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Names of the Residents of Beaver Township, taken from an Assess- ment made by Daniel Hassinger, in April, 1789.
Albright, Jacob; Aupel, Peter ; Barnes, John ; Beak, Frederick ; Beard, Jacob; Bell, George ; Bopp. Conrad ; Boutch, Anthony, distillery ; Breiner, Philip; Briesenger, Conrad; Carrel, Hugh; Car- rel, Frederick ; Christy, James : Clark, James ; Deininger, Fred- erick; Deward, Francis; Dido, Frantz; Diese, Michael ; Dries, John ; Dries, Jacob ; Dries, Peter ; Everhart, Barnard ; Everhart, Frederick; Gift, Adam; Gooden, Moses; Gothers, Henry ; Grim, Jacob; Hall, Matthew; Hartz, John ; Hassinger, Jacob; Has- singer, Daniel, saw-mill ; Hassinger, Frederick ; Herbster, David ; Houser, Jacob; Kern, Yost, (Joseph ;) Kline, George ; Kline, Christopher ; Kline, Stophel; Kricks, Jacob; Krose, Henry ; Krose, (Gross,) Henry, junior; Krose, Daniel; Laber, John ; Lepley, Jacob; Lewis, Thomas; Manning, Nathan ; Mattox, Jacob; Maurer, Michael; Maurer, Michael, junior ; Meek, An- drew; Meek, Peter; Meyer, John; Meyer, John, (weaver ;) Meyer, Mary; Michael, Jacob ; Mook, George; Moon, Nathaniel ; Moriarty, Francis ; Mumma, John ; Nerhood, Henry ; Newcomer,
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Peter ; Nyer, Nicholas, grist-mill ; Oatley, Edward; Oatley, Asa ; Philips, Benjamin ; Poe, Jacob ; Reger, Adam; Reger, Elias ; Reigelderfer, Adam ; Roush, Jacob; Royer, Stephen ; Royer, Bas- tian ; Sharred, Jacob; Snyther, John; Snyder, Peter ; Stock, George; Straub, Andrew, grist-mill and two distilleries ; Strayer, Mathias; Stroub, Jacob; Stull, Mathias ; Stump, William, distil- lery ; Thomas, John; Thomas, George; Treminer, Paul ; Van- horn, Daniel ; Walter, Jacob ; Wannemacher, Casper ; Watts, John ; Weiss, Stophel, grist-mill; Wiant, Jacob; Woods, John; Yost, Widow; Young, Matthew. Single men taxed ten shillings each : Collins, Joseph; Gift, Anthony ; Gross, John ; Hassinger, John ; Hassinger, Henry ; Lewis, Stephen ; Lewis, Enos ; Manning, Elisha; Manning, Nathan ; Phillips, Benjamin ; Sherrard, George ; Strayer, Mathias.
In March or April, the German Reformed Churches of Mahony, Sunbury, Middle Creek, and Buffalo Valley, united in a call to Rev- erend Jonathan Rahauser, which he accepted, and accompanied by Mr. Jacob Meyer, he arrived in his new field September 22. He only performed such duties as come within the province of a licen- tiate until the 27th of June, 1791, when he was ordained, at Lancas- ter, by the cœtus of the church. It is well to observe here, that all regular ministers of the German Reformed Church in the United States, although they had a cœtus, or assemblage of ministers, of their own, from the year 1748, were under the care, and received their authority from the Church of Holland until about the year 1791. Mr. Rahauser was one of the first ordained without authority from Holland. His application having been transmitted thither, and no reply received. In October, 1792, Mr. Rahauser removed to Hagers- town, Maryland, and took charge of the congregation there. He died there September 25, 1817. He was a very energetic and la- borious pastor, and caught his last sickness, in crossing a swollen creek, to fulfill one of his appointments. He was the first regular German Reformed clergyman who performed stated services in our Valley. He died at the early age of fifty-two .- Harbaugh's "Fath- ers."
At May Session, Samuel Mathers, Colonel John Clarke, John Macpherson, Christian Shively, and William Moor make report that they have laid out the road from the second hollow in the Big Blue
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hill to Hartley's house, where Peter Kester now lives, on the road from Davidson's ferry to Penn's valley.
On the 19th of October, a convention was held at Paxton, to take measures for the improvement of the river. Charles Smith, Anthony Selin, William Wilson, Frederick Antes, Aaron Levy, Andrew Straub, and others, were delegates. They resolved to do it by subscriptions, to be received in money, grain, or produce of any kind. Boyd & Wilson's store, in Northumberland, Yentzer & Derr, at Lewisburg, Selin & Snyder, in Penn's township, &c., were designated depositaries.
Review of manufacturers, &c., in Buffalo Valley, in 1789-Jona- than Holmes, tan-yard ; John Dreisbach, gunsmith ; James Watson, saw and grist-mill; William Jenkins, grist-mill; Christopher Wei- ser, fulling-mill; William Rockey, saw and grist-mill, formerly Fought's and John Rengler's grist and saw mill; George Wolfe, saw-mill ; Benjamin Miller, merchant; George Knox, tan-yard ; George Derr, two grist and two saw-mills; Henry Fulton, mer- chant ; William & Alexander Steele, tan-yard ; Joseph Green, grist and saw-mill ; Wendell Baker, saw mill ; Jacob Groshong, saw-mill ; David Smith, saw and grist-mills; Benjamin Herr, merchant ; Alex- ander Beatty, tan-yard.
Distilleries in White Deer-William Gray, Philip Henning, Samuel Huston, Robert Carnahan, Matthew Laird, and Robert McCorley.
The old log church at Buffalo Cross-Roads was repaired and somewhat enlarged in October.
Deaths.
March 10, Dreisbach, Anne Eve, wife of Martin, aged sixty-seven.
In July, Lawrence Keene, prothonotary. He served in the Revo- lutionary war as captain, in the eleventh Pennsylvania, commissioned February 3, 1777, and as aid-de-camp to General St. Clair; pro- moted major, and mustered out November 3d, 1783. His wife was Gainor Lukens, a daughter of John Lukens, Surveyor General. He left three children, Samuel L., who died in Philadelphia, May 11, 1866; Lawrence, who married Maria Martin, daughter of the celebrated Luther Martin, and died August 13, 1813; and Jesse L. Keene, who died November 27, 1822.
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David McClenachan, of White Deer.
Adam Smith, of Buffalo, whose children were Adam, Mary, George, Catherine and Barbara.
Major General James Potter died in the latter part of November or beginning of December. James Potter, junior's, letter to Chief Justice Mckean is dated Penn's valley, December 10, 1789, in which he states, "doubtless before you receive this, you will have heard of the death of my father .- Pennsylvania Archives, volume II, page 661.
He was assisting in building the chimney of one of his tenant houses, in Penn's valley, and, in turning about suddenly, injured himself internally. He went to Franklin county, to have the benefit of Doctor McClelland's advice, and died at his daughter's, Mrs. Poe, and is buried in a grave-yard at Brown's Mills, near the present railroad station of Marion, in that county, with no tablet to mark his grave. He was a son of John Potter, the first sheriff of Cumber- land county, and in January, 1758, was a lieutenant, with William Blythe, in Colonel John Armstrong's battalion. He next appears in command of a company in pursuit of the Indians, who had mur- dered, that morning, July 26, 1764, a schoolmaster, named Brown, and ten children, near where the town of Greencastle now stands.
He married a Miss Cathcart, sister of Mrs. George Latimer, of Philadelphia, who died, leaving a son and daughter. He then married Mrs. Chambers, sister of Captain William Patterson. He resided principally on the Ard farm, in White Deer township, just above New Columbia, though, no doubt, he changed his residence on account of the Indian troubles. One year, 1781, he resided in the Middle Creek settlement, now Snyder county, as the assessments show, and family tradition has it, his eldest son, John Potter, died there. In 1786, Pickering visited him at the Ard farm, and in 1787, Mrs. Gregg, his daughter, was married there.
In personnel he was short and stout, with a hopeful disposition, which no troubles could conquer. In a letter, dated May 28, 1781, he says, " look where you will, our unfortunate country is disturbed, but the time will come when we shall get rid of all these troubles.
His eldest daughter married Captain James Poe. Mary married George Riddles, who died March 14, 1796, and is buried at North- umberland, in the Presbyterian church-yard. Their daughter, Mary
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A., married W. H. Patterson ; Eliza, Doctor Joseph B. Ard, whose heirs still own the old place in White Deer; Martha, married Mr. Gregg.
General Potter's son James married Mary Brown, daughter of Judge Brown, of Mifflin county. Of their children: 1, General James Potter, (third,) married Maria, daughter of General William Wilson, of Chillisquaque ; 2, William Potter, Esquire, late of Belle- fonte, attorney-at-law ; 3, Mary P., married Doctor W. I. Wilson, of Potter's Mills; 4, John Potter ; 5, Martha G., married to Abra- ham Valentine: 6, Peggy Crouch, married Doctor Charles Coburn, of Aaronsburg ; 7, George L. Potter, Esquire, who practiced awhile at Danville, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Andrew G. Curtin, who is a daugh- ter of Doctor W. I. Wilson, of Potter's Mills, is a great-grand- daughter of the revolutionary general, and the Governor is a great- grandson, on the Gregg line of descent.
John Lukens, Surveyor General of the State, died in October, and was succeeded by Colonel Daniel Brodhead, on the 3d of No- vember. John Lukens' estate, at this date, (1877,) is still before an auditor for distribution. Charles Lukens Barnes, an heir, lived and died in Lewisburg, making his living sawing wood, while wait- ing for his share of this veritable Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce.
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OFFICIALS- SURVEY OF THE SUSQUEHANNA FOR INLAND NAVIGATION-NEW CONSTITUTION, AND ELECTIONS UNDER IT.
HE following is a list of the county representatives and officials during the year, under the Constitution of 1776, which was superseded by the Constitution adopted Sep- tember 2, 1790 : William Wilson, Councilor ; Samuel Maclay and John White, members of Assembly; William Mont- gomery, Presiding Justice ; Jasper Ewing, Prothonotary ; Martin Withington, Sheriff; Peter Hosterman, John Weitzel, and William Hepburn, County Commissioners.
Officers of Buffalo : Constable, C. Baldy ; Supervisors, George May and Alexander McCaley ; Overseers, Peter Zeller and John Macpherson.
Of White Deer : Constable, Robert Fruit ; Supervisors, Joseph Poak and Alexander Stephens; Overseers, William Clark and Robert Martin.
Additional Taxables in Buffalo-Betzer, William ; Boveard, Wil- liam ; Cress, Conrad; Carroll, William; Campbell, John ; Cald- well, William; Depuy, Hugh ; Dunlap, William ; Hempstead, Joshua ; Jones, Benjamin ; Lourey, Samuel ; McDaniel, Daniel ; Oatley, Isaiah ; Porter, Samuel ; Shreiner, Nicholas ; Sherer, Joseph ; Wilson, John; Clarke, Joseph ; Mann, Philip: Wilson, Hugh, (father of Francis.)
Additional Taxables in Penn's-Evans, Frederick; Metterling, Baltzer; Reiber, John; Stees, Frederick ; Snyder, John S .; Wei- rick, Peter ; Zerber, Peter ; Snyder, Simon, (son of Henry.)
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At February Sessions of the quarter sessions of Northumberland county, the name of Potter township (now in Centre) was changed to that of " Haines." In May, Josiah Haines and John Thorn- burg started a store in Lewisburg. Prices of grain at Philadelphia, in July, were, wheat, 9s. 6d. ; rye, 6s. ; oats, 35. 5d. ; Indian corn, 3s. 9d. ; buckwheat, at 2s.
Survey of the Susquehanna.
On the 6th of April, Timothy Matlack, John Adlum, and Samuel Maclay were appointed commissioners to survey and examine the Swatara, part of the Susquehanna, Sinnemahoning creek, and the Allegheny river, with a view to the promotion of inland navigation. The commissioners started in May, and were engaged most of the summer in their work. Mr. Maclay's journal of this expedition is in the possession of his grandson, Doctor Samuel Maclay, of Mifflin county.
On the 26th of April he started with James McLaughlin's boat, him, Edward Sweney, and Mathew Gray taken into pay. They went first down to the Swatara, which, it appears they were to exam- ine, to see whether it could be made navigable; got to Herrold's on the 27th, where breakfast and a quart of whiskey cost him 5s. 2d. ; then 'to Harrisburg and Lebanon. The commissioners, however, for some reason, failed to meet him. He, with the rest of the com- missioners, came up on the 17th of May, and at Herrold's one of Er- win's boats came up, and they raced from that to Sunbury, McLaugh- lin's boat coming out ahead. From there they came up to the point at Northumberland, and dined with Colonel Wilson. Mr. Maclay then went over to visit his family, in Buffalo Valley. May 19, he says : Colonel Matlack detained the boat at Northumberland, to carry Josiah Haines' goods up to Derrstown, where he and one Thornburg are erecting a new store. The boat then came up to T. Rees', where Mr. Maclay wanted some things landed. At Derrs- town they met with Captain Lowdon, who told Matlack that Rees had sent for Mr. Maclay, but Matlack would not wait. So he had to shoulder his baggage and follow on foot. He trudged through the rain and bad roads, up to James McLaughlin's, opposite the mouth of Warrior run, where he arrived at ten o'clock, and found the boat landed.
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Major Adlum was detained at Northumberland until the 23d, when he joined them at Loyal Sock. He speaks of leveling the race- ground at Wallis's Island, (near Muncy, I suppose.)
Sunday, 23d, they reached the mouth of Bald Eagle, at sunset, and stayed there on Monday, baking bread and providing horses. There they breakfasted with Mrs. Dunn. They leveled the Sinnemahon- ing, and also made canoes there. From "canoe place" Mr. Adlum and part of the men started and run a line to the Allegheny. The object of the expedition was to determine what method of commu- nication the country would admit of, between the eastern and west- ern parts of the State. He speaks of catching beaver, and of the large wolves that frequently crossed their track, in a very indifferent manner. On the 14th, he surveyed the West Branch of the Sinne- mahoning, and got a little above Boyd's whetstone quarry. 15th, got to Bennett's cabin, three quarters of a mile above the forks. July 2d, they reached the Ohio, and went down it, having an In- dian, named Doctor Thomas, for guide. At the State line, Con-ne- Shangom, the chief, had gone to Venango, but Captain John makes them a speech of welcome, which he inserts in full in the journal. Near this place Mr. Maclay met a Dutchman, who had been taken prisoner by the Indians in the last war, and chose to continue with them, and was living among them. July 7th, they had an interview with Cornplanter, at Jenoshawdego.
The Indians were very jealous of them, until they explained their business. Cornplanter then welcomed them in a speech, which Mr. Maclay inserts. He says, we were addressed by an orator, on behalf of the women. The principal points were, that as they, the women, had the hardest part of the labor of making a living, they had a right to speak, and be heard. They welcomed them, because, they were the pioneers of the good roads that were to come, and make intercourse easy and merchandise cheaper, and they hoped good correspondence would make them all one people in the future. Colonel Matlack responded to this speech. They then went down to Captain John O. Beales' town, and " had the honor of his com- pany for supper." July 14, they struck the old French road to Erie. He says the ruts were quite plain yet. He says, Lake Erie is a fresh water sea. "You can see the horizon and water meet." They arrived at Fort Franklin, on the 20th. The commanding offi-
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cer, Lieutenant Jeffries, was very polite to them. He speaks of kill- ing a cat-fish with Mr. Adlum's Jacob staff, which weighed ten and one half pounds.
2d of September, the new constitution was adopted by a conven- tion, convened at Philadelphia, 24th November, 1789. Simon Sny- der and Charles Smith,' Esquire, were the delegates from Northum- berland county.
The first election under the new constitution took place on the 12th of October. In Northumberland county, for Governor, Thomas Mifflin received 865 votes, to 68 cast for General Arthur St. Clair. William Montgomery, elected State Senator without op- position, having 1,029 votes. Samuel Maclay and John White were elected members of Assembly, over Samuel Wallis and Alexander Hunter; Martin Withington, sheriff, over Charles Gobin, John Boyd, and Flavel Roan; Joseph Lorentz, coroner; and Daniel Montgomery, county commissioner. John Simpson was re-ap- pointed register and recorder.
It having been decided that the powers of the House of Assembly and State officers were superseded by the constitution, on the 2d of September, the house in a paper filed, September 4, declined acting longer. On the 20th of December, the Executive Council ceased acting, and on the 21st, Governor Mifflin was inaugurated.
February 17, by Reverend Hugh Morrison, Hugh Wilson married to Catherine, daughter of Captain William Irvine.
Deaths.
George Troxell, of Lewisburg.
Christopher Haney, of Haines township. He was a private in Captain Clarke's company, in 1776. His children were Hieroni- mus, Christopher, Adam, John, Eve, Elizabeth, and Frederick.
John Black, of Sunbury, (brother of James, of Lewisburg.)
Ulrich Lotz. His children were John Jacob, Anna Maria, and Catherine. In his will he recommends his children to adhere strictly
1 Charles Smith was the third son of Doctor Willlam Smith, Provost of the Col- lege at Philadelphia. He was admitted to the Sunbury bar, in 1786, and married, in 1791, to a daughter of Jasper Yeates, Esquire. He was the compiler of Smith's laws, and afterwards president judge of the Cumberland and Franklin district. He died In Philadelphia, In 1840, aged seventy-five.
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to the advice which Tobias, in fourth chapter, gives, " Keep God before your eyes," &c.
Peter Burns, senior, of Buffalo.
Jonas Fought. Children : Michael, Barbara, Ann Elizabeth.
John Wierbach, (who lived upon the place next above Weiden- saul's mill, in Hartley now.) He left a widow, Catherine, who died in 1804, of cancer. Sons: John, Nicholas. One daughter, married to Frederick Wise, who moved to Brush valley, Centre county. One married to John Hoover, and moved to Clearfield, and one married Philip Dale. One of his daughters was taken by the Indians. (See 1781.)
Charles Grogan, of Buffalo, was returning home, from a wood- chopping, with a yoke of oxen, one cold night this winter, and, becoming bewildered, was frozen to death. He left a widow, sister of James Burney, and two sons, Alexander and James, and two daughters. His widow, after some years, married Henry Van Gun- dy, and removed to now Clinton county. James and Alexander Grugan, as they now write their names, became the heads of quite large families. Grugan township derives its name from this family. Honorable Coleman Grugan, late associate judge of Clinton county, is a grandson of Charles Grogan .- Maynard's Clinton County, page I53.
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LIST OF STATE AND COUNTY OFFICIALS-ADDITIONAL TAXABLES-DEATH OF DOCTOR WILLIAM PLUNKET -MRS. SAMUEL MACLAY'S FAMILY LINEAGE.
OVERNOR, Thomas Mifflin. Judges of the Supreme Court, Thomas McKean, Edward Shippen, Jasper Yeates. Attorney General, Jared Ingersoll. State Treasurer, Christian Febiger. Receiver General, Francis Johnston. Secretary of the Land Office, David Kennedy. Surveyor General, Daniel Brodhead. Secretary of the Commonwealth, A. J. Dallas. Deputy Secretary, James Trimble. The Judges of the several Courts were, Jacob Rush, President ; William Montgomery, Joseph Wallis, Thomas Strawbridge, and John Macpherson, Associates, commis- sioned August 17. Jasper Ewing, Esquire, Prothonotary, August 17. Member of Congress, Andrew Gregg, representing Bedford, North- umberland, Huntingdon, Franklin, and Mifflin. Senator, William Montgomery. Members of Assembly, Samuel Maclay and John White.
September 3, Flavel Roan was commissioned a Notary Public ; he was sole notary in the county until his death ; John Teitsworth suc- ceeded him, April 26, 1815 ; Flavel Roan was commissioned Sheriff, October 18; William Hepburn, John Weitzel, and Daniel Mont- gomery were County Commissioners ; Bernard Hubley, Lieutenant of the county ; Justices of the Peace commissioned, Colonel Kelly, August 31 ; Simon Snyder, October 26 ; William Irwin, August 31 ; Captain William Gray, December 30 ; for Penn's and Beaver Dam, John Bishop, August 31.
Frederick Evans was Deputy Surveyor of Peters, in Mifflin county, Haines, Beaver Dam, Penn's, and that part of Buffalo south of the
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Indian purchase of 1754; Christopher Dering appointed Collector of Excise, September I.
Officers of Buffalo : Constable, Henry Pontius ; Supervisors, John Crider and Peter Kester; Overseers, John Reznor and William Irwin.
White Deer : Constable, John Bear; Supervisors, Richard Fruit and Thomas Hutchinson ; Overseers, Robert McCorley and John Steel.
Martin Withington opened hotel in Mifflinburg.
Additional residents in Lewisburg-Black, James, (ferry ;) Ellen- huysen, Joseph ; Lewis, Alexander ; Metzgar, Jacob, innkeeper ; Moore, John, blacksmith ; Poak, William ; Stroh, Nicholas.
27th May, Andrew Kennedy, senior, commenced the publication of the Sunbury and Northumberland Gazette, at Northumberland. This paper was extensively circulated in the Valley, and continued up to 1813.
Among those assessed in Buffalo township-Barnhart, George ; Barnhart, Henry ; Black, William ; Book, George ; Bower, Casper ; Bower, George; Caldwell, Thomas; Cox, Tunis; Frantz, Lewis ; Fox, Andrew; Gettig, Frederick; Getz, Peter; Getz, Andrew ; Gibbons, Edward ; Glover, John ; Gooden, Moses ; Graff, (Grove,) Philip; Grimes, Samuel ; Hixon, John; Hudson, George; Kelly, Hugh ; Kemmerling, Jacob; Leitzell, Anthony; Lowry, Andrew ; Lowry, John; Lowry, Robert; Lowry, William; McElrath, Robert ; McMurtrie, Hugh; Meizner, Adam; Metzgar, John; Patton, John; Richard, Henry, (name which disappears from the assessment after 1784, re-appears again with the supplement " thief," which is carried all through the assessments afterwards ;) Rees, Daniel; Roan, Fla- vel; Sarvey, Jacob; Struble, Adam ; Thornburg, John ; Thomp- son, John, erects a mill to be driven by the water from Thomp- son's spring ; Van Gundy, Christian ; Van Gundy, Henry ; Van Gundy, John; Weeker, William; Wilson, Hugh; Yentzer, Chris- tian ; Zimmerman, Christian ; Zimmerman, Jacob.
4th August, 1791, Christopher Baldy, William Irwin, and Chris- tian Yentzer, assessors. Robert Barber erects a saw-mill at White springs.
Penn's-Adam, Widow; Berry, Jacob; Bishop, Jacob; Grove, Adam; Goy, Frederick, distillery; Gwynn, Hugh; Heimbach,
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Peter ; Housel, Peter ; Oberdorf, Andrew, grist and saw-mill to Anthony Selin; Snyder, John, tan-yard; Stees, Frederick, grist, saw, and oil-mill ; Thornton, John ; Witmer, Peter, distillery, ferry, and saw-mill.
Beaver-Bopp, Conrad, hemp-mill ; Collins, David ; Edmunson, William ; Hassinger, Jacob, tan-yard ; Johnston, John and James ; Myer, Henry, grist and saw-mill ; Myer, Jacob, tan-yard; Knepp, George ; Sherrard, Jacob, grist and saw-mill ; Wise, John, grist and saw-mill.
Buffalo Cross-Roads Church.
In October we find the pews in the Presbyterian Church at Buf- falo Cross-Roads rated and rented for the first time. There were thirty-six pews or seats. No. I, probably reserved for the minister's family ; No. 2, rated at £3 5s., taken by David Watson, Colonel John Clarke, Alexander Kennedy, and Joseph Clark; No. 3, Thomas Forster, Andrew Forster, Robert Forster and Robert Cham- bers; No. 4, £3, Christopher Johnston ; No. 5, Captain James Thompson, William Thompson, Samuel Porter, and James Boyd ; No. 6, £2 15s., Arthur Clellan ; No. 7, Robert Clark, Richard Sherer, and Joseph Allen ; No. 8, Samuel Dale, Esquire, and Joseph Evans; No. 9, John Reznor and David Tate; No. 10. Samuel Mac- lay, (this seat he retained until his death, in 1811 ;) No. Ir, John Steel, Joseph Hudson, and William Steele; No. 12, Joseph Green, £1 95. 6d. ; No. 13, James Irwin and Matthew Irwin ; No. 14, Wil- liam Irwin, Esquire, £2 ; No. 15, John Thompson ; No. 16, Benja- min Miller ; No. 17, John Ray, William and Thomas Black ; No. 17, Roan McClure : No. 18, Mr. Lincoln; No. 19, George Knox : No. 20, Walter Clark : No. 21, William Irvine ; No. 22, Jonathan Holmes and Joseph Sherer : No. 23, James Poak, William Poak, Widow Poak, and Thomas Poak; No. 24, Edward Graham and John Davis; No. 25, William Wilson and James Black ; No. 26, vacant ; No. 27, John Linn, John Gray, and Joseph Patterson ; No. 28, Robert Fruit and Gideon Smith ; No. 29, William Gray and Thomas Howard; No. 30, William Clark, James Forster, and Widow Fors- ter ; No. 31, Thomas Elder, David Buchanan, and Robert Elder ; No. 32, Charles Pollock, Thomas Hutchinson, and William Wil- liams ; No. 33, Colonel John Kelly and Captain Joseph Poak ; Nc.
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34, Samuel Demming, James Moore, (Widow Moore,) George Moore, Widow Fleming, Thomas Rodman, James Meginness ; No. 35, Adam Laughlin, Widow McGrady and James Clelland ; No. 36, Matthew Laird and Andrew McClenachan.
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