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10. Seth McCormick, an Irishman, occupied a cabin on South creek, a branch of White Deer Hole creek, about a mile west of Swan's cabin. Seth died here on the 17th of January, 1835, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. His remains lie buried in the old Presbyterian, (now Lutheran,) grave-yard, at the " stone church," on the south-west side of Penny Hill. He left a wife and nine children, and his descendants are still living here, and occupy a part of their great ancestor's estate.
II. Thomas McCormick, an Irishman, and a brother of Seth's, occupied a cabin on South creek, about half a mile from Seth's. He seems to have acted as a justice of the peace for some years. He died on the 6th of October, 1826, aged seventy-two years, and his remains also lie buried in the old grave-yard, near the above "stone church."
12. Jesse Weeks, a son of the widow Weeks, already noticed, oc- cupied a cabin that stood on the north side of "Spring creek," the northern branch of White Deer Hole creek, and about four miles west of its junction with "South creek." Jesse Weeks died here, but his age and place of burial are unknown.
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13. Daniel Sunderland, an Englishman, occupied a cabin that stood about a mile further up on Spring creek, and he died there.
14. John Farley, a New Jerseyman, came here in 1787, from the State of New Jersey, with a wife and seven children, named Jacob, Barbara, Minard, John, David, Naomi, and Fanny. He immedi- ately built himself a log cabin, and occupied it, on White Deer Hole creek, about two hundred feet from where the dwelling house of the late Charles Gudykunst now stands, and being an active and enter- prising man, he soon afterwards built himself a log grist-mill here, the first one in the Valley, as already stated.
I have obtained all of the above facts relative to these fourteen families, (excepting what relates to their times of death and places of burial,) from Mr. John Farley, a son of the above John Farley, and who is still living in our Valley, a venerable white haired old gentleman, in the eighty-eighth year of his age, whose house I visited for that purpose on Tuesday, the 17th of July, 1870.
He says : "I was born in Tewksbury township, Hunterdon county, State of New Jersey, on the 9th of July, 1783, and came here into this Valley with my father, John Farley, in 1787, when I was four years old. And I have resided here ever since, for the long space of eighty-three years, and knew and remember the names of all the white settlers that lived in this Valley in the spring of 1787, when I came here, and where their log huts or cabins stood, and how their cabins were made. My father built one of the same kind of cabins here in 1787, and four or five years afterwards he also built a small log grist-mill here, with but one pair of grinding stones in it ; the first grist-mill erected in this Valley. In the year 1800, my father, after living here thirteen years, moved back to the State of New Jersey. But he died here in this Valley in June, 1822, while he was up here on a visit to me and my family. He was upwards of seventy years of age when he died, and my brothers and sisters are all dead, and I am now the only one left of all my father's family. Very great changes have taken place in the appearance of this Val- ley, its farms, houses, barns, &c., since I came here ; changes far greater than any I ever expected to see here, and all for the better."
John Swineford opened the first hotel at Middleburg, Snyder county. Ioth June, George Derr sells George Knox as much water
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as will run out of an inch hole at the bottom of the race, two poles from Derr's house.
29th January, Andrew Gregg was married by the Reverend John Hoge to Martha Potter, daughter of General James Potter, at the latter's residence, the first farm above Jacob McCorley's, Esquire. Mr. Gregg rode up from Carlisle on horseback, and brought Mr. Hoge with him. There were then no Presbyterian clergymen settled in this part of the country, and some sixteen or seventeen couples took advantage of Mr. Hoge's presence, hurried up their matches, as Mr. Hoge had to return to Carlisle within a limited time.
Andrew Gregg moved to Oldtown, now Lewistown, where his first daughter, Mary, afterward Mrs. McLanahan, of Greencastle, was born, November 3, 1788. In 1789 Mr. Gregg moved to Penn's val- ley, within two miles of Old Fort. In 1790 he was elected member of Congress, and by seven successive elections for several districts, as they were arranged from time to time, including one by a general vote over the whole State, was continued a member of that body for sixteen successive years, and during the session of 1806-1807 was elected a member of the Senate of the United States. In December, 1820, Governor Hiester appointed him Secretary of the Common- wealth. He died in Bellefonte, on the 20th of May, 1835, aged eighty years. He had removed there some years previous, for the purpose of educating his children. His wife died in 1815. He was born on the Conodoguinet creek, near Carlisle, July 10, 1755, and received a classical education ; was tutor for some years in the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, and first settled at Middletown, Pennsylva- nia, where he kept store. He had a fine library, containing all the Greek and Latin classics, most of which are still in the possession of his daughter, Mrs. Margery Tucker, of Lewisburg. His grandchil- dren, Governor A. G. Curtin, General D. M. Gregg, and General John I. Gregg, have flung far forward into the future the light of their family fame.
In May, 1787, a call was given to the Reverend Hugh Morrison, 1 by the Buffalo Cross-Roads congregation, in connection with the con-
1The Reverend Hugh Morrison, the first regular pastor of the Presbyterian Church in this Valley, came from Ireland, Presbytery of Root, in 1786. Among the records of the Synod, under date May 18, 1786, "the Presbytery of Donegal reportod that they had, since our last meeting, admitted Hugh Morrison, a licensed candidate from the Presbytery of Root, in Ireland," &c.
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gregations of Northumberland and Sunbury, and among the records of the Synod, May 22, 1788, is the following : Carlisle Presbytery reports that it has, since our last meeting, ordained to the work of the Gospel ministry Mr. Samuel W. Wilson, in the pastoral charge of " Big Spring " congregation, and Mr. Hugh Morrison, in the pastoral charge of the Sunbury, Northumberland and Buffalo Valley congregations. The following is a copy of the call, for which, with other material in reference to this church, I am indebted to Isaac Grier, D. D., of Mifflinburg :
" Mr. HUGH MORRISON, Preacher of the Gospel :
" SIR : We, the subscribers, members of the united congregations of Buffalo, Sunbury, and Northumberland, having never in these places had the stated administration of the Gospel Ordinances, yet highly prizing the same, and having a view to the advancement of the Kingdom of Christ, and the spiritual edification of ourselves and families, have set ourselves to obtain that blessing among us. And, therefore, as we have had the opportunity of some of your labors in these places, and are satisfied with your soundness, piety, and minis- terial ability to break unto us the bread of life, we do most honestly and sincerely, in the name of the Great Shepherd of the flock, Jesus Christ, call and invite you to come and take the pastoral charge and oversight of us in the Lord. And for your encouragement, we do promise, if God shall dispose your heart to embrace this our call, that we will pay a dutiful attention to the word and ordinances of God by you administered ; that we will be subject to your adminis- trations and reproofs, should our falls and miscarriages expose us thereto ; and will submit to the discipline of the Church, exercised by you agreeably to the word of God. And, also, that we will treat your person with friendship and respect, and behave in all things towards you as becomes a christian society to behave towards their pastor, who labors among them in word and doctrine. Further, we are persuaded that those who serve at the altar, should live by the altar. We do promise, in order that you may be as much as possible freed from worldly incumbrances, to provide for you comfortable and honorable maintenance, in the manner as set forth in our sub- scription papers attending this our call, during your continuance with us as our regular pastor. In witness of our hearty desire to have
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you settle among us, we hereunto set our names this 31st day of May, 1787."
Signed by seventeen from Northumberland, eight from Sunbury, and forty-eight from Buffalo. On it is the following deputation :
"We, the undersigned, do nominate, appoint, and intrust the Reverend Mr. Wilson with the annexed call for the Reverend Mr. Morrison, to be by him presented to the moderator of the Carlisle Presbytery, for the purpose mentioned. Signed : William Gray and Abram Scott, for Sunbury ; William Cooke and James Hepburn, for Northumberland ; and William Clark, for Buffalo."
In October, Reverend Hugh Morrison became pastor of the Buf- falo Cross-Roads Presbyterian church. The congregation engaged to pay him £75 per year. From a list of contributing members found in the treasurer's book, I gather the following names : An- derson, John ; Allen, Joseph ; Baldy, Christopher ; Barrett, James ; Black, Thomas ; 1Boyd, James ; 1Brady, John ; 1Buchanan, James ; Charters, William; Clarke, Captain John ; Clark, Robert ; 1Clark, Walter ; 1Clark, William ; Cox, Samuel ; Cox, Tunis ; Davis, David ; 1Davis, John ; Derr, George ; 1Douglass, William ; Dugan, William ; Elder, Thomas ; Evans, Joseph ; 1Farley, John , Fleming, William ; Forster, Andrew; 1Forster, James ; 1Fruit, Robert; Graham, Edward ; 'Gray, John; Gray, Captain William; Green, Joseph ; Grogan, Charles ; Hammersly, George; 1Holmes, Jonathan ; Hudson, Jo- seph ; Huntsman, James; Hutchinson, Thomas; Irvine, William ; Irvine, Matthew ; 1Irwin; William, Esquire ; Johnston, Christopher ; Kennedy, Alexander ; 1Kelly, Colonel John ; Knox, George ; Laird, Matthew ; Lewis, Paschall ; Links, George ; 1Linn, John ; Lowdon, Captain John ; McClenachan, William and Andrew; McDougal, William ; McGrady, Alexander ; Maclay, Samuel ; Magee, James ; Marshall, William ; 1Miller, Benjamin ; Milligan, John; Montgom- ery, Samuel ; Moore, George ; Nichols, William; Poak, Charles ; "Poak, Joseph ; 1Poak, Thomas; Poak, Widow ; Porter, Samuel ; 1Ray, John ; Rees, Daniel ; Reznor, John ; Roan, Flavel ; Rodman, Widow; Rorison, Alexander ; Scroggs, Allen; Sherer, Richard and Joseph ; Sims, William ; Snodgrass, David ; Steele, Alexander ; "Thompson, Captain James ; 'Thompson, John; Vanvolsan, Levi ; 1Watson, David ; Williams, William ; and Wilson, William.
Shortly after Mr. Morrison's arrival, an election for elders re-
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sulted in the choice of Walter Clark, John Linn, William Irwin, David Watson, John Reznor, and Joseph Allen. The subscriptions by the more wealthy attendants upon service were Andrew Forster, £2 ; Samuel Maclay, John Lowdon, and William Irwin, each, £1 IOS. ; William Irvine £1 6s. ; James Forster £1 25.
Those marked (1) were signers of Mr. Morrison's call, and as such, in 1803, were sued for back stipends. The principal and in- terest and costs, when they made the last payment, in December, 1810, was $1, 179 30.
September 17, the Constitution of United States was adopted, and on December 12, the State Convention ratified it. The dele- gates to the latter from Northumberland county were Colonel William Wilson and his partner, John Boyd. They then kept store in the town of Northumberland. In 1791, Colonel Wilson built the Chillisquaque mills, at the mouth of that creek, and moved to that place.
At November sessions, the road commencing at the head of Penn's valley ; thence through Aaronsburg to the road at Richard Lowdon's barn ; thence down the same to John Davidson's ferry, was laid out.
Deaths.
Alexander Beatty, of New Berlin. Children : Jane, Agnes, Hugh, John, Hannah, Sarah, James, and Alexander. The deceased car- ried on the first tannery in the Valley, on site of present town of New Berlin.
Matthew Young, of Buffalo. Children : Margaret, (see her cap- ture, related 1781,) still living, in 1787, John, Sarah, and Agnes. One of his daughters married Robert Dixon. Sarali was residing in Westmoreland county, in March, 1796, when she gave Colonel Kelly and Captain Thompson a letter of attorney to draw her share under her father's will.
John Snyder, original owner of Selinsgrove, brother of Simon, subsequently Governor.
John McClung, of Buffalo. Children : John, James, Matthew, Charles, Rebecca, Esther, and Elizabeth.
Sebastian Kerstetter, of Beaver. Children: Martin, Lenhart, Peter, Sebastian, Catharine, and Margaret.
James Thom, of Buffalo.
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DREISBACH CHURCH-ROADS-HOUSES IN LEWISBURG-MATTHEW LAIRD'S FAMILY.
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EMBER of Council, William Maclay. Members of Assembly, Samuel Maclay and John White. County Commissioners, William Gray, Peter Hosterman, and John Lytle. Treasurer, John Buyers.
By act of 26th of September, the Buffalo election place was changed from Fought's to Andrew Billmyer's tavern, on the road mentioned below.
In August, Christian Van Gundy, William Irvine, John Thomp- son, David Watson, and Andrew Billmyer reported that they had laid out the road, beginning at Derrstown, on the West Branch ; thence to the meeting-house, in Buffalo; thence to Thompson's mill, on Buffalo creek; thence to the east side of George Rote's lane, where it intersects the road leading from Davidson's ferry to the narrows; distance, nine and a half miles. (Thompson's mill became Rockey's in 1789.) This is the road leading past the late Francis Wilson's, (by old Billmyer place,) to Mifflinburg.
In November, John Clarke, John Lowdon, and Philip Voneida reported a road from Michael Shirtz's, at the narrows of Penn's creek, past Peter Kester's, on the Cole place, to a pine tree at the end of Colonel Clarke's lane. This is still the main road down Penn's creek, through Laurelton, Hartleton, and then south of the turnpike to Mifflinburg.
Additional Residents of Buffalo-Betz, Abraham ; Bogenreif, Christopher ; Caldwell, Samuel ; Dobbins, Robert; Miller, Chris-
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tian ; Sims, William, weaver, at Alexander McGrady's ; Vanvalzah, Doctor Robert ; Yentzer, Christian.
Lewisburg-Eaton, John; Grove, Wendell; Kendig, Jacob, (Isle of Que ;) McCracken, Widow; Scroggs, Allen ; Wise, Fred- erick.
Improvements in White Deer-John Bear's saw-mill.
Among Residents-Adams, Joseph ; Bennage, Samuel ; Denning, Samuel; Derr, Frederick; Henning, Philip, distillery ; Hoover, John ; Linn, William, on Joseph Brundage's place ; McLanahan, Andrew ; Perry, Thomas.
Single Men, taxed Ios. each-Black, Timothy ; Hammersly, James ; Iddings, Isaac; Iddings Henry ; Laird, Moses; Scott, Thomas ; Smith, Ludwig.
Penn's Township-Bickle, Tobias, grist-mill ; Brownlee, William ; Bowerman, Daniel ; Buchtell, John ; Carstetter, Bostian ; Eberhart, Philip ; Howell, Adam; Kay, Frederick; Koons, John ; Meiser, Henry, saw-mill; Miller, Widow, saw-mill; Miller, Benjamin ; Notestone, John; Neiman, Weiand; Pyle, George, distillery and saw-mill ; Quinn, William ; Quinn, Thomas; Rush, Daniel ; Ship- ton, Thomas, distillery ; Shock, Jacob, grist and saw-mill ; Snyder, S. ; Spade, David ; Spade, Jacob; Swineford, George.
The following memorandum, relative to the Dreisbach church, is derived from the late John Schrack, Esquire :
" In this year the German Reformed and Lutheran congregations united in building a log church, where the Dreisbach Church now stands. John Pontius had set apart some land, on the south end of the Bucher tract, for a church and burying-ground, (the family burying- ground is still there,) but Martin Dreisbach, senior, offering to donate seven and a half acres for that purpose, it was judged best to accept that. On the part of the Reformed, John Aurand and Elias Younk- man were trustees ; Martin Dreisbach and Jacob Grozean were elders ; Peter Frederick and Henry Dreisbach, deacons. On the Lutheran side, Herman J. Shellhart was pastor ; Christian Storms and Adam Christ were trustees; Casper Bower and Henry Meizner, elders ; Jacob Metzgar and John Sierer, deacons. The names of some of the members of the Reformed Church were : Aurand, George ; Aurand, Henry; Barnhart, Matthias ; Barnhard, Henry; Brown, John ; Dreis- bach, John ; Dreisbach, Jacob ; Frederick, George; Fisher, George;
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Mook, Jacob; Michael Vought, and John Pontius. Of the Lutheran, John G. Buch, George Bower, John Hiltman, Stephen Duchman, Jacob Gebhart, John Meizner, Leonard Welker, Mathias Alsbaugh, Adam Kreichbaum, William Rockey, Peter Fisher, Leonard Gron- inger, George Smith, Christopher Wagner, Adam Meizner, George Buch, Christopher Bickel, Jacob Welker, Christopher Baldy, John Crider. In 1839 the log church was taken down, and a brick build- ing erected. Among the pastors of this church were Dietrick Au- rand, Gentzler, Pfriemer, Shellhart, Geisweit, Willianı Ilgen, John C. Walter, and Herbst, but the dates of their service are unknown."
In November, William Gray, Esquire, deputy surveyor, made a re-survey of Lewisburg, and in his plan indicated the roads then ex- isting, and the lots built upon, with their occupiers.
The road from Sunbury to Muncy is marked as along the bank, on the opposite side of the river, and Captain John Brady's house as immediately opposite Strohecker's landing. Thomas Rees is marked as the owner of the house at Strohecker's, and the road to Penn's valley, as running directly west from it. The road from Sunbury to Buffalo and Penn's valley is marked as intersecting the last men- tioned road, some distance from the river, and crossing Lime- stone run, opposite Third street ; then entering Fourth street, and running along it out to the creek, it crossed the creek at Colonel Slifer's upper farm, the site of the new iron bridge built there, then the site of High's saw-mill, the remains of which are yet visi- ble, where it intersected a road leading up to Gundy's mill above, and thence up the Valley. From High's mill at the creek it ran over to William Gray's, (there was no road then crossing Buffalo creek at its mouth ; ) thence by Robert Fruit's, &c. There were no houses west of Fourth street, and the first one on it is where John Griffin built a fine house, (1871.) Alexander Steele had a house where John Beeber resided, and a tan-yard, on that square. Ed- ward Long lived opposite, on the Charles Buyer lot, and next to him, north, was Wendell Grove. John Bolinger had a house on the alley behind William Nogel's present residence. John Hamersly lived on the corner of Third and St. George, where Reverend Job Harvey now lives. There was also a small log house, burned down some thirty-five years ago on the same lot.
On Second, George Troxell lived, and owned the adjoining lot.
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Doctor Buyers built the present house, on the corner of St. Cathe- rine's, where Troxell lived. There was a house also on Spyker's corner, opposite James S. Marsh's new residence. Jacob Welker lived on the site of Marsh's new house. David Snodgrass lived on the Chroni- cle lot, opposite where his widow afterwards kept a cake and beer saloon. Nicholas Smith occupied the only house on Market, now Jonathan Wolfe's lot, west of his residence. The two lots where the depot now stands are marked " Roman Chapel." On Front, Joseph Evans, cabinet-maker, had the only house, on the lot now owned by William Cameron, Esquire. Joseph Sherer lived on the corner of Water street, where Halfpenny's woolen store or warehouse now is.
William. Williams had a store where Martin Hahn's stone house is now. Ellenckhuysen's ferry was opposite to it. Henry Conser, prob- ably, lived where Spyker's heirs now live. He was the grandfather of Reverend S. L. M. Conser, so James Kelly tells me. Thomas Armor, probably, lived on the Griffin lot, and the only other inhabitant of Lewisburg, Flavel Roan, lived in Derr's tenant house. Where that was I do not know. Roan owned three lots, James Walls, John Nesbit, and Henry Frick's, lying close together, and had the ferry over Buffalo creek. George Derr, of course, lived at the mill. The old house stood in what is now the garden, just two rods north-east of the place where Hull's tannery water-pipe taps the race. George Knox, father of Mrs. William Armstrong, probably, made his tan- yard this year, where E. J. Hull now has his. In July of 1787, George Derr conveyed to Knox, for tan-yard purposes, as much water as will run out of an inch hole, at the bottom of the race, two poles from Derr's house.
October 1, William Maclay and Robert Morris, first United States Senators from Pennsylvania, elected. A paper of the day says : " The landed and commercial interests of the State will be well rep- resented."
The Congressmen were elected on a general ticket, and not from districts.
Matthew Laird, who came to the Valley this year, is the ancestor of a large generation. He came originally from Ireland, where his son James was born. He was a wagoner with General Braddock's army, and was in Colonel Dunbar's camp when the news came back of General Braddock's defeat, 9th July, 1755. [See his statement in
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the Colonial Records, volume 6, page 482.] He says, "a wounded officer was carried into camp on a sheet ; then they beat to arms, on which the wagoners and many common soldiers took to flight, in spite of the sentries, who forced many to return, but many got away, among them, this examinant." His daughter, Isabella Black, was twelve years old when he came to White Deer. Matthew Laird died in August, 1821. His children were James, John, Isabella, married to James Black, Moses, (father of R. H. Laird, Esquire,) who died in Derry, in January, 1816, Margaret, married to John Blakeney, Matthew, who died in Tiffin, Ohio, Elizabeth, and Ann. Moses married Jane Hayes, and their son, Reverend Matthew, mar- ried a Miss Myers, and went out as missionary to Africa, dying there, May 4, 1834. Their other children were John, Mrs. Mc- Calmont, Mrs. Joseph Milliken, of Clinton county, -, married William Caldwell.
Deaths.
Leonard Groninger, leaving widow, Elizabeth. Children : Leon- ard, Daniel, Jacob, Susanna, Margaret, and Elizabeth. Jacob Aurand.
John Rearick, senior. Children : Mary and John.
Margaret Green, wife of Joseph.
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BOUDE FAMILY -- RESIDENTS OF BEAVER TOWNSHIP-FIRST GERMAN RE- FORMED PASTOR-MANUFACTURES, &C .- DEATHIS OF MAJOR LAWRENCE KEENE AND GENERAL JAMES POTTER.
RESIDENT of the State, Thomas Mifflin. William Wilson, member of the Supreme Executive Council. Samuel Maclay and John White, members of Assembly. William Montgomery, President Judge. Abraham Piatt, William Shaw, &c., Associates.
July 28th, Jasper Ewing, Esquire, appointed Prothonotary, vice Major Lawrence Keene, deceased. John Simpson, re-appointed Register and Recorder ; Frederick Antes, Treasurer ; Martin With- ington, elected Sheriff. County Commissioners, John Lytle, Peter Hosterman, and William Hepburn. Commissioner's Clerk, H. Douty. Bernard Hubley, Lieutenant of the county.
On the 7th of January, the first election for presidential electors resulted in the choice of General Edward Hand, Colonel George Gibson, John Arndt, Colinson Reed, Lawrence Keene, James Wil- son, James O'Hara, Colonel David Grier, Samuel Potts, and Alex- ander Graydon.
November 19th, Daniel Brodhead, Surveyor General, appointed the following deputy surveyors : Henry Vanderslice, for part of Berks ; Joseph J. Wallis, for part of Northumberland ; James Harris, for part of Mifflin ; William Gray, part east of the Susquehanna.
Officers of Buffalo : Constable, C. Baldy; Overseers, Isaac Hanna and Wendell Baker ; Supervisors, William Williams and James Wat- son ; Fence Viewers, John Crider and Benjamin Miller.
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Additional Taxables of Buffalo-Mathias Alsbach ; Henry Fulton, merchant at .Lewisburg; Philip Grove, Jacob Kephart, Joseph Oldts, George Oldts, William Rockey, John Rengler, (grist and saw-mill,) Henry Sassaman, John Shuck.
Officers of White Deer-Constable, Robert Clark ; Supervisors, John Lackey and Samuel Dale ; Overseers, Thomas Hutchinson and Richard Irwin. Additional resident, Roan McClure, (taxed with a negro.)
Caleb Farley built the grist-mill on White Deer Hole creek, late Charles Gudykunst's.
January Ist, Paschall Lewis married to Elizabeth Boude by Colo- nel John Kelly, justice. The Boudes were a highly respectable family, from Lancaster county, one of whom, Major Thomas Boude, distinguished himself as an officer in the revolutionary war, and stands connected with some of the largest and most respectable fami- lies in our Valley. Thomas Barber's wife, Mary, and Robert Bar- ber, Esquire's wife, Sarah, were Boudes, sisters of Mrs. Lewis.
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