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tailor ; Bucher, John, blacksmith ; Bull, Nicholas, tailor ; Bum, Peter, saw-mill; Clymer, Isaac, shoemaker ; Cooper, Martin, cooper ; Dauberman, John, carpenter ; Deitz, Jacob, blacksmith ; Engel, George, weaver ; Epler, John, nailor ; Esterlin, Frederick, carpenter ; Etzweiler, George, potter ; Filman, John, weaver ; Fisher, Peter, weaver ; Frey, David, shoe-maker; Fuehrer, Joseph, tobacconist ; Gaughler, Nicholas, gunsmith; Gemberling, Jacob, nailor; Gem- berling, George, carpenter; Giltner, Christian, carpenter ; Grove, Richard, saddler ; Grub, John, carpenter; Hackenberg, John, car- penter ; Hager, John, died ; Haines, John and George, wheelwrights ; Harland, Thomas, miller ; Holtzapple, Henry, miller ; Hummel, Jacob, distiller ; Hummel, Frederick, shoe-maker ; Kelly, John, carpenter ; Kratzer, Benjamin, shoe-maker ; Kreider, Isaac, carpen- ter ; Kuhn, Jacob, weaver ; Leist, Andrew, mason ; Long, Peter, shoe-maker; Maurer, John, nailor ; Merkel, George, turner; Meyer, John, son of Stephen, shoe-maker ; Meyer, Jacob, son of Stephen, tailor ; Miller, George, tailor; Neaman, Peter, fiddler ; Nelson, John, tailor; Oberdorf, Henry, mason; Oswald, John, tailor ; Row, John and Frederick, masons ; Rupp, George, carpenter ; Shearer, Andrew, blacksmith ; Shock, Jacob, blacksmith; Snyder, John, tailor ; Snyder, George, shoe-maker ; Snyder, George, inn-keeper; Snyder, Simon, junior, inn-keeper ; Spade, George, mason ; Straw, Andrew, hatter ; Stump, Jacob, shoe-maker ; Wales, James, mill- wright; Weiser, Benjamin, tailor ; Weikel, Christian, tailor; Werlin, Michael, ferry and saw-mill; Westman, Jacob, carpenter ; Witten- moyer, Michael, clock-maker ; Wolf, Philip, millwright ; Yoder, Henry, carpenter ; Yoder, Jacob, potter.
Beaver, additional Residents, &c .- Aurand, Daniel ; Barlet, Ja- cob; Blompon, Conrad, mill; Cummings, John ; Fry, Jacob and Abraham; Gilman, Henry; Grosscope, Samuel; Heil, Daniel ; Howell, John, fulling-mill; Lehr, William; Manning, Richard ; Mid- dlesworth, John ; Miller, John ; Peters, Jacob ; Reigeldorf, Adam ; Romig, Joseph, mills ; Rote, Jacob and John ; Smith, Adam ; Steele, Adam ; Sterninger, Dewalt ; Wise, John, miller ; Zerns, Jacob, paper mill.
Single Men-Hoyn, Henry, in a store with Henry Aurand ; Kern, Adam ; Kern, Peter ; Mussina, Zacharias ; Weber, John.
At the October election, Thomas McKean received, in Northum-
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berland county, 2,997 votes ; James Ross, of Pittsburgh, 637 for Governor. Jacob Fulmer and Simon Snyder were the two highest candidates for Assembly, Fulmer having 3,569 ; Snyder, 3,047.
Deaths.
On the 18th of February, Martin Dreisbach, senior, aged eighty- two. He emigrated from Germany in 1752, and came into Buffalo Valley in 1773, having purchased from Doctor William Plunket the tract still owned by the Dreisbachs. He left four sons, Henry, Jacob, John, and Martin, junior. Henry went to Ohio in the year 1804, and laid out the town of Circleville. Jacob died on John Dunkle's farm. John lived and died at Mifflinburg. George, Ellis, and John were his sons. Martin, junior, died at his place, near the church. Martin, senior, was of the German Reformed faith, and donated seven acres of his place for church and grave-yard purposes. " The Dreis- bach Church " will be his memorial in all future time. One of his daughters married Henry Aurand ; another, Peter Fisher. Honor- able Martin Dreisbach, (third,) and Honorable John Dreisbach, for- merly of the State Legislature, are of his grandchildren.
Philip Stahl, of White Deer. (He was a brother of Jacob.) His children were John, Jacob, Philip, and Peter.
Thomas Wilson.
February 23, Thomas Wilson, of East Buffalo. He lived on the Meixell place, (fair ground.) His grandfather was the first to pass the Boyne, when William of Orange defeated the Irish Papists. For his services he drew two hundred and sixty acres of land. He resided within a mile of Coats' Hill, county town of Cavan, in the north of Ireland. He owned a large body of land there, having sixty tenants. His son Thomas had but one child, Hugh, to whom his estates de- scended. The latter disliked living among the Papists so much, that he sold his estates, and came to America, and finally settled in the forks of the Delaware. Hugh bought twelve hundred acres of land of the Allens, but lost six hundred, a superior title intervening. His farm in Northampton was owned, in 1844, by a man named Levan, had mills upon it, and is very valuable. In 1737, he, with Colonel
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Martin, laid out the town of Easton, and, with Judge Craig, organ- ized and held the first court held in Northampton county, in 1752. He left a large family.
I. William Wilson, a merchant, in Philadelphia. He went to the West Indies, and died there. 2. Ann, married to Reverend Mc- Reynolds, of Deep Run, Presbyterian preacher. 3. Elizabeth, mar- ried to Captain William Craig. 4. Charles, father of Judge Hugh Wilson, of the Ridge, some of whose grandchildren are still in the Valley : Robert, a merchant at Mifflinburg ; Charles, a grand- son, is baggage-master on the Pennsylvania road, at Altoona. 5. Samuel. 6. Margaret, married to McNair. 7. Francis, went back to the old country, and returned an Episcopal minister ; settled near Mount Vernon, taught in General Lee's family, and was intimate in General Washington's family. His family called him " Aun Boyne," to remind him that he had made too great concessions in becoming an Episcopalian. 8. Thomas Wilson, whose death we are recording. He was twelve or thirteen years of age, when his father, Hugh, moved his family to America, making their emigration about 1730. He spent a great deal of his means purchasing flour, and forwarding it to the revolutionary army. He was paid in Continental money, and his loss on its depreciation was about seven thousand dollars, which reduced his circumstances very materially. He sold out his place in Northampton, moved to the Susquehanna, and bought the place now owned (1877) by Joseph Meixell's heirs, about one half mile from Lewisburg, where he died. His grave is under the steps of the Presbyterian church. It was not disturbed by the building, but the tombstones of himself and his son Francis, were removed to the Wilson lot, in the Lewisburg cemetery. His widow, whose name before marriage was Elizabeth Hayes, moved, in 1803, with her sons, William and Thomas, to Beaver county, where she died in 1818. Their children were Hugh, father of Francis Wilson; Sarah, mar- ried to Richard Fruit, moved to Mercer county, died in the spring of 1844; Eliazbeth, married to James Duncan, of Aaronsburg ; she died in 1797; Mary, married to Jonathan Coulter, sheriff of Beaver county ; William Wilson, died in Beaver, 1841 ; James Wilson, at- torney-at-law, died in New Orleans, 1800; Margaret Wilson, mar- ried John Thomas, storekeeper, at Hartley, moved to Beaver ; Thomas Wilson, of Beaver, who died 6th July, 1860, aged eighty-
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five years ; Colonel Joseph H. Wilson, of the one hundred and first Pennsylvania, who died near White House, Virginia, July 11, 1862, was his son. He had been district attorney of Beaver county, and a member of the Legislature. Thomas Wilson left ten children, resid- ing in Beaver county.
1800.
INHABITANTS OF NEW BERLIN AND LEWISBURG-SKETCHES OF THE NORTHUM- BERLAND COUNTY BAR-DANIEL SMITH, EVAN RICE EVANS, CHARLES HALL, &c.
OVERNOR, Thomas McKean. Members, Simon Snyder, Jacob Fulmer. September 24, Daniel Levy, Esquire, commissioned Prothonotary, &c., vice Jasper Ewing, deceased. October 23, Henry Vanderslice commissioned Sheriff. Brigade Inspector, Frederick Lazarus.
List of Inhabitants of New Berlin in 1800.
Beatty, William ; Beatty, Hugh ; Berger, Philip, potter ; Clark, John ; Cook, James ; Gill, Isaac; Grove, George, saddler ; Herman, Philip, carpenter; Myer, George, weaver; Myer, George, tailor ; Overmyer, Philip; Parks, James, Esquire, store-keeper ; Rearick, William; Rothrow, Jacob; Seebold, Christopher ; Smith, Peter, sailor : Spaight, Adam ; Trester, Martin, carpenter ; Wagoner, An- drew, inn-keeper.
List of Inhabitants of Lewisburg in 1800.
Albright, Andrew, inn-keeper ; Beatty, John ; Black, James; Bole, Samuel, weaver ; Byers, Charles; Clark, George, store-keeper ; Dreisbach Jacob; Endsworth, Andrew, saddler ; Evans, Joseph,
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joiner ; Fairchild, Caleb, blacksmith; Grove, Adam; Kemmel, Lawrence, tinsmith ; Knox, George, tanner ; Lawshe, John, tavern ; Leisenring, John, potter; Mclaughlin, Hugh, tailor ; Metzgar, Daniel, saddler; Metzgar, George, hatter ; Metzgar, John, store- keeper ; Miller, Valentine ; Park, Thomas, tanner ; Pollock, John. store-keeper ; Pollock, William, tailor; Reed, Christian, joiner ;. Shaffer, Mathias, carpenter ; Shearer, Richard, store-keeper ; Spyker, Henry, store-keeper ; Stedman, William, inn-keeper, Strickland, Timothy, carpenter ; Troxel, Abraham; Wilson, Hugh, store-keeper.
List of Single Freemen in East Buffalo, in 1800.
Anderson, Samuel ; Baker, Jacob, fuller ; Betzer, Peter, weaver ; Bolender, George ; Bracken, James; Callahan, Patrick ; Callahan, Philip ; Dale, Samuel ; Deratt, Daniel ; Dreisbach, Martin ; Finess, John ; Forster John ; Forster, William ; Frantz, John, cordwainer ; Frantz, Jacob, weaver ; Frederick, George ; Hafer, Lewis; Hartley, Thomas, carpenter ; Hays, Philip, junior ; Hayes, William ; Hayes, Patrick ; Keeth, Andrew ; McClay, William; McClosky, William ; McQuhae, William; Markle, John, blacksmith; Morton, John ; Nickle, John ; Pollock, Edward ; Price, John, store-keeper ; Reedy, Conrad; Russell, Alexander ; Slater, Peter; Smith, Benjamin ; Spyker, Peter ; Stahl, John, wheelwright ; Thompson, James ; Ward, Thomas; Ward, William ; Wise, John ; Wise, Daniel ; Wolf, John ; Yentzer, Christian.
Sketches of the Northumberland Bar, by Charles Miner.
" Daniel Smith, Esquire, a tall, delicate looking gentleman, always elegantly dressed. He turns pale and actually trembles as he rises to speak. You are interested by such exceeding modesty, and half fear he will not be able to go on. His voice breaks sweetly on the ear, and words of persuasive wisdom begin to flow, and now pour along in a rapid torrent. Ah ! that is eloquence." He graduated at Princeton in 1787.
" Evan Rice Evans, a heavy, stout gentleman, with a large head and florid complexion. His delivery rapid ; his words crowd upon each other as sometimes to choke utterance. He talks good sense. Why should he not ? His head has more law in it than half a mod-
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ern library. He is a powerful advocate, with a good fee and an intricate case." He died in ISII. His daughter married Hugh Brady, Esquire, son of William P., of Indiana county.
" Charles Hall, Esquire. A very handsome man. His dress is rich, ruffles neatly plaited. Slow, distinct, and very pleasant in speaking. He prepares with care, and argues his cause with excel- lent skill." He came from Lancaster county. His wife was a Cole- man, owning a great estate, still called the Hall farms, above Muncy.
" Honorable Thomas Cooper. Short round figure, stooping for- ward ; has a florid, high, English countenance and complexion. His forte is to seize two or three strong points, and present them forcibly to the court and jury. He never wearies by long speeches ; never uses a word, or an illustration, or an argument that is not to the purpose ; a man of extraordinary endowments and of most dis- tinguished genius." From John Binns' Autobiography I take some notices : When I came first to Northumberland, September 1, ISO2, there then resided Doctor Joseph Priestly, son, and family, and Thomas Cooper, Esquire, afterwards president judge in that district, and also president of the State College of South Carolina. He was fined and imprisoned for libel on President John Adams. The fine, with interest, was, on a petition of Doctor Cooper, refunded by a vote of Congress, many years afterwards, I think when General Jackson was President. The doctor wielded a powerful pen in favor of the general's election, and he was a man who rarely forgot to repay both partisans and opponents. Before Judge Cooper came to this country, he accompanied Mr. Watt, of steam engine memory, to Paris, and they took their seats in the French convention as rep- resentatives of the Manchester Philosophical Society. In 1820, Doctor Cooper resided in Philadelphia, as professor of chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania, and was a member of a club, with John Binns, which met every Monday evening at each other's houses. While here, he published his "Jurisprudence," and his edition of the " Institutes of Justinian." Binns says the first breach in their club was made by the removal of Doctor Cooper to South Carolina. His extensive knowledge, wit, and good humor were sufficient to instruct and enliven any society. His literary and scientific knowledge were of world-wide fame. His reply to " Burke's Invective" was inferior to no answer that was published.
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It took rank with those of Paine and Mackintosh. At the time he was printing that book, William Y. Birch was apprentice to the pub- lisher. He said, when Cooper stepped in to correct the proof, the printer would say, " We want more copy, sir," and Cooper would set down and write two or three sheets, and hand it to the printer without reading, much less correcting. He had a heart as warm and capacious as his mind was richly stored. He was my ardent and faithful friend for a period of nearly half a century. I have his portrait, taken when ninety years of age. He was a chemist of no common caliber ; admirable in compounding sauces and gravies. and enjoyed them very much. He was somewhat of a gourmand, yet he was never idle, and lived to the very advanced age of ninety- eight or ninety-nine, cheerful and polite to his last days.
Miner mentions Daniel Levy, Thomas Duncan, and Charles Hus- ton, but makes no particular note of them. Daniel Levy was the survivor of these old-style lawyers, who always dressed in broad- cloth, wore queues, gold watch seals, and were eminently dignified and respectful.
October 14. Bishop Newcomer again visits the Valley. " Crossed the West Branch at Northumberland with a great deal of trouble. and reached the house of Abraham Everly after dark. Next day he went to Brother Aurand's, where a great many people had co !- lected and he and Brother David Snyder addressed them. On 16th, preached at John Rank's, in White Deer. 17th, at John Baer's. 18th, sacrament at Martin Dreisbach's : rode twenty miles through the rain to get there. Held class meeting. and had a happy time. Text on Sunday, 19th, " For the time is come when judgment must begin at the house of God." Preached at Mr. Dreisbach's in the evening ; next day. at Mr. Walter's, and at night at a poor man's house, on Middle creek."
At the presidential election in 1800, parties were clearly defined under the names of Federalists and Democrats.
Kimber Barton. who lived at Mifflinburg, was assessor of Unitel States taxes. The tax on window glass was very unpopular. The assessor had to go to each house and count the panes. Before he arrived, some people went to the trouble of taking out their glass and putting in paper. John Bower, father of Thomas Bower, of Middleburg, was married to a sister of Kimber Barton.
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Deaths.
Jasper Ewing, attorney-at-law, and late prothonotary of the county, died. He was from Lancaster county. His library he left to his four nieces, daughters of General Edward Hand, of Lan- caster ; his fees to his nephews, John and Jesse Hand, together with his gun, fishing rod, and gold watch ; his cane to Charles Hall, Es- quire.
He was adjutant of the first Pennsylvania, Colonel Hand, in July, 1776. In April, 1777, when Hand was promoted brigadier, and appointed to the command of the Western department, Ewing went with him to Fort Pitt, as brigade major, and served as such during the years 1777-1778.
1801.
REJOICING AT JEFFERSON'S ELECTION-CONDITION OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN THE VALLEY.
M EMBERS of Congress, Andrew Gregg and John A. Hanna. Senators, Samuel Maclay and James Harris. Act of February 27, reduced the number to one. Mem- bers, Jacob Fulmer, Jesse Moore, Samuel Dale, and Simon Snyder. July 18, William Montgomery appointed Associate, vice Thomas Strawbridge, resigned. County Commissioners, John Metzgar, John Frick, and Abram Mckinney.
February 27, Apportionment bill allows Northumberland one Senator and four members. Taxables, four thousand seven hundred and forty-four.
Additional Residents of East Buffalo-Robinson, William , John Lawshe, keeping the " Pennsylvania Arms," at Lewisburg.
Additions to White Deer Township-Clingan, William, Esquire ;
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Cornelius, James ; Espy, John, shoe-maker ; Hafer, Lewis; Iredell, Seth, miller at White Deer mills; Linn, David; Long, Joseph; Lutz, Jacob ; Lutz, Samuel ; McGinnes, John ; McGinnes, James ; Marr, David; Sarvey, Christian; Shuck, Andrew; Stillwell, Joseph ; Weikel, George.
George Wilt, of Cumberland county, bought the Narrows property of Michael Shirtz. His sons, Adam and George, came up and built a new mill, and jointly kept the hotel, afterwards kept by Roushs, Stitzers, &c. Adam Wilt and John Fisher, who formerly lived on Esquire Lincoln's place, ran arks out of Penn's creek, from 1810 to 1818. Adam was the first man that ran Conewago falls with an ark, successfully. Products of the Valley then went down in the shape of whisky, linseed oil, &c.
March 4, a meeting was held at Bethuel Vincent's, in Milton, to celebrate the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson. Colonel Kelly's toast was : " May this be the happy day to unite the hearts of all true Americans in their duty to God and our illustrious President." This year the road from Jenkins' mill to where it joins the Mifflin- burg and Lewisburg road, was laid out by Abraham Eyerly and Daniel Rees.
Richard Sherer, postmaster at Lewisburg, advertises that the Phila- delphia mail arrived at Northumberland every Saturday at two, P. M., and returned on Sunday at six, A. M.
The following sketch, taken from Doctor Harbaugh's Fathers, re- lates, of course, to the Reformed portion of Dreisbach church :
The Buffalo church, now called Dreisbach, had, for some time, been in a very distracted condition, having the irregular attention of the irregular Pfruemer, called Frommer, but was, for the most part, closed entirely. The young men were growing up without adequate spiritual instruction, and the old members having passed through scenes of strife, had grown, to a great degree, indifferent. Seeing, however, at length, that religious matters were tending in a bad way, they awoke and saw that something must be done. Re- formed ministers being at that time few, and difficult to be secured, they thought they saw in Deitrich Aurand, who was still on his farm, a man who could be useful among them as a Reformed minis- ter. About the beginning of the year 1801 they came together, and unanimously and very cordially agreed to call upon him to
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preach a sermon in that church, which he consented to do. The appointment was made. The day arrived. The people assembled in great numbers. The pews, the galleries, the isles, the doors, the lower windows, and even the grove in front of the church were crowded with listeners, anxious to hear the new preacher. Some, no doubt, came from motives of curiosity, but the greater portion were there with a true desire to hear the Gospel. " Never," says an eye witness, " have I seen a multitude so eager to hear the words of life." The sermon ended, he came down from the pulpit, and standing in the altar, he was soon surrounded by the "ancient men " of the church, who earnestly desired him to make another appoint- ment. The congregation, having, in the meantime, stood still, he announced that he would preach again as desired, appointing the time.
The second sermon was attended by a still greater multitude of people, some coming from a distance of ten and fifteen miles. The day was pleasant. The organ, long silent, had been repaired by the skillful hands of Mr. John Betz, the school-master, and was made to accompany the hymns by Stophel Aupel. The theme of the preacher was the astonishing love of Jesus Christ, in condescending to come into the world to save sinners. The absolute necessity of timely preparation to meet death was earnestly and pathetically urged upon all present. Towards the conclusion, different classes were separately addressed and exhorted. The young were asked how the hope for a blissful eternity stood with them ? and they were entreated to seek the Lord early, and remember their Creator in the days of their youth. Then the preacher turned to those in middle life, and in words of melting tenderness and burning zeal, were they warned against delay, and urged to flee from the wrath to come. Finally he turned to the aged, among whom sat his own venerable father, crying with the deepest feeling, Oh ! you who are hoary-headed, how stands the matter between you and your God? You stand already with one foot in the grave, and in a few more days will sink into it, and have no more any portion forever in all that is done under the sun. You have, through a long life, enjoyed the mercies and favors of your kind Heavenly Father. Have you served Him with full sub- mission to His will, and loved Him supremely? and have you the assurance that you are reconciled to Him, through His dear Son
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Jesus Christ ? If so, oh ! then it will be well with you. But, if this has not been done, oh ! then, I now entreat you, as you value the ever- lasting rest and peace of your souls, do not delay, but accept the offers of mercy in Christ, our dear Redeemer. "Such, " says one who was present, " was the spirit and substance, and such, as near as I can recollect, even the closing words of this never-to-be-forgotten sermon. It made a deep impression upon me as a youth, and I re- member distinctly of having seen his own father, and such men as the Dreisbachs, the Dunkels, the Barnharts, the Betzs, the Good- mans, and others, bathed in tears. "
He was unanimously elected pastor, and the congregation of New Berlin joined with them in the call, which he agreed to accept. He had been licensed by the " Brethren," but was not yet ordained or even licensed by the Synod. He began, however, to catechise in the Dreisbach church, and large numbers attended, whom he con- firmed, baptizing such as had not been. "Never since that day, " says an aged eye-witness, " have I witnessed such solemnity and strong feeling as on that day of the consecration of those youth, and the next day at communion."
On the 3d of May the Synod met at York, and a request was made by the congregations of Buffalo Valley and New Berlin for the examination and ordination of Mr. Aurand. The matter, however, was deferred, principally at his own request, until he might improve himself. He, however, continued to preach to the congregations of Buffalo Valley and New Berlin, until his removal to Huntingdon county, in October, 1804, where he founded the congregation of Water street. He died near there, on the 24th of April, 1831, aged seventy years five months and sixteen days, and is buried in front of Zion's church, at Water street.
November 11, Reverend Hugh Morrison regularly dismissed from the Presbyterian congregation at Buffalo Cross-Roads.
Marriages.
September 27, by William Irwin, Esquire, Jacob D. Breyvogel, printer, of Sunbury, to Susanna Baldy, daughter of Colonel Chris- topher Baldy, of Buffalo.
November 19, by Reverend Bryson, William Kirk, of Turbut, to
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Miss Jane Knox, of Lewisburg, and Daniel Dreisbach, merchant, to Katy Dreisbach, both of Lewisburg. "Whosoever findeth a good wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the Lord."
Deaths.
Sunday, September 20, Colonel Frederick Antes, of Northumber- land, died at Lancaster, buried in the German Reformed church- yard. John Thompson, of Buffalo, died. His children, James, Benjamin, Rachel Lincoln, Susanna Patterson, and .Sarah Piper. John Reznor, West Buffalo, leaving a widow, Rebecca, and chil- dren, John, George, Agnes, &c.
November 4, Mrs. Jean McClure, buried on the 5th, in the Pres- byterian yard, Lewisburg. Slie left fourteen children, one hundred and ten grandchildren, one hundred and forty-eight great-grand- children, and four great-great-grandchildren ; total, two hundred and seventy-six. Thirty-six of them attended the funeral. She was of an amiable, benevolent, and friendly disposition, and might be called a true christian .- Kennedy's Gazette.
1802.
RESIDENTS IN FREEBURG, MIDDLEBURG, &C .- ST. PETER'S CHURCH, IN KELLY, AND RAY'S CHURCH BUILT-TABULAR STATEMENT OF ELECTION RETURNS-DEATH OF JOSEPH GREEN.
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