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Laird, Matthew, log house and barn ; Lantz, Arthur, log house and kitchen ; Linn, John, log house, one and a half stories, double barn, and still-house; Linn, Isaiah, cabin and stable; Lukey, John, log house ; Luther, Andrew, cabin and stable, tailor ; Mc- Beth, Robert, log house, blacksmith ; McClenachan, Finney, small cabin ; McClenachan, William, cabin and stable, carpenter ; Mc- Clenachan, Andrew, square log house ; McClure, Roan, cabin and double barn ; McCorley, Widow, log house, still-house ; McCorley, James, small cabin, laborer ; McGaughey, Andrew, small cabin, school-master ; McGinnes, James, weaver ; McKinley, Hugh, small cabin, laborer ; Mclaughlin, James, small cabin, laborer ; Mc- Laughlin, William, small cabin ; McWilliams, James, small cabin, laborer ; Marshall, William, still-house, distiller ; Marshall, Stephen, small cabin, laborer ; Martin, George, log house, old stable, shoe- maker ; Martin, James, log house ; Miller, Samuel, cabin and stable, carpenter ; Mool, Nicholas, weaver, (John Huffman's ;) Moore, James, cabin and stable ; Moore, Joseph, log house and double barn ; Moore, George, cabin ; Nevius, Christian, log house and double barn ; Nickles, Thomas, cabin, William Wilson's place ; Nogel, Charles, log house, carpenter ; Norcross, Abraham, laborer, cabin ; Norcross, John, frame house, hatter, shop, ferry, and tavern : Painter, Jacob ; Pollock, Adam, stone house and double barn ; Pollock, Jo- seph, log house and double barn ; Rank, John, log house and stable ; Reed William, stepson of C. Gillespie ; Reninger, George, grist, saw-mill, cabin, and stable; Riddle, George, square log house ; Rodman, Hugh, carpenter ; Shannon, Willian, weaver ; Shaw, Hamilton, large cabin, stable ; Shaw, James, cabin ; Sherer, Rich- ard, cabin, still-house, and barn ; Smith, Gideon, log house, double barn, and still-house, joiner ; Smith, Catherine, grist and saw-mill ; Smith, Peter, cabin; Smith, John, cabin ; Smith, Ludwig ; Snook, Philip, double cabin ; Steel, John, log house ; Steel, Alexander, small cabin ; Steel, William, tanner, log house, stable, tan-yard ; Stillwell, Daniel, square log house ; Sweesy, Daniel, cabin ; Thomp- son, William, carpenter, cabin ; Thompson, William, school-master, cabin; Vandyke, John, cabin, barn ; Vandyke, Huston, shoe-maker : Vartz, Dietrick, large cabin ; Vogen, Robert, small cabin, cooper ; Ward, Thomas, Robert Clarke's place, old cabin, weaver ; Ward, John, cabin, jobber ; Ward, George, cabin, jobber ; Walles, John,
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weaver, cabin ; Watts, John, carpenter, cabin ; Welsh, Nicholas, stable and cabin ; Welsh, Ludwig ; Wheeland, Michael, carpenter, cabin ; Whittemore, Peter, cabin, stable, and blacksmith shop; Wilson, William, stone house, bank barn, and apple-mill, tailor ; Woods, John, cabin and still-house, reed-maker ; Woodside, David, large cabin, stable, and blacksmith shop.
Single Men-Adams, James ; Adams, John ; Chamberlin, Enoch, miller : Clark, Charles ; Clark, George ; Foster, Hugh, weaver ; Fisher, William, miller ; Huffman, George ; Hawthorne, Archibald ; Iddings, Samuel; Irwin, John, distiller ; Irwin, Samuel, weaver ; Johnston, William; Lukey, William, joiner ; Lukey, James ; Mc- Cluskey, Patrick, distiller ; Nicholas, John ; Painter, Henry ; Pol- lock, James ; Pollock, Thomas ; Ray, William ; Russell, Alexander, distiller ; Wheeland, Samuel.
Penn's-Brause, Adam ; Deal, John ; Deitz, Jacob; Filman, John ; Gaughler, Nicholas; Gehr, Jacob; Hughes, Garret ; Jarret, Jacob; Kern, Widow; Kratzer, Daniel; Leckington, Abraham ; Musselman, Jacob; Price, Thomas ; Schuyler, Nicholas; Weirick, John.
List of Residents, &c., of Mahantango Township made in 1796- Territory, Chapman, Perry, West Perry, now in Snyder County.
Albright, Frederick, senior and junior ; Albright, John ; Ault, George ; Anderson, William ; Arnold, Casper, saw-mill ; Barnhart, Henry ; Bay, John ; Bickart, John ; Birchfield, Charles ; Blasser, John; Bower, Daniel; Bower, Peter; Bowman, Jacob; Bright, Michael ; Brumbach, George ; Burget or Burkhart, Philip, Esquire ; Eckhart, Jacob; Forrey, Christian ; Garman, Henry, saw-mill ; Garman, John and Peter ; Gaughler, George; Geltnitz, Casper ; Getherd, Henry, cooper; Goy, Frederick; Graybill, Jacob; Gray- bill. Christian ; Graybill, John; Gunckel, Jacob ; Haflig, Jacob ; Hagerman, John ; Hamilton, James ; Hawn, Michael, saw-mill ; Hawn, Michael, junior ; Heem, Paul ; Heffer, Jacob ; Heimback, Peter ; Heintz, Doctor Christian ; Heisler, Henry ; Herrold, Simon, grist and saw-mill; Herrold, George; Hershey, John; Hershey, John, junior ; Hetzel, Mathias ; Hoff, James, tailor ; Hosterman, Peter ; Imhoff, Charles, two stills; Johnston, John, saw-mill ; Jordon,
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John ; Keiser, Jacob ; Kerstetter, John ; Kerstetter, George ; Ker- stetter, Leonard ; Kerstetter, Martin ; Kerstetter, John, junior ; Ker- stetter, Widow; Leiter, John; Livengood, Jacob; Livengood, John, Livengood, Jacob, saw-mill ; McClintock, Samuel ; Martin, Jacob ; Meiser, George ; Meiser, Adam; Meiser, Henry, junior ; Meiser, Henry, senior, saw-mill ; Meiser, Michael ; Meiser, Philip ; Metter- ling, Baltzer ; Nieman, Wiant, saw-mill; Nitz, Jacob and Philip ; Patterson, Robert ; Pfeill, Henry ; Reber, John ; Reed, Frederick ; Reed, Casper ; Reichenbach, John ; Reichenbach, Jacob ; Reinerd, George; Richter, Christian; Richter, John; Rine Henry, two stills; Roush, Jacob; Roush, Jacob, junior ; Saddler, Stephen ; Seecrist, Christian, saw-mill and distillery ; Shaffer, John ; Shaffer, Michael, saw-mill; Shaffer, Peter; Shedde, Henry, saw-mill ; Shetterly, John, saw-mill ; Shetterly, Henry ; Shetterly, Catherine ; Shetterly, Andrew; Shower, Adam and Michael ; Shreiber, Philip ; Smith, David, oil-mill; Snyder, Herman ; Snyder, John, senior ; Snyder, Thomas; Snyder, Herman, senior; Snyder, George, shoe-maker; Snyder, John, tanner; Speese, Herman; Stahl, Fred- erick ; Stahl, John ; Stees, Frederick, grist and saw-mill and shop- keeper ; Stephenson, Earnest, weaver ; Stephy, Adam and Leonard; Straub, Charles ; Straub, Charles, junior ; Straub, Peter ; Strausser. Nicholas, horse jockey ; Swartz, Martin ; Swartz, John and Peter : Thornton, John; Thorsby, William; Troub, John; Vance, Robert; Whitmer, Widow; Whitmore, Jacob; Whitmore, Samuel, distillery ; Wiant, Jacob; Wiant, John, Witmer, Abraham; Witmer, Peter, saw-mill ; Woodrow, Simon; Woomer, Adam and Godfrey ; Zel- lers, John ; Zimmerman, Stophel and William ; Zually, John, weaver.
Single Freemen-Goy, Frederick; Haak, Jacob; Meiser, George, joiner ; Nitz, Jacob; Shaffer, Andrew ; Stephy, Frederick, carpen- ter; Whitmore, Samuel; Wiant, Michael ; Zimmerman, Jacob.
Married.
Sunday evening, June 12, Simon Snyder, Esquire, of Selinsgrove, to Catherine, daughter of Colonel Frederick Antes, of Northum- berland.
Deaths.
Henry Peters, East Buffalo. Children : Anna, Maria, Mary, and Barbara.
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Joseph Taveler, East Buffalo.
Abraham Piatt, of Haines. Children : Jane, Eleanor, John, and James.
March 14, George Riddle, son-in-law of General James Potter, deceased.
1707.
WHITE DEER ELECTION DISTRICT-BOOKS'. FISHER'S, AND BARBER'S MILLS BUILT-GREENVILLE LAID OUT.
M EMBERS of Assembly, Simon Snyder and Samuel Ma- clay. County Commissioners, Henry Vanderslice, Na- than Stockman, and Charles Irwin. Justices of the Peace appointed : Thomas Shipton, January 6 ; John Hayes, February 2 ; James Parks, March 30 ; Thomas McCormick. Washington township, March 30; Frederick Evans, April 18; and Christian Espick, November 27.
March 21, by act of Assembly, all that part of Washington that belongs to Northumberland county, and of White Deer to Little Spruce run : thence down the same to Matthew Laird's; and thence to the river, where Peter Swartz formerly lived, (now Mr. Miller's place ;) thence down the river to the mouth of Buffalo creek, was included in the eighth election district, which held its election at William Gallagher's in Milton ; and, by the apportionment of this year, Northumberland county became entitled to two members.
Additional Taxables of White Deer-Adams, John ; Adams, Wil- liam ; Busser, Jacob; Chamberlin, William, junior ; Kelly, John, junior ; Shrock, Aaron ; Spotts, Jacob. Henry Gray, Thomas Fredericks, and Michael Greenhoe, had saw-mills, and George Books erected the Books' saw-mill, in West Buffalo. He was a pow- erful man. In a fight at Rockey's mill, he caught two men, Bogen-
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reif and Iddings, and butted their heads together. Books removed to Ohio, and died there.
Peter Fisher built the grist-mill, lately Samuel Weidensaul's, on Penn's creek, at the mouth of Laurel run. Fisher's successor at the mill was John Williams, his son-in-law. George, Henry, and John Weirick built Robert Barber's grist-mill, on White Spring run. William Weirick, who was the head of the firm of Weiricks, mill- wrights, lost his life about this time, at a mill on the Juniata. He slept in the mill, arose in sleep, and fell through an opening to the bottom of the mill.
Store-keepers in Lewisburg-James Black, who had William Hayes for his clerk, William McQuhae, and Henry Spyker. Christian Read built the barn of the latter. He charges him with sixteen gallons of whisky, used at the work from June 29 to September.
April 3, George Derr sold Tobias Lehman his Lewisburg mill property and two hundred and eight acres of land.
May 18, Frederick Evans laid out the property, late of George Rote, in lots, and called it Greenville. It adjoined Youngmanstown, and is now within the limits of Mifflinburg.
At the election in October, Robert Irwin had eighteen hundred and forty-six votes; Robert Brady, the next highest. ten hundred and fifty-three. The majority for Irwin was so large, he could not be safely set aside, and was accordingly commissioned, October 18.
Married.
February 9, Thomas Howard married to Elizabeth, daughter of Widow Mary Harris.
Deaths.
January 8, Mary, wife of Robert Chambers, aged sixty-one years. George Rote. Children : Peter, Jacob, George, Abraham, and John. Sons-in-law, John Kessler, Michael Shirtz, Adam Colpetzer, Joseph Ultz, Frederick Bartges, and James Ben. The latter married the daughter who was a prisoner with the Indians. They last re- sided on Spring creek, Centre county, where she died, and he married a Widow Murphy.
1708.
THE PRESBYTERIAN GRAVE-YARD AT LEWISBURG-FERRY LANDING DISPUTE -POLITICS-DEATH OF CAPTAIN JOHN LOWDON.
AMUEL DALE and Samuel Maclay, Senators. Mem- bers of Assembly, Simon Snyder and Jacob Fulmer. Sheriff, Robert Irwin. Register and Recorder, Jere- miah Simpson, commissioned July 24. Justice of the Peace, Simon Snyder, junior, March 13. John Lawson, May 3. Seventh division, Major General William Montgomery. Second brigade, Brigadier General William Wilson, commissioned March 24. Brigade Inspector, Bernard Hubley, commissioned June 8.
Buffalo : Supervisors, Peter Frederick and John Beatty. Col- lector, Hugh Beatty.
West Buffalo : Supervisors, David Smith and John Reznor. On the 4th of April West Buffalo was erected into the fourth district, and the election directed to be held at the house of James Forster.
January 10, James Sherer appointed the first postmaster at Lewis- burg.
In February, Walter Clark, William Gray, and William Wilson, trustees of the Presbyterian grave-yard at Lewisburg, presented a petition to the Legislature, setting forth that many had buried their friends in lot No. 48, (next Weidensaul's hotel lot,) and there were no persons buried in No. 42, (C. D. Cox's hotel lot,) and asking authority to sell No. 42, (which, with 44 and 46, were, on the 26th of March, 1785, conveyed to them for the use and benefit of the Presbyterian congregation of Buffalo, for the purpose of a burying-
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ground, by Ludwig Derr, the proprietor,) and to buy No. 48. An act passed accordingly .- 3 Smith's Laws, 304.
Additional Taxables in Penn's township-John Binkomer, store- keeper; Joseph Barger, saw-mill; Adam Brause, saw, grist-mill, and distillery; John Dusing, shoe-maker and fiddler; Frederick Dreone, surgeon and fiddler; Michael Galer, saw-mill ; Adam Fisher, store- house and ferry ; Henry Haus, saw-mill ; George Kessler, tanner ; Valentine Laudenslager, grist-mill and store; Francis Rhoades, tavern, ferry, and store-house ; John Swineford, tavern ; Neal St. Clair, taxed with a negro; A. Swineford, two mulattoes.
During this year James Black, owner of lot No. 341, on which Nesbit & Brother's store and house now stand, brought an eject- ment to maintain their landing privilege on the river opposite that lot. William Stedman and John Smith had a store in the stone building opposite, owned by Cowden & Hepburn, and the writ was , served upon them as tenants.
Francis Guise had bought No. 341 of George Derr, on the 5th of October, 1785, and on his deed was recited the privilege of a land- ing on the bank of the river, opposite to and of the same breadth of No. 341. The claim was for the ground between the eastern boundary of said lot and low water-mark, on part of which the stone building was erected, but the landing was unobstructed. Black was defeated on the ground that an ejectment will not lie for a mere privilege or an incorporeal hereditament .- 2 Yeates, 331. Hugh Wilson bought No. 341 at the sheriff's sale of James Black's prop- erty, in 1800, and sold it 4th May, 1810, to Adam Grove, who sold it on the 8th of May, 1822, to the late Thomas Nesbit, de- ceased.
During the summer, politics ran high ; the Republicans attacking the alien and sedition laws, and elevating to the rank of martyrs those who had been prosecuted under the sedition laws. At a meet- ing held in Lewisburg, for the purpose of addressing the President, John Adams, Reverend Hugh Morrison was one of the principal speakers, and in his public speech, indulged in abuse of Samuel Maclay and his family.
Deaths.
Robert Clark, leaving a widow, Jane. Children : Eleanor Fruit,
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Margaret Ayres, Robert, George, Charles, and John. His brother, Walter, and his son, John, executors.
John Murphy, Lewisburg. Children : Benjamin, John, Henry, Mary, Nancy, and Sally.
John Wales, New Berlin. Widow, Ann M. Children : James, John, Joseph, Jacob, and Sarah.
Christian Miller, distiller, New Berlin.
Captain John Lowdon died at his residence, near Mifflinburg, in February. His parents were Richard Lowdon and Patience Wright, (married by Friends' ceremony, June 5, 1728,) of Hempfield, (now Columbia, Pennsylvania.) He was born July 5, 1730; married March 27, 1760, by Thomas Barton, missionary, at Lancaster. As early as 1756, Mr. Shippen recommends him for a commission as ensign. He was an inn-keeper at Lancaster in June, 1770, and during this year took up a great deal of land in Buffalo Valley. The land on which Northumberland now stands was patented to his wife, Sarah, in 1770, and, in connection with William Patterson, he laid out that town. Reuben Haines made an addition to it, January 19, 1781, of land sold him by Lowdon in 1775. In the spring of 1772, he moved into Buffalo Valley, residing at a place he called Silver Spring, afterward sold by his executors to Roush, now owned by Levi Shoemaker. His wife died previous to the year 1775, as during this year he signed deeds alone, and it appears by a letter dated the 18th of July, 1775, to Captain Lowdon, at that time in the field, that his five children were with his mother's family, at Hempfield. His prominence in political agitations prior to the Revolution, will be seen by the correspondence of that period, published under those years, and what he said in the cabinet he was not afraid to make good on the field of battle. As soon as the news of the battle of Bunker Hill reached the county, he enlisted a company of ninety- seven men and set off for Cambridge. After his return, on Novem- ber 7, 1776, he was elected a member of the Supreme Executive Council of Northumberland county, serving for one year. He owned an immense body of land during his life, embracing nearly the whole of West Buffalo township, besides large quantities now lying in Cen- tre and Northumberland. Philip Pontius told me he often visited at his father's, Lieutenant Henry Pontius, an I he recollects his ap- pearance distinctly. He was a large, well-proportioned man, with
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a very pleasant expression of countenance. Doctor W. I. Wilson (of Potter's Mills) told me, when a boy he often saw Captain Low- don at the Buffalo Cross-Roads church. He wore a cocked hat, blue coat, buff vest and breeches, silver knee and shoe buckles. He was married the second time. His will, dated November 10, 1797, named his wife, Ann, and two daughters, Susanna, married to Samuel Wright, (grandfather of Samuel Wright, of Columbia, Pennsylvania, ) Catherine, unmarried, and three grandchildren, John Lowdon Stake, Charlotte and Catherine Stake. He left an annuity to his brother, Richard, who died unmarried. Captain Lowdon's children by his first wife were, Margaret, Susan, James, Patience, and Catherine. Margaret married J. Stake ; Susan, Samuel Wright, above named ; their child, the late John L. Wright. Margaret's children were Charlotte and Catherine. Charlotte married J. Quest ; Catherine, A. Chenowith. Lowdon Stake never married, and that name be- came extinct. Captain Lowdon's remains were conveyed down the river to Columbia, and buried there in the old burying-ground. Mrs. Wright, mother of William Wright, of Harlem, Stephenson county, Illinois, and daughter of the late Paschal Lewis, of Buffalo Valley, now in her eighty-first year, says her father and mother went part of the way, the day of the funeral, from Lowdon's house to the river, or possibly to Penn's creek; that after Captain Lowdon's death, his slaves were brought over from his farm and left, part of them at Robert Barber's and part at her father's, to stay until such time as Robert Barber was ready to start down with a raft or ark. He took theni to Columbia in that way. They had been slaves pre- vious to 1780, and the young ones were still in their apprenticeship, and as his estate was bound to take care of the older ones, Samuel Wright, his son-in-law, set apart forty acres for their habitation and maintenance, on the east side of Columbia, back of the river. Among these were Chloe and Phillis. Chloe was a regular Congo. Phillis died a few years ago, aged one hundred and five. This was the beginning of the famous Tow Hill, so well known to Maryland . and Virginia slave hunters as the refuge of their slaves. [William Wright's letter, 1871.] John C. Watson said, the day of Captain Lowdon's funeral the creek rose very high, and they could not get over with the coffin, when " Mel," Colonel Clarke's slave, shouldered the coffin and went over the foot-log with it.
1709.
HARTLETON-SKETCH OF COLONEL THOMAS HARTLEY-LISTS OF TAXABLES -MARTIN DREISBACH-THOMAS WILSON.
NDREW GREGG, Member of Congress. Samuel Dale and Samuel Maclay, Senators. Jacob Fulmer and Si- mon Snyder, members of the House. Henry Spyker, commissioned Justice of the Peace for East Buffalo, March 9 ; John Cummings, Beaver, December 6.
Hartleton was laid out by Colonel Thomas Hartley, who owned the site and a considerable body of land around it. His first deed for a lot is dated March 28, 1799. There is no plan of the place on record. Colonel Hartley was a distinguished lawyer, born near Reading, September 7, 1748, admitted at York, July 25, 1769. He was lieutenant colonel of sixth Pennsylvania battalion, Colo- nel William Irvine, and commanded the battalion after Colonel Irvine's capture at Three Rivers. The anonymous letters published in Force's Archives, describing this campaign, were written by Col- onel Hartley. This battalion served one year. There were two additional regiments to the Pennsylvania line raised in the State in 1777, whose officers were to be appointed by General Washington. Colonel Hartley was appointed to one, and commanded, tempora- rily, a brigade at Brandywine. In 1778, his regiment was ordered into the West Branch valley. On the 13th of January, 1779, it was combined with the other additional regiment, Colonel John Patton's, under the name of eleventh, the old eleventh having been broken up; whereupon, February 13, Colonel Hartley retired from service, and Lieutenant Colonel Adam Hubley succeeded to the
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command of the eleventh. In 1783 he was a member of the Coun- cil of Censors; in 1787, of the State Convention. In 1788, he was elected to Congress, and continued a member until his death, December 21, 1800. He died at York, aged fifty-three, and is buried in St. John's church-yard there. He left two children, Charles William Hartley, some time prothonotary of York county, and Eleanor, married to Doctor James Hall, afterward physician to the lazaretto, at Philadelphia.
Among Taxables in White Deer-Awl, John ; Bennage, George ; Baughner, William; Bellman, George ; Bennage, John ; Bower, Moses ; Covert, Isaac ; Covert, John ; Gottshall, Michael ; Linn, Charles ; Nees, Henry ; Orr, John ; Oliphant, Andrew ; Rauthraff, Henry ; Sheetz, Jacob.
Single men-Chamberlin, Tenbrooke ; Davis, Stephen ; Luther, John ; Stahl, George ; and Rank, Adam.
In West Buffalo-Christopher Johnston is taxed with grist and saw-mill ; Peter Rote, grist and saw-mill ; Burrows, Aaron ; Betz, Adam, tavern-keeper ; McClelland, James, miller at Barber's White Springs. He was a great joker, and his fun was still current among the old people when I began these Annals. Saunders, Henry ; Shively, Christian, son of John; Webb, George, hatter ; Wilt, Adam ; Wilt, George.
In East Buffalo-Auple, Conrad ; Baker, Wendell, two mills ; Barber, Joseph, blacksmith ; Beatty, Ann, widow ; Betzer, Conrad, cordwainer ; Betting, Joseph ; Boyles, William ; Breyvogel, Jacob ; Christie, James; Collin, John ; Cook, John, cabin ; Cornelius, John; Coser, Andrew; Ewing, Joshua ; Eyer, John; Frederick, George, inn-keeper; Gross, Jacob; Hudson, William, mason ; Kinney, Martin ; Lehman, Tobias, two mills ; Mckinley; Hugh ; Ness, Jonathan ; Nevel, Nicholas; Oldt, John; Poeth, Joseph ; Sherer, William, weaver ; Shout, Adam, shoe-maker ; Strayhorn, Nathaniel ; St. Clair, John; Taylor, James Graham ; Taylor, Wil- liam, tailor ; Truitt, Andrew ; Watkins, Joseph, weaver ; Wetzel, Jacob ; Whitmer, Peter, blacksmith ; Wigton, John ; Wilson, Hugh, (Ridge ;) Wright, John; Wolfe, Michael; Young, Jacob; Zeih- rung, John.
Philip Callahan was one of the principal school-teachers in the
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Valley. He had a large account at Henry Spyker's store for whisky and tobacco.
The difficulty between Reverend Hugh Morrison and Honorable Samuel Maclay terminated in a suit for slander. Morrison vs. Maclay, IO1 August term; Evan R. Evans for plaintiff, Messrs. Moore, Cooper, and Roberts for defendant. It was regularly con- tinued until 1817, when the clients and most of the lawyers had appeared before another bar.
George Frederick started the first hotel at Buffalo Cross-Roads.
In 1799, Mifflinburg was the largest town in the Valley. Its resi- dents were Ayers, James, shoe-maker ; Bartges, Michael, nailor ; Barton, Kimber, tavern-keeper ; Black, William, shoe-maker; Car- mony, John, shoe-maker; Carothers, Moses; Clark, Daniel, tanner ; Clark, Adam, jobber ; Collins, Michael, jobber ; Crotzer, John, carpenter ; Crotzer, Jacob, tailor ; Derr Christian, joiner ; Dreis- bach, John, gunsmith; Earnhart, John, blacksmith ; Eilert, Chris- topher, farmer ; Ely, John, clock-maker ; Evans, Nathan, saddler ; Forster, James, tavern-keeper ; George, Simon, laborer ; Getgen, Ludwig, mason; Gibbons, John, joiner ; Hassenplug, Henry, brewer ; Herring, Adam; Herrington, Nathan, cooper ; Holmes, Robert, store-keeper ; Holmes, Jonathan, jobber ; Irvine, John, store-keeper ; Layman, Michael, joiner; Lighty, John, tanner ; Longabaugh, Henry, laborer; Moss, Patrick, jobber; Neel, Henry, tailor ; Paget, George, school-teacher ; Patterson, John ; Patton, Andrew, wheelwright ; Peters, Philip, carter ; Rockey, Jacob; Rote, Widow; Rudy, Nicholas, tailor ; Russ, Charles ; Russ, George, tailor ; Sampsel, Nicholas, wheelwright; Shock, Michael, carpenter; Shock, Jacob, blacksmith ; Skiles, James; Van Buskirk, Richard, tavern-keeper ; Wagner, Christopher, farmer ; Webb, John, hatter ; Welker, Jacob, tailor ; Welker, William, jobber; Young, Peter, shoemaker ; Youngman, Elias; Youngman, George, post-master ; Youngman, Thomas, store-keeper.
Additional Taxables in Penn's-Adams, John, weaver ; Ander- son, Jacob, inn-keeper ; Auple, Peter, inn-keeper ; Balliet, Nicholas, tanner ; Bard, Jacob, skin-dresser ; Berger, Bostian, weaver ; Berry, John, potter ; Beyer, Christian, carpenter ; Bleiler, David, mill- wright; Bloom, Henry, weaver; Bowersox, George A., mason ; Bower, Philip, inn-keeper; Boyer, John, blacksmith; Bryan, George,
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