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"U. 13. That the venders of merchandise of every kind within the Province, ought not to take advantage of the resolves relating to non-importation in this Province or elsewhere, but they ought to sell their merchandise which they now have, or may hereafter im- port, at the same rates they have been accustomed to do within three months last past.
" U. 14. That the people of this Province will break off all trade, commerce, and dealing, and will have no trade, commerce, or deal- ing of any kind with any Colony on this continent, or with any city or town in such Colony, or with any individual in any such Colony, city, or town, which shall refuse, decline, or neglect to adopt and carry into execution such general plan as shall be agreed to in Con- gress.
"U. 15. That it is the duty of every member of this committee to promote as much as he can the subscription set on foot in the sev-
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eral counties of this Province for the relief of the distressed inhab- itants of Boston.
"U. 16. That this committee give instructions on the present situation of public affairs to their Representatives who are to meet . next week in Assembly, and request them to appoint a proper num- ber of persons to attend a congress of Deputies from the several Colonies, at such time and place as may be agreed upon, to effect one general plan of conduct, for attaining the great and important ends mentioned in the ninth resolve."
The instructions are too long to be copied. They commence, how- ever, with a recital that the dissensions between Great Britain and her Colonies commenced some ten years since, and arose from the power claimed by Parliament to bind the people of the Colonies by statutes, in all cases whatsoever, when from local circumstances they could not be represented in it. The object of the convention of Deputies is stated to be to obtain a renunciation on the part of Great Britain of all powers under the statute of 35 Henry 8th, cap. 2-of all powers of internal legislation, of imposing taxes or duties, internal or external, and of regulating trade, except with respect to any new articles of commerce, such as silk, wine, &c., which the Colonies may hereafter raise, reserving the right to carry these from one Colony to another; to obtain a repeal of all statutes for quarter- ing troops in the Colonies, or subjecting them to any expense on account of such troops; of all statutes imposing duties to be paid in the Colonies, that were passed at the accession of his present Majesty, or before this time, which-ever period shall be judged most advisable ; of the statutes giving courts of admiralty in the Colonies greater power that the courts of admiralty have in England ; of the statutes shutting up the port of Boston and affecting the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Offering, in case this was agreed to, to settle a certain annual revenue on His Majesty, his heirs and successors, and to satisfy all damages done to the East India Company-the execu- tive powers of the crown to retain their present full force and oper- ation, and we to receive all manufactures from Great Britain, and in case of war, to contribute all aid in our power. In the event of a refusal of these terms, agreements of non-importation and non- exportation were recommended, " and a continual claim and asser- tion of our rights."
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These proceedings being communicated to the General Assembly, it took up and promptly (22d July) passed a resolution " that there is an absolute necessity that a Congress of Deputies from the several Colonies be held as soon as conveniently may be, to consult upon the unhappy state of the Colonies, and to form a plan for the pur- pose of obtaining redress of American grievances, &c., and for establishing that union and harmony between Great Britain and the Colonies which is indispensably necessary to the welfare and happi- ness of both." ·
During this year Catherine Smith, widow of Peter Smith, com- menced building a grist and saw-mill near the mouth of White Deer creek, which she completed in 1775. See her statement, year 1785.
5th July, Robert Fruit and Thomas Hewitt, county commissioners, at the request of Ludwig Derr, who desired to borrow money from the loan office, valued the land, three hundred and twenty acres, (now the site of Lewisburg,) " on which said Derr now lives, having a grist and saw-mill, dwelling-house and barn, clear upland and meadow, at £1,000, Pennsylvania currency." On 7th, their sworn valuation of Robert Clark's, now Judge Hummel's, two hundred and fourteen acres, et al., dwelling-house, and barn, was £428; Walter Clark's, (Slifer place,) one hundred and eighty-eight acres, dwelling-house, and barn, £564; Aurand mill tract, (now Jenkins,) grist-mill, two pair stones, saw-mill, dwelling-house, and barn, two hundred and twenty-eight acres, at £700.
Buffalo Cross-Roads Presbyterian Church.
We come now to the first record evidence in regard to Buffalo Cross-Roads church. December 17, Edward Shippen and Joseph, his brother, by a written agreement, on the application of some of the inhabitants of Buffalo Valley, agreed to give a lot of five acres, to be laid off at the north-east corner of the Edward Bonsall tract, including a spring, for the purpose of erecting a meeting-house thereon for the Presbyterian congregation. The building was probably erected the ensuing year. The only clew I can find is a receipt among my grandfather's papers dated December 23, 1773, to William Rodman for ten pounds, being in full of a subscription lodged in his hands for building a meeting-house in Buffalo Valley,
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signed William Clark, Thomas Hutchinson, who were probably the building committee. In 1797 the Shippens made a deed to Samuel Dale and David Watson, trustees appointed by the congregation for that purpose. The courses and distances are important, as the land has been encroached upon. Beginning at a white oak; thence by land then vacant, now (1797) said to belong to Francis Zellers, N. 51º E. 20 perches, to white oak; thence S. 39º E. 40 ; thence S. 51º W. 20; thence N. 39º W. 40 ; " for the use of such person or persons who now are, and from time to time hereafter shall be, inhabitants of said Valley, members of and forming together a Presbyterian congregation, to have a meeting-house for worship and a place of burial thereon, and for no other purpose." Deed book " C," page 81, Union county.
It seems from Doctor Greer's statement that the church received an additional grant of five acres adjoining, of the " Isaiah Althouse" tract, either of Henry Vandyke or Francis Zeller, former owners. The old church was accordingly built on both tracts and the one half on land now claimed by Daniel Reugler, as an inspection of the old foundation will show, and many persons were buried in Mr. Reugler's field. The Althouse tract was patented to Henry Vandyke, 14th of December, 1774. On the same day he sold off to Captain John Foster nineteen acres and ninety-four perches, adjoining Foster's. Henry Vandyke's will, dated 18th October, 1782, wills his mansion, farm and tan-yard to John. John and Martha, his wife, sell to Francis Zeller two hundred and eighty-nine acres. This would, therefore, include the alleged five acres given to the church. It is probable, therefore, that Francis Zeller was the donor, and the addition made in 1789 to the building was put on that part.
Flavel Clingan says " the old church had three doors and nine windows, one immediately behind the pulpit and two on each of the ends and sides. Part of the church covered where the present pulpit is, and extended out into the fields behind the present church, that it was put on the line of the two grants of five acres each, and the careless trustees lost five acres when Mr. Reugler bought."
Surveys, &c.
Among the surveys made this year in " Upper Moreland," as Hartley township territory was then called, William McMurray, on
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the 3Ist of May, surveyed the Jacob Young and Conrad Weiser tracts ; also Anthony Fricker and Daniel Levan; June 2, Philip Cole tract, adjoining Jacob Landis.
In this year William McCandlish, senior, and Samuel Martin came from North Britain, and settled on the Billmyer place, after- wards Gebhart's, and the place now owned by Joseph Meixell's heirs; which Martin sold to George May, who sold it to Thomas Wilson, (grandfather of Francis Wilson,) 30th July, 1793.
James Young settled on the place now owned by David Gross, in Union township. Isaac Hanna, a gunsmith, from Lancaster, bought it in 1780 for £600. Three hundred and nine acres, et al.
The Weyland place, (now George F. Miller, Esquire,) in Kelly, was valued at 4os. per acre by witnesses.
Titzell's Mill.
Ist of December is the date of the deed from William Robb and Olive, his wife, to Henry Titzell, for fifty acres on Little Buffalo creek, the mill tract now owned by Jonas Rauch, in White Deer township. The mills were built during this winter, as he is assessed in 1775 with grist and saw mill. Titzell's mill was a rendezvous during the Revolution, and a station of the defenders of the fron- tiers.
Titzell never returned from Cumberland county after the great runaway of 1778, and we find Nagel Gray, of Northampton county, in possession in 1783, and a conveyance from Titzell to Gray on the 5th of May, 1786. Gray died the same year, and his son John took the tract, who, with Jane his wife, sold to George Reniger on the 18th of April, 1796. Reniger failed, and it went by the name of Kelly's mills for a long time after, until Mr. Rauch's purchase.
Deaths.
Joseph Rotten, of Buffalo, died this year. His will is the first one recorded at Sunbury, on 4th August. He left a widow, Mary, children, Thomas, Roger, and Elizabeth, He lived up Penn's creek, near White springs. Samuel Mathers and James McCoy witnessed it.
Thomas McGuire also died in June. He left a son, Francis.
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Major Ennion Williams' Journal.
Ennion Williams, afterwards major of Colonel Miles' rifle regi- ment, kept a journal of a trip to the frontiers. The original is in possession of Captain A. H. McHenry, the noted surveyor of Jersey Shore, from which I extract :
" October 19, at Fort Augusta, Messrs. Scull, Maclay, Hunter, Troy, &c., entertained me in a very kind and friendly manner. October 25, started for Kishacoquillas valley, with William Foster ; forded the river, and arrived at Wolfe's tavern, two miles from Sun- bury, (this must have been at Shamokin dam,) where I took sud- denly sick. A person in the next room played so pleasantly on a violin, and with such an effect, I was soon able to get up. We then passed through a level country to Michael Swingle's, eight miles ; thence to Is. Dalton's, on Middle creek. The land here is good. We lately sold it for £100 per hundred acres. We passed through Potter's tract, which is very fine land, and John Swift's land, which is very good. Several friends settled above this. The land is well timbered-walnut, black oak, and maple-and a very pretty valley, called Beaver Dam valley. 27th, slept at Nathaniel Hazen's on a chaff bed on the floor ; breakfast-elegant milk, butter, pumpkin butter, Indian corn, and venison. (Snyder county fare in the olden time.) Then rode nine miles through a valley between Jack's mountain and Limestone ridge.
" We crossed the run on which is our one hundred and fifty-nine acres, with a mill seat. The stream is now pretty large. The land is stony, but very well timbered. October 27, Hazen tells me that Reed has got (within this twelve months) a warrant for the hundred and fifty-nine acres, and that he intends to build a mill there, in spite of any person. They say that he is a scheming fellow, and that he has taken out warrants for other person's lands, as well as ours. We dined in the shade of a tree, screened from the remark- able heat of the sun, and fed our horses on a blanket near a run, and eat heartily of our hard cakes and solid venison. We continued up this valley, and passed by some good bottoms, with poplar, wal- nut, and shelbark, &c .; but there are no large bodies together. The road is very stony for several miles, yet level, and the land well timbered.
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" Foster's, and the land near it, is very good wheat land, and but little meadow. We passed in sight of our two hundred acres on a branch of Jack's creek, in the name of D. Beveridge, and the land near is very good meadow ground." The D. Beveridge tract he describes as situate on Mitchel Springs, which empties into Jack's creek about two miles from Kishacoquillas, (probably now in Deca- tur township, Mifflin county.)
On the 19th of July a petition was presented to the Assembly from the inhabitants of Northumberland county, stating that the county was but thinly inhabited, and had within the limits of its jurisdiction a great body of intruders from the Colony of Connecticut, who refused subjection to the government, and that they found them- selves unable to enforce the laws, through the want of a proper goal ; whereupon an act was promptly passed, on the 23d, granting £800 out of the treasury to build a goal.
1775.
PENNSYLVANIA CONVENTION-ASSESSMENT LIST OF BUFFALO-REVOLUTION- ARY STRUGGLE INAUGURATED-ROLL OF CAPTAIN JOHN LOWDON'S AND CAPTAIN JAMES PARR'S COMPANIES.
OHN PENN, Governor. Samuel Hunter, member of Assembly. On the 20th of May, James Potter was re- turned, and took his seat as additional member of Assem- bly. Samuel Hunter and William Plunket presided in turn over the courts. 29th July, Samuel Maclay, Robert Robb, John Weitzel, and Henry Antis, Justices of the Quarter Sessions, &c. March 17, Alexander Hunter was appointed Collector of Excise, vice Thomas Lemmon. 12th October, William Scull was commis- sioned Sheriff; Samuel Harris, Coroner. County Commissioners, Casper Reed, William Gray, Esquire; County Assessors; Paul Ged- des, George Wolfe, Joseph Green, James McClure, John Weitzel,
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and James McClenachan. Officers of Buffalo : Constable, Henry Vandyke; Overseers, John Thompson and John Aurand ; Supervi- sors, Robert Clark and Henry Pontius.
On the 23d of January the convention for the Province of Penn- | sylvania assembled at Philadelphia, and continued until the 28th. William Plunket, Esquire, and Casper Weitzel, Esquire, representing the county of Northumberland.
This convention approved of the proceedings of the Continental Congress, recommended a law prohibiting the future importation of slaves into the Province; resolved to afford all necessary assistance and relief in case the trade of the city of Philadelphia should be sus- pended in consequence of the struggle ; that it was the earnest wish to see harmony restored between Great Britain and the Colonies, but in the event the former should determine to effect a submission by force to the late arbitrary acts of Parliament, it was our indis- pensable duty to resist such force, and at every hazard to defend the rights and liberties of America.
It was resolved to kill no sheep under four years old, or sell such to the butchers, and the setting up of woolen manufactures, especi- ally for coating, flannel, blankets, rugs, &c., was recommended ; also, the raising of madder and dye stuffs, flax and hemp, making of salt and saltpeter, gunpowder, nails and wire, making of steel, paper, setting up manufactures of glass, wool, combs, cards, copper in sheets, bottoms and kettles. It was further recommended to the inhabitants to use the manufactures of their own and neighbor- ing Colonies, in preference to all others; and that a manufacturer or vender of goods who should take advantage of the necessities of the country to raise prices should be considered an enemy to his , country.
At February sessions, Samuel Maclay, Henry Pontius, William Irwin, and William Gray reported the first public road ever laid out by order of court through the Valley. Haines' road ran from Northumberland, by way of Dry valley, crossing into Limestone township now, and along Penn's creek, and by way of the Narrows, into Penn's valley, where he owned large tracts of land about Aaronsburg ; but this was a private enterprise. His four mile tree is referred to as a landmark ever since his day, standing in the center of the Narrows. The road we now speak of commenced on Lud-
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wig Derr's land, about fifteen perches above where Christian Het- rick * now lives, at a hickory on the West Branch of the Susque- hanna, and ran the following courses and distances : S. 85° W. 742, to white oak, W. 156 post; N. 85° W. 80, pine; S. 85° W. 300; S. 70° WV. 550, pine ; S. 82° W. 224, black oak; S. 67º W. 174, white oak; S. 74° W. 138, pine; S. 49° W. 138; S. 62° W. 419; S. 75° W. 168; S. 85° W. 158, white oak; N. 87º W. 98; S. 71º W. 136; S. 85° W. 266; S. 75° W. 116, white oak : twelve miles twenty-eight perches. After protracting, I found the course to correspond with the site of the road as described by old citizens, viz: Leaving the river at Strohecker's landing, it passed up his lane and by an old house that formerly stood in the south- west corner of Adam Gundy's field; thence along the line between John G. Brown and J. M. Linn, or near it, to and through Mortons- ville, through or by the site of Ellis Brown's new house, to a white oak about one hundred rods west of his house. Thus far one course. Thence it curved about the hill, and ran in front of Frederick's, where stood the pine ; and thence by Schrack's it ran straight, crossing the present turnpike beyond Biehl's tavern. It then ran north of the turnpike a little distance ; thence along its site to another pine which stood near where the Great Western hotel now stands; thence it fol- lowed the turnpike site until it reached its terminus, where the Orwig mill road now comes out upon the turnpike, east line of Jane Little warrantee, one hundred and twenty rods west of the offi- cers' survey. It was ordered to be opened thirty-three feet.
Inhabitants in 1775.
It appears, from a memorandum made by Daniel Montgomery, in 1781, that the county assessments were carried off to Paxton (Har- risburg) in 1778, and those of 1773, 1774, and 1776 lost.
The following list is copied from that of 1775, which is in the handwriting of Joseph Green, grandfather of Joseph Green, of Lewisburg. I copy it in full. Matter in brackets I have added. It enumerates the acres of cultivated land, of horses, cows, sheep, slaves, and servants belonging to each settler :
* His name is sometimes written Espig. Hetrick resided near the site of John Strohecker's present residence. He was afterwards killed by the Indians. (See postea, 1781.)
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ANNALS OF BUFFALO VALLEY.
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Acres.
Horses.
Cows.
Sheep.
Slaves.
Servants.
Allen, Samuel .
45
2
2
Aurand, Henry
15
I
2
Albright, Jacob
6
I
2
Aurand, Jacob
4
I
I
Aurand, Daniel.
IO
I
I
Armstrong, William
18
I
2
Aurand, John
40
2
3
Books, George
I 2
2
3
Buchanan, James. .
30
2
2
3
Burn, Peter .
IO
2
I
H
Beatty, Alexander.
30
2
2
Bolender, John.
20
Beatty, Hugh.
Inmate to Thomas Sutherland. [Now Henry Mertz's.]
Bickel, Henry ..
IO
I
2
Brunner, Jacob. .
4
2
2
Barnett, Matthew.
Bolender, Henry ..
I5
Baker, Wendell.
20
2
2
I
Bashor, John .
4
I
I
Baker, Jacob .. . ....
30
2
2
Brundage, Joseph. .
50
2
2
Black, Thomas . . . .
6
I
2
Tenant on James Bremmer's land. Tenant of James Bremmer. [D. H. Kelly's.] [N. W. of New Columbia. 7 [Hoffman's, above Datisman's. ] Stahl's saw-mill, [n'r Union ch.] [Isaac Eyre, sr.] Inmate to James Boveard.
1 Boveard, James . . Boveard, William, Bower, Casper Brosius, John Boone, Hawkins.
IO
2
2
IO
2
2
6
Bennett, William. . Blythe, William. .
3
I
I
I2
Bennett, William,jr.
I7
I
.
3
Blue, Frederick. .. .
10
I
I
Brown, Matthew. . .
60
I
2
.
.
I
7
. ·
.
And grist-mill on land belonging to Wm. Blythe. On Wm. Blythe's land.
50
2
2
20
Also grist and saw- mill. [Late A.McClure's, now Stolzfus. ] A new settler.
1 Boveard is marked a free man, which, under Markham's charter, indicated an elector's qualification. " No person shall be capable of being an elector, or of being elected, unless of the age of twenty-one, and have fifty acres of land, ten whereof being seated or cleared, or be otherwise worth £50, clear estate, and have been resident within the government two years before such election."
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[1775.
Acres.
Horses.
Cows.
Sheep.
Slaves ..
Servants.
Cornell, Abraham,
Clark, William.
15
2
2
Cole, Philip.
25
2
3
.
.
Clarke, John .
50
2
3
6
I
I
Crawford, Edward,
5
I
I
Clark, Walter .
60
2
4
IO
I
Clark. William
50
2
3
2
I
Cupples, David.
IO
2
2
Cook, Henry.
7
I
2
Caldwell, Hugh
35
2
2
Clark, Robert
60
2
3
Carson, James.
2
Correy, Robert
I
I
Carter, William.
15
I
2
Coon, Nicholas.
IO
2
3
Ditelman, Peter
2
Duchman, Stephen,
IO
I
Doudrick, John.
3
I
I
Derr, Ludwig
30
5
4
2
Dale, Samuel
20
I
2
Doty, Levi.
15
I
I
Davis, John.
Deats, Morris .
5
I
I
Deats, David.
36
I
Dale, Christian
2
2
I
Derr, Yost
15
I
I
Duncan, David
2
4
Daniel, Adam.
3
Emerick, David
3
.
Evey, Adam . Etsweiler, George. .
3º
. . .
2
.
I5
2
2
3
[Coryell ?]
[Hartleton. ] [He lived on the first farm above Mifflinburg ; the name of his slave was " Mel."] Lives with William Bennett & crops on the shares.
Inmate to John
Kelly.
Poor ; [lived where late Jno.Schrack, Esquire, lived.] Lives on Derr's land. [Adam Young's.] Grist and saw-mill.
Is a mason ; lives at Abel Reese's.
Lives on Peter Wilson's place, [now Jas. Law- son, Esquire's.] Lives on L. Derr's. Tenant on Colonel Francis', below Grove's, [now WV. T. Linn's.] [Widow Brown's tavern in Union township.] On Simon Snithers' land.
.
.
Cooper, Robert
I
2
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Acres.
Horses.
Cows.
Sheep.
Slaves.
Servants.
Eaken, John.
I
I
Elder, Thomas
I
I
Eyer, Abraham
4
2
2
Evey, Christian .
[ 2
2
I
Farren, James.
5
Fought, Jonas.
20
2
3
4
Fought, Michael .. . Frederick, George ..
I3
I
3
I
.
Frederick, Peter ...
13
2
2
.
40
2
4
I
60
L
2
I
Fruit, Robert.
3
3
5
I
I
Fisher, John . . Fisher, Christian. .. Fought, Conrad. .
5
I
I
Fisher, Samuel.
3
2
2
Ferry.
Fulton, John.
15
I
2
Fleming, Hans
15
I
2
Up Black's run.
Filey, John .
35-
3
I
Green, Joseph .
3º
2
2
IO
I
IO
I
2
49
I
3
2
60
2
3
7
2
.
IO
I
3
I
2
4
2
IO
2
2
Ferry.
Huston, John. . .
8
I
I
Grist and saw mill.
Haines, George .... Hessler, Michael .. . Hessler, John ..
30
2
3
3
6
2
I
I
Hunter, Samuel, . . Hamilton, Robert .. Hoy, Philip.
IO
5
2
I
I
I
28
I
I
3
I2
2
2
I
[South Chap. Hol. low. ] Lives with Jonas. [These two lived at Cross Roads on McCreight's.]
Foster, John, senior, Fought, Jacob ..... Foster, William ... . Foster, John, junior, Fleming. James.
20
2
3
3
IO
IO
2
I
I
2
[Datisman's. ] [White Deer mills. ]
Glen, Andrew . . Greenlee, William .. Grochang, Jacob ..
[Afterwards Emer- ick's. ] [Heberling's. ]
Gundy, Christ., Van Gray, William .. . . Gibson, Andrew ... Green, Ebenezer .. . Graham, Edward. . Graham, Thomas . . Groninger, Leonard Grove, Michael.
100
I
[Paul Geddes. ] Ferry.
20
I
2
2
5
I
IO
100
.
On Rob. Clark's. Living on James Fleming's, (late James Dale's.)
.
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ANNALS OF BUFFALO VALLEY.
1775.]
Acres.
Horses.
Cows.
Sheep.
Slaves.
Servants.
Hiney, Hieronimus Hiltman, John ....
7
I
I
6
2
2
Capt Irwin's place. [John Beeber's, on Buffalo.] [Doctor Dougal's.]
Heckel, Andrew . .. Hammond, David ..
2
3
I
I
IO
I
I
40
I
1
50
2
2
[Little
Buffalo creek.]
Huling, Marcus ...
5
I
I
Irwin, William. .
24
2
3
5
I
Iterburn, Jacob ..
5
2
2
Johnston, Alex
20
I
I
Jordan, William. . .
20
2
I
Klinesmith, Baltzer,
I5
2
I
Kilday, John.
IO
I
Keen, Jacob.
5
I
I
Leonard Peter,
15
2
I
Lee, John.
20
I
I
IO
I
Leech, William .
35
I
I
Lewis, Daniel. :
9
I
I
Laughlin, Samuel. . Links, Jacob.
25
4
3
Low, Cornelius.
40
3
3
Leas, Nicholas.
.
3
Low, William
7
I
2
Luckens, Thomas. .
25
2
2
Lowdon, John. . .
50
6
6
I
2
Miller, Benjamin .. . McKelvey, James. .
4
I
I
Moore, James.
25
I
I
McCashon, John .. . Miller, Frederick. . Miller, Jacob. .
7
.
5
2
Lives on George Cribble's land. [William Stadden's White Deer. ] Lives on George Shultz's land. On John Reed's, [mouth of White Deer creek. ] On Dr. Wiggins' land, [now Ma- jor Simonton's.]
Freeman. Adjoining William Clark's. On John Boal's land, on White Deer creek. New settler.
Lives on James Thom's land. On Joseph Green's land.
Lives on Abram Cribble's land, [de Haas' large tract.]
Hammond, James .. Hunter, James. . . . . Hutchinson, Thos .. Hood, Elizabeth .. . Harbster, David. .
50
20
2
2
I
I
.
I
Kelly, Lawrence.
30
I
I
71
ANNALS OF BUFFALO VALLEY.
1775.]
Acres.
Horses.
Cows.
Sheep.
Slaves.
Servants.
Maclay, Samuel
25
2
2
. .
.
I
I
Slave aged 20.
Moor, William.
I3
I
2
Myers, Henry.
6
2
I
McCoy, James. . . .
15
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2
Mathers, Samuel . . .
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2
2
Mitchell, John. . .
12
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McCandlish, Wm ..
16
2
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Martin, Samuel. ..
15
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Martin, Robert ...
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Mclaughlin, James,
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McGinnet, Charles .
9
2
2
McMahan, Patrick.
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2
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