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Pioneer Legislative Districts and Members .- Pioneer district, Jeffer- son, Indiana, and Armstrong : 1816, Joshua Lewis, James M. Kelley ; 1817, James M. Kelley, Samuel Houston; 1818, Samuel Houston, Robert Orr, Jr. ; 1819, Robert Orr, Jr. ; 1820, Robert Orr, Jr., Robert Mitchell ; 1821, Robert Mitchell, James Taylor ; 1822-23, John Taylor, Joseph Rankin ; 1824, Joseph Rankin, William Lawson ; 1825, William Lawson, Thomas Johnson ; 1826, David Lawson, Joseph Rankin ; 1827, Robert Mitchell, Joseph Rankin ; 1828, Joseph Rankin, David Lawson. Early districts, Indiana and Jefferson, with one member : 1829, Robert Mitchell ; 1830-31, William Houston ; 1832, James M. Stewart ; 1833- 34, William Banks ; 1835, James Taylor ; thirty years connected with Indiana and Jefferson never conceded a member by Indiana. Jefferson, Warren, and Mckean, with one member : 1836-37, C. B. Curtis ; 1838- 39, William P. Wilcox ; 1840, James L. Gillis, first member from Jeffer- son ; 1841, Lewis B. Dunham, of Jefferson ; 1842, Joseph Y. James. In 1843 another district was formed, and James Dowling, of Jefferson, was elected in 1844.
" At the election held in 1835 votes were cast on the question of a convention to amend the constitution of the State, which resulted in Jefferson as follows : for a convention, 424 ; against a convention, 59.
" In 1836 the votes cast for delegate to the convention were as follows : Thomas Hastings, 303 ; O. Hamlin, 284; Benjamin Bartholomew, 127; and - Powell, 10.
" In 1838 the vote on the amendment to the constitution stood as fol- lows : for amendment, 593 ; against amendment, 356.
" At the general election in 1839 the first prothonotary was chosen. Levi G. Clover received therefor 544 votes, and William Campbell 358 votes.
" The first county treasurer chosen by the people was at the election in the year 1841. Samuel Craig received 357 votes ; Thomas Hastings, 300 ; David Henry, 230 ; and Samuel Carey, 219.
" The act of Assembly, passed April 8, 1830, having bestowed full powers, rights, and privileges upon the citizens of Jefferson, and invest- ing complete authority in the county, as an organized body politic, the first general election for State and county officers was held on the second Tuesday of October of that year. The number of townships was then five,-viz. : Pine Creek, Ridgeway, Perry, Rose, and Young. The officers voted for and the number of votes received by each candidate are as fol- lows :
"Congress .- Richard Coulter, 162 ; James Pollock, 121.
" Senate .- Philip Mechling, 143; Joseph M. Fox, 41 ; William D. Barclay, 103.
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PIONEER HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNA.
" Assembly .- William Houston, 176 ; Meek Kelley, 108.
Sheriff .- Thomas McKee, 130; Frederick Heterick, 129; William Bowers, 93.
"Coroner .- John Lucas, 230; John Barnett, 2; Joseph Long, 51 ; John Hess, I.
"Commissioner .- Robert Andrews, 90 ; Jacob Hoover, 83 ; John Lat- timer, 36 ; William Kennedy, 6 : Isaac Lewis, 59 ; John McClelland, 13. " Auditor .- John Hess, 138 ; John Welsh, 102 ; John Eason, 20 ; John Bell, 2 ; Peter Sutton, 1."-Atlas.
The county was erected in 1804, but there was no election of any kind held until Friday, March 20, 1807. Pine Creek township was estab- lished in 1806, and the election district made at Joseph Barnett's. In 1819, Perry was created. This made two election districts, one at Bar- nett's and one at Bell's. Little Sandy was the dividing line. Previous to 1826 all the settlers on the north of this line had to vote at Port Bar- nett, and all south at John Bell's. All legal business had to be trans- acted at Indiana until 1830. No voters in the county before 1814 could vote at a general election. Yet even after 1814 there was no record of our vote, for Jefferson votes were counted in with Indiana.
PIONEER ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR OFFICE PREVIOUS TO NOMINATING CONVENTIONS.
"To the free and independent electors of Jefferson County, who are opposed to petty aristocracies and serving friends out of the public treasury, I offer myself as a candidate for the office of COUNTY AUDITOR, and pledge myself, if elected, to pay some regard to the oath of office, and oppose the settling of any account paid out of the county treasury that is not strictly legal.
" ELIJAH HEATH." -Brookville Republican, August 24, 1837.
"TO THE FREE AND INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY.
" To all who are opposed to petty aristocracies, to serving friends and pensioners out of the public treasury, and, in short, to all who are op- posed to petty monopolies, petty larceny, and to those who sacrifice honor, truth, and honesty at the shrine of Mammon, or in any manner worship the golden calf at the hazard of the damnation of their souls, I, on the suggestion, and at the earnest solicitation of many friends, offer myself, at the ensuing election, as a candidate for the office of COUNTY AUDITOR, and I hereby stand pledged, if elected, to pay full and com- plete regard to the oath of office and to oppose settlement of any account not in good faith strictly honest.
"C. A. ALEXANDER."
-Brookville Republican, August 31, 1837.
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PIONEER HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNA.
PIONEER ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH NOMINATING CONVENTIONS FOR COUNTY OFFICERS IN JEFFERSON COUNTY.
Previous and up to the year 1837 everybody who wished announced and ran for office in the county without a caucus nomination, but in that year the pioneer effort was made to organize a party system of nominating candidates,-viz. :
" PUBLIC MEETING.
" In pursuance of a notice in the Brookville Republican the Democratic citizens of Jefferson County assembled at the court-house in the borough of Brookville, on Saturday, the 26th of August, instant, to take into consideration the propriety of electing delegates to meet similar dele- gates at Montmorency from the counties of Warren and Mckean, to put in nomination a suitable person to be supported at the next general election to represent the district composed of the counties of Warren, McKean, and Jefferson.
"On motion, Richard Arthurs, Esq., was appointed President, Wil- liam Rodgers, Esq., and Daniel Coder, Vice-Presidents, and Jesse G. Clark, Secretary.
" The object of the meeting being briefly and ably stated by John J. Y. Thompson, Esq., the following resolutions were adopted,-viz. :
" Resolved, That Uriah Matson and Thomas Hastings, Esqrs., be ap- pointed delegates of the Democratic party to meet similar delegates from Warren and McKean Counties, at Montmorency, on the 30th day of August, inst., to put in nomination a suitable person to be supported at the general election to represent this district in the next Legislature.
" Resolved, That a notice be published in the Brookville Republican, requesting the several townships in the county to send delegates to meet at the court-house on the Wednesday evening of the next September court, to put in nomination suitable persons to fill the various offices in said county, to be supported at the next annual election.
" Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be signed by the officers and published in the Brookville Republican.
" R. ARTHURS,
President. WILLIAM RODGERS, DANIEL CODER, Vice-Presidents. JESSE G. CLARK, Secretary."
PIONEER NOMINATING CONVENTION-ORGANIZATION OF THE SYS- TEM OF CONVENTION NOMINATIONS IN THE COUNTY.
" TOWNSHIP MEETINGS.
"The citizens of the several townships throughout this county are requested to hold meetings in their several townships, and appoint dele-
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gates to meet in convention, in the court-house, on Wednesday evening, the 13th of September next (court week), for the purpose of putting in nomination suitable persons to be supported by the Democratic Anti- Bank, Anti-Shinplaster party for the several county officers.
" DEMOCRATS." -Brookville Democrat-Republican, August 31, 1837.
PIONEER ELECTION OF DELEGATES-DEMOCRATIC GENERAL COUNTY MEETING.
" Pursuant to a resolution of the convention which assembled in War- ren on the 6th of September last, for the purpose of nominating a can- didate to represent the legislative district composed of the counties of Jefferson, Warren, and McKean in the General Assembly, it is enjoined on the several counties in the assembly district to appoint two delegates from each county to meet in convention on future occasions to bring up a candidate for this district, and that they assemble for said purpose at the house of Gould Richardson, in Montmorency, Jefferson County, on the last Wednesday in August next.
" Agreeable to the foregoing resolve the Democratic citizens of Jeffer- son will meet at the court-house, in the borough of Brookville, on Satur - day, the 26th instant, at five o'clock, to appoint two delegates to confer with the delegates from other counties in said convention.
" MANY DEMOCRATS."
-Brookville Republican, August 10, 1837.
PIONEER JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
It appears by the records in the office of the Secretary of the Com- monwealth at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, that the pioneer justices of the peace for Jefferson County were appointed in the year 1809,-viz. : Thomas Lucas, on the 16th of January, A.D. 1809, and John Scott on the 17th of March, A.D. 1809.
In the books at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, containing the appoint- ments of justices of the peace from the year 1809 until the year 1840, when the office became elective, the following record of justices of the peace of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, appears :
FIRST DISTRICT.
Composed of the townships of Perry and Young and that part of Pine Creek lying south of the State Road leading from Milesburg to Erie, bounded by the county line and said road :
John Bell, appointed March 8, 1818.
Thomas Lucas, appointed January 16, 1809.
Charles C. Gaskill, appointed August 15, 1822. Resigned March 12, 1824.
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PIONEER HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNA.
Andrew H. Bowman, appointed February 28, 1826. Resigned. Elijah Heath, appointed May 16, 1828.
John Hess, Sr., appointed August 20, 1830. Resigned March 7, 1831. John Winslow, appointed May 20, 1831.
William Stunkard, appointed October 22, 1831. James Bell, appointed November 13, 1832. John Robinson, appointed May 27, 1833.
Alexander McKnight, appointed October 25, 1833.
Martin Shoaf, appointed October 31, 1833.
James M. Steedman, appointed January 1, 1834.
William Ferguson, appointed May 27, 1835.
John Robinson, appointed in 1836.
James Corbett, appointed June, 1837, for District No. I, composed of the townships of Perry, Young, and that part of Pine Creek lying south of the State Road leading from Milesburg to Erie, bounded by the county line and said road, including the borough of Brookville.
SECOND DISTRICT.
To include the remainder of said county lying north of the State Road leading from Milesburg to Erie, bounded by the county line and said State Road, including Ridgeway township :
Joseph Mccullough, appointed December 1, 1823.
John Stratton, appointed March, 31, 1837.
Reuben A. Aylesworth, appointed February 18, 1832, and resides in Ridgeway township. Resigned March 15, 1836.
John Wilson, appointed January 8, 1835.
Stephen Tibbetts, appointed February 14, 1835.
EARLY JUSTICES OF THE PEACE-PIONEER ELECTION, IS40.
Young Township .- William Davis, Lemuel Carey. Porter Township -John Robinson.
Paradise Township .-
Pine Creek Township .- John J. Y. Thompson, Nathaniel Butler. Washington Township .- Andrew Smith, William Reynolds.
Eldred Township .-- William McNeil, David Lamb.
Snyder Township .- Milton Johnston, Asaph M. Clarke. Barnett Township .- Oran Butterfield, John A. Maize.
Ridgeway Township .- James Gallagher, Lyman Wilmarth.
Tionesta Township .- John G. Williamson. Jenks Township .- Cyrus Blood.
1842.
Rose Township .- William Kelso. Clover Township .- Darius Carrier. Porter Township .- Martin H. Shannon.
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PIONEER HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNA.
Snyder Township .- Isaac Ingalls. Pine Creek Township .- Samuel Howe.
Jenks Township .- Russell Buffum.
JEFFERSON COUNTY ROSTER.
The various offices in Jefferson County have been filled by the fol- lowing persons, either by election or appointment, since 1824. The commissioners, treasurer, and auditors, being the first officers of the pro- visional county, we commence with them. The figures at the com- mencement of the line denote the year they were elected or appointed.
Year.
Commissioners.
Treasurers.
Auditors.
And. Barnett
I824
John Lucas
J. W. Jenks
A. Baldwin.
IS25 .
D. Postlethwait
. John Matson
James Corbett.
T. Robinson.
IS26 F. Heterick
J. Brockway.
IS27
Thos. McKee
Christopher Barr Jonathan Coon.
IS28
Thos. Lucas
John Christy.
IS29 Elijah Heath
Andrew Barnett J. Mccullough.
IS30 R. Andrews
John Hess.
IS31 , J. Henderson
J. B. Evans
Wm. Kelso.
IS32 C. R. Barclay
D. Postlethwait.
IS33
L. G. Clover
WVm. A. Sloan
John Welsh.
IS34 Jas. Corbett
J. M. Stedman
Wm. Ferguson.
IS35 Jas. Winslow
Jas. L. Gillis
. J. J. Y. Thompson.
IS36
. J. Philliber
. A. McKnight
. H. Robinson.
IS37 . John Pierce
. C. Alexander.
IS38
Daniel Coder
. Daniel Smith
Jesse Smith.
IS 39 , Irwin Robinson
Wm. Rodgers
M. Johnston.
I840 B. McCreight
. J. G. Clark
. James Gray.
IS41
Joel Spyker
Nathaniel Butler
James Perry.
IS42 .
. J. Gallagher
Samuel Craig . W. Reynolds.
1843
John Drum
. J. Henderson.
. John Pifer.
IS44. Enoch Hall
. A. Mckinstry.
The first election for treasurer took place in 1841, when Samuel Craig was elected. Previous to that time they were appointed by the commissioners for one year, and were eligible to reappointment.
Jonathan Coon died in the spring of 1838, and Samuel Newcomb was elected in his place at the general election to fill the unexpired term as auditor.
Charles R. Barclay, commissioner, resigned in the spring of 1834. John Lattimer was appointed until the election, and then James Winslow was elected to fill the vacancy one year.
Treasurer McKnight died June 20, 1837, and on the 22d of the same month Daniel Smith was appointed to fill the vacancy.
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PIONEER HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNA.
Prothonotaries were appointed by the governor until 1839, the amended constitution making them elective for three years. James Corbett, ap- pointed in 1830; Thomas Hastings in 1832; Thomas Lucas in 1835; Levi G. Clover, appointed in 1839, and elected in the fall of the same year ; John McCrea, elected in 1842.
Sheriffs .- 1830, Thomas McKee ; 1833, William Jack, appointed in June, in room of McKee, dead ; in the fall of the same year William Clark was elected ; in 1836, Joseph Henderson elected ; 1839, John Smith ; 1842, Thompson Barr.
Coroners .- 1830, John Lucas ; 1833, J. Christy ; 1836, Joseph Sharp; 1838, John Earheart; 1839, John Lucas; 1842, Henry Frease. The office of coroner has been considered of such small importance that but few persons lift their commissions.
President Judges .- 1830, Thomas Burnside appointed ; resigned in 1835, and Nathaniel B. Eldred appointed ; Eldred resigned in 1839, and Alexander McCalmont appointed, whose term expired in 1849.
Associate Judges .- In 1830, John W. Jenks and Elijah Heath were appointed ; Heath resigned in 1835, and William Jack was appointed ; Jack resigned in 1837, and Andrew Barnett was appointed. In 1841 James Winslow was appointed in room of John W. Jenks, whose term of office expired under the amended constitution. In February, 1843, Andrew Barnett's time expired, and James L. Gillis was appointed, but in consequence of the erection of Elk County, Gillis resigned in Novem- ber of the same year, and Levi G. Clover was appointed.
COMMISSIONERS' CLERKS.
1824-26, Ira White ; 1828, James Diven ; 1829, William Morrison ; 1830-31, William M. Kennedy ; 1832, Benjamin Bartholomew ; 1833, Jesse Smith ; 1834-35, John Beck ; 1836, John Wilson ; 1838-39, Jesse G. Clark ; 1840-41, William Rodgers ; 1842-43, Hugh Brady.
PIONEER APPEALS. " NOTICE.
" The taxable inhabitants of Jefferson County will take notice that the commissioners will hold the appeals for said county as follows,-viz. :
" On Tuesday, the 17th day of February next, at James Caldwell's in PunxsutawneyYoung township.
"On Wednesday, the 18th February next, at Sprankle's Mill for Perry township.
" On Thursday, the 19th day of February next, at Andrew Barnett's for Pine Creek township.
" On Friday, the 20th day of February next, at the commissioners' office in Brookville for Rose township.
" On Tuesday, the 24th day of February next, at James Gallagher's for Ridgeway township.
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PIONEER HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNA.
" On Tuesday, the 24th day of February next, at William Armstrong's for Barnett township.
" By order of the commissioners.
" JOHN BECK, Clerk.
" COMMISSIONERS' OFFICE, BROOKVILLE, Feb. 12, 1835.
CHAPTER XVIII.
FROM 1830 TO 1840.
I copy from a book published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1832, the following :
" Jefferson County was provisionally erected by an act of 26th March, 1804, and is bounded north by McKean and Warren, east by Mckean and Clearfield, south by Indiana, and west by Armstrong and Venango Counties. Greatest length 46 miles, mean breadth 26 ; area, 1200 square miles. Central lat. 41º 15' N., long. 2° W. from W. C.
" Like the rest of Northwestern Pennsylvania, the county is hilly, and iron and coal are in abundance ; the latter is in every part of the county. The soil in the valleys is in many places highly fertile, but the great body of the county cannot be rated above second quality. It is abundantly watered, having on the south Mahoning Creek; on the west Little Sandy Lick Creek and Big Sandy Lick Creek, whose branches stretch across the county. Clarion River, or Toby's Creek, with its many and large ramifications, intersects the northern half of the county in every direction.
" The State Road from Kittanning to Hamilton, in the State of New York, runs diagonally across the county from southwest to northeast, and the turnpike road from Phillipsburg to Franklin traverses it from south- east to northwest, passing through the town of Brookville ; and a company has lately been incorporated for making a turnpike road from Ridgeway, through Warren County, to the State line in New York, in the direction of Jamestown.
" There are three small villages in the county, including the seat of justice,-viz. : Brookville, Punxsutawney, and Ridgeway. At the first, which was commenced in August, 1830, there are about 40 dwellings, 4 taverns, and 4 stores ; at Punxsutawney 10 or 15 dwellings, 2 taverns, and I store ; and at Ridgeway some half-dozen dwellings, etc. Port Barnett, Centre, Cooper, and Jefferson are marked on the map as towns. There is a tavern at the first. The others are mere names.
" There are two or three grist-mills only, but more than four times as many saw-mills, and the export of the county is lumber solely, unless venison hams be included. Two million of feet of white pine boards,
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PIONEER HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNA.
etc., were cut in 1830 and rafted down the Big Mahoning, Red Bank, or Sandy Lick Creek, and Clarion River, to the Allegheny River, and thence to Pittsburg and other towns on the Ohio.
" The population is composed of Germans, some English, and some settlers from New York, and consisted, by the census of 1830, of 2025. That there is room for great increase is obvious, when we observe that this population might be comfortably supported on 2000 acres, whilst 766,000 acres are unsettled. There are several sects of Christians in these wilds, chiefly Presbyterians, Seceders, and Methodists. But there is not a church in the county .*
" Venango, Warren, Armstrong, Indiana, and Jefferson form the twenty-fourth senatorial district of the State, sending one member to the Senate. Indiana and Jefferson, united, send one member to the House of Representatives. Jefferson belongs to the fourth judicial district, and to the western district of the Supreme Court, and, connected with West- moreland and Indiana, constitutes the seventeenth Congressional district.
" This county paid into the State treasury in 1831 for-
" Tax on writs, $35; for tavern licenses, $33.44; for duties on dealers in foreign merchandise, $31.69 ; total, $100.13. Value of tax- able property in 1829, real estate, $509,801 ; of personal estate, $14,777 ; rate of levy, 716 mills on the dollar.
" Unimproved lands are offered for sale in this county at from 150 to 200 cents per acre."
"STATISTICAL TABLE OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, 1832.
Townships.
Greatest
Area in Acres.
Population.
Taxables.
Length.
Breadth.
1820.
Perry
II
9
49,280
205
1830. 2025 in
86
Pine Creek
15
I2
$5,760
356
the whole
49
Rose
39
12
289,520
county.
115
Ridgeway
23
I7
262,040
26
Young
9
9
51,840
70
" The population has not been classed by townships in 1830.
"JEFFERSON COUNTY, 1832.
Post-Offices.
Names of Postmasters.
Miles from
Washington.
Miles from Harrisburg.
Brockwayville
Alonzo Brockway
226
I54
Brookville .
Jared B. Evans 238
165
Montmorency
James L. Gillis
2.42
I71
Punxsutawney
John W. Jenks
216
160
Ridgeway
Reuben A. Aylesworth .
236
165."
-Gordon's Gazetteer, 1832.
* There was one abandoned log church building in the county near Roseville, - viz. : Rehoboth .- MCKNIGHT.
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PIONEER HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNA.
OFFICIAL ELECTION RETURNS FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY, IS37.
Borough. Rose.
Pine Creek.
Young. Perry Snyder. Eldred. Ridge- way.
ASSEMBLY.
Carleton B. Curtis . 22
27
13
2
4
S
15
I5
26
William Clawson . 52
61
47
115
S4
9
9
.
COMMISSIONER.
John Pierce
32
28
2S
12
9
7
12
I 6
Christopher Barr . 20
34
IS
4
28
I
6
I
David Henry .
13
. .
5
48
7
I
3
14
William Kelso
6
50
I
. .
16
2
14
2
John Smith
2
+
53
12
12
I
3
Robert K. Scott
6
5
I
.
2
I
James P. Stewart . 7
I
·
.
22
3
I
AUDITOR.
Daniel Coder
24
33
6
IO
16
9
5
5
5
C. A. Alexander . 43
6
12
93
69
6
I4
6
Elijah Heath .
13
IS
14
15
2
S
I
2
9
Joseph Magiffin
6
43
I
7
.
·
5
.
IS37-APPOINTED BY THE COMMISSIONERS.
" Alexander McKnight, Esq., to be treasurer of Jefferson County for the current year of 1837 from the Ist instant.
" (NOTE .- We are gratified to be able to announce the reappoint- ment of Esquire McKnight. He has filled the office with honor to him- self and credit to the county.)"-Brookville Republican, January 12, 1837.
" DIED.
" In this borough, on Thursday last, of pulmonary consumption, ALEXANDER MCKNIGHT, Esquire, treasurer of Jefferson County, aged twenty-seven years and six days, leaving a disconsolate widow and three helpless children to deplore his untimely exit.
" In the death of Esquire McKnight it may truly be said that this county and community at large have sustained an irreparable loss. His deportment through life was frank, open, and circumspect. Honesty was one of his most ennobling characteristics. Esteemed by those with whom he had intercourse in life, his decease was equally lamented. In a word, he was a faithful officer, the honest man, and the good citizen. Peace to his memory .- Brookville Democrat-Republican, June 22, 1837.
Pioneer book- and medicine-store advertised in the Brookville Repub- lican, August 31, 1837 :
" ' BOOKS AND MEDICINES' "just received and for sale at this office."
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21
313
II
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.
Barnett.
PIONEER HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, PENNA.
A RAILROAD COLLISION OF IS37. "FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
" STEAMBOAT ' COLUMBUS,' " August 12, 1837.
" The most serious accident has occurred in Eastern Virginia since my recollection happened on the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad, one and a half miles from Suffolk, yesterday, between nine and ten o'clock. A company, consisting of about one hundred and fifty ladies and gentle- men, from the counties of the Isle of Wight, Nansemond, and Southamp- ton, came down on the railroad on Thursday, the 10th inst., with the view of visiting Portsmouth, Norfolk, Fortress Monroe, and returning the next day. On their return, at the time and place above mentioned, they met a locomotive and train of burden-cars, and, horrible to relate, the two ran together while going at the rate of ten or twelve miles an hour." -Brookville Republican, August 31, 1837.
NOTICE.
"LIST OF RETAILERS.
" In pursuance of an act of Assembly, approved the 7th day of April, 1830, requiring the county treasurer to publish a list of the retailers of foreign merchandise, designating those who have and those who have not paid for license on or before the Ist day of June, I publish the following list, certified by the associate judges and commissioners on the 14th day of February, 1837 :
Retailers.
Class.
Paid.
William Campbell .
7
Not.
Charles R. Barclay
S
James McKennon & Co.
7
James Robinson
S 66
Evans & Clover
6
66
Jared B. Evans
7
66
Heath, Dunham & Co.
6
Enos Gillis .
S
Hughes & Dickenson
S
" All retailing foreign merchandise in Jefferson County and not enu- merated in the above list are requested, under penalty of law, to take out license.
" The eighth section of the above act requires the treasurer to bring suits in June against all delinquent retailers of foreign merchandise.
" It is hoped that those interested will prevent legal action by calling in due time for the license. Those who neglect may rest assured the requisitions of the law will be strictly complied with. All persons having
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