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ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SECOND REGIMENT-THIRD ARTILLERY.
Frank K. Patterson, m. i. s. Feb. 12, 1864; m. o. July 29, 1865.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIFTH REGIMENT.
Company A-Bernard Moss, m. i. s. Aug. 23, 1862; m. o. June, 1865. Company H-William O. Gray, m. i. s. Aug. 22, 1862; died at Wash- ington, D. C., Feb. 17, 1863.
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTIETH REGIMENT-ANDERSON TROOP-FIFTEENTH CAVALRY.
[Enlisted August, 1862; discharged at close of the war.]
Thos. N. Hathaway (Co. B), Milton E. Shaw (Sergt. Co. I), Thos. J. McCall (Sergt. Co. H), James Martin (Co. F), James Lea (Co. F), George Heck (Co. M), Jacob Maxheimer (Co. M), John Crum, Darwin Phelps, James Over, Norwood Pinney.
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIRST REGIMENT-SIX- TEENTII CAVALRY.
James H. Ramsey, John S. Ramsey.
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THIRD REGIMENT-EIGHI- TEENTH CAVALRY. .
Quartermaster James C. Golden, m. i. s. Dec. 1, 1862; dis. July 21, 1865. Company H-Peter A. Jacks, Isaiah Klingensmith.
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SECOND REGIMENT - TWENTY-FIRST CAVALRY.
Company F-J. M. Barclay, enlisted Dec. 20, 1863 ; dis. July 20, 1865.
ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-THIRD REGIMENT.
Company B-John B. Patrick, enlisted July 15, 1864; dis. Sept. 21, 1864; re-enlisted in 2d Co. 97th Pa. Vet. Vol. Sept. 25, 1864; dis. June 17, 1865. [Prior to enlistment in the 193d, he had been in Co. B, 2d Bat., six months Pa. Vols.]
ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-NINTH REGIMENT.
Company H-John M. Patton, enlisted Sept. 21, 1864 ; dis. June 28, 1865.
TWO HUNDRED AND TWELFTH REGIMENT-SIXTH HEAVY ARTILLERY.
[Enlisted Sept. 1, 1864, and discharged June 23, 1865.] Company B-Jolm A. Woodward.
Company H-Officers-First Lieutenant C. S. Miller, Second Lieu- tenant J. F. Cline ; Sergeants Charles S. Keniston, Jas. E. Bale ; Corporal Geo. W. Burket; Musiciau Geo. II. Miller. Privates : Samuel J. Anthony, Fred Bair, Jobn .A. Brunel, Daniel Crietsor, · Leman Donahu, John A. Ehrenfield, Chas. S. Garver, Wm. S. Hollahaugh, Abram Klingensmith, Wm. G. Long, Wm. H. Mer- riman, Wm. J. Mann, Robert MeKallip, David Sherrey, Jackson Stilt, John F. Sball, Jonathan Stoops, Daniel Spil, Charles Troxford, Aaron Hill, Jeremiah Grinder.
THOMPSON'S BATTERY-INDEPENDENT COMPANY.
Simon Shoop, Abram Weaver, Witson IIazlett, Thomas Bowman (died in service), John S. Hughes, Jacob Shall, George Jack.
SIXTH U. S. CAVALRY.
[Enlisted in August, 1861, and discharged in August, 1864.] Company D-H. R. McLelland, A. Shuster, John Smith, B. F. Kaig, Samuel Duncan, J. Fatkin, John Blaine, Joseph Blaine, Alex- ander Watson.
Company K-Daniel Sweeney, Richard Dias.
MISSISSIPPI MARINE BRIGADE-LIGIIT BATTERY E.
[Enlisted Feb. 25, 1864, and discharged Feb. 1, 1865.]
A.J. Gilison (1st Lt.), S.W. Gilison, E. E. Castertine, Robert Donaldson, Alex. Kuhns, Wm. Harper, Robert Pennington, Daniel Toomey, Shirwell Smitb, Henry Chapman, Jas. Weaver, Andrew Stive- saub, Jas. Griffin, Jas. Ryan, Wm. Lane, Jas. Churchhill, Wash- ton Drew, Jas. Carl, Roland Bolilnger, John Milligan, Wm. Shoup, John Millberger, Levi Shaner, Richard Lenning, Wallace Ford, John Brown, Samuel Ritchie, Jas. C. Ritchie, Paul Stew- art, Wm. S. Duncan, Samuel Fuller, H. G. Foster, E. M. Duff.
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FIFTY-FOURTH REGIMENT-MILITIA OF 1863. Company E-John Moor.
FIFTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT-MILITIA OF 1863.
Company D-2d Sergeant Joseph H. Patrick.
SECOND BATTALION-MILITIA OF 1863. COMPANY D.
Officers-2d Lieutenant Wm. T. Jackson. Privates-John M. Gamble, Jos. B. Jackson, Wm. S. Shannon, New- ton D. Shannon, Alfred Schrecongost, Joseph A. Watt.
UNCLASSIFIED.
Benjamin Davis, David McGinley, David Todd, John Handtermack, Philip Dunean, Thomas Cain, Ahram Critzor, Leonard Kunkle, James Huston, George Johnston, Wm. Weaver, John Drum, James Egan, William Harris (colored), Joseph Kelly (colored), Thos. Kenley, Daniel Kennedy, Samuel Kebler, Joseph Kebler, Samuel Hawk, Wm. W. Smith, Jacob Shoop, Sam'l Shoop, Vincent Kriettey, John Hartman, Christ Hilwine, Henry Hundtermark, Sam'l Sheldon, Jobn Barr, Thos. Dias, Geo. Dias, Louis Goehring, William Byer, David Crawford, John Webb, Lieutenant Roney (colored regiment), Geo. Stivenson, wagon master at headquarters, Washington, D. C.
NEW YORK REGIMENTS.
Bordan Rifles-John Quinn, John Mott, Charles McCaulley.
OHIO REGIMENTS.
Lieutenant Robert Curran, James Sample, Chambers Bowser.
TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT-MILITIA OF 1862. [Organized Sept. 16, and diseharged Sept. 29, 1862.]
FIELD AND STAFF.
Major Darwin Phelps. Quartermaster Jas. B. Neale.
COMPANY A.
Captain John K. Calboun. First Lieutenant Albert Robinson. Second Lieutenant Grier C. Orr.
First Sergeant Henry F. Phelps.
Sergeants Wm. Logan, James B. Neale (pro. to Q. M.), Peter WharI, John R. Reynolds.
Corporals Jas. M'Masters, Carl Shultz, Theo. McConnell, Geo. W. Bartheld.
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PRIVATES.
Clarence Brown, Wm. Blaney, Wm. R. Baum, Charles G. Barclay, Jas. C. Bovard, John Brown, Jonathan Boyd, Lewis Biehl, Stephen Bossinger, Henry A. Colwell, Jas. P. K. Croll, Andrew Craig, Washington R. Christy, James Dugan, Jas. T. Dickey, Vincent Davidson, Jas. P. Dongherty, Wm. Ellmyer, John Estler, Charles Feight, Carl Frederick, Angustus Frederick, Joseph Gibson, Jas. H. George, Jas. A. Gordon, John A. Honser, Wm. B. Hasting, Chas. Hasterman, Wm. Herche, John H. Huston, Marcus Hulings, Louis Hess, Geo. P. Kron, Barnard Kordes, Amos B. Lerch, Dan'l Lemon, Conrad Leck, Jas. D. Logan, Lce Mechling, Wm. B. Meredith, Frederick Moesta, Philander Meredith, Enos M'Bride, Jas. M'Cullough, Turney Neal, Barclay Nulton, Jas. B. Oswald, Darwin Phelps (pro. to Major), Joseph Painter, John Prunkard, Stephen Prunkard, John D. Reynolds, Ross Reynolds, Philip Reichart John N. Row, Jas. B. Robinson, John E. Reichart, Roht. Robinson, Chas. T. Shotte, Jas. H. Stivenson, Frederick G. Schotte, Joseph S. Smith, Conrad Straub, George Stone, Samuel S. Swan, James Simpson, Samuel Tate, Alex. Tarr, John Volk, James Weaver, Henry Wygant, Josiah K. Wilson, Augustus E. Weilman.
COMPANY G.
Captain Joseph T. Irwin. 1st Lientenant Wm. M. Cochran. 2d Lieutenant John A. Calhoun. 1st Sergeant Jacob B. Gnyer.
Sergeants George V. Trnitt, Wm. S. Beck, Samuel Cochran, Howard F. King.
Corporals John Ellenberger, Abel A. 'Findley, Johnston M'Gaughey, Jas. C. King.
Musician Harrison Marshall.
PRIVATES.
Wm. J. Bollman, Jos. S. Bollman, John W. Borland, David F. Cress- well, John Cochran, Jacob M. Cabel, Cyrus Goss, Benjamin C. Irwin, John C. Kirkpatrick, Rohert Kells, Geo. H. Lang, Wm. S. Marshall, Findley P. Marshall, Wm. C. Marshall, Archibald A. Marshall, David L. Marshall, John M. Marshall, Samuel Neal, Jos. H. Patrick, George H. Rudy, Jacob Segar, Philip Smith, Martin W. Travis, Wm. R. Thompson, Donaldson D. Wilson.
COMPANY H.
Capt. Joshua Hall.
1st Lientenant Alex. C. Foster.
2d Lientenant Thomas M'Colgin. 1st Sergeant Robert M'Farland.
Sergeants James M'Granahan, Andrew J. M'Intosh, Elias Crisman, Jeremialı Elgin.
Corporals Samuel Cassady, Samuel Morrow, John C. Rhra, Frank M'Gaughy.
Musician Wm. Brown,
PRIVATES.
James Akins, Thomas P. Blair, Geo. W. Brown, Wm. Carson, Wm. Earhart, Samuel Elgin, M'Curdy J. Ewing, Jackson A. Foster, Andrew Gallahar, Wm. H. Gray, Francis C. Gardner, Robert Hall, James A. Lowrey, Henry a M'Afoos, Jas. M'Elvey, Alden C. Pruden, Thomas Patterson, Andrew D. Southworth, Jona- than Schrecenghost, Jonn A. Stewart, John Stewart, Adam Tur- ney, Andrew Wilson, David White.
CHAPTER III.
TOWNSHIP DIVISION AND ORGANIZATION.
Importance of the Township Politically -The Townships of Armstrong and Wheatfield in 1792-The Three Original Divisions of the County - Allegheny - Buffalo-Toby -Origin of Names -Subdivisions of the Original Townships.
MUNICIPALITIES-TOWNSHIP DIVISION.
TN passing from a general sketch of our county to the more narrowly local sketches of its sub- divisions into eity, townships, and boroughs, the passing remark may here be pertinent, that when the communal and municipal organizations, or what we call cities, towns, and boroughs, which had been crushed out by the Eastern Emperors, began to be re-invigorated, in the eleventh century, the first municipal, or as we would say, city, township, or borough elections were held in the Selavie city of Ragusa, in that part of Dalmatia inhabited by people of Selavie origin.
It is said that the commune, or township, is the fountain-head, the corner-stone of American so- ciety. The township was the primitive state from which the start was made. The township, there- fore, still remains in its function, the generating power, the foundation, the nursery of self-govern- ment and of American social order. In the town- ship, as well as everywhere else in this country, observes De Tocqueville, the people are the only source of power ; but in no stage of government does the body of citizens exercise a more imme- diate influence. On the self-government of the townships, says another foreign observer of Ameri- can institutions, reposes the freedom of the state, and from it is evolved in wider and wider all-em- bracing eireles the whole existing political structure.
In the early days of the Province and Common- wealth of Pennsylvania, those important sub- divisions embraced large areas of territory within their limits. A map of Pennsylvania, by Reading Howells, published in 1792, for the use of which the writer is indebted to Grier C. Orr, shows only two townships-Armstrong and Wheatfield-as before stated, north of the Kiskiminetas and Cone- maugh rivers, in the territory of which Armstrong and Indiana counties are now composed.
ARMSTRONG TOWNSHIP.
" At a Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, held at Robert Hanna's, Esquire, for the county of Westmoreland, the sixth day of April,
in the thirteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord, George the third, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, etc. And in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-three, before William Crawford, Esquire, and his asso- ciate justices of the same court.
"The court proceeded to divide the said county into the following townships by the limits and descriptions hereinafter following, viz. :
" Fairfield * Donegal * Hun-
tingdon Mount Pleasant
Hempfield Pitt * * Tyrone
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Spring Hill
Manallan
* * Rostraver * Armstrong. Be- ginning where the line of the county erosses the Connemach "- nearly midway between Cone- maugh Furnace and Sang Hollow, on the Pennsyl- vania Railroad-" then running with that river to the line of Fairfield, along that line to the Loyal Hannon, then down the Loyal Haunon and the Kiskiminetas to the Allegheny, then up the Alle- gheny to the Kittanning, then with a straight line to the head waters of Two Liek or Black Lick Creek, and thence with a straight line to the be- ginning." (Vide minutes of said court.) So that Armstrong township must have embraced a large portion of the territory out of which Wheatfield township was afterward formed.
In 1773 the constable of Armstrong township was Andrew Mitchell, and the supervisor John Pomeroy. April sessions, 1790, constable, James McLean ; supervisors, Isaac Ardem and James Smith. The returns made by the county treasurer for this township in 1796, were: Costs, £98 6s 6d; state tax, £11 18s 9d ; county tax, £360 9s 3d.
On that map are marks or characters indicating the locations of dwelling-houses, furnaces, houses of worship, mills, roads, and Indian paths, none of which are thus indicated within what are now the limits of this county, except an Indian town near the mouth of Mahoning, and an Indian path, by which the Indians of the West communicated with the Susquehanna country, extending southeast
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from the site of Kittanning to, or at least in the direction of, Kittanning Point on the Allegheny Mountain, which was so called because the Indian path diverged therefrom to Kittanning. On Scull's map it is named the Ohio path. By the act of March 29, 1792, the freemen of the first district of Westmoreland county were directed to meet for holding elections at the house then occupied by William Neil, in Armstrong township.
It was customary, prior to 1803, for the Courts of Quarter Sessions, without legislative authority, to erect townships in their respective counties, and send up their proceedings for approval to the coun- cil under the Proprietary Government, and to the legislature after the Province became a State.
This county, when organized in 1800, contained within its limits only two organized townships, viz., Allegheny and Buffalo. Toby township was organized soon afterward. Those were the three original townships of this county, and the only ones mentioned in the settlement of accounts be- tween this and Westmoreland county for the years 1802, 1804, and 1805, according to which, dated February 12, 1808, there was due this county the before-stated balance of $2,978.11.
ALLEGHENY TOWNSHIP
was organized by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Westmoreland county, December, 1795. Its bound- aries were specified in the petition of the inhabi- tants of Armstrong township for a division of the latter : " A line beginning at the mouth of Alt- man's run "-now in Indiana county, about half a mile below Livermore -"thence up said run to Wmn. Neil's, and thence to James Smith, Esq., both farms to be included on the east side of said line, and running thence to Plum creek, and up the north branch of said creek to the purchase line, and make a suitable division of said township, which the petitioners pray the court will grant and establish." Order or decree of the court : "June sessions, 1795. The said petition read and continued, and now, to wit, December sessions, 1795, the court divide the said township agreeably to the prayer of the petitioners, and order the southwest division to be erected into a new town- ship to be hereafter known by the name of Alle- gheny township," which was bounded on the west by the Allegheny river, and on the east by the aforesaid line from the mouth of Altman's run, and of course embraced portions of what are now Armstrong and Indiana counties. By the Act of March 29, 1802, it was erected into an election district, and the elections were directed to be held at the house of George Painter, miller, at the
mouth of Cherry run in that township, near what are now Carnahan's mills. The taxes laid on the land in this ancient township, in 1802, were : seated, $187.37; unseated, $512.82. In 1804, $206.24 seated; $516.80 unseated. In 1805, $276.10 seated; $384.68 unseated. The assessment list for 1805-6 shows the seated lands to have been then valued at $29,028.55; number of horses, 337; number of cattle, 545. The only store-keeper was Hugh Brown, whose occupation was valued at $40. Mechanics-Bernard Davers, mason; George Beer, gunsmith; Peter Rupert, weaver; John Steele, wheelwright ; John Schall and Joseph Thorn, blacksmiths ; Smith McMillen and John King, tailors. Each one's trade was valued at $10, except Thorn's, which was valued at $20. Wm. Sheerer's tanyard, $15. Mills-Samuel Beer, one grist and one saw-mill; James Findley and Thos. Dickey, ditto; Daniel Linsibigler, one sawmill; George Painter, one grist and one saw-mill; the occupa- tion of Findley & Diekey was valued at $30. Schoolmasters-James Moore, Jacob Schell and Wm. Smith. Distilleries-John Willis', valued at. $15; Thos. Gallagher's at $25; James Hall's, $25; Church Smith's, $30; Robert Sloan's, $15. All the foregoing were out of the town of Kittanning, which was then partly in that township. Ferries- Jas. Cunningham, Peter LeFevre, Patrick O'Don- nell and John Postlethwaite, were each assessed with one.
BUFFALO TOWNSHIP
is a descendant from Pitt township. At Decem- ber sessions, 1788, of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny county, Moore, St. Clair, Mifflin, Elizabeth, Versailles, Plumb and Pitt townships were organized. The boundaries of the last named were : "Beginning at the mouth of Pickety's run, thence up the Allegheny river and by the line of the county "-which then extended along the river to the northern boundary of Pennsylvania, Lake Erie and the western boundary line of this State- "to the mouth of Flaherty's run ; thence up the river to the mouth of the Monongahela river; thence up said river to the mouth of Turtle creek; thence by line of Plumb township to the place of beginning," which last mentioned line was changed somewhat at the next June sessions. At the same sessions Deer and Pine townships were formed out of Pitt. As to the former, it was "ordered that Gapen's and Moore's surveyor districts be erected into a new township called Deer township." It is necessary in order to form an adequate idea of the area of that township to know the areas of these two districts. The former began "at the south- east corner of District No. 3; from thence extend-
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ing by the same due west to the corner of District No. 4"-about five miles slightly east of south from the Borough of Mercer-" thence due south about nineteen miles " -- along the western line of Butler county-"to the corner of Daniel and Jona- than Leet's districts ; thence by Jonathan Leet's and Stephen Gapen's districts due east to the river Allegheny, near Mohulbaughtitem "-Mahoning - "and from thence up the Allegheny river by the several courses thereof to the place of beginning," which must have been near what is now Rock- land, in Venango county. The latter began "at northeast corner of District No. 9"-at or near the center of Butler county-"thence south to the Allegheny river ; thence up the same by the courses and distances thereof to the mouth of Mohulbaughtitem creek; thence west by the north- ern boundary of the late Depreciation district to the beginning," being what were afterward the Cunningham and Elder districts. By the act of Assembly of April 4, 1798, such parts of Alle- gheny county as lay within Elder's district, being a part of the township of Deer, were made an elec- tion district, and the house of James McCormick, in the town of Freeport, was designated as the place for holding the elections.
On the petition of the inhabitants of Pine and Deer townships the court of quarter sessions of Allegheny county, December, 1797, made the fol- lowing order, it having been represented by the county commissioners, as well from the informa- tion and complaints of others as from their own knowledge, that those two last-mentioned town- ships were too large and inconvenient for the assessment and collection of taxes : "It is ordered that the said township of Pine be divided," etc., "and that the township of Deer be divided by the east line of Cunningham's surveyor district "- which extended from a point near Springdale on the Allegheny river due north to the line between the Depreciation and Donation lands, but the new township line extended to the northern line of Moore's district above-mentioned-" and that the upper division thereof be a new township called Buffalo township," which embraced portions of Allegheny, Butler and Venango counties, and all of that portion of Armstrong county on the west side of the Allegheny river. The places for hold- ing elections in Buffalo township were : By act of March 12, 1800, at the house of John Smith, which was in the western part of what is now North Buffalo township; by act of February 7, 1803, at the house of John McDowel, which was about two miles northeast of where Worthington now is, and by act of April 11, 1811, at the house of Jacob
Young, which was near Slate Lick. The last one was designated after the organization of Sugar creek township.
In 1802, the taxes on seated land were $517.23, on unseated, $129.50; in 1804, on seated, $555.60, on unseated, $129.50; in 1805, on seated, $491.83, on unseated, $68.43.
TOBY TOWNSHIP
was organized by the court of quarter sessions of Westmoreland county, at September sessions, 1801, with the following boundaries, on the appli- cation of the commissioners of that county, the whole of Armstrong county being then within the jurisdiction of that court, as provided by the act of March 12, 1800: "Bounded on the north by the Allegheny river, on the east by Toby's creek, on the south by the line between Hamilton and Wood's (late) district, and on the west by the old purchase line, to be hereafter known by the name of Toby township." A glance at the map will show that either the clerk of the court erred in recording these boundaries, or the commissioners erred in setting them forth in their application- the original papers cannot be found-for the origi- nal boundaries were: Bounded on the north and northeast by Toby's creek, on the east by the line be- tween the Hamilton and Wood's districts, which was a little east of what is now the western boundary of Jefferson county, on the south by the old purchase line, and on the west by the Allegheny river, in- eluding, of course, until September 18, 1806, all that portion of what is now the borough of Kittanning north of that purchase line which crosses that borough diagonally in an easterly direction from a point a few yards above the mouth of Truby's run. The course of that line from Cherry Tree, on the west · bank of the Susquehanna, to the Allegheny river, is north 79° west.
Taxes laid in 1802 on seated land, $76.23, on un- seated, $429.27; in 1804, on seated, $110.64, on un- seated, $1,110.76; in 1805, on seated, $170.69, on unseated, $920.50 .*
The place for holding elections in this township was directed by act of April 3, 1804, to be at the house of Abraham Standford, who then lived near what is now Currlsville.
The total valuation of unseated lands in this township for 1805 was $229,434.11. In 1806, the
*As the assessment lists of Buffalo and Toby townships for 1805-6 cannot be found, and as they were both divided before the next ones were made out, the other statistics, like those of Allegheny town- ship, cannot, of course, be given. The total tax on real estate in those three original townships for the years 1802-3-4-5 was $6,794.19; the total unavoidable deficiencies, $106.22; leaving $6,689.97; to which add $350.33, balance of tax due on unseated lands in Arm- strong county in 1800, 87,040.30, with which Westmoreland county was charged and Armstrong county credited in the settlement of ac- counts between them, as certified by the commissioners of West- moreland county, February 12, 1808.
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following persons were assessed with other occu- pations than agricultural : James Calhoun, Will- iam Cochran, William Frazier, John Love and Robert Wilson, weavers; William Kelly, school- master; William Sypes, potter; John Guthrie, carpenter ; John Simpkins, wagon maker; John Wilson, tanner ; James McElhenry, wheelwright ; and Alexander Moore, one house and lot, $90. MeElhenry and Moore were within the present limits of the borough of Kittanning, and Sypes somewhere between Crooked and Mahoning creeks, James Calhoun and William Cochran within the present limits of Pine.
The township was named from Toby's creek, which skirted its northwestern border. The Indians must have named that stream from the Toby-hanna, an eastern tributary of the Lehigh river in what is now Monroe county, Pennsylvania. Toby, according to Heckewelder, is Tobeco-from Toby-hanne, corrupted from Fopi-hanna, signifying alder stream, i. e., a stream whose banks are fringed with alders. This tributary of the Allegheny bore the name of Toby more than a century ago. Toby was its original name, prior to 1758. - The tra- ditions that it was named after certain individuals at later periods are mere figments of the imagina- tion, as is manifest from the journal kept by Chris- tian Frederick Post of his mission from the govern- ment of Pennsylvania to the Delawares and other Indians at Kuskuskking, Sakonk, and other points west of the Allegheny, in the last-mentioned ycar. He was sent on that mission to prevail on them to withdraw from the French interest. His journal be- gins July 15 and ends September 20. He says, under date of August 3: " We came to a part of a river called Tobeco"-probably Little Toby -- " over the mountains." Under date of August 5: "We set out early this day, and made a good long stretch, crossing the big river Tobeco"-Toby's creek- where he and the Indian chief, Pisquetomen, who traveled with him, "lodged between two moun- tains," as he called the hills. On that day he lost his pocket-book, containing three pounds and five shillings ' and some other things, among which were some writings which he alone could read. The next day they " passed the big river Wesha- wancks "-probably either Point or East Sandy creek-and " crossed a fine meadow two miles in length," where they slept that night, without anything to eat. On the 7th they "came in sight of Fort Venango," afterward called Fort Franklin.
It is said that Toby's creek was, in the latter part of the last or fore part of this century, called Stump creek for a comparatively short distance
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