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it unhealthy and disagreeable, and from this until the 4th No- vember have been prevented from a daily relation, of what occur'd during the march from Mount Rock to Bedford over the Mountains, Peters. Tuscarora, Sidling, &c., rendered it ex- ceeding fatiguing, and was bore with the greatest Fortitude & could not be exceeded by old Veterans ; " during this Period the horse brought in many that have been proved to be unfa- vorable to government. the taken of one of them give great sat- isfaction to the fatigued Soldiery. After being here a few days I entered into the Commissary Department.
Mosher, who marched out as our capt" was elected here as Col. comt of a Regime of infantry, used me very ill. 20 active men out of 45, owing to sickness, made the duty very hard upon the remainder. I therefore exerted myself and procured the appointment of Issuing Commissary of the Clothing and Artillery Stores for the four armies.+ On the 22nd of Oct", I entered into my new station and on that day the army moved from Bedford to the Westward. Mr. Moderwel, a young man that marched as a Volunteer from Lan" in the same Company, was appointed Issuing Commissary with me.
* The troops marched from Carlisle to Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh) by way of Shippensburg, Strasburg, ( Upper Strasburg,) Fort Lyttle- ton, Sideling Hill, Bedford, Ligonier and Greensburg, and returned by the same route leaving Pittsburgh on the 15th of November, 1794. without firing a gun or the loss of a single man, except two killed at Carlisle, on the outward march, by accident.
+ "When the Pennsyl army arrived at Bedford and where we halted several days there came a Cap' Gamble of the U. States army into our camp and called on Cap Mosher, my Capt, to know if a cer- tain Wm Michael was in his company and whether I was in camp. Mosher told him I was. Capt. Gamble then told him he bad an order froin Colonel Alex" Hamilton to take me if I was willing to assist the forwarding and issuing the Clothing and military stores for the four armies. Mosher opposed my going ; however, his authority (C. Gam- ble's) wasnot to be resisted. I was called and asked if I was willing. As the duties of the Camp become tiresome many of the men sick, made the duty barder on the rest, made me readily accept. Thus was I raised without application or solicitation from a private to a deputy issuing Commissary. Three or four men at all times to wait on me, a liberal compensation and a good warm bed to sleep in every night. Who it was that recommended me to Col Hamilton, I have never been able to learn."- MS. of Michael accompanying Journal.
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22. We marched at our ease. Put our Baggage. Musquets, &c., in our Waggons, which we had to the number of fifty or sixty loaden'd with Stores. Could procure anything we pleased on the way.
23 of' Oct. We had another agreeable day for marching, the last for a long time.
24. It began to rain for 13 or 14 days successively; here fol- lowed a long Chain of inconveniences. Foundering of Horses, others lame, sick, &c., Waggons breaking, &c., that is beyond Conception to any but those who were witness's thereto; our March severe, greatly retarded by the seeking and pressing of Horses and Waggons as the greater part of the People here were either more or less disaffected to the Government and therefore rendered it Considerable more difficult to procure the means for Conveying our Stores. However, the Gentlemen whom we acted under, the Superintendent, Captain Gamble, be- ing acquainted in the like business, procured these necessaries where perhaps others would be at a loss .*
Nov' oth. The army made a general halt at Carnagan's, after a long, tedious, & disagreeable march through slush & Rain, and we fell to to take a general inventory of the stores on hand, a task both tedious and laborious. We took lodgings 1 Mile in front of the army, at one Morton's.
6th. Still proceeding on with taken the inventory.
7th. This day we were kept busyer than any day preceed- ing; it was appointed as a general Issuing day of Clothing, &c., for the army; returns we found very heavy, in shoes particu-
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"* Headquarters, Bedford, October 21st, 1794. * * * * * * *
The troops will move as follows : the right wing composed of the New Jersey and Pennsylvania lines forming the right column under the immediate command of his Excellency Governor Mifflin ; the left wing composed of the Maryland and Virginia lines forming the left column with the commander-in-chief. The quartermaster general will continue with the right wing, and the proper officers in his depart- ment and in the department of Forage, attended with a sufficient number of axemen must accompany the light corps under whose pro- tection they are to prepare all necessaries for the army."-Extract from General Orders, Penna. Arch. 2nd ser., vol. ir, p. 416.
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larly-the wet weather proved very destructive to that article, numbers have marched several days without a shoe to their feet, & in such a severe season one should have expected it would have been Considerable severer upon them than it was. With all the hardships they underwent, they still Seemed to be contented & in high spirits.
8th. Appropriated nearly as the 7th. However the day was more favorable & warmer than the preceding day. In the evening after our business being done, and seated by the fire- side in our little Cabbin, for small it was, the Top of the roof was but 13 feet from the Ground & but one Room and that ex- tended over the house, one small Window but no glass nor frame to it. This house stands about 1 Mile from the River Yough. & but 1 Mile from Budd's Ferry on the Yough." The family were truly hospital, one Son & one Daughter both grown to the age of maturity. This day our landlady entertained us with a history of her life. Whereas it being singular & inter- spersed with troubles seldom met or heard of in the present period that induced me to give part of it an insertion in this Journal, Viz:
I formerly lived (about 40 years ago) about 8 miles from Fort Loudount & not much further from Chamberstown. At that
*"Headquarters Union (Beeson's) Town, Nov. 2d, 1724. The army will resume its march on the morning of the 4th at the hour of 8, when a signal gun will be fired. They will advance in two columns composed of the respective wings. The right column will take the route by Lodg's to Budd's ferry under the command of his excellency governor Mifflin who will please to take the most convenient situa- tion in the vicinity of that place for the accommodation of the troops and wait further orders .- Extract from General Orders, Penna. Arch. 2nd ser. rol. ir, p. 430.
t This fort appears to have been commenced under the direction of Col. John Armstrong in the autumn of 1756. It was about two miles south-west of Parnell's Knob a termination of one of the Kittoch- tinny range of mountains and about five miles east of the Cove or Tuscarora mountains on the West branch of the Conococheague creek. Col. Armstrong desired to have it called Pomfret Castle from which it appears that he did not know that another fort was so called. It was, however, named Fort Loudoun after Lord Loudoun who had arrived previously (the same year July 23d) as general and commander- in-chief of all his Majesty's forces in North America. The town of
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time the Indians were very troublesome and a Dangerous enemy. A party of them sally'd out and attacked our House. and Im- mediately shot my husband : then made me and my Children unfortunate prisoners, the Melancholy object of their Cruelty. They tyed one of my children to my back and the other before me, and in that position drove me sinking down nearly with grief and fatigue a long & lonesome Journey. My Children were crying for thirst and hunger; the cries of which nearly distracted me. To assist them I cou'd and dared not: to even for to speak to them to sooth their heart broken cries, the In- dians would draw their Tomahawks at me as if they intended to kill me. After travelling, I know not how far, they per. mitted me to seek water for my Infants, & one of the Indians following me the Indian took my Children by the heads and plunged them in until they were almost strangled, then held them up for me to look at. menacing and laughing at me & signifying that he would give them enough until they ap- peared breathless. the sight of which so affected & overcome me that notwithstanding all my endeavors I fainted away. When I came to myself again I took them in my arms, press'd them to my heart stiff and cold, bathing them in tears that flowed from my languid eyes. & was then again driven to my place of Confinement, tved me down & left me to deplore my unhappy, hard fortune. Often times I lifted my eyes to heaven praying for my Children ; as to my own life I disregarded; I drew my thoughts entirely from all worldly concerns, praved to the great Author of my being to behold the afflictions of my
Loudoun (modern orthography omits the letter u in the last syllable) in Franklin county, a small village on the west about a mile distant, was named after the old fort. It extended over something more than an acre of ground. Some of its remains are still visible. It is about 13 miles west of Chambersburg (Chambers-town mentioned in the text above) and one mile from the turnpike road leading to Pittsburgh. During the Indian wars that followed Braddock's defeat it was oc- cupied by military companiesof the provincial and royal regiments as a place for rendezvous as well as a depot for military stores and army supplies. It was the scene of many interesting and stirring events transpiring in provincial times .- See Penna. Arch. 1st ser., vol. xii, p. 394.
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poor suffering Infants. The day being warm, the 3d of June, we had a long march, and I suppose were all fatigued. The Indians kindled an fire & laid themselves round it, and placed me inside the circle. After all my fatigue & my late thoughts of never more getting clear of them, and my then present situa- tion and my Children, it come into my mind to make my es- cape; methought some Angel seemingly visited me & beckoned me away. The Indians I found were all asleep. I several times was upon the start, when again looking around at my own offspring prevented me from going, the thought of leav- ing them was next to impossible, and then again I thought if I could not assist them, and every punishment inflicted on them nearly distracted me, to tear myself from them at that time when I began to be less sensible of feeling, was a matter of no great difficulty. I prayed to God to bestow his fatherly care on them and took a last affectionate look at them. I wandered on and knew not wither, with trembling steps through an Wild unknown thicket, trusting to God for my safety. I had not been gone 30 minutes before I heard the cry of the Indians in every direction. I thought I could not survive that moment, the horrors of being Cruelly murdered if they found me, strongly represented itself to me, and made me wish a thousand times I had remained with my Children. The Night was very dark, and they could not see me; in the morning just before sunrise I set to a running toward Sunrise over one mountain after another. I was so stupefied I could scarce hear, when I found any large rocks I would conceal myself behind them, and look and listen if any of them was near, and then push on further. I found great difficulty in procuring water, I thought I should have perish'd for want of it. At length I heard at a distance a noise like the fall of Water; listening to hear if any person was in sight. I hastened over rocks of immense heights towards the place wherefrom the noise Issued, but to my grief I found my- self mistaken. I discovered but a small stream, and of such a bad smell I could not taste it. I could scarcely proceed any further for want of drink, but the fear of the Indians coming up with me gave me a little courage to pursue my flight, and picked up sour grapes on the way to quench my thirst. At
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. length I come to a stream of good water; happy was I indeed at the sight of it. I stooped down to get at it. My Insides seemed as if they would fall out for want of nourishment. I had not eat anything for two nights and a day, and being in motion continually; after drinking my fill I pushed on further. I come to a creek which I did not know the name of. I was afraid to cross it, however I went in to my middle and then went out again, amazingly afraid to wade it; got a stick and entered it again, and measured by the stick before me as I waded. On the other side was a mountain of a prodigious height, where I discovered a large Bear which frightened me, but he ran away as I approached him, the Creek was nearly to my neck. I then began to climb the mountain, which seemed as if I never would get to the top of, when on the top I seated myself down nearly dead with fatigue and hunger. I did not know where or which way I was going, but still kept to sun- rise, being still afraid of the Indians I pursued my flight with faultring limbs. I soon came to another Creek, this one much more frightened me than the former, this appeared dark and much more deeper by the blackness of the waters and muddy ; however I had no time to loose. I begun to think which was the best means of getting over it. I was afraid to venture to wade it. I went up the stream a great ways, and found it looked less frightful than were I first come to it, and accord- ingly got through it as the former; on the other side was another large mountain seemingly as if extended to the sky & thought it almost impossible to climb it. By the time I reached the top it grew night. I then hunted a place to sleep secure. I seated myself down on a log, resting my head on my hands. I found it very cold as I had but a short petticoat that scarce came to my knees, and therefore was of little service to me for cover & could not sleep any for the cold. I was frequently alarmed at Noises about me, & sometimes approaching me, but saw nothing but a large Deer that frightened me, he seem'd as if it intended to come at me, but at my hallowing at him fled away & left me to my rest. In the morning I pursued my journey ; near mid day I heard the snorting of an horse, I was certain then there were Indians about me. I knew that about
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that time of day they generally lay themselves down to sleep & had let their horses rove about for feed. I.give myself over for lost & heartily repented of my leaving them, suffring so much too with hunger and fatigue. I praved to God to save me from the Indians, & do really believe if ever there was an contrite praver that that was one. & have many times since thought of it, of the sincere promises I then made. I laid still a considerable time, I grew easier as I perceived no one, I then ventured out trembling. I caught the Creature & found she had a Colt with her. I pull'd a strip of my petticoat to answer for a bridle, mounted the beast & rode of so fast I could. The Colt kept such a Weckering that I was afraid would betray me. I would have had cruelty enough to kill it had I had time, & so rid on until dark. I then found the colt sucked the mare which when I perceived I immediately milked her. & subsisted on milk alone for several days until I came to the habitation of white folks. The first I came to was a house where there was a Volunteer party collected to hunt Indians. that harrass'd the frontiers : as soon as they saw me one of them presented a Rifle at me. I call'd to him not to shoot, that I was no Indian. My dress 'tis true was singular & not much unlike the dress of an Indian; my Body was naked unto my middle & that painted black ; my Petticoat no longer than my knees. They put me on the way to fort Loudoun, which was about 15 miles & from the fort had but a little way home. Soon after there was an treaty with the Indians. I got my children from them again.
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THE HUBLEYS OF LANCASTER COUNTY.
The sons of Michael Hubley [1722-1804] and Rosina Strumpf [1719-1803] were:
i. Adam, jr .; entered the Revolutionary army as first lieu- tenant, First Penn'a Battalion, Col. Philip De Haas. October 27, 1775; in 1776, promoted major of one of the additional regiments ; and June 5, 1779, commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the New Eleventh, Pennsylvania Line, to rank from Feb- ruary 13, 1779; retired from the army January 1, 1781. He served in the Pennsylvania Assembly from 1783 to 1787: and chosen a member of the Senate in 1790. In 1793 he was appointed auctioneer at Philadelphia, and died there of yellow fever the same year. His children were Mary Field, m. Wil- liam Jenkins, Mrs. Robert Emmet, of New York, and Grace Hubley, maiden lady, who died at Pittsburgh, at an advanced age.
iï. John, b. December 25. 1747, at Lancaster; read law un- der Edward Shippen. and was admitted to the bar in 1769: was a member of the convention of July 15, 1776, which framed the first Constitution of the State, and served during the same year upon the General Committee of Safety; was appointed commissary of continental stores, January 11, 1777 ; and on the 5th of April following, prothonotary of the court of common pleas, clerk of the orphans' court, clerk of quar- ter sessions, and also recorder of deeds, part of which offices he held for upwards of twenty years. In 1787, he was a member of the State Convention that ratified the Federal Constitution. He died at Lancaster, January 21, 1821. Major Hubley married Maria Magdalena Lauman, daughter of Lud- wig Lauman, of Lancaster, and left issue. Frederick Hubley, who kept the famous tavern at Lancaster thirty years ago, was a son.
iii. Joseph, was a captain in the Third Pennsylvania battalion,
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Col. John Shee. commissioned January 5. 1776; was at the massacre of Paoli ; his family have a silver spoon given him by Major West. of the Fourth regiment of the Line, who was sick the night of the attack and expected to be butchered ; his children were Margaret. Mrs. Ann Parr Lyon, now living at Bellefonte. aged ninety-four. and William Parr Hubley, father of George Hubley, of Pittsburgh.
Of the sons of Bernard Hubley, (1719-1803.) brother of Michael Hubley. of Lancaster. we have information concerning :
i. Bernard. jr., was a captain in the German regiment of the Revolution ; promoted lieutenant February 24, 1778; retired from the army. 1781: removed to Northumberland county ; was brigade inspector, and in . 1807 published the first volume of his history of the Revolution, which remained incomplete. He died at Northumberland in 1808.
i. George, also a captain in the German regiment, commis- sioned July 8. 1776.
iii. Dr. Frederick, lieutenant in the First regiment of the Pennsylvania Line, d. at Harrisburg. December 23, 1822, and there buried with military and Masonic honors.
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RECORDS OF THE FIRST CENSUS .- It may be of interest and value to some people to know that the records of the census of 1790 are still preserved in the office in Washington. They are meager in de- tails, but may still be consulted in solving some points in individual and family history. They consist of lists taken by counties and some- times by townships, and embrace these items :
1. The name of the head of the family.
2. The number of males over sixteen years of age.
3. The number of males under sixteen years of age.
4. The number of females.
5. The number of slaves.
6. The number of other free persons.
The lists for some of the towns are separate, but the balance of the counties, as they then stood, are all in one list, arranged seem- ingly just as the enumerator traveled the country in gathering the names. Congress should order the publication of this valuable list, and it is to hoped they will do so. A. L. G.
JOHN MONTGOMERY, a native of the north of Ireland, where he was born in 1721, of Scotch-Irish parentage, emigrated to Pennsyl- vania in 1745, locating on the Conedoguinet, not far from Carlisle. He received a good education, and came to America with means. As a consequence, he became quite prominent in the affairs of the Province, and during the French and Indian war was in command of a company of rangers. When the Revolution began he took a warm (. interest in the cause of the Colonies, being chairman of the public meeting held at Carlisle, as early as July 12, 1774, to take measures for the public defense, and was a member of the Committee of Safety of the State in 1775 and 1776. He was with Jasper Yeates, one of the commissioners appointed by the Congress to treat with the In- dians at Fort Pitt, in July, 1776; where he was named by the Shawa- nese, " Muck-a-te-we-la-mow, i. e., of the Black Wolf tribe." He sub- sequently commanded a battalion of Cumberland county associators connected with the Flying Camp. was at the surrender and taken prisoner at Fort Washington : in 1782-4, he served in the Continen- tal Congress. In 1785 was appointed one of the commissioners to inquire into the expediency of improving the navigation of the Sus- quehanna river, and in 1787 was chosen burgess of Carlisle. He was one of the prime movers in the founding of Dickinson College, and chairman of its first board of trustees. Governor Mitlin appointed him one of the associate judges of the county, in which position he served until his death, which occurred at his residence near Carlisle, September 3, 180S, in the eighty-seventhi year of his age. Mr. Mont- gomery married, March 4, 1762, by Rev. John Roan, Jean Waugh, of Cumberland county. W. H. E.
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THE HALLE REPORTS .- Not only to the followers of Luther, but to the historical student, these reports now being reprinted will be of great value and interest. The original work, as edited by Dr. John Ludwig Shultze, of the University at Halle, has been translated by the Rev. Charles W. Schaeffer, D. D., and edited with "extensive historical, critical, and literary annotations and numerous documents copied from the MSS. in the archives of the Francke Institutions at Halle," by the Rev. J. W. Mann, D. D., of Philadelphia ; Rev. B. M. Schmucker, D. D., of Pottstown; assisted by Rev. W. Germann, D. D., Kirchenrath of the Duchy of Sachsen-Meiningen. The first volume contains numerous facts concerning the German settlers of Pennsylvania, and the biographical and other historical notes by the learned and erudite editors furnish information nowhere else found. In addition to the documents here given, there should be in existence in Germany many letters from America, written prior to the war of the Revolution, which would throw more light upon the early his- tory of Pennsylvania, and with the able assistance of Dr. Germann, the American editors ought to secure whatever may be of historical value. These gentlemen have done their " labor of love " well, and the " Reports " deserve a place in the library of every educated Penn- sylvania German. The book is an octavo of 220 closely printed pages, and can be secured at the Pilger Book-Store, Reading, at one dollar and a quarter. W. H. E.
THE HARRISBURG MARKET HOUSE IN 1792 .- Information re- specting this structure would be acceptable. It stood on the south side of Market street, was of frame, on a stone foundation, and about fifty feet long. A market was there at that early day, as " Conrad Bombach " had a butcher block in the upper corner. See Oracle of Dauphin, 1792-3, for an allusion to it in a scrap of original poetry re- specting the manners of the times. A. B. H.
MITTELBERGER'S "REISE NACH PENNSYLVANIEN."-Persons having copies of a work entitled " Gottlieb Mittelberger's Reise nach Pennsylvanien im Jahre 1750, und Ruchreise nach Teutschland im Jahre 1754," published in Stuttgart, in 1756, are requested to commu- nicate with the editor of Historical Register.
HAHN .- Information is desired concerning the parentage, nativity, death, age, and descendants of Michael Hahn, of York county. Pa., who was a member of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth which met November 28, 1776: county treasurer and paymaster of militia, in 1777 ; associate judge and justice of the peace, 1784, and who held other positions of trust in the service of the country.
H. S. D.
HISTORICAL REGISTER:
NOTES AND QUERIES,
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL,
RELATING TO
Interior Pennsylvania.
"Out of monuments, names, wordes, proverbs, traditions, private records, and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of bookes, and the like, we doe save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time."
HARRISBURG, PA. LANE S. HAPT, PUBLISHER. ISS3.
HISTORICAL REGISTER:
NOTES AND QUERIES,
BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL.
VOL. I.
APRIL, 1883. No. 2.
JOHN ANDRE HANNA.
BY A. BOYD HAMILTON.
JOHN ANDRE HANNA, a native of Flemington, New Jer- sey, was one of the most prominent, influential, and earliest of the citizens of Harrisburg. He came there before the erec- tion of Dauphin county. in the year 1783, and lodged with Col. Robert Elder. who kept "a public," in the house situate in the present Susquehanna township. known as Razer's, on the old. Hanover road. He was then the only attorney in the upper end of Lancaster county.
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