.” ———Strauss. John Andrew Albrecht. John Daniel Lydrich, pastor of churches

Marcus Balffs. Hope, N. J. ; Philadelphia, Graceham, Baumgarten. Md. Henry Bergmann. —Theodoras. Godfrey Boesler. John Andrew Wagenseil. John Andrew Borhicx, b. 1726, Han- Andrew Weber. Zeyst Holland. over. • From , ^Zacharias Eckhard. Christopher Feldhausen. /Walter Ernst. John Christian Haensel. : :

Paul Henning, from German Bohemia, shoemaker. at New York, Saving on board the fol- Henry Gerstberger. lowing persons: Andrew Gross." Anna Maria Beyer. Henry _ Morcke, b. Copenhagen, Sept. Maria Catherine Dietz, Buedingen. 6, 1718; d. Philadelphia, Hot. 1755. Margaret Ebermeyer, Beyruth. Paul Christian Stauber, removed to Dorotha Gaupp, Wurtemberg; d. 1760, North Carolina. as wife of Geitner of Bethlehem. John Thomas. Catharine Gerhardt, Nassau. London, a negro from England. Inger Heyd, Norway; in 1755 m. to Frederick Emmanuel Herrmann. John Jacob Schmick, Indian missionary. 8usanna Maria Herrman. Margaret Catharine Klingelstein, Wur- Frances Steup. temberg. Sophia Steup. Anna Mann, Switzerland ; d. Bethle- hem, Aug., 1757. Agnes Meyer, In September of 1751 the Irene arrived Wurtemberg. Dorothea Miller. at IN ew Y ork with the following colo nists Christina Morbardt, Wurtemberg. Nathaniel Seidel, Proprietary of the Moravian Church estates in America. Regina Neumann, Sihsia. Christian Seidel. Linet Redderberg, Hanover. Joachim Busse. Catharine Ruch. Shultz, widow. John Christian Christiensen, b. 1716 in Felicitas Schuster, Holstein; d. Lititz, Pa., Sept, 177S. Wurtemberg. Margaret Seidner. John Michael Groff; at first employed Anna Sperbach, Saxony. in the educational department of the church in Juliana Warkler, Augsberg. i Pennsylvania; in 1762 sent to J. Jordan. North Carolina; in 1772, ordained a W. Bishop; died 1774. Gertrude Groff, his wife. NOTES AND QUERIES. John Jacob Schmick; became a missionary among the Indians. Historical, Biographical and Genealo- gical. David Zeisberger,the Indian missionary, returning from a visit to Germany. LXXIV. In December, of 1751, the following Diary of Aaron Wright, a Soldier of I colonists came to Bethlehem via New York: the Revolution. — Information is requested as to this diary, extracts from Philip Christian Bader, b. 1715, in which were published by Mr. Dawson in Alsace; graduated at Jena, 1739; entered Historical Magazine. Who can furnish the Moravian ministry, and served in Germany and PennsyUania, the name and address of the present owner? Mrs. Harry Rogers, Nicholas Henry Eberhardt, clergyman. 1822 Spruce street, Matthew Hehl, b. 1704 Wurtemberg; Philadelphia. studied at Tuebingen. Served in the ministry in Pennsylvania, consecrated a Old-Time Postage Rates. Bishop, and d. at Lititz, Dec. 1787. 4, People who are not content with two- Anna Maria Hehl, his wife. clamor- Matthias Kremser. cent letter postage, and who are ing rate, have flour- Henrietta Petermans. for a one-cent should ished sixty or seventy years ago, when the Carl Godfrey Rundt, b. Koenigsberg, postage on an ordinary letter for only an 1713, joined the Missionaries in 1751, and ordinary distance represented a half a served in the Indian Mission and rural day’s wages of many a working man in congregations. Died at Bethlehem, Aug. those days. I have a number of letters 17, 1764. that were written between the years 1826 and 1852. There were then neither en- In March of 1752, the Irene arrived at velopes nor stamps, and the postage was New York, with the following colonists generally the office of delivery. Francis Boehler. paid at A letter sent from Massachusetts to Ohio Anna Catherine Boehler. was charged twenty-five cents, and this Andrew Anton Lawatsch, served in the rate of postage rural congregations. seems to have been generally down to 1838. In 1839 the rate Anna Maria Lawatsch, his wife, m. n. was reduced to eighteen and three-fourth Demuth; b. Moravia, 1712; married 1738' the prevailing rate died 1760. cents, and this was it became ten Rosina Pfohl, widow. down to about 1843, when to and Wernhanner, matron. cents, and so continued down 1852, | perhaps later. These old letters of mine II Jacob Wahnert, widower. generally passed between Whately, Frank- Jacob Rogers, b. in England, clergyman. lin county, Mass., and Blairsville, Indiana In 1756 he md. Ann Molly, dr. William county, Pa. The rates between the several Parsons, some time Surveyor General of dates above were not always uniform, one Penna. She died in North Carolina 1756. letler written in 1832 cost only eighteen Rogers returned to England. and three-fourth cents, and one in 1812 was chanted twenty-five cent-*. Why this On November 20, 1752, the Irene arrived j variation I do not know.

‘ Pittsburgh Pa. I' J uar.man. , :

GllEl&K PAMILT. THE hurch in The records of Carnmoney C and Jean [From a memoranda & -t;t u:i concerning 1785 show that “David Barr proclaimed to be 1 «<• following, which 1t is family, glean llie (Jannet) Creigh ^^re inti rest, of t lie re i.lcrs 21, 1786, Pro- no don '-.f will some married,” and again, May i > • • David < ? i s 1 1 i tH *r- married ol' Note* and Queries. A < 1 claimed 2nd time not lne matiou is desirod]: Barr, of Donagar, and Jane Creigh. Kirkpati ick In the reign of James I, A. D. 1600- same records show that Hugh 1620, the family of Creigh (Creich) emi- and Mary Creigh were married June lb. grated from Germany. The name is of 178ft. , , , or April 12, German origin, and signifies War, John Ceeigu (4) left Ireland | reads: Warrior. They settled in the North of 1761. A memoranda made by him Scotland, possibly in Southerland County, “John Creigh took his departure from as a town there still bears the name. Belfast, in Ireland, the 12, April, 1761, After remaining in Scotland for about and landed at Philadelphia, the 19, May, sixty years, a branch of the family re- the same year. On our passage lost sight moved to Ireland, and settled on land be- ol Irel and April 20,1761. Until we saw the tween Belfast and Carriekfergus, near the Capes of Delaware was 27 days. Sailed Whitehouse, County of Antrim. The from Belfast 12 April, 1761, touched at family were Protestants, and lett Ger- Larne, where we lay some days, come in religion. and ianded at many on account of their From view of Cape May, 1761, |

the earliest information we have, they Philadelphia 19 May, 1761. " He arrived i were known as Protestants or Dissenters, in East Pennsboro township, Cumber- Strict Calvinists, and subsequently known land county, Pennsylvania, June 1, 1761, as Presbyteiians. The first definite men- and became acquainted with Mr. Samuel tion of the name, was of John Creigh (1) Huston in whose family he remained, b. in Scotland in 16—. We do not know teaching school and engaging in survey- the exact date of his going into Ireland, ing until September, 1762, when here- but his son, John Ceetgh, was born in moved to Carlisle, where he continued to Templepatrick, Ireland, in 1680, and mar- reside. He was the first person who taught j

ried in 1708. The Baptis- Philadelphia, and had i Mary , surveying west of mal record of Carnmoney church shows a great many pupils. He filled many im- the baptism of five children of in county after the date of portant positions his j John Creigh (2) and Mary Creigb, viz. war, April 10, 1777, he was commissioned Elizabeth Creigh, xbr. 23, 1712; Mary Recorder of Deeds for Cumberland Creigh, February 3, 1715; Thomas Creigh, County, Pennsylvania. In 1785 he was April 23, 1717; John Creigh, xbr. 17,1718. elected and served as a Member of the The records also show that Mary Creigh Assembly. December 9, 1797, he was ap-

was married June 4, 1734, when she was pointed by Governor Mifflin an Associate ; 19 years of age, to James Boggos, and in Judge for Cumberland county, which 1750, James Boggos married Ann Blair. office he held until his death, February 17, If there were any children by the first 1813. He was a Ruling Elder in the marriage they would bear the name of First Presbyterian Church of Carlisle for Boggos, and are unknown now. No men- many years, and was greatly beloved by tion is made of either of the other chil- all who knew him. dren except Thomas Creigh. Thomas Ceeigh (3) was bom at Carn- IROLL OF DONEGAL CHURCH IN money, April 23, 1717, and married 1 77G, Janette McCreerie, September 22, 1740.

j We have the record of eight children that X. were born to them, viz: John, Agnes, Mary, who married Hugh Kirkpatrick, 65. David Hays. Janette, David, Jane, who married Hugh Jo. Hays, Com.

McCleary, and Thomas. The baptismal I Jean Hays, Com. record at Carnmony, shows the date of Elizabeth Hays. baptism of all these except Jane, who was David Hays. the youngest daughter. Mrs. S. L. Woods, I Mary Hays.

of Virginia, granddaughter of Thomas i Sarah Hays. Creigh, writing Dec. 20, 1881, says: “I Jo. Hays. have always understood that my grand- Elizabeth Eddies. father was killed during the Catholic re- The head of this family was a son of bellion, as he was sitting over his gold, David Hays, the pioneer settler who lo- which he had concealed from them, cated five hundred acres of land in Done- which together with his opposition to gal township about 1727, now in the them, made them very cruel.” Janette township of Riplio. This land was on Creigh, after the death of her husband, the west side of Big Chickies creek and Thomas Creigh, came to America, with opposite to Robert Spear’s farm. He died her two unmarried daughters, arriving in in 1770. His large estate was divided be- Carlisle, Penn., June 10, 1791. Her two tween his sons: sons, John and Thomas, having preceded i. John. her some years, and. the two married ti. Robert. daughters remaining in Ireland. Nothing iii. David. is now known of the remaining two chil- iv. Patrick. dren, Elizabeth and David. One of the daughters married a Mr. Kerr, whoresided at Donegal church. 66. * Robert Hays. Patrick Hays, who resided along Little Mrs. Hays. Ann Chiekies creek and was in Col. Lowrey s David Hays. battalion, removed to Gettysburg, Adams Arthur Hays. county, or in the vicinity of the Agnew's, Ann Hays. a few years prior to 1800. Susannah Jean Hays. Hays, daughter of above, died April 22, Samuel Crawl. 1798, aged 57 years. David Hays, son of 'William Allison. Patrick, died, unmarried, at Waterford Mary Waller. (Marietta), July 16, 1805, aged 42 years. David Hays, son of Robert (66), re- James Hays, brother of the above, died at moved to Chester county, where he died Waterford July 3. 1805, a.cd 40 years. in 1784. Arthur Hays "was ensign iu On December 27, 1805, th ir fat iter. P.i rick, Captain Pedan’s company, and was at and his son. R >:> rt II lys. E cj and Brandywiue, Germantown, and in tire daughter, Nancy U iys, ali «>f GciitVeog, Jersey campaign. About the close of rs o the seem to have been the only In i i Ptvid Revolutionary war he married Mary and James, whose dea'.h is above. 'Lowrey, the second daughter of Colonel Martha Agnew and John Agnew -.tv tit Alex. Lowrey. Shortly after his marriage witnesses to the paper > x-.-m.;.! by Arthur Hays removed to the • western part Patrick Hays and his son a.m Oaii.a r. of the State and settled on lands of Col. Jam s .Yiiiiew, ii‘i i mirfi: l fi-st a sister Lowrey along the Monongahela. They of Samuel Sco.i, tnarrre 1 see > ally a had two sons, John and Lowrey Hays. daughter of Josiali Sant, and Patrick Both became Indian traders, and finally Hays likely married a daughter of Josiah settled along the Wabash above Shawnee- Scott. I presume that Samuel Patterson, town, on the Illinois side, where they son of Arthur Patterson, who bought a owned large tracts ot land. John was large portion of the Hays’ land along Big murdered. His brother, Lowrey, did not Chiekies married a daughter of David marry. Their father, Arthur Hays, when Hays. There is not a single representa- returning from a vendue, and on crossing tive of the Hays family in Lancaster a foot log T over .Nine-mile run w hen the county. If any of the descendants of water was very high, fell into the stream Patrick Hays, who removed to Gettys- and was drowned. This must have been burg, are living, and if Notts and Queries a few years after his marriage. Mary comes to their notice, I would like to I Hays, his widow, married secondly, Joseph know what has become of the family. West, who lived near Pittsburgh. The Hays family of Derry, some of 1 this By marriage she had four whom removed to Carlisle, Buffaloe Val- sons and a daughter, Margaret, ley, and other places, I have no doubt are who died in infancy. Alexander West connected with David Hays, the pioneer joined his half brothers, the Hays boys, of Donegal and Rapho The Hays of and located about forty miles above them Dauphin county inter-married with the in Illinois. He married and had a large Hungerfords, and I presume President family. He died about 1862. Edward Hayes was a connection of this branch of West ison of Mary W.) married and set- the family. tled near Alexander. He represented his I noticed in a Washington paper, county two terms in the Illinois Legisla- a few days ago, in giving the nationality ture two years before his of the Presidents, President Hayes is ; and died about brother Alexander. Joseph West mar- classed as pure English—if he is con- ried Sarah Whitacer, and had a large nected with any of the families I have family. He settled at Homestead, along mentioned, he mud go to the Scotch- the Monongahela river, and owned a large Irish. part of the land upon which Carnegie 67. James Keys. built his works. The rise in the price of His wife, a Com. their land left them in comfortable cir- Richard Keys. cumstances. Ann Keys. Jean Hays married Adam Tate, son of Polly Keys. Rev. Joseph Tate, the minister at Donegal Margaret Keys. from 1746 to 1772 or ’3. He was a soldier Andrew Manehean. - in the Revolutionary army and drew a James Keys, sr., and James Keys, jr., pension. He was a cooper by trade, re- seem to have first settled in Rapho town- siding for many years in Maytown, where ship, a mile or two south of where the he died. Hays family settled. When Mr. McFar- John Hays, sr., son. of David Hays, the quahr made his roll James Keys, jr., (No. pioneer settler, married Eleanor, daugh- 67) owned a farm and was keeping tavern ter of the Rev. John Elder, who died in along the road leading from Ander- child bed December 12, 1775. Their child, son’s ferry to Lancaster, about two John Hays, jr., died November 27, 1813. miles aud a half east from the ferry. He married . His daughter, Elea- The old log tavern stood about one hun- nor Hays, died unmarried in Marietta : dred feet north of the Marietta aud Lan-

June 4, 1836, aged 48 years. Hannah caster turnpike, on land lately owned by i Hays, sister of above, died unmarried at Henry Copenheffer. I have forgotten the Marietta February 24, 1847, aged 64 years. year when Keys sold his farm and tavern, John Hays, sr., married secondly Eliza- and I do not know the year that James beth , who died April 13, 1821, aged Keys, sr., and James Keys, jr., died, years. Revolutionary war 74 i About the close of the I ; -

Richard Keys, above named married Mary Bernard Ward, second lieutenant Penn- Bayly, daughter of James Bayly. Soon I sylvania, Musket Hattalion, 20th March, Anderson’s after his marriage he leased 1776; first lieutenant 15th July, 1'776; ferry and tavern and one hundred acres, lakeD prisoner at Fort Washington 16th but remained there only two years, in November, 1776; exchanged 20th Janu- farm 1777 and 1778. He purchased a ary, 1779; did not return to the army. about two miles above Anderson’s ferry, Samuel Culverson should be Samuel where he also established a ferry and kept Culbertsoh, captain of Maryland Battalion tavern. It must have been the tavern and Of the Flying Camp, July, 1776; taken ferry known as “Vinegar’s Ferry,” or the prisoner at Fort vVashington 16th No- adjoining farm. He also purchased vember, 1776; exchanged 2d November, another farm adjoining Maytown which 1780. formerly belonged to Rev. Joseph Tate. Matthew Bennett, taken at Fort Wash- He was elected a member of the State ington 16th November, 1776; exchanged Legislature for the years 1795-G-7-8-9 and 8th December, 1780; did not return to the 1800. accumulated a large fortune. He army. I ’2 from About the year 1801 or he removed Major William Fergnvou whs killed at 1 whether he went to Adams Donegal, but Sh Clair’s defeat jjcVember 4, 179L Bayleys moved to I can- county where the i. o. had several sis- | not tell. Richard Keys Pa., July 1893. Allegheny , 4, ters who doubtless married some of our Scotch-Irish friends in Donegal. Some MONTGOMERY, OF LANCASTER, northern j of his descendants reside in the William Montgomery, of Lancaster part of Pennsylvania. county, admitted to the Bar in Lancaster! Samuel Evans. 1784, was a descendant of William Mont- Columbia Pa. , gomery, of FulVoh township, 1743. I will be very grateful for any data con NOTES AND QUERIES. teething him, especially of his immediate

j relationship to William Montgomery, of

j and Genea- 1 Historical, Biographical Mr. Evans shows that, logical. Fulton township. William Montgomery, Sr., had land in Fulton township, March 12, 1743, which LXXV. j land his family held for 100 years. It is The Graveyard Wall at Derry how owned by John L. Patterson and also, war- Thomas R. Neel. He had by j looks as if it was beiDg sadly neglected. of acres rant August to, 1752, a tract 1524 : The strips on the coping are many of in Little Britain township, now owned by them broken or loose. A nail here and George J. B ckius. He was taxed in there, with a few new strips and a little 1763 £1.10.0, and in 1796 £1.0.0. David I painty would mend the damages, but it

Montgomery a Justice in Little Britain , requires some one to look after it. Where township from May 17, 1811, to 1838, and * are the trustees ? —$ John A. Montgomery, of the Lancaster! SOME MINOR CORRECTIONS, county Bar, were his descendants. t. William Montgomery, married in tn “An Historical Roll” (N. & Q., 1785, Miss Fidelia Rogerson, daughter of Sxvii) are some errors which it is well at j John and Letitia (Nixon) Rogerson, of this time to correct: Cover, Delaware and half sister to Miss Col. Luke Marbury should be Marburg; Letitia Nixon Coakley, who at the house he was not of Pennsylvania but of Mary- of William Montgomery, May 1804, m. land .militip,. He rvas exchanged 26th of 7, Smith, of the Huntingdon March, 1781. Richard county Lieut. Colonel John Ahtill should be bar. He had: Edward Aniiil of 2d Canadian regiment, i. Ann. ii. William A. B. Princeton coll. 1808, teottimohly called Hazen’s regiment and ; Sometimes “Congress’ Own” until Con- m. Mary Wallace—who was she? was a Fidelia, m. her cousin, Kensy Johns gress forbid the last. Moses Hasen j lieutenant in the British army on half pay Vandyke whose record I have; admitted when appointed Colonel of this regiment to the Lancaster Bar, m. 1824. January 2Sd, 1776. Brevet Brigadier Cen- iv. Letitia. v. Lavinia ters! 29th June, 1781. He retired January m. her cousin, Rev. Henry 1st, 1783, and died February 3d, 1803. Vandyke Johns D. D., of Baltimore, Md. The regiment had quite a number of whose record I have. vi. John Rogerson A. B. Princeton: Pennsylvanians in it, but was not a Penn- ; sylvania regiment. college 1808, A. M. 1811; admitted to There was no Major George Wright in Lancaster far in 1821; d. Nov. 3, 1834.. either the Pennsylvania or Continental He studied law with President Buchanan Uervico. m. Maria Reigart, who was. she? Was I Captain ho'jrri hiayner should be Rodger Thomas Montgomery of the Huntingdon Clay nor. He was 2d Lieut. 1st. Pa. Battalion county bar of Ibis family? 27th October, 1775; first lieutenant 1 9th Horace Edwin Hayden. •January, 1776; taken prisoner in Phila- Wilkes-Barre, Pa. \lphiain September, 1777; exchanged in \ember, 1780, and did not return to the .iy. Died in 1839. m

ndrew Mayes lived in 'KapEofown- ship and was” a large landholder. He married Rebecca, daughter of Robert Mc- Farland, who settled along Little Chick- ies. Capt. John Wilkins married Rachel, sister of Mrs,, Mayes. The Mayes family Mill Creek Quarter. 68. moved froth "Donegal about one hundred [This embraced the lower part of Rapho years ago. township and both sides of Mill Creek 71. Wm. Mede, sen’r. (called Donegal Run), and extehding to 72. James Scot. Ihe river. J Mary Scot. James Hutcheson, sr. Alex. Scot. Jas. Hutcheson, jr. Margaret Scot. James Hutcheson, Com. Sarah Scot. Ann Hutcheson, Com. * Joseph Foster. Samuel Hutcheson. James Defrance. Jos. Hutcheson. Jean McEwen. Thos. Hutcheson. Mr. Scott was connected with Mrs. Rebecca Hutcheson. Tames McFarland, and bought part of the Ambrose Hewsam, serv’t. McFarland lands. , He was born above James Hutcheson settled along the Big Chickies. north side of Little Chickies creek as 73. John Clinghan, X Com. early as 1724, where he built a corn and Margaret Clinghan, XCom. grist mill (Alexander Hutcheson, brother William Clinghan, Com. wt James, owned adjoining land). They Mrs. Clinghan, his wife, Com. gradually came to own about a thousand George Clinghan. Seres of land, in the vicinity of their set- Jannet Clinghan. tlement. The public road leading from George Clingran settled in Donegal be- Maytown to Lancaster ran through the tween the years 1740 and 1750. Thomas Hutcheson lands and crossed the creek on Clingan, also a resident of Donegal, who I Ihe breast of the dam above the mill suppose, was a son of George, the pioneer Samuel Hutcheson, a brother of James settler, married Margaret, the widow of nnd Alexander, died in 1747 and left wife James McFarland, (son of Robert Mc- Margaret, and son Samuel, and two Farland), about the year 1751, and they daughters. Alexander Hutcheson died in moved to the McFarland land. In 1748, leaving a wife Florence, and brother June, 1757, Mr. Clingan pur- Heorge and sister Catharine Canderford. chased two hundred acres of the The Hutchesons owned land on Conov McFarland land. August 24, 1787, creek, along the Peters Road, where they Thomas Clingan and Iris wife Margaret built a mill. One of the sons moved conveyed one hundred and fifty acres to there. The family also owned land ahum their son, William Clingan, Esq., who Conewago creek, on the Derry side. The married Jane, daughter of Rev. John first two James Hutchesons on the list Roan. They moved to the West Branch died shortly after the roll was made. Ann in 1800. Thomas Clingan died in 1788. Hutcheson was probably the wife of the [Mr. McFarquhar has written John third James. She was a widow in 1788 Clinghan when it should have been and occupied pew Ho. 14 at Donegal Thomas. I have followed the records.] church from 1788 to 1790. The Hutche- 74. James Work Com. sons gradually 5 moved to the West. Some Mrs. Work, Sr., Com; of the descendants reside in Wisconsin Sirs, Wofk, juh’r., Cortt, and Minnesota. Joseph Work. 69. James Forsyth. This family resided about one mile and Jean Forsyth. a half west of the McFarlands. Joseph This family lived on the north side of Work, Esq., settled in Donegal in 1718. Little Chickies creek, near the Hutchesons He took up Several hundred acres of They moved away soon after this roll was run which made choice land along the out. branches from Donegal Run. He 70. Joseph Mayes, X Com. built his dwelling at the big spring, Mary Mayes, X Com. now owned by Mr. Hostetter. He mar- James Mayes. ried Margaret ‘who waa connected with Robert Mayes. the Galbraiths). He died in 1753, and Joseph Mayes. left i is wife Margaret and sons Patrick, Matthew Mayes. Jan.e Abraham and William, and daugh- Susannah Mayes. ter Ban. ..ra. Joseph Work was captain Mary Mayes (infant). in tb 'ying Camp in 1776, and was in Two brothers, James and Andrew Maye« Col, L.wreys battalion at the battle of were large landholders, and settled along Brandywine. He was sheriff of Lancaster Chickies creek, above the Hutchesons a« county in 1779 and 1751, ahd was member early as 1720. James died in 1745, and left of the Assembly from 1783 to 1788. He a wife, Margaret, and children: married Sarah, daughter of Col. Jacob i. Rebecca Parker. Cooke. Abraham and Patrick and Wil- ii. Margaret. liam moved. to ^ irgiaia -Elfaci Yroro officers Hi. Jatnes. Revolutionary army from there. Andrew. in the in. was the last in the fam- . i James Work (74) —' - — :

ily of Donegal, and owned most of the Tiood he was a son of Judge Joseph Still- land of his father and brothers. His ; well, of New Berlin. I then remarked on wife was probably the daughter of John the conjunctural families in his own Galbraith, Indian trader, and his wife name, and asked him directly whether he Dorcas, who resided at the mouth of was related to the Rutherfords and Conoy creek. Captain William Pat- Hayes of Dauphin county. He replied, terson married his wife’s sister. “not that I am aware of; my ancesters I have the impression that Dorcas Gal- were Scotch-Irisli, and among the first braith died at Ills house. Mrs. Work, settlers in New1 Hampshire.” He added, senior, on the list, was Margaret, widow “It seems to me every emigrant ship that died in 1753. j of Joseph Work, who brought a came from the coast of Ireland, | Mr. McFarquahr has in this family ‘Patrick Hayes’ among its passengers.” I grouped the foliowing names, but whether inferred that his ancestor’s name was Pat- they were living in the family or hired j rick Hayes. I have just referred tomy| help I cannoi tel! diary of date October 24, 1875, and find James Alex an Jq. Cruikshank, my recollection of what he said is exact. Bov. - Moirison, Jean Cornelius John Blair Linn. ru \ Elizabeth McCliutock, KaM. Pinney, Bellefonte, Pa. Burchel. James \Y irk carried on tanning and currying leak.' r, and these men may have been employed there. ROLE OE DONEGAL CHURCH IN 1776 . Samttkx, Evans, Columbia Pa. , XII.

NOTES AND QUERIES. 75. Widow Paton. Jas. Paton, Com. Historical, Biographical and Genea- logical. Joseph Paton. Mary Paton. LXXVI. Elizabeth Paton. Eliza Grant. Hayes—President Hayes’ American Samuel Crosham. ancestor was George Hayes, who came Susannah Bessex. from Scotland to Windsor, Conn., in This family resided south of Work’s. 1680, where he m. first, Sarah -—— b. 76. William Henty. , —, 1682; m. 2dly Aligail Dibbler. President Agnes Henry. Hayes was of the sixth generation Samuel Henry. from George. In New England Thomas Joseph Henry. Hayes settled in Milford, Conn., in Elizabeth Henry. 1645; Nathaniel at Norwalk, Conn, Susannah Henry. in 1651; John at Dover, N. H., This family also resided near Work’s.' in 1680; George at Windsor, Conn., 77. Thomas Patton. Supra. See Rev. C. W. Hayes “George* Sommer Patton. Hayes of Windsor” 1884. h. e. h. Thomas Patton. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Jean Patton. Rebecca Patton.

It. (IV. . Joseph Patton. President B. Hates & Q No . Ixxiv.) —Mr. Evans’ remark in reference to Mary Patton. the ancestry of President Hayes reminds 78. Widow Montgomery. me of an interview had in the latter part William Montgomery. of October, 1875. Gov. Hayes was then Elizabeth Montgomery. assisting Gov. Hartranft in his second Nancy Montgomery. campaign for Governor of Pennsylvania. 79. James Cook, Com. Both Governors were very fond of histori- Mrs. Cook, X Com. cal research, and they no doubt had drop- David Cook. ped into that line on their trip. At all Martha Cook. events, on their return to Harrisburg after Margaret Cook. two weeks campaigning, Gov. Hartranft Patrick Murphy. sent for me aDd asked me to entertain This family owned the land at eastern Gov. Hayes while he would look for a few end of Marietta. James Cook was second hours, after his neglected mail. I was lieutenant in Col. Lowrey’s battalion in aware of Gov. Hayes’ predeliction and 1777 and in 1780. He was a son of David also knew he had the best private histori- Cook, son of James, who settled at Conoy cal library west of the Allegheny moun- creek tains. I, therefore, invited him over to 80. David Cook, Com. the office of the Deputy Secretary of the Mrs. Cook, Com. Commonwealth to show him our old David Cook. records and curiosities. I asked him about Samuel Cook. Pennsylvanians who had settled at au Pedan Cook. Ddy date in Sandusky county, he seemed Margaret Cook. ^ xmw all about them, and added, “my Grace Cook. \physician at Fremont is Dr. Thomas David Cook, head of this family, died 1, formerly of Union county, in 1788, on his farm, upon which his son X” I knew Dr. Stillwell in boy- Daniel afterwards laid out the lower half of Marietta. Daniel, the son, married 41

Mary McFarquahr, daughter of Rev. C. NOTES AND QUERIES. McFarquahr. Their daughter, Ann, mar- * s the first ^°oo i storekeeper Historical, Biographical and Genea- in Marietta. They had two other daugh- logical. ters who. did not marry. Washington Cook, their son, LXXV1I. 81. moved to Washington county, Pa., as did Colin M. Cook. The Cooks and Hugh Pedau were inter-mar- The Roll of Donegal Church in 1776, ried. But I do not know the exact rela- given in this number of Notes and Queries tionship. occupies so much space that to avoid Hugh Caldwell, X Com. further division, we are compelled to Elizabeth Caldwell, X Com. postpone the publication of other import- James Caldwell. ant data. Joseph Caldwell. Elizabeth Caldwell. ROLL OE DONEGAL. CHURCH IN An infant. 1776. 82. Rebecca Waters. Rebecca Waters. Kill, They removed from Donegal . shortly after this roll was made. They probably 89. Mr. Lowrie. resided in Maytown. Mrs. Lowrie. 83. Joseph Emmock X Com. Lazarus Lowrie. Ann Emmock X Com. West Alrick. Jenny Emmock. James Alrick. Nancy Emmock. Nancy Alrick; This family probably resided in May- Polly Lowry. town. Margaret Lowry. 84. Walter Bell. Fanny Lowry. Barn at Savage. Col. Alexander Lowrey, the head of the Bell was ensign in Capt. Craig’s com- family, owned the land on the north side pany in Col. Lowrey’s battalion in 1777. of Mr. Anderson’s. He was the son of He was constable of Donegal In 1777 and Lazarus Lowrey) who settled on the farm 1778, and called out a posse to assist in now owned by the Hon. J. Donald Cam-

i collecting the excise tax and militia fines. bfon, in Donegal, in 1729. Col. Lowrey Col. Lowrey sent a detachment of militia embarked in the Indian trade with his to assist him; a conflict ensued between father and brothers as early as 1744. Dur- the militia and an organized body of men ing the French and Indian wars he lost who convened at Maytown to resist the heavily through Indian depredations. draft and collection of excise tax and fines. His courage, tact and great energy, yed Walter Bell also kept tavern in Maytown. him to surmount difficulties, which He owned considerable property in May- crushed mahy of his fellow Indian traders. town and vicinity. He married a sister At the time this roll was made out, he was of Captain Craig’s wife, but left no chil- in the saddle night and day, organizing dren. his battalion of militia and urging his

85. Mrs. Galbraith. neighbors to resist British tyfanny; His I Mrs. Work X Com. fortune Wa3 large, ahd he did not hesitate Mary Bally. lo advance liberal sums of money to equip Jean Kerr. find place the militia in thefitldfor active This family probably resided in May- duty. He was one of the earliest ahd most town. persistent88. advocates of independence of

The reader will remember that the date ! the Colonies. He was one of the delc-

1 when this roll was made out was the fall gates from Lancaster county to the con- of 1776, and that there were no additions vention that met in Carpenter’s Hall, made to the list suubsequent to that year. Philadelphia, which on the 16th day of One of the Works married a daughter of June, 1776, passed resolutions instructing John Galbraith, of Conoy. the delegates in the Continental Congress 86. James Anderson, Com. to vote for an independent Government. Margaret Anderson, Test. He was a member of the Legislature and James C. Anderson. of the Constitutional Convention in Tate Anderson. the summer and fall of 1776, and Peggy Anderson.^ was front, advocating * ever to the Ruth Anderson. advanced principles, which finally tri- Daniel Sullivan. umphed and made the colonies free and This was a grandson of Rev. James An- independent. When the Brtish army derson and owned the ferry and farm near threatened to InVade the sacred soil of Marietta. His first wife was Ruth Bayly, Penn sylvania, Colonel Lowrey led his daughter of Thomas and Mary Bayiy. She Mary Cone. was born along Paxtang road in 1722 and This family resided at or near the ferry. January 1784. died 2, She was a sister of Jean Thompson. John and Jame3 Bayly. Samuel Thompson. 87. Elizabeth Cone. the This family also resided at or near Margaret Cone. Evans. ferry. Samuel Joseph Cone. Columbia, Pa. Jean Cone. ; , j1

Thomas Baillie, to the Delaware and battalion of militia John Baillie. repelling the enemy Brandy win , to aid in Polly Baillie. were finally com- and when the British Ruth Bridie, Com. Col. Low- pelled to evacuate Philadelphia, James Bayly was the son of Thomas and Legislature, where rey was returned to the Mary Bayly, who settled along the Pax- terms to aid the he continued for several tang and Conestogoe road, two miles west years he was State. In his advanced of the present town of Mount Joy, about after the constitu- elected to the Senate the year 1720. Thomas Bayly died in the adopted, to tion of 1790 was year 1733. The widow took out patents by the death fill a vacancy caused for the land in 1734. She made additions Graff, of Lancaster. Gov. Of Sebastian to the first purchase. It is probable that justice of the Mifflin appointed him a Mrs. Bayly kept an ordinary along the old joy and Rapho. peace for Donegal, Mount road. In 1751 or ’52 she purchased the Donegal, January He died at his home in mill, ordinary, and about three hundred He mar- 31, 1805, aged about 80 years. acresof the land owned by John Galbraith Sept. 26th, 1762. ried, first, Mary Waters, at the crossing of the Mount Joy and Polly Lowrey and Lazarus Lowrey, Marietta turnpike, at Donegal run. In above roll, were Margaret Lowrejq on the 1760 she sold the farm along the old road wife. ^Lazarus children by his first to Charles and Stewart Roan, brothers, January 27, 1761. He Lowrey was born who kept an ordinary, probably in the large estate from his father at inherited a same building. I supposed Mrs. Bayly the Juniata, to which FrankstoWn on kept one. [Captain John Wilkins, who place he removed. He married Mary owned the adjoining farm, married first a Bvafis, of Huntingdon county, Pa., daughter of Charles Roan, who was a left a large family. Polly and house carpenter. Both families moved to married Captain Arthur Lowrey Carlisle.] Hays, tsec Hays family in this series.) The Baylys moved to the Galbraith Margaret Lowrey married George Plumer, land. (The old ordinary kept by Gal- who became a member of Congress for braith in 1736, is still standing. Colo- several term3 from Westmoreland county, nel Ephraim Blaine’s wife was born in Pa. He had prior to that been i member the little stone ordinary.) The Hon. John of the State legislature. was born at He Bayly, son of Thomas and Mary, took the the forks of the Ohio, and was the sec- mill and several hundred acres in the vi- ond person of white parents born there cinity. . after the capture by the British army. James Bayly (91) purchased the farm Mrs. Lowrey died about the year 1773. ; 1 adjoining Col. Lowrey’s on the northeast. Col. Lowrey married, secondly, Mrs. Ann The stone mansion he then built is still Alricks, the widow of Hermanus Alricks, standing, a fine large residence. In 1776 late prothonotaiy of Cumberland county, he also purchased a farm of one hundred West, of Pa. She was a sister of Francis i and seventy acres along the river adjoin- the Mr. McFarquahr same county. When 1 ing Col. Lowrey’s on the north. This made his roll she had been married about farm was settled by John Kelly, whose two years. Her son, West Alricks, deid children were: at Col. Lowrey s. James Alricks, another i. Andrew. son, also resided at Col. Lowrey’s and ii. William; married Miss Anderson was married at Maytown to Miss Martha and was sheriff as before stated. to Lost Creek, in Hamilton. He removed | Hi. Elizabeth; married Robert Hanna. Juniata Valley, where he carried on an id. John; moved to the West Branch, extensive mercantile and farming and mill- and was a colonel in the Revolutionary ing business. He subsequently removed war. to Harrisburg, where he was appointed a James Bayly purchased from the four justice of the peace. He left a large fam- children. Polly Bayly married Richard ily, of whom the late Hamilton Alricks Keys (noticed elsewhere). Ruth Bayly was the last survivor. Nancy Alricks.on married Colonel Stephen Stephenson, anj the list, married Captaiu Alex. Boggs (see in tlu campaign to the western Boggs family). officer ot the State to quell the whisky in- Fanny Lowrey was the only child by part surrection. He was a merchant of Eliza- Col. Lowrey’s " second wife. She was bethtown, Lancaster county. His wife born February 1, 1775, and married April died in 1791 and he died of yellow fever 16, 1793, H

It. con- about its signification. horse road was cut out, leaving the Wallis strange painted originally of a large post road at the foot of the Allegheny, thence sisted pioneers distinguishable by northward to the left of Hunter’s Run on red easily who were from the ^owcr Susquehanna, through to the forks of the Loyalsock, Genesee country seeking homes in the where Forksville now is situated. This disembarked and It was at this place they was called the “Courson Road,” and was their household went overland with first used by surveyors in bringing in pro- guide post, noth gods. It was simply a visions and in traveling to and from their ing more. work. The Genesee road was opened about CONTRIBUTIONS the beginning of the present century, j so called because it afforded the first To the History of Sullivan County. preparing a thoroughfare for emigrants from South- since, in I Nearly two years 1 ern Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia County, Town and Town- ‘Check List of to the rich valley of the Genesee river, of Pennsylvania, we hip Histories then the great “Eldorado.” It was not only sketch of Sullivan ound that the opened for that purpose, however, but for was that in Lgle s prepared 1 :ounty ever the purpose of inducing settlers to come Pennsylvania. All the other listory of into this vast region, then almost an un- State at one time or an- ounties in the broken wilderness, and make their homes written up, eihtier in sepa- ither had been here. land lately been surveyed connection with others. This had ate volumes or in correspondence, ar- as has just been indicated, and was now' in After some extensive ! the hands of speculators, principally were made for contributions rangements Joseph Priestly, John Vaughn, Phineas be published in Notes

an early day, Elkland Township,” but which does not in this' State ia-.d out at to was located without much regard agree with either petition as to boundary, then feasibility. It ran from Muncy and as it is not approved by the court, Ellis farm, called Pennsburg, passed Mr. yet is the only evidence of the name of John Robb’s, a mile beyond, to Abraham the new township extant. climb- Webster’s, near Hunterville, thence Allow us here to make a query, that no lake, doubt some of our friends ing the Allegheny by Highland of the legal mountain for profession will be ready skirted the summit of the to answer at the some distance and then descended to once. Has Sullivan county now a town- it to the ship without a legal Valley of Ogdonia creek, down name? Elkland thence following the Sock township, as we shall call it at least until Loyalsock ; creek, which it fol it has a legal name, comprised at that to the mouth of Elk to Lincoln time, besides its present lowed, crossing and recrossing territory, Fox ridge it reached aud Hillsgrove in this county and Falls; thence crossing the Piunk- of King’s creek near Thomas ett Creek, Cascade, Mclntire and McNett the valley j for some townships in Lycoming. King’s; following this stream eastward, passing Sullivan county contains 434 square distance it then curved resides and miles of territory, or 277,700 near where Charles Hugo now acres. It steep and was chartered March 15th, soon began to ascend by 1847, and was Bur- formed from Lycoming. heavy grades to the summit of The intention Kahili’s, and then of the parties most interested in nett’s Ridge, near forming descended by very heavy grades to the this new county was to annex it to a por- narrow valley of Millstone Run, down tion of Southern Bradford and make Du- and finally shore the county this to the Schrader branch, seat, but though they connected with another road tunning succeeded in having a new county form- j along Towanda creek at a point known at ed, no portion was taken from Bradford, near and though Dushore that time as Dougherty’s tavern, was at first the Greenwood. county seat, it was moved to Laporte in „ , . At, the instance of the few settlers then 1850. hills ad- Persun, living along the Loyalsock and John of Cherry, W. A. Mason, jacent, especially in what is now Elkland formerly of Monroe, but afterward resid-j township, represented by William Ellis as ing at Laporte, and John Laird, from' to their agent, a petition was presented Lairdsville, were the surveyors appointed the court of quarter sessions of Lycoming to run the lines of the new county. Mi- county at November term, 1802, repre- chael Stackhouse from Lycoming, Joseph senting substantially that they had re- Smith, from Cherry, John B. Wilcox, of cently opened at their own expense a new Fox, and C. M. Boyles and -Joseph Wood- road through the northeastern portion of head, of Elkland, were chosen to assist in the county, a large portion of which the survey. Of this stalwart crew only would be very inconvenient for the super- two survive, viz: Charles M. Boyles and visors of said township to keep in repair, Joseph Smith. and proposing and praying that a jew At this date the county comprised the township might be formed by boundaries townships of Cherry, Davidson, Elkland, suggested in said petition. The court Forks, Fox, Shrewsbury and Plunkett’s erected the new township and Creek. The townshjp of Plunkett’s called it Shrewsbury, and subse- Tlreek being divided by running the | quently, at the next or second term of county line, the part in this county was court, appointed William Benjamin, an soon changed to Hillsgrove. The name is old surveyor, to run and mark the derived from a tract of land so called in

5 lines of the new township. But this the original patent from the State “Hills- was still unsatisfactory to the new settle- grove,” it being the first land located in and its tributaries on the Loyalsock what is Sullivan, viz. : in 1776. It ment j now near whom the new road ran, as it has lately been owned by Richard Biddle, was ascertained that a majority of the Esq. voters would remain south of the Colley was formed in 1849 from parts Allegheny. Therefore, before William of Cherry and Davidson, and named in Benjamin had completed his survey of the honor of Judge William Colley. Laporte lines of Shrewsbury township, the inhabi- was formed in 1850 from portions tants north of the mountain engaged him of Cherry, Davidson and Shrews- to run a line for the division of bury. Laporte Borough was organized] Shrewsbury for the purpose of erecting a in 1853, Dushore in 1859, and new township out of the western portion. Forksville in 1880. An attempt to divide| In the records of the next term of court Cherry and Davidson townships has re- are found two petitions, differing in some cently been made without success, but anj respects as to the boundary, but each additional voting precinct has been asking for the division of Shrewsbury formed in Cherry at Bernice, in Colley at are township. These two petitions Lopez, and in Davidson at Jamison City. endorsed “Granted—per curiam,” but as they differ in describing the boundary, which one, or can either, be deemed official? To mend the matter, an old paper in the hand writing of Wm. petitions Ellis is found filed with these which purports to be the “Boundary of . : :

House as early as 1715. Mary Motheriel, ot latiU waS ra,Ken by the me census the third name on the’ list, took out a Eldred, Esq., of Elkland, late William J. patent for' about six hundred acres of land following results which gave the settled by Robert Middleton. Whether Fe- JNO. OF she was the mother or wife of Robert M. Townships. Males. males. Total. Dwell- ings. I do not know. John Middleton (97) inherited the large estate of his father. He Colley 97 87 174 38 married in Cherry 820 786 1,606 188 Anne , born 1736, and Davidson 267 270 537 90 died March 29, 1821. Their only daugh- 409 73 Elkland ...... 210 199 ter, Polly, married John Whitehill, of 170 343 61 Forks 173 Salisbury township, Fox 121 112 233 41 Lancaster county, Plunkett’s C’rk Pa. He died December 10, 1806, and his 105 94 199 35 (HlllsgTOve) . wife Mary died March 22, 1829, aged 71 Shrewsbury 61 114 175 36 years. The large landed estate was di- Total 1,864 1,832 3,696 562 vided among the sons of John Whitehill, » > < Esq., some of whose descendants are ROLL OF DONEGAL CHURCH IN members of old Donegal church at present. are in 1776 . None of the lands the name of the family. XIV. 98. Ezekiel Norris. 99. Joseph Pulton. 91. .Tames O’Raggen. Margaret Fulton. Margaret Phrenar. Samuel Fulton. These persons likely lived with the Hugh Fulton. Baylys. John Fulton. 92. William K -n\ Joseph Fulton. Mary Kerr, Com. Elizabeth Fulton. Samuel Kerr. Mary McCarty. Jo8e))h Kerr, Com. Christopher Wilson. Ruth Kerr, Com. James Fulton, the head of this family, Elizabeth Kerr, Com. was the son of Samuel Fulton, Esq., and As this family did not reside in the Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of George Meeting House quarter, I cannot locate Stewart, Esq., who died 1733 on his farm them. I presume they lived in Maytown. along the river where Marietta is. Samuel William Kerr married Mary Bayly, dau. Fulton was then married to his daughter. of Thomas and Mary Bayly. She was a He settled on land adjoining the Middle- sister of John and James Bayly and Ruth tons, on the north side. On April 20, Anderson. 1778, James Fulton sold his farm of 320 Kerrs were connected with the The i acres to David Cook. The Rev. William Stewarts. This Wilsons, Galbraiths and I Kerr came to own part of this land. The was probably the family which lived at Fulton s left Donegal in 1778. to the Wilsons the Meeting House next 100. Hugh Moor. | and Stevensons. The family Dames are Ann Moor. the same. Mary Moor. Ann Moor. Meeting House Quarter. Zackar Moor, X Com. 93. Abraham Mitchel. Mary Com. Margaret Mitchel. Edwin Mclllary. Betsy Mitchel. The Moores owned the land adjoining west. Zack. Moore 97. James Mitchel. the Glebe land on the The first two names are crossed out, was captain in Col. Lowrey’s battalion which indicates that they were deceased in 1777 and 1780. He married Mary I soon after the roll was made. Boggs, sister of Captain Alex. Boggs and 94. Robert Curry. Major John Boggs. Elizabeth Curry. 101. Nath. Stevenson. James Curry. Williat* Ball. 95. Richard Alison. He was the son of James Stephenson, Elizabeth Alison. who settled on the land adjoining the 9G. Samuel Parks. Spring, at the church, which is now owned Margaret Parks. by the Hon. J. D. Cameron. Nathaniel Jo. Parks. Stevenson died in April, 1778. He had James Parks. but one daughter, Sarah, who married Isabel Parks. Adam Ross, and they had

Mary Parks. i. George.

Hugh Parks. ii. Mary. This group of names are erased, which Hi. John, indicates that the family removed from io. Robert. 1 Donegal. v. Thomas. . , the Jo. Middleton. At the time the roll was made out An n Middleton, X Com. probably were hvmg in South i Ross family of Nathaniel Mary Motheriel, Com. Carolina. Susannah, sister Polly Middleton. Kerr (on roll), Is. (101), married Samuel Robert Middleton, the pioneer settler of Watson was a nephew of James i David this family, settled near the Meeting , '

The land passed into the watson iamily. This family removed to Washington, Pa., William Brisbin married liis niece, Eliza- some of whose descendants reside there beth. now. Mr. Reed and his descendants have 102. William Wilson. occupied to the present time, without a Mary Wilson. break, a front rank in business and society, Hugh Wilson. and have always been noted for their in- Robeit Wilson. tegrity. The oil development about William Wilson was First Lieutenant Washington has made the family rich. in Captain Joseph Work’s company of Col. Lowrey's battalion in 1777. He re- The Wilson family closes this remark- next to Stephenson’s land, and was able roll, which was made in the fall of sided j probably the son of Hugh Wilson, who 1776. No additions were made to it after owned the adjoining farm, Margaret that date. The list was made on the McNutt married Hugh Wilson, probably memorandum pages in the back of “ The the son of William. Capt. Patrick Hays Universal Scots Almanack” for the year also married a daughter of McNutt. 1774. It is a leather bound book, two 101. Edward Cook, and three-fourth inches by five and one- Robert Burlam, fourth inches, and contained about forty George Cruikshank. pages of blank paper.

to , This group of names seem to belong ’j The first entry on the inside of the cover John Bayly’s family, and it is likely that 'is as follows: “The Presby, of Donegal, they were hired men, or employed some- to meet at Shipping. 3d Tuesday of Deer, way about his mill and farm. next.” Memorandum— “Paper, Twist, ” 105. Adam Ross, Breeches, — Turpentine. Sarah Ross, Mr. McFarquhar came from Scotland in Margaret Ross, the Spring of the year, 1775, and supplied Elizabeth Ross, a number of churches in Cumberland Samuel Ross, Valley and Virginia, and in Bedford and Nathaniel Ross, neighborhood. Out of several applicants Sarah Ross, he was called to old Donegal church in

j 106. John Douhill, Com. the fall of 1776. He probably supplied Jean Douhill, Com. the congregation for some months before These parties occupied the sexton’s he received the call. On account of the house. Douhill was clerk to the congre- war he did not bring his family to J gation. America until he had been hert ten years. Kath. Williams. During this period he made his home with Jean Taggart. Samuel Scott, and after his death with his These two seemed to be grouped with widow at Big Chickies creek.

No. 106. They may have lived with them, T : following is on the back of title or occupied a small house on the Glebe lr%e: land. “1778 Apr. 107. James Wilson. Presbytery’s appointment of supply— Elizabeth Wilson, Com. viz: Hugh Wilson. “East Pennsborougb, at District. Thomas Wilson. .“Shrewsbury, 4th Sab. May. Margaret Wilson. t“Little Conawago, 2d Sab. July. Robert Connel. ‘Hanover, 5th Sab. August.” Betty MortoD. f “May 17, 1779. Received of salary for This family resided close to the 1778, £22.14.9. Of arrears of 1777, £23. church lands on the north side, 6.9. In all ofsalary 1777, 172.10.7.” j James Wilson was brother of William. On another page the following: | j in He was ensign Capt. Joseph Work’s * “1780, March. Then gave in Loan to company of Col. Lowrey’s battalion in IMrs. Scott one hundred dollars. April 3d, 1777 and 1780. Hugh, his oldest son, .1780, From Wm. Wilson in name of the married Agnes, daughter of Rev. Colin ^congregation in part of stipend for years McFarquahr. They and the minister oc- 1779 & 1780, six half Joannes, one 30s cupied pew No. 40. Hugh Wilson, after iece, 2 Guineas and a silver dollar, in all his marriage, occupied the same pew with .” ^21 . 12 . 6 family until Mr. McFarquahr’s 1802, when “7 April 1780. Theng-vve more in Loan 1 Hugh Wilson moved from Maytown to to Mrs. Hannah Scot, (s$260) two hundred, Columbia, thence to Lancaster. Hugh and sixty dollars. lieutenant in Wilson was Capt. “Appointments for 1790. 2 Sab. June at the John Reitzel’s company in campaign Slate Ridge, 3 Do at Chanceford, 2 Sab. ” to Western Pennsylvania in 1794. August, Hanover, 3 Oct. Carlysle. grandsons attained distinc- Some of his “April 25, 1780, Then received from tion in the military service in the late war Jas. Wilson as collector of stipends for on the Union side. Descendants are liv- years 1779 & 1780, (4) four hard ing in Western Pennsylvania and in or dollars. May 10. Gave in loan to Mrs. near New York city. They are highly re- Hannah Scot 70 dollars.” May spectable and occupy the best social posi- 20, received from Wm. Millar £ tion in society. Mary McFarquahr, Joannes and Wm. McKean one Guinea. 1 daughter of the minister, married David Widdow Hannah Scot £2.14. Cook, founder of “Mr. Jos. Work, £6. From Benjamin Marietta. John Reed ” married a daughter of Mr. McFarquahr. Mi Ins, i Joannes. , i 47

m -. the names of many more Scotch-Irish in Capt. HugTT B. Mills was 2d lieut. Presbyterians,who either belonged to Don- Lowrey’s bat- iPedan’s company, Col. egal Church, Derry and Paxtang In Greer's paper talion, in 1777. Wm. Churches. Go with me to Leb- is the following: of Lancaster anon and you will find that Col. in Mt. Joy town- “Died, Sep. 12, 1809, Greenawalt’s Battalion in 1777 was made General Benjamin Mills, a jship Brigadier up of German Calvinists and Lutherans. Revolutionary soldier.” I In the summer and fall of 1776 we find loan to Mrs. Scott of “June 22, gave in that a majority of the members of the hundred and Continental bills 250, two Constitutional Convention were Presby- fifty dollars. terians, and that they controlled that returned by Hannah Scott “The above body as they did the State Legislature. Sep. 1st, 1780. Historians are just beginning to find out Scott 100 Dollars. 1780, Sep- “Hannah what a tremendous force of Presbyterians to Mrs. Han- tember 2d. Gave in Loan were in the Revolution. hundred and Eighty nah Scott 180, ona The Scotch-Irish Societies throughout Dollars. the country are making this fact very Mrs. Scott four, “Sept. 15th. Gave 4, plain. Samuel Evans. gave hard dollars. 29 Sept. 1780, Then Columbia, Pa. Rabert Spears Fifteen pounds ten shillings hard money, which, together with, five pounds he had in his hands of the sti- NOTES AND QUERIES. pends he has received as collector, makes j fifty and Genealo- , twenty pounds in part of pounds Historical, Biographical gical, which he gave me in loan when I went to ” New York in Oct’r, 1779. j LXXIX. On September 16, 1779, Mr.McFarquahr appeared before the Supreme Executive Council, and applied for a pass to New Donegal Chup.cii and its PeWholders given in our next York for himself and Mrs. Elizabeth of a century ago will be view of the church ,Burgin. See Colonial Records, vol. XII, issue, accompanied by a ground plan of the page 106. This probably explains the en- as at present and a will be an admirable try as above. pews in 1770. This Evaus’ most valu- “11 Nov., 1780, which day I paid Mrs. Supplement to ’Squire * able record of one of the great landmarks I Hannah Scott for my board wages pre- settlements in Penn- 'ceding the first Nov., 1780. She owes me of the Scotch-Irish- (a hard dollar and £2. 14. The hard money sylvania. for stipends for years 1779 and 1780.” | The Rev. Colin McFarquahr, in addi- CONTRIBUTIONS tion to his other duties established a clas- To tlie II i story of Sullivan County. sical school in Maytown, where he pr q pared young men for a college course, ! II. have heard it stated by a person having a personal knowledge of the thorough • .Eagles nere and Its Surroundings. training of these scholars, that he On the 16ih of September, 1794, George heard the officers of Washington col- Lewis purc hased of Cbas. Wolstoncraft lege state that the thorough ma- - about 10,217 acres of land, embracing a jner in which these scholars had be> considerable territory along theLoyalsock trained by Mr. McFarquahr in classical' creek and extending south for about ten (studies was a most surprising thing, miles along the bead waters on the west

and led to their rapid advance in I side of Muncy creek. These lauds were Uheir college course. Some of these described as located in the townships of

I scholars attained high distinction on Muncy and Loyalsock, in the county of the Bench as Law Jndges in this Northumberland, being lands purchased State. After Mr. McFarquahr’s fam- by Wolstoncraft of Samuel Wallis, by ily arrived in Donegal, he purchased two deed dated June 3, 1794, and patented by hundred acres of land from the Cunning- Wallis in the months of March and May, ham estate in Mount Joy township in time engaged in lo- ” 1794, who was at the “ Howard’s Valley. cating lands throughout Northern Penn- Sometimes the trustees held their meet- sylvania and placing them in market as ings at his home in Mount Joy township. could be made. | rapidly as surveys A number of prominent men who held Mr. Lewis was at this time engaged with office aad were members of Donegal his brother James, iu an extensive im- 1 church during McFarquahr’s term have porting house in New York, a branch of a not been mentioned on the roll. I will London house conducted by two other call them up from the minutes of the brothers. He was also engaged in the pur- trustees. With the exception of Captain chase of real esta'e for English cap- George Redsecker’s company from Eliza- talists, being one of the heaviest bethtown, in Col. Lowrey’s battalion in monied men at the time in the 1777, I think all the officers belonged city. The family was highly respected in to old Donegal congregation, and England, one of the brothers holding a were landholders. 1 regret that I seat in Parliament. We are unable to de- have not access to the roll of termine the time when Mr. Lewis first Col. Galbraith’s and Col. Cooke’s bat- visited the lands, but from information talions. I am sure they would disclose , ! 1 1 1. !

fn seeing that he was liberally educated. obtained from Mr. Robert Wlritacre," learn He graduated at Princeton College I that the adjacent lands were being sur- when but sixteen years old, afterward veyed in 1801. Have reasons for believ- spent four years abroad. He married the ing that Mr. Lewis or his agent were on daughter of Leyson Lewis, who was in- the land about that time. He wa3 first terested at the time with his brother known to have visited the lake during the George, in the New York importing summer of 1893, remaining within that house. vicinity about six weeks. _ j Mr. Lewis seems to have discovered in returning in the city, he On to his home Mr. Alder qualifications for the manage- found that the yellow fever had prevailed ment of an extensive business, and of- during his absence and that very many of fered him large inducements to go to i

his nearest friends died in conse- 1 had Mount Lewis and take charge of bis in- quence; He was so impressed with the terests. He accordingly came with his wife feeling that his life had been spared from in 1809. A stone house was built for his his remaining in this mountainous wilder- residence, the ruins of which may be seen ness that he resolved build him a home to near Mrs. Gamble’s cottage. along the shores of the lake. the l When Mr. Alder seems to have possessed great improvements were commenced at Lewis’ executive ability, soon comprehending lake are not to state. The first | we able the requirements of the diversified labors sale was made to Robert Taylor, who at the time being put underway by Mr. ! commenced clearing lands along Rock Lewis. At the outlet a saw mill, a grist Run in 1803, and who moved his family mill at Hunter’s Lake and a potash man- from Warrior’s Run (near Milton) into ufactory at Shauersburg were probably in the wilderness in 1804. He was from operation within a short time after sturdy Scotcb-Irish descent and possessed Mr. Alder arrived. These with of indomitable courage, forethought and clearing and cultivating a large body untiring industry. Mr. Lewis, it is be- of land were all necessary at the time to lieved, soon after Mr. Taylor removed his provide for the subsistence and mainte- family to Rock Run, directed the opening | nance of a manufacturing village. Mount of a road through his lands to the lake Lewis was described to the writer by one and gave his personal attention to clear- who first saw it about this time, as con- ing and preparing the way for a home re- sisting of a large number of houses built sort on these lands during a part of the 1 for temporary occupation and remained in year. He doubtless had become ac- use for several years after. There was quainted with the English families along also erected of stone a building which the Loyalsock who had already made con- was used as a store near the residence of siderable improvements. Not being mar- Dr. Wm. Hayes and another of the same ried at the time he would not likely be to material near the glass works occupied by confine himself to his intended heme at Mr. Lewis and family. Au orchard was the lake. The first road up the mountain set out extending from Mr. Lewis’ resi- from the forks of the Loyalsock, is believed dence almost to the outlet, and extensive to have been made in 1804 or 1805, and in gardens and lawn were kept with care a great measure benefit to Mr. Lewis’ and made very productive. The house property, the Loyalsock settlement having was not large, more attention having been at the time another road crossing the | given to the beauty of the surroundings mountain below Hillsgrove near Highland j than the size and style of dwelling house. lake connecting with the Muncy"" creek A large frame boarding house was erected settlement. Soon after clearings were; for workmen, and nine houses of a supe- commenced, attention was called to the; rior style and finish for those who were sand at the head 1 of the lake and samples, permanently engaged who had families. sent to New York for analysis. The expenditure of money was When it was found to a quality be suit- regarded as lavish at the time. able for glass making, Mr. Lewis from Mr. Taylor took occasion to his mercantile business relations well un- caution Mr. Lewis for making so large derstood the very great advantage it j th an outlay that be would exhaust his was likely to be derived from the ho ne j means. Mr. Lewis informed him that he manufacture of glass, and resolved to em- need not be alarmed as he was not ex- bark in the undertaking. It now became pending even the interest on his property. necessary for him to secure a competent Payments were promptly made for labor man to superintend the erection iof expen- and supplies, and the settlers from a very sive buildings and to take charge of this large extent of country obtained employ- establishment. Among his New York rela- ment, and every department of work re- tives was a young man who had but ' a ceived thorough supervision from Mr. short time before married a niece of his in Alder. The firse output of glass was dur- England, Mr. Joshua W. Alder, and as he ing the year 1812, and was transported by holds the place next to Mr. Lewis in wagon to Philadelphia. A regular line of prominence in all that pertains to the glass | teams, with teamsters, were employed; manufactory, a short account of his early I the heavy five-horse Pennsylvania wagons life will here be given. He was born in being used for this purpose, taking two New Castle-on-the-Tyne. The family weeks for the round trip, a distance of came to New York when he was but two 1 about 165 miles, having a return load of years old, in 1791. His father died in merchandise to bring back. 1803, leaving his property to his widow, A very large amount of grain was grown who carried out the intention of his father I upon lands That. re cleared, also im- Tew yhars after ms arrival, and devoted his mense crops of potatoes. The food largely time largely to this business for over thirty used by the glass blowers was said years. The nursefy continued to supply to be rye bread soaked in potato the country around with choice fruits whisky. These the organiza- workmen ;being ac- I years after his death. On customed to the use of sour tion of Sullivan county he was among the j j wine with their bread in theirjnative land, best qualified to give information as to its j soon took to the whisky (which was dis- resources, and aided in the settlement of

tilled near the lake) as a substitute for the I the county seat question. Being a man wine. . All supplies were produced at home of recognized intelligence and of high that could be. Several farms were worked social standing, his influence was widely under Mr. Alder’s supervision, and grain felt in both local and general political r grown in the surrounding country found a questions of his day. His death occurred ready market at the grist mill at Hunter’s March 1, 1848, aged 81 years. His widow lake. Among those who aided most in died February 26, 1849, aged 75 years. forwarding this enterprise was Robert Taylor, whose home had become a perfect ROLL or DONEGAL CHURCH IN 1776 . bee hive of industry in providing for the wants of Mount Lewis. From the beginning Omissions and Corrections. of this enterprise he was quick to see that the expenditures being made by [We give the following additions and this New York merchant would bring a remarkable church I corrections to this large amount of money into circulation roll.] and that all he could furnish would find a j ready home market. About the same Elder. time Mr. Alder came 103. Jo. to Mount Lewis, Mr. Margaret Boyles. George Edkin settled upon Lewis’ lands' 104. Jo. Bailee [Bayly] adjacent to Mr. Taylor. Mr. Edkin Hannah Bailee. came from England about the year Thomas Bailee. 179i, when 27 years of age. He Jos. Bailee. was a man of more than usual attain- Joseph Bailee. ments before leaving his native country. Susannah Bailee. He was of a brave and daring spirit, hav- Margaret Bailee. ing in his boyhood days made himself a Mary Bailee. subject for violent legal proceedings bv Ruth Bailee. [some of the English aristocracy by vio- John Bayly was a son of Thomas and lating the poaching laws of that country, Mary Bayly, who settled along the Pax- and in order to evade a trial he resolved tang road west of Mount Joy. John to come to America. The separation from Bayly purchased the farm and mill from his home at this time was especially liard, the executor of the estate of John Gal- as it would separate him, perhaps, for braith about 1751, where the Marietta and ever from the girl he so dearly loved, as Mount Joy turnpike crosses Donegal run. well as all other of the fondest associa- an ardent patriot during I John Bayly was tions of his life. On landing in America the revolutionary war. He was a member he became acquainted with General of the Supreme Executive Council from Horatio Gates, and at once entered his Lancaster county. He died February 23, employ, remaining with him in various 1794, and left a large estate. capacities until his death in 18106, and con- James Bayly got a farm on the east side tinued in the service of Mrs. Gates two of the creek, which he sold to Robert years longer. Soon after his settlement 'Spear, Esq. . -, left with General Gates, the lady to whom he , Thomas Bayly married Ann Deborah several hundred was betrothed, Marby, willingly I no children. He owned crossed Ihe ocean to marry him. To them acres of land. He was a Presbyterian were born four sons, John, Thomas, minister.

George . ud Francis, and two daughters, ' John Bayly manned Elizabeth and Margaret, who married Frederick Taylor; moved to Frederick county, Maryland. and Delia, who married James Taylor. Margaret Bayly died single in Balti-

General Gates willed him a valuable 1 more, Md. property iD New York city, and Mr. Mary Baily married James Anderson, j halt of Ma- I Lewis was made executor of the Gates es- Esq., who laid out the upper tate, so an exchange of property was rietta. brought about, and Mr. Edkin became in- Ruth Bayly married Dr. Maxwell Mc- | timately associated with the Pennsylva- Dowell, of Baltimore, Md.

nia interests of Mr. Lewis. Mr. Edkin I Hannah Bayly married John Greer, a while associated with General Gates had merchant, of York, Pa. given close attention to horticulture and Jennet Bayly married Penrose Robin- gardening. By careful study and obser- son, a merchant, of York, Pa. became one of the first men of church was re- vation he I In 1772, when Donegal on these the walnut his time in acquirements subjects, I modeled, Mr. Bayly furnished and gave considerable attention to intro- boards from which the pulpit and sound- ducing new varieties, cultivating mulberry ing board were made. The tree was cut trees and the production of raw silk. He from one which grew upon his farm. The one. established an extensive nursery within a present pulpit is part of the old j There are descendants of John Bayly who Rev. G. W. Spieker, of Allentown,” who now reside in Adams county, Pa. I think also preached in the evening. The origi- they come from John, son of James nal church was erected in 1743. It had Bayly, and not from John, the son of the Se the beginning 160 members under the head of this family. (I have followed the pastorate of Rev. Tobias Wagner. Dur- way the family spell the name. Mr. Me- ing his pastorate there were celebrated in Farqukar adopted the Scotch way. the church the wedding of Henry Mel- choir Muhlenberg, known as the father of the Lutheran Church in America, to Anna 66. Robert Hays. Maria Weiser, daughter of the celebrated Mrs. Ann Hays. j David Hays. pioneer, Conrad Weiser. In 1786 the old i Arthur Hays. church, which in the beginning had served both as fort and a house of worship, Ann Hays. a was rebuilt, a part of the old walls being Jean Hays. j used. In October, 1884, the church was Samuel Crawl. j partly destroyed by a dynamite explosion. William Allison. After it had been repaired and remodeled, Mary Waller. j on August 1st, 1886, it was struck by, Robert Hays married first to Catharine, lightning and burned. The present daughter of Arthur Patterson. Through pas-| tor is Rev. A. Johnson Long. this connection Arthur appears in several of the Hays families. Death op a Granddaughter of Gen. Philip Eliza James Anderson, Esq., the great-grand- John DeHaas.— Miss De- son of the Rev. James Anderson, and one j Haas died at the residence of the Misses Benner, on High street, Bellefonte, on of the founders of the town of Marietta, ! Sunday morning, married Mary Bayly, daughter of the August 20th, 1893, aged ( eighty-seven years. Hon. John Bayly, who have just been She had resided with

the Benner , noticed. They were cousins. family in the capacity of a servant for over sixty years. Her sister !

Harriet preceded her , Elizabeth Kelly, daughter of William to the grave four years ago. Their grandfather, Gen. I Keljy, noticed prior to this, married her John

Philipi DeHaas, was a Major in Lt. Col. cousin, Thomas Bayly (the son of John Francis’ Battalion under Col. Bouquet or James Bayly). They had two children, in in the Susanna and James Bayly. 1764, French and Indian war. For his services he became entitled to a large tract of land in Buffalo Valley, Union j Ruth Kelly, daughter of Wm. Kelly, married Joseph Hammond. county, and a tract of land containing eight hundred and nine acres on Bald Columbia, Pa. Samuki. Evans. Eagle Creek, a half-mile below the mou th NOTES AND QUERIES. of Beech Creek. He also purchased of his brother officers several tracts: Captain Historical, Biographical and Genealo- William Piper allottment, at the mouth of gical. Beech Creek, 533 acres, which DeHaas called “Henrietta,” after his daughter; LSKX. | the Captain Conrad Bucher tract, which I includes The Linderman Family had a reunion the mouth of Beech Creek, 570 acres; the at White Bear, in Berks county, on the Lieutenant James Foster tract, second of September, and the particulars and two tracts west of Captain Bucher. as set forth by the newspapers, disclose Major DeHass became colonel in the revolution and commanded the first some very odd names, For instance, I | White Bear, furnished Sands and McAlli- Penna. Battalion in Canada in 1776, cars; Birdsboro, and was promoted Brigadier General in Slippsi Reading, Warn I as shers and Singles; Shamokin, Christs, 1777 ; he was very old he served but a | •short time, settled in Dingles and Ginders; Sunbury, Fasolds, I Philadelphia, and Bastians Dillmans, Dun ken millers; Ber- died there June 3, 1786, possessed of large wyn, Petrys, Berkeys; Milton, Bruchs; estates. John Philip DeHaas, Jr., (father Honeybrook, Resers; Pequa, Diems, Phil- of Eliza) was appointed an ensign by Gen. adelphia, Blaishs; Uressona, Waithi. If Gates, August 6, 1776, in Col. DeHaas’ any reunion party anywhere can ['reduce regiment, but was a boy at school and did an odder set of names than this we would not join the regiment. He was promoted like to see it. Second Lieut, of 2nd Penna. regiment of the line. John Philip, Jr., married Ann A Pioneer Chukoh.—On Sunday, Sep- Shippen, of Philadelphia, a near relative tember 3d, 1893, the 160th anniversary of of Mrs. Benedict Arnold, and removed the founding of Christ Lutheran church, with his family to Bald Eagle Creek, in at Stouchsburg, Berks county, was ap- 1806. They came with coach and horses, propriately celebrated. The whole sur- their daughter Eliza, who is just deceased, rounding country turned out, and services being then but three months old. Vary- were held in the morning, afternoon and ing fortune reduced the family in circum- evening. An historical sermon was stances, and the two daughters mentioned, preached in the morning in English by found a home in the family of J. Matlock Rev. F. J. F. Shantz, of Myerstown. In Benner, in Bellefonte, where in their de- the afternoon there was a sermon by the clining years they were tenderly cared for

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by the Hisses .Benner. Bieut. DeHaas it seems strange Tnat ne did not add the family consisted of John P. DeHaas, names of those who came within his call "Eleanor, married to Thomas Stevenson; subsequently to the date when he first William, Harriet, Edward, recently de- made his itinerary in the fall of 1776: ceased in Curtin township; Ann, married Pew No. 1. 1788. James Wilson. to Joshua Roan, and Eliza, all now de- No. 40. 1789 to 1801. James Wilson. ceased. John Blair Ljnn. No. 40. 1802. Hugh Wilson. Pew No. 1 was also occupied by the “The Painted Post’’ is in Steuben Rev. Colin McFarquhar and family, who county, New York. On the 7th of April, shared part of the pew with the Wilsons.

J 1780, Captain Joseph Brant surprised Hugh Wilson married Agnes McFarquhar, Captain Harper and his party of Ameri- daughter of Rev. Colin McFarquhar. His cans and surrounded them killed father James was an officer in the Revo- ; three of the party and captured Freegift Patchin, lutionary war, as before stated. his brother, Isaac Patchin, Capt. Harper, No. 2. 1788 to 1802. Dr. John Watson Lt. Henry Thorp, Major Henry and Ezra (who was the son of David Watson, of Thorp with others. Priest's Narrative Leacock township), and was born there of , the Captivity of General Patchin contains December 25, 1762. Ha married Margaret the following mention of Painted Post: Clemson July 25, 1784. 8he was the “Near this we found the famous daughter of James Clemson, Esq., of Painted Pozt, which is now known over Salisbury township, Lancaster county. the whole continent, to those conversant They bad the following children: 1785; d. August, with the early history of our country, the i. Molly; b. June 5, Pat- origin of which was as follows: Whether 1863. She married Colonel James it was in the Revolution, or in the Dun- terson, of Rapho. d. May 16, more battles with the Indians, which ii. Rachel; b. Dec. 29, 1786; commenced in Virginia, or in the 1868. She married Dr. William Brown largely engaged in French war, I do not know; an Indian Feb. 7, 1811. He was Kishacoquillas chief, on this spot, had been victori- the manufacture of iron in in Valley. ous battle, killed and took prisoners , , 1788; d. Feb. to the number of 60. This event he cele- Hi. Margaret b. Dec. 16, Alexander Boyd. brated by causing a tree to be taken from 20 1816. She m. Rev. d. 1790; May j the forest and hewed four square, painted iv. David C.; b- Dec. 12, physician of high red, and the number he killed, which was 11, 1856. He was a captain in 28, represented across the post in black standing. He volunteered as ap- paint, without any heads, but those he the war of 1812, and was afterwards at Bainbridge; took prisoners, which was 30, were repre- pointed surgeon. He died ' sented with heads on in black paint, as unm. a. Aug. the others. This post he erected, and thus v. James O,; b. Dec. 5, 1792; handed down to posterity an account that 20 1793 d. April here a battle vi. James b. April 3, 1793; was fought ; but by whom, Q.; and whom the sufferers were, is covered 16, 1795. 1796. in darkness, except that it was between vii. Nathaniel; d. 1798; d. whites and Indians.” Isaac Craig. viii. John O.; b. April 14, unm. Allegheny, Pa. SeDt. 24, 1852; d. 1886; ix. Nathaniel; b. Feb. 11, 1800; resided near the ! DONEGAL CHURCH HISTORY. m. Maria Haines. He church. He sold his lauds to General 8i- XV. mon Cameron. Keys. The above plan of Donegal Church No. 3. 1788 to 1801. Richard shows the arrangement of the pulpit, No. 4. 1788 to 1792. Andrew Mease. Clingan; i pews, aisles and entrance doorway, on the No. 5. 1788 to 1800. William east side of the building facing the grave- was son of Thomas Clingan, and was born yard, from the time of its erection in 1730 along Little Chickies creek below Mt. I to the year 1774, when Captains Zachariah Joy. He was born in 1756 and removed Moore and Hugh Pedan remodeled the to Buffalo Valley, where he died May 24, building by cutting a doorway in the 1822. He married Jane Roan, dau. of j southwest end, putting in square head Rev. John Roan. He was a justice for window frames in place of the old circular many years. head ones, and new sashes with larger No. 6. 1788. James Sterrett. From panes. They also built a new pulpit, with a 1789 to 1802 he sat in pew No. 7. “sounding board ” over head from walnut 1790. Andrew Kerr had part of seat boards cut by the Hon. John Bayly, and No. 6. presented by him to the church. No. 8. 1788 to 1802. James Work. The following is a list of the pew No. 9. 1788 to 1802. James Anderson. holdets from the year 1788 to 1800. There He was the grandson of the Rev. James are many names which do not appear Anderson, and was an officer in the Revo- upon the catechetical roll of Rev. Colin lutionary war. McFarquahr when making his itinerary in No. 10. 1788 to 1802. Zachariah M>ore; mar- 1776. He probably kept a complete roll was captain in Revolutionary war; of the members to May 7th, 1806, the date ried Mary Boggs, daughter of Andrew a seat in pew when he closed his labors. If found it Boggs. Ann Moore also had would be a most valuable contribut’on to No. 10. the history of the church and old Donegal.

No. 125). 1800; John Leckey (part of ! of 25). iNo. IT. 1788 to 1790. Rosannak Jami- 1788. Widow Candor (part J son. No. 26. 1788. Samuel Woods. 1789 to 1790. John McLaughliD, part No. 27. 1791. Honel Hasting*. of No. 27. of No. 11. In 1800 Charles Cameron, 1788. Alexander Scott, half

I father of General Simon Camerson, and No. 28. 1788. Ann Howard. Mil er; he Samuel McClellan, all of Maytown, had No. 29. 1789 to 1803 James seats in pew No. 11. was second lieutenant in Colonel Lowrey s 1788 to 1797. James Scott, part of No. I 1.1 f t dl ion 1777 12. In 1789 John Whitehill occupied part No. 30. 1789. Sarah Scott. of No. 12. In 1790 he moved to pew No. 1802 John Hays, part of No. 30. 27. 1788 to 1797, Widow Graham, part of No. 31. 1788 to ’90. James McKean. No. 12. No 32 1788 to ’90. Alexander Drasy. Pedan; No. 13. 1788 to 1790. John Mease. No 33. 1788 to ’99. Capt. Hugh No. 14. 1788 to 1790. Ann Hutchison. died in 1800. No. 15. 1788 to 1801. Daniel Kincaid. 1799 to 1803. John Pedan (No. 30) was 1788 to 1797, Daniel McLean, part of No. son of Hugh Pedan, married a daughter 15. of Capt. Zack Moore and Mary Boggs. No. 16. 1788 to 1792. Samuel Wilson. John Pedan was a large landholder. He 1800 to 1802. John McCurdy, part of No. Meh; ffey and James Duffy | aud James 16. purchased one hundred and sixty acres of 1792. Robert Clendenning, part of No. 16. land along the river from Mrs. Samuel 1806. Thomas Brooks. No number Evans and laid out the town, now the assigned to him. He resided in Columbia upper part of Marietta. Speculation, and kept the ferry. ruined him and he lost all his land. No. 17. 1788 to 1790. Syms Chambers. No. 34. 1788 to 1802. David Cook. He No. 18. 1788 to 1803. James Morehead. married Mary, daughter of Rev. Colin He was the son of Thomas Morehead and McFarquhar. Laid out the center of Ma- was born in Mount Joy township on Feb- rietta. He moved to Lancaster borough, ruary 28, 1787. .He purchased two hundred thence to Hagerstown, Md., where he and eight acres of the “Glebe land” and died about 1822. moved frem Mt. Joy to his land near the No. 35. 1788 to 1803. Samuel Cook, church. He moved to Erie county, Pa., brother of David Cook; was a member of in 1803 or 1804. the Legislature. No. 19. 1788 to 1790. Randle McClure. No. 36. 1788 to ’90. Elenor Moore. 1801 to 1803. John McClure. 1797 to 1802, Arthur Patterson, no num- No. 20. 1788 to 1790. William Kelly. ber assigned. He was sheriff of Lancaster county in No. 37. 1788 to ’91. James Cook; mar- 1777 and 1778. He married a daughter of ried a daughter of Col. Bertram Galbraith; | James Anderson (No. 2) and Ruth Bayly. and moved to Washington county, Pa. He resided along the Paxtang and Cones- No. 37. 1791. Robert Carolon and John toga road, about two miles northeast from Jamison. Donegal church. 1791 to 1802. Samuel Galbraith (No. 37), 1788 to 1802. Brice Clark, (part of No. son of Col. Bertram. 20). He married Margaret Anderson, No. 38. 1789 to ’90. Nancy Little, $ va- widow of Robert Anderson, of Leacock cant. township. He purchased the farm in 1800 to 1802. Joseph Little, (No. 38). Donegal, located by Lazarus Lowrey,from No. 39. 1788 to 1801. Robert Spear, son James Anderson, Esq He was an elder of Robert Spear, of Big Chickies; he mar- J of Donegal church from the time ried a daughter of Col. Jacob Strickler, of he moved to Donegal to the Hempfield township; he moved to Colum- date of his death. He left sons, John bia, Pa., was appointed Justice of the Clark and Brice Clark, and a daughter, Peace by Governor McKean, an office he Jane, who married Rev. Mr. Porter. held for forty years; in 1802 he moved to 1 James Clark, son of B John, sold the ! pew No. 41. farm to Hon. Simon Cameron, and it is 1802. William Cameron, one-half of now owned by the Hon. J. D. Cameron, came from Virginia to May- j No. 39. He He was a member of the Legislature in town. The late John Whitehill married 1794, and died Nov. 7, 1820, aged 81 , bis daughter. years. Sally Hastings, nee Anderson, No. 40. 1788. 'James Curran. In 1789

was the daughter of Margaret and Robert 1 he moved to NoL 2 1. Anderson. She moved to Washington 41. 1788 to 1800. John Bailey county, Pa., in 1800. No. (Bayiy); noticed heretofore. 21. ’90. No. 1788 to James Curram No. 42. 1788 to ’97. Col. Alex. Lowrey. No. 22. 1788 to ’90. Abraham Scott; was 1797 to 1802. Samuel Evans, No. 42. captain in Col. Lowrey’s Battalion in 1777 He married Fanny Lowrey. and 1780, and major in Col. Jacob Cook’s No. 43. 1788 to ’90. General James Battalion in 1783. He was a member of Ewing. He was born in Manor township, the Legislature from 1781 to 1785. He married Susannah, daughter of John moved to Buffa’o Valley in 1790 and Wright, jr., was a prominent officer in the died there in August, 1798. Revolutionary war; resided at Wright’s No. 23. 1788 to '90. John Semple. Ferry, where or near where Wrightsville No. 24. 1788 to ’90. Robert Ballance. is. His seat was in front of Col. Lowrey. No. 24. 1797.. Widow Ballance. No. 25 l 1788. Jacob Cook. ;

James Muirhead. No. 44. 1788. Thomas Patton. Samuel Woods, treasurer. No. ’90. 45. 1788 to Robert Cavin. Bryce Clark. 1788 to ’90. Samuel Thompson, part of j Joseph Little, secretary. No. 45. James Anderson. No. 46, 1788 to ’90. Daniel Maloney. One of the subjects brought before them 1788 to ’90. Joseph Templeton, part ot on this day was the legacy of Samuel No. 46.

i Sc">tt, whose executor paid J.he sum of No. 47. 1789 to ’90, 1 Benjamin Mi Is £100 in Continental money, which was (half pew). ’ worthless. The trustees finally exonerated t0 90 - ^1789 Arthur Taggart, half of No. further j the executor from payment.

No. 48. 1789 to'90. James Kerr. To Collect Salary. No. 49. 1789 to 1803. Patrick Hays. He Chickeese Quarter. removed from Rapho township to Adams Robert Spear, Big county, Pa. John Baillie, Mill Creek Quarter. jr. I Thomas B ail lie, Uiverside Quarter. 1789 to 1802. John Hays, half of No. 49. , Brice Clark, House Quarter. ; No. 50. 1789 to ’90. James Bailey (Bayly) Meeting (noticed prior to Samuel Woods, Conoy Quarter. | this). 1798 to 1802. Thomas and John Bailey James Moore head, Mount Joy Quarter. (No. 50). They were sons of James Joseph Little, Little Chickeese Quarter. Bayly. John moved to Adams county. I Pa. Trustees in 1787 were: No. 51. 1789 to 1802. Bertram Galbraith, Rev. McFarquhir. (noticed before). Samuel Woods. 1789 to 1802 Alexander Bo?gs. “No Joseph Little. seat nominated to him.’’ (prior notice). Brice Clark. 1788. John Emrich, part of No. 43. Hugh Pednn. 1791. John McKean, part of No. 6. John Whitehill. 1798. Joseph Barton, part of No. 6. James Cook. 1791. George Yeates, part of No. 6. William Kelly. 1791. John Neil, part of No. 1. He was Z iek Moore. an iron master and resided in York. He Jpseph Work, Dr. J >hn Watson and owned furnace at mouth of Codoru's creek. William Clingan were a committee to set- No. 32. 1799 to 1802. Samuel Evans. tle accounts. 1791. Thomas Houston, part of No. 1. Samuel Woods, executor of David Jam- 1790. Christian Robinson, part of No. ison’s estate, paid £12 interest on legacy 38 . to church by deceased. This legacy 1797 to 1802. Joseph Little, part of No. is paid now by the owner of the Jamison ' 38, lands, near Mt. Vernon furnace. Bible and Psalm Book purchased same The I pew holders, on account of deaths day; June 4, 1787, salary of minister, and removals, declined rapidly. At the $320. close of i Mr. McFarquhar’s term there were June 12, 1787, Samuel Carr, Clark, to no vacant pews for the period above clean church, to cut wood and carry it in | named. l The church at one time became church on cold days, and to occupy house so crowded that benches had to be pro- formerly occupied by John Douhill, to be vided in the aisles to seat the members. paid one shilling a day. ; From Rev. Wm. Kerr’s time pew No. 1 Jacob Baiiy (printer, of Lancaster), was assigned to the pastor, and pew No. 9 printed sale bills, when the Glebe land was reserved for colored people. Large was to be sold. numbers of the Patterson family became ReVi Colin McFarquhar bo’t bible, paid members of the Donegal church from the £1.10. April 16, 1788, donation of Wm. date of Mr. Kerr’s pastorate in 1807. The Moore, deceased, lodged in hands of James only members of Donegal church now who Work, cost in continental money. Nov. 25, are descendants of those j members on Mr. 1788. £21 9. paid for stoves. For stove McFarquhar’s 6 roll, and down to 1800, are: sheet iron £11.17.5. Mrs. .Samuel j Redsecker and family. Although Samuel Carr was required to Jame3 A. Patterson j and family. carry wood into church in 1787, I think Samuel P. S. Lytle J and family. these were the first stoves used in church. Mrs. Margaret Wiley (nee Watson), and Where or how they heated the church family. prior to that time I cannot say. It is Harriet P. Watson. probable that the stoves were ordered at Samuel Evans and family. the time Carr was directed to carry wood. There are some of the Sterrets living The stoves were very large, and if my who attend the church at Marietta and memory does not fail me there was a drum Mount Joy. over top of stove. On Nov. 19, 1788, Joseph Little died, Miscellaneous Memoranda. and James Wilson was elected in his In 1786 the trustees of the church were: place. Rev. Colin McFarquhar, president. In 1789 Col. Alex. Lowrey, Col. Jacob Robert Spear. Cooke and Richard Keys were a Commit- John Baillie. tee on Inspection. James Baillie. In 1790 Col. Lowrey was chairman of ' : , ! !

Trustees and helcT the position until his death in 1806. the farm, in all our experience in visit- July 29, 1790, the grave yard wall was ing these ancient burial places the past ordered to be built. The principal mason fifteen years in the counties surrounding j who built the wall around the grave yard our city this one is in the most shameful (west half) was John Taylor, tha grand- condition. The dimensions are about 60 father of the late Bayard Taylor. He by 60 feet with many limestones, indi- came to Donegal with other masons and cating where the graves are located. Only- carpenters from Chester couDty, seeking two stones with inscriptions remain, and work. He did the stone work at the bam they are dovvn and broken in several and distillery of Christian Bucher, who pieces. These are as follows: lived along the Peters road, about two Here lies in memory miles west of the church. He ran away the body of Mary Galbraith, with one of Bucher’s daughters and mar- wife of ried her. Mrs. Bucher was a daughter of Robert Galbraith, Melchior Brenneman, who built the grist who departed this

j mill at the mouth of Conoy creek about life December 19 th, 1790. Mr. Taylot did most of the Stone A. D. 1770, aged 26 work at the mill. years, 2 months and John Qailbach, of Maytown, married 12 days. Magdalena Bauer, of Maytown. He died In memory of in 1797 and his widow married Caleb Robert Patterson, Way, who was born at WagontowD, who was Born the 4.th Chester county, and was of a Quaker fam- Day of March, 1744, ily. Their daughter, Rebecca Way, was and Died the 30th ' born in Maytown, October, 1799. Mrs. day of September, 1792, Way again became a widow, and married aged 48 years, six John Butb, who kept a tavern in May- Monthz and 25 days. town. He died in 1816. Mrs. Ruth was The most remarkable incident is the probably deceased at this time also. Her fact of Scotch-lush persons being buried daughter, Rebecca Way, after Mr. Ruth’s on the farm in this section, when it is to death moved to Chester county, where be remembered that to the west of this lo- she married Mr, Taylor, the father of cality some six miles is the old Silver Taylor. j Bayard Springs Presbyterian graveyard, which L James Wilson furnished the stone in was set apart for burial purposes more graveyard wall. He quarried them on the than forty years before the first death Glebe land. above. Gan any one explain? John Borowayin 17iDl made the shingles e. w. s. p. and covered Samuel Kerr’s house (owned by the church). The Masons boarded at Derby CHUKon Records.—We are in- at Kerr’s. debted to “J. H. R.” for the following! John Bailor did the blacksmith work transcripts from the Church Records of I for the Trustees, used about the roof of Derry church, probably. Monday, Oct. ye 8th, 1790. Resolved, March 25th, 1800, Jacob Shireman’s That Jas. Rodgers’ name be taken out of! funeral; paid John Smith for breaking the obligation that is for Mr. Elder’s sti- door in end of Meeting House (N. East j I pend and Jas. Wallace put in its place. End), 1 fifteen shillings. This man resided I he corporation sold 400 lath to Jas. in Maytown, and was the cause of much j McCleester, at 2 s. per hundred. The car- litigation about the ground rents in that i j penter’s bill was agreed to, which was £5, place. 4 s. 7 d. The mason’s bill was agreed to, Although the glory of old Donegal has which was £15 0 0. departed, in history, for all time, will be The corporation sold the scaffolding handed down the record of the achieve- | boards to Thos. White at 4 s. 6 d. per hun- ments of the Presbyterians of that grand dred £1, 9, 3, which he has paid to the old church and their descendants. treasurer. Samuel EYans. Monday, April 25, 1791. At a corporate i Columbia, Pa. meeting, Wm. Laird, Wm. Boal, Robert ! Clarke and Samuel Bell were elected NOTES AVD QUERIES. trustees. Thomas McNair and Robert Moorehead were chosen a committee to issue duplicate and collect glcal. j arrearages for the ensuing year. It was

LXXXI. resolved that Robert Moody shall have I “the sum of five shillings per day for ser- An Old-Time Graveyard. —On a visit vices done to the corporation as secretary to the farm now owned by the Columbia for the year by past.” Land and Improvement Company, of this Friday, May ye 6th, 1791. Robert city, known as Silver Lake, in East Penns- Clarke was elected president, Jas. Wal- boro’ township, Cumberland county, lace treasurer, and Robert Moody “secri- tary” of the corporation. about one and a half miles south of the “ villlage of Camp Hil, attention was called Resolved That there he a memorandum

' of a an old graveyard on a bluff overlooking the proceedings left at the dwelling house on the Glebe from time to time, so that the business may not be hindered in :

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” I case the secretary does not attend. man and a good provider. But he died, The corporation and congregation re- and then I resolved that I never would solved that the graveyard wall be repaired marry again. and that Benjamin Boyd and Walter As the years went by and time had dried Clarke agree with workmen and get it up my tears, I listened again, and would done before October. you believe it, I went and married a sec- Monday, January 23d, 1792. Accord- ond time. (The writer cannot recall the ing to notice given from the pulpit the name of this gentleman.) He was a good, corporation and congregation met, but on kind man, too.but he went the way of the account of so many absent members, no first, and I pledged myself then and theie business could be transacted. Absent that for the balance of my days I would members were Tlios. Robertson, Jas. wear the widow’s weeds. The difficulties Laird, Wm. Simonton, Wm. Shaw, Wm. of a lone woman are many, and as the Laird, and Samuel Bell. years pass on they do not lessen, so I Monday, April 23d, 1792. John Rod- listened again, and this time I gave my » gers, Thomas McCallen, Snodgrass Wm. hand to Archie Moor. Like the others, and Robert H&ys were elected trustees for he, too, was a good, kind man, and like three years, and Robert Robinson for them I lost him many, many years ago. two years, and Robert for one Moody Since then I have lived with my son, year. John Rodgers was chosen presi- sometimes with my daughter; but the dent, Thos. McCallen treasurer and Robert strangest thing of all to me is that I am secretary. Moody alive to-day, that I have lived to such a REMINISCENCES wonderful age. OE LONG-AGO. The late John B. Rutherford saw her Mr. Evaus’ record of Donegal in Notes three years afterwards at her daughter’s, stretched upon her deathbed ‘all skin and and Queries is my excuse for the follow- ; ing reminiscences: bone’—mostly wrinkled skin; was in- as Mrs. Martha Moor was born in Chester sensible and knew nothing, being fed, county about the year 1720. Her father, she had fed her younger sister, in the of life in Parke, moved to Spring Creek in long, long ago. The tenacity lived three an early day, where he built, as tradition some people is wonderful. She in this mortem condi- claims, the Poor House Mill. At all months more post h. K. events he owned it, and lived there many tion. years. His remains lie with the honored CONTRIBUTIONS dead in Paxtang church yard. When his youngest child was born (my grand To the History of Sullivan County. 1 mother, 1737,) her mother died, and Martha became mistress of her father’s III. household, bringing the infant child up ‘by hand.’ In the course of years Mr. Conjointly to the settlement of these Parke’s failing strength obliged him lands with Mr. Lewis was that of adja- to leave the mill and settle on cent territory by Theophilus Little, who of the land afterwards known as first came for making an examination in 1799. Valley lands along the Light farm. One day in 1758 this I the property child, then grown to womanhood, was ! the Muncy creek were said to be offered at scutching flax in front of the house door the time at equally low prices, but were when there passed by—to her a novel not regarded by Mr. Lewis as so desirable. sight—a body of soldiers belonging to The heavy growth of beech and maple Gen. Forbes’ expedition against Fort Du- timber were then regarded as the best in- quesne— a long time ago certainly. dications of a deep and productive soil. In the meantime, Martha, the elder sis- These lands were then held by Joseph ter, had married a man named McKnight, Priestley, who had by detd dated Febru- Samuel Wallis, and removed to Donegal. There was ary 7, 1798, purchased of resident of nothing remarkable about this woman, h^r. Little was at this time a Jersey, save the long span of her life, which Freehold, Monmouth county, New declining years reached the great age of a hundred and ten already' approaching the record fixing the years. My father visited his venerable of his lit*, the family that aunt in 1827. She was in good form then at time of his birth 1714. It is believed 107; had been married three times, and this he was accompanied by some of his sons circumstance, which to him looked cloudy, making examinations befoie the pur- impelled him to enquire how all that sort chase as the term they is used in the nar- purchase was for of thing had happened. Ah ! said she. it ration. The original as their does look rather bad, but it is not, for all three thousand acres of land, and ot Mr. that. In my girl days I did not want to settlement stands next to that abstract from marry at all. I wanted to stay at home Lewis, we herewith give an and help father raise the children. But the family record offers came one after another and I sent family record as follows: died July 10, them away, but still they kept coming. Jofec, born Dec. 22, 1789; You know one can't stand that kind of died Aug. pressure always, so to get rid of it I mar- ^Daniel, ibojn Dec. 31,1771; ried Francis McKnight. This is our old- 10 1863 est son I am now living with; be is over Thomas, bornBept. 23, 1774. died Jan. eighty years. Mr. McKnight was a good Theophilus, born Dec. 2, 177G;

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with Mr. Alder until 1821. A few year* Tobias, born Jan. 1779; died Sept. 27, later a brother of Mrs. Lewis came from 21, 1867. New York, Charles Howlett. He was Benjamin, born Jan. 1787. 24, engaged in the store for several years, The family did not all settle at the same and remained in the service of Mr. Lewis time, but some of the members were be- for a long time, having charge of the lieved to be here as early as 1803. John property at different times during the ab- is supposed to have made the first clearing I sence of Mr. Lewis. After the purchase on lands below Richard Taylor’s, on Rock of the glass works by Adams he moved to Run, Thomas with his father on lands the mill property at Hunter’s lake, and now owned by J. H. W. Little, his house after a few years settled near Muncy. being the first named among the records In connection with the manufacture of found relating to Mount Lewis. j glass were extensive wor^s for making remained upon the farm first cleared I He potash, as before mentioned. The ruins by him until after his mother’s death in of this manufactory can be seen in w hat 1813, when an exchange was made with is known as Shanerburg fields, taking its his brother Tobias for lands on the Loyal- name from a resident on the property. A sock creek at the instance of their father,

| large amount of timber was burned for j who wished to make bis home with Tobias. the ashes. Several buildings were erected He subsequently settled in Ohio. It may be for workmen and a large farm cleared, said of the Little families that they were | which was used mostly for pasturing of men of the very best type of citizenship, | sheep and cattle. The road from the with an ingrained belief in the teachings glass works leading to the Loyalsock of the Bible and Westminster catechism, creek passed by this factory, which was distinguished for their high regard for the or.ginally laid out in 1808 and supposed 1 free American institutions. The family 1 to have been made soon after. Prepara- originally came from England, but were I tions were being made for the potash of Scotch-Irish descent. They were noted manufactory at the time. The road is de- for their loyalty during the Revolutionary scribed as leading from the house of Thos. period, at least two of them ranking Little to the turnpike road opening from among commissioned officers in the patriot Berwick to Newtown (Elmira). The army. They were active in promoting entire distance of the road was nine and the educational and religions interests of one-fourth miles, being seven and one-half the community. The territory embraced I miles to the glass works. This road was in Shrewsberry township was at the time used a number of years by the first settlers fully as large as that of the entire county , in Cherry township in going to Williams- j of Sullivan, and the Little families names I port, and was at the time the nearest are early found among its prominent route to the North Branch at Wvalusing officers. They have left numerous de- | with the West Branch at Muncy. The scendants who cherish their memory with Berwick and turnpike was never fe«lings of veneration. Theophilus Little Newtown completed for its entire distance, but was lived to reach the age of eighty-one years,

of much use in inducing settlers to the I his death occurring Feb. 19, 1825. The northern portion of this county. The adjacent Little farm now owned by R. ! road was changed through the efforts of W. Bennet was cleared by Daniel Little, citizens of Bradford located who commenced improvements about county and about three miles further east and built 1811, and owned for a number of years by by Andrew Shiner. About 1820 a road his son, Peter Littie. was opened intersecting the Mount Lewis In connection with the Little families road about one-half mile east of the out was that of John G. Holmes, who cleared let of Lake Mokoma, intersecting the the farm adjacent to that of the Littles. turnpike at Semon’s Hotel (then known He came from New Jersey, aud is first [ as Shiner’s Mills). mentioned as keeping the boarding house This was for several years the regular at the glass works. He was a man of mail route from superior education for the time, and for Mount Lewis going north and east. The glasss many years engaged in teaching school works continued in operation about five years. During during the winder months. When col- that time an extensive trade lecting local historical information for had been opened north with towns along school report in 1877 the writer found he the New York State line, a was the best remembered teacher among large amount of potash coming from that j direction. cause for the those who served in that capacity in The stoppage of the works at the the Shrewsberry township. He lived to the time was same as then affected advanced age of eighty-two, the record of most of our home manufactories and will at his death being 1841. No record has been be given length hereafter. found of his descendants of his name, The Lewis manufactories ranked but we find that two of his daughters among the first in the United States as to married members of the Little family. quality and output. A description taken from Among those best remembered of Lewis’ “The Now and Then” of the first made is here given: glass family is Israel Lewis, a nephew of George “From Lewis’ works two panes of glass been pre- Lewis. He came to New York in 1808, have served that were found in a house erected and engaged in the Lewis office, subse- at quently came to Mount Lewis and was Muncy in 1813 by George Webb, and connected with his brother-in-law, Mr. are described as follows: Not exactly square, about 7x7 inches; three-six- Alder, remaining until 1817, when he went but teenths of an inch thick at the edge and to Muncy, and there remained in business j : :

three-quarters of au inch in the bulls eye, ’ ’ I America. smooth and clear although not quite flat, " Our press was frequently in want of of pale green color. ” Soon after closing the necessary quantity of letter, and there the glass works in the year 1817 was no such trade as that of letter founder Mr. Alder ” and Israel Lewis resigned in Amarica. their positions, the cause for which The two editions, so far as I have com- appears to be, form its becoming evident pared them, differ throughout as much as to them that the works could not longer do the foregoing passages. I have not be carried on at MountLewis successfully, observed a sentence that does not vary in and consequently making it doubtful as the two editions as much as the above. to Mr. Davis being able in the end to af- The question is: Did Franklin re-write his ford them the pecuniary reward for their autobiography? If he did not, who took services that they had reason to antici- the liberty to re-write it, and to put forth pate when they engaged in the business. as | the work of Franklin a performance They soon after engaged in business in that was not his ? I should like to know Muncy and established the first store in j which is the version that Franklin gave the place, erecting a brick building at the us, if he did not re-write the work him- location of the Muncy Insurance office. self ? Mr. Alder built for himself at the time T. J. Chapman. the house now occupied by Mrs. Morris Pittsburgh Pa. Ellis. The business proved successful, but , Mr. Lewis desiring in 1821 to return to I SOME GE ITSA LOGICAL, NOTES. England, Mr. Alder soon after decided to engage extensively in farming, sold his Robert Urie, of East Pennsboro town- i store and village property and moved to ship, Cumberland county, Penn’a, diedia his farm, about one-half mile east of Mi.y, 1775, leaving a wife, and children Muncy, where he resided until his death as follows: in 1837. Mrs. Alder lived many years i. Thomas. (longer, her death occurring in 1871, Three ii. Rosanna, m. Greer. | children survive them, Mrs. Foster Hi. John. and Mrs. Musser, of Muncy; Wm. Alder, Thomas Urie, son of Robert Urie, who is engaged in the coal trade in Phila- married delphia. Margaret Dunbar, and left issue. We have the following record of two of On Israel Lewis’ return to England he his daughters: married and resided there until his death Jane Urie, m. John Chambers of the in 1878. He made several visits to Amer- Cumberland Yalley, and had issue (sur- ica, each time visiting Mount Lewis. The name Chambers) last visit was made in 1868, when he was i. Margaretta. accompanied by his nephew, Wm. Alder, ii. Talbot; m. Julia Wonderlich, and and his great nephew, J. Alder Foster. had issue Jane, Urie md Lucy. Hi. Ellen ; m. Oct. 13, 1853, Dr. Joseph NOTES AND QUERIES. Crain and had issue (surname Crain) Tal- bot- Chambers. Historical, Bioeraptiical and Genealo- gical. -in. Sarah; m. Williams Parker. v. Thomas Urie ; m. Oct. 15, 1853, Isa- LXXXlF. bella Oliver, and had issue, eight children, of whom we have the names of j Franklin's Autobiography. —I have four: two ed tions of Franklin’s autobiography, 1. John. one published by McCarty and Davis, 1840, 3. Ralph. the other by Claxton, Remsen & Haffel- 3. William-Parker. iflnger, 1880. I copy three sentences, the 4. Thomas. lopening sentence and two others taken at vi. William, (random. mi. Elizabeth. pleasure “Dear Son : I have ever had a

;'in obtaining any little anecdotes of my Catharine Urie, m. William Culbert- Ancestors. ’ ’ son, and had issue (surname Culbertson): “My Dear Son: I have amused myself i. Ellen ; m. John Irvine, and had issue | with collecting some little anecdotes of (surname Irvine) my family.” 1. Mary-EUen. “At Watts’ printing house I contracted 2. William- Culbertson. (an acquaintance with an ingenious man, 3. Catharine. (one Wygate, who, having wealthy rela- 4. Annie-Ross. tions, had been better educated than most 5. John. printers.” ii. Thomas Urie. printing house I contracted an i “At the intimacy with a sensible young man of CONTRIBUTIONS the name of Wygate, wbo, as his parents were in good circumstances, had received To tRe History of SuUivan County. a batter education thau is common among printers.” “ Our printing house often wanted related by sorts, and there was no letter foundry in Among the notable events the first settlers of this county, was a 1 I i1. !; S8

are parmittad to pay t.he bequests named. remark that among the, Fourth of July celenratton at the glass We will here papers of the estate is vtorks. Preparations were made on a mam- records of the title deed from George L moth scale, and almost the entire inhabit- found a mentioned Dewitt for their ants of the surrounding country flocked Dewitt and Thomas L. mill property to the place to give utterance to the pa- interests in Hunter’s lake will of George Lewis, triotic feelings that were rekindled by acquired by them by Geyelin, consideration $725. Lafayette’s visit to America. Among to Emile C. we find that the other attractions, a cannon had been ob- Continuing the records, acres of tained and placed upon the walls of one glass works, with about 2,000 auction in June, 1831, of the glass works buildings. The events land, were sold at of Wash- furnished the writer after this date were and bid in by John J. Adams, sale was made condi- lens pleasurable to record. Mr. Lewis’ ington, D. C. The reservation of a life interestj health began to fail. He had met with tional upon a of Mrs. Lewis to the mansion house, heavy losses, Dot only in the stoppage of j jard, consideration the glass works but also in investments orchard, garden and $500 at date of sale and balance 1 made in other places, and with failing $7,000— payments. He at once took pos- health he was led to make an effort to in partial moving to Mount dispose of the property. This evidently session of the property, family. The cottages were was attended with feelings of deep regret, Lewis with his filled with families and glass as all the statements corroborate in the again all re-established. The busi- life manufacturing long attachment of Lewis to this i on well for ' moved place, and that among his last requests ness to all appearances Mr. Ad..ms is repre- was that his remains might be buried three or four > ears. on j him to have; the shores of this lake. In 1829 he entered sented by those who knew enforcing sobriety into a contract for the sale of this prop- been a resolute man, in the community. The erty, amounting then to 12,200 and good morals believed to have re- acres (several tracts having been added business is, however, and care to to the original purchase). He had quired the strictest economy j and doubtless would a tract of laad in Franklin county, New make it pay expenses, longer had it York, of 7,500 acres. This, together with have been continued much evil disposed persons, Mount Lewis property was valued at not been for some absence of those in charge, $55,000. William Elliot, the husband of who, during the of material, mak- i his sister, residing in Washington City.and spoiled a large amount loss so heavy that work could not Ithial Town, of New York city, were to ing the property make advances to Lewis on the property be immediately resumed. The largely upon credit, and to be allowed a liberal deduction for having been purchased heavy payments had become due, conflict- services and expenses in making sale. Mr. j ing interests of executor rendered were Lewis gives his residence at the lime as i j every way annoying and vexatious. Liti- Mount Lewis, Sbrewsberry township, i j but 1 to be met, this resulted in Mr. afterwards as New York city. The ac- gation had the property. In Jan- count given to the writer of his departure Adams abandoning was made upon the by the late Hon. Wm. Smith, who was uary, 1839, a levy attorney, then in his employ, was that he contem- property by Wm". Cox Ellis, as Mrs. Drucilla Lewis, from the record plated going to England. He well re- for of which describe a large frame dwelling membered conversations between Mr. | stone dwelling houses, nine, Lewis and his wife relative to making the house, two dwelling houses, a large stone barn, voyage in a steamer, she being at the time small out-houses and a glass house tor the manu- opposed to it. The next record found is facture of glass, with about 300 acres of I that of his will, May 28, 1830, at Maids- ton, Kent county, England. His wife cleared land, a great part of which is fenced wi h stone fence. The property Drucilla Howlett Lewis is named as exe - in Roberts, of Muncy, cutrix with full control of all real and was bid by George

said I personal property during her life time, for $3,555, and was conveyed by of Reading, and Wm. Elliot, Ithial Town, Samuel Roberts to George M. Keim, Coon (a merchant of New York), and soon after. He held the property unti l 1842, then conveyed it to Susan Mayer, Samuel Roger*, *, Senator of the U. S., 1 it Jones, September from Pennsylvania as executors. He who conveyed to J. R. Roberts, George M. bequeathed to each of the execu- 2«, 1845. George did not reside on tors £100 sterling, about $500 for Keim or Susan Mayer Mount. Lewis 1 the trouble that might be given the property. After the ..property by Mr. Adams, them. After the decease of his was abandoned we are not able to give a connected state- '.fife, the property to be divided between its occcupancy. But two Mr.Ediott and two of his wife’s nephews. ment as to families it is well Thomas L. Dewitt and George Lewis De- are named, although also lived upon the witt, both at the time minors, but not to known that others property. come in possession until they became of Craft in and Robert full age. Other bequests were made of Samuel came 1838, there short time. Both .£100 each to an old friend, James Smith, Kitchen was also a of held conspicuous of Maidston,and his brother, David Lewis. these gentlemen have places of Sullivan county. The Mount Lewis farm and glass works in the history Mr, Craft near Muncy, and held were probably at the time left in charge was born the office sheriff Lycoming of Charles Howlett, who remained upon of deputy in county before the division of the coun- the property until 1832. Mention is made debts to b* paid before his executors of | ties. He was a man ot remarkably kind and obliging disposition, always ready to ville; Dr. W. B Hill, of La Porte, is confer favors when in his power to do one of her son3. Mr. Mackey cleared a so. Through the office of deputy sheriff large farm and resided upon his property he had become well acquainted with the from the beginning of the glass works J citizens residing in the scattered settle- until some time after the last output.

j ments of that county, and made him He died in 1846; was buried near Hughes- prominent in the politics of Sullivan ville.

I I county. He served one term as sheriff Among the residents of Mount Lewis and held other important positions. He over sixty years ago, was William had nine children—John, Mary A., Smith. He engaged in Mr. Lewis’ Jerusha, Henry H., Charles I., Sarah M., service about 1823, remaining at Priscilla, Samuel, George W. He cleared Mount Lewis until some time a’ter Mr. a farm on the west side of Rock Run, Lewis’ departure for England. He was where he resided for several years, but born in New Jersey in 1797, first settled when health failed he moved to Tivola, in Derry, Columbia county. In 1820 he near the residence of his daughter, Mrs. married Miss Laird. He won the confi- G. W. Taylor. His son George W. is the dence and regard of his employer, being only one of the family now known among of a kind and considerate disposition, and the citizens of this county. Mrs. Taylor, proved one of the most useful men he had of Tivola, is still living and distinctly rein sustaining good order and faithful ser- members her childhood home at Mount vice from those employed. He became Lewis. one of the most popular men of Lycoming Mr. Kitchen resided for a number of county, holding the office of Justice of the years on a farm in lower Shrews- Peace for several terms, also the office of berry; was by trade a carpenter and joiner, County Commissioner. Two of bis chil- J and is best remembered by the old citizens dren were born at Mount Lewis: Mrs. G. as a worker at his trade. He was highly W. Bennett, of Shrewsberry township, respected as a citizen and served one term Sullivan county, and Mrs. Van Buskirk, as county treasurer. He remained upon of Muncy. He moved to Muncy Valley his farm until quite advanced in life, about the time of Mr. Lewis’ death, re-

I when he moved to the West to be with maining but a few years, when he pur-

his relatives. ' chased lands near Elk Lick, where he Among those whose names are found cleared a farm and remained uutil his among the Mount Lewis records, are death in 1875. From 1856 to 1862 he held the Whitacres. Their acquaintance with the office of Associate Judge, discharging the country seems to take pri- its duties with marked ability. ority to that of Mr. Lewis. The family resided at Pennsborough. At the time NOTES AND QUERIES. Mr. Lewis first visited the property, Joseph Whitacre is mentioned as surveyor. One ^Historical, Biogr iphlcal and Genea- of his nephews, Robert, is first known as logical. -C assisting in making resurveys, afterwards as teamster. He had two sons, John, LXKSIII. who served for a time in the same capacity as his father, married a daughter of Watson. —In notice of Dr. John Wat- James Mackey. William, who married a i son’s family I failed to notice: daughter of Daniel Little and settled at (10.) Sarah, born May 17, 1802, who Earl town- Muncy Valley, was a highly respected i married Esaias Ellmaker, of ship, this county. Several children are citizen of this county. He died about ( Hiving. 1860. His son, Robert, was for a number he of years a merchant at Sones'own, after- (11.) James, born January 27, 1805; T. Sevens 'married Margaret Wynkoop, of Bucks wards in the service of D. & j ccOnty, Presbyterian min- Son. I Pa. He was a inter at Gettysburg, Pa. for many years. James Mackey, in connection with his , He afterwards had charge of the Presby- brother, purchased of George Lewis 233 ; terian church at Milton, Pa. He died Au- acres of land near the glass works in 1819. j gust 1880. Samuel Evans. He was of Scotch-Irish descent and came 31, Columbia Oct. 4, 1893. to America in 1801. After residing in , — New York city a tew years he decided to FAXlILiV RECORD. engage in farming, after spending some A [The follow. translation of the origi- time in prospecting he cho3e the location ng -jaal. Family Record of John Godfrey known as the Mackey place. He married

! Fritchey comes to us from his grandson, a Miss Johnson the year of his settlement [John Q. A. Fritchey, Esq., of St. Louis, at Mount Lewis. To them were born a Dauphin county boy, who learned the seven children: Ephema, married John J art, of printing Har- I on the TelegbafA at Whitacre, settled near Erie; Edward died risburg, and followed Horace Greeley’s just as he reached manhood; James emi-

! advice and went West. few years ago grated to Illinois, died in 1891 Elizabeth A ; be purchased the old home in Dauphin married Daniel Flick, of Hughesville, j county, and frequently visits the place of died in 1884; Emily married Jacob his early years Dimm, settled near Hughesville; Johnson :] l, John Godfrey Fritchey, was born in settled in New York; Henrietta married the town of Schoeulinder, Leitmeritsche John P. Hill, and is still living in Hughes- Crcyse, about six miles from Dresden, and ;

Hong Island, Aug. 27, 1776. two Irom Zbttan, m toe year 1755, Sep- Harlem Plains, Sept. 16, 1776. tember 20tb. Game finally, after mauy Crown Point, Oct. 14, 1776. sea and land journeys, to America, in the White Plains, Oct. 28, 1776. year 1781 and landed in Philadelphia, Fort Washington, Nov. 16, 1776. September 10th. I was married to Doro- Trenton, Dec. 26, 1776. thea Bucher, by the Rev. [William] Stoy, Princeton, Jan. 3, 1777. July 24th, 1787, in Lebanon. Our chil- Brunswick, June 15, 1777. dren were as follows: Hubbardtown, July 7, 1777. Vatharim; born 17th March, 1788; bap- Oriskany, August 6, 1777. tized in Shoop’s church by the Re?. Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777. J Hoer&er. Brandywine, Sept. 11, 1777. George; born 29th Peb’y, 1790, between Paoli, Sept. 20, 1777. five and six o’clock in the evening, in the First battle of Bemis’ Heights, Sarato- sign of the Grab: baptized by the Rev. ga, Sept. 19, 1777. [Anthony] Hautz, 1st of April; died 1814, Germantown, Oct. 4, 1777. Aug. 12 th. Forts Clinton and Montgomery taken, Marie of between ; born 2d Feb’y, 1792, Oct. 6, 1777.

nine and tan o’clock in the evening, in ! Second battle at Bemis’ Heights, Sara- the sign the of Twins; baptized toga, Oct. 7, 1777. Joseph; bom 23d Aug, 1794; baptized Surrender of Burgoyne, Oct. 13, 1777. by Rev. Hautz. Fort Mercer, Oct. 22, 1777. Maria- Elizabeth; born Jan. 19tb, 1797, Fort Mifflin, Nov. 16, 1777. in the morning between one ana two J Chestnut Hill, Dec. 6, 1777. o’clock, in the sign of the Balance; bap- Crooked Billet, May 1, 1778. tized June 5rh. by Rev. Kur.z Barren Hill, May 20, 1778. Frederic- Wilhelm; born Feb’y 21st, 1799 Monmouth, June 27, 1778. between two and three o’clock in the Wyoming, July 4, 1778. morning, in the sign of the Virgin; bap- Quaker Hill, R I., Aug. 29, 1778. tized by Rev. [Henry] Moeller. Savannah, Dec. 29, 1778.

John- i Gottfried; born 6th of Feb’y, 1802, Kettle Creek, Georgia, Feb. 14, 1779. In the sign of I the Ram; baptized on the Briar Creek, March 3, 1779. Hth of March, by Rev. Moeller. Stony Ferry, June 20, 1779. Dorothea; born Feb’y 11th, 1804, in the Siony Point, July 16, 1779.

sign of the Waterman baptized Rev. I ; by Fort Freeland, July 28, 1779.

Ernst; [married George Eby; resides in ! Paulas Hook, Aug. 29, 1779. Troy, Ohio.] Chemung (Indians), Aug. 29, 1779. 'Benjamin; born Aug. 10th, 1806, six Savannah, Oct. 9, 1779.

; o’clock in the evening, in the sign of the Paramus, April 16, 1780. ’Twins; baptized by Rev. [Philip] Glonin- Charleston (surrendered to the British), ger. May 12, 1780. Rosina- Matilda; born 31st Oct’r., 1808, Springfield, June 23, 1780. in the evening at 7^ o’clock, in the sign Black House, July 21, 1780. of the Ram; baptized by Rev. Gloninger. Rocky Mount, July 30, 1780. Gustavus-Augustus "born July 27th, ; Hanging Rock, Aug. g, 1780. in the 1811, sign of the Balance, 9 o’clock Sander’s Creek, near Camden, Aug. 18, a. m. baptized ; by Rev. Gloninger. 1780. Emilia; born November 17th, 1813, be- King’s Mountain, Oct. 7, 1780. tween 11 12 and o’clock at night, in the Fish Dam Ford, Broad River, Nov. 18, •sign of the Virgin; baptized by Rev. 1780. Jacob Wiestling, in 1814. Blackstorks, Nov. 20, 1780. BATUl.ES or THE REVOLUTION. Cowpens, Jan. 17, 1781. Goldsboro, March 15, 1781. Hobkirk’s Hill, April 25, 1781. 1770—1781 . Ninety-six (besieged), May and June, [The following list of the principal bat- 1781. tles of the War for Independence is valu- Augusta, May and June, 1781. able for reference. It does not give the Green Springs, July 6, 1781. many minor skirmishes:] Jamestown, July 9, 1781. Springs, Legington and Concord, April 19, 1775. Eutaw Sept. 8, 1781. Ticonderoga, May 10, 1775. Yorktown (Cornwallis surrendered), Blinker’s Hill, June 17, 1775. Oct. 1, 1781. Montreal (Ethan Allen taken), Sept. 25, 1775. CONTRIBUTIONS St. John’s beseiged and captured, Nov. To the History of Sullivan County. 3, 1775. Cheat Bridge, Va., Dec. 9, 1775. V. Quebec (Montgomery killed) Dec. 31, 1775. [The following is the end of our data Moore’s Greek Bridge, Feb. 27, 1776. relating to 3ullivan county. We hope, Boston (British fled), March 17, 1776. however, to secure additional information Three Rivers, June 8, 1776. in a short while.] ort Sullivan, Charleston, June 28, Many statements having been put in circulation damaging to Mr. Lewis’ reputation iD consequence of his executors no t wvere sustained until emigration to the finding property to meet his obligations, West from the West Branch became gen- would seem to require consideration, we eral, Wild lands theu so depreciated in valuer, it propose now to show what has been gath- 1 that became difficult to find pur- ered from a history of the financial condi - chasers at any price. Large bodies of tion of our country at the time before ace land were sold from 1830 to 1810 for taxes, cepting what has been said. The Lewi t and very much of Lewis’ landed estate importing house was established abous was, after his death, lost in consequence 1790, at a time when New York merchantu of this neglect. Lands were known to be were just entering upon that period when, sold by Priestley’s heirs for fifty cents an

wealth from all the world was flowing i acre adjacent to those that had fifty upon them, which continued without years before been sold at $2 50 per acre. abatement for fif'een A large amount pur- years. The Uni ted I of Lewis’ lands were .States being at peace with other nations I chased from those holding them under tax title notwitstanding its small population, b e I by Hon. J. R. Jones, in 1816, for one-third came one of the first in its commercial re- the price that Lewis had paid lations with the entire world. for the same lands in 1811. The depre- In 1795 the foreign merchandise ex- i ciation io value of wild lands alone is be- ported amounted to twenty-six million lieved to have been sufficient to have paid dollars and rapidly increased until 1805 all just demands against his estate. Tim- when it reached sixty million. The ber lands that now. sell for twenty dollars French Revolution gave to the United an acre could not find sale for fifty cents States a vast benefit in the shipping trade. an acre ten years after Mr. Lewis’ death. Our merchants were venturous, and those We find in following up the history of who were the most so were for many years glass manufactures that from 1816 to the most successful. 1822 the commercial relations of the

I The crisis finally came in 1806. During United States with Great Britain gave no three years after over one thousand Amer- encouragement for resuming its home ican vessels were captured by nations manufactory—the price of glassware having that professed to be at peace with us, been reduced to one-half the price and an embargo was enforced. To keep paid before foreign trade was resumed. up under the reverses that followed these By the tariff of 1821 a duty of $4 per 100 years of prosperity, evm by those pos- feet was secured, but the strong opposition sessed of large fortunes, indicates great by the cotton-producing States made it prudence and forethought. The almost unsafe to resume business. This manu- entire destruction of our foreign trade at factory became finally established on a jfirm the time proved every way depressing to basis and obtained better protection city investments. This, under the tariff of 1828, giving an increase [ however, in the end, proved one of the greatest blessings of $1 per 100 feet. Soon after this went into effect, able to our national prosperity, as from it the we find Mr. Lewis was to manufacturing system of the United secure the service of an active man to I States took its rise. By the census of 1 make sale of the property and make ad- 1810 we find there were but 22 glass man- vances which enabled him to return to ufactories with an average annual output England with the hope of restoration of oj $18,000 each. During the war and health. After his death the acting execu- until 1815 the country was in the same tors did not work in harmony and losing state as to manufactories, confidence in obtaining any value from | although they had been protected by duties absolutely wildlands, allowed, what ultimately be- prohibitory. When peace was declared, came the most valuable, to be lost. the influx of European goods reduced the Religions. prices nearly 50 per cent, and closed one In our efforts to trace the labors of min-

! half of the manufacturing establishments isters of the Gospel at Mount Lewis, we in the Union, consequently paralyzing the have not succeeded in finding any records to follow interviews business of Mr. Lewis. The success- up by personal with ful years of glass manufacturing those who would be able to give reliable information. the evidences are greatly enhanced the value of his However, real estate, and when reverses came these very conclusive, that among the first fam- lands ilies settling of piety and still retained a value which was a here were wen basis zealous evangelical but not earlier for an extended credit. This in the work; end proved deceptive. A considerable than 1830 are there any evidences of regu- amount of land from the Walstoncralt lar established church organizations. The Little families, were among the most purchase had been sold to settlers, but who active, held for long time to the teach- other lands were purchased, so that in a 1829 the amount held by Lewis exceeded ings of the Presbyterian Church. They by about 2,000 acres the original purchase. were isolated from those of their faith. large Presbyterian organization is known to A amount of timber lands were re- No 1852 within this garded as necessary to secure potash as have existed earlier than well as fuel required to keep the business county. The Eaglish families located on Baptists, in operation. The price paid by settlers the Loyalsock were mostly and as for wild lands during the time this busi- were connected with what was known ness Baptist Church, ” or- was in operation was from two to the “Little Muncy Bird and Samuel three dollars per acre, and for entile tracts, ganized in 1817. Powel the most where purchases were made between land Rogers were known to be among holders, that church, and at $1 50 per acre. These prices prominent members of ! 11 1 !

were iiKeiy lo xj.ivtrexerLea tueirTnllcieacel ~ with delight the wTITTialT j in aiding to secure religious privileges oTVJeriealogy volume from that of another | to the surrounding settlers. Elder appearance distinguished genealogist. Thomas Smiley, who was ordained on Towanda creek in 1802, OE ENNISKILLEN. and settled in White Deer Valley in BROWN of Enniskillen dra- 1808, itinerated extensively. Elder Clark, I. James Beown, Boyne, who labored in connection with Elder goons, killed at the Battle of the — j Smiley, is also believed to be the pioneer He left a- son minister in this locality. A fevv members 2. i. James. are (James) twice m. By known to have been gathered at an II. James Beown early date, but no record can be found first wife had showing the time when the Baptists first 3. i. John. commenced occupying the field, By second wife had but it is I believed to have been several years prior ii. James. J James), m. to that of any other denomination. Their III. John Beown (James, early efforts were followed by years of re- and had lapse, j 1st Margaret Eaton; and the field being left destitute 4 . i. John; m. was taken up by the Methodist church, m. 2dl.v Irwin. which from its system IV. John Beown (John, James, James), of mission labor | was able to sustain almost continuous m. 1st Margaret Eaton and had Thompson. occupancy of the field. Their plan of i. Betty; in. labor was to send out an evangelist, who ii. Jane; m. Hughes. would gather at convenient points. Those Hi. Nancy; m. Montgomery. who were religiously inclined organized iv. John. classes and appointed a class leader, who v. Joseph. would look after m. Robert, b. came to America in 1 the little flock. The 1775 ; evangelist would then pass on to another 1795; m. Rebecca Brcwn, dau. of Jamesl settlement and repeat the work, Brown, of near Carlisle. (See Hist, of returning J after a few weeks. Arm. co.) His work would be followed by that of mi. George, occasional visits of a presiding elder, who mii. James. exercised through supervision and saw ix. William. that at every point the work was By second wife Irwin had well sustained. The earliest memoranda x. Thomas. found relating to this work is that xi. Frank. left by Tobias Little, from which we con- xii. Irwin. clude thatMethodism was fully inaugurated xiii. Margaret. as early as 1830 The records kept by Mr. xiv. Mary. Little show that from the time mentioned [Additional information is requested the religious interests were well sustained concerning this family of Brown.] in connection with the Methodist Church at his home near Mount Lewis. A Sun- A HERO OF 1776. day school was organized at an early date, Major Georjje "Wentling, of Lancaster ! and for a number of years taught by John County. G. Holmes. Those who were most active [The following report upon the appli- in religious j work when the writer first cation of the petition of George Wentling, visited this locality gave expressions of of Lancaster county, to Congress, for a gratitude for the labors of this man in pension is interesting for the facts therein their childhood. Atmng the families ac- set forth.] « tive in this work who came to live in the It satisfactorily appears to your com- vicinity of Mount Lewis is the Sores mittee, from the testimony, that the peti- family. Mrs. Sores’ tioner labors took up the received a major’s commission 1 work some in time after Mr. Holmes’ death, the Pennsylvania line, from the “Council and rendered | efficient service prior to the of Safety” at Philadelphia, in July, time of Mrs. Jones’ arrival. 1777; and that he immediately joined the I army at New York, and remained in the J service, actively employed, until the close NOTES j AND QUERIES. of the war, when he was discharged at 1 Historical, Biographical and Genealo- hiladelphia in 1783, having served as a j gical. major seven years, for which he never received any pension or remuneration what- LSXXIV. ever: that, during the service, he was in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, | Delawaee Genealogies. —The Rev. Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Ger- mantown, Stony Point, Horace Edwin Hayden, of Wilkes-Barre, and at the sur- : Penn’a., has in preparation a history of render of Cornwallis at Yorktown, in j the allied Families of Van Dyke, Johns, Virginia; and at the battle of Brandywine j Manlove, Nixon, Robinson and Stewart, lie was slightly wounded by a musket of Delaware. From the superior excel- ball iu the thigh, and that the mark of j lence of his “Virginia Genealogies,” now wound is still visible. These facts rest ^almost out of print, we can expect just as not only upon the statement under valuable work. What Mr. Hayden does oath of the petitioner himself, who is fully is conscientious and exhaustive. Lovers proved to be a man of un- (TouSte il l ruiff ana integrity, but are sustained and corroborated by the testimony 1748. charges"were of trifling of three highly respeciable revolutionary The a character and no minister of his faith, soldiers, themselves pensioners, to wit: and of that time, were exempt from charges pre- James Oldham, of the city of Baltimore; ferred against William Moore, of Lancaster county, them by those who deferred non-essentials. Pennsylvania, and Michael Warner, of in was ordained York county. Oldham states that he was He November 23, 1748. December intimatel acquainted with the petitioner On 15, 1748, he married Mar- garet, the eldest daughter of Rev. before and after he entered the service, Adam of Octoraro, and his and that he knows that the petitioner did Boyd, wife, Jane Craighead, daughter of serve as a major from July or August, Rev. Thomas Craighead, who was the minister 1776, until the close of the war; that he at Clay Creek, Chester frequently saw him during that time; and White county, and afterwards in charge of Pequea that *when he himself went to Valley church, Salisbury township, that county, where Forge in the mililia service, he found jhe died in 1739. The Rev. Wentling (the petitioner! there in active Adam Boyd died November 1768, and his wife died service as a major. Moore states that, 23, 1779. during the whole time he (the witness) November 6, 4-fter his marriage, the congregation served in the revolutionary army, viz: at Donegal gave him seventy pounds to pur- from October, 1777, to June, 1778, he chase a plantation and a salary of seventy , knew the petitioner to be actively engaged pounds. Mr. Tate purchased two hun- in the service as a major. Warner states dred and sixty-four acres of land, which that in 1781 he was in the army in the afterwards adjoined Maytown on the South, at the surrender of Cornwallis; north. When the Rev. Tate entered upon that he saw the petitioner (Major Went- fiis ministry, the Presbyterian .churches ling) both before and after the battle, and were having a bitter fight between the I that he was a major, and acted in that and Lights. The clerical storm capacity at the time he saw and knew Old New the East, South and sides ' him. raged on West of Lancaster county, and did not abate The petitioner also states, on oath, that until about the year 1765. Mr. Tate ad- his commission was lost or destroyed, to- to the “Old Side” with great gether with other papers, during his ab- hered tenacity, but did not display the ability sence at sea; that, in consequence of this and aggressiveness in the fight that Rev.

loss, and his not being able to find any j | James Anderson, former pastor of Done- record of the issuing of his commission in |

11 i Mr. Tate times displayed the very imperfect records of the Coun- gal, did. at ' great restiveness and disgust with the cil of Safety,” preserved at Harrisburg, he conduct of his brother ministers. He is unable to procure a pension under the upon his farm at Maytown, October rules of the Pension Office, which require died ] 11, 1774, aged sixty-three years, and sur- , the original commission, or documentary viving him his wife Margaret and the fol- evidence of it. In support of this latter j lowing named children: I statement, the certificate of the Secretary i. Matthew. .of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is ii. Adam. attached, showing that original commis- Hi. John. sions issued by the Committee of Safety iv. Benjamin have been produced at Ins office, of which v. Jane. no record could be found. Your commit- vi. Margaret. tee are clearly of opinion that the services mi. Sarah. of the petitioner have been amply and sat- | Matthew Tate studied for the ministry, ! isfaciorily proven, that his claim is highly but for' some reason best known to the meritorious, and that ho is entitled to a Synod he was not licensed. I believe the full pension, under the act of 1832, for objection made was because he was not two years’ service as a major in the revo- oyaduated from one of the classical lutionary war; and report a bill accord- schools in charge of the Presbyterians. ingly- J ( Together with a dozen other young men he REV. JOSEPH TATE. went over to England and took orders in 1 have been asked to txplain the rela- the Episcopal Church. Mr. Tate returned tionship bjtween the Tate and Bayly fam- to America and became rector of St. j This can only do in part. Matthew’s church in South Carolina. He | dies. I The history of these two families and the An- removed to Beaufort, South Carolina, and derson family are counter parts of other had charge of a parish there until his prominent families in old Donegal, and it death October 7, 1795. Being the oldest would require much study and skill to son he took his father’s farm at the ap- straighten out their different connections. praisement and sold it to Richard Keys, The Rev. Joseph Tate was probably born Esq. He paid his brothers and sisters shares in money. in the north of Ireland ; he was received as their in Tate resided in Maytown, a i a licentiate Donegal Presbytery, April Adam in Donegal 1st, 1748, and was sent to Marsh Creek, sketch of whom was given j and Lower Pennsboro’. On J une roll. Conewago _ , j Tr State ot Ken- 14, 1748 he received a call from Donegal, John. Tate moved to the but did not accept it until his trial and tucky. of acquittal before Presbytery, October 25, Benjamin Tate moved to the State yirginia. A :

Peeston. —John Preston came to Amer- in with his I presume the Tates of Bedford county, ica from England, 1718, parents. He settled in Bucks county, Pa,, Pa., came from John or Benjamin. j Miss Tucker, and had among Jane Tate married James Anderson, the married grandson of Rev. James Anderson. They other children: had: i. William. ii. Sarah. i. James who married Mary Bayly. , Hi. John. ii. Margaret; Weakley. m John Preston, b. January 22, 1750, son Hi. Rutli; m Williamson. of John Preston, senior, m. Rebecca Vick- vo. Jane; Bayly. m ers, and had issue, all bom in Bucks Margaret Tate married, March 28, 1779, county Captain David McQueen. He was captain i. Zenas, b. 4 mo. 16, 1775. in the “Flying Camp,” afterwards cap- ii. John, b. 9 mo. 23, 1776. tain in Colonel Lowrey’s battalion in Hi. Amos, b. 11 mo. 14, 1779. 1777, and was at the battle of Brandy- iv. Moses, b. 10 mo. 19, 1781. wine. He had also been in the battle at v. Sarah, 1 mo. d. 1 mo. Long b. 12, 1784; 1, Island, and at King’s Bridge. After 1837. the war he removed to York, now Adams vi. Peter, b. 3 mo. 2, 1786. i county. They had the following children: mi. Ann, b. 2 mo. 27, 1788; d. 7 mo. 1, i. Jean ; b. January 29, 1780. 1792. ii. Mary; b. July 1781. 7, mii. William b- 7 mo. 1790. , 16, Hi. John; b. March 1783. 8, ix. Jonas, b. 7 mo. 16, 1792. Jean McQueen married John Bayly in x. David b. 1 mo. 21, 1795; d. 10 mo. March, 1797. He was the son of , James 10, 1795. Bayly, on Donegal Roll. John Bayly died John Preston removed to Lynchburg, ! June 19, in 69th 1833, his year. Jean Va., and died there. Bayly died April 18, 1852, aged 73 years. John Bayly and Jean, his wife, had three sons and six daughters. A MATRON OR THE EEVOLUTI N. Robert Black, of “Black’s Gap, ” Frank- Ann West ( Alricks) Lowrey. lin county, Pa., married the youngest daughter. He is 85 years of age. Robert Ann West, daughter of Francis West, Black, the ancestor of this family, came senior, was born about the year 1730, at from Ireland in j 1732 and located in Done- Clover Hid, Sligo, Ireland. Her father gal township and moved to York county, came to Pennsylvania when she was a now Adams county, where he died in few months old, and settled in Philadel- 1760. His sons were in the Revolutionary phia, where the daughter received a fair war. They were all buried at Upper education. Upon the organization of Marsh Creek Presbyterian church. Cumberland county Mr. West was ap- James Anderson, son of Rev, 1 James pointed one of the first justices, an official Anderson, married, first, Ruth Bayly, j position he held until his death about sister of John and James Bayly, as stated { 1770. In the year 1755, Ann West became in Donegal roll and had a large family by | j the wife of Hermanns Alricks, and they ner. Ruth, | his wife, died January 2, I had four Mr. sons and a daughter. Ai- i 1784, aged 62 years. Within a year after i ricks died Dec. 14, 1772, in Carlisle. The her death Mr. Anderson j married Margaret, year after his widow married Alexander the widow of Rev. Joseph Tate. Mr. Lowrey, of Donegal, who probably had Anderson died about June 5, 1790. His become acquainted, with her on his fre- son James, as stated, married Jean Tate, quent visits to Carlisle. Alexander Low- daughter of Rev. Joseph Tate, and raised rey, son of Lazarus Lowrey, was bom in a family of several children. These chil- the north of Ireland in December, 1725. intermarried into the Bavly and Two years afterward his parents came to Allison families. America and took up land in Donegal Margaret Tate-Anderson died May 13,1 township, Lancaster county, Penn’a. Al- 1801. Although she died as the widow I exander followed the occupation of his "?mes Anderson, sr. her name, , a^e who was an Indian trader, at that period and death is inscribed on the tombstone°of the fur trade being quite lucrative. her former husband, When Rev. Joseph Tate the placed contest with Great Britain assumed there probably by some of her chil- j alarming proportions, Mr. Lowrey was dien. Ruth is the only wife mentioned j outspoken and ardent in his sup- on the tombstone of James Anderson. port of the common cause. In Samuel Evans. 1774, he was placed on the Committee of Columbia, Pa. Correspondence for Lancaster, and was a NOTES memoer of the Provincial Conference held and QUERIES. in Philadelphia on the 15ih of July, of that convened in Carpenter’s Hall the Historical, Biogropnical and Genea- logical. 18th of June, 1776, and of the Constitu- tional Convention on the 15th of July LXXXY. following. He was chosen to the As- sembly in 1775, and, with the exception Standing Stone Flat in Luzekne of one or two years, served as a member County.— of that query comes to us where is it body almost uninterruptedly until and by what name now known. 1789. In May, 1177, ne was appointed MAJOJEt .1 OIKS’ GARRETT, one of the commissioners to procure be com- Of Wyoming Valley, 1775-1778. . blankets for the army. In 1776 manded the Third Battalion of the Lan- caster county Associators, and was in ac- I. tive service in the Jerseys during that year. As senior ’colonel, he commanded The Wyoming monument, that granite the Lancaster county militia at the battle witness to the patriotic devotion of those Americans who participated in the mem- I of the Brandywine. At the close of the Revolution, Col. Lowrey retired to his fine orable action of July 3, 1778, called the farm adjoining Marietta. Under the con- “massacre of Wyoming,” has always been accepted as an authority beyond question. , stitution of 1789-90 he was commissioned by Gov. Mifflin a justice of the peace, an That monument perpetuates the name office he held until his death, which oc- of Major John Garrett as the second field curred on the 31st of January, 1805. Col. officer who was slain in the massacre. By some singular mistake the name of this i Lowrey was a remarkable man in many respects, and his life was an eventful gallant officer has been omitted from the one, whether considered in his long list of the slain, and that of Major Jona- career in the Indian trade, a pa- than Waite Garrett has been substituted triot of the Revolution, or the by every historian of Wyoming Yalley many years in which he gave his time and since the centennial of the massacre in means to the service of his country. By a 1878. It is time to call a halt in this con- to patriot. former marriage he left five children, tinued wrong done an honored some of whose descendants have been The purpose of this paper is to show

I such person as prominent in public affairs. Upon his that no Jonathan Waite marriage with Mrs. Alricks, Col. Lowrey Garrett participated in the action of July but that the officer brought to his home in Donegal all her 3, 1778, who aided children, and there they remained until Colonel Zebulon Butler, in command of they were married and settled. Mrs. the right wing on that day, was Major Lowrey was a person of wonderful energy John Garrett. of and indomitable will, and a great many The name Jonathan Waite Garrett incidents are extant illustrative of these does not appear in any known account of characteristics. be imagined, Col. the events of that terrible day, prior to j As may the address of the Hon. Steuben Jenkins, i Lowrey, from the commencement of the Revolutionary War, was a very busy man. delivered at the monument July 3, 1878. justly -When Congress was in session at York, Mr. Jenkins was regarded as a care- there was a constant stream of distin- ful and accurate historian, especially in to guiahcd officers and men from the North matters pertaining the Wyoming Yal- j 1 address who c me to cross the Susquehanna at ley. In the referred to (p. 44) he “ Colonel Butler, supported Anderson’s Ferry. If there was any de- stated that by Jonathan Waite Garrett assisted lay, on account of floating ice in the river Major , adjutant, or other causes, the more noted travelers by Andrew Dana as commanded In the list of the slain, were sure to go to Col. Lowrey’s, who re- the right wing.” monument(p.70),he sided about half a mile back from the as inscribed on the also of Major Jonathan ferry. Mrs. Lowrey, therefore, had to en- gives the name Waite assured tertain a great deal of company, which Garrett. In 1887 Mr. Jenkins me she did with grace and dignity. No more himself that the name as so given was an hospitable home was known in the Colo- error. And yet this error has been re- effort to nies. During the contest, she was active peated, apparently without any in collecting charitable contributions for verify it by examination of the monu- Munsell’s of Luzerne clothing for the army, and assisted in ment, by “History making up the material, exerting County,” 1880 (p. 305); by the “Wyoming and herself to interest others in the Memorial Yolume,” 1882, p. 340, by H. Bradsby in his “History of Luzerne • same good work. In the latter part of C the war. Col. Lowrey removed to Lancas- County,” 1893, p. 120. 1887. ter to be near the Committee. During the Wyoming-, July 14, gives temporary residence there, Mrs. Lowrey Chapman, p. 175, Major Wait was prostrated, and becomiff| quite help- Garret. gives Major John Garrett. less, the family returned to Donegal, Miner, p. 242, mixing these via memoranda, and not where she died November 21, 1791, and By and John Wait Garret is easily with her husband the remains lie within eliminate, the the graveyard walls of old Donegal obtained. That was manner in which church. With her passed away one of the my mistake took shape and got into print. best known patriotic dames of the Revo- Yours, &c., S. lutionary era, a woman highly esteemed Jenkins. Horace E. Hayden Wilkes-Barre Pa. and respected by the many who crossed Rev. , , | I have made a careful research through I the threshold of the most charming home the records of Luzerne county, and the ! in that eventful era. Mr. and Mrs. Low- from which it rey had one daughter, Fanny, whose county of Northumberland in 1787, through the Colonial grandson is the eminent local historian was formed Pennsylvania I Connecticut any Samuel Evans, Esquire, of Columbia. Records of and have failed to discover and trace of such a person as Jonathan Waite Garrett. No such name appears in the almost ex Fwm 1731 she married 31, 17157 Captain Joseph haustive roster of revolutionary soldiers, Woodford, who was born 1676 and died lately published by the State of Connecti- 1760 The record of her children will ap- cut. pear later. Nothing is known of the early the other hand, the official report of On life of John Garrett, beyond the fact of the battle and massacre of Wyoming by bis marriage and the names of his children. Colonel Zebulon Butler, dated July 10, He first appears in the annals of Con- 1778, states that in the conflict, “a lieu- necticut as an officer in the militia of the I captains, tenant-colonel, a major and five town of Westmoreland. militia, all who were in commission in the Owing to the many conflicts between : will seen in this paper the fell.” As be Indians and whites, Pennamites and I the only officers who'werefn commsision in that part of Pennsylvania Yankees, in j lost their lives July 3, 1778, and militia , who known as the town of Westmoreland were Lieutenant-Colonel GeorgeDorrance, claimed by Connecticut as a part of her Major John Garrett and Captains James domain, the Connecticut assembly during j Bidlack, Rezin Geer, Wm. McKer- the sessions of May and October, 1775, Whit- ( achan, Lazarus Stewart and Asaph in response to the memorial of Colonel Miner tlesey. The Wyoming historians, Zebulon Butler and Joseph Sluman, 528), Wright (181) (p. 242), Pearce (128, erected the town of Westmoreland into a ! and Peck (39,385), invariably record the county and created the Twenty-fourth that of name of Major John Garrett as of militia for its protection, to j regiment the officer who aided Colonel Butler on rank and J be composed of men taken— the right. file—from that section of the county of notice is One exception worthy of Litchfield (Force, 1,860). Asa full and Chapman, who on page 175 of his history, offi- j accurate list of the companies and gives the 43 Mr. Jenkins’ note states, cers of this regiment has never yet ap- ’ ’ The only per- name as f Wait Garrett. peared in any history of the Wyoming found in tbe mili- son of this name to be section, it is given here from Volume: tary annals of Westmoreland or Connec- XV., Colonial Records of Connecticut: ticut was Wait Garrett, of New London, Zebulon Butler, Colonel, appointed Au- Conn., who served as a private from May, 1775. gust to September, 1813, in the company Nathan Denison, Lieutenant Colonel, of Captain (afterwards Major General) appointed May, 1775. Moses Hayden, Connecticut Militia, War William Judd, Major, appoiated May, | of 1812. (Connecticut in the War of i 1775. attention was called 1812, p. 56, —.) My The following officers were appointed to this unintentional injustice done to October, 1775: Major John Garrett, in 1883, by my cousin, First Company. Stephen Fuller, Cap- the late Sidney Hayden, Esq., of Sayre, John Garrett Lieutenant; Christo- tain; , Pa., the well-known Masonic historian i pher Avery, Ensign, who was the great-grand nephew of Major Second Company. Nathaniel Landon; John Garrett, but opportunity to investi- Captain; George Dorrance, Lieutenant.; gate the matter did not offer until 1887. Asael Buck, Ensign. Mr, Hayden wrote me : Third Company. Samuel Ransom, “I think the Jonathan Waite Garrett Captain; Perm Ross, Lieutenant; Asaph instead of John Garrett is a mistake, as Whittlesey, Ensign.

the name stands in the family record in I Fourth Company. Solomon Strong, Connecticut as John Garrett. From the Captain; Jonathan Parker, Lieutenant; rank and position he held in the battle of Timothy Keyes, Ensign. Wyoming I am surprised that no more is Fifth Company. William McKerachan, said of him in Wyoming history. When Captain; Lazarus Stewart, Junior Lieu- did he come there? And what are the tenant Silas Gore, Ensign. personal ; incidents relating to him there, Sixth Company. Rezin Geer, Captain; except that he served j as Major in the Daniel Gore, Lieutenant; Matthias Hoi- battle and fell among the on j slain the 3d lenbock, Ensign. of July, 1778 ? Do the historians of' Seventh Company. Stephen Harding, Wyoming know anything more about j Captain; Elisha Scovill, Lieutenant; ” ; him ? John Jenkins, Junior, Ensign. “ This Major John Garrett was an uncle Eighth Company. Eliot Faruatn. Cap- of my mother, and was born in West tain; John Shaw, Lieutenant; Elijah,.] Simsbury, now Canton, in Hartford | Winters, Ensign. county, Connecticut, in 1727, thus making Ninth Company. James Secord, Cap- him 51 years old at the time he was tain; John Dupue, Lieutenant; Rudolph killed.” Fox, Ensign. The following is all that I can learn of It will be noted that there were nine Major John Garrett: companies in this regiment, the officers of Major John Garrett, b. West Simsbury, which all resided in the town of West- Conn., in 1727, was the eldest son and third moreland. Of these Butler, Denison, child of Francis Garrett, and his wife, Sarah Dorrance, Avery, Fuller, Daniel and Silas (Mills) Tuller, born 1696, died 1797, in her Gore, Geer, Garrett, McKerachan, Ran- 101st year. She was the daughter of som, Ross, Stewart, Hollenbach aDd John Mills, of West Simsbury, and the Whittlesey were in the action of July widow of Samuel Tuller, whom she mar- 3, 1778. Lieutenant Elisha Scovill ried in 1715. She married 2d Francis was in command ©f Port Wintermoot Garrett in 1722, and after his de-ith in his majority indhe 24th Uonnecticut regi- when it was surrendered to Colonel John Oct., is Butler. Lt. John Jenkins, Juu’r, was a ment before 1775, not known. prisoner, and Captain Stephen Harding His rank as Major was recognized by Con- was in Fort Jenkins. It must not be gress in 1776 as we see above. forgotten that the 24th regiment was But he was succeeded in the 24th regi- somewhat deranged by the call of Congress ment by George Dorrance, appointed in 1776 for the two companies from Wy- Major Oct., 1775. In May, 1777, Lieut. oming Yalley commanded by Captains Col. Nathan Denison succeeded Zebulon Durkee and Ransom. The captains of Butler as Colonel of the regiment. Cap- the regiment after the formation of these tain Lazarus Stewart succeeded Nathan companies were James Bidlack, William Denison as Lieut. Colonel. He resigned in 1777 and was succeeded Oct., 1777, by I Hooker Smith, John Garrett , Nathaniel Landon, Asoph Whittlesey, William Me- Major George Dorrance, promoted Lieut. | I Kerachan, Jeremiah Blanchard, Rezin Colonel, and Dorrance was succeeded Oct., 1 Geer, Stephen Harding, Lazarus Stewart, 1777, by Captain John Garrett, promoted I RobertCarr and Eliot Farnam (Conn in the Major (Conn, in the Rev., p. 440; also I Revolution, xv:43). Heitman’s Historical Register of the Con- K William Judd, appointed Major May, tinental Line and Colonial Records of (Conn. Col. Conn.) 1 1775 Rec. xv:43), was 1 then living in Wyoming Valley, hav- At what date Major John Garrett moved Connecticut to is f ing located there in 1774 or 1775. from Wyoming Valley • He was in Farmington in 1774. Heit- not known. His name does not occur in man records him as Major from August any record prior to 1775. Although at | | I to October, 1775. He became Captain of that time aged 48, he held no civil office here, nor does he appear to "the third Connecticut Line January 1, have engaged ’ in business, and probably came here in his 1 1777, retired January 1, 1781, and re- r sided until his death in Farmington, Conn. military capacity as lieutenant of the First He was one of the justices of the peace Company, Twenty-fourth regiment. He ' in the county of Westmoreland, appointed bought land here in 1775 and 1776, as the j by the Assembly of Connecticut May, 'following deeds show: Daniel Downing, of Westmoreland, . 1775, and June 1, 1778 (Miner 211, Col. Rec. of Conn., xv., n, 279). Miner gives County of Litchfield, Colony of Connecti- an account of his arrest and imprison- cut, p. £12 paid him by “Lieut. John ment in Philadelphia jail September 20, Garrit, of said Westmoreland,” December

I 1775 (p. 168), from which he was dis- 6, 1775, conveyed to Garrett lot No. 22, charged in December, 1775. (Conn. His. second division, district of “Wilkes-

[ Soc. Coll, n., 328). His subsequent his- Barre,” containing three acres and three- tory as a friend of the Wyoming settlers quarters of land. Deed acknowledged and members of the Susquehanna com- Dec. 29, 1775, before Zebulon Butler, jus- pany will be found in Connecticut His- tice, and witnessed by Jacob Dyer and tory, and in Miner 380, 412, &c., &c. Zebulon Butler; not recorded until Jan. Several interesting facts in this connec- 29, 1789, by John Carey, administrator of tion seem to have, so far, escaped the no- Garrett’s estate. tice of Wyoming historians. Darius Spofford, of Westmoreland, for Garrett of I he U. S. Congress, August 26, 1776, £50 paid him by John same immediately after appointing the officers place, September 23, 1776, conveyed to for the two Wyoming companies, “au- Garrett lot No. 21, Third division, district thorized the Select Committee to send to of Wilkesbarre. Witnessed by Jonathan | Captain Durkee 200 lbs of powder and a 'Fitch and Jeremiah Bickford; recorded proportionate quantity of lead for the use January 29, 1789. John Murphy, of of the two Westmoreland companies, and Westmoreland, for £160 paid by “Major Zebulon Butler, Esq., was appointed to John Garrett,” of same place, March 20, supply these companies with provisions, 1778, conveyed to Garrett lot No. 22, and was allowed therefor at the rate of Third division “in the town of Wilkes- ” 1-12 part of a dollar per ration until fur- berry. Witnesses, Nathan Denison ther order of Congress.’’ and J. Baldwin. Recorded January 29, 1789 (Deed. Bk. I. 120, 121). Of this Congress also, September 10, 1776, "Re- p. solved, That $4,000 be sent to Zebulon property we will hear later on. It is not j Butler, Esq., for the use of the two com- known that Major Garrett lived upon it; panies ordered to be raised in the town of but the deeds show that he resided here his- Westmoreland, he to be accountable for from 1775 to 1778. Of the personal the same, and that the money be delivered tory of Major John Garrett during these to and forwarded by the Connecticut dele- four years very little is knowD. Miner gates. ’ ’ names him but twice, excepting in the list massacre. does '•'Resolved, That Major William Judd be of slain in the He authorized to muster the said companies not mention him in his very entertaining appendix Hazleton Travellers,” (“Journals of Cong, ii, 329”). The “The so little was known of mustering in occurred Sept. 17, 1776, and doubtless because Oct. 1776, Congress voted an additional his history. sum of $2,000 to be paid to Colonel Zebu- His first appearance in Wyoming his- highly credi- lon Butler for the use of the companies tory is of great interest, and to his character as a soldier, but it (id, 411). table Whether Major William Judd resigned fills one with regret that so little is .known of the mac. It was in — !

now stands. He wa8. a than of great William connection with Colonel courage, and the Indians of the neighbor- of the Valley Plunkett’s invasion hood, fearing him, never molested him or Dec. 1775, with a of the Wyoming, 24, his family. fore* of seven hundred men, os- military It was subsequent to Braddock’s defeat, of Northumber- tensibly to aid the sheriff that hostile Indians crossed over the serve some civil suits land county to mountains and spread death ana desola- against the Connecticut settlers. Miner tion on the frontiers. While out hunting I cruelty of the contemplated at- says, “the during the spring of 1756, Ludwig ob- sensibly felt, intended, it was tack was served the trail of the marauding savages. doubted, like that on the Muncy set- not Knowing that if they discovered his cabin, effectuate the entire expulsion tlement, to child, in his | his wife and absence, would people” of the Valley. of the whole be killed, he hastened home and quickly Colonel Zebu ton Butler, th< n acting in devised means for their protection. It his military capacity of Colonel of the j was too late to go below the mountains, militia, with a force of 24th Connecticut for he would be overtakea. Having in boys, indifferently about 300 men and his house a chest six feet long he bored a armed, made preparations to meet the in- sufficient number of holes in it to admit vaders. “Having encamped,” says air; 'hen taking it upon his shoulder, Miner, “with his three hundred j waded up the run some distance, placing on the flat near the union men it in a sequestered nook. Returning to of Harvey’s Creek with the Susquehanna, his cabin he took his wife and child (the , despatched Major John Garrett [then he latter but six months old) in the same way Garrett], his second in com- Lieutenant j to the chest to conceal his trail, where the to visit Col. Plunkett with a flag, mand, dense foilage covered their hiding place. and desired to know the meaning of his ! j It was ten days before the hostiles bad extraordinary movements, and to demand left the valley, and dui ing all that time his intentions in approaching Wyoming and her child were safely se- Mrs. Minsker i with so imposing a military array. The j cured in the huge chest, her husband, in answer given was that he came peaceably ' the meantime, keeping guard in the neigh- attendant on Sheriff Cook, who was | as an borhood of their cabin, hunting and carry- to arrest several persons j authorized ing provisions to the refugees. oming, fox violating the laws of at Wy One autumn, while Ludwig was carry- Pennsylvania, and he trusted there would ing toward his cabin half of a good-sized be no opposition to a measure so reasona- hog he had butchered, an Indian steathily pacific!” Major Garrett on his re- ble and came up behind him, quickly severed the turn reported that the enemy outnum- lower part, exclaimed, “hog meat very bered the Yankees more than two to one. good meat, Indian like him,” and scam- “The conflict” said he, “will be a sharp pered off to the woods. one boys. I for -one am ready to die, if The child, who was concealed with his need be, for myhountry. (Miner, 173.) ” mother in the chest, became Ludwig the; This patriotic* declaration, fit motto to second. He married a daughter of Thomas grace his monument, found its exposition Cairn, and built bis cabin at a spring on three years later on the field of the massa- the Third mountain, on property now be-j cre. On that memorable occasion, Major longing to Harry Zeiders, who is a de-. John Garrett supported Col, Zebulon But- scendant of the first Ludwig. It is only ' ler, commanding the right wing of the a few years since that the cabin was torn conflict was a sharp American line. The down. one, and Garrett fell early in the action { Prior to the Revolution, a friendly during the hot fire which Miner says not* Indian had his cabin ®n the north side of sustained for half an hour. No survivor Peters’ mountain, near the spring which saw him fall, but none saw him retreat. supplies the water-trough on the pike. There were not wanting those who could Here he lived fLv years unmolested. One tell how Hewitt and Spafford.Bidlack and evening, in the fall of the year, Mrs. \ Whittlesey, Durkee and Whiton,Donahew Minsker, while standing in the door-way, and Shoemaker acted, and bravely met heard a loud moan, resembling that of their fate, but the veil of silence has some one in extreme hidden from our knowledge how Garrett agony. Sue told her ” huRband, who replied that it was the cry “died for his country. That he did his j of a panther. Still listening, she found duty, and fell in the very front, ol the by direction of the sound that the person battle, is all that may ever be known. was going up the mountain—but Ludwig, to quiet her, said she must be mistaken, it [By request we reprint the following which was only the cry of panther. en- appeared in Notes ana Queries some years ago. the The —Ed.] suing summer, the cows remained out beyond the usual time and the children were AIST 15 A. It LY SETTLER Iff CUBE’S VALLEY. sent in search of them. Going up the mountain they came to what was then gentleman, who has been recently A called, and still known as, the “King’s through the length and breadth of Clark’s Stool,” when they found a skeleton lying Valley sends us the following: under it. Informing their father of the Ludwig Minsker, an emigrant from the fact, Ludwig examined the remains Palatinate located in Clark’s Valley in found by the hunting shirt, which was in- 1750. He built bis cabin on a run uear the tact that it was the Indian referred to. It place where the house of John Hooker, jr.. Hl-dlsposed whites appeared 'that some fumes, so admifaDiy ana lovingly edited Indian and to the cabin of the it is our had gone him. 'and so beautifully printed, not i hut, did not kill -.^-iKm province to enter into a criticism of a Owing to its truth, it is one by the students

7. Francis P. New York city, the thanks of armly welcome

: treasure of the

tsi_ evolution. y/ /. Cooke. y Mjl iter of Samuel is born in Pas- county, Penna., Uyn. tj_ /fa /<_ Thomas Simp- settlers in that •/ lpon the assess- /fjL j/t/fll (Lyrut— / ownship, Ches- >negal, and then €yi The children of rer the circum- ceived a limited was a well-to- ote was he from n were educated —? months in the ircely amounted snts. In house- rail Simpson ex- and weave, and, >r the wife of a ed, in 1762, Wm. of John Cooke, the father being

> Pennsylvania, mderry, Ireland, ed his family to ' 1 bury. He was Northumberl and d at the opening pendence, one of e was a member iervation for the al Conference of e Constitutional towing. On the the latter body he ended as colonel used in the coun- nd Northumber- L'welfth regiment e, and being corn- employed upon <- <- fVo— the front of Gen. ig the year 1777, cn. sent from it to in the ^ assisting cj— yj/ t-t -t His regiment was attles of Brandy- ,-• / tnat it was dis- // / mustered out of ited deputy quar- /?..« - lg the years 1778, and 1782 he was Assembly; com- istices October 3, <*r~h^o . Uj~u-^> / 796, an associate died 'la d county. He \ (Ht yru^ jf\ . cLlaa_aa/) now stands! He was a man (p great with Colonel Y'.lliam connection courage, and the Indians of the neighbor- the Valley Plunkett’s invasion of [ hood, fearing him, never molested hi m or 1 of the Wyoming, Dec. 21. 1775 with a I military fore* of s>

. tensibiy to aid the laud county to against the Conns

says, “the cruelty i tack was sensibly not doubted, like t Dement-, to effectu; of the whole peopl Colonel Zobulon his military capac 24th Connecticut n about 300 men a armed, made prepg vaders. “Hava Miner, “with

men on the 1 of Harvey’s Creek he despatched Maj Lieutenant Garret inand, to visit Col. and desired to kno extraordinary mov his intentions in

with so imposing i

answer given was t as an attendant on authorized to a at Wyoming, fot - Pennsylvania, and be no opposition tc ble and pacific!” J turn reported that bered the Yankees “The conflict” sai( one boys. I for oi need be, for my Co This patriotic d> grace his monumer three years later oi ere. On that mem John Garrett supp( ler, commanding t American line. T. one, and Garrett ft during the hot fire sustained for half saw him fall, but There were not wa tell how Hewitt an Whittlesey, Durke< and Shoemaker ac their fate, but tl hidden from our k “died for his count duty, and fell in battle, is all that m

[By request we rep appeared in Notes am —Ed.]

EAlihY S El A.N VA A gentleman, wb through the length -a Valley sends us the Ludwig Minsker, Palatinate located 1750. He built his c place where the hot M.j. admirably ana lovingly edited

evolution.

Coolie.

iter of Samuel is born in Pax- county, Penna., Thomas Simp- , settlers in that ipon the assess- ownship, Ches- inegal, and then The children of ver the circum- ceived a limited was a well-to- ote was he from n were educated 7 months in the ircely amounted gnts. In house- rah Simpson ex- and weave, and, >r the wife of a ed, in 1762, Wm. of John Cooke, the father being

> Pennsylvania, mderry, Ireland, ed his family to ibury. He was Northumberland d at the opening pendence, one of e was a member jervation for the al Conference of e Constitutional lowing. On the the latter body he ended as colonel lised in the coun- nd Northumber- Twelfth regiment e, and being corn- employed upon the front of Gen. og the year 1777, from it to i sent assisting in the His regiment was attles of Brandy- that it was dis- of > mustered out ited deputy quar- ig the years 1778, and 1782 he was Assembly; com- istices October 3, 796, an associate d county. He died 1

. now sianasl He was a man of great with Colonel Ham | connection courage, and the Indians of the neighbor- Plunkett’s invasion of the Valley hood, fearing him, never molested him or[ of the Wyoming, De c. 2C* 1775, with a

military fore* or t tensibiy to aid th laud county to against the 0 >na says, “the craoliy tack was sensib’j not doubted, like tlement, to effecti of the whole peop Colonel Zebu lor his military capa 21th Connecticut

about 300 men ; armed, made prep vaders. “Kavi Miner, “with men on the of Harvey’s Creek he despatched Ma; Lieutenant Garre maud, to visit Col and desired to kne extraordinary moi his intentions in with so imposing answer given was as an attendant ot

authorized to i at Wyoming, foi - Pennsylvania, and be no opposition t

ble and pacific!” i turn reported tha bered the Yankees “The conflict” sai one boys. I for o need be, for my he This patriotic d grace his monumci three years later oi ere. On that men John Garrett supp

ler, commanding 1 American line. T one, and Garrett f during the hot fire sustained for half saw him fall, but There were not wa tell how Hewitt an Whittlesey, Durkei and Shoemaker ac their fate, but tl hidden from our 1 “died for his couni duty, and fell in

battle, is all that tr.

[By request we rep appeared in Notes am —JSD.]

AX E Alt LX SET YA A gentleman, wb through the length Valley sends us the Ludwig Minsker, Palatinate located

1750. He built bis c place where the hot appeared that some Ill-disposed whites lumes, so had gone to the cabin of the Indian and aamiraoiy ana lovingly edited land wantonly shot him, but did not kill him. so beautifully printed, it is not our

: province to enter With his little strength remaining the into a criticism of a poor Indian crawled' up and then down work of this character. Owing to its the side of the Fourth mountain, across fidelity to nature and to truth, it is one Clark’s Valley then up Third mountain which will be appreciated by the students ; of our to the “King’s Stool, ’’where he died from country’s history. Francis P, exhaustion. The rock alluded to is a huge Harper, the publisher, of New York city, boulder heaved on the top of another, and is certainly entitled to the thanks of

I book-lovers, as high as the tallest trees. who will warmly welcome

The foregoing facts were gathered from ! and appreciate the historic treasure of the year. the lips of the late Mrs, Henrietta Minsker. G. A MATRON OE THE REVOLUTION. QUERIES. NOTES AND Sarah Simpson Cooke, Historical, Biographical and Genea- logical. Sarah Simpson, daughter of Samuel and Rebecca Simpson, was born in Pax- LXXXVI. tang township, Lancaster county, Penna., in 1742. Her grandfather, Thomas Simp- Gen. William Thompson.—The will of son, was one of the first settlers in that i Gen. William Thompson, of the Revolu- locality, his name being upon the assess- tion, is on record at Carlisle. It was ment list of Conestoga township, Ches- made August 27, 1781, and probated the ter county, afterwards Donegal, and then 28th of September following. He died Paxtang in Lancaster. The children of September 4, 1781, at his residence in the first pioneers, whatever the circum- | I Middleton township. He left a wife ' stances of the parents, received a limited Catherine (Ross’) and children: education. Mr. Simpson was a well-to-

i. George. do farmer, and yet so remote was he from

ii. Bobert. the town, that his children were educated chiefly at I in. Mary. home—the few months in the iv. Catherine. year of winter school scarcely amounted to more I v. Juliana. than the rudiments. In house- ni. Elizabeth. hold accomplishments, Sarah Simpson excelled. I mi. William. She could spin and weave, and, In his will he mentions his sister Mrs. therefore, personally fit for the wife of a Archer. The executors were his sons frontiersman. She married, in 1762, Wm. (George and Robert, and Col. Robert Cooke. He was the son of John Cooke, Magaw. born about the year 1739, the father being an early emigrant into Pennsylvania, Lewis and dark’s Expedition. coming from near Londonderry, Ireland. In 1767 Mr. Cooke removed his family to Clark to The expedition of Lewis and Fort Augusta, now Sunbury. He was the sources of the Missouri river, thence elected the first sheriff of Northumberland across the Rocky Mountains and down the county, October, 1772, and at the opening river to the Pacific ocean, per- Columbia of the struggle for independence, one of formed during the years 1804 to 1806, ex- its firmest supporters. He was a member most wonderful incited at the time the of the Committee of Observation for the first governmental ex- terest. It was the county, of the Provincial Conference of ploration of the Great West, and the nar- June 18, 1776, and of the Constitutional undertaking was read rative history of that Convention of July following. On the intense delight. Half a century ago, with last day of the session of the latter body he charming were its it was a rare book, and so was chosen and recommended as colonel are surprised that after details, that we not of the battalion to be raised in the coun- lapse of nearly ninety ears, a demand the j ties of Northampton and Northumber- republication. In subse- occasioned its land. This became the Twelfth regiment of that great domain quent explorations of the Pennsylvania Line, and being com- traveled over west of the Mississippi by posed of riliemeD, was employed upon accurately described Lewis and Clarke, so picket duty and covered the front of Gen. rock, rill aDd knoll, that the was every Washington’s army during the year 1777, marvelous truths aroused the attention of while detachments were sent from it to In Dr. Ellictt Coues, the reading public. Gen. Gates, materially assisting in the found a most ‘Lewis and Clarke have capture of Bnrgoyne. His regiment was faithful editor, an author who entered so badly cut up at the battles of Brandy- upon the work with such sympathizing wine and Germantown that it was dis- a delight and interest fervor, that new banded, and Col. Cooke mustered out of been aroused, and with modern have service. He was appointed deputy quar- the work now given to the typography termaster of stores during the years 1778, public is certainly most creditable. The 1779 and 1780. In 1781 and 1782 he was charm which centers around the “Robin- chosen to the General Assembly; com- son Crusoe” of our childhood days is missioned one of the justices October 3, greatly surpassed by these delightful vol- 1786, and January 16, 1796, an associate judge of Northumberland county. He died 1j 1 ,

at the town ot Northumberland April 22, and children escaped "the death by which thither 1804, the family having removed the men had fallen, by fleeing as they were year as early as 1775. It was during this instructed, to a raft that lay in the Sus- that the Rev. Philip Fithian, in his quehanna river and floating down th« journal, alludes totheiuvitat.ion of Sheriff stream, but their property was all des- Cooke to stop with him, Mrs. Cooke was Indiana” . troyed that could be by the certainly an agreeable woman—hospitable Such was the account of Mrs. Garrett, and kind in the extreme. During the who, knowing the fate of her husband, soon war, her husband in the patriot army, made her way back to Connecticut. many duties devolved upon her, apart James A. Gordon, E-q., who recorded from the care and education of her chil- his recollections of what his mother, and dren. Amidst the gloom, her strong old other participants in the scenes, told him, Calvinistic faith buoyed up her heart, and stated' that the day after the massacre her firm reliance upon the God of Battles “ there were four rafts, beside* some nerved her for whatever might befall her. canoes, congregated at Nanticoke and full Finally, her husband returned from the of women and children,” who had fled war, relieving her anxiety. During the from Plymouth and Wilkes-Barre. Wm. summer of 1778 their house was a hospital, Maclay wrote to the Pennsylvania Coun- as well as an asylum, where the wounded cil from Paxtang, July 12, 1778: “I never and sick, the helpless women and children in my life saw such scenes of distress. received care and succor. Mrs. Cooke was The Rivers and the Roads leading down it never weary in well-doing. When peace were covered with men, women and chil- dawned, plenty was added to their stores, dren flying for their lives, many without for in a letter to a brother in London, in any Property at all, and none who had 1789, Col. Cooke writes, declining the not left the greater part behind. * * * offer of money, but says: “you desire me Something in the way of Charity ought to make out such a list of books as Johnny to be done for the miserable objects that requires to complete his library, and you crowd the Banks of this River, especi- would send them in the spring, and I ally those who fled from Wioming ” (Pa. at present, thoughtthat would be sufficient Arch, vi., 634). T . ,, and yet I would take it as a kindness if Nearly ten years alter wards, John Cary, you would pack up a piece of chintz along of Wilkes-Barre, was granted by the with Johnny’s books that would make Court of Luzerne county, Pa., September! each of the girls a pattern of a gown.’’ 11, 1787, letters of administration on the es- also adds, that he had “just tate of Major John Garrett, deceased, bond He | completed a grist mill two and a half £500, Nathan Cary and Solomon Avery, miles from here, which goes very well.’’ sureties; Eben Bowman and John Scott,

Mrs. Cooke died at Northumberland in witnesses. An inventory of the estate i 1822. The Johnny referred to was her was made Aug. 29, 1788, and the adminis- fitly j second child who, as Mr. Linn so ob- trator’s account rendered May 31, 1790, ! served, “was cradled amid the din of but they are both lost. arms.” It was while he had entered the^ In 1788 Cary confirmed the reported de- practice of the law, in 1792, that a call struction of Major Garrett’s personal was made upon him, and he received a property in his application to the court captain’s commission in the fourth sub- for power to sell real estate: legion of the U. S. army. His company “To the Honourable the Orphans’ Court was chiefly recruited at Northumberland. of the County of Luzerne. John Cary, j under Wayne at the Miami, and as- administrator on the estate of John Gar- It was j sisted in checking the power of the con - rett, late of Wilkes-Barre, deceased, federated Indians in the Northwest Terri- Humbly showetn, That there is no per- tory. Upon his return from the army, he sonal estate ofjhe deceased to be found, | and settled down to works of the same having been lost or destroyed in married j

peace at Northumberland. Col. Cooke’s the general destruction of the settlement I

daughter Mary married Robert Brady, | in 1778. That the debts exhibited against | while Jane became the wife of William the estate appear to amount to the sum of P. Brady, sons of the gallant Captain one hundred and twenty-six pounds, John Brady. Rebecca Cooke married three shillings and four pence, one farth- j William Steedman, Elizabeth m. ing, besides the charges of administration.

j Martin, and Sarah, the youngest daughter, Wherefore your petitioner prays for an McClelland and married first, William order of Court for the sale of the whole ! secondly, Judge Samuel Harris, of Ly- real estate of said deceased for payment Cooke married j coming county. William of said debts and charges of administra- ! ” Martha Lemmon, daughter of James Lem- tion. John Cart. The descendants of Colonel and Wilkes mon. Barre, Sept. 1, 1788. Mrs. Cooke, are among the best citizens The Court authorized the sale on the of the State, people who appreciate and i 3ame day, It was advertised to take place revere the patriotic virtues of their an- Oct. 7th, 1788, at the house of Abel Yar- cestors. rington, in Wilkes-Barre, but the property MAJOE JOHN GARRETT, was not conveyed until June 15th, 1790, when Cary deeded lots 21 and 22 to Valley, 1775—1778. OfWyoming Ge >rge Frey, of Middletown, Dauphin county, Pa., for £113. The land is de- II. scribed in Cary’s deed as two lots in Wilkes-Barre, called back lots, or lots iD “His widow, with many other women tEe'TTnra division, ISO. 21] being bounded in the Revolution, p. 263-266.) He was on the southwest on the line of Hanover killed by Patterson’s men in 1784. township, 1,414 perches, northwest on the (Wright 122.) John Garrett appears oh road laid out through Wilkes-Barre town- t' e Wyoming monument among the pri- ship to Hanover township line, being a vates who survived the massacre. This straight continuance of the main street was the eldest son of Major John Garrett, of the town of Wilkes-Barre, 33 and 4-10 who was a resident of Hanover township perches; northeast on said lot to No. 22 and a private in the Conn. Wilkes-Barre by a straight line 1,404 and 4-10 perches, and Co. (Plumb 107.) The names of Elisha southeast on vacant land over the mount and Titus Garrett do not appear in the

i ain at right angles with the side line records of Luzerne county. None of the 31 and 810 rods, containing 280 acres and above ever asked for or received a pension 11 perches. No. 22, adjoining No. 21, con- for Revolutionary services. A John Gar- taining 278 acres and 26 perches, as per rett, private in the Conn. Line, living in survey made by William Montgomery, jr., 1818, in Oneida Co., N. Y., aged 90; in in 1787, (Book 1, p. 278). This prop- 1834 received a pension, but I cannot

j erty lies at the extreme end of identify him with the Simsbury family. South Wilkes-Barre, beginning on the Francis Garrett, said to have been a

! east side of Main street, opposite the resi- Frenchman, came to Canton, Conn., and

dence of Rev. Mr. Hayden, No. 601, and I m. circa, 1722, Sarah (Mills) Tuller, b. extend to Bear Creek township line, cov- 1696, d. 1797 in her 101st year. She was ering only the Spofford and Murphy the daughter of John and Sarah (Petti- tracts. The remaining lot sold October bone) Mills, of West Simsbury. John 7, 1788, to Solomon Johnson, of Wilkes- Mills, b. Jan. 2, 1669; d. March 11, 1698; Barre, yeoman, was lot No. 22, town of was the son of Simon and Mary (Buell) Wilkes-Barre, containing 3 acres and 99 Mills, of Windsor, probably son of Simon perches, bounded southeast by Main street Mills, who owned land in W., 1653, (see and northeast by Union street. It ex- Stiles’ Windsor, ii. 500). Mrs. Garrett tended from the west side of Main street was the widow of Samuel Tuller, (proba- to the center of Franklin street, and bly son of JohD, of Simsbury, 1690), from Union street southward 333 feet. whom she had m. about 1715. Her hus- Recorded May 17, 1796 (Book 4, p. 252). band, Francis Garrett, d. 1731. She m. Major Garrett had a claim of some kind thirdly in 1745, Captain Joseph Wood- on another lot in Wilkes-Barre, as Arnold ford, b. 1676; d. 1760; son of Joseph and Colt, of W. B., for £10 receivrd April Rebecca (Newell) Woodford, the son of 15, 1788, of Mills Garrett and the rest of Thomas, of Hartford, 1650, and North- the heirs of John Garrett, late of W. B., ampton, Mass., 1654-1667. After Captain deceased, conveyed to them one-half of Woodford’s death, his widow lived with lot No. 4, third division. This lot lay in his son William, who had m. her daugh- what is now Plains township. ter Susanna. Sarah had no children by Nov. 23, 1792, John Garrett and Francis her third marriage. Garrett, of Southbury, Litchfield county, Children by first marriage:

Conn., heirs of John Garrett, deceased, i. Samuel Tuller. conveyed to Arnold Colt, of Wilkes-Barre, ii. James Tuller. d. .for £15, one-half a back lot No. 4, third in. Lieut. Isaac Tuller ; b. 1720; division, W. B. township, being part of 1806, a«86; m. 1746 Phebe Case, b. May of and I the right of land of which Harris Colt was 16, 1729; d. 1779; daughter James an original proprietor, and which Arnold Esther (Fithian) Case, and sister of Mrs. moved to West Colt deeded to Mills Garrett and the rest : Francis Garrett. He

I of the heirs of John Garrett, deceased. On Simsbury in 1749, and resided on the

i the same day John Garrett, of Southbury, place afterwards occupied by his son, Ru- Conn., and Jeremiah Spencer, of Windsor, fus. His children were: jConn., sold Benjamin Cary, Hanover 1. Phoebe, b. 1747; d. 1776; m. James township, Luzerne county, for £25, all Case, son of Josiah. their right in lot No. 26, Hanover town- 2. Isaac, Jr., b. 1749; d. 1776, in ship, which Caleb Spencer deeded to army at Bergen, N. J. James Spencer (Bk. 1.28, 2.142, 170). For 3. Deliverance, b. 1751; d. 1805; m. this lot see map in Plumb's Hanover town- Isaac Wilcox. ship, p. 172. With these sales the names 4. Ruth, b. 1755; d. 1818; m. Capt. of Major John Garrett and his family dis- Frederick Humphreys, Canton, appear from Wyoming Valley. Conn., and had Ruth, who m.,1804, There were others of the name of Gar- Luke Hayden, of Barkhamstead. rett in the town of Westmoreland in 1776 (Augustine, Samuel, Samuel, and 1777, as Titus Garrett, aged 34 [born Daniel, William); b. August 30, 1742], 5 feet 10 inches high, was a private 1773; d. March, 1854; had Sidney soldier in Capt. Robert Durkee’s company, Hayden, Esq., of Sayre, Pa. Capt. 1776, and in Captain Simon Spaulding’s Frederick Humphreys was son of company Jan. 1, 1777, discharged Sept. 19, Capt. Ezekiel, of Samuel, of 1778, residence Westmoreland. Elisha Michael and Priscilla (Urant) Hum- 5 i Garrett, aged 36 [born 1740], feet 11 phreys. inches high, was also a private in both 5. Esther, b 1757; d. 1851; m. Elijah

[ companies, residence Westmoreland. He Hill. was transferred to Durkee’s regiment 6. Lois, b. 1759; d. 1797; m. Jame» and continued in service until 1783. (Conn. Lawrence. ; ; I

moved to West 7. Sarah, b. 1761; d. 1812; m. Ozias bury (William, JohrTT.); Northway. Simsbury, 1746. He "was a blacksmith. Gideon Case. 8. Aseneth, b. 1763; d. 1815; m. Jona- His widow Ruth m. 2dly

m. first i thon Mersell. mii. Anna Garrett, b. 1731 ; m. 9. Amasa, b. 1765; d. 1792; m. Sylvia 1747, Samuel or James Northaway; Case. 2dly John Phelps. Left children : j 10. Rufus, b. 1767; alive in 1856; m. 1. Sarah, b, 1748; d. 1819; m. Daniel Matilda Case. Dyer, of Benjamin. 11. Chloe, b. 1770; d. 1845; m. 2. Anna, b. Nov. 1747; d. 1815; m. Timothy Caldwell. Benjamin Dyer, of Benjamin, who By the second marriage there was issue? was a schoolmate of Benjamin iv. Sarah Garrett, b. 1723; d. 1821, as Franklin in Boston, whence he Oliver Humphrey, son of moved to West Simsbury 1740-1. 98 ; m. , 1743-4, Jonathan and grandson of Samuel, b. Horace Edwin Hayden.

d. cb 72. He was the first Wilkes-Barre, Pa. \ 1720, 1792, \ magistrate in West Simsbury, where he located 1742. He was justice, 1770-1792; NOTES AND QUERIES. deputy, 1766-1770. Their children were: Sarah, b. 1744; d. 1795; m. first, Historical, Biographical and Genea- I. logical. Abraham Case, jr. , and secondly, Rev. Abraham Fowler. LXXXVII. >. 2. Lois, b. 1746; d. 1800; m. Bildad Barber. “Lewis and Clark’s Expedition (N. 3. Ruth, b. 1748; d. 1822; m. Lieut. & Q. xxxvi). —Wince the notice of Mr. Gideon Mills, jr. Harper’s excellent reprint of Lewis and jr., b. 1750; d. 1776 in the 4. Oliver, Clark’s travels across the Rocky moun- army. tains, we learn that, although the volumes 5. Erastus, b. 1752; d. 1776. j have been out scarcely six weeks, there Reuben, b. 1754; d. 1830; m. Anna, 6. remains but two hundred copies Humphrey. of the one thousand secs issued, and no more; 7. Rachel, b. 1756; d. 1831; m. Geo. will be printed. It looks now, by the first Humphrey. Chloe of January, as if we will call the work 8. Asher, b. 1758 d. 1828 ; m. ; although really Humphrey. “scarce,” just published. This is certainly very unusual, and those I 9. Mercy b. 1761; d. 1826; m. 1786 , of our historical readers who desire the Rev. Jeremiah Hallock, father of volumes should not delay the matter. Jeremiah H., President Judge Ohio Circuit Court. Captain John Mears, of the Revolu- 10. Esther, b. 1763; d. 1808; m. Eben tion. Heitman’s National Register, page Alford. — 290, John Mease, Pa., Capt. 4, Penna., II. Lavinia, b. 1765; d. 1848; m. should read, John Mears. See vol. 10, Pa. Thomas Bidwell, jr. archives, 2d series, page 489. He was v. Susanna Garrett, b. 1725; d. 1806; m. from Reading, Pa., and was wounded in circa, 1750, Wm. Woodford, b. 1722; d . the battle of Brandywine. He was the son of Capt. Joseph Woodford by: | 1803; founder of Catawissa, Pa., where hedbd his first wife. Their children were: in 1810, aged 82 years. He has a grand" 1. Rufus; b. 1754; d. 1760.. son, John Mears, of Wallace street, Pliila- i 2. Ruth; b. 1756; m. Uzziah Dyer, delphia. See John G. Freeze’s history of of Thomas, or Benjamin. Columbia county, page 105. Linn. 3. Francis b 1759.

4. Rufus; b. 1762; d. 1831; m. first, i First Book TnE German Hymn | Chloe Hills, d. 1794; m. secondly, I Mary Tuller; m. thirdly, Charlotte Printed in this Country. —We have fre- i (Alford) Mose3. quently made the remark that “life is far short 5. Theas; b. 1764; d. 1838; m. dau. of too to correct every historical Isaac Case, b. 1770; d. 1847. blunder.” The latest, however, is so egregious, that the be fixed 6. James; b. 1767; m. Apohia Hill, stamp pught to it at b. 1764; di. 1839. upon once. In the recent biographi- notices of Dr. 7. Theodore; b. 1769. cal the late learned Rev. Philip Schaff, the statement is that 8. Ruth; b. 1772; m. Thomas Dyer, made jr. “he wrote the first German Hymn Book vi. Mayor John Garrett, b. 1727; slain; that was ever printed in this country.” The careful editor of the Publishers' Weekly July 3, 1778; m. and had children:

' this, 1. Mills repeats and the truth ought to 2. John; m. Mary Case, b. 1756 be given just as wide prominence, lived in Southbury, Conn. but that, we fear, never will be. German hymn books were compiled and printed 3. Francis; m. Annis (Wait?); lived I in Southbury; had Esther, Josiah, in America half a century at least before Wait. Dr. Schaff was born. That eminent di- Francis Garrett, b. 1729; d. of con- vine, it is true, did edit and publish a mi. j sumption; ra. 1753, Ruth Case, b. 1732, choice selection of German hymns, but dau, of Captain James and Esther others had done the same thing many (Fitliian) Case, of Terry’s Plain, Sims- many years before. We venture the assertion that more German hymn books : ; ;

were published in .Pennsylvania prior to 1820 than English hymn books during Lewistown, Pa., May 23, 1820, to Marga- ret Alexander. the same period were printed in the whole Bell. of New England. The history of German John Bell literature and German printing in Penn- came from the north of Ire- sylvania remains to be written. land about 1750. He settled in the Juniata Yallev in company with Dorman, Mc- Clenahan and others, at what was subse- GENEALOGICAL NOTES, quently Belltown. His children were: i. John P. [Copied From Old Family Bible Records.] H. William m. Peggy McCartney, of

, Juniata county, and had issue: Long. 1. John Henderson ; m. Mary Sigler. 2. George. Henry Long, of Fermanagh, b. Sept. 1, 3. James. 1776; d. July 30, 1843; m., in 1802, Jane 4. William. Bigham. b. April 20, 1784; d. Jan. 21, 1841. They had issue: 5. Johnston. 6. Arthur. i. John- Helm, b. Nov. 22, 1803; d. 7. Sibella April 14, 1843. ; m. Samuel Barr. 8. Margaret m. ii. Mary-Margaretta, b. Sept. 14, 1805; Alexander Glass. in. James. d. Sept. 26, 1881 ; m. Reed. iv. George. in. Eliza, b. Feb. 8, 1808; d. Jan. 30, v. Arthur. 1844; m. James McGinness Martin, b. April 1, 1810; d. June 1, 1883. iv. Jane, b. June 17, 1812; d. April 2, THE COWANESQUE VALLEY IN 1857. 1767. v. Lucinda, b. Nov. 24, 1814; d. Nov. Tour of Rev. David Zeisberger, tlie 14, 1816. Moravian Missionary. vi. Sarah, b. October, 1816; d. July, 1818. [We are indebted to the Hon. Charles Tubbs, of Osceola, Tioga county, Penna., Sigler. for the following notes and extracts from George Sigler, son of George and Eliza- 4he Diary of that eminent missionary beth Sigler, b. Feb. 17, 1762; d. August among the Indians, Rev. David Zeis- 3, 1821, in Mifflin county, Penn., m. Eliza- berger :] beth Bunn, daughter of Jacob and Mary [About two years ago Hon. Ansel J. Mc- Elizabeth Bunn, b. Sept. 15, 1768; d. May Call, of Bath, N. Y., called my attention 19, 1811, in Decatur township, Mifflin to a passage in the “Life of David Zeis- •county, Penn. They had issue: berger,” edited by Edmund de Schwei- i. Maiy, b. Jan. 6, 1792; m. August 22, nitz, which stated that the distinguished 1810, John Henderson Bell, b. Nov. 13, missionary passed through the Valley of 1/91; d. June 8, 1838. They had issue the Cowanesque in Tioga county in 1767. (surname Bell) The passage alluded to reads as follows: 1. George; b. Jan. 31, 1812. “They now followed the Tioga to the 2. William-Sigler; b. July 18, 1813; mouth of the Cowanesque creek, up which * * d. Nov. 23. 1814. they proceeded. * They forced 3. Matilda-Elizabeth; b. May 17,1815. their way through the underwood to the 4. George- Thompson; b. Jan. 12, 1817. headwaters of the Allegheny in Potter .5. James-Foster; b. Nov. 14, 1818; d. •county. ” p. 324. A foot note said the June 3, 1821. authority of this statement was the MS.

6 . SibelXa-Margaret; journal of Zeisberger for 1767, now in the b. Nov. 1 , 1820; d. Dec. 12, 1858. archives of the Moravian church at Beth- 7. Sarah; b. Jan. 2, 1823. lehem, Pa. In the hope of obtaining 8. Mary- Jane; b. Jan. 3, 1825. more details of the journey, I applied to 9. John-McCarthy; b. Dec. 21, 1826. the Rt. Rev. J. M. Levering, custodian of 10. Ann-Eliza; b. Jan. 29, 1829; d. these MSS. for a translation, which he July 11, 1844 very courteously furnished. The jour- 11. Amanda- Ellen; b. Jan. 27, 1831 ney was made on foot by Zeisberger, 12. Adeline; b. April 7, 1833. accompanied by John Papunhank ii. Jacob; b. March 9, 1794. and Anthony, two Indian converts, Hi. Elizabeth; b. Oct. 30, 1796. and a pack horse. It was from iv. George; b. April 17, 1799. Wyal using to Tionesta. I give below so ®. Sally; b. Aug. 13, 1802. much of the diary as describes the journey in the Cowanesque Valley—at least it Haller. was here as de Schweinitz interprets it. Jacob Haller, b. circa 1750, in Berks It should perhaps be explained that the county; m. Rachel Stringer. They had river now called Chemung, was known as issue: the Tioga in 1767. In the “curiosities” i. Samuel; m. first, Mary McNitt; sec- ’mentioned under the date of Oct. 3, all ondly, Edna Bostick; descendants reside •early settlers will at once recognize the at Yandalia, 111. ‘“chimneys” at the Chimney narrows ii. Jacob; m. Elizabeth Henselman; across the river from Corning, N. Y., descendants at Lincoln, 111. which were demolished in 1881 by the Hi. Henry; b. Oct. 12, const! uction of the D., L. & W. R. R. 1795 ; m. at They fixed the location of the Indian town — 1

thus saw that we naa a longer journey : Assinissink, it was nearuormng— below before us than we had "expected. i the mouth of the Conhocton river. The We were, however, very glad to meet a human reader will observe that the Indian vil- being in this wilderness from whom we lages in this valley were “deserted”—no inhabitants. could gain information as to which way we should proceed, for our Indian breth- A reading of the diary suggests the fol- ren were not at all acquainted with this lowing questions: Who can point out the part of the country. evening §ites where Gachtochwawunck. Woanaai Towards we again crossed a plain and encamped for sisqu and Pasigachkunk were located ?

the night on the bank of the west branch , ‘ to turn At the latter place the Post had [ of the Tiaogee. back during the late war.” What other Oct. 6.— Before noon we arrived at record is there of this event ? o T.] j Pasigachkunk, an old deserted Indian town. It was the last on the Tiaogee. THE DIAKT, 1767. Here the Post during the last war, while Oct. 3. About noon we arrived at As- on the way to the Allegany had to turn sinissink, where the noted chief of the back because the Indians would not allow Mousy tribe, Jacheabus, who burnt the it to proceed any further. It is possible | settlement on the Mahoni lived. His town to travel to this point on the waters of the was burned and laid waste by the Mo- Tiaogee. When we left this place we took hocks later on, but he himself gave up his the wrong path. Seeing that the route

| life as a prisoner in the last war. went too far south, we halted and John Curiosities in the shape ox pyramids of struck into the woods towards the north

stone which look as if they were made by I in search of another path. He found one men are here to be seen. From them this which we thought would be the correct place derived its name. They are of dif- one. We soon left the Tiaogee altogether ferent dimensions, some are and entered the great swamp (thicket) shapes and i round, some oval, some angular. The two above the place where the Tiaogee has its largest are over two and three stories high source; for we had to travel until dark and terminate at the top in a sharp point. before we found water. It rained hard. In most cases a flat stone r( sts at the top It is remarkable as I have already noticed as if placed there with great care to keep further north that upon this elevated dis- off the rain. Even on a very steep hill- trict that the rains come from the west side they stand in a straight position. and southwest and seldom from the east From a distance they appear as if built cf as is the case in Pensilvania. The cause

lime and stone, but are noLas smooth as a ' of this I do not attribute to the great ocean wall. According to my estimation they of America toward the west but rather to consist of a mass of freestone, which can the great lakes towards the west and north - be taken apart because there is always some west. lime between the freestones themselves. Oct. 7. —It continues to rain. Still we The stones are very soft as if rotten. But pushed forward and came across a large on being broken they appear fresh and of creek called Zoneschio (Genessee) which a deep blue color. Whether these pyra- flows into the lands of the Senekas (where mids are Datural or whether they have I had been before with brother Cammer- been made by human hands 1 will leave hofr) and from there runs into Lake for others to decide. The Indians whom Ontario. We again traveled until late I questioned could give me no reason for at night and found no water. We pitched their existence. our camp and John walked, a great dis- Here the Tiaogee divides itself into two tance in the night and brought back a branches; one goes towards the no;th into kettle full of water so that we had at least the land of the Senekas, while the other something to drink. along which we pursued our way extends Oct. 8.—After we had crossed a slight toward the west. We passed Gachtoch- elevation we arrived at the source of the wawunk and Woapassisqu, two old In- Alleaany which is here no larger than dian towns. The way was very wild and Christian’s Spring (A small stream near difficult. We camped for the night on the Bethlehem.] west branch— of the Tiaogee. Oct. 4. To-day it rained. However, A MATRON OF THE REVOLUTION. we continued our journey, having a great deal of trouble in following the path liacliol Marat Graydon. which often could not be recognized. To- wards night we lost it altogether, so that Rachel Marx was a native of the Island we did not know which way to turn, for of Barbadoes, born in 1734. She was the the brethren, Anton and John, were not eldest of four daughters, all of whom, acquainted with this place. We therefore through marriage, were connected with had to encamp. John, however, scoured some of the most influential families in the woods towards the north in search of Pennsylvania. Her father, who was en- the path, and during the night returned gaged in the West India trade, was of with the welcome news that he had German birth—her mother a native of found it. Glasgow, Scotland. At the age of seven Oct. 5. We met an Indian accompanied years her parents removed to Philadelphia, by two women, who came from Gosch- where Rachel was well educated. She gcschingh (Tionesta), from which place formed the acquaintance and married, they had set out eleven days ago. We about the year 1750, Alexander Graydon, a native ot Lon gtorcJ,^Ireland, doing business at that time in the old town of Bristol, whiloMrs. Graydon was accompanied by Backs county, Penn’a. He was a gentle- an old friend, to the head quarters of the man of considerable prominence, was American Army, where proper measures thoroughly patriotic, and in 1747, when were taken for proceeding within the

I : I there was threatened a general Indian Brit sh lines. After being thence con- war, he was Colonel of the associated ducted, she was committed to the courtesy regiment of Bucks county. He died in of some Hessian officers. It happened, March, 1761. At the time of her mar- during the ceremony of the flag, that a riage Mrs. Graydon was considered the gun was somewhere discharged on the finest girl in Pennsylvania, “having,” ac- American side. This infringement of

I cording to the celebrated Dr. Baird, “the military etiquet was furiously resented by manners of a lady bred at court. ” Jbeft the officers, and their vehement ! | German

! thus early in life a widow with four chil- i gesturts and expressions of indignation, dren, the eldest being scarcely nine years but imperfectly understood, alarmed her of age, the estate being encumbered, it not a little. became expedient for her to remove to She supported herself as well as she Philadelphia, where there were greater op- could under this inauspicious introduction portunities for “widows reputably brought into the hostile territory, and had her up,” not only to obtain a livelihood, horse led to the quarters of the but also to educate her children. In this General who commanded in Bruns- she succeeded, and when some fourteen wick, where she alighted and was yearn later, Mrs. Graydon found that her shown into a parlor. Weary and faint boys were nearly all able to take care of (rom fatigue and agitation, she partook of themselves, sne removed prior to the some refreshment offered her, and then | deliver letter of introduction I breaking out of the Revolution to Read- went to a ing, where, during the contest for liberty, she had received from Mr. Yanhorne, of she continued to reside. Two of her Boundbrook, to a gentleman in Bruns- children became prominent in their lives, wick. Five of the Misses Yanhorne, his and it is of these, that in this connection, nieces, were staying at the house, and we essay to refer. Alexander, the oldest, with them Mrs. Graydon became well ac- was born at Bristol, Penna., April 10, quainted, as they avowed Whig principles. 1752; educated in the academy at Phi la- Their uncle had been compelled to leave .delphia, he studied law, but the War of Fiatbush on account of his attachment to the Revolution coming on, he accepted a the American cause, but permitted not commission as captain in the Third loDg afterwards to return to liis house Pennsylvania Battalion, Col. John there, accompanied by Mrs. Vauhorne and Shee, January 5, 1776. He served her daughters. with distinction at the battle of After a detention of a week or more at Long Island, but taken at the surrender Brunswick, Mrs. Graydon embarked in a r of Fort Washington the 16th of Novem- sloop or shallop for New Y ork. The ves- ber, 1776. He was confined some time at sel was fired upon from the shore, but no Fiatbush, and while there a prisoner, we one was injured, and she reached in safety have the account of the .efforts made by the destined poit-. She was allowed to his most excellent mother to effect his re- occupy a part cf Mr. Suydam’s house dur- [ lease on parole. As it exhibits not only ing her stay at Fiatbush. Here in the of her son her accustomed flow of ! the strength of maternal affection, but the society fortitude and patriotic spirit worthy of good spirits returned; she even gave one an American matron, we herewith give or two tea drinkings to the “rebel clan,” it as condensed from that most excellent and “learned from Major Williams the work of Capt. Graydon, “Memoirs of a art. of making Johnny cakes in the true Life Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania.” (Maryland fashion.” These recreations did Addressing a letter to General Wash- not interfere with the object of her expe- ington, who could do nothing to accom- dition, nor could her son dissuade her plish the release of her son, she resolved from her purpose of proving the result of on going herself to New York, notwith- an application. When she called in New standing the opposition of her friends, on York on Mr. Galloway, who was supposed account of the difficulties of traveling, to have much influence at headquarters, for the purpose of soliciting his freedom he advised her to apply to Sir William on parole from the British commander. Howe by memorial, and offered to draw She accordingly set out for Philadelphia, up one for her. In a few minutes he pro- and on her arrival in the city, a distant duced what accorded with his ideas on the relative was over officious in tendering subject, and read to her what he had his service to drive her to New York. written, commencing with “whereas, Mrs. The offer was accepted, but when they Graydon has always been a true and faith- nearly reached Princeton they were over- ful subject of His Majesty George the taken, to their great astonishment, by a Third, and, whereas, her son, an inex- perienced youth, has been deluded by the detachment of American cavalry, the gen- — ” tleman being a loyalist. Found in such arts of designing men “Oh, sir, cried lompany she also was takeu into custody the mother, “that will never do ! My son and obliged to retrace her way to Phila- cannot obtain his release on those terms.” gentleman, delphia, under an escort of horse. When “Then, madam,” replied that they reached Bristol on their return, somewhat peevishly, “I can do nothing means !” were found for the prisoner to go on, for you ,

Though depressed by her first cffsap- delphia, studied law, and the author of pointment, she would not relinquish her several law books. He died at Harris- object; but continued to advise with burg, October 13, 1840. He was a man of every one she thought able or willing to fine literary tastes, highly esteemed, a

1 assist her. In accordance with the coun- gentleman of the old school, in his man- sel received from a friend, she at length ners refined and courteous, of unblemished resolved upon a direct application to Gen- integrity, and a worthy son of such a dis- eral Howe. tinguished matron of the Revolution. After several weeks of delay, anxiety and disappointment, through which her t^otesaistd queries. perseverance was unwearied, the design Bxograpliical and Genealo- was put in execution. Without having Historical, gical. informed her son of what she meant to do, lest he might prevent her, through his LXXXVHL fear of improper concessions on her part, went one morning to New York, and she Douglass, of Lancaster County. boldly waited upon Sir William Howe. fallowing tradition comes to me. She was shown into a parlor and had a The would/be very grateful to have any con- few moments to consider how she should I firmation of it: . address him who possessed the power to “Archibald, James, Thomas, and An- grant her request, or to destroy her hopes. drew Douglass came to Chester county, He entered the room and was near her be- in 1718-20. They were said to be , fore she perceived him. “Sir William Pa., brothers. They were all buried in St. Howe, I presume?” said Mrs. Graydon, j John’s churchyard at Pequa, Lancaster rising. He bowed she made known her ; county, Pa. On the original granite business—a mother’s feelings doubtless tombstones, which were brought from giving eloquence to her speech—and en- the Scotland, it was stated that they were treated permission for her son to go home sons of a Scotch baronet; and on Andrew’s with her on parole. “And then imme- and that he was the son of Lord Douglass diately to take up arms against us, I sup- married Jane, daughter of the Earl of pose!” said the General. “By no means, Ross.” One HendersoD, about 26 years sir; I solicit his release upon parole; that took ud these stones and buried them, will restrain him until exchanged.” The ago graves for new people. took ' the General seemed to hesitate; but on the and of their descendants knew of it un- suit, per- None renewal of her gave the desired are a number of til too late. Still there mission. The mother’s joy at her success Douglass stones there. was the prelude to a welcome summons James Douglass, d. Nov. 8, 1767, aged to the prisoner to repair to New years York for the purpose of being trans- 60 Douglass, d. Nov. 26, 1756, ported in a flag-vessel to Elizabethtown. Archibald years. After some adventures, the travelers aged 61 _ _ , Thomas Douglass, d. May 27, 1797, aged reached Philadelphia, where they dined at President Hancock’s. He had opposed 72 vears. Mrs. Graydon’ s scheme of going to New Douglass, the first-one named York, and though apparently pleased with Archibald above four brothers, left eight chil- her success, could not be supposed cor- in the * dially gratified by an event which might dren I Thomas; d. 1793; m. Aug. 4, 1763, give to the adverse cause any reputation i. Joyce Hudson. for clemency. Such is the policy of war, of Common ii. John; Judge Court and so stern a thing is patriotism. Pleas, 1759-61. Until the close of the Revolution, Mrs. Hi. Archibald. Graydon continued to reside at Reading, George. and while there her house was the seat of iv. m. George Boyd. hospitality and the resort of numerous v. Mary; m. Gabriel Davis. guests of distinction. The Baron DeKalb m, Jane; Margaret; m. John Wilson. was often there, and between her own and vii. General Mifflin’s family there was a viii. Ann. strong intimacy existing. When the Douglass m. in 1750, Sarah county of Dauphin was organized, the ap- William of Edward Davis, whose pointment of her son Alexander as pro- Davis, daughter thonotary occasioned her removal son was he? Douglass wei£. trus- to Harrisburg. She was a lady John and Thomas church, Compassville. much devoted to her family, and tees of St. John’s Edward, Archibald, I yet in the early days of the Capital City In 1759, John, Thomas Douglass, jr., of the State, she was prominent in deeds Thomas sr., and

the tax list. . J of love and charity. She died at Harris- were on . Douglass was commissioner of burg, January 23, 1807, and there buried. Andrew Lancaster county in 1740. Of her children, Alexander, of whom Edwin Hayden. much has already been stated, was in later Horace years a frequent contributor to literary Wilkes-Barre, Pa. and political journals. In 1816 he removed to Philadelphia, where he died THE GRAVE OE ZEI9BERGER. the reference May 2, 1818. William, another son, born With much interest I read Charles September 4, 1759, was educated in Phila- to Rev. David Zeisberger, by Hon. - Tubbs, and' tfic extract from bis' [journal, as printed in Notes and Queries (No. dotted with the wigwams of his dusky lxxxvii). My interest was increased by followers and friends, but not a vestige of the fact that on Monday, Not. 13th, the either now remains to tell the passer-by day the article appeared in print, I visited who once dwelt here in rude simplicity. the grave of the pious missionary in the David Zeisberger was a remarkable as lovely valley of the Tuscarawas river, well as unique character, and by his teach- Ohio. It is about six miles from Den- ings and example was enabled to wield an nison, where I am temporarily stay- influence for good over the savages with ing, and three miles south of New Phila- whom he came in contact that was truly delphia, the seat of Tuscarawas county. sublime. On the 14th of July, 1770, he The remains of Zeisberger rest in an was adopted into the tribe of the Monsey old graveyard situated a few yards from Indians. The ceremony took place at an the highway leading to New Philadel- Indian town on the Beaver river, and he phia, on the west bank of the Tuscarawas. remained with them and did great good Near here he located after leaving Schon- by his preaching. The Monseys came brunn, or the “Beautiful Spring,” a few from the West Branch Valley of the Sus- miles up the river. His rude cabin stood quehanna, and finally dwindled away in an a sharp point of land at the mouth of Ohio and Indiana. In joining this tribe a ravine, behind which rises a high and we see the same spirit of consecration very steep hill. Half way up this ac- that characterized the Apostle Paul, the. clivity lies a massive boulder, evidently first foreign missionary, who said: “And deposited there during the glacial period. unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I Here the venerable missionary spent the might gain the Jews,” &c. —1 Cor. ix:20- declining years of his life, died, and was 22. One of the Monsey chiefs, Glik-kik-an, | carried across the ravine by his faithful was converted by Zeisberger on the Bea- i Indian friends to the place of burial. ver, and he ever remained his steadfast The old graveyard, now little used, is friend and devout follower until the fatal enclosed with an ordinary fence and is day in March, 1782, when he perished in kept in fair condition by the Moravian the bloody massacre at Gnadenhutten, church, only a short distance away. only a few miles from Goshen. Many Indians, too, were buried Zeisberger first came to the Valley of here, but no tablets mark their the Tuscarawas in March, 1771, accom-

I graves. The grave of Zeisberger, which panied by several Indians. As he was, is well kept, has a stout iron fence around since his adoption, invested with all the it, supported by ten dressed sandstone rights and privileges of a Monsey, they posts. The enclosure is about fifteen by had implicit confidence in him. In six twenty-five feet, and a few shrubs are days the party reached the chief town of growing within it. On a square block of the Delawares in the Tuscarawas Valley, dressed stone, which rests on the grave, and here Zeisberger preached. The place this inscription is cut: where this memorable meeting was held is “David Zeisberger. still pointed out. The Delaware chief in- Who Was Born April 11, 1721, vited him and his followers to settle In Moravia, among them, and designated a spot on And Departed this Life which to build their town. Hither Zeis- Nov. 17, 1808, berger conducted the Moravian Indians Aged 87 Years, 7 mo. & 6 Days. from the Susquehanna, and in 1772 the This faithful servant of the Lord colony was founded. The Big Spring, labored among the American Indians as where the mission was founded, issued a missionary during the last sixty years of from among the roots of a majestic elm, his life.” which'is still standing, but the spring is Within the same enclosure, and near almost dried up. When the massacre oc- the grave of Zeisberger, is another, with a curred at Gnadenhutten, Zeisberger was at Stone tablet bearing this inscription: Lower Sandusky, and did not hear of the “William Edwards, butchery of his faithful followers until Missionary. some time afterwards. Aged 78 years. Born In Old England. John of Lancasteb. ih. Departed Oct. 9, 1801.” Dennison, 0., Nov. 17 The graves overlook the rich and fruit- 1767. i ful valley of the Tuscarawas, now highly ZEISBERGER’S DIARY EOR cultivated and dotted with dwellings and well-filled barns. Zeisberger called his I. last dwelling place Goshen. With pro- indebted to Hon. Charles Tubbs phetic instinct he seemed to foresee what [We are following continuation of the was in store for those who should come for the of David Zeisberger, Moravian after him. Eighty five years have rolled Diary Rev. Missionary among the Indians:] away since the pious man closed his eyes 8. Here I had the pleasure of see- in what was then a romantic wild, now Oct. first fir grove in America. My two the inhabitants literally dwell in a land ing the Indian brethren did not know what kind rich in everything calculated to make them happy. of wood it was, as they had never seen kind before. They had a great deal Not far from the humble cabin of the this trouble in finding the way to-day, for missionary stood a little chapel, and the of often for miles there is no sign of a per- level ground on the bank of the river was son ever having traveled this way before. 1 1

We occasionally came^across^the fooE prints of deer, which are deer such as are where we remained over mgnt as we had found in Europe. They make a path j the time before. [Probably on the preced- wherever they go. We thus thought we ing journey, Tr.] Ho one was left in the had come upon the right path. But j the town except an old man and an old woman tracks led us into a terrible wilderness so since all were out on the hunt. we had to stop and wait until John had scoured the Oct. 26. At noon we arrived at Tiozin- forest and found * the right! path. ossungachta, the most central of the Sen- In the evening we arrived at the! eka likewise was at Allegany, being very tired towns, where no one ; for both yes- home. terday and to-day we had to work our way Oct. 27. We met a company of Indians through the wildest woods and densest on the hunt. They gave us meat to eat underbrush imaginable. To my twoi and were very friendly. One Seneka gave Indian brethren, who are otherwise quite! accustomed me half a deer, which we needed, for we to underbush, it seemed re- had nothing to eat except corn boiled in markably wild. The day has been passed water. At noon we passed through the in quite rapid traveling. At this place the last Seneka town, Tiohuwaquaronta. Allegany is fully twice as broad as the Here we exchanged some meat for corn Maukosy at Bethlehem, and is navigable so that we might have something for the for canoes. Here also the Indians make| horse while going through the great canoes in order to go down the stream. swamp (thicket). Of this we saw signs quite often. Canoes Oct. 28. It. snowed very hard, yet we of bark as well as of wood aie found traveled rapidly all day and on the 29 th From Wayomik, therefore, the best route at Forks 30th would be by water we arrived the and on the as far as Passiquach- i to the end of the Allegany. kunk, the two days overland to the Alle- i Oct. 31. At night we reached Passigach- gany, where canoes can again be made to ; gungh, on the branch of the Tiaogee, travel down stream. west and also the waters of the Susquehanna. Oct. 9. We traveled along the Allegany,

1 This morning Brother John had gone keeping it to our left. This evening we from us to hunt, and first joined us again came out of the thickest and densest when we had pitched our camp for the swamp (thicket) in which we had traveled night. To our great joy he had shot a four days. It can not be surpassed in bear, the bacon sides of which he had wildness. During the night it rained. ! brought aloDg. We immediately boiled a However, we found a hut, the first one in 1 kettle full, for we were very hungry. this wild region, in which we passed the | Bread was lacking, but the meat was ex- night, for up to the present time we had cellent without bread we thankfully slept under the open sky. and ate it. Oct. 10. At noon we arrived at a town of Nov. 2. We arrived at Assiwissink. the Senekas, and consequently had a John shot a deer, so we had bread to eat way before us which admitted of better traveling. with our bacon, for deer flssh supplies The inhabitants invited us to the place of bread very well. stop which we did. They placed before Nov. 3. came to Willewane. But us something to eat. I We expected to have ! here all had gone out hunting except Chief an examination but the proper persons Egohund, who asked me many questions were not at home. Only young folks were a about Goschgoschunk, how we had found - b°ut, but they were very friendly. As j it and whether they had received our we continued our ’Uroey a Seneka j preaching of the Word. mounted his horse and rode to the next, town Nov. 4. We came to Schechequanunk, which is at least 30 miles distant. 1 | therefore concluded where only a few women folks were at that all would not I home. wished to proceed, but could pass by without something turning up. We Oct. not cross the Susquehanna on account of 11. At noon we arrived at the last its being too high. therefore turned m ®5,t i° lled town, Tiozinossongachta. We back to [The party arrived at Goschgoschchuntc the town in the night and took in the horse across the river in a canoe. due time and remained there seven days. Nov. 5. In the evening we arrived at The journal contains much theo- logical Friedenshutten to the great joy of both discussion and records lengthy religious ourselves and our brethren. Here I re- experiences at that place. We mained until resume the record on the departure from that Nov. 11. When I left and, to the great place. The journey is from lionesta joy of friends, arrived Christian’s eastward over the same route my at used in going.] brunn on Nov. loth; and ou the 16th at tllen Bethlehem. bac^ e g°ocl bye and Jett.i Many accompanied us for several miles. TWO HEROINES OE THE REVOEU On the way we met two canoes of TION. oenekas. When they saw us they drew near, and one, who was an Onondago, [There may have been other women presented me with a wild goose he had who participated in the war for independ- shot. ence, but none who shed such a lustre Oct. 24. We again met three canoes of upon the patriotism of womanhood as oenekas who were going down the river Margaret Corbin and Mollie McCauly. to hunt. In the evening we arrived at Their names and fame belong to the glory this town, which is called Panawakee. of the liberty-loving days of seventeen seventy-six.] I Margaret Cochran Corbin. vania, commanded by Uol. .Lewis Nicola, 1 Margaret Cochran, daughter of Robert as it was discharged in April, 1783, is Cochran, was born in what is now Frank- found the name of Margaret Corbin. She lin county, Pa., November 12, 1751. Dur- was properly pensioned by her native ing the Indian maraud of 1756 her father I State at the close of the war and until her was killed by the Indians ' and her mother death, caused by her wounds received in taken prisoner. In November, 1758, the battle. She resided in Westmoreland latter was seen j one hundred miles west- county, beloved, honored and respected ward of the Ohio. It is probable that by every one. She died about the year Margaret and her brother, John, were away 1800, the precise date not being obtainable. from home at the time. In 1765 nothing For her distinguished bravery, in these had been heard from the mother, and the days when patriotism has to be taught, it children were yet | under the guardianship would be well that the women of Penn- of their maternal I uncle. About the year sylvania, so proud of their Revolutionary 1772, Margaret married John Corbin. Of ancestry, should honor her devotion and him or his antecedents little is known, loyalty to country and liberty, by per- save that he was a Virginian by birth. At petuating her virtues in bronze or marble. commencement, of the War of the j Mr. DeLancey, in writing of the capitu- Revolution, John Corbin enlisted as a lation of Fort Washington, enthusiastic- matross in Captain Francis Proctor’s first ally wrote: “The deed of Augustina of company of the Pennsylvania Artillery, I I I Arragon, the Maid of Zaragoza., was not and his wife accompanied her soldier to nobler, truer, braver than that of Mar- the wars. ’ ’ Childless, she felt that the garet Corbin, of Pennsylvania. patriot cause demanded this self-sacrificing

I duty on her part, and as the sequel shows Mary Ludwig Hays. she proved how brave a woman could be- Mary Ludwig, the daughter of John come. At the attack upon Fort j Washing- George Ludwig, was born in Lancaster 1 t0Ci a shot i from the enemy killed her hus- county, Pennsylvania, October 13th, 1744. band - There being no one to fill his I place Her parents were emigrants from the the officer in command directed the piece Palatinate, Germany. Mary’s early years to be withdrawn. Hearing this order, were spent in the family of afterwards Margaret Corbin unhesitatingly took Gen. William Irvine, then residing at her husband’s place, and heroic- Carlisle. Here she became acquainted ally performed his duties with skill with John Hays, to whom she was mar- and courage, * until seriously wounded. ried July 24tb, 1769. When the struggle Her services were appreciated by the offi- for Independence began, John Hays en- cers of the army. The State of Pennsyl- listed in Capt. Francis Proctor’s inde- vania made prompt provision for her, but pendent artillery company. With almost it was not until the Supreme Executive every command a certain number of mar- Council called the attention of Congress ried did the I women were allowed, who to her case did that body offer her any re- washing, mending, and frequently the lief. the On 29th of June, 1779, the cooking for the soldiers. Among these Council ordered : “That the case of Mar- was the wife of John Hays, who gladly garet Corbin, I who was wounded and ut- availed herself of the privilege of sharing terly disabled at Fort Washington, while the privations and dangers of war with she heroically filled the post of her hus- her husband. Two years had passed, of band, who was killed by her side serving march, bivouac and battle, and the de- a piece of artillery, be recommended to a voted wife followed the fortunes of her further consideration of the Board of partner in life. It was reserved for her, War, this Council being of opinion that however, to immoralize her name by ore notwithstanding the rations which have heroic deed. It was in the action at Mon- been allowed her, she is not provided for mouth that her conduct became conspicu- as j her helpless situation really requires.” ous. charge of I Sergeant Hays, who had A few days afterward, in July, we have one of the guns, was severely wounded, the first acknowledgment of her services and being carried away, the wife took his by Congress which unanimously resolved: place in the forefront, and when the con-

! “That Margaret Corbin, wounded and dis- flict was over assisted in carrying abled at the battle of Fort Washington water to the disabled. This won j while she heroically filled the post of her for her the soubriquet of ‘Moll husband, who was killed by her side serv- Pitcher.” There may have been ocher ing a piece of artillery, do receive during “Moll Pitchers,” but this heroine of Mon- her natural life, or continuance of said mouth was none the less than Mollie Hays. disability, one-half the | monthly pay For her brave conduct, upon coming to drawn by a soldier in the service of the attention of the Commander-in-Chief, j ^ these States; and that she now receive, Gen. Washington, he personally compli- out of the public stores one suit of clothes mented her, as she departed for her home or value thereof in money.” With this in Pennsylvania with her wounded sol- documentary evidence, it is a strange dier, to show his appreciation of her vir- thing that Mr. Lossing, in his “Field tues and her valuable services to her coun- Book of the Revolution,” as well as other try. Hays never returned to the army, historians of greater or lesser note, should and died a few years after the close of the attempt to give the credit of these heroic war from the effect of his wounds. Ow- achievements to some one else. On the ing to the fact that other women were rolls of the Invalid I regiment of Pennsyl- credited with this heroic act at Monmouth ! ; 78

months. the State of Pennsylvania, as well as the aged 38 years, 6 „ Dec. 16, 1842, Federal Government, in recognition of Brown, Col. William, d. 11 days. her distinguished services as herein set aged 47 years, 4 months, of William, d. forth, granted her annuities for life. Mrs. Brown, Margaret, wife years, 3 months, Hays subsequently married George Me- July 10, 1880, aged 81 familiarly Oauly, and was afterwards 26 days. . „ , known as Mollie McCauly. She was a Berkstresser, William H., s. °| at Mt. women highly respected by the citizens of and Margaretta, d. May 25, 1864, wound received Carlisle, and at her death, January 22, Pleasant Hospital, from Wilderness, Va., 1833, was buried with the honors of at the battle of the 29 days. war. In 1876 the patriotic peo- aged 24 years, „. , 1813,1Q1 d. ple of Cumberland county appro- Brown, James H., b. June 1,

priately marked her grave, and the March 7, 1870. . of J., b. reb. 4, day is coming when the name of Molly Brown, Elizabeth, wife McCauley will be honoxed and revered by 1833, d. Feb. 9, 1870. Nov. patriots throughout the land. Inured to Brown, Mary, b. Mar. 29, 1811; d.

hardships, privations and sufferings in her 12, 1869. , , and dau. life, she was a true matron of the Revo- Chambers, Ann, w. of James, lutionary era. Poor, it is true, but con- of James and Martha Rooney. 1827, spicuous in her loneliness and poverty. Clark, Alexander, d. February 14, Peace to her ashes. aged 78 years. 1829, Clark, Sarah, w. of A., d. April 1,

aged 80 years. , aged NOTES AND QUERIES. Dolny, Dr. John H., d. April 5, 1856, 54 years, 1 month, 26 days. Historical, Biographical and Genea- aged 63 logical. English, W., d. March 21, 1832, yeari*. Au- L.XXXIX. Everhart, John, b. March 13, 1787; d. gust 7, 1834 d. Middle Ridge Church Grave Yard. Gantt, Joseph, b. December 12, 1769; 1826. A few weeks since while in Perry coun- April 10, . | w. of J. G., d. August ty, Pa., an opportunity afforded us to visit Gantt, Mary L , Middle Ridge Presbyterian church and 28, 1775; d. May 17, 1845. aged graveyard. The former was erected about Jones, Joseph, d. October 16, 1878, 1803. It is located four miles northeast 65 years, 9 months. aged 74 of New Bloomfield, the county seat of Jones, John, d. April 2, 1848, Perry county. The church, or what re- years, 7 months, 24 daysf J. J., o* July 1, mains of it, is a few hundred yards south Jones, Martha, w. of 28 days. of the Middle Ridge road, and was a one- 1843, aged 69’ years, 3 months, story “meeting house’’ with the front to Jones, John, member of the 9th Pa. Yol in defense the east, constructed of stone, and this is Cavalry, w'ho gave up his life Grove, all which remains, the roof and other of his country at Solomon’s morn- wood work all gone. The church occu- near Fayeiteville, N. C., on the 11 pies a position in the centre of the grave ing of March 10, 1865, aged 29 years, yard, while to the rear outside of the months and 17 days. d. graveyard fence are peshaps thirty or James, Eliza, b. February 19, 1/73;

more trees, which were there long before February 18, 1842. . the good covenanter chose to locate this LinD, William, d. July 12, 1844, in 72d place of worship. They stand to- day sentinel like as they did wheD the red Linn, Nancy, w. of W. L., d. October man traveled the valley below the ridge 8, 1808, in 33d year. and the deer leaped at will, but the staid Lion, Margaret, w. of W> L., d. January old parishoner of the long ago has passed 15, 1844, aged 74 years. to his rest, while his descendants have Mitchell. Robert, d. November 8, 1872, gone out—some to the North, to the South; aged 89 years, 7 months, 23 days. others to the East and West. All that re- ; Mitchell. Nancy, first wife of R. M., d. mains is the stone wall standing almost Dec. 22, 1822, aged 37 years. j four square to the winds which blow. McNaughton, Solomon, d. June 15, When the Presbyterians erected a church 1880, aged 69 years, 1 month, 6 days. at New Bloomfield the few who remained McNaughton, John, b. March, 1806; d. connected with Middle Ridge became December 30, 1876. connected with the new place of worship McNaughton, Joseph, d. Apiil 16, 1843, and were succeeded at the old by the aged 67 years, 9 months, 11 days. “Seceders,’’ who too have also gone where McNaughton, Salime, w. of Joseph, d. “Westward the star of Empire takes March 24, 1857, aged 69 years, 3 months, its course.’’ A few of the inscriptions 10 days. from the tombstones found amongst the McNaughton, John, b. February 14, 1827 briars, vines are and bushes herewith! d. April 14, 1848. given. e. w. s. 1813; p.] j Monroe, George W., b. August 26, Agney, John J., d. April 3, 1853, aged 69 d. February 14, 1873. years, 6 m. 8 days. Monroe, George, d. April 23, 1841, aged Brown, T., d. Andrew August 2, 1881, j 71 years. aged 76 years, 8 months, 2 days. October 1856, aged Monroe, A. W. , d- 2, v^Iosserman, d. March 1884, Margaret, 18, 46 years, 1 month, 8 days. Jhllizabetn, ot \V., Monroe, w. A. and site for a town. This was on March 16, second w. of Jacob Happle, b. Novem- 1772. Here Net-a-wot-wes granted for ber 26, 1817; died April 20, 1882. the use of the Christian Indians that part Monroe, Aney, w. of George, b. March 20, I I of the Tuscarawas Valley extending north 1786; d. November 12, 1852. from the mouth of Stillwater creek to McC( lloyer, George d. February W. ; 15, what is now Bolivar. 1866, aged 26 years, 8 months, 17 days. The spot selected for the settlement of McColloyer, d. January 25, 1819, aged 37 the IndiaD -Moravian colony was a beauti- years, 4 months, 16 days. ful one. There was a small lake in the Niblock, Rev. John, pastor, Juniata, Mid- lowest part of the valley through which dle Ridge and Sherman’s Creek Presby- the river flowed. At the base of an abrupt terian churches; d. August 11, 1830, in rise to the plateau a copious spring gushed his 32d year. from beneath the roots of a clump of elms, Okeson, Daniel, d. July 22, 1823, aged 38 and flowing away fed the lake, which was years. nearly a mile long. Both the lake and Okeson, Annie M., w. of D. O. and second outlet were navigable, so that canoes could w. of Robert Mi'.chtll; d. May 21, 1860, be paddled from the river to the spring. aged 75 years. Zeisberger proceeded to lay out a town Pollock, James, d. November 7, 1857, on the plateau which he named Schon- aged 72 years, 7 months, 4 days. brunn. It had two streets laid out in the Patterson, Nancy, wife of Geo. B., d. form of a T. At the middle of the tra- November 1, 1848, in her 28th year. verse street, and opposite the main street,

Reed, Israel, b. November 2, 1825 ; d. which ran east and west, stood the chapel. | February 26, 1866. Adjoining on the right was Zeisberger’s Thompson, Margaret Ann, wife of Joshua house; on the left hand was the and dau. of George and Mary Monroe, house of Youngman, one of the d. February 8, 1851, aged 28 years, 4 missionaries. On either side of these were months, 17 days. the houses of the native assistants. The Walker, Andrew, d. October 13, 1852, ohapel was of squared timber, 36x40 feet, aged 79 years, 6 months, 3 days. shingle roof, with cupola and bell. This Walker, Jane, w. of A., d. October 8, bell is supposed to have been the one 1857, aged 78 years, 2 months. brought from Wyalusing. A school house stood at the northwest corner of the main “ SCHOXBRtnSTN.” street. The streets were broad and cleanly kept, and the village was enclosed with Zelsberger’s Beautiful Spring. fences to keep out cattle. Before the year In my last I spoke of the death and (1772) closed, there were more than sixty burial of Zeisberger at Goshen. A few re- houses, built of squared timber, besides a marks in reference to Schonbrunn (Beau- number of huts and lodges. tiful Spring) may not be out of place. The colony flourished for several years, When the chief of the Delaware Indians but on account of the Indian troubles (Net-a-wot-wes) invited the Moravian In- finally went into decline. The settlement dians to remove from the Susquehanna Was a great attraction for the wild Indians and settle in the valley of the Tuscarawas, —especially the Monseys—and they fre- Zeisberger came out Imre to view the land. quently caused much trouble on account He came in March, 1771, and proceeded to of their dissipation, and notwithstanding the Delaware capital (Gek-el-e-muk-pe- Zeisberger was one of their number by

j chunk), the site of which i3 now occupied ! adoption, he could not always restraim by Newcomerstown, on the Pan-Handle them. The Monseys, whose headquarters railroad, 83 mil >s east of Columbus. The was in the valley of the Walhonding, a town lay amidst a clearing, nearly a mile few miles further west, were uneasy and

I square, and consisted of about one hun- restless, and Dunmore’s war increased dred houses, mosily built of logs. Zeis- their dissatisfaction. Finally, in 1776, berger and his frieuds were “the guests of the Monseys began to secretly inveigle the chief, who dwelt ia a spacious cabin, some of their tribe, who were Moravians, with shingle roof, board floors, staircase into a plot to disown Christianity and leave and stone chimney.” In this building, Schonbrunn. Thi9 plot was carried on dur- at noon of the 14th of March, 1771, a ing the absence of Zeisberger, and Young- throng of Indians, together with nearly a man was unable to counteract it. One dozen white men, gathered to listen to the of the leading Moravian Indians, named first Moravian sermon delivered in the ter- New-ha-lee-ka, finally seceded and went

ritory now comprising the State of Ohio, I oyer to the plotters. This caused the After remaining a few days the missionary rapid downfall of Schonbrunn. Whisky, returned to Pennsylvania and reported in for which New-ha-lee-ka had a great favor of removing hither. weakness, wa« the cause of his ruiu. In the spring of 1772, Zeisberger returned This New-ha-lee-ka was a historic char- j

to the Delaware capital and informed the ! acter. He once lived in the Valley of the chief that his people accepted his offer West Branch of the Susquehanna. To- and would remove to the Valley of the | ward the close of the Indian occupancy of Tuscarawas. While on the way out, about that region, he lived on the Great Island, two miles below New Philadelphia, on the and tradition says that when the surveyors river, he discovered a large spring in the appeared on the south side of the river iu midst of the richest bottom land, above 1769, there was a young hunter among which lay a plateajr, offering an excellent them, named William Dunn, who carried — ,

May 12. We took effective isave of Bro. to Freidenshutten. a silver mounted rifle. This so captivated Ettwein, who returned New-ha-lee-ka that he proposed to trade We had hoped that he might accompany the island for the rifle and a keg of us to the Allegena. We continued our whisky! Whether the story is true or not, journey, and at noon entered the Tiaogee, Dunn settled on the island, made some where we had to go against a very strong improvement, and when the land was ac- current. We encamped for the night in quired by the treaty of Fort Stan v is the bushes. Some more Indians were

j (1784) he was not dispossessed, but finally among our company, who went with us to got a patent from the State, and there he Wilawana, where we arrived.

| lived and died. May 13. At noon. We met but few The chief, who was at that time a rep- people at home because they were at work resentative Monsejite, became a Moravian on their plantations. We halted for and came West with them. When he re- several hours and then proceeded for nounced the faith at Schonbruna, it is several miles till we arrived at Salame’s supposed that he went over with the “bad brother’s house. He lives all alone on the Monseys” in the Yalley of the Walhond- Tiaogee, and his house is the last. We ing. When as.d where he died is un- remained there over night. We had known, but h« probably passed away long scarcely ariived there, when 20 chiefs before the close of the century somewhere from Wilawana ft Hawed and remained

in this section of Ohio, or on the Monsey , with us over night. I thought at first that reservation in Indiana they had come to hear the gospel, but they The famous spring and the lake are no had other intent ions. They held a council more. dSlot a traca of Schonbrunn re- to which they invited our Indian brethren, mains. Cultivated fields occupy the site and giving them a belt of wampum, they of the Moravian village, which stood said: “It is not well that you journey to

| upon exceedingly rich alluvial land the Allegena. It is against the will of the which now produces luxuriant crops of 6 nations, and especially the chiefs in wheat and corn. The surrounding scenery Cayuga that the Indians should leave the is charming to the senses and beautifel to Susquehanna and go to the Allegena. look upon. The old elm, beneath whose They should remain there quietly. There- roots the “Beautiful Spring” once issued, fore return to the place which you have still stands, but shows signs of great age. come, for your jouroey will not be pro-

What a story it could tell ! On its trunk ductive of good.” Bro. Anton came and is a board bearing these words: told me all, whereupon I went to them Schonbrunn Spring. and told them our intention and purpose,

Discovered March 16 , 1772, by David Zelsber- namely: That we were not going to the ger. Mission commenced May 3, 1772. Dispersed Allegena because it did not suit us here, by Indians, 1781. nor because the place was not good 1772, Much water and many Indians. enough for us, nor because we ex 1780, Little water and few Indians. pected to find it better there, 1876, No water—no Indians. which was indeed the reason for the Near where the spring issued i9 a neatly departure of other Indians to that place. dressed square block of sand stone, with ', That was Dot our reason. For Friedens- an inscription cut in its face similar to hutten suited us very well. We had no i the above. What was once a neat fence | other intention than to preach the gospel surrounds the spring, but it is elm and to the Indians at Goschgoschunk,who had fast crumbling away. These memorials J j called us. We were bound to do this for were erected by Moravians, but if they are j God had commanded us to bring the good not soon renewed there will be nothing news of our God and Maker to all men left to indicate to the vicitors many who who ever they might be, whites, blacks or come here annually, the exact spot hal- browns (Indians), that they might be saved lowed by so many historical associations | through Him.” We would therefore not of the long { ago. obey them, because they did not under- John of Lancaster. stand our position. For this latter reason Dennison, Nov. 1893. 0., 24, we could not find so much fault with them for objecting to our journey. We would, j A MORAVIAN DIARY OF 1768. however, continue our journey to-morrow, and as far as the chief of the Cayugas was j “Diary tlie of Journey of David Zeis- . concerned, we would attend to it that he beiger j and fcfottlob Sensemann to should be informed and come to an agree- OoschgoachunU on the Allegena j and IDelr Arrival, May, 1768.” ment with us. We then handed back their belt of wampum. They said they had con- 9. tinually hoped the Indians in Gosehgosch- May After a hearty farewtll our \ party, which consisted of Anton aed his unk would again return to thi3 place, wife Joanna, Abraham and S lame, -Peter but now since we were going there, hope and Abigail and the boy Chiistian, An- was gone. We told them that if ton’s nephew from Friedenshutten, began they had desired to return, they would the journey, partly by land and partly by never have invited us to return to them. water. Bro. Ettwein, who had accom- I i-lso told that on this journey I had re- panied us since our departure from ceived an invitation from the Indians at Bethlehem, journeyed with us as far as Schechscbiquanunck, who also desired to Schechschiquanunk, where weanivedon hear the Gospel, and I did not doubt but a the 10th and remained until the 11th. Brother I Niagara between Tike Erie and lake ! woulago there and preach the gospel. That I thought it would be good Ontario. This is the middle point for them to consider also what they would b tween the Tiaogee and the Al- do. I had passed through this place last legena. A day’s journey down this

' fall and endeavored to find out whether creek there stands a large Seneka town of they would not like to hear the gospel. I 100 houses and a day’s journey further saw no indications. brings one to Zoneschio (Genesee) where ! They should surely not be the last ones. Later on several I have been wi-h Bro. Cammerhoff. came to our hre, for we were lying under Mry 24 and 25. We lay still because the the open sky, because the house was too Indian brethren were tired from carrying small for us. Bro. Anton comiaued to the heavy burdens. Anton was especially teach them and preached the Gospel of weak. A sweat house was built in which Christ, the Saviour, with power until mid- they cured themselves. night. The text for the day was comfort- May 29. We journeyed on. At noon ing: “The days of thy affliction shall we overtook the strange family which had have an end, and joys shall be unto thee.” gone ahead yesterday. He (probably the May 14. Our whole company was treat- head of the family. Tr.) had in the mean- ed to a breakfast of tea and bread and but- time shot a bear. So we enjoyed a hearty ter by Salome’s brother. Thereupon we dinner and then proceeded. To-day we continued our journey unhindered. arrived at the source of the Allegena, May 15. We arrived at Assinissink and which is a large spring. encamped at Gatchtochwawunck, on the May 28. Ia the evening we arrived at first fork of the Tiaogee, over night. In the first forks, where canoes can already the evening, as well as during the entire be made use of. We rejoiced greatly and journey, we had our hour of prayer. thanked our Saviour that He had brought May 16. We traveled up the branch us thus far and enabled us to accomplish which extends towards the west. The the most difficult part of our journey. other comes from the north from the However another difficulty confronted us. land of the Senekas. At noon we reached Our provisions were consumed and each the second fork and then followed the one of us had given up whatever he had. j branch to the right. The Sisters went and searched for herbs, May 17. The water became very shal- which they cooked. Although they were low, so that it was difficult to proceed cooked in water, they tasted very good. with laden canoes. Those who travtled May 29. We weut down the creek sev- by water caught at one time two bears eral miles to the second fork. We had and a deer. We immediately cooked and scarcely arrived there when Brother

fried some and ate. Then we continued ! Anton shot a very large pike in the creek, our journey. Those who travtled by land which is already quite large and navigable. had to pass through bush-fire both yester- On the way we fqund a sign on a tree day and to-day. The air was very hot which had been made by the two Breth- and was filled with steam and smoke. ren of Goschgoschunk, who had left May 19. In the forenoon we ariived at Friedenshutten sooner than we. We thus Passikatchkunk and closed our travel by saw that it had taken them twelve days water for several days. Since we passed to get this far, and consequently they had the last fork the creeks have been growing arrived in time. so shallow, not as large as the Manakesie May 30. Since no canoe had arrived for at Bethlehem, that at times already two or us, and we did not expect one sooner than three days ago we had to drag the canoes in three days, wa went to work and made over shallow places. We were glad and several bark canoes for the journey by thanked God that He had helped us thus water. Our food consisted of herbs and far. The driving of our three beeves fish which the Indians shot with their mus- went much better than we had expected. kets. Suckers are here found and they are A strange family from Wilawana, intend- much larger than any I have yet seen. The ing to go to Goschgoschunk, joined our Indians also shot a kind of fish called company. “Buffalo fish,” because they are said to May 20. Two of the Indians who had bellow like cows. They are broad and accompanied us returned to Friedenshut- have large scales and fins. In their heads ten. I wrote to Bethlehem. We brought are found two stones. They are very pal- half of our goods some distance into the atable. I wrote letters to Bethlehem since swamp (thicket) and ia the evening re- Henry and another friend intend to jour- turned and had a blessed hour of prayer. ney back to Friedenshutten by going di- May 21. We broke up camp and traveled rectly through the woods. quite a distance north into the swamp May 31. We proceeded on our journey, (thicket), pitching our camp near a creek several traveling on land with the cattle. ] which flows into the Pemidhanuck and Here the Allegena runs first towards the therefore to Canada. Hitherto our course north then turns to the southward. Some- has been W. N. W. To-day it changed times going directly south, so that the and we went W. S. W. general course is about southwest. At Ma£ 22. We brought up all our goods night it rained. We built ourselves huts and in the afternoon continued our jour- as we have often before during our journey for some distance. ney. It is a blessing that one can at this May 23. We came to the creek Pemid- time of the year built huts so easily and hanuck, which is large and flows into the quickly. Laurecz river in the neighborhood of June 1. We came to the first Seneka 1 —

rained hard without ceasing—coming irom deer and also town towards evening. We were invited the west. Abraham shot a the Indians to spend the Dight there, an in vital ion we a large sea turtle, at which surprised, since they had aladly accepted, because it rained hard. were greatly kind. During The few men which were in the town at never before seen suca a us a great the time came together and asked me to the night the wolves disturbed tell them what our iotenlions were. This deal by their music. As we lay in the I did saying that we had been bushes they came so near the fire that the invited by the Indians at Goech- Indians hurled fire-brands at them. on. Alle- goschunk to come and preach to June 7, We journeyed The flows in a very crooked course, them words of our God and Creator. I gena A Seneka from Zmeschio was with them through high mountains where falls and cliffs In the afternoon we came who had seen me at Zonescbio 18 years be - abound. fore. Intending to return to-morrow he to Ganawaca, a Seneca town, where we passed asked me what he should tell his chief stopped for several hours. We had concerning me, for probably he would de- several plantations before this, from called to me sire to know why I had come hither. I which the Indians had Ganosserachen. told him to say: I and my companions and asked if I was had come on the imitation of the Indians They then followed us to the town. since at Goschgoschunk, merely to preach the The mo3t of them knew me I had year. ; last Gospel. For the present I could not say stopped here twice The men to tell more. But when I had arrived at Gosch- immediately assembled and 1 had goschunk, and found out the sentiments ( them the cause of our journey as I had done in the first town. They were very of the people there I woul i let him know , our plan and intentions through a mes- friendly, and when we left they stood on senger. He shouli therefore merely say the bank and watched us,giviag us a part- that I was here, for Chief Hasastaes knew ing salute of musket shots. We would me. They wers satisfied with this. Since have staid here over night if we had not we have to deal with the Senekas, which been afraid of the cattle getting into the is a tribe most barbarous and wild, caring plantations; for there are no fences here. but little for the Saviour and his gospel, June 9. Towards evening we arrived at which we were bringing, the daily text Goschgoschunk. especially edified us: “Thus a man pro- ceedeth to his work, God bless his labors NOTES AND QUERIES. purposes and works. ” here bought We Historical, Blogr some corn, for pnieal and Gen«a= which we ga ve salt in pay- logi cal. ment, which they most desire. They also presented us with provisions, so that we XC. were supplied in case we meet with the game. Here we saw two white women and Baied. Numerous inquiries coming to a girl, but could not get near enough to us, as to the relationship existing between speak with them. The Indians say they the Bairds, who settled in Chester county came either from Maryland or Virginia as and those afterwards found in the Cum- prisoners, and liking their present condi- berland Valley, the following from that , tion did not desire to return. conscientious genealogist, Mr. Gilbert ! June 2. After we had supplied ourselves Cope, shows that the family disappears with provi-ions, baked bread and pounded from the records of Chester county shortly i com for the journey, we proceeded on our before j that name came upon the Cumber- way. As it rained hard during the past j land county assessment lists: Dight those journeying by land had diffi- “There were Beards or Bairds in the culty in proceeding with the cattle, since New London settlement from 1729, when the latter had to swim across the creeks. John Beard first appears, and he was still In the afternoon we met the canoe which therein 1740. In 1734 the name was we expected from Goschgoschunk. It written Baird in the assessment list. contained three Indians who had brought There was also a John Baird in Aston for us provisions and tobacco. They had township, 1730-32. Thomas Beard ap- been four days on the journey and expect- pears in West Nottingham in 1739 and ed to reach the fork, where we had waited 1740. The next list is 1747, but I do not for them, to-morrow. Their appearance find either | John or Thomas. Among those was by no means a very attractive and who took up lands in Faggs Manor were friendly one, for they were painted red John Beard and Daniel McClane, but 1 and black as if they were on the war path. have not the exact date. I have a note June 3. This morning sent we the three that Thomas Beard, of Lancaster county, Indians ahead with the heavy in luggage obtained a warrant for 200 acres in Cole- the largest bark canoe, while took we rain, November 23d, 1754. I have not the their’s in its place. Towards evening we assessment list for 1751 by me, but in arrived at the second Seneka town, which looking over that of 1758 I fail to notice contains but four huts. Th majority of the name of John Baird.’’ the inhabitants had left this spring. June 4. We traveled but a short dis- A MATRON Ol' THE REVOLUTION. tance because the way turns aside from ! the water and we did not desire to spent Mary PRilltps Bull, the night scattered here and there. Mary Phillips, daughter of James June 5 and 6. We rested because it a:

Phillips, a Quaker emigrant from Wales, Howe’s washerwomen for k piece of bread was born in Chester county, Province of for her. The women gave her some bread, Pennsylvania, August 3d, 1731, Her went into her room, opened the drawers mother dying when Mary was a small and took ail the sheeting, table linen and

I child, she was taken to the home of a ma- clothing. They dressed themselves in her ternal uncle, Mr. Bowen, who educated best gowns, and swore that “the rebel’s her a=> well as her brother Stephen, caring clothes fitted very well. ” Subsequently, for them as if they were his own children. Gen. Howe came to Mrs. Bull and said: Near neighbors to the Bowens were the “Madam, if you will send or write to your Bull family, one of whom, John Bull, husband and prevail upon him to join us, subsequently married her on the 13th of I will take you to England, present you to August, 1752. John Bull was born in the King and Queen", you shall have a Providence township, Philadelphia, now pension and live in style.” Mrs. Bull Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, June looked him fu'd in the face and said: 1st, 1731. His ancestors had come to “General, my husband would despise me, Pennsylvania at a very early period. Of and I should despise myself if I did so.’ his youthful life we know but little. He He said no more. ODe of his aids came to was appointed captain in the Provincial her and said: “Madam, had you not better service May 12th, 1758, and in June, fol- send and have your stock gathered some- lowing, was in command of Fort Aden, a where out of the way to protect them ?” | very frontier. f important post on the The This was done to save themselves the same year he accompanied General trouble, for they were taken directly to Forbes’ expedition for the reduction of the slaughter. A large old-fashioned clock • Fort Duquesne, and rendered important stood in one corner of the dining room. service in the negotiations with the In- One of Howe’s aids went to open it. The dians. In 1771 he owned the Morris plan- General said, “Let that alone,” and it tation and mi l, and was residing there at was not disturbed. In the bottom the opening of this clock Mrs. , of the Revolution. He was a Bull had, • delegate to the Provincial conference of in a kind of desperation, thrown January 18th, 1775, a member of the Con- two hundred pounds in hard money, paid stitutional Convention of July 15th, her a few days before. When the etock 1776. and of the Pennsylvania Board had all been taken for the army and of War, March 11th, 1777. On everything possible had been destroyed, November 25, 1775, he was appointed the General came again to her and said Colonel of the First Penn’a Battalion, “Is there anything I can do for you, from which he resigned January 21, 1776, madam ?” Mrs. Bull went fo him and on account of some slight on the part of took hold of the button of his coat, look- his officers. He was one of the Commis- ing him full in the face, said: “General, sioners at the Indian treaty held at Easton I only wish you to deal by me as yen January 20, 1777; in February following would wish God to deal by you. ” He - in command of the defenses at Billings- lowered his eyes and said: “Madam, there

port on t he Delaware, and on the 16th of shall be no further mischief done,” and July I appointed Adjutant General of the then left. However, a party of Hessians Btate. In October of this year his barns were sent back to burn what wheat was were burned and stock carried away by Two thousand bushels of fine wheat the enemy. In December, when Gen. Ir- were taken or destroyed by them. On | vine was captured, Col. Bull succeeded to hearing of the approach of Howe’s army, the command of the Second Brigade of the man employed by Mrs. Bull drove off a Pennsylvania militia under Gen. Arm- load of kitchen utensils and a young strong. In 1778 and 1779 he was engaged heifer, and these were all that were saved. in strengthening the defenses of Philadel- The old negroes were left, but the young phia, and in 1780 was commissary of pur- ones were carried off. Two young men, chases in that city. During the entire revo- servants of Mr. Bull, dressed themselves lutionary struggle he was an active patriot. in their master’s clothes and bade their In 1785 he removed to Northumberland mistress farewell. They told her freedom county; in 1805 elected to the Assembly, was sweet and left. The officers put them and in 1808 was the Federal candidate for on board a vessel and sent them to the Congress, but was defeated. He died at West Indies, where they were sold. They the town of Northumberland August 9, had a petition sent back asking to be 1824. Among the incidents connected brought home. When Howe’s army had with the life of Mrs. Bull, one or two left fire was found in the cellar, must suffice in this sketch of her. Tie which was put out by Mrs. Bull with a British General, Lord Howe, when in bag of common salt. She then went out Pennsylvania, took possession on a certain and threw herself down at the foot of a occasion of Col. Bull’s farm and store. big tree, and prayed to God that if He took Most of the contents of the latter had pre- everything else from her, He would not viously been distributed among the soldiers take away Bis love and favor. She said of the patriot army. Upon the entrance afterwards that if any one had spoken to of the British commander into her resi- her, she could not have heard more dis- dence, Mrs. Bull retired to a little back tinctly these words, “I will be a father to room. Two days and nights did she you, and you shall be my daughter, saitn watch the enemy’s proceedings. She had the Lord Almighty.” Her remark after- her youngest child with her and begged wards was, “1 have lived in the faith of that promise ever since.” Upon their set- 1 1

tlement at JNorthumbeiland Mrs. Bull won the esteem and admiration of &11 her neighbors by her sweetness of disposition About a mne soum oi tore present town of and admirable manners. She died in that Bolivar he erected Fort Laurens. On re- town on the 23id of February, 1811, aged turning to Pittsburgh he left a garrison of nearly four score. Her husband, although 160 men, under Col. John Gibson. In the much reduced by sickness at the time, was ! winter of 1779, the Indians in great force present at the funeral, and before the besieged the fort and the garrison grave was closed he addressed the assem- was reduced to straightened circumstances bled friends in these remarkable words: before relief came. Col. Brodhead finally “ ‘The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken succeeded McIntosh, and he seht relief to away, blessed be tee name of the Lord;’ the garrison. Daily harrassed by the may we who are soon to follow be as well savages, the garrison was kept in constant j prepaid as she was.” Colonel and 1 straits. Further retention of the fort Mrs. Bull left saseH-ehildreD, of whom |êref°re was deemed inexpedient, if not Captain John Boyd, f garrison Rebecca married o / imDOs^ble. The remnant of the the Revolution TîH ' 1 T n ri^rn^TTenhonê. was then withdrawn in August, 1779, and ; jy brother of David Rittenhouse, the astron the fort abandoned. It was located one omer, and Anna, Gen. John Smith, of mile south of B< livar, on the east bank ot Winchester, Virginia. the Tuscarawas river, on an alluvial plain, elevated about twenty feet above the THE TUSCARAWAS. water. The site of the old Indian town of Tuscarawas was near the fort, and it It Elows Tbrongli a Land Rich, in was here that Colonel Bouquet built a • Historic Associations. stockade fort. The Indian town had been Muskingum and Tuscarawas valleys The .abandoned shortly before his arrival, andj are rich in historical associations. Rev. he found more than one hundred lodges] Frederick Christian Post, the Moravian, still standing. Not a trace of these forti- came here first in 1761 on a mission to the fications now remain, but their sites are Delaware Indians. On the 11th of April still pointed out, and the stories of the cf that year he reached the Tuscarawas thrilling events which occurred around |. and visited Gek-ele-muk-pe-chunk, the them are treasured as traditions of dark i' capital, which stood the ground on now and gloomy days. occupied by the borough of ' Newcomers The ancient Moravian village of Salem, town. He came again in 1762, but his ef- is located about a mile from Port Wash- I forts to establish a mission failed. He ington, on the Pan Handle railroad, 104 also visited another principal j; town of the miles west of Pittsburgh ana 89 east of Delawares, located on the head waters of | Columbus. It was founded March 3, . the Tuscarawas. Its site is now occupied 1780, on the site of a Delaware village. A ? by the little town of Bolivar. chapel 36x40 was built of hewn logs, and j Col. Henry Bouquet conducted his dedicated May 22 following. Here in the I famous expedition to this valley in 1764, spring of this year, Rev. Adam Grube |» reaching what is now Lawrence township married Rev. John Heckewelder and Miss « on the 13th ot October of that year. Here Sarah Ohneberg. Doubtless this was the he encamped and held an important con- !jj first white wedding in what are now the ference with j[ the' Indians on the 17th. limits of Ohio. Heckewelder remained Chief Cus-to-lo-ga was the representative || here as pastor for many years. When I of the Monseys on this occasion. Bou- Tuscarawas county was organized in 1808 ' quet was firm in his demands for good he was elected an associate judge, and |ji behavior on their part, and the immediate served until 1810, when he resigned, on delivery )| of white captives to him. The account of his age, to retire to Bethlehem, Indians were quick to j perceive that he where he died January 1821, aged . would 31, not be trifled with, and they nearly eighty years. straightway delivered up eighteen cap- Johanna Maria Heckewelder, the sec- \ tives and j promised more. Believing ond first white child born in Ohio, saw | that the better way to drive 1 them into the light of day at Salem, April 6, 1781, quick submission would be to march his and was less than a year old when Wil- force to their capital, he did so without liamson’s hand of white savages wiped further delay, | and in a few days was en- out the defenseless Christian Indians at ; camped near j Gek-ele-muk-pe-chunk. Here Gnadenhutien, only four miles away from Indians | turned over 206 prisoners of where-she slept iu her rude sugar trough all grades j in less than two weeks, and cradle. In 1785 she was taken to Bethle- were profuse in their promises of good hem, where she was reared, educated, and

behavior. 1 Bouquet then retraced his became a teacher at Lit itz in 1801. In steps to Fort Pitt, arriving there about the ! five years she was compelled to return to • 1st of j November. In this expedition he Bethlehem on account of deafness, where only lest one man—he strayed from | the she died September aged nearly i 19, 1868, | camp near what is now Coshocton, and 88 . was killed and scalped. The first white child born in the State Col. Lachlan McIntosh, with a com- of Ohio was John Roth, at Gnadenhutien. mand of one j thousand men, also visited Moravian records inform us that this the valley of the Tuscarawas in Novem- event occurred July 4 1773. His parents >er, # 1778, to punish refractory Indians were Moravian missionaries d penetrate to Detroit if necessary.’ Many more incidents, which occurred in this valley over one hundred years ago, might be referred to|but the want of space forbids. Enough, however, has been cited cursion into Staten Island whicn resulted

| to show that this is one of the most inter- disastrously. On the 11th of September esting sections of the great State of Ohio. they were engaged in the battle of Brandy- And of the thousands of travelers who wine, and on- the 4th of Otober in the are whirled by rail along the Tuscarawas, battle of Germantown, where Lt. Mc- how few are aware that upon its banks Kennan was wounded, which ultimately many dark and bloody tragedies have caused his death. been enacted, and that it flows through a The Delaware regiment and Maryland land rich in historic associations ? division passed the winter of 1777—78 in John oh Lanoastee. quarters at Wilmington, Delaware. In

Dennison , 0.,Dec., 1893. May, 1778, they joined the main army at Valley Forge. Lieut. McKennan was in CAPTAIN WILLIAM MoKENHAN. the battle of Monmouth and partook of the honors of the day. After the battle His Life and Revolutionary Services. the army marched to Brunswick and celebrated the 4th of July, 1778. Afterwards Captain William McKennan was de- it dispersed in different directions, the scended from one of the clans of the Delawarians proceeding to West Point to Scottish Highlands. He was born in strengthen that position under Gen. Put- New Castle county. Delaware, in 1748. nam, where they remained until April, His father, Rev. William McKennan, 1780, when that -portion was directed to preached for fifty-four years in the White take up the line of march under Baron Clay Creek and Clay creek Presby- Red De Kalb and proceed to Charleston to aid

I during thirty-four years terian churches, Gen. Lincoln. By forced marches they of which time also he was pastor of the arrived at Camden, South Carolina, where Presbyterian church at Wilmington, Dela- the British force was concentrated and ware. The Continental Army, under encamped twelve miles from the enemy. in and fall t Washington, the summer of Here they were joined by 3,000 militia 1776, was occupied in the defense of New ! from Virginia. It was understood that shores of Jersey, York, while the New Gen. Gates intended to attack the euemy Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland by surprise in their quarters late in were left open to the British, who disem- the evening. The whole force, therefore, barking their troops anywhere along the moved in that direction and the advance borders, could march them not only into of the two armies met on the high road, the very heart of the confederation, but exchanged fire and both fell back to our army in the rear. Con- attack their main bodies. At early dawn the therefore called on these States gress British commenced the battle. The Con- to raise and equip 10,000 men to form a troops fought desperately, but ' tinental “FlyiDg Camp” for the purpose of pro- were finally compelled to yield to superior tecting the middle colonies and to serve numbers. They retreated to Hill boro’, until December 1776. The Delaware 1, in North Carolina, where the army re- Battalion enlisted in accordance wiih the organized under the eommand of Gen. call was commanded by Col. Samuel Pat- Smallwood, when the officers without terson. William McKennan at that time command returned to their respective in was Second Lieutenant Captain Thomas States. McKean’s company. Several causes gave Lieut. McKennan, by the promotion of rise to some dissatisfaction among the Capt. Patton, had been advanced to a cap- men of the former company, and they taincy. In December, 1780, he returned soldiers. proved inefficient Congress be- to Delaware on the recruiting service. In coming enlightened on the subject of April, 1781, he was ordered, with other of enlistment, short terms both by the officers, to receive and drill such substi- Continental line troubles in the as well as tutes as should be sent to Christiana- in the “Flying Camp,” which demon- Bridge, in New Castle county, Delaware. strated the fact that if success was to be In August, 1781, Washington and the army must obtained the be reorganized. army arrived at that place of rendezvous, Therefore, on September 16, 1776, Con- and immediately took upthelineof march that eighty-eight gress resolved battalions to Baltimore, from thence proceeding by as be enlisted as soon possible to serve small craft to Annapol-s, where the French present during the war and that each State transports were waiting for the French respective quota. furnisn its Delaware’s army to embark. On the arrival of the battalion of 800 quota was one men. troops at Annapolis they embarked, the Hall, formerly a captain in David Col. fleet weighed anchor, sailed down the Hazlett’s regiment was appointed colonel Chesapeake and arrived at Lock Haven regiment. The first of the new company bay. The next morning the transports to organize and offer its services was com- proceeded up James river, and fte wj manded by Capt. John Patton with Wil Williams- landed in the neighborhood of liam McKennan as its first lieutenant. had al- burg and joined the troops that The men were mustered into service Nov. the assembled there. As soon as 1776. Lieut. McKennan's commission ready 30, concentrated,. Gen. Washing- 1777. trooos were is dated April 5, In April, 1777, left Williams- ton a? their bead, the army the Delaware regiment joined the army at where burg and proceeded to Yorktown, Princeton. During the summer of that Cornwallis, ha British, under Lord year the Delaw are and Maryland troops, the event themselves. The glorious then under Gen. Suljivan, made an ex- fortified

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need that followed is too well known to Moore. 1. John Wilks Kittera, m. Ann repetition. „ , Kittera, m. John Conrad. Delaware, Mary- 2. Eliza After the surrender, the Conrad, m. Franklin Woolmah. or- 3. Jane land and Pennsylvania troops were in- The latter were the parents of the dered to South Carolina to reinforce quirer. In reply we can only give the Greene’s army. On their arrival, Gen. record o Mr. Kittera. Ke was ao ensign January 1782, the Delaware detach- 1, of the Fifth company, Eighth battalion, under the command of Capt. Wil- ment, Lancaster county militia, commissioned liam McKennan, took their station in May 10, 1780, and in actual service. Col- William Washington’s Legion, composed of the remains of his regimeDt of “UPPER” OR “TO30Y-NE” CHURCH. horse and the scattered remains of the article on Middle Ridge Delaware regiment. On November 16, The recent

was I which, when accomplished, Capt. Mc- byt'ry for recognition. A. committee several meetings, Kennan issued certificates for services, as appointed, which held |

at . well as land warrants, to the claimants. one of which was in November, 1766, Towards the clos® of the last century George Robinson’s, “when they decided I Capt. McKennan settled at Wellsburg, that for the lower end of Sherman’s Va! _ Virginia (now West Virginia), from ley the church should be located at Dick’s

! whence he removed to Pennsylvania. Gap.” This church was succeed d in the one Shortly after he was appointed Prothono- 1803 by Shermansdale church, and was located tary January 11th, 1803, clerk of the tin the “Centre’ of the valley and in the Courts of Justice of the Peace for the ;at or near George Robinsou’s, county of Washington by his wife’s '“Upper” end of the valley at James

grave- . uncle, Governor Thomas McKean His IBla n’s, where there was already a wife was a daughter of Hon. John yard established, the “Toboyne church” . j

Thompson, first Judge of Common Pleas .of which we write. i ja of New Castle county, Delaware. He In the year 1777, the “Upper” church ”4 died January 14, 1810, aged 52 years. iunited in a call with its neighbor, the Thomas M. T. McKennan, LL.D., deceased “Centre” church, through Donegal Pres- member oi Congress and Secretary of bytery to Rev. John Linn, who continued the Inierior under President Fibmore, was in the pastorate of these two churches his son. The late Judge William Mc- .until the year 1820. He- was a great uncle Kennan, of the Circuit Court of the of Hon. John Blair Linn, of Bellefonte, United States, was hi9 grandson. Capt. Fa. The first, meeting house was erected _ William McKennan’s remains are interred •of logs, aud this uave place to tlie present, in the Washington Cemetery, and the frame structure many years ago. The monument erected to his memory bears the church and graveyard is located a short following inscription: distance southeast of the village of Blaiu “Sscred to the memory of Col. William ami close by the Newport and Sherman's McKennan, who fought and bled by the Valley railroad. This, like many others side of Washington, and who having of the same denomination, which were lived with honor, left this world at the located in the country districts has suf- age of fifty-two years on the 14th Jan- fered by migration, until now it has uary, 1810. scarcely more thau two score of members, “Take, take these tears, mortality’s relief, which is un ike its sister churches across And till we share your joy, forgive our the mountain in Path Valley, which ap- § rief pear to be as flourishing as when the m . „ ihese little rites, a stone, a verse receive, Scotch-Irish first erected their houses of ’Tis all a friend—a wife can give.” worship. There was A feeling of disappointment when we entered the well-kept NOTES AND QUERIES. graveyard surrounded by a neat fence, in finding so few grave stones. Those found Historical, Biogr iptiical and Genea- are as follows: logical. Anderson, Isabella M., w. of William, d. years. October 30, 1798, aged 29 XCI. Ande^soD, James, d. December 24, 1838, aged 72 years, 10 months, 27 days. Kitteka. —F. C. W., of New York city, Anderson, Isabella, w. of J., d. February "tauikes inquiry services of his 8 days as to the 3 1872, aged 90 years, 1 month, ancestors, Michael Conrad and John Anderson, William, b. May 17, 1771; d war. Wilkes Kiit-sca, in the Revolutionary February 22, 1832. His deso-'Vt is as follows: Anderson, Mary Ellen, w. of Dr. b. 1. m. Jane Edwards. 10. Michael Conrad, Grosb, b. June 18, 1818: d. June Eliza Kittera. 2, John Conrad m. 1856. . ’

1 Woods, Esther, d. January 'Adams, John, d November 5, 1887, aged 6, 1861, aged 76. years. 55 years, 7 months, 11 days, e.w.s.p. Adams, Stephenson, d. December 28, 1885, aged 81 years. THE ZEISBERGER DIARIES. Adams, James, d. March 23, 1841, aged [Gen. John S. Clark, of Auburn, N. Y., r 70 years. sends us the following communication Adams, Frances, w. of James, d. Septem- concerning these interesting diaries as o her 18, 1851, aged 76 years. published in Notes and Queries.] Black, George, d. January 10, 1835, aged 82 years. I have carefully considered all that Mr. Black, Jane, w. of G., d. December 15, Tubbs has said in relation to Achsinnes- 1846, aged 75 years. sink and other places, and as to the route Black, George, b November 14, 1795; d. of Zeisberger in his vicinity. Bishop de February 16, 1868. ihweioitz, in his ’’ : S “Life of Zeisberger, Boring, Elizabeth, d. June 23, 1827, aged suggested that Aehsinnessink was near 61 years. the confluence of the Tioga with the Con- Black, Anthony, d. May 16, 1841, aged 61 hocton, and that the route was up the years. Cowanesque Yalley. A careful scrutiny Black. Sarah, w. of A., d. January 11, of the Zeisberger Journals demonstrates 1877, aged 70 years, 2 months, 3 days. conclusively that the route was up the Boyd, Hugh, d. January 27, 1884, aged 71 Canisteo river, and that Aehsinnessink years, 3 months, 19 days. wa3 below rather than at the confluence Coyle, Mary, w. of James, d. January 13, of the Tioga and Couhocton. It may be 1829, aged years. 30 well to examine the journal of Moses Clark, Major Jvjhn, d. May 1, 1857, aged Tatamy and Isaac Hill, who passed over 42 years, 11 months. 16 days. the route in 1758 (see Pa. Archives iii Dobbs, Andrew, d. November 13. 1849, 504), and the journal of John Hays, who 22 days. aged 64 years, 1 month, accompanied Christian Frederick Post Elder, d. 1840, aged 49 Noah, May 14, over the same route in 1760. The Kobus- years. town described by the first of these jour- F., M. D., d. November 9, 1857, Grosh, B. nals, was on the north side of Chemung years, 10 months, 5 days. aged 39 river, nearly opposite Hendey’s creek, in aged 65 Gray, James, d. October 1, 1865, the extreme south-west corner of the town years. of Elmira This was the residence in 1^58 d. August Gray, Emily, w. of James W,, of Jacheabus, the leader of the war party 14, 1861, aged 76 years. that massacred the Moravians on the October 1869, aged •Johnson, John, d. 27, Mahoning in 1755, and of Kobus, a noted 7 months, 23 days. 76 years, warrior, from whom the place took its Margaret, w. of J., d. May 27, Johnson, name. It will be found by the journal months, 11 days. 1848, aged 42 years, 11 that immediately on leaving this village Junk, Margaret, w. of John, d. February the party “crossed the river to the south 3, 1806, aged 89 years. side on account of the mountains and b. August 21, 1823; d. Lupfer, Joseph M . traveled along low land about a mile February 19, 1875. where we saw a great many houses and Septem- Lupfer, Elnora, w. of Jacob, b. fine corn fields, then crossed the river ber 17, 1793; d March 20, 1867. again and traveled about five miles to the aged 79 ’ Long, John, d. February 6, 1857, King’s house, all the way thickly settled. years, 10 months, 10 days. This particular King was Echohwin, the Long, Mary, d. May 13, 1868, aged 99 chief sachem of the Monsey Delawares, years, 1 months, 29 days. husband of Queen Esther, who so distin- McKee, John, d. Februaiy 17, 1847, aged guished herself in the massacre of Wyo- 86 years, 1 month, 12 days. ming—the village was known as Achsin- McKee, Martha, w. of J.,d. June 18,1852, nessink, “the place of small stones,” and aged 87 years, 9 days. was located on a level pleateau of gravel on McConnell, John, d. February 22, 1846, the east side of Sing Sing creek about a aged 53 years. mile southeast of present Big Flats. Be- McConn. li, Rebecca, w. of J., d. April tween Kobustown was the mountain Achs- 24. 1858, aged 58 years. sinnink, which formed the narrows requir- McCarde.l, Patrick, d. April, 1881, aged ing the fording of the stream by Tatamy. 82 years. appears to mean “standing I This name P., d. Sep- McCarde l, Elizabeth, w. of stones,” or where there are large stones, tember 27, 1875, aged 74 years. referring to curious formation of natural Nesbit, Fisher, d. April 25, 1855, aged 53 rock in the shape of pyramids, known lo- years, 1 month, 3 days. cally as chimney rocks. These rocks were Patterson, John, d. December 27, 1828, on the south side of the river nearly aged 75 years. opposite the mouth of Sing Sing creek, Patterson, Ann, w. of J., d. August 8, and also o the no: h side below the vil- 1832, aged 69 years. lage of Corning. I have a description Reed. Mary, w. of Samuel, d. July 26 of shese pyra its < -.ken from the Penn- years, 3 months, 21 days. 1844, aged 83 sylvania Chronicle, April 11, 1768, which Trotter, Robert, 0. April 25. 1834, aged is strikingly like that of Zcisberger’s ac- 52 years, 6 months and 14 days. count as found in his journal of 1767. Woods, Mary, d. November 20, 1864, aged This location of Achsinessink, was the 68 yeats, 11 months, 20 days^ 1 1

position /of the cas, on the village proper. la i others among the Shawanese 755 1 the Indians abandoned the inwor s„»n .„ Ohio. (Col, Hist, N. Y. vii 652-628) nanna and soon after tile northeast I From this place, according to Zeisber- branch, and settled on the Tioga and its ger, their course led them first W. N. W., branches above Tioga Point. After the which is twenty degrees north of west; close ot the war many of them returned then W. S. W., which is twenty degrees to their ancient 3eats, Others formed new south, leading apparently first north- villages. Echohowin and bis village set- westerly up the Canisteo thence south- tled at Sheshequin. It is highly proba- westerly along Whitney Valley and Dyke ble than in 1760 the village of Aehsinnes- creek to Andover, and thence to Wells- sink extended quite down to the river and viile on the Erie Railway. The Seneca westward, one oi two miles above Sing village of “a hundred houses” mentioned Sing creek. Near the confluence of the by Zeisberger was probably Cance dea in Conhocton and Tioga, according to Z ;is- present Caneadea township, in Allegany berger, was Gatclitochwawunk, an aban- county, or it may have been the Karaghi- doned Indian town, and near the conflu- yadirha, of the Guy Johnson map. From ence of the Canisteo and Tioga was Wellsville the route was very direct to Woapassiqu. “The way was very wild Ceres on the Allegany or possibly by a and difficult. ’’ “We apeafiip'sd (May 15, more circuitous route, may have led them 1768) at GachrcctlWawunk on the First to Belvidere, and thence to Cuba on the fork of the Tioga. Now if this village line of was the Erie railway. It will be seen at or near the First fork, it, cannot be by the Guy Johnson map that the trail claimed that Acksiniiessink was at, or near leads from Kenestio southwesterly to the same point, and | there can bi no ques- Gistaguat (Wellsville); thence south-, tions as to the fact that Goaftocton and westerly to the Allegany at or near pres- Tioga made the First folk. May 16, “We ent Ceres and Olean on the Allegany, traveled up the branch which extends to- j From Kenestio another trail leaves northward the west.. The other { comes from west to Ganuskago (Dansville) and thence: north, from the ‘land of the Senecas.’ At to the great village on the Genesee. ij noon we reached the Second fork and then have no doubt that Zeisberger followed ! fodowed the branch to the right.’’ Here the well-known trail that led south- we have conclusive evidence that the westerly from Canisteo as indicated on the r >ute led up the Canisteo river. Guy Johnson map. A continuation of May 19. The party “arrived at Pase- the journal will determine the precise: cakung and closed our ” travel by water. route and whether or not the Tiozionos-

This town j was on the sonth side of the songochto of Zeisberger is identical with i Canisteo river on Col. Bill’s creek some- Guy Johnson’s Tioniongarunte on the Al- thing over a mile below present j C .nisteo legany, which was thirty miles from the and a day and a half Journey above Ach- next Seneca village on the east. The dis- sinness-iak. It is described in the John tance between Wellsville and Olean (Tio- Hays journal, 1760, “This town stands njongarunte) is very close to the distance on f the south side of the liver, »Dd is in tovo given, and the names are near enough parts, at the space of a mile distance. j alike to suggest their identity. The lower town is peopled with Nona- Mr. John Davis, of whom inquiry is mies. Quitogon is their chief. The up- made, was a Delaware chief, whose In- per t part is Mingois* Which commands all that dian name was Awehela. He lived in country, ” The upper town is called 1760 not far from ttie mouth of Tuscarora in man.y accounts Conasatego. This was creek. He was converted and baptized toe name of that branch of the Senecas at Sheshequin after the war, one of the I residing at that time near Geneva, and first fruits of the mission. (See Loskiel was the ruling class of the canton. i, 11:38.) There was a Samuel Davis 'The Mingos then Were Senecas of Cona- sarego. alias Tapiscawen, also a Delaware chief. Most accounts give the name as . They both attended the council at Easton Kanestio and it so appears on the Guy in 1758. (See Pa. Col. Rec. viii, 211.) • Johnson map of 1771, formed in Col Hist, There was also a Nathaniel Davis, all of of N. Y., vol. iv. It may be advis- able them living at Sheshequin after the close to state in this connection that all these of the Pontiac war. I believe that James towns were destroyed in 1764 by a party and Samuel were brothers. under John JohnsoD, son of Sir John S. Clark. William, and a party of one hundred and Auburn, V. 7. l?rt,y Indians under Andrew Montour the lower villages on the Chemung had been DRIFTED WEST. abandoned at that date, so that Aanhangton was the first one reached, Early Pennsylvania Settlers In Tusca- this was at of near the Forks of Conhoc- rawas County, Ohio. ton. It had thirty-six good houses built In looking over the history of Tuscara- ot square logs. It may be identical with was county, I was surprised at the number Zieisberger’8 ' Gachtochwawunk, but as one of early settlers who came from Peunsyl- ! name is Iioquois and the other Delaware vania, whose names appear in short bio- j it cannot be determined definitely. From graphical sketches. A few of the most thence the army went to Kanestio (Conas- prominent are given below, in a condensed atego) which contained sixty houses, with form, for the benefit of those who may be Luree or four families in each of them. engaged in tracing family history. The Indians fled. Some went to the Sene Michael Drich was born in what is now - .V _ Dauphin county, August 7,1751, andTin ruary 10, 1878. 1772 married Catharine Borroway, by whom he had eight children. She died F. C. Millar, also a pioneer druggist of New Philadelphia, was born in in 1794, and he married, second, Susannah Lancaster county June 1826. 0. Rouse. In 1804 Urich purchased 1,500 28, His father, Jacob Millar, also a native of acres ol land in the valley of the Tusca- the same county, . married Barbara Porter, rawas, and migrated to it the same year, who came from the North of Ireland, bringing with him his wife and five of his in 1817 or 1818. He was a manufacturer of children, viz: Hannah, Catharine, John, woolen goods. His Jacob and Michael. He became one of wife died in 1829, and he married for his second wife the most prominent and useful early pio- Henrietta Kryder, by whom he had two children. F. C neers. In 1806 he built, a grist and saw , mentioned Urichsville above, was one of three children by the mi l on the site of the present first marriage. mill, which was the first or second water mill in the county. Assisted by his sons, Maj. Thomas Moore, New Philadelphia, hs cleared a large farm in the Sii lwater is a native of Lycoming county, born April I Creek Val'ey, while dense forests sur- I 21, 1812, son of Burris and Mary (White) rounded him on all sides for many miles. Moore, both natives of Northampton He laid out a town in 1833, and called it county. They came to' Ohio in 1825 Waterford, but in 1839 it. was changed to and settled in Guernsey county. Two of its founder. In years later they came to I Urichsville, in honor Tusca- incorporated, and now it has rawas, where Mrs. Moore died , 1866 it was in schools \ 3,000 inhabitants, banks, churches, fil831. Subsequently Mr. Moore went and an electric railway, connecting with Fto Iowa, where he died at *the advanced Dennison on the east side of Stillwater age of 93. The subject of this notice has | mill gave name to I Creek. His pioneer [been an active business man and accumu- Mill Creek township. Michael Urich died L1 ited a handsome property. He has also

I August 14, 1817, (his wife preceding him Wiled several offices of public trust. Be-

,, buried in the Mora- four ears, ) and was dsides a beautiful farm of 120 acres he is I 3 vian cemetery at Gnadenhutten, he being Uhe owner of several coal mines. He mar- a member of that faith. Their tomb- rlied Oct. 29, 1835, Nancy, daughter of stones are almost in the shadow of the iThomas and Nancy Dixon. They had monument reared in memory of the ninety- four sons and five daughters, of whom but who were so cruelly living , six Christian Indians two, twin daughters, are 'Ihird 1782. butchered there March 8, . son, Thomas Edson Moore, in c nnecti m Jacob Fribley, born in Northumberland with Mr. Rickes, an engraver of superior county, located here in 1818. He married merit, published at Columbus, Ohio, j ‘ ’ ’ 1 Elizabeth Woods, and they were the ‘Moore’s Melodies and American Poems, twelve children. A grandson, one of the best illustrated volumes ever i parents of afterwards Enoch Fribley, was appointed postmaster t issued in this country. He weat to rk aid established the of New Philadelphia, March 19, 1879, by New Y in Illustrated Weekly increasing Us circula- President Hayes, and was reappointed , tion nine from 1,000 to 45,000 1883 by President Arthur. Six of the in months copies. His laborious efforts overt ixed “Fribley boys” served in the civil war, his strength, and he fell id and died June and four were Rilled. John Fribley, at the early age of twenty-nine. father of the postmaster, died in 1865, 25, 1875, aged 54 years. H‘ n. John B Read, a native of Down- ~ Michael Hammel, born at Chambers- ingtown, Pa., came to this county about burg in 1809. His father, Daniel Ham- 1830, and settled in New Philadelphia. mel, a native of the same town, removed He went to California in 1849, but re- Philadelphia in 1811, and kept turned soon after and. located on a farm in I to New “Hammel’s Tavern” in the then small Goshen township. Years ago he was a village from 1812 to 1814, with the like- member of the Legislature for two terms. painted on the Hamel, they ness of George Washington ! He married Rebecca and had Indiana, 8i

j graph. Several of his sons and daughters clay. The family emigrated to Ohio in still live in this county. 1830 and settled in Tuscarawas county, where the parents died. Andrew, our Samut 1 Fertig was bom in Lancaster subject, married Rebecca Welch, August C runty, February 15, 1812, second child of ] 16, 1838. She was born December 22, Samuel and Susan (Numiller) Fertig, na- 1 1809, and died January 1866. Mr. lives of that county. Samuel and bis fam- 26, Barkley died June 1881. He was a ily came here in 1817, and after iiving in 4, farmer by occupation, and at one time several places, died in 1837, in Whiiley owned 547 acres. He left three sons and county, Indiana, leaving a widow and two daughters. Ten years before his seven children —five boys and two girls. death he divided his land among his The wi low died in 1846, in Iroquois three sons, and gave his daughters their county, Illinois. Samuel, one of the sons, | equivalent in money. He was a strict came to Tuscarawas connty in 1826 The Presbyterian and died greatly respected. others are scattered. He established a I

1 grocer} st ! >re at Dover, and buit up a Alvin M. Brough, farmer, was born in large business. He was married in 1844 to Adams county, March 9, 1836, son of | Mary, daughter of Captain Wilson E liott, David and Mary M. Brough, natives of a brother of the late Commodore Elliott, * Pennsylvania, where David died in 1844. of the navy. They had eight children, Mary M., his wife, was born February 20, three of whom -survive, viz: Anna E., 1802, about two miles from New Oxford, George E and Grace. on the Gettysburg pike. The famous bat- , tle was begun in front of the house where Jacob Wherley, farmer, was bora in she was born, married and resided till her York county December 13, 1820. His parents, Henry and Christina (Sawve!) death, which occurred March 19, 1883, in Wherley, were both natives of that coun- the room of her birth and marriage! four ty, where they were reared and married, She was the mother of sons and resided until 1721, when they removed and a daughter. All are living, and each of the sons served for to Stark county, Ohio. In 1829 they cama ! to Tuscarawas, settled on a farm and spent three years during the rebellion. Alvin third to their lives there. They had eight children, M., the son, came Tuscarawas county in his service was in the all born in Pennsylvania, Our subject 1861, and he started out without means, but now owns 126th regiment, Ohio Volunteers, and participated in many engagements. He a farm of 280 acres, earned by honest toil. , 19. Sarah He married and had three children—one married October 1869, J. Stocker. They have two sons and one son and two daughters. Only one, a Clarence daughter, survives. daughter—Henry S., A., and Helen E. Mr. Brough owns a farm of Thomas R. Benner was born in Chester 117 acres, and is a member of the German county, September 10, 1803, son of Philip Reformed church. His postoffice is Port and Ruth (Roberts) Benner, both natives J Washington, Ohio. of Philadelphia, the latter of Welsh de- J Many more sketches of Pennsylvanians scent. The latter was brought up a who are residents of this county might be

Quaker and was an iron master. Our i giveo, but the foregoing must suffice. subject was seventh of a the family of, John of Lancaster. Ohio Nov. 1893. Dennison , , 30, R i

NOTES AND QUERIES. 1760. by Rev. William Hooper, rector of Trinity church, Boston. By his marriage Historical, ipblcal and Genea- Clair received the sum of fourteen! logical. St. thousand pounds, being a legacy to his' Bow- XCII. wife from her grandfather, James doin. This, added to his own savings, no doubt were inducements for him to Bkeokexkidge. — ecent inquiry hav- the he did in ing been made concerning the settlement resign his commission, which some time of the celebrated Breckenridge famiiy in 1764 Having been stationed Pennsylva- Pennsylvania, we find the following relat- at Fort Ligonier, in Western the country, ing thereto: Alexander Breckenridge nia, he was familiar with and with bis young came from the north of Ireland in 1734, a year or two liter, locality, locating in the Cumberland Valley. With wife, St. Clair removed to that where he acquired a large body of ta portion of his family he removed to hud partly by Augusta county, Virginia, where he died land chiefly by purchase and grant. wondered by writers in 1747. He had, among other children, It has been in induced a man /grown up, some married, the following: general what could have of St. Clair’s acquirements and wealth to t. John. settle the confines of civilization and ii. Robert, b. about 1720; served in thej on family of Indian war in 1736; removed to Augustai thus deprive himself and little aud the com- county, Virginia, and died in Bote-; the advantages of society with that tourt county in 1772. He was twice mar- forts thereof; butr charmed valley and with the constant in- ried; by first wife: j J flux of Scotch-Irish emigrants, enjoy- 1. Robert. I ment of life seemingly held out brighter 2. Alexander. inducements than among Puritan sur- By a secoud wife, Letitia Preston, he' | roundings, Here the War lor Indepen- had: < dence one of its most brilliant 3. William. found officers. yielded to the summons of 4. John. _ He his country, and took leave not only of 5 . James. nis wife and children, but in effect of his 6 . Preston. fortune from that very hour, to embark in 7. Jane, m. Samuel Meredith. the cause of liberty. He held that no Mr. Waddell, in *; lis history oE AugU3tal had a right to withhold his services county, Virgin’;.,, additiou to the; man c i Ves in needed them. The foregoing: when his country -story of St. Clair’s life from this time for- 8. B'hrah, m. Robert McLauahan, pa- ward was in some respects a brilliant one, ternal uncle of Blair McLanahau, off ?out piti tul in the disasters w hieh shadowed Philadelphia. his after- revolutionary career, and the sad 9. James. ending of a life, not wasted, for he gave William Breckenridge, son of Robert' so much of that life to hi3 country, but Breckenridge, married and removed to- and so I there was none who was so poorly Kentucky. meanly recompensed. It is true he died, Johu Breckenridge, also a son of Robert,; poor, but in such poverty there was noj married Miss Cabell, and their soft Oabelli shame. As a member and president ofj was the father of John O. Breckenridge, the Pennsylvania Society of the Cmcin-j Vice President of the United States. J nati, none could so appropriate the motto) James and William other; Breckenridge, 1 which encircled the medallion oa the\ sons of Robert, resided in Lurgan town-j breast of the eagle of their decoration :) ship, Cumberland county, in 1750, ’ Pa., “Omnia relinquitf servare rempublicam.” » » -9- i At length that life, of which want, Neg- ! MATRONS OE THE REVOLUTION.! lect, contumely, ingratitude and injustice Plioebo Bayard St. Clair. so largely made a part, came abruptly to Phoebe Phyard was born ia the Massa-j its close, on the 31st of August, 1818. It chussetfs ctlony in 1743. She was the, is especially of the estimable lady who so St. * daughter oi Bald tser Bayard and his wifej sweetly adorned the early home of : Mary Bowdoin. was well educated, and) Clair in the Ligonier Valley, and through a woman of superior accomplishments.! the long years of the Revolution cheered J Aithur St. Clair, sen of William St. Cltir,! that brave officer ia his devotion to the to ' bom at Thurso, Caithness, Scotland,! cause of his country, that we prefer cir- March 23. 173G, was edicated at the Uni-j write. Notwithstanding the adverse versity of Edinburgh, graduated ia medi-- cumstances which surrounded her home cine, but preferring the military he relin-' at the close of the war, and her delicate quished bis scientific calling and ac-' health, she bore ail with calm resig- cepted an ensigney in the R >yal Ameri- nation. At last, however, when the can Regiment of Foo;. During his hungry creditors, hounded their victim to service with the British army the last extremity, and her little family and frequent visits to Boston, where were turned out of house and home, the he was sent an military business the mental energies gave way, and the former and refined woman be- I young ensiga made the acquaintance of highly educated the Bowdoina and Bayares, and improved came an intellectual wreck. She ended her sou the opportunity of fallirg in love with. her days in the log house which aged Miss Pfloebe. They were narried in May,, Daniel bought as an asylum for his 1

father anu movuer. nere 10 nurse life a October following to abandon New York little longer, to keep liis fatuity together, Island to the enemy, Col. Magaw was left the hero of many wars cared for his wife in command of the garrison at Fort until death in the year 1813 claimed the Washington, while tbe army marched to : beauty of 1700, Phebe Bayard St Clair. King’s Bridge and afterwards to White So deeply interwoven are the lives of hus- Plains. H>we not being able to force band and wife, that io this our day as a Washington into an engagement, turned century ago the impress of one is but the his attention to Fort Washington, and reflex of the other. A fitting close to this upon its investment sent a messenger to St. Clair’s in sketch is Gen. own words Col. Magaw demanding its surrender in acknowledging the receipt of four hun- peril of massacre, if his demands were dred dollars sent him by the good ladies not complied with within two hours. of New York—“To soothe affliction is cer- Magaw ’s reply is historical, "actuated”! * * * tainly a happy privilege, and he said, “by the most glorious cause that though I feel all I can feel for the relief mankind ever fought in, I am determined I attention to brought to myself, the my to defend this po3t to the very last ex- the most. I ” daughters touches me Had tremity. The sequel is well known. ) not met with distress 1 should not have, Magaw disposed ot his men to the best ad- perhaps, known their worth. Though all vantage and did his duty faithfully. Over- their prospects in life (and they were once whelming numbers swept all before them very flittering) have been blastel, not a into the fort, and the gallant Magaw after sigh, not a murmur has been allowed to much parley, surrendered. Col. Magaw escape them in my presence, and all their remained a prisoner on Long Island until pains have been directed to rendering my his exchange October 25, 1780. In the reverses less affecting to me, and yet I can meantime, he made the acquaintance of truly testify that it is entirely on their ac- the patriotic Marritie Van Brunt, and after situation ever count that my gave me one a short courtship, married her. Of this ” patriot! moment’s pain. Grand old event, Craydon says in his delightful “Memoirs,” Magaw comforted his cap- Marritie Van Brunt Mas:aw. tivity on Long Island, by taking of its Marritie Brunt, daughter of Rut- Yan fair daughters a wife. Upon being ex- Brunt and his wife, Altje gert Van changed, Colonel and Mrs. Magaw went Cortelvou, was born near New Utrecht, to their home at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, York, January 1762. Her father’s New 9, where she shone with as much brilliancy as ancestors came from the Netherlands and | in her native place. So charming were were among the more influential in the her manners, that tradition gives it she early settlement of Long Island. Rutgert was the life of that fascinating coterie of

Brunt owned a farm ia Gravesend, i Van women which made that town’s society so the Pennoyer patent. He held known as delightful for a hundred years or more. of sheriff of the county from the office | Coi. Magaw died suddenly at Carlisle, Janu- 1768 to 1777; was colonel in the militia ary 5, 1790, and was buried by the honors of and generally known as Col. Yan Brunt. war. Mrs. Magaw survived her distin- In addition he served as a member of the guished husband thirteen years, dying at New York Assembly, and filled other Carlisle, August 15, 1803. They left two positions of honor in the county. children, Van Brunt ana Elizabeth, the His daughter Marritie (or Marietta, former of whom inherited the Van Brunt as she is sometimes called) estate at Gravesend, was a young lady of prepossessing appearance, well educated, and a brilliant conversationalist; and in 1779, when she Ann Wood Henry. married Col. Robert Magaw, she was con- Ann Wood, the daughter of Abraham sidered one of the handsomest women of Wood and his wife, Ursula Taylor, was Long Island. Robert Magaw, a son of born in Burlington, New Jersey, January William and Elizabeth Magaw, was born 21, 1732, Her emigrant ancestors on her in Philadelphia in 1738, where hi3 father paternal side as well as maternal were

j had first settled on coming from the North I English Quakers, who settled in the of Ireland to America. He located at county of Philadelphia in 1690. Her Carlisle about the time of the formation paternal great-grandfather was John of Cumberland county. The son, Robert, Bevan, who came to Pennsylvania from educated at the academy in Philadel- Glamorganshire, Wales, in and took was j •V 16f3, phia, studied law, and was in tbe active up a tract of 3,000 acres in the “Welsh \ practice of his profession when the war 1 Tract,” in Radnor and Haverford town- summoned him to take ships, Afflester county. He was a justice of the revolution cYuyur^ up arms in the cause of his country, lu of thepeace and associate judge in 1685; 1775 he was commissioned Major in Col. member of of Assembly for a 1 mg | William Thompson’s battalion, with period, and returning to Wales, died in active service until there. the death of Abraham which he continued Upon | he was appointed, January 3, 1776, Col- Wood, his widow some years later onel of the Fifth Pennsylvania battalion, married Joseph Rose, of the Lancaster

j He participated in the battle of Long bar, removing thiiher. It was here that Island, and bis fame for cool personal Ann Wood became acquainted, with | bravery in that disastrous encounter and William Henry, and whom she married good conduct comes forth unsullied. ' in January, 1756, and “hereby When it was determined on the 16th of bangs a tale.” Henry’s housekeeper was his sister. On a certain occasion the latter invited a few friends to tea, pared by him. He subsequently studied among them Ann Wood. In the entry of law, was admitted to the Lancaster Bar, the house leading to the garden a broom and afterwards appointed by Governor

li ad accidentally fallen to the fl mr. All Mifflin president judge of the Dauphin of the young ladies either stepped over it courts. Another son, removed to o” pushed it aside except Miss Ann, who Northampton county, a few years later picked it up and put it in its place. Wil- erected the Boulton gun works, which are li am Henry observed this and told his sis- still conducted by his descendants of the ter later that this trait of character had name. He was a judge of the Northamp-

impressed him, and he would endeavor to I ton-Monroe district, and a Presi .ential make her friend his wife. He suc- elector for Washington’s last term, for | t ceeded. William Henry, son of John whom he voted. Henry and his wife Elizabeth Davinney, was born in Chester county, Penna May JUKEMIAH MORROW, , 19, 1729. By occupation he was a gun- smith, and located at Lancaster prior to Born at Gettysburg in 1 771—Died iNear Cincinnati In 1853. the Braddock expedition of 1755, of which he was the armourer, and again Many Pennsylvanians have figured con- spicuously in under Forbes. In the year 1758 he was the history of Ohio. Jere- miah Morrow, the sixth Governor, commissioned one of the justices of the was | born at Gettysburg in October, 1771. peace; and iu 1777 a commissioner to ex- He was of Scotch-Irish origin and was reared amine the water way between the Dela- on a farm. When he had reached the ware and Ohio rivers. He was a member

1 age of twenty-four he set out for the of the Assembly in 1776; and treasurer of Northwest Territory. This was in 1795. the county of Lancaster mITTTjmuI ihi in Leaving Pittsburgh on a flat boat he —SP1786. During the Revolution he filled floated down the Ohio river, and after the positions of commissary, armourer, a I tedious voyage landed at a little cluster of i &o. He served in the Congress of cabins standing on the flats at the mouth 1784-85. Under the Constitution of of the Little Miami, known as Columbia. 1776, he was commissioned president This was six miles above Fort Washing- judge of the Lancaster courts. He | ton, and is now included in one of the was a member of the American Philo- I ' wards of Cincinnati. sophical Society, one of the founders of Mr. Morrow commenced life as a farm the Juliana Library and the inventor of hand on the Little Miami. In the winter several mechanical appliances, the princi- time he taught school, and occasionally pal of which was the screw auger. Mr. varied his occupation by surveying. This Henry died at . Lancaster December 15, gave him an opportunity to learn the geo- 1786 Mrs. Henry vied with her husband graphy of the country, as there was a de- in all those characteristics which go to mand in those days for young men who make up a patriotic woman of the Revo- 1 knew how to handle the “Jacob staff and lution. During that momentous period ’ compass. ’ He ascended the Little Miami in our history her children, being young, j as 'ar as Warren county, where he selected required her attention, and yet it is well a tract of wild land, and having saved a known that she aided her husband in all little money purchased it from the govern- the various duties assigned to him —in his I ment. Like the good old Quakers of Co- business and while State Armourer and As- lonial days in Pennsylvania he knew good sistant Commissary. During the occupation land when he saw it, and unlike the ma- of Philadelphia by the British, they enter- jority of Scotch-Irish settlers, he pre-

. t.ained at their house David Rittenhouse, flat to hilly land. This was the I ferred the State Treasurer (who had his office beginning of Jeremiah Morrow’s fortune. in one of the rooms on the first fl mr) and Straightway he cleared a farm and built Tom Paine, who wrote his “Fifth Crisis” a log house. In the spring of 1799 he mar- in the second story room, whieh he occu- ried Miss Mary Packtrell, of Columbia, pied. The habits of the latter, however, I and they immediately “set up housekeep- gave so much offense that finally he had ing and pioneer farming” on the new pur- to seek a home elsewhere. On the death chase. Settlers poured into the country of Mr. Henry, who was treasurer of Lan- ; rapidly as the Indians retired from their caster county, his widow was continued +• favorite haunts, and soon there was talk in office for nearly a year. Mrs. Henry of State organization. Morrow worked died at Lancaster — and is buried by hard and prospered; he was popular among the side of her husbind in .the old Mo- his neighbors, and was deputized to the ravian grave-yard in that city. It can be Territorial Legislature, which met at Chil- ' well said of her that she was a typical lieothe. At this session measures were matron of the Revolution, a woman inaugurated to call a Constitutional Con- of great energy of character, and vention the following year to organize

, in full sympathy with hor hus- the State of Ohio. Mr. Morrow was

! band’s active and patriotic life. They one of the delegates to this con- were the parents of the distinguished John vention, and worked untiringly in Joseph Hemy, the second son, who volun- the interests of his constituents until teered in Captain Matthew Smith’s com- its close in 1802. The following year he pany in 1775, went to Boston, and from was sent to the Senate of Ohio, and in thence accompanied the expedition to June of the same year he was appointed Quebec under General Arnold, an account ihe first representative to the United States of which, the Vest ever written, was pre- ;

Congress from tne state. umo at that whn'was born in < rju ly time was entitled to but one representa- i 'i Jl aTJ', 'PForb tive in Congress, and could not add to that number for ten years. During these years Mr. Morrow represented the young 1772; d. 1817; m. ** State. His popularity did not decline. In 1813 he was chosen United States Senator, and 2. George. in 1822 was elected Governor of Ohio al- Samuel. most unanimously, and was re-elected in 3. 4. Miles. 1824. During his administration that 5. Margaret. great waterway, the Ohio canal (which is G Catharine. still in operation) was commenced. second wife he had When the distinguished French patriot, By David. Lafayette, visited Cincinnati in he 7. 1824, Jane m. James Reed. was received by Governor Morrow with ii. George. an address of such earnestness, pathos Hi. iv. Margaret. I and sincerity, that it affected his emotions 6 more profoundly than any of the elaborate clue to this Caif^ny one furnish us a receptions which paved his way through there is no enigma? In the Harris record the United States. given. It is barely child by that name Honors continually awaitod the ex- a daugMer of possible that she was Governor. On the 4th of July, he a brother 1839, Thomas Harris, who was cither was appointed to lay the corner-stone of or at least John, of Harris’ Ferry, the new State Capitol at Columbus, and of related. on that occasion he delivered an address closely which was replete with historical infor- OF CUMBERLAND VALLEY mation, and marked with sentiments of IRWIN lofty devotion to the interests of his “The Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison, adopted State. Again in 1810 he was in as it is, con- bv Charles P Keith, valuable the House of Representatives, filling the require prompt tains some errors, which vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. readily understand correction. We can families leads to Thomas Corwin, and he was re-elected for how easily tradition in in the interest- the following term. grievous mistakes—and so see how the After his long and eventful public ing work upon our table we led career, Governor Slorrow died at his own Pennsylvania genealogist may be at the ripe go to the fountain homestead, March 22, 1853, astray if be does not years. For county, wills, age of nearly eighty-two h ead the records of the in the accounts, assess- nearly sixty years he had lived deeds, administration beautiful valley of the Little Miami, and in point is the ment lists, etc. A case of the had witnessed the country emerge from a genealogy of the Irwin Family, state of wildness to a condition of great Valley. Cumberland . improvement Although his there is no richer and lukury. In the first place, name is profusely spread over the records than the Cumber- field for the genealogist our nope that, and archives of the State, and in the pro- land Valley, and it is may have ceedings of Congress, his memory is before many months, we still the data at farther perpetuated by the quiet the pleasure of gathering up town of Morrow, on the Litlle Miami and publish our contribution to the hand, Had Mr railroad, [jthirty-six miles nor heast of early history of the Valley. Cailisle, h- Cincinnati, near where he founded his Keith examined the wills at home. And as he was born in the dawn would have found the following. of the Revolution it was well, perhaps, of then Peters town- I. James Irwin, county, that he passed away before the thunders ship Cumberland, now in Franklin of the rebellious the echoes it was pro- cannon awoke made his wi 11 May 26, 1776; of the Gettysburg hills, mentions where he had so bated April 28, 1778. In it, he often played as follows. when a child. his wife. Jean, and children John ol? Lancaster. order in which they We give them in I he Cincinnati, December, 18 3. are mentioned: liiTirKiY "iB .r.i m immmmii—i——— i. Joseph. NOTES AND QUERIES. ii James. Hi. Archibald; m. Jean McDowell. married; first, Historical, Biographical and Genea- iv. Elizabeth; was twice logical, Aaron to William McConnell; secondly, Torrence. LCItl. v. Mary; m. William Nesbitt, Martha Maclay. vi. John , m. Harris.—In the History of HuntiDg- I vii. Jean. m. John Boggs Hon. J. Simpson Africa, is the don, by mii. Lydia m. [Moses] Porter, and had that William McAlevy, of , statement | Phineas and Jean. whom there is a good sketch of that prom- ix. Margaret m. Thomas Patton. inent pioneer in the volume, it is staled , x. Martha m. [George] Pauli. Margaret Harris, “said to , that he married executors of the estate were son John Harris, of Hams The he a sister of James Irwin ?nd son-in-law William .’’ The family of Mr. McAlevy, Ferry Nesbitt. The foregoing is entirely different from 1 in 1778, 1780 ahd~l78I. In the latter year that given by Mr. Keith, who gives the he laid out the town of Greencastle, which name of the head of the family as Archi- has grown to be one of the most, promi- bald instead of .Tames. James Irwin, nent towns in the Valley. In 1787 he was '.son of Archibald, was rat born in York elected a delegate to the Pennsylvania cOUnTyTTaV. in Peters township, on the Convention to ratify the Federal Consti- old farm, near the present Mercersburg. tution, and in that body boldly seconded II. Akohibaxd Irwin, son of James, the motion of Thomas McKean to assent great-grandfather of President Harrison, to and ratify it. At the first Federal Con- was born in the north of Ireland about ference held at Lancaster in 1788. he was ! the year 1734; he died in January, 1799 nominated on the general ticket for Con- He served in the French and Indian war gress, but defeated through the efforts of as an ensign in 1756, and during the war ” both parties to “catch the German vote. of the Revolution was an ardent patriot, He died June 14, 1795. No more patriotic In 1778 we find him quartermaster of j servant of the State ever lived battalion of than Col. I Col. Samuel Culbertson’s Allison. Conservative to the highest de- Cumberland county militia in active ser- j gree, he was nevertheles firm in his con- vice. He married about 1757 Jean Mc- victions of duty, and to him the Federal i Dowell. Their children, as furnished by Constitution was the great Magna William Findlay Irwin, of Cincinnati, Charta of the Confederated Union. Of were:

, Mrs. Allison, much of an historic char- i. James, b. April 14, 1758. acter, has come down to us through tra- ii. Mary b. Feb. 14, 1760. ( , dition. During her early years she lived in. Margaret b. Sept. 15 1761. , on the far frontier borders—when Indian iv. Nancy b. April 27, 1763; d. July 27, , maraud and savage cruelty held sway, m. William Findlay, Governor of 1824; desolating the homes of the back-woods- Pennsylvania, 1817-1820. man. Twice during the later or French v. William, b. February 5. 176S. and Indian war was she obliged to leave m. Elizabeth, b. August 1767. 24, her pleasant home and flee to the town of mi. Jane, b. June 22, 1769. Carlisle, where there were friends to wel- viii. Archibald, b. Feb. 13, 1772; d. i come; and even after her marriage during Grubb. They March 3, 1840; m. Sidney the Pontiac war was she compelled, with

the parents of our correspondent. ' were her little one, to seek safety at the stockade at Falling Spring (Chambersburg). SOME MATRONS OF THE REVOLU- | During the frequent absence of her hus- TION. band, in the service of the State, Mrs. Al- * EltzabetU Wilkins Allison. lison had not only the care of a large farm, but assisted her nearer neighbors Elizabeth Wilkins, daughter of in gathering their crops, as well as minister- Wilkins, was born in Donegal township, ing to the wants of others, the absence of Lancaster county. Pa., in the year 1748 whose husbands and sons in the army, Her parents were early settlers and promi- really impoverished them. Sympathetic nent persons in that hive of Scotch-Irish in the highesT degree, she bestowed that pioneers. She was a woman of education | charity which tended to lift up, with and refinement. In 1762 she married John blessings on the humble giver. Mrs. Al- Allison, a native of the Cumberland lison died at Greencastle, November 15, Valley, where he was boru December 23,

! 1815, and with her husband is buried at

1738. His father, William Allison, was 1 Mossy Spring graveyard, adjoining that of the north of Ireland, came to a native town. America about the year 1730, located at | Donegal, and subsequently in what first in Martim Sanderson McCormick. was afterwards Antrim township, Cumberland county. John Allison, the Martha Sanderson, youngest daughter of Sanderson and his wife, Catharine second son, received a thorough George Ross, was bom in 1747 in the north of English and classical education, and be- Ireland. Her parents were natives of came a man of prominence on the fron- Scotland, who shortly before her birth tiers. In October. 1764, he was commis- to the Province of sioned one of the Provincial magistrate?, had removed Ulster, .Ireland, where they tarried a few years, and recommissioned in 1769 At a meet- then emigrating to America, settling in ing of the ci'izens of the county, held at j the Cumberland Valley. Her father was Carlisle on July 12, 1774, he was appointed

! an elder of old Monaghan Meeting House, on the committee of observation for Cum- and prominent in early Provincial affairs. berland, and became quite active in the She received the limited advantages of ed- contest for independence. He was a mem- ucation to be acquired in frontier settle- ber of the Provincial conference held at ments, but with her natural gUts of speech Carpenter’s Hall ISth of June, 1776, and and manners, she became an accomplished chosen by that body one of the judges of woman. In 1770 she married Robert the election of members of the first Con- McCormick, son of Thomas McCor- stitutional Convention for the second di- mick and his wife, Elizabeth Car- vision of the county at Chambersburg. both natives cf north of Ire- He commanded the Second Batalion of iuth, was born in Lancaster county, Cumberland County Associators during land . He Penna., in but about the year 1755 the Jersey campaigns of 1776 and 1777. 1738, of land in the Juniata He was a member of the General Assembly settled on a tract valley, adjoining those of his brothers, — a

evehtTwhicn led to dis death, Crawford) lived, always taking an active and fre- William and Hugh. To this place, on the quently a leading part in public affairs. Hid “Crawford’s far frontiers of Cumberland county, he making his home took his bride, and here for a period of Place,’’ — as it was known far and wide— eight years the charming wife and de- famous resort for backwoodsmen, and a voted mother shone resplendent in her tarrying-place for new-comers to the cabin home. During the early years of the Valley. Mrs. Crawford was no less 'pendence, Mr. McCormick widely known for that generous hos- struggle for ind j served several tours with the associators pitality, so dearly appreciated by pioneers in the Jersey campaign of 1776. in search of homes in the wilderness, and and was j he sold his land, and in so, of all the women on the frontiers of In 1779, however, J company with several neighbors removed Western Pennsylvania, none were more to the valley of Virginia, where he pur- highly respected and lovingly remembered. chased four hundred and fifty acres near During the years when her brave the town of Midway, situated on both husband was serving his country faith- sides of the line between the counties of fully as an officer in the struggle for inde- com- pendence, Mrs. Crawford kept faithful Augusta and Rockbridge. Making j fortable his little family, he entered the watch and ward over the younger members 1 Virginia Line, and served in the of her family, and to her they were largely Southern campaign of 1781, participating indebted for their education, and what j measure of life they in the battle of the Cowpens. During this entered upon. The i enforced absence of her husband, Mrs. war drawing to a close,' being declared a McCormick took active charge of the supernumerary officer, Captain Crawford j plantation, and so directed its cultivation gladly accepted the opportunity of return- and management that apart from the ing to his home. Having as he verily be- wants of the family, there was a large lieved done his whole duty to his country, amount of produce to furnish the com- be now thought only of spending the re- 1 missary of purchases of the patriot army mainder of his days in quietude and peace. Altogether she was a model wife and He was, unfortunately for him, to be or- mother—a woman in striking contrast dered otherwise. The depredations with the city dames of the period, who of the Ohio Indians on the fron- 1 neither sowed, reaped or spun. At the tiers of Pennsylvania called loudly for redress. J close of the Southern campaign Mr. Mc- Ho one could remain an in- ! Coj mick returned to his home. He was different spectator of the terrible scenes ( an elder in the Presbyterian church and still enacting in the exposed settlement, a man well versed in the Scriptures, and and much less Capt. Crawford. When in conversation on religious subjects able therefore the project of attacking the sav- and entertaining. His wife was no less ages in their stronghold at Sandusky, all so. She died in Augusta county. Vir- eyes were turned to that gallant officer ginia, prior to 1808, and he the 12th of who had served with such conspicuous October, 1818—both buried in the old daring on many a battlefield of the Revo- Providence Presbyterian burying ground, lution. Qf the events which followed of the about two miles from the homestead. Of I disastrous ending of what should have their children the Me- . been a brilliant campaign—of the celebrated in the annals inhuman death by torture of the lamented Cormick, became | of invention, by the construction of a Crawford, it is not our province in this J | reaping machine, which gave fame to him place to dwell. As long, however, as our ) country endures and the heroic deeds of and fortune to his family. the I so ! diers of the Revolution shall be cher- Hannah Vance Crawford. ished by their descendants. so long will the melancholy story of Crawford and Hannah Vance, daughter of John Vance, bis \ men live in kindly memory. Of the fate was born in the Valley of the Shenandoah ( of the expedition, intelligence was long in id 1732. Her father was an early settler coming. However, of all those who suf- there, and was a surveyor. One of bis fered from hope deferred until the principal assistants was William Craw- heart grew sick, indeed, and then when the ford, the youthful companion of Wash- facts were knowD, from a recital of them, ington, and it was through this circum- none was more to he ! stance that the daughter and the young commiserated than the wife of the surveyor became acquainted, and were sub- unfortunate commander. Hannah Vance sequently married. When Crawford, in Crawford had parted from her husband with a heavy heart. 1767, fixed bis home upon the banks of the As the volunteers one Youghiogheny.all around was to a great ex- after another returned to her neighborhood, with tent an unbroken wilderness. But there what anxiety did she make inquiries of them concerning were many features of the country very her i companion. But no one could i pleasing to a new comer. In fertiliiy of the g ve the disconsolate wife a word of information soil and the immense growth of the forest j concerning him. Her lonely cabin by trees, so different from the eastern the j

Youghiogheny a i side mountain ranges, gave a was house of mourning of the now. romantic charm to this region. In After three weeks of June of that year, the youthful enthusi- dreadful suspense, she learned the sad news of her ast erected a cabin and immediately set to husband’s death ia the Wilderness, work clearing the forests. To this place from her daughter. The widow left he afterwards brought his little family. was in embar- Here, from that time forward until the ' r P ny- C°l Crawfords oriJSriffifi™rivate aflrairs hadh T come to be in n subject. • unsettled condition cn account Mack Beawas a chirred individual, one military and other duties having called of those unfortunate waifs who either fr qaent,y from home. .mistook their occupation, or had excep- Tnlt i° t u Th e re »«"o1n“b‘?Ke ^ tional hard luck in life. Whilst quietly cl burglarizing a house ia Highspire one XVv 30 i»r,„S tiol ,ss; night, an old woman, the only occupant, • tai “ ed X ! upon the expedition, the woke up, and at once setup the regulation Pennsylvania State I . . afterwards rsimbnrsprl scream and squall. To check the racket Sen placed his hand upon her throat; it Was heavy and he suffered it to remain too long, ’She breath failed to return, and rumagiag round -Ben found a dollar and a quarter. He also found next day free ylvania Pittance 1 ST, as ample It1 ? - 5 lodgings at the Hotel Gleim, sign of the by a grandson ' that when he A 'cross-bars. I! t his was a" grandmother took The day before the execution, Sheriff I \°/r him be* Gleim having prepared his scaffdd in the jail yard, invited a number of citizens to see and inspect it. A parly consisting of Thomas E.der, David Hummel, Sr., my g ° Id ady ’ a98he father and several others fined the crowd. Sbon ?he w J 8at down j '* . Gleim was enthusiastic over the new heart th gh her M I would “break “here T °o trap-door device. He had a saDdbag r 8ra f ther! ”’ Mr8 ’ Cra lhSd dummy with which he illustrated the ac- at°h er o H f ^ tion of the machine. Dr. Roberts, the elder, explained that by the old mode- cart or ladder— the victim was simply cboaktd to death, making his sufferings glSS£3S2 unnecessarily long. By lhis trap-door device, the Doctor learnedly explained, the the culprit has a square perpendicular NOTES AND fall, insuring a rupture of the QUERIES. l igamentum pressure of dentata , the the process of that bone upon the medulla Historical. Biographical and Genea- oblongata—the most vital part of the body logical. —insuring paralysis and instant death. XCIY. John Lehler had, he said, been hanged at Lancasier the month previous from the drop-scaffold, and though dislocation of James O Haea.—From the Pittsburgh gazette the neck had not taken place as was ex- of 21st December, 1819, we have the following pected, the reason for it was obvious, the obituary notice cf an individual rope was awkwardly placed and allowed to whom the author of “Fort Pitt’’ would have us slip to the back of his neck. The audi- believe was an officer of 1 ence, like ducks iu a shower, heard this the War of the Revolution. The Gazette statement, saw the dummy fall repeatedly was then edited fey John I. Scull and and went away, wondering why so simple Morgan Seville, the latter’s sister having and obvious a device had not come into previously married James O’Hara ir. use long age. and vei silent as to the “patriotic ser- That night the scaffold wa3 erected on vices referred to': '-‘Died West State street and the hour of 11 a. m. on the night of the 17th | instant, for the execution. Harrisburg at that I General j James O.Hara, in the 66th year of his time afforded one military company, the age. Born in Ireland in 1751 emi- j Guards. most conspicuous individual . ' grated to The U. S. in 1772, came to Ft. immediately— Pitt in that company was the hurley form of engaged in Indian trade as agent for ” Walter Franklin. It had also those : Simon * Campbell, two time-honored musicians, Dubbs memory. REMINISCENCES OE AN OCTOGE- and Yance, of blessed At 10:30 NARIAN. the Guards formed in trout of the jail. The first sergeant, carrying the halbert, The execution of Ben Tennis recalls that led the procession. Ben was next, with „ of another Ben—Ben Stewart—on Friday, two clergymen as supports aud a file of jji February 1, 1824, nearly seventy Guards on each flink. Next the sheriff years ago. Aside from their Christian names, and deputies, followed by the music and the parallel of the two cases con- sists in the rest of the company. Down Walnut the fact that they both fell from a trap door to Second and up Second to State was the scaffold. Stewart was the first route by the slow dead march. Ben had to test the then new device in Daupbio in him but little of the stuff of which county, and Tenris the last. As proba- heroes are made. He sobbed and cried all bilities point to the electric chair as the the way, although Reverends DeWitt and ticar successor of the hempen rope, the Lochman did their best to console him chronicler of to day may be excused by the reader of the My recollection is that the scaffold coming century for a few j

middle of £tate street on the i l - stood iu the an d sid this gracious I

frantically tiyiogjto hold up side~oT~Seconci next to the Caplto ], fac- a woman was ing the vacant and open lots extending her four-yeat-old cub. He being a tall nearly to Pine. On these lots the bulk man she begged him to help her. She of the crowd, numbering two or three didn’t care, she said, to see the drop her- thousand, took their stand. There self, but wanted the child by all means to were no trees growing about the see. Without a word he put the brat on State House, just then completed. his shoulder. Some one produced a cot- , tied over On the north side of the street was I toil handkerchief which was a new and very hRh stake and Ben’s eyes, the trap was sprung, and the double reded fence. The vantage poor wretch was left to struggle with the ground of that fence was obvious, and us rope. Like all his predecessors, as well kids took to it like squirrels. It was soon as successors, Ben’s neck'was not dislo- full to overflowing, but the rails were cated, the ligamentum dentata was not large and new and the stakes were frozen ruptured, and, half frozen as he was, it solidly in the ground, and—well, like the took fifteen minutes to pull the life out of immortal J. N., it took “the burden and him. It was the last public execution in received the pressure” successfully. The Harrisburg. h e.

| guards having put the crowd back and | made their hollow square, the religious MATRONS OF THE REVOLUTION. services began with singing and prayer. The day was cold; the North mountain SaraU Riclrardsou Atlee.

was covered with snow and the riner was Sakah Riohaedson, the daughter of I bound in ice. The wintry blasts came Isaac and Alice Richardson, wa, horn in down oft the mountain, kited over the icy Salisbury township, Lancaster county, river and struck us every few minutes Pa., September 7, 1742. Her father was most, uncomfortably. Ben had been a successful farmer, residing in the Pequa Valley. Although brought up on the indoors all winter, and being j

thinly clad besides, suffered very paternal acres, the daughter received a . much. If his color would have good education, and became an accom-

permitted, he would have looked plished woman. She was married, April I

blue. As it was, his limbs shook and his 19, 1762, by Rev. Thomas Barton, to ! teeth chattered. Sheriff Q-leim had not Samuel John Atlee, then a prominent 1 thought of suefq a contingency and was young officer in the Provincial service. unpreoared. He consoled himself with At that period she was an exceedingly the r. flection that it world soon bo over handsome woman, and just as lovely in with him anyhow. Mr. DeWitt, however, disposition and manners. When the War came, Captain and Mrs. came to the rescue He stripped off his I of the Revolution own warm cloak and put it around the Atlee were quietly residing with their freezing wretch. Strange to say, thi3 act little family ou their farm in Salis- | was commented upon at the time as very bury township. It was then that the of noble remarkable. The services were audible characteristics the woman and j j but a short distance, and beiDg very long, patrio'ic wife and mother shone out re- people waited with impatience—how spleudeDt. She bade that gallant officer much good they did for Ben was nevgr God speed, as her husband, so well versed stated. Two colored gentlemen, with in arms went forth to the field of war, in

.cold feet, leaning against a fence stadse, behalf of his beloved country. During i

criticised the sheriff freely. Doan know his service nothing came sweeter than the i encouragement from his home/ how to hang a man! No, sah! Why, I words of dis ain’t de way day hung ole Seller! in Pennsylvania, and amidst the darkest,

j No, sah. An’ how did they hang ole hours of the Revolution none so cheerful Sehler ? enquired the other. ‘Why, day and hopeful as the loving wife. When jis hung him up by the neck till he the enemy occupied Philadelphia, and was ded, ded, ded. ” Chaff was thrown while some of her old school acquaint- Imre and there and an occasional dog fight ances were ministering to the frivolities of helped the time along. Two colored bucks • the British officers—participating in that on the outskirts took the occasion to settle ^disgraceful affair “the Knights of the . old differences. Tne war of words and /Blended Rose,” Mrs. Atlee was exert- | butchery of grammar was loud and deep. ' ing all her energies to relieve Coats just were shed, but then the big I the distresses of her countrymen— and white j thorn cane of Constable Cline was ! continuously her industry was the occa- | | waving overhead. ‘Shut up you black sion of gladdening the hearts of some of raskals and get out o’ here,” was a hint tue needy soldiers of Washington’s army. not to be disregarded. No tough ever dare It was- at a time when frugality was ne- say no, to that big cane and 240 averdu- cessary, but generosity and hospitality ipois behind it. The retreat in opposite were ’not wholly igaored. Her country ways, however, was in good order, with and its gallant defenders, of whom her

j heavy parting broadsides. “You cuss! husband was one, aroused her to a spirit

1 You keep out o’ Blackberry alley arter I of self-sacrifice, And thus throughout dis, if you don’t want a funeral.” “Neb- the long and weary struggle of eight Iberletmesee you in Souf street, for be years, Mrs. Atlee showed the highest type j , I’m a dangerous man!” of true womanhood, never wearied in well At last Ben stood upon the trap and doing. When the war was over, her hus- everybody craned their necks to band settled down to the quiet of domes- see. Near where my father stood, j jbhLbb—^i ifies which" characterized the devoted wife tic life and en Buflluty caned" and mother and truly Christian woman. him away to fresh fields of' honor In the home and the frontier neighborhood and usefulness. He had served during she was easily a leader and a help-meet in the latter period of the war, and in the the gloomiest hours of the war. Her dis- Congress of the United States, and in the pensations of hospitality were always dis- General Assembly of the State. In 1784 tinguished—extended, alas, so frequently he was one of the commissioners to treat to the helpless stranger fleeing before the Fort McIntosh, on the with the Indians at ruthless a savage of the forest. She died Ohio, during which time he ; contracted at her home, in Fermanagh, July 1802 cold from which he died suddenly in 6, Of Captain and Mrs. M :Alister’s descend- Philadelphia on the 25th of November, ants Hugh Nelson McAlister was proba- 1786, and was there buried. Of him, it bly the most illustrious. He died while a was truely said, “the sacred pen of history member of the Constitutional Convention will record and hand down to posterity of 1873. As a man he was just, upright his name among the foremost of those and inflexibly honest— as a Christian, he worthies to whom Pennsylvania is in- was sincere, faithful and most exemplary. debted for her liberties and independ- His eldest daughter became the wife of ence.” Col. Atl> e was a prominent char- Gen. James Addams Beaver, Governor of acter in public affairs, and his death in Pennsylvania, 1887-1891. the prime of his career was a serious loss. After the decease of her husband, the sub- Rosina Kucher Orth. sequent years of Mrs. Atlee were devoted Rosina Kucher, second daughter of to the care and education of her children. | Peter and Barbara Kucher, was born in Her later years were spent with her ! Lebanon township, then Lancaster county, daughter, Alice Amelia, who became the

I Penn’a, March 1741. Her parents wife of Captain Thomas Boude, of the 19, emigrated from the Palatinate, Germany, Pennsylvania Line, at Columbia, where aged about the year 1737, and settled in Penn- she d i d the 27th of December, 1823, sylvania, where most of their large family upwards of four score. She was a beauti- of children were bora. Educated under ful type of the historic dames of the the care of the Moravian minister of the Revoimi >n, and one whose memory should neighborhood, together with the instruc- be a household treasure in patriotic Penn- tion and example of a truly pious mother, sylvania homes. Rosina became a woman of more than McAlister. ordinary culture. On the 26th of April, Sarah Nelson |

' Sarah Nelson, daughter of Robert Nel- 1763, in Hebron church, near Lebanon, she was married by Rev. Zahm to Balzer son, was born in Fermanagh township, then Cumberland now Juniata county, Penn'a, Orth, also a native of the locality, where about the year 1740 Her parents came he was born July 14, 1736. His father, • of the from the North of Ireland aud weie early same name, came from the Pala- tinate, Germany, to Pennsylvania in 1730, settlers on Lost Creek, in the Juniata set- where in 1735 he had warranted to him tle neat In the year 1760 she married

! 300 acres of land, on which he had been Hugh McAlister, of the same locality. He some time settled. The son was a man of was a soldier in the French and Indian prominence during the Revolutionary war, and served as an officer in the Revo- period, had served in the Bouquet expedi- lutionary army with distinction. He par- tion against the Ohio Indians in 1764, and ticipated in the Jersey campaign of 1776

! early espoused the cause of the colonies in and in that of the summer of 1777 in and their struggle for independence. He was around Philadelphia. He was a man of | an officer in one of the Associated bat- prominence in the church and in public talions of Lancaster county, and after the affairs, and no one in the settlement com- victory at Trenton was in command ot manded a higher respect for integrity and the company which were directed to guard virtue. He died at his residence in Lost the Hessian prisoners of war, confined at Creek Valley, September 22, 1810, aged 74 j ; Lebanon. was commissioned major . years. Mrs. McAlister, during the period He of Battalion, Col. Greena- of the struggle for independence, when, the Second walt, August 1780, and was in ac- in the fall of 1776, the able-bodied men of 26, j tive service that year guarding ihe neighborhood had departed on the i the frontier sett-era while gathering service the cause, vied with of common ; their crops, owing to the numerous her patriotic countrywomen in preventing marauds of the Indians from the Northern the evil which would have followed the lakes. During this period Mrs. Orth was neglect of putting in the fall crop in sea- not a disinterested witness of transpiring son, joined the ploughs and prepared the events. True to her matronly duties, as fallows for the seed, so that should their j weh as the patriotic inspiration of the fathers, brothers aud lovers be detained | times, no one was more diligent in labor- abroad in defense of their liberties, they ing for the relief of the American determined to put in the crops soldiery. Skilled in spinning and weav- themselves. In numerous instances this ing, an accomplishment in which she was necessary, as many of the associated justly prided herself, large quentities of companies did not reach their homes until clothing material were sent by her to the the wiDter had set in. No woman in all badly clothed men of the army of the the settlement was regarded with greater Declaration. To her, and others of her esteem than Mrs. McAlister. She pos- neighbors, (she was but one of the many). sessed in a laige measure all the rare qual- | 1

100 too great nonor catmot oe renaereB, ancTj it is only proper that their descendants HAMILTON—AR V1STRONG. cherish the patriotic self-devotion Mr. Fernald Cochran, of Ithaca, Newj, of these mothers of the Republic. York, writes'of these families as follows: Major Orth died October 6, 1794, his wife “A certain branch of my own genealogy! surviving until April 3, 1814. Both lie Because of its indefinite- [ is Hamilton. interred ip Hebron church-yard, near Leb- ness, I write this My 'grandmother’s anon, Of their eight children, who maiden name was Viola Jane Hamilton

reached maturity, the eldest son, Gotleib, I Armstrong. She was the daughter of was the father of Hon. Godlove S. Orth, John Armstrong, an officer in the Penn- the famous Indiana statesman; while sylvania Line of the Revolution. He en- their eldest daughter, Maria-Barbara, was tered the army when scarcely out of bis the maternal ancestor of the distinguished boyhood, and as he served bis country for surgeon, Prof. D., S. J. Jones, M. LL.D., a period of seventeen years, the latter of of Chicago. which were spent in the region about Cin- think he was probably seldom QUERIES. cinnati, I NOTES AND at his home after entering the army. He died about the year 1815-16, when hi- Historical, Biograpliical and Genealo- mostly quite young. He gical. children were had a brother, Hamilton Armstrong. John, XCY. Armstrong was born April 20, 1755, ini New Jersey. He was the son of Thomas! and Jane Armstrong. The following; Ann Wood Henex (N. & Q xc.)—The . memoranda was made by him in 1785 90 date of death of this matron of the Revo- “ ‘John Armstrong, in the Parish of- lution is March 8, 1799. J. w. j. Donahada, in the county of Tirone; Mi-j the county of Derry, “The Fiest Century of German chael Hamilton, in Alderman Skipton, in, in America, 1728-1830.” by grandfathers. Printing grandfather. Some one! Oswald Seidensticker, of Philadel- Fauncheon, great Prof. ’ biblio- added ‘in Fauncheon, Foughavale. l phia, is one of the most valuable you see the pedigree is this: graphical works published in America. “Thus Michael H., To Pennsylvanians especially it shows the John A., character of the I vast number and varied | A., — JaneH., issues of the early German press. The Thomas has done most excellent service, I author Armstrong, deserving of congratulations from John and is grandfather. my j book-lovers everywhere, for his industry, who was another memorandum left; zeal and literary integrity so fully exem- “There was

interesting and worthy by him: . plified In this , j “ Armstrong was bora in the/ work_the result of years of research. ‘Thomas in the County of; Although the volume is published under Parish of Donahada, of Ireland; his father’s; the auspices of the “German Pionier- Tirone, North Armstrong. verein of Philadelphia,’ wt trust that name was John | “ wife of Thomas and; historical students will secure a copy for ‘Jane Armstrong, John, jr., was born in the! their library, a place it so well merits. mother of County of Derry, North of Ireland. Her Ham-\ “ The Proceedings of the Pennsyl- father’s name was Michael, Dukeof vania-German Society,” volume three, ilton. ’ accounts are about the same ex - is a publication of which not only the “These ‘Michael, Duke of I members of that society, but every Penn- cept for this last clause never was a Michael sylvanian should take pride therein. Of Hamilton.’ There of Hamilton. I think the numerous society proceedings and col- among the Dukes that John Arm-i lections this volume leads. Within its it possible, therefore, connection with the, limit of three hundred pages it comprises strong knew of some home at an ear’.yj a literary repast seldom, met with in simi- ducal house, but leaving did know. lar issues of the press. The regularly pre- age, forgot what he me any; pared papers are of intrinsic value, giving “Another query. Can you give grandfather, John; as they do an insight into ihat early Swiss facts concerning my and German emigration into Pennsylvania, Cochran, who was a mayor of Harrisburg^ ?” which has made our Commonwealth un- many years ago never was equalled in the galaxy of States for sturdy [As to the latter inquiry there and unflinching energy, an industry which a mayor of Harrisburg—a chief or assist- of the name of never flags, and a thrift withal commen- ant burgess or constable— Cochran, dable in the extreme. The secretary, Mr. John Cochran. General Samuel Surveyor Diffenderffer, of Lancaster, has edited of Chester county, was twice 1820-23 A the volume with marked ability, and this General. He resided here in the name resided in with excellent tyi>Og7ipliiCSAi5e5iu>‘ respectable family by 1760 to 1850, but the thereof. make it one of ihe leading histori- Lower Paxtang from about fifty years cal books of the year 1893. The baptismal connexion “went west” William Coehrau, of Middle Pax- records of Old Trinity Church, Lancaster, ago. ; of the Legislature; add* largely to its value, and happy be tang, was a member of DauphiD they who shall secure a single copy of a many years ago and sheriff was a pop- very limited edition of this publication. county from 1836 to 1839. He b. ular and courteous gentleman, a. h ] *

permit her sons to degenerate, she built a

j MATRONS 01* THE REVOLUTION. school house near the homestead and succeeded in educating her boys—and the

Hibson. ; Anne West prominent part those sons played in pub - Anne West, daughter of Francis West, lie affairs proved how well this ' junior, was born at Clover Hill, near Sligo, was done. Mrs. Gibson was a de- Irelaud, in the year 1750. She received a vout member of the Episcopal fair education during her parents’ resi- church, and very frequently nttended dence in Philadelphia, which, in addition; the services at Carlisle fifteen miles dis- to her natural endowments of. heart and! tant. An incident in this connection is mind, rendered her a most loveable wo-| told of her. On one occasion meeting man. In 1772 she married George Gibson.' Bishop White at Carlisle she prevailed He was the son of George Gibson, born at; upon him to accompany her to Shearman’s Lancaster, Penna., October 10, 1747; edu-| Valley that he might, baptize one or more caled at Philadelphia, where he entered a of the boys who had no.t yet received that mercantile house and made several voy- Christian rite. It so happened that all | ages as supercargo to the West Indies. four of the boys were off that day on a When the Revolution began, living in a hunt in the mountains, and as they did that section of Western Pennsylvania not return until late, the household with claimed by Virginia, he raissd a company its distinguished visitor was sound asleep which was credited to the Continental before they came in—the baptism was service. His men were distinguished for necessarily postponed until the morrow. good conduct and bravery, and known in The boys knew nothing of the arrange- the army as “Gibson's Lambs, ” In order | ment, and as game tracked best in the to obtain a supply of gunpowder he de- 1 early morning, they started before day- scended the Mississippi river with twenty- break to conclude the chase abandoned the five picked men, and after a hazardous evening before. Just how the mother ex- journey, through the. assistance of Oliver plained matters to the good Bishop at Pollock, succeeded in accomplishing bis “coffee and muffins’’ that morning, and I errand. his return he was On commis- the boys absent from the tabl e, has not\ sioned colonel of the First Virginia regi- [ come down to us. Mrs. Gibson survived ment, joined Gen. Washington before the her husband upwards of seventeen years, evacuation of New York, and was en- dying on the 9th of February, 1809, at the gaged in all the principal battles of the home farm on Shearman’s creek. Of her war. After the close of the contest, Col. children, Francis, the eldest, entered the Gibson retired to his farm in Cumberland service after a army, but relinquished the j county, and received the appointment of few years, and filled several civil positions county lieutenant. In 1791 he accepted with honor and fidelity. George, the sec- 'the command of a regiment in St- Clair’s ond son, also entered the army, and for unfortunate expedition against the In- forty years was commissary general. Wil- dians on the Miami, in which he was mor- liam, the youngest died early in life. John tally wounded, dying at Fort Jefferson, Bannister was her most distinguished son. Ohio, December 14,1791. He was one of the He became Chief Justice of the Supreme most brilliant officers of the Revolution.

i Court of Pennsylvania, a position he filled Mrs. Gibson, during the absence of her ! with such eminent ability that his name husband busied herself with the cares of is revered wherever the common law is and it is said of her, the farm, that fol- known. lowing the flight of the settlers from the West Branch during the years 1778 an l Crecy Covenboven Hepburn. hospitable house and 1779, her surround- Crecy Covenhoven was born in Mon- ings furnished an asylum for many of the mouth county, New Jersey, January 19, refugees. Her generosity was unstinted, 1759. Her parents removed to the West and in the years when the patriot army Branch Valley some years after her birth, required all the supplies obtainable, the and the daughter was thus reared amidst granary of Gibson’s mill on Shearman’s the privations and self-denials of a pioneer creek, furnished large quantities of flour. life, with but little advantages of educa- It was never paid for, nor was it expected. tion save that derived from the home It was given by that patriotic matron in

j training of one of the best of mothers. She aid of her suffering neighbors who, wiih | inherited from the latter an amiability of her husband, were struggling for liberty. \ temper, and yet with all an energy which last independence dawned, At yet after a was an important factor in the make-up brief term ot peace, came the Indian War, of a woman on the frontiers of civiliza- and that disastrous campaign which caused tion. She married, In the summer of perchance the profoundest sensation of 1777, William Hepburn. He was the son decade in our history, the that battle of of Samuel Hepburn, born in the north of Miami. The death of Col. the , Gibson Ireland in 1753, coming with bis father severe blow to that devoted was a and he- and brothers to Pennsylvania about the wife and mother. Her position roic was year 1773. Shortly after locating on the forlorn one, yet, the assuredly a fact that West Brancn, William became identified were those who required her there mater- with the ranging companies on the fron- nal care, buoyed up her spirits, and al- tiers. In 1778 he commanded a company from thence onward she lived though, in stationed at Fort Muncy, and had charge memories of the past, the sweet there were I of the garrison there upon the departure duties to perform—the education of her of Colonel Hartley. During the Kevolu- children. With the determination not to ! ;

tionary - straggle ne aia valiant service fhe Delaware, subsequently installed After the war he was appointed a justice as their pastor, where he remained of the peace. In 1791 he was elected a during the rest of his life. In 1776, after S ate Senator, and was chiefly instru- the defeat on Long Island, the surrender mental in securing the erection of Lvcom- of Fort Washington, and the retreat of iug county. Governor Mifflin appointed j the little army of Washington across the him in 1795 one of the associate judges Jerseys, urgent calls were made for rein- of the new county. In 1807 he was forcements. At this juncture Mr. Ros- commissioned Major I General of the brugh assembled his congregation and Tenth Division of militia. He died at spoke patriotically of the demands and Williamsport, June 25, 1821, aged 68 the duty of the hour. Immediately a years. It has been well said of Judge military company was organized, and Hepburn, by Mr. Meginness, the historian when they marched, he accompanied of the West Branch, that “no man of his them, carrying a musket. Upon reach- time, of that section of the State, figured ing Philadelphia, he was commissioned ’ more prominently than he. ’ He was uni- chaplain of the battalion. His command versally loved and respected. Mrs. Hep- joined Col. Cadwalader at Bristol, where burn, during the eventful years when they crossed the Delaware into the Jer- Indian forays almost depopulated the seys to operate against Count Donop, settlement of the West Branch, was one leader of the Hessians. On the 2d of the most heroic of women. She ren- of January, 1777, coming near the dered great assistance to the helpless in stone bridge of the Assunpink, Mr. their flight down the river to Fort Rosbrugh being weary, got off his horse Augusta, and years after it was related of and fastened him under the shed and went her, by those who knew her well, that for into the house for refreshments—no doubt thoughtfulness, tender care, and strong to get a cup of tea, of which he was fond. womanly sympathy, Mrs. Hepburn was While at the table the cry was heard “that not excelled. A patriotic matron indeed the Hessians were coming. ” He ran out She died April 8, 1800, aged 51 years, and for his horse, but found that it had been was the mother of three sons and seven taken. He then went to the bridge, but daughters, some of whose descendants j have become cannon were placed to sweep it, with or- prominent and influential in I ders to let. no one pass, and the men were this and other States of the Union. already breaking it up. He then went half mile stream to Jane Kalston Itosbrugli. a down the a ford, but finding it in the possession of the enemy, Jane Ralston, daughter of James Rals- turned back into a piece of woods, when ton, and his wife, Mary Cummock, was he was confronted by a platoon of Hes- born in the “Irish Settlement,” Nortli- sians, under command of a British officer. i ampton county, Pennsylvania, in the year He surrendered, offering his gold watch 1731. Her parents were early settlers in I and his money to spare his life on his Allen township, the vanguard of that family’s account. But seeing they were emigration of Scotch-Irish which for preparing to kill him, notwithstanding, almost three-fourths of a century, up to [ he knelt down at the root of a tree, and, the eve of the Revolution, kept flowing it is said, was praying for his enemies, into Pennsylvania and the valleys of the when the order was given and he was bay- South, and made that struggle for inde- onetted. officer to pendence, so far ! The then went the same as a successful contest, . house which Mr. Rosbrugh had left so possible. Mr. Ralston was one of the short a time before, and showing the prominent leaders in the church and pub- watch, boasted that he had killed a rebel lic affairs of the “Settlement”—intelli- parson. The woman who kept the place gent, energetic and patriotic. He died in knew Mr. Rosbrugh, and recognizing the July, 1775, aged 76 years. His daughter, watch, said; “You have killed that good Jane, was a youDg woman of more than man, and what a wretched thing you have the ordinary intellectual endowments, her personal beauty done for his helpless family this day.” was : remarkable, and with 1 This enraged the officer, and he threatened these there was quiet demeanor and Chris- to kill her if she more, and then tian amiability about her manners which said he ran away, as if fearing pursuit. Capt. made her a fit life companion for a min- John Hays found the body where it lay, ister of the Gospel of Christ. In the year and buried it there, as he found it, 1766 she married the Rev. John Rosbrugb. wrapped in a cloak. Some time after- Mr. Rosbrugh was born in the north of wards, Rev. Duffield, also a chaplain, Ireland in 1724, and came to America took up the body and removed it to Tren- when quite young, settling in the Jerseys. ton. They found seventeen bayonet holes He entered the College of New Jersey, through his waistcoat, and one bayonet and graduated in 1761. He studied broken in his body; also three sabre theology under the direction of the Rev. slashes through his horse-hair wig, which John Blair, of Fagg’s Manor; was taken he wore, as was customary at that on trial by the Presbytery of New Bruns- time. Fresh blood flowed from the wounds, wick, and licensed to preach on the 18th i which was looked upon as strange. Mr. of August, 1763. In October, 1764, he | Duffield had been tutor at Princeton, was called to the congregations of Mans- and was personally acquainted with Mr. field, Greenwich and Oxford, New Jersey Rosbrugh, and was prompted by friendship On the 18th of April, 1769, he to give his body a decent burial. It was accepted^ a, call to the | Forks of a most inhuman transaction. Dark as 'a 103

was the sorrow which fell upon his be- MATRONS OF THE REVOLUTION. reaved wife, she braved the storm for Brady. the sake of the little ones left to her soli- Mary Quiedey James dg- tary care. Eminently faithful to all the Marv Quigley, daughter of Q subsequently demands of life, she was none the less so ley was b-Tn in what wa3 county, in the discharge of parental duty. She Rope well township, Cumberland parents survived her martyred husband upwards Penna., August 16, 1735. Her Ireland three of twenty years, and although of a feeble migrated from the North of of their constitution, she went in and out before or four years prior to the birth people in her neighbors, ministering to the wants of daughter, and were well-to-do property on the sick and distressed—a charming ex- the Cumberland Valley—the the !l s- ample of a patriotic Christian woman. On which her father settled i3 yet in p 1755 Mary the 27th of March, 1809, she gently session of his descendants. In passed whose away, and none in the “Irish Settlement'’ Quigley married John Eraiy, neigh oor. were ever more lovingly esteemed than father, Hugh Brady, was a near Jane Ralston Rosbrugh. He w*s horn near Newark, Delaware, in education and 1733. He received a fair Jer- t-au'ght school in the Province of New queries. father in notes and sey prior to the settlement of his the year 175 . and Genea- Pennsylvania, some time m BlogT^ai Braly’s first son, Samuel. ! Historical John and Mary border wars wb<> became so famous in the Western Pennsylvania, was born in CXVL of him I y£V/ said of 1758. and it has been truly “in the midsi 1 Fiat in Luzerne that be came into existence Standing Stoke that r lied jof tempesi U ous waves of trouble in the in upon the frontier settlements Soon after 'wake of Braddock’s defeat.’’ and Indian the breaking out of the French aecl war he offered tds servic s as a soldier, commis- on the 19. h of July, 1763, was ot new in captain in the Second baWal.on in Lnz.rae, sioned commanded sthe Pennsylvania regiment, ‘jSradforu coun y. was wi h bv O'.onel Asher Clayton. He ~~ expedition westward born in c‘ 3l °- tQol. Bouquet in the “First white child in the the year following, and participated in that service. land grant to the t fficers 1 to the of Ohio was In 1768 Captain Brady removed whUe'rtdld born\n the State Moravian Standing Stone (now Hunungdonl-fhe at. Gnadenhutten. Tohn R >tb. settling upon a tract ot this event occurred i year after records inform us that the Wes. Moravian selected out of the survey on 1773- His parents were _own i July 4. Branch, nearly opposite the present i 'missionaries.” , r In the spring ot 1(76 he 7fi . ie mistake. In July, 17b*. a >of Lewisburg. This is a to Muncy Manor from Virginia gave birth to Went with his family 'mnlo nrisoner now Revolution called him to the near where Dresden The rSite cWld and as a captain of the well enough to hunt up tented fieid, stands I am not the Pennsylvania but John can rely Twelfth resriment of my authority for this, Cooke, he participated ment. i- o. Line. Col. William on the tr-ath of the state misfortunes ot in the horrors as well as the inva- gallant body of soldiers on of Col that summer Children "llull of Wyoming Valiev, ia the n children of Col. «onn mi sion --.-.—The at home he retired wuh hn Phillips, were as fol- of 1778, being wife, Mary the first ot ?nd his family to Sunbury, and on the September following, returned to 779 he was s.s army. In the early spting ot 1 t on Col IltessrsK Washington to ] [ordered by Gen. me Hartley’s command, op rating on not West Branch. On the 11th ot April, residence, he was assassinated September 15, 1831, in far from his She d. -an t thus Smith. by a concealed body ot Indians warriors Yl grad perished one of the most gallant William, b. circa 1761; «« — lT%ema n€ tbe Revolutionary era. Has settlement as he ‘cast a gloom over the , rein d for ad- £& January 25 1765 was a man upon whom all Maria-Louisa, b. w as a terrible il' vice and assistance. This who was »1- blow to his heroic little wife B with grief on account II. B. Treasury. Iready bowed down f . wime'Re'i-er at the hands or Washington. !of the meloncholy death 11 18"50, near bnu- She d £r of her aon Jam. », near >yd. the Indians m. Captain John b bti I , R&ccgh, 1778 Now 3 •’osian burv the 13ch of August, S»eh Harriet, m. cruelly stricken i-i seconaly, husband and protector was d. circa 1795; m. that , inesUiio m H-' circa the same bloody hands who d 'down by - B^iiarfn Flower Young, Hurriedly ^lec WiUiam L'oyrl, who slain her beloved s >n. 1805 p. thirdly, together, Mrs Brady He ; her children her. jj.ng I survived to the residence of h-r father i •> the Cum- State during”! tie oark ana gloomy days of berland Vallry. Kere she tarried until the struggle for liberty, there were few October following, when she returned to who endured more suff rings, trials and

. the Buffalo Valley, up > a tract of land privations than Mercy Kelsey Cutter her husband had located. It is stated Covenhoven. She was born in New Jer- that whea she started homeward, Mrs sey January 19, 1755, and was raised in

j Brady performed the wonderful feat of that province Very little is known of her carrying her youngest child before her on parents. They emigrated to the West Horseback and leading a cow all the way Branch Valley of the Susquehanna, prob- from Bhippensburg. The animal was a ably as early as 177G, and settled near the gift from a brother. The journey was mouth of Loyalsock creek, in what is now

Ions, the roads bad, the times Lycoming county. About that time there i

perilous, but her energy and pn-severance was a large cmigratiim from New Jersey I -surmounted all, and she an;! her cow and to the West Branch, the attraction being j

. children arrived in safety. It ever there the report of the fine lands in that section opportunity for was a true woman and loving mother, that and the acquiring homes. ! brave little soul was Mary Brady, The That the family yet lived in New Jersey | wiotei of 1779 and 1780 was a very severe when Washington and the British one, ad the depths of the snow inter- were operating in that province is attested

j dicted all traveling. Neighbors were few, by the story of a romantic incident in her | and tne settlement scattered, so that the life. It is related that Mis3 Cutter was

'winter was solitary- and dreary to a most captured by the Hessians near Trenton, I painful degree. Her distinguished son, roDbed of ber silver shoe buckles, partly Gen. Hugh Brady, in writing up his denuded of her clothing and tied to a tree. | recollections of events, states that while In this condition she was found by young i the depths of the snow kept the family at Covenhoven and released. Soon afUr it home had also the effect to protect them this both families emigrated to Penasyl- i from, the inroads of the savages. Brt„ Vania and settled at Loyalsock, as sta'ed with the opening of the spring the maraud -' above, for the records show that Robert ing Indian returned and massacred some Covenhoven and Mercy K. Cutter were !- of their neighbors. This obliged Mrs. married February 22, 1778. The marriage j Brady to take shelter with ten evidently grew out of the romantic inci- L or twelve other families about three dent in New Jersey. At this period the j miles distant. Pickets were placed times were perilous on the West Branch, i around the bouses and the old men, The Indians were incited bv f he British to women and children remained within commit the most atrocious acts of butch- doors during the day; while those who ery on the settlers, and soon the Big Runa-

could work aud carry arms returned to : way f< 11 owed, bv the flight of all to Fort I their farms, for he purpose of raising 1 Augusta for safety. The savages soon something to upon. subsist a day I Many { followed and swept the valley as with a the see Hugh walked by the side of his besom of destruction, leaving nothing but Stojher John, while he was plowing, carry- i rear. ert blackened ruins in their Ro; | ing a i tie in one h md and a forked suck Covenhoven early became a noted scout in the other to clear the plow-shear. and partisan ranger. Active, fearless and

I Freqc ally the mother would go with her sleepless, he rendered invaluable service to brave boys to prepare their meals, although the commander of the county militia, and contrary to t: •• wishes, but she said it oat ! the notches cut on the back of his big while she shared the dangers which sur- hunting knife (which has been preserved) rounded them she was more content than clearly tell that he caused at least nine when I t the fort. Thus the family savages to bite the dust. He was most conti t ied until the -lose of the war, ae ive preceding the Big Runaway in peace, peace, when happy again invited warning the settlers of the approach of the people ;o return to tbtir homes After the 1 Lrge body of Iudians, and in prepar- enduring, as we have seen, much suffering ing them for the memorable flight down and hardship, Mrs. Brady died her on the river. Before the panic was fairiy farm in Buffalo Valley the 20th of Oc- precipitated, he removed his wife and tober, 1783, and was buried iD the old father’s family to Fort Augusta, and it Lutheran graveyard at. Lewisburg. Years was while returning up the river, near afterwards her remains were carefully where Watsontown now stands, that he taken up and those of her son John and met the motley procession of canoes, flat- wife and tenderly laid in the new burial boats and '‘bog troughs,” loaded with ground. Mr. and Mrs. Brady were the women and children and household goods, parents of thirteen children —Captain fleeing down the stream for safety. The Samuel being eldest, and Liberty, men armed with rifles and diiving cattle born August the 9, 1778, youngest. The marched on shore to protect their families latter was so named because sue was their from the lurking foe. Mrs. Covenhoven first daughter bora after Independence was a woman noted for coolness and per- was declared and there were thirteen sonal bravery, and her presence always original States and thirteen children. greatly aided in inspiring confidence j among the weak and easily discouraged. Mercy Kelsey Cutter Covenhoven. No woman of her time displayed more | Among the matrons of the Revolution courage or truer heroism ia those dark and accompanied Who lived on the northern frontiers of the I gloomy days. Her husband Colonel Hartley In his daring march to " p influence of WneeTing creek, ^ Tioga Point as a guide and spy, and with |-ixtv or seventy yards from Col. Z me / in burning the wig bis own hands assisted cabin was erected just prior to the of Esther, I r warn the bloody Queen 'Revolution, for the protection of of volume io re- wou d equire the space a [the frontiers. Fort Henry, which late incidents in the life of all the stirring commanded the river approaches, chiefly soon the panic was- Covenbovcu. As as as a refu'-efo the settlers. Only a guard over Mrs. Covenhoven returned to her of five or six soldiers was deemed suffi oti and there home the Loyalsock, cieut. During the war an attack having >iil inde she continued to live been made by the savages, Col Zane hav denounce was fairly won. On the rest ra- ing fled with his family to the fort, his Covenhoven pur- tion of peace Robert cabin was burned by the marauders. whose “Level chased a farm in what is called assault against Fort Henry proved unsuc- Corner,” county, in 1785, and Lycoming cessful. In rebuilding his home every- there he his wife one of the true and — 'hing was done to make it defensible, for, heroines of the Revolution —settled. In as i he brave Colonel declared, t hat never lives their names the later years of their again would he desert bis cabin. Within Crownover, and as such were changed to the enclosure he erected a magazine for their few male descendants are now his own use as well as his neighbors. O ; known. this farm the faithful, brave Oa the 17th of September, 1782, a spy on the wife of the veteran ranger and courageous frontiers gave the alarm that an Indian mature age \ riled November 27. 1843, at the army was approaching. Immediately the days, and her of 88 years, 10 months and 8 women and children were gathered into rest ia the old Wil- remains were .aid at '.he Fort, which for some time previous they were un liamsport graveyard, where had been garrisoned by a small body of ‘‘march of improve- dis.urbed until the men. Coi. Zane, with two or three others, removal to Wild- ment” demanded their remained within his own enclosure, while wood cemetery a few years ago. Borne I those who retired into the fort took with down by the weight of years her husband them what | was considered an ample sup- did not long survive her. Soon after the ply of i ammunition. The savages made a his wife he went to live with a death of terrific assault, but were promptly re- Northumberland, and daughter near pulsed. The fort had only about sixteen died October 1846, at here he 29, men all told. Elizabeth Zane occupied of years, the patriarchal age 90 during the attack the sentry box with her days. He was 10 months and 22 brother. Jonathan, who was one of the of the old Presby- buried in the graveyard pilots in the Crawford campaign, ana ’erian church, at Northumberland now a — John Salter, loading their guns. This po- marble tombstone ommon—and his plain sition was the post of observation, and may be seen standing alone and as erect the best rifl-men and those having the I is a sentinel on duty. It has always been |

most knowledge of the modes of warfare j t source of deep regret that the descend- it I ! were selected for the place. Of course ant-. of this hero and heroine of the Revo- i was a prominent mark for the enemy, and remains to lie forty ution permitted their the brave women, who were cooling and Inilesapart were the parents of They loadiDg the rifles during the attach would sons and flee daugh- bight children, three frequently have to stop and pick the the eldest, was born Septem ters. James, splinters out of their bodies, which the date of dea h unknown; and W 9, 1782, bullets split off and drove into their flesh. Maria, the youngest, was born April 4, S > secure was Colonel Z me and his liitl-s three times, and die i 1804, was marriel pariy that the Indians dare not venture

i Kansas, in|January,1879. flnelpainting a A near without danger of being picked off i .f the old ranger, and his pistol, hunting by the gallant marksmen, the fire there- pocket compass are ndw jkaife, axe, and from being very galling. The supply of ;n the possession of George L. Sanderson, powder in the fort, however, by reason of :a grandson, and are treasured as sacred I the long coniinuance of the siege and the :relic days that tried men’ssouls,” ! 3 of “the repeated endeavors of the enemy to storm associations that | lend for the thrilling the defenses, was sood almost exhausted, cluster around them. a few loads only remaining. In this emergency, it became necessary to replen- Elizabeth. Zane Clark. ish their stock from the abundance of that Elizabeth Zaae, the youngest daughter article in Col Zme’s house. During the in Berkeley t d Isaac Z me, was born continuance of the last assault, apprized county, Virginia, about the year 1764 of its insecurity and aware of the danger She was a sister of C 1 Ebenezer Zane, which would inevitably eDsue, should the celebrated in the history of our Western savage, after again being driven back, re- rentiers, and the founder of the city of turn to the a-sault before a fresh supply Wheeling. In 1772 Elizabeth’s father ac- could be obtained, it was proposed that companied his sons to the Redstone setde- one of the fleetest men should endeavor to iment in Pennsylvania, where.having mar- reach the house, obtain a keg and return ried a second time, unhappily it seems, with it to the fort. It was an enterprise at if he daughter was sent to a school fu'l of danger, but many of the chivalric ’hiiadelphia. Upon her return she took spirits then pent up within the fortress, up her abode in the home of her eldest were willing to encounter them all. up .t her, who previously had established Among those who volunteered to go on just the his cabin on the Ohio river above this enterprise, was Elizabeth Zane. She ; athletic with AXiOGIC AIi DATA. was then young, active and ; GENE recipitancy to dare danger and fortitude Baied. her in the midst of it. Disdain- „ , to sustain Baird, of Guilford township, weigh the hazard of her own Thomas ing to Cumberland county, Pa., was born in Scot- life against the risk of that of others, land about 1724, came to America prior to told that a man would encounter : when John Baird, bom greater fleet- 1747. His brother, I less danger by reason of bis over about the same should he fall, his about 1730, came I ness, she replied, “and They settled iu the Cumberland will be more severely felt. You have time. I loss at au early date, as the names ap- not one man to spare; a woman will not, Valley pear on the first assessment list of the be missed in the defense of the fort.” 1751. J ohn was the father of Dr. Her services were accepted. Divesting county. Brird; he served in the Forbes herstlf of some of her garments, as tend- Absalom j expedition. The brothers Thomas and ing to impede her progress, she stood pre- | Baird first settled in Chester county, pared for the hazardous adventure; and John removing to . the Valley. when the gate was opened she bounded subsequently | died prior to Uloyember, 17/5, forth with the buoyancy of hope, and in Thomas wife Mary and the following the confidence of success. Wrapt in leaving a amazement, the Indians beheld her spring children: b. 1748. forward and only exclaiming, “a squaw, i. James; Archibald Machan. a squaw,” no attempt was made to inter- H Elizabeth; m. Erwin. rupt her progress. Arrived at the door she Hi. Mary; m. Hugh proclaimed her embassy. Col. Zane fastened a tablecloth around her waist, and v. John. emptying into it a keg of powder, again m'. Samuel, she ventured forth. The Indians were no mi William, longer passive. Ball after ball mii. Robert. passed whizzing and innocuous by. ix. Joseph. She reached the gate and en- Martha. x. Pennsboro town- tered the fort in safety. The effort John Baird, of East county, July, 1778, had not been made too soon. Another ship, Cumberland fj. the following vigorous assault by the savages, with the leaving a wife Margaret and former result. At this juucturr relief children: to Hester). came, and the Indians, dismayed, fled i. Esther ( or the opposite side of the ri7er. It was the ii. John. last attack ever made against Fort Henry, Hi. Hannah, In this signal victory credit was freely ac- in. Margaret.

corded to Elizabeth Zane, and the pages Elizabeth. . . v. mentions his of history may furnish a parallel to the John Baird, in his will, James Duu- noble exploits herein set forth, but such sons-in-law, David Moore and of his estate an instance of self-devotion is not to be Bin 2 The executors Whitehill and found anywhere. Elizabeth. Zane was were John Boggs, Robert b 1 eb- twice married. Her first husoand was William Gerldes. Hannah Baird, Clark, circa Henry MeLaughlin, a man of soma promi- ruary 17, 1759; m. David frontiers, died early ! nence on the He , 1780 Pennsboro’ when his widow married secondly Captain William Baird, of East a John Clark, who survi ved his brave- in May, 1764, lea J township, died George ™fBaird, hearted wife several years. Mrs. Clark wife Rachel and children. Margaret, daughter died about the year 1829—a w man hon- prior to 1763, married there was a James ored and revered for that one heroic act, of Michael Kerr, and and Jean Gib- which will be told of her in all the years Baird, grandson of James to come. son, of Hopewell township. .. An examination of the assessment sts NOTES give us the ™ct8 tliat of Chester county . and Thomas Baird ap- Historical, Blogr the names of John pulcal and ©enea* prior to 1747, but not af- logical. pear on the lists

that period. . ^ ter , married_ Tradition says Thomas Baird XfiVIL married Mary Douglas and John Baird Catherine McLean. Revoltjtionaky Pateiots.—If writers ot family history for one moment imagine that they can impose upon their M 1 readers, of Letterkenny town- m stating untruths or John Makemie, misstating facts, county Pa., d. about they will wake up some fine ship, Cumberland morning and left a wife Mar- find themselves laughed the first of May, 1766; at. As in the children: case alluded garet and the following to in past numbers of Notes ~ ana Queries i. Robert. - a j recent \ , volume makes heroes of various ii. John. members of their family ancestors during the war for Hi. Joseph. independence, Stockton. when iv. Mary; m. Robert they well knew there was no authority for the statements. Now-a-days ». Jean. many would m. Martha. . . like to pose as sons or daugh- Remck. ters of the Revolution— mi. Esther; m. Alexander and it behooves Makemie died 1708, m such organizations to investigate Rev. Francis these been in America about claims, back of tradition or Maryland, having family his- says: Should years. In his will he tories. 25 and Anne, his two daughters, Elizabeth his rty*s die without children, all P™P® cioiiori nnnn his sister, Anne Makemie, Brady, a noted and of ye Kingdom of Ireland, and the two distinguished^ officer of the United States army, eldest sons of my brothers, John and and died at Detroit, August Robert Makemie, both of the name of 25, 1833, at the age of 55 Samuel Walds died Francis Makemie.” (See Rev. L. P. at Philadelphia, in 1798, ot yellow fever. Bowen’s Life of Makemie, p. 502.) He was one of the most In Richard Webster’s history of the noted land speculators of his day, Presbyterian Church in America (p. 310,) and owned many thousands of acres at the is the following: “Andrews baptized time of his death. He was closely Elizabeth, a child of Francis Makemie, associated in land operations with James Wilson, Feb. 2, 1730. It was he, probably, who a signer of the Declaration of appears as a commissioner from Warring- Independence and the sudden death of the ton, -before the Philadelphia Presbytery in latter, also in 1798, caused the financial May, 1739. Rev. Jedediah Andrews was ruin of the Wallis estate. Soon after the the first pastor in Philadelphia.” death of Mr. Wallis, his administrators discovered MATBOSTS OF THE REVOLUTION. that his magnificent landed estate was hopelessly involved. It was then that Lydia Hollingsworth. Wallis. Lydia Wallis realized her true condition. This distinguished lady of the revolu- After all that she had endured and suffered tionary period was born in Philadelphia in during the Revolutionary period, she j father, Hollingsworth, found herself almost penniless. 174:3. Her John All the I was of Quaker extraction and a frieDd of property left by her husband was soon the Penns. On the 1st of March, 1770, swept away by the stern decree of the law. Miss Hollingsworth married Samuel Wal- From affluence she was suddenly reduced to poverty, lis, and soon afterwards they took up and in her straitened circum- their residence on the West Branch of the stances she went to live with her daughter Susquehanna, where Mr. Wallis had ac- Cassandra at Milton. She survived her quired about 7,000 acres of land, which husband fourteen years, and died Septem- ” ber came to be known as the “Muncy Farms. 4, 1812, aged 68 yeavs and 5 months. As early as 1769 he built a stone house on Her remains were laid at rest in the old Chillisquaque his farm, which is still standing, and is graveyard, where so many now regarded as the oldest house in Ly- ; of those who took an active part in the county. Here Lydia Hollings- Revolution lie buried, and thus closed the coming I worth came as a bride, and soon after- mortal career of Lydia Hollingsworth wards she planted four elm trees near the Wallis, one of the noblest, most devoted self-sacrificing house, which are still standing, stately and women of the times in and rugged in their mature grandeur. which she lived. When the revolution broke out, Samuel Wallis at once became identified with the Hannah. Blair Foster. patriotic movement, and on the 24th of Hannah Biair, daughter ot the Rev, January, 1776, he was appointed Captain Samuel Blair, was born in Fagg’s Manor. of the Sixth company of the Second bat- Chester county. Pa., March 15, 1745. Her talion of the Northumberland associated father dying in 1751, she was brought up became one of the most ac- under the careful training of one of the S militia, and tive officers in the defense of the frontier. best of mothers, a daughter of Lawrence He was in constant communication with Van Hook, of New York. In 1767 she authorities at Philadelphia and kept married the Rev William Foster, recently ! the them advised as to the condition of af- licensed by the New Castle Presbytery, fairs in that part of the Province. His and then under a call to the congregations house became a rallying point for the set- of Upper Octoraro and Doe Run. In the tlers when the Indians made their forays. war of the Revolution Mr. Foster engaged Within a few hundred yards of his stone heartily in the cause of civil liberty, and residence Fort Muncy was erected, de- encouraged all who heard him to do theirj stroyed, and afterwards rebuilt. The utmost in defense of their rights. In the Wallis home was regarded as a haven of beginning of 1776 he preached a very pa- rest, and there Mrs. Wallis dispensed triotic and stirring sermon to the young a liberal hospitality for the men of his congregation and neighbor- j times. When it became necessary hood upon the subject of their duty to account I to abandon his home on their country, in its then trying situation. of the savage enemy, Mr. of the approach I It had its effect in kindling the fire of Wallis took his family and fled to Elkton, patriotism, and many of his hearers joined Maryland, his place of nativity. As soon the army of the Declaration. On one oc- as it was safe he returned and took an ac- casion he was called to Lancaster to preach tive part in the direction of public affairs. to the troops collected there previous to Mrs. Wallis did not return until peace was their joining the main army. It did much declared. The home of Lydia Wallis is to arouse the spirit of patriotism among now looked upon as one of the most his- the people. Indeed, with all deference to toric points on the river, on account of its those of our own race, the Presbyterian associations with the dark and bloody clergymen contributed greatly to keep days of the Revolution. She was the alive the flame of liberty, and fre- mother of six children, two sons and four quently but for them it would have daughters. Cassandra, her third child and been impossible to obtain sufficient recruits second daughter, was born at Muncy farm, to keep up the patriot forces requisite to OctobaLj^nJ^yyhe became the wife of oppose a too often victorious foe. -isai^SmUnTaprominent attorney in his Mr. Foster was much esteemed and time/ ''Sarah, the third daughter, was beloved by his congregation for his born at Elkton, Maryland, August 19, zeal, talents and piety, and at his death, fled for 1778, whither the family had September 30, 1780, at the early age of safety just before the Great Runaway. forty years, was universally lamented. In She became the wife of General Hugh :

the great respect of the people for Mr. I sacre, in 1755. Landlord of the Sun Inn Foster, his wife was a sharer. She was at Bethlehem. Built the first house in distinguished for an equanimity of tem- Nazareth; died there Sept. per that adorned those principles in which 11, 1806.] Curt Frederic she had been educated, and which she con- Ziegler, student, from Pomerania. stantly practiced through life. After the 1754. close of the Revolutionary war, and the

! The Irene arrived quieting of the Indian depredations on the at New York on April 15tb, with the following western frontiers of Pennsylvania, Mrs. colonists: Francis Christian Foster removed to the Cussewago settle- Lembke, [b. July 13, | ment (now Meadville) with her family. 1704, Bodensingen, Baden Durlach, clergyman. Died at Nazareth, Juiy li, iv as. She died at the residence of a daughter in j ( David and Regina Heckewelder, [parents Mercer, Pa., on the 14th of May, 1810. of the distinguished missionary among Two of her sons, Samuel Blair and Alex- the Indians ander IF., became members of the bar, ] Paul Brycelius. were among the most eminent lawyers in was b. Western Pennsylvania, and long recog- John Ettwein and wife; [He June 1721, at Freundenstadt, Wurtem- nized as the leaders of the profession in 29, berg; at Bethlehem January 1802. that section of the State. A son of the d. 2, He was one of the most eminent clergy- first named, Henry D. Foster, of West- men of the Moravian church in America. moreland county, was a member of Con- ] J. Valentine Haidt, [b. October 1700, gress, and prominent at the bar—the soul 4, Danzig; d. at Bethlehem 18th January, of honor, and a life without stain or re- at of ability. proach. 1 780. He was a painter some _ His wife, Catherine, m. n. Compigni.] A REGISTER D. Schmidt. William Angel. Of Members of the Moravian Church William Edmonds. Who Km 1 grated to Pennsylvania From 1747 to 1767. Charles Frederick. Andrew Hoeger, [b. 1712 in Bavaria. He was an excellent architect and mathe-

matician. ] 1753. James Leighton. The Irene arrived at New York with the William O’Kely. following colonists Enricher. Jacob Till and his wife Elizabeth. [She Mary Evans. was b. March 28, 1724, in Switzerland; d. Wyken. October 22, 1754, at Nazareth, Pa.] Susan Children. Rebecca Till, their daughter. Christel and Renatus Beuzeen, and their George Stephen Wolson and his wife sister, Anna Benigna. Susan. Renatus Brycelius, and his sisters, Han- j Gottlob Koenigsdoefer, “leader of the nah and Mary. colony.” Christian, David and John Heckewelder Ludolph Gottlieb Backhof, student from and their sister Mary. Luneberg. Christel Ettwein. Christopher Henry Baehrmeyer, writer, from Brandenberg. On November 14, the Irene arrived at Frederick Beyer, carpenter, from New York with the following colonists: Silesia, Gottlieb Pezold, [“leader of the col- Ludwig Christian Dehne, tailor, from ony,” b. Nov. 1, 1720, in Saxony, died at Weringerode. Lititz, Pa., April 1, 1762. Jacob Eyerie, blacksmith, from Wurtem- Christian Frederick Post. [Born in berg. Polish Prussia. Distinguished Indian

George Wenzelaus Golkowfsky [of Bro- missionary. Died May 1, 1785, at Ger-

beck, Teschen, Upper Silesia. He was a mantown ] clever draftsman and surveyor. Died Nicholas Anspach, farmer, from Palati- Dec. 29, 1813, at Nazareth, Pa.] nate. Joseph Haberland, mason, from Mo- Mattheus Boeker, shoemaker, from Salz-

I ravia. urg. Jacob Herr, mason, from Wurtemberg. Lorenz Baggi, carpenter, from Holstein. Samuel Hundt, clothmaker, from York- Joseph Bulitschek, carpenter, from Bo-

! shire, England. hemia. Jacob Jurgensen, pursemaker, from Jens Colkier, carpenter, from Jutland. Denmark. Adam Cramer, tailor. Hans Martin Kalberlahn, surgeon, from Melchior Coumad, carpenter, from Mo- Drintheim. ravia. Henry Krause, butcher, from Silesia. Delfs Detlof, shoemaker, Holstein. Otto Christian Krogstrup, clergyman. Franz Christopher Diemer, baker. Joseph Lemmert, tanner, from Brisgaw. Carl I. Dreyspring, tailor, from Wur- Albert L. Russmeyer, clergyman. temberg. George Soelle, clergyman. Gottfried Dust, potter, from Silesia. Christian Wedsted [carpenter, from Jacob Ernst, baker, from Switzerland. Jutland. Died at Bethlehem, June 14, Casper Fisher, miller, from Hildburgs- 1757. He was one of the five who escaped bausen.

at the Gnadenhutten massacre, in 1755. J August Henry Francke, tailor, from Peter Weicht, farmer, from Silesia Watterania. Peter Worbass [carpenter, from Jutland. Christian Frieble, carpenter.

Born May 18, 1722. He was one of the I Hans Nicholas Funk, farmer, from Lo-

five who escaped at the Gnadenhutten mas- ! fi enstein. Joseph Giers, miller, from Moravia. J‘>hn Hennr Grunerwald, farmer, from - /

Mecklenberg. 1756 - [Died at Bethlehem in April of 1760. Irene arrived at J ; On December 12 the Matthias Gemmele, tailor. New York with the following passengers: John church.] Adam Hossfeld, saddler, from Peter Boehler. [Bishop of the Ebersteld. ’ William Boehler. Joseph Huepsch, shepherd, from Mo- Christian Bohle. ravia. Ekespane. j. John Jag, from Moravia. Philip Christian Reiter. J - w. Samiiel John, j negro, from Ceylon. NOTES AND QUERIES. John Klein, saddler, Darmstadt 0Pher K ‘°etZe ’ 8hoemaker Historical, ’ from Biograpuioal and Genealo- Magdebu r g gical. Adam Knffler, linen weaver. Knegbaum > shoemaker, XOVIII. Anspach from Christopher Kuershner, shoemaker. The Friok Family of Pennsylvania Vld KunZ, Carpenter from have taken steps toward the preparation ^fh n T * Moravia. 061117 Leuzaer of a history of that family, > b°okbinder, from and Mr. Wil- Be^rmh liam Frick, of Chester, is sending a circu- j Michael Linstrom, linen lir to r 1! of the name for weaver J the purpose of MiCtS°h gathering information. The descendants ' b0oibi ” to frotta . of the first emigrant are, like those of | Henry George Meisser, shoemaker. others, scattered over the various States Lorenz and Nielsen, carpenter. [Born De- Territories of the Union, and it will cember 8,1715 require industry as well in Holstein; died at as labor to obtain Nazareth, July, 21, 1785.] the data requisite—but there is Pennsyl- Carl Ollendnrf, tailor, from Branden- vania-German pluck and pe.severence be- burg. hind, and sucess is doubly assured. Petersen. Philip Henry Ring, baker, from Elsace. McLean. —John McLean, a native of Martin Rohleder, farmer, from Moravia. County Antrim, Ireland, served three Samuel Saxon, from England. years in the Pennsylvania Line, and parti Martin Schenk, mason, from' Moravia. pated in the battles of Long Island, White 6 Schmdler linen Plains, Trenton, PrincetOD, Brandywine > weaver, from Moravia and Germantown, and was in the famous Christian Sprob, mason, Courland. encampment at Valley Forge. I think he Anton Stremer, mason, from Prussia was also present at the execution of Major Cnnstian Stremer, shoemaker, from Andre. At the close of the war he mar- Prussia. ’ ried Sarah Armstrong of Lancaster county, John George Starts, stocking weaver and settled near Mifflin on the Juniata. John Stettner, tailor, from Anspach. In 1796 the family removed to near Edward Thorp, shoemaker, England Geneva, in New York State, and settled Carl Wei neck, shoemaker. on what was then known as the Pulteny !

Joseph lands. There mother, the youngest, I Willy, clothier, from England. my Jens Wittenberg, member of the family7 was born. Her skinner, from Norway. , John Wuertele, shoemaker, from Wur- father, John McLean, died in 1812 and temberg. was buried at West Dresden, Yates eQry ZiUman tailor county, that State. h. h. g. ’ . from Branden- be^ [John McLean was a private in the Line, and his name appears on the pen- 1756 . The Irene arrived sion rolls of 1833, then residing in On- at New York June 2 haying tario county, N. Y., aged 85 years on board tha “Henry Seidel ]

Colony,’ as follows: i John Michael Biffel. THE STAUFFjER FAMILY. Joachim [Among some manuscript notes of Lan- Busse, from Revel, d. Bethle- hem. caster county families, we find the follow-, Thomas Hall. ing, which will no doubt interest thevety Casper George Hellerman. numerous family of Stauffer. In the seven i h e Elert Korten. yoluine ofVfffe e c r-WUserfes o f Perrasjdva- George Ernst Mensinger. nia Archives are given the names of many bore this John Mueller. ! who cognomen.] The Stauffer family is originally Henry Ollringshow, from Yorkshire, of Swabian extraction, Canton Schaffhausen England. [Returned to England 1757 homesick.”] having at one lime been a part of old John Bartholomew Poninghausen. Swabia. The name can be traced in Southern Germany as far back as A. John Roth. [b. Sarmund, Prussia, D and the name ilseif is further proof February 3, 1726. Indian missionary and 938, this assertion, for its root is ‘‘Stauf,” a minister in rural congregations. Died in Jof lork, Pa. word peculiar to Southern Germany, and His. son was the first white ” male child bom in Ohio.] meaning “a chalice” or ‘‘drinking cup Michael Ruch. (It is now obsolete, or' odIv used as a pro- vincialism. Many tamilies of this name William Schmaling. [Returned to Eng- land, 17o7.] 6 in Switzerland and Germany yet bear on George Senf. their coats of-arms ‘‘a chalice” in some that Hans Jacob Schmidt. I form, showing a connection between article and the name. Historv tells us of Jefferson College, which position he filled until 1845, a period of twenty-three years. He died at Pittsburgh, July 23, 1853, in the 77th year of his age. As one of the old time Presbyterian divines, few stand higher in the annals of that church than Rev. Matthew Brown, D. D. The age of his noble mother is unknown, but, as she survived her husband thirty-seven years it is reasonable to conclude that she

probably. reached, if not exceeded, the age : of seventy. Boon after her death her children erected plain tomb stones' to mark the graves of their parents, which bear the following inscriptions:

Matthew Brown, Died April 22, 1777.

Eleanor Brown. Wife of Matthew Brown, Died August 9, 1814.

As the ground came to be cleared around the graves, a rude, un mortared stone fence was erected as a protection. This, in time, tumbled into ruin, when a wooden fence was put up. This, too, has rotted down, and there is scarcely any protection now to the graves. The tombstones, much time-stained, remain. A clump of tmes overshadow them, but as they are now in the midst of a cultivated field, the time will soon come when the graves of the Revo- lutionary patriot and his heroic wife will be desecrated by the plowshare of civilization, which will rudely pass over them and remove every trace of their existence. By a recent sub division the graves now lie in Gregg township, Union county, close to the line of Washington township, Lycoming county. They should be marked by a permanent monument to perpe uate the name and memory of an early patriot and his noble wife.

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