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May 7th. Clingan came home from Lancaster. He had news of General Bright's trial, Snyder's ignorance, foreign decrees revoked. He brought the girls fashionable ear-rings. Tommy got fifty shad, at Hoffman's, sent down from Lawson's. IIth. Went to the review at Voneida's, [near Samuel Maclay's.] Five hundred and fifty men in line, and a great many spectators. Any number of studs. 13th. A good foot-way made over the creek, at my instigation. Got the slabs in Derrstown. Doctor Beyer and Dan Rees each gave a bottle of whisky. 17th. Jimmy Thompson building a barn on the Hafer place, for Clingan. 20th. Josiah Cander called, with pro- posals for an astronomical wheel. I called at Esquire Clark's, Captain Gray's ; then went to Derrstown, at Rees', Hayes', Poak's, Black's, and Stillwell's. Saw crazy John Maclay at Metzgar's. I and Sam Awl went to look after him. Called at Baldy's, then at Captain Robinson's for shirting, and at Anderson's for lasts. 25th. John Cochran, [surveyor general,] wife, and two sons at Clingan's,
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with Mrs. Thompson. 29th. Violent storm last night ; blew down trees, and took the roof off several barns and houses.
3d June. Went to Centre county, for balm of Gilead for Roan Clark, who is sick. Fed at Wilt's, [Narrows.] Aaronsburg, at three. Left with Evans Miles, and came to George Wood's. Had psalm- singing, the old way, and prayers. He is a very religious man. 4th. Called at Kern's. Stopped at Benner's, (old fort.) Then to Ludwig Reily's, on Hasting's place, where I got some leaves and branches. Stopped at Barber's tavern, and back to Eaker's-twenty- four miles-a good Sabbath-day's journey. 5th. Left Aaronsburg with John Forster. At eleven fed at Wilt's, and at Youngman's at five. Stopped at Baldy's, with Holmes and Kimmell. 7th. Raising at Hafer's ; sixty-eight feet by thirty wide, forty-two rounds high. There were seventy people there. Finished before night, and then had a sumptuous entertainment. 12th. Called to see General Baldy and lady, (married last night to Eve Metzgar.) 13th. Long John Maclay called. He is from Genessee. 20th. Anne Roan Laird here to-night, getting a dress for her name. 23d. William Patterson here from Lewistown. A social man and great talker. 28th. Called at Lawyer Hall's, with Billmyer. Dined at Lebo's, with Lawshe. Snyder lost his suit with Voneida. Judge Yeates called to-night. Asked me how I could live honest, and be single.
July 1. Called at Grier's, Shannon's, and Irwin's. Sent a snuff- box to Mrs. Robert Lyon. Had business at Priestly's with Rees and Bonham. Met John Hayes at Jones'. 6th. Flavel bit by a snake. Indigo extracted the poison. 13th. Jacob Zerbe married to Miss Ferris. Mr. Hood called on the way home, and craddled all after- noon. He is very jocose, and good company. 22d. Went to Giddy Smith's, and read a play ; then crossed the creek to Hudson's, [Cameron's place now.] 30th. Ensign Seeley and others, from Sunbury, at meeting to-day. Clingan came home by Derrstown, to attend christening of Graham's children. 3Ist. I am forty-nine years old to-day.
August 1. Clingan had six hundred dozen on the Hafer place, one thousand at home, and not a quart of whisky drank in all hay- ing and harvesting. 2d. James Dougal commenced at the Latin school. 3d. Fishing with Mr. Hood. 8th. Mrs. Nevius had a young son. 9th. Mr. Potter's son came to the Latin school at Mr. Hood's.
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[W. W. Potter, Esquire.] 14th. Mr. Hood gave us Caul Kail pet, II Peter, i : 5, 6, 7. Commenced to rain as the sermon closed, and we were kept there two hours. 15th. Stahl had his barn burned with lightning, yesterday. Two horses killed. 16th. At Derrs- town. Went with Cremer to Methodist meeting. Hamer squeezing Nancy McDonald behind the stove. Returned and slept with Kre- mer. 23d. Jamy Wilson hauled the stuff for the fence at my school- house, and Cherry put it up. Sent Joseph Wallis for another bottle of whisky for him. 27th. Tommy and sister, James McClellan, Ruth Thompson, and others, went to church. At the river, men rode over and the women were ferried at Milton. Met a great com- pany, and went on to Warrior Run. Mr. Bryson preached in the fore- noon. Two hundred and thirty-seven communicants. Mr. Hood gave us C. K. p., 11 Peter, i: 5, 6, and 7. Mr. Nesbit asked my advice about marrying. 30th. Referees sitting at Sunbury, on suit Snyder and Drum. Sat up until midnight, talking with Esquire Maus. 31st. Rode out to see John Cooke. Drank cider royal at Shriner's. Dined at Reverend Grier's. Gave Eliza a copy of an enigma. Carried widow Allison on behind me part of the way home. Took a drink at Lawshe's.
September 2. Rode with McEwen to Alexander Griffey's, on electioneering business. Went over the Muncy hills with Umbrella Hayes, whom I met at Shannon's. Stopped at Frederick's, in Pennsboro'. Met with Mrs. Pott's son-in-law, Fiester, and carried him home with me on the horse, three miles. 3d. Went to Shoe- maker's mills. Called on Robert Robb. He is eighty two; his wife, seventy. Went to Williamsport. Fed at Mrs. Moore's, then to Jaysburg, to Mrs. Dunlap's. Called to see John Davis and wife. She is a great Baptist. 4th. Went to James Stewart's, from that to Esquire Salmon's ; then to Larry's creek, at John Thomas' ; to She- rer's, at Jersey Shore. Called to see Lawshe, and then to Morri- son's, at Pine creek. 5th. Drank tea at Boyd Smith's. Great ball at Wilson's. Judge Cooper and Mrs. deGruchy led off the dance. Doctor Baldwin and wife there. 21st. The Governor's carriage in Derrstown, with Fred Evans. They brought citizen Kremer home in great pomp. 30th. Called on D. Smith, Esquire. He promised to attend to my business, but got into company, and soon got past business.
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October 19. The Governor's son, Prince John of the Isle of Que, commenced school with me. 29th. Colonel Chamberlin's wife had a young son, his twenty-third. He is above seventy-three years, I believe.
November 3. Clerked at Mrs. Hutchinson's vendue all day. Con- tinued over until to-morrow. Went to bed with the cryer and Der- rickson. Four ladies and a child slept in a bed in the same room. 7th. D. Reasoner married to Miss Hamil. 16th. Clerked at Lawshe's vendue. Spent a high old night. Four from Milton, three from Northumberland, and the sheriff full of mischief, not drunk. Markley cried the sale. 21st. Sunbury court. Peter Smith's wife fined one dollar for flogging Miss Adams. Esquire Youngman one cent for whipping Doctor Smith. 23d. At Shaffer's for breakfast this morning. Billy Covert and two other shoe-makers working at Clingan's. '[By the custom of that day, shoe-makers and tailors went to the houses of their employers.] The shoe-makers made thirteen pairs shoes, at 4s. 6d. per pair. 30th. . At Dale's. Met Colonel S. Dale on his way to the Assembly. [He was a son of Samuel Dale, deceased, and represented Mercer and Venango.]
2d December. Went with Koan Clark and James Forster's son, John, to Billy Forster's. Met Captain John Wilson there. Had eleven sorts of diet for supper. 5th. Got my shoes mended at Mr. Espy's, in Derrstown. A dose of salts at Doctor Beyers'. roth. Mr. Hood's text, Ecclesiastes, xi : 19-20. 13th. I gave one Meloner a certificate that he was taken prisoner with me on shipboard. 17th. At Derrstown, heard Kremer tell of arresting Langs for passing counterfeit money at four taverns and two stores. ISth. Eight strangers at supper. 19th. George, Tommy Scott, and Allison went to Colonel Kelly's. A quilting party there. Plenty of rye there. Mr. Allison, a spark of Betsey Kelly's. 25th. Christmas-very quiet. Met some Penn's valley folks, Billy Clark, and gentry, going to George's to spend the evening. 27th. Walter Clark called, and took George along to a " kicking frolic". [Old settlers well know what that means. ] 28th. Party at Mr. Hood's. McClures, How- ards, &c., there. Two turkeys and twelve sorts of diet. 30th. At Milton. Called at D. Smith's, McKisson's, Donaldson's, McCann's, Calhoun's, on Hannah Rees. Dined at Doctor Dougal's, with Sam Hood. 31st. General Baldy's wife has a young son.
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Marriages.
January 4, Henry Grove with Hannah Leisenring, of Lewisburg, (by Henry Spyker, Esquire,) in presence of his three brothers, John, Samuel, and Frank, two sisters, Betsey and Sarah, &c.
January 8, by same, Philip Frederick with Christena Brown, in presence of John Brown and wife, T. Sheckler and wife, Peter Brown and wife, Abraham Brown, George Frederick.
April 11, by A. McLanachan, Esquire, John Vandyke to Miss Margaret Adams, both of White Deer.
April 13, by same, John Ranck to Miss Nancy Luther.
June 11, by Henry Spyker, Esquire, General Christopher Baldy with Eve Metzgar.
June 28, by Henry Spyker, Esquire, Joseph Bower with Susanna Machamer.
July 25, by Henry Spyker, Esquire, Lawrence Martin with Polly Juge.
August 31, Robert Montgomery with Nancy Knox, in presence of her father, George Knox, her brother, James, and sister, Bell, (by Henry Spyker, Esquire.)
On Tuesday, the 12th October, by the Reverend Mr. Deffen- baugh, Mr. John Sierer, aged sixty-five, to the amiable Miss Louisa McMillan, aged nineteen, both of Buffalo; and on Thursday, the 2 Ist ultimo, by Esquire Hamilton, Mr. George Knox, of Derrstown, to Miss Jane McIlroy, near Pine Creek.
Deaths.
Tuesday, 2 1st March, in the fifty-seventh year of his age, John Linn, of White Deer township, of pleurisy, on the tenth day of his sickness. He was buried at Buffalo Cross-Roads, on the Thursday following. The funeral was attended by a large concourse of people. He was an inhabitant of this county upwards of thirty-six years, and twenty-one years an elder of Buffalo church, and principal clerk, conducting the music. He came into the Valley in 1772, and en- dured the hardships incident to the carly settlement of the country, frequently sleeping on his cabin floor, with a bag of grain for a pillow, and his rifle by his side. During the year 1779, while off
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on a tour of service, his cabin was spoiled by the Indians. He was married by his brother, Reverend Doctor William Linn, to Ann Fleming, of Middleton township, near Carlisle. She was of the Fleming family, of Chester county. Her ancestor, William Fleming, came over before 1714, and settled in Caln township, in Chester county. From there, his descendants moved up to Cumberland and Northumberland counties. John Linn's children were : Susan, married to William Thompson, (son of Captain James, ) in 1804, and shortly after removed to Venango county ; Ann, married to Andrew McBeth, a son of John McBeth, of Aaronsburg, died at Greencastle, Indiana, October 1873, aged eighty-six; William Linn, who moved to Miami county, Ohio, died there, October 26, 1834. John Linn, married to Mary F., daughter of Colonel Wil- liam Chamberlin. He resides at Mount Vernon, Ohio. Margaret Linn, married to Joseph McCalmont, of Venango county, died February 7, 1873. The late James F. Linn, Esquire, of Lewisburg, who died October 8, 1869, aged sixty-seven, and Jemima Linn, who died April 17, 1873.
Doctor William Kent Lathy, of Northumberland, July 28.
August 10, Mathew Huston, editor of Argus, aged fifty-one years. He was an officer in the Revolution, participated in the battles of White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown. Afterwards representative of the county of Philadelphia, and was six times elected clerk of the House. Father of the late Mrs. Hannah Taggert, of Northumberland, and of Andrew C. Huston, Esquire.
Albright Swineford died. His children were: Catherine Cum- mings, (wife of John, senior, and mother of John J.,) George, Mi- chael, Peter, and Jacob.
Adam Ranck, of White Deer. Children : Rachel, John, Daniel, Noah, Mary, and Adam, junior.
Conrad Reedy, of Buffalo. Children : John and Jacob.
John Beatty.
October 22, Colonel John Clarke, aged seventy-three. He is buried in the Lewis grave-yard. His children were : Jane, wife of David Watson, (mother of John C., William, and David Watson ;) Joseph Clarke, who had two children, William and Grace.
October 6, Mary Hutchinson, of White Deer township, aged sixty- seven, thirty-six years a resident of the Valley. Children : Sarah, 25
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wife of James Cornelius ; Mrs. Elizabeth Criswell, (mother of James, of Lewisburg.)
John Swineford. Children : John, Mary, married to Jacob Foltz ; Margaret, with George Snyder ; Susanna, with Jacob Fryer ; Eliza- beth, with John Smith; Catherine, with John Aurand ; Jacob, and Albright.
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COUNTERFEITERS ARRESTED-LANGS' SUICIDE-DANIEL DOUDLE-ROAN'S JOURNAL-NOTICE OF NATHAN EVANS.
ENATOR, James Laird. Representatives, John Murray, Jared Irwin, Leonard Rupert, Frederick Evans, elected in October. Treasurer, David Taggert. Commissioner elect, Joseph Gaston. Commissioners' Clerk, Nathan Patton. Postmaster at Mifflinburg, Thomas Youngman. Henry Yearick commissioned Justice of the Peace, June 4.
Passing counterfeit money seems a very prevalent offense. Doctor Thomas Barrett, of Danville, convicted. George Langs and Jared Langs also. Barrett made his escape from jail at Sunbury. Sheriff Lebo was complained of for his negligence with prisoners. At April term (20th) George Langs received his sentence. He bowed to the court, and retired. 'The next morning his daughter called on him. He asked her to withdraw a little while, and about one hour after- wards he was found hanging on an iron bed, near the door of his room. He was convicted of passing a counterfeit $20 note upon John Sargent, of Lewisburg.
Additional Residents East Buffalo-Bird, John and William ; Brewer, Matthew ; Brewer, Thomas; Clements. Michael ; Gross, Jacob, carpenter ; Hahn. Andrew; Kreisher, Henry; Lilly, Peter ; Slear, Charles ; Zellers, George.
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Lewisburg-Bower, Joseph ; Gordon, John B., dyer ; Hutchin- son, Alexander ; McClure, Matthew ; Pross, John. November .IO. McQuhae and Hepburn opened a new store.
New Berlin-Kessler, William ; Shout, John; Sproul, James, merchant.
White Deer-Caldwell, Daniel ; Dieffenbach, Adam ; Eyer, Dan- iel ; Guyer, John ; Haas, Peter; Huff, Thomas ; McKisson, James. single ; Reed, Robert.
West Buffalo-Beidelman, Valentine ; Bilman, Dewalt ; Braucher, Christian ; Deal, John, carpenter ; Wright, John.
Mifflinburg-Montelius, John. John Bergstresser bought Henry Snyder's mill on Rapid run. The latter probably died this year.
Daniel Doudle.
Daniel Doudle was an acquaintance of Governor Snyder in his boyhood, and in maturer years he would sometimes pay the Gover- nor a visit, at Selinsgrove, and thus formed acquaintance with George Kremer. After George moved to Derrstown, and established him- self in business and a bachelor's hall there, Daniel extended his visits thither, and became so much pleased that he resolved to forsake York altogether, and remain with George. Accordingly, he sent for his money, a considerable stock of dollars, and took up his abode in Derrstown. He and George agreed very well, for George humored him in all his whims, but he quarreled sadly with old Peggy Miller, the housekeeper. Sometimes he would come in a towering passion to George, with "Now, George, I can't live with the old devil any longer. Just send me off to Selinsgrove, to Simon, and he will send me to York." "Well, well," said George, " Roan (Clark) or John shall take you and your money in the cart to Selinsgrove as soon as you like." "Do you think," Daniel would reply, " I would trust myself with the damned rascals? They would murder me for my money before we got half way to Selinsgrove." Then an argument would commence on the honesty of Roan and John, which generally lasted until Daniel, in his rage against these two, had forgotten his wrath toward old Peggy. At length, Daniel fell into the hands of an old Methodist woman, who, by her exliortations, made consider- able impression on him. After spending an evening at Mother
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Grove's, Daniel came home with a face so solemn and important that the whole family noticed it, and, knowing where he had been, the clerks followed him on his retreat to bed, and peeped and listened at his door. Daniel locked his door, looked carefully around, undressed, (taking off his hat the last of all, as was his custom,) kneeled by the bedside, and commenced thus : "O, Lord God; " then ensued a long pause. Up rose Daniel, exclaiming " It is too damned cold to pray here!" and jumped into bed. Whether Dan- iel made another effort to pray is uncertain. He once acted god- father for one of his friend's children. The clergyman asked the name of the child. Daniel, understanding him to ask his name, promptly replied : " Daniel Doudle, to be sure. Don't you know me any more?" Daniel, at this time eighty years of age, usually. dressed himself once a day in state, in a blue silk-velvet coat, white vest, ruffled shirt, brown silk-velvet small-clothes, and turned-up shoes, and paraded hinself down to the river bank and back, to exhibit himself to the ladies. He lived to be one hundred and one or one hundred and two years of age, dying in August, 1828, at Mr. Kremer's, near Middleburg, where his bones rest with those of his friends, Frederick Evans and George Kremer. Certainly three more singular men were never so intimately associated in life and rest so close together in the solemn silence of death.
Among other characters of this date, were Billy Nicholas, a car- penter of White Deer, and old Mr. Mook, the revolutionary soldier. Saturday was the usual day to assemble in Lewisburg, and getting pretty drunk, old Mook asserted he could " hex a bullet" at an hun- dred yards. Mook held a silver bullet in his hand and began pow- wowing. Billy shot from the porch of Metzgar's tavern, knocked the bullet out of Mook's finger, skinning the latter considerably, thus disabusing Mook's mind of the idea that he could "hex."
Roan's Journal.
January 23. T. Clingan had a water-smeller, to find where he should put the well on his place. Grand ball at Baldy's. Poaks and a number from Milton there. 24th. Rees' vendue at Derrs- town.
April 8. T. Clingan, Wilson Smith, and I went to Daniel Smith's
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funeral ; eighteen chairs and carriages ; one hundred and twenty on horseback. 14th. Planted two Lombardys at the school-house. Met Mr. Coryell at Poak's. He brought his family from Williamsport in a canoe. 1 7th. Review day. Seven hundred on parade at Derrs- town.
June 2. Hoffman sold his place to one Boal. 3d. At Chillis- quaque grave-yard. Saw Dan Smith's grave. 4th. I dreamed Dan Smith came to life, and exhorted us to " remember our Creator in the days of our youth." Hail storm broke a great quantity of glass at Derrstown. 5th. George Clark left for the State of Ohio. IIth. John Clark died. 12th. Fair at Sunbury. 18th. General Baldy's flitting in town. Moving to Cayuga lake. 22d. Fast day. Clerked at the election of elders. 23d. Mr. Grier ordained four elders.
July 3. Rode with Adam Smith to Centre county. Stopped at Wilt's and fed at Miles', at Aaronsburg. 4th. Met Esquire Woods, Barbers, and a great company at Gregg's. 5th. At Mrs. Van Horn's, a very fashionable old lady. Dined at James Potter's, with Doctor Dobbins. 6th. Saw the grave Nuby was stolen from. 27th. Fair at Derrstown. 29th. Buffalo creek higher than it has been for twenty years. Mr. Hood could not attend church. Hudson's surrounded.
August 2d. Esquires Hall, Evans, Albright, and Maclay at an audit, in Derrstown. 9th. Black Judy came to wash. 24th. Met John Hayes and his brother, Patrick, at Esquire Gray's. 31st. Thirty bills for bastardy before the grand jury.
September 6th. Robert Boveard married to Hugh Wilson's daugh- ter, the amiable Miss Peggy.
October 4th. Mr. Priestly got Clingan's carriage to carry his family to Philadelphia, on their way to England. 9th. Clerked at the election, at Derrstown. One hundred and forty-eight votes polled. George Smith candidate for Congress; no opposition. James Laird vs. A. Mckinney for Senate; Laird elected. Candi- dates for Assembly, John Murray, Fred Evans, Jarad Irwin, Leon- ard Rupert, D. Montgomery, and Samuel Maclay. Commissioners, George Holstein and Flavel Roan. 13th. I have seven hundred and eighty-six majority for commissioner. 14th. Hugh McLaugh- lin's wife buried. 16th. Battalion at Derrstown. Sergeant and James Patterson had a box. Great dinner at Billmyer's.
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November 11th. Esquire Harding here, on his way from Luzerne county to Kentucky. His horse got lame; they killed a cat and put it to his foot.
December 3d. Doctor Dougal dissected black Tom, and made an anatomy of him. 18th. Went to Esquire Gray's to see Samuel Hutchinson married to Jenny Wallace. Groom did not come. I went up to Hoffman's to see what was the matter. He could not cross for ice. Came down in a sleigh to Nesbit's, and crossed there.
Marriages.
March 13, Moses Bower with Catherine Moyer, daughter of Philip, in presence of her brother, Peter, John Fulmer and wife. March 15, Joel Ranck with Sarah Long, daughter of Joseph, in presence of his father, John Ranck. May 27, George Bower with Polly Smith, daughter of Michael, deceased. August 26, Sunday, Anthony Selin, of Selinsgrove, to Miss Catherine Yoner, of Sunbury. Same day, Conrad Weiser to Elizabeth Snyder, both of Penn township. Octo- ber 7, Philip Stahl with Susanna Spotz. October 9, William High- land with Mary Gann, widow of Christian. November 11, Michael Meyer with Sarah Kelley. December 13, by Reverend T. Hood, Washington Dunn, of Lycoming county, to Miss Betsy Musser, of White Deer. December 18, by Reverend Mr. Patterson, Samuel Hutchinson, of Derry, to Mrs. Jenny Wallace, daughter of Captain William Gray, White Deer.
Deaths.
April 6, at his seat, at Milton, aged forty-five, Daniel Smith, Esquire, attorney-at-law. Left a widow, Cassandra. Children : Samuel, Jasper, and Grace. He was buried at Chillisquaque grave- yard. July 7, Alexander Hunter, former treasurer of the county. Joseph J. Wallis, deputy surveyor. Peter Getz, East Buffalo. July 4. John Weirick. Children : William, Sarah, and John. October 15, Albright Swineford, born February 16, 1728. Henry Myers, West Buffalo. Children : Henry, Daniel, Valentine, William, John, Elizabeth, wife of Royer, Mary, and Eve Maria. Joseph Ultz, West Buffalo. November -, Thomas Forster, of West Buffalo. Left
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widow, Jane. Children: John, William, Thomas, Mary, and Eliz- abeth Jane.
Nathan Evans died this year, and his widow removed to Bucks county with his family. He was an active christian, and he and his wife were Baptists. He was in the habit of preaching at Baptist meetings, although not a clergyman. His granddaughter, Mrs: Professor C. S. James, of Lewisburg, has in her possession many abstracts of his sermons, preached in the Valley.
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HARTLEY TOWNSHIP ERECTED-PRESBYTERY OF NORTHUMBERLAND FORMED -IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE COOPER-REVEREND YOST HENRY FRIES- DEATH OF HONORABLE SAMUEL MACLAY, AND NOTICE OF HIS FAMILY.
M EMBER of Congress, George Smith. Senator, James Laird. Members elected in October, Samuel Bond, Ja- red Irwin, Andrew McClenachan, and Frederick Evans. President Judge, Seth Chapman, commissioned July 11. Register and Recorder, John L. Finney, commissioned April 3. County Commissioner elect, Flavel Roan.
April sessions, Robert Barber, John Wilson, and Peter Fisher reported favorably to the erection of a new township, to be called Hartley, by the following boundaries: Beginning on the line be- tween West Buffalo and Washington townships; thence along the same to the four-mile tree, on Reuben Haines' road, on the line of Centre county ; thence south along said line, across Penn's creek, to the top of Jack's mountain ; thence along the summit, to a point south of where Adam Laughlin formerly lived ; thence north across Penn's creek, and by a line of marked trees, to the beginning.
By a resolution of the Synod of Philadelphia, May 16, the Pres- bytery of Northumberland was set off from that of Huntingdon by
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the following line : Beginning at the mouth of Mahantango creek, a north-west course to the west branch of the Centre and Lycoming county lines, leaving eastward Reverends Asa Dunham, John Bryson, Isaac Grier, John B. Patterson, Thomas Hood, and their respective charges, and the vacant charges of Great Island, Pine Creek, and Lycoming.
Additional Residents of West Buffalo-Aikey, Lewis ; Beaucher, Jacob ; Orwig, Jacob; Schnure, Christian ; John Bergstresser, taxed with oil and fulling-mills.
Mifflinburg-Clark, Roan, merchant ; Wallis, Doctor Thomas.
White Deer-Boal, John; Covert, Isaac, ferry at Caldwell's; Davis, Stephen, miller at Dan Caldwell's; DeHaven, Jacob, shoe- maker, on Roan McClure's place : Heitzman, Jacob ; Leiser, Jacob ; Mervine, Samuel, brick-maker ; Sypher, Peter; Williman, Thomas.
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