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September 16, Florence, wife of Colonel John Clarke, aged sev- enty-six.
William Thompson, of White Deer township, in the seventieth year of his age. His remains were interred in the Presbyterian burial ground, in Derrstown, followed by a numerous assemblage of friends and relations. He left a widow, Jane, who died in Lewis- burg. Daughter, Ruth; granddaughter, Nancy T. Reznor ; son, James.1
George Wilt, of West Buffalo, died in the spring. Widow, Cath- erine. Children : Elizabeth, Adam, George, Barbara, and Mary.
Daniel Franklin, inn-keeper, died in September.
William McKim, of Buffalo. Robert McKim.
Reverend John Hoge. Children : Ebenezer, Samuel, David, Jonathan D., Elizabeth Brice, Mary Redrick, Priscilla Bennett.
David Katherman, West Buffalo. Children : Barbara, George, Jacob.
Lewis Frantz. Children : Stephen, John, Jacob, Philip, Cathe- rine, George, Margaret.
William Steele, of Buffalo.
1 Reverend James Thompson studied theology under Mr. Hood. Licensed, 1817. April 17, 1819, installed pastor of Shaver's Creek and Alexandria churches. Dicd October 8, 1830. Left a widow, Eliza, (Stewart,) one son, and two daughters .- See Gibson's History of the Huntingdon Presbytery.
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THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ORGANIZED -POLITICAL AFFAIRS-SIMON SNY- DER ELECTED GOVERNOR-DEATHI OF JOHN BRADY, (SHERIFF,) AND NO- TICES OF HIS FAMILY.
M EMBER of Congress, George Smith. Members of As- sembly, elected in October, John Murray, Leonard Rupert, Frederick Evans, and Andrew Albright. Clerk of the Middle District of the Supreme Court, John L. Finney. County Commissioner elect, Andrew McClenachan. Amos Ellmaker, Deputy Attorney General for Dauphin and Northumber- land. By the act of 21st March, Northumberland county was enti- tled to four members of the House, and, with Luzerne, to two members of the Senate.
January 23, the congressional caucus nominated James Madison for President and George Clinton for Vice.
Under date March 16, the Argus notices a meeting of the Repub- lican members of the Legislature, which declared unanimously for Simon Snyder, for Governor. The Federalists, it says, favor James Ross. The Quids, John Spayd. Democratic Presidential electors : William Wilson, Robert Giffen, Jacob Hostetter.
29th March, Adam. Wilt commissioned justice. May 15, Rev- erend John Dietrich Adams, of the Reformed Church, called to the Middle Creek, Beaver Dam, &c., churches. He accepted, and seems to have served until 1812, when he was excommunicated. Tradition says love for strong drink was his ruin. Postmaster at Mifflinburg, Thomas Youngman. During this year and the next, the Reverend Jacob Diffenbach, of the Reformed Church, lived in
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Mifflinburg, preached there, and at times in Brush valley and Selins- grove. He married a Miss Lydia Hughes, of Selinsgrove, subse- quently removed to Espytown, and died there in 1825. One of his children, Samuel Dieffenbach, resides near Selinsgrove, Snyder county. 30th September, George Clark commissioned justice, White Deer. James McClellan, Esquire, taught school at Cham- berlin's mill.
Additional Residents in East Buffalo .- Baldy, Benjamin ; Beard, Christian, blacksmith ; Brewer, John ; Bossler, John ; Christ, Adam, junior ; Christ, Henry ; Dentler, John ; Deratt, Daniel, both on Mathias Macpherson's place; George, John ; Heiser, Frederick ; Jackson, Robert, (colored ;) Kitchen, John; Kline, Jacob ; Mc- Curdy, Daniel, at James Dale's ; Searfoss, George; Shields, Wil- liam ; Snook, Martin, (Jenkins ;) Snook, Peter, (Jenkins ;) Snyder, Daniel, blacksmith : Taylor, Robert.
Lewisburg-Billman, Henry : Clark, George ; Friedly, John ; Guy, Thomas ; Horning, Conrad ; Kremer, George, store in Chamberlin's building ; Martin, John, carpenter ; Myers, Peter ; Rees, Daniel, inn-keeper ; Sergeant, John, nailor ; Sitgreaves, Charles, saddler ; Stillwell, Joseph, school-teacher ; Stroub, Michael, weaver ; Wagner, Henry.
New Berlin-Estrich, Christian, merchant ; Feather, Jacob, hat- ter : Frantz, William ; Fought, George ; Lehman, Thomas, school- teacher ; Mccullough, William ; Maurer, Adam; Pontius, Henry, junior, carpenter ; Smith, Peter, gunsmith ; Springer, Henry, chair- maker ; Winter, Daniel, inn-keeper.
White Deer-Awl, Samuel and John, junior ; Ferris, Joseph, on William Clingan's place ; Heckle, George : Heckle, Simon ; Hunt- ingdon, Abraham; Kline, Charles, on Ranck's piace ; Thomas, Arthur, miller.
West Buffalo-Charles, John; Elert, Widow; Elder, John ; Geddes, Samuel ; Jodon, James ; Komp, Adam ; Kline, Jacob ; Miller, Peter ; Shanp, Henry.
Mifflinburg-Clark, Widow Sarah ; Cronmiller, Martin, black- smith ; Grove, Andrew, blacksmith ; Hofferd, John, taxed with grist and saw-mill, late Christopher Johnson's, on Rapid run, after whose death it passed into the hands of John Reish ; Lane, William, hatter ; Yearick, Henry.
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Enumeration of the Taxable Inhabitants of the different Town- ships of Buffalo Valley-Buffalo East, four hundred and forty-seven, and one slave ; Buffalo West, three hundred and seventy-four ; White Deer, two hundred and five, and one slave ; Washington, eighty-one, and one slave.
First Baptist Church.
The first regular Baptist church in what is now Union county, was raised under the labors of Thomas Smiley, in Washington (now Gregg) township, and was recognized by sister churches October 23, 1808. Elder Smiley remained its pastor until his death, in 1832. He was succeeded by George Spratt, M. D., 1833-1834 ; his son, George M. Spratt, D. D., 1835-1839 ; William S. Hall, 1840-1843 ; John Edminster, 1843-1847 ; William T. Bunker, 1849-1853 ; Pro- fessor Robert Lowry, 1854; George Frear, D. D., 1855; Joshua Kelly, 1857-1858; W. R. McNeal, 1859 ; Samuel W. Ziegler, 1860; J. Green Miles, 1861-1865 ; George W. Snyder, 1867 ; and J. Green Miles since 1869 .- O. N. Worden.
Political.
Northumberland and Luzerne composed the senatorial district. Centre, Lýcoming and Northumberland composed the congressional district. General Daniel Montgomery declined a re-election. At the Democratic-Republican convention, held at Sunbury, on the 28th of June, the delegates from Buffalo were Samuel Maclay and General C. Baldy ; West Buffalo, John Wilson and Thomas Youngman ; Penn's, Frederick Evans and Philip Moore; White Deer, Andrew McClenachan and William Chamberlin.
The nominating convention was held at Derrstown, on the 20th of August. Thirty-seven delegates from twenty townships. General Robert Giffen was elected president; Matthew Huston, secretary. Simon Snyder was unanimously nominated for Governor ; George Smith, of Lycoming, for Congress ; Nathan Palmer, of Luzerne, for State Senator ; John Murray, Andrew Albright, Leonard Rupert, and Frederick Evans, for Assembly.
The Federal leaders of that day were General William Wilson,
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Charles Hall, Esquire, Captain Christian Brobst, William Mears, Samuel Miles, Esquire, John Buyers, &c. The canvass for Governor this year was exceedingly bitter. Among other stories, was that the Honorable Samuel Maclay had expressed himself in favor of James Ross for Governor, at William McAllister's, in Juniata county, when he and the Honorable Daniel Montgomery were on their return from Congress ; that Simon Snyder had said in the presence of one George Church, who made affidavit to that effect, that no poor man ought to have the right of voting at an election ; that he had voted for a bill to fine Mennonists and Quakers $10 for not attending militia train- ings ; that he intended, or favored, dividing the property of the rich among the poor. The Snyder men were accused of suing the Ross- ites for debts. Jared Irwin, the sheriff, certifies that Simon Snyder has not issued an execution for twelve months ; Judge Cooper, that Simon Snyder did not behave improperly in handing a paper to the judge, &c. James Ross was declared to be a man of mercenary and avaricious disposition ; accused of blasphemy and mockery of religion ; said to be " the candidate of the nabobs and lawyers ; that while member of the United States Senate, he advocated the wresting of New Orleans from the Spaniards by force, instead of acquiring it by treaty. During the reign of terror, (Adams' administration,) his violence for its measures secured him the Federal patronage." Al manner of tricks were resorted to.
Andrew Albright and Robert Smith were nominated by the Fed- eral meeting, at Milton, for Assembly, although known to be Dem- ocrats, in favor of Jefferson and his embargo. Both came out in the Argus, disclaiming the nomination.
As early as this year, Andrew C. Huston, with John Frick and others, issue an address, as representatives of the young men of North- umberland county, in favor of Simon Snyder. Judge Thomas Cooper, in a communication, vindicates the private character of Simon Sny- der, although he did not feel at liberty to vote for either Simon Snyder or James Ross.
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OCTOBER ELECTION.
SNYDER.
ROSS.
SPAYD.
Buffalo,
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68
West Buffalo,
300
70
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Berlin,
209
10
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Milton,
467
127
Selinsgrove,
237
28
Mifflinburg,
49
32
6
Beaver,
138
3
9
Snyder's majority in the county, over both, was 2,927. Colonel John Bull was the Federal candidate against Colonel George Smith, for Congress. Colonel John Kelly, against Nathan Palmer, for Senate. For Assembly, the Federal candidates were Sol Markley, Robert Barber, Esquire, Abraham Miller, and Thomas Wallace. Henry Musser was elected commissioner, over Theodore Kiehl and James Smith. For presidential electors on the Democratic-Repub- lican and Whig side-for the party recognize all three names-were William Montgomery and Robert Giffen. The Federalists are called the Tories. John Boyd was the Federal candidate for elector. Vote, 2,793 to 221.
Marriages.
March 22, John Freedly with Elizabeth Lehman, by H. Spyker, in presence of Daniel Nyhart, her brother-in-law, &c.
May 4, Peter Myers to Sophia Nixon, by same, in the presence of her step-father, James Marriner, and her mother, Peter Spyker, George Graham, Thomas Poak, Margaret Graham, Betsy Smith, Lydia Pross, &c.
May 17, by the same, Henry Zerbe with Susanna Heckel. Wit- nesses : Adam Wertz, Peter Leonard, John Snyder, &c.
July 5, Peter Brown with Catherine Kantz, in presence of her brother, Peter Kantz, brother-in-law, John Hartman.
March 24, by Reverend T. Hood, William Nesbit, of Chillisqua- que, to Nancy Musser, of East Buffalo.
November 29, George Freedly with Catherine Frantz, by H. Spy- ker, Esquire, in presence of Andrew Billmyer and wife, George Billmyer and wife, John Frantz, Jacob Frantz, Peggy Librunen, &c.
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Deaths.
Samuel Dunning and James McCorley, White Deer.
Neal Madden, father of the late James Madden, Esquire, West Buffalo.
17th May, Adam Christ, aged sixty-six. Left widow, Elizabeth. Children : Henry, Elizabeth, Eve, married to John Snook.
Elizabeth Earne, Buffalo. (Her daughter married Jacob Moore.) Children : John, Anna M., Balisa, and Susanna.
Joseph Ultz, of West Buffalo.
John Aurand, junior, East Buffalo.
James Boveard, East Buffalo, soldier of the Revolution. Enlisted, 1776, as private in Captain David Kilgore's company, eighth Penn- sylvania, and served three years. His family as follows : Children : Hannah, Robert, Alexander, Mary, married to Robert McBride, Jane, to Doctor James Charleton, -, to John Steans.
Daniel Metzgar, hotel-keeper at Lewisburg. His widow, Eve, afterwards married to Colonel Christopher Baldy.
Saturday, 30th January, Mrs. Annie McBeth, of White Deer, formerly of Cumberland county, buried at Buffalo Cross-Roads. Her ancestors fled from Scotland on account of religious persecution. They were of the first settlers at Brandywine, in Chester county. She was twice married, first to John Fleming, and afterwards to An- drew McBeth ; had four children by her first, and five by her last husband. One of her sons fell at Long Island .- Argus.
27th July, Susanna Baldy, consort of General C. Baldy, aged fifty two. A faithful observance of all the relative duties of wife, mother, and friend, marked the conduct of this truly excellent wo- man .- Argus, 3d August.
December 10, at Milton, John Brady, inn-keeper, and former sheriff of Northumberland county, aged forty-eight. He is buried in the cemetery at Lewisburg. His wife, Jane, survived him twenty years. and is buried in the same grave. A mural monument, covered with a heavy marble slab, marks their grave and that of Mary Brady, wirlow of Captain John Brady.
John Brady's children were : Lieutenant Samuel Brady, born 22d February, 1793. At the commencement of the war of 1812, he served as a volunteer, under Governor Edwards, in a campaign
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against the Indians. They had one battle, defeating the Indians. Shortly afterwards, he received a commission as ensign in the twenty- second United States regiment, commanded by his uncle, General Hugh Brady, and served in the unfortunate campaign under Gen- eral Wilkinson. In the summer of 1814 he was attached to General Brown's army, on the Niagara frontier. He was in the bloody battle of Lundy's Lane ; a second lieutenant in the sortie from Fort Erie. He was the only platoon officer of his regiment that was not either killed or wounded in the former battle, and Major Arrowsmith was the only field-officer of General Scott's brigade that was left on horseback. See his letter to Captain B. Vincent, under date of 1814.
After peace was proclaimed, Lieutenant Brady entered into an arrangement with Captain John Culbertson, a brother officer, to go on a trading expedition to the Rocky Mountains, supposing that, upon the reduction of the army, he would not be retained in the service. He was retained, however ; but thinking he could not, in honor, break his engagement with the captain, he resigned. The Government declined to accept his resignation, and sent him an unlimited furlough. His health, however, failed him, and he was advised to winter in the South. He went to New Orleans, accom- panied by his friend, Lieutenant Colonel Trimble, of Ohio, and died there on the 17th of February, 1816, not quite twenty-three years of age. He was six feet five, and a remarkably fine looking man. His disease was hurried on by exposure in the Niagara cam- paigns, when he should have been in the hospital, instead of the field. In the Sunbury Times of that year, there is an eloquent obituary, by his friend, Colonel Trimble, in which he says : " In Lieutenant Brady's death, the country has lost an intelligent and gallant officer, and myself a firm and distinterested friend."
William Perry Brady, his brother, was born 16th February, 1795. He worked for a while at his trade-cabinet making- in Aarons- burg. In 1813 he entered the army as private. His regiment was at Erie when Perry was fitting out his fleet. The commodore, not having a sufficient number of regular marines. called for volun- teers. William was the first who volunteered. Before Perry sailed, Colonel Hugh Brady came to Erie, and through his influence, Perry appointed him a purser's steward. He was attached to one of the small vessels, and was in the battle of the Ioth of September. His
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vessel had to be abandoned, and he was the last man to leave his gun. His shirt sleeves were shot away. He took great pride in the old shirt, and often showed it to his friends in after years. After the battle, and the return of the fleet to Erie, William and two of his Centre county friends, waited on the commodore. He granted them their discharges, and advised them to return home and settle in civil life, remarking that they had already rendered important service to their country. William took his advice, returned to Aaronsburg, and in a short time married Rachel Mussina, of that place. In 1846, he was elected assistant sergeant-at-arms of the Pennsylvania Senate, which place he retained until his death, at Harrisburg, on the 4th of April, 1864. Every one having ·business in Harrisburg in the last twenty years, will recollect the genial com- panionship of William P. Brady. He survived all his children, except one son, who died about one year after his father.
Jasper Ewing Brady, Esquire, the fourth son, was born March 4, 1797. He first learned the trade of hatter. and, after traveling from place to place for two or three years. he settled in Franklin county, Pennsylvania. He there abandoned his trade, and taught school several years, meanwhile studying law. He was admitted at Cham- bersburg in 1826 or 1827, and there commenced practice. In 1843 he was elected to the Assembly, and re-elected in 1844. During the first session, although he represented an anti-improvement county, he offered an amendment to the bill to reduce the State tax provid- ing for the assessment of a three-mill tax, which redeemed the credit of the State. He was treasurer of Franklin county for three years. In 1846 he was elected to Congress, beating Honorable Samuel Hep- burn some eight hundred votes. He was, however, defeated in 1848, by Honorable James X. McLanahan. The Whig loss in the Carlisle district was some two hundred votes. Mr. Brady was beaten only one hundred and sixty-seven votes. In September, 1849, he removed to Pittsburgh, and practiced law very successfully until 1861, when he was appointed to a responsible position in the paymasters' depart- ment at Washington. He was removed in July, 1869, by General Rawlings, then Secretary of War. He then resumed the practice of law at Washington, where he died.
John Brady, the third, died several years ago. James, the young-
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est, died in Franklin county, in 1829. He was a man of fine intel. lect, and was thought to be the most talented of the family.
Of the daughters of Sheriff John Brady, Mary married William Piatt, uncle of Judge Piatt, of Brady township, Lycoming county ; Hannah married Judge Piatt ; Charlotte married H. C. Piatt ; Jane married Roland Stoughton ; her descendants, Mrs. Lyndall's chil- dren, still live in Lewisburg ; Nancy married George B. Eckert, of Lewisburg.
I am indebted to O. N. Worden, late of the Lewisburg Chronicle, for the following narrative he took down at the time. He says : In June, 1857, I took the following notes of a conversation I had with Mrs. Mary Brady Piatt, aged seventy-two, born in 1785 :
" My father was a brother of Sam Brady, the Indian fighter. I saw him once. He was then on a visit to my father's, at Sunbury. I went with them over to Northumberland. On the way over, my father asked Sam if he could jump as well as ever ? He said he could not, but coming to a high fence in a few minutes, he sprung clear over it, with but little effort. 'I never could do that,' said my father. ' You could, if obliged to,' said Sam.
" Sam killed three Indians after peace was declared, and a reward of $300 was offered for his apprehension. Shortly after, he was sit- ting with a tavern-keeper, in West Virginia, when two strangers, Virginians, rode up, alighted, and asked for horse feed and dinner. They laid their pistols upon a table, near which sat Sam, rolling his rifle upon his knees. In the course of conversation with the land- lord, they found out that he knew Brady, and that he lived in that region, and was very popular. They told the landlord that they had come to arrest him, and if he gave them assistance, they would share the reward with him. The landlord said they could never take him, nor could any one take him alive. They declared they could. 'I am Sam Brady,' said the man at the table. They were startled. They looked at him for a minute, and, estimating his power, waived the attempt. After dinner, they went to the table to get their pistols. Brady said they could not have those pistols, nor could the landlord's entreaty or their threats prevail. 'Go back to your homes, and tell them Sam Brady took your pistols,' was all the answer he made. He afterwards gave their pistols to his sons.
" After awhile he delivered himself up for trial at Pittsburgh. He
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was defended by James Ross. Brady laid the scalps on the bar. 'There they are ; I killed them.' A great many women attended this trial, or rather men in women's clothes, ready to rescue him, if convicted ; but there was no occasion for their intervention."
Mrs. Piatt, like her brother, the late William Perry Brady, re- mained a Federalist to the last. She said when Washington was burned, through the inefficiency of a granny President, her blood boiled, and she longed to go, that she might shoot at least one British invader.
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OFFICIALS-RESIDENTS-ROAN'S JOURNAL-ELECTION RETURN-MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.
OVERNOR, Simon Snyder. Surveyor General, Andrew Porter, appointed April 4, vice Samuel Cochran. Dep- uty Attorney General, E. G. Bradford, appointed Jan- uary 19. Prothonotary, &c., Hugh Bellas, commissioned January 3. Register and Recorder, John Frick, commissioned Jan- uary 18. Sheriff, Daniel Lebo, commissioned October 24. Coro- ner, Joseph Lorentz, re-commissioned October 24. County Com- missioner elect, Henry Masser. Justices commissioned : Penn's, Joseph Führer, February 28; Mahantango, Michael Rathfon and Philip Burchart, the same day. Postmaster at Lewisburg, William Hayes.
James Moore, senior, built the bridge at the mouth of Buffalo creek.
Tobias Lehman's property divided. His children were : Henry, Barbara, married to George Baily, Elizabeth, married to John Freedly, Margaret Spidler, Catherine, married to Daniel Nyhart,
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Mary, married to John Brown, Freedly took the mills and four acres ; John Brown. one hundred and thirty-two acres one hundred and one perches ; and Nyhart the tract next Derr's, fifty-five acres one hundred and twenty-six perches.
Reverend John G. Heim became pastor of the Lutherans, at Dreis- bach's church, where he remained until 1831.
East Buffalo Additional Residents-Aurand, Abraham ; Badger, Joseph, tailor ; Boveard, Robert ; Brown, Peter, stiller ; Clinger, Adam; Gross, Mathias; Hauck, Andrew; Herbst, Henry ; Jar- man, Jacob; Johnston, John, colored ; Knittle, Adam, shoe-maker ; Shamp, Jesse; Sheckler, Martin, miller; Thompson, Samuel ; Thompson, Moses ; Updyke, Isaac ; Wise, Henry, shoe-maker ; Ze- luff, David.
Lewisburg-Baldwin, Doctor Ethan ; Espy, John ; Nyhart, Dan- iel ; Smith, Robert.
White Deer-Bellas, James; Davis, John, school-teacher ; Lan- dis, Jacob, shoe-maker ; Smith, William Walker ; Sypher, Jacob.
West Buffalo-Anthony, Henry ; Bergstresser, John ; Bruner, John ; Caldwell, William ; Hayes, John; Keeply, John ; Koons, Peter ; Linn, Isaac ; Yerger, John.
Mifflinburg-Auple, Conrad ; Hislet, John ; Larabee, Widow ; Manly, John; Millhouse, Nicholas; Smelker, Godfrey, tavern ; Staple, Conrad ; Wolf, Andrew ; Young, Christian.
Roan's Journal.
14th January. Scholars at Mr. Hood's had a public exhibition of their speaking abilities. Elder Brown, Honorable George Kremer, and others attended. Sunday 29th. Mr. Hood's text, John xiv : 6 v. Thirty-six sleds and sleighs at meeting.
February 9. Roan, Sally, Becky, and Bob Clark, and John Eaker came and staid all night. Sunday, 12th. Saw a woman putting a hippen to her child during church. Read twenty-two chapters, verse about, to-night. 15th. Maclays and their connections spent the day at Clingan's. 16th. George and Davy Reznor went to Easton, with grain, in sleds. They returned on the 22d. 27th. Billy Clark, Uncle Giddy, Wilson's, &c., at Aunt Dale's, in all seventeen, for supper. Had two turkeys.
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March 1. The young folks at Roan McClure's. Turkey for sup- per, and plenty of cider and apples. 3d. Debate at Mr. Hood's school-house. Question : " Is a lawyer a promoter of justice ?" 12th, Sunday. No singing at meeting, as people cannot agree about the psalms and music. 13th. Black Grace free to-day, and left us. Seven Methodists dined at Clingan's to-day. 15th. Met Doctor Baldwin at Lewisburg to-day. He is a Democrat, full of ostenta- tion. 18th. Mr. McClure's family, Richard Fruit and wife, Judge Wilson and wife, came to my school to-day to hear the boys speak. Wednesday, 22d. John Linn died last night. 23d. Went to John Linn's funeral. Stopped at Baldy's, and wrote a piece on his death for both papers at Northumberland.
April 8. Saw a clegyman, a Congressman, six esquires, and a constable at Billy Poak's to-day. River very high. Congressman Smith bought a silk shawl at Kremer's for Betsey Smith. 18th. Planted the locusts at Clingan's ; got them down at Billy Clark's. Eight ministers here, Mr. Wilson of Bellefonte, Mr. Bard, &c. 19th. Planted some Lombardys. Presbytery in session. 22d. At North- umberland; called at Seidel's, Jones', Taggart's, Priestly's, Welker's, Irwin's, Huston's, and Bonham's. Spent the evening at Reverend Isaac Grier's. He is a very friendly man. I heard Isaiah Linn was buried to-day.
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