History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Part 34

Author: Smith, Robert Walter
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago : Waterman, Watkins
Number of Pages: 790

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from his farm longer than sixteen days, and on the oc- casion of that absence made a long journey to Iowa, to visit his sister Mary. He has been a hard worker, and by his steady, industrious habits has made for himself a fine farm, and, at the same time, an enviable reputation in the community in which he lives. His farm is one of the best in Parks township.

Mr. Keppel has been twice married. His first wife, with whom he was united in 1844, was Miss Mag- dalena Hawke, daughter of Daniel and Mary Hawke, born in Westmoreland county in November, 1816. She died May 17, 1855. By this marriage five children were born, three of whom are now living, viz .: William, Mary, wife of S. S. Marshall, of Beaver, Pennsylvania, and Caroline. In 1858 Mr. Keppel married as his second wife the lady whose portrait appears with his in this work. Her name was Elizabeth Whitesell, and she was the daughter of Jonathan and Susan (Vensel) Whitesell, of Kiskiminetas township, born August 12, 1817. There were no children born of this union.

Mr. Keppel's son William lives upon and carries on the old farm. He was married in 1873 to Miss Susan L. Keppel, who was born in 1848. They have four children, as follows: David James, born April 6, 1874; Albert Jacob, born August 18, 1876 ; Philip Frank, born October 16, 1878, and Charles Hawke, born August 23, 1881.

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sent to them early in the spring. A present of considerable value having been provided for them, he was to proceed thither with all convenient de- spatch. He and the goods were to be convoyed by George Croghan, the Indian trader; who was well acquainted with the roads to the Ohio. Weiser was instructed, among other things, "to use the utmost diligence to acquire a perfect knowledge of the number, situation, disposition and strength of the Indians in those parts ; " " to use all means in your (his) power to get from them all kind of in- telligence as to what the French are doing or design to do in those parts, and indeed, in every other place ; " " to make particular inquiry into the behavior of the Shawanese, since the commence- ment of the war, and in relation to the counte- nance they gave to Peter Chartier." He set out on that mission from his house in Heidelberg township, August 11, 1748, passing on his route, Tuscarora Hill, Standing Stone, near Huntingdon, Frankstown, where he overtook the goods, because four of George Croghan's hands had fallen sick, over the Allegheny hills, past the Clear Fields, arriving at the Shawanese cabins August 23.

On August 25 they "crossed the Kiskeminetoes creek, and came to the Ohio that day." The point where they crossed the Kiskiminetas must have been at the ford just below the mouth of Carno- han's (formerly Old Town) run, having the latter name on Reading Howell's map, so called from Old Town, on the opposite or Westmoreland side of the river. That must have been the town men- tioned in Christian Frederick Post's Second Jour- nal. Post was a Moravian, unobtrusive and upright, who emigrated from Germany to this state, or province as it then was, in 1742. The next year he went with the missionaries Pyrlaeus and Senseman to Shekomako, an Indian village on the Connecticut border, where he married a baptized Indian woman. He preached the gospel to the Indians for several years. Though abused and persecuted, arrested at Albany and imprisoned in New York, after he was released he preached the gospel to the Indians at Shattock, or Pachgat- goch, in Connecticut, working as a joiner or car- penter. Having revisited Europe he returned to | this country, and while at Bethlehem, Pennsyl- . vania, he was induced to deliver messages on two different occasions, in 1758, to the Western Indi- ans at Cushcushking, an Indian town, or rather four towns at short distances from one another, on Slippery Rock creek, in the northwestern part of what is now the county of Butler, Pennsylvania, in which were about ninety houses and two hun- red able warriors. About four years afterward

he made an unsuccessful attempt to establish a mission about one hundred miles west of Fort Pitt, and later went to the Bay of Honduras and preached to the more tractable Mosquito Indians.

He set out on his second mission to Cushcush- king from Easton, Pennsylvania, October 25, 1758, and proceeded by the way of Bethlehem to Read- ing, where, on the 27th, he met Capt. Bull, Lieut. Hays, Pisquetoman (an Indian chief), Thos. Hick- man, Totintiontonna, Shickalomy and Isaac. Still, who had been selected by Gov. Denny to accom- pany him. Taking in their route Carlisle, Ship- pensburg, Fort Lyttleton, Raystown, Stonycreek and the Loyal Hannon, where they were gladly received in the camp of Gen. Forbes at Fort Ligo- nier on November 7. The next day the general had a conference with and made a speech to the Indians, including some Cherokees and Catawbas who happened to be present. Post and his party were detained there until near noon on the 9th for letters which Gen. Forbes was writing, and were escorted thence by Capt. Hazelet and a hundred men through a tract of good land, about six miles on the old trading-path, and again reached the Loyal Hannon, where they found an extensive and well-timbered bottom. Thence they ascended a hill to an advance breastwork about ten miles from the camp, about five miles from which Capt. Hazelet and his command separated from them, and kept the old trading-path to the Ohio. Lieut. Hays, with fourteen men, was ordered to accom- pany Post and his men to the Allegheny. At three o'clock P.M., November 11, they " came to Kiske- meneco, an old Indian town, a rich bottom, well- timbered, good fine English grass, well watered, and lays waste since the war began." They fed their horses there, and agreed that Lieut. Hays and his party might return. They did so. Post learned after he reached Cushcushking that the lieutenant and four of his men had been killed and five taken prisoner by a party of Indians whom they encountered.

The writer infers that "Kiskemeneco" must have been Old Town, from which the first name of Carnohan's run was derived, and that Weiser and his party crossed the Kiskiminetas at the ford just below the mouth of that run. According to the recollection of Philip Mechling, who was, in his boyhood, familiar with the Kiskiminetas from Livermore to the Allegheny, that was the only ford between Kelly's, near Livermore, and the junction of those two rivers. In some old deeds land about Leechburgh is mentioned as being a mile or so below "Old Town."

Coal and two Indian towns on the right bank

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of the Kiskiminetas are indicated on the historical map of this state, published by the Historical So- ciety of Pennsylvania, thus: " Coal, 1754," a short distance above the first bend below Leechburgh; "I. T. Kiskamanatas," at that bend; "I. T." on the left bank of the Allegheny, a short distance above the mouth of the Kiskiminetas.

Alexander Gordon says that while surveying in 1838 he first discovered the vestiges of a circum- vallation about one hundred and thirty rods above the mouth of the Kiskiminetas, on the left bank of the Allegheny. The embankment was then three and a half feet high, and enclosed from two to three acres. White oak trees had grown up on the top or crest, which were then two feet in diameter.

The Indian town at or near this point must have been the one which Capt. Bienville de Celerou mentions in his account of his expedition down the Allegheny and Ohio in the summer of 1749. Its name was Atteques, and it then contained twenty-two houses.

Maj. Denny, in that part of his Military Jour- nal relating to that part of the tour of inspection which he and others made to Fort Franklin, men- tions that on Monday, April 28, 1788, he and those with him " passed several lodges of Indians near the Kiskiminetas," and that he and the others that night " lay five miles above the mouth of that river," which point is at or near the present White Rock station, on the Allegheny Valley railroad.

Mrs. Elizabeth Snyder, who died a few years since, in her one hundredth year, used to relate that in her girlhood-about 1787-8-she and her brother went to a cornfield one morning to hoe corn, where they then lived, on the Westmoreland side of the Kiskiminetas, below Saltsburgh, when they were startled by discovering a number of In- dians in ambush. She and her brother escaped to the blockhonse in that vicinity. All, or nearly all, the horses of the white settlers in that locality were stolen that night by the Indians. They were , pursued the next day- by the whites, and overtaken between Pine Run and what is now Logansport, on the land now owned and occupied by her son, Joseph Snyder, where all the horses, except a stallion that was killed, were recaptured. The In- dians escaped across the Allegheny at Nicholson's Falls.

Maj. Eben. Denny mentions in his Military Jour- nal, June 1, 1794: " Two days ago the Indians at- tacked a canoe upon the Allegheny; there were three men in it. They killed one and wounded the other two, but got nothing. The accident hap- pened five miles above the Kiskiminetas,"

Col. Charles Campell, in his letter dated at Greensburgh, June 5, 1794, to Gov. Mifflin, re- specting the stopping of the draft for the support of the Presque Isle station, wrote : The Indians, May 30, fired on a canoe between the mouth of the Kiskiminetas and the Kittanning (as he spelled it, "Cattannian ") and killed one man and wounded two. Neither he nor Denny states on which side of the river the canoe was. If on the east side it was in Allegheny, but if on the west side it was in Deer township. This river at that time was the divid- ing line between Allegheny and Westmoreland counties, and between those two townships from the mouth of the Kiskiminetas to the mouth of Truby's run, in Kittanning. After mentioning the attack upon Capt. Sharp and his party, he added : " The frontiers seem to be much alarmed at such unexpected news and the signs of the In- dians seen on the frontiers. I consulted with Gen. Jack, and we agreed to order Capt. Elliott, of the rifle company, on the frontiers until such time as I could get your approbation, as it will be impossible to keep them from breaking unless they be well well supported."

Some time during the Indian troubles, 1785-90, while Capt. Miller and Lieut. Samuel Murphy and the rest of their company were moving from Hand's Fort, at the month of the Loyal Hannon, . in Westmoreland county, to Fort Armstrong, in this county, they met three men between Taylor's run and Crooked creek, probably at or near Lo- gansport. The captain halted, questioned, and then let them go. The lieutenant and some of the men, thinking that the captain had not questioned them closely enough, sent ensign or sergeant Purs- ley back for them. They evinced a belligerent in- tent when they were ordered to halt. He, how- ever, brought them back. Upon further investiga- tion it became evident that they had deserted from the force stationed near Bald Eagle's Nest, proba- bly at Fort Davis, northeast of Milesburgh, on Bald Eagle creek, in what is now the county of Center. Capt. Miller sent him to Pittsburgh in a canoe.

The only indication of any land having been - taken up prior to 1792, on Reading Howell's map of that year, is the word "Montgomery's," in the forks of the Allegheny and Kiskiminetas rivers. John Montgomery, Sr., took ont several warrants for tracts of land in this township.

From the ancient map of this county, elsewhere mentioned, it appears that within the present limits of this township, as nearly as the writer can trace them on that map, seventy-eight tracts had, before that map was made, been surveyed on war- rants, the names of the warrantees and the number

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of acres being written on the respective tracts. The names of those by whom the various tracts were seated, according to an early list in the com- missioners' office, will be found below, within parentheses:

John Elder, 182.1 acres; John Collier, 313 acres; David Mckee (Peter Shaeffer), 3643 acres ; J. Heckman (P. Heckman), 10 acres; John Barriek- man, captain of the drafted company from this county in the war of 1812, 100 acres; James Beatty (himself), 125} acres; Martha Maris, 308.8 acres ;* Hugh Glenn, 4023 acres; John Wigton (Wm. Highfield), 403.2 acres; James Glenn, 460 acres; John Glenn, 4653 acres ; John Morrison (Jacob Williams), 4153 acres ; Nicholas Bray (Wm. Kelly), 125.1 acres; Margaret Wigton (Geo. Wolf), 3943 acres; Samuel Cochran, 110 acres; Gen. Alexr. Craig, of Westmoreland county, Penn- sylvania, 275 acres; John Pinkerton, 424 acres; Geo. Bartram, 410.7 acres; Ann Criswell (Robert Walker), 452 acres; Alexr. Walker, 248 acres, purchased from Alexr. Clark; Sam'l Walker, 212.6 acres, purchased from Thos. Burd; Enoch Westcott, 4193 acres; Sam'l Waugh (Sam'l Stitt), 394.4 acres ; Francis Bailey (Sam'l Stitt), 394.4 acres; Charles Vanderen (Henry Girt), 363.8 acres; John Steele (Jacks), 322.8 acres; Joseph Parker, member of assembly in 1777 (Wm. Stitt), 317.7 acres; Geo. Risler (- Neale), 380.8 acres ; Griffeth Jones (Henry Klingensmith), 350.7 acres; James Camp- bell, 219.7 acres; ditto, 174.5 acres; Wm. Campbell, 219.7 acres ; Jeremiah Pratt (John Hawk), 425} acres ; Sebastian Fisher (P. Klingensmith), 322 acres; John Vanderen (- Hickenlooper), 358 acres; Geo. Ingram (Philip Klingensmith), 329 acres; Thos. Campbell (Jno. Hill), 305 acres ; Geo. Ise- buster (Jas. and Jno. Jack), 315.7 acres; Charles Campbell, member of assembly in 1777 (James Anderson), 245.3 acres ; Hugh Cunningham, 269 acres; Archibald McKatten, 213.8 acres; Michael Barrickman, 2183 acres; James Crosby (Jas. Fitz- gerald), 73 acres ; John Montgomery, 50.4 acres; John Hawk (same), 400 acres; Isaac Vanhorn, who was a captain in the 6th Pa. Regt. in and prior to 1782, 412.9 acres; John Vanhorn, Jr., 4043 acres; John Vanhorn, Sr., 365.9 acres; Mary Gibson (Jno. Klingensmith), 355 acres; John Conrad (Sam'l Stitt, Jr.), 332.1 acres; Sam'l Evans, 338 acres; Robert Caldwell, 377.9 acres; Thos. York (Gco. Elliott), 342 acres; John Brown (Jacob Beck),

357.8 acres, partly in Burrell; Barnard Macho, 430 acres; Amelia Grover, 437.2 acres; Wmn. Smith (Jno. Shall), 386g acres; Thos. Hood (Wm. McAl- lister), 124.2 acres; Jacob Reese, 360.4 acres; Lambert Cadwallader, 3142 acres; Wm. Hamilton, 314.7 acres; James Mease, 314.7 acres; Geo. Clymer, 314.9 acres; Sam'l Meredith, member of assembly from Philadelphia in 1778 (Wm. Jack), 322 acres; Thos. Cadwallader (Robt. Hanna), 322} acres; - Hesselgesser, 752 acres; Jno. Montgomery (Robert Parks, 226 acres, 20 perches; Sam'l Crosby, 60 acres), 286 acres, 20 perches; John Montgomery (Sam'I Crosby), 270.8 acres; A. Marshall, 212 acres, 23 perches; Hugh Cunningham (Assemus Boyer), 206} acres, in a bend of the · Kiskiminetas, next above the Henry Armstrong tract, which contained about 212 acres; Jacob Hawk (Jno. Stitt), 62.10 acres; Jno. Cadwallader* (Alexr. Hanna), 320 acres; Adam Moyer (Jno. Waltenbaugh), 3323 acres; Andrew Hamilton (George Waltenbaugh), 306 acres, partly in Kiskiminetas township; Thomas Barclay, 306.6 acres; Samuel Printz, 309.6 acres; John Wilson (Philip Schutt), 357.6 acres; William Smith (Jno. Scholl), 3863 aeres.

Some, if not all, of these tracts were designated by particular names in the patents. For instance, the Lambert Cadwallader tract was called "Ox- ford ;" the William Hamilton tract, "Hampton Court ;" the James Mease tract, "Presburg ;" the James Vanhorn tract, partly in Burrell, "Sin- cerity ;" the George Clymer tract, "Flint Castle ;" the Samuel Meredith tract, "Mingrelia ;" the Samuel Printz tract, "Richland ;" the John Cad- wallader tract, "Campus Major ;" the Thomas Cadwallader tract, "Tascony "-perhaps Tuscany ; the Jacob Reese tract, "Springfield ;" the John Mongomery tract (above Leechburgh), "Farmers' Delight ;" the Adam Moyer tract, " Union Green ;" the Hugh Cunningham tract (in a bend of the Kis- kiminetas), "Cornfield ;" the other Hugh Cun- ningham tract (on Elder run), "Poplar Grove ;" the Archibald McHatton tract, "Rich Hill ;" the

* The patent for this tract was granted May 26, 1784, to Mary Panl, ex'x, and Joseph B. Paul, ex'r of John Paul, for £1 1s 4d. The war- rantee's name, as mentioned in the patent is Matthew Maris, and the tract is called " Matthewsborough."" The entire traet was conveyed by Paul's heirs to Peter Klingensmith, the present owner, November 11, 1849, for $3,705. The White Rock station, A. V. R. R., and school- house No. 12 are on this tract.

* John Cadwalader, above-mentioned, was a native of Philadel- phia, was the commander of a corps of volunteers at the beginning of the revolutionary war, nearly all of whom were afterward com- missioned officers in the Pennsylvania line. He was promoted to the rank of colonel in one of the city battalions, and then to that of brigadier general, and commanded the Pennsylvania troops in the winter campaign of 1776-7. He participated as a volunteer in the battles of Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, and in other actions, and received the thanks of Washington, whose con- fidence and esteem he had deservedly won. He was appointed to command one of the divisions into which the army was separated when Washington determined to attack the British force at Trenton, hut the ice in the Delaware river prevented both him and Gen. Irvine, the commander of another division, from crossing in time. He, however, succeeded in crossing the next day after Washington's return, and pursued the beaten foe to Burlington. Congress ap- pointed him, in 1778, general of cavalry, which appointment he declined, because he was satisfied that he could be more useful in the position which he then held. He died February 10, 1786, aged forty-three.

Lambert Cadwalader was commissioned by order of congress as colonel of the 4th regt. P'a. Inf., October 25, 1776.

Samuel Meredith was major of the 3d battalion, Gen. Cadwala- der's brigade.

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Isaac Vanhorn tract, "Parnassus ;" the Charles Vanderen tract, " Charlesburgh ;" the Sebastian Fisher tract, "Fishing Place ;" the George Risler tract, " Rislersburgh ;" the Martha Maris tract, "Marthasborough ;" the Alexander Craig tract (Logansport), "Bird Bottom ;" the John Wilson tract, " Wilsonburgh;" the Charles Campbell tract, " Bloomfield."

At a critical period of the Revolutionary War, when there was great danger of the dissolution of the American army for want of provisions to keep it together, a number of patriotic citizens of Phila- delphia gave their bonds to the amount of £260,000 in gold and silver for procuring them. They were procured, the army was kept together and our in- dependence finally achieved. Though the amount of these bonds was never called for, the lending of these men's credit, at that juncture, answered the purpose as well as the money would have done if they had advanced it .* Among those who thus patriotically subscribed, were the above-named Thomas Barclay, James Mease and Samuel Mere- dith, who each subscribed £5,000. Barclay was American consul at Paris in and about 1784.

In 1804, the valuation of some of those tracts were : Sebastian Fisher, 40 cents; John Vanderen, 65 cents; George Ingram, 50 cents: Thomas Camp- bell, 65 cents ; Charles Campbell, 65 cents ; John Montgomery (all his tracts), 75 cents; John Vanhorn, Sr. and Jr., 50 cents; Thomas York, 50 cents; John Brown, 65 cents; Barnard Macho (or McCoo), 50 cents; Amelia Grover, 40 cents; James Vanhorn, 50 cents; William Smith, 40 cents; Jacob Reese, 50 cents; Lambert Cadwallader, 40 cents; James Mease, 65 cents; George Clyner, 65 cents; Thomas Cadwallader, 40 cents; Hugh Cun- ningham, 50 cents; John Cadwallader, 40 cents; Adam Moyer, 65 cents; Andrew Hamilton, 50 cents; John Wilson, 50 cents.

In 1876 the assessment of the land embraced in the John Elder, Montgomery & Stewart, and John Collier tracts, at and around Schenly station, in the forks of the Allegheny and Kiskiminetas rivers, varies from $15 to $800 per acre which, in 1804, was assessed at from 40 to 65 cents per acre. Along Taylor's run-so called after Robert Taylor, who was killed by some Indians and buried opposite the mouth of a small run, on land now owned by A. Grantz, two miles and ten rods in an air line from the mouth of Taylor's run, where a stone with the initial letters of his name on it is still standing- and at and around Kelly's station land is now assessed at from $3.50 to $6 which, in 1804, as the Gleem and Wigton tracts was assessed at from 40

to 50 cents per acre ; the Nicholas Bray tract, at the junction of Crooked creek and Allegheny river, was then assessed at 40 cents, now at $5 per acre ; in the central part of the township, then from 50 to 65 cents, now from $4.50 to $9.50 ; above Leech- burgh, along the Kiskiminetas, "Farmers' De- light," then 75 cents, now $11 per acre.

The assessment lists show a gradual diminution of the number of unseated tracts-very gradual for a number of years. In 1837 the number of such tracts returned by the assessor was sixteen, thir- teen of which were returned in the names of the original warrantees, viz : Robert Caldwell, Lam- bert Cadwallader, Barnard Macho, John Vanhorn, Wm. Smith, John Wilson, Enoch Westcott, Amelia Grover, Mary Gibson, Adam Moyer, J. Vanhorn, Andrew Hamilton and John Wigton, i. e. in most of these instances parts of the original tracts. In 1846, 168 acres of the Barnard Macho tract were returned on the last time as unseated. Parts of two other tracts were returned as unseated in other than the names of the original warrantees. In 1876 only four parcels of land, aggregating 52 acres, are returned by the assessor as unseated.

Some of the above-mentioned warrants are dated in 1792-3. Others may have been of dates varying from 1769 and onward. Alexander and Samuel Walker were among the earliest settlers in the northern part, on the south side of Crooked Creek ; James Cunningham, a revolutionary sol- dier, in the northwest corner, at the junction of that creek and the river ; Philip Bolen and James Coulter, along Elder Run and the present Kittan- ning and Leechburgh road, on lands now owned by I. Turney, Hiram Hill, J. Lessig, J. G. Allshouse, two or three miles north of Leechburgh ; John Klingensmith, on the hill below Leechburgh ; Philip, Peter, and Nicholas Klingensmith, farther down and back from the Kiskiminetas ; Wm. Hill, between James Coulter's, now Hiram Hill's above- mentioned, and the Kiskiminetas ; Wm. Hum, in the vicinity of the last ; Conrad Hauk, Sr. and Jr., about a mile southeast of White Rock Ferry and Station ; Samuel and David Hill, and John Carney, in the southeastern part, along and near Carnahan's Run ; Jacob and William Hesselgesser, and Robert Hanna, on the river above Leechburgh, at and near "Farmers' Delight"; John Hawk, about a mile and a half northeast of Leechburgh, including the farm now owned and occupied by Henry Truby ; John, Samuel, and William Stitt, along and near Taylor's Run, two miles more or less back from the river ; Eliah Eakman, in the eastern part of the township ; William Beatty, on the Margaret Wigton tract, adjoining the Manor ;

* The Statesman, an old Pittsburgh paper,

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Thomas Gallagher carried on a distillery for many years in, probably, the northeastern part of the township ; and Peter Le Fevre kept a ferry a little below the mouth of Carnahan's Run, on the Henry Armstrong tract, called "Woodland," from 1805, and perhaps from before 1800, until 1825, when he left this county. Le Fever's Ferry was a promi- nent point in early times. The warrant for the Henry Armstrong tract, or " Woodland," is dated November 8, 1784. Armstrong conveyed his inter- est therein to John Guthrie December 3, who conveyed the same to Michael Rugh April 5, 1798, who obtained a patent therefor February 17, 1806. Rugh conveyed 213 acres to Peter Le Fevre March 25, 1807, for £1,059 and 15 shillings, who conveyed 22 acres and 122 perches thereof to Daniel Kepple Angust 10, 1808, for $67.91, and the residue to Jacob Drum, April 2, 1825, for $1,528, who con- veyed to William Williams, May 10, 1825, for $8,000, who conveyed to Paul Morrow August 10, 1826, for $8,000, who subsequently conveyed it to John Y. Barclay, John Kuhns, and Hugh Y. Brady, together with all the rest of his real estate for the main specific purpose of paying off what he owed the Westmoreland Bank of Pennsylvania, who conveyed it to E. M. Bigham, from whom it passed, under the sheriff's hammer, to Jacob Hill, who con- veyed it to Hugh Bigham, who sold an undivided moiety to William P. McCulloch. The last two conveyed it to James Hunter, from whom it passed by deed to James Shauer, the present owner. Those twenty-five persons appear from the assess- ment list to be the only taxables within the present limits of Allegheny township, in 1805-6. The population within those limits must have then been about one hundred and twenty. The population of Allegheny township in 1810, when it included all the territory between the Kiskiminetas and Crooked Creek, from the Allegheny to the Indiana county line, was 820; it was 1,443 in 1820, and 2,966 in 1830. In 1840, after Kiskiminetas town- ship had been detached from it, the population was 1,839 ; in 1850, whites, 2,504, colored, 2; in 1860, whites, 2,493, colored, 3 ; in 1870, exclusive of Leechburgh and Aladdin boroughs, whites, 2,563, colored, 5. Between the census of 1850 and that of 1860, (in 1855), a part of the territory of Allegheny was detached and included in that of Burrell township. The number of taxables this year (1876) is 674. If there are four and three- fifths persons for each taxable, its present popula- tion is 3,200.

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History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Part 34

Author: Smith, Robert Walter Publication date: 1883 Publisher: Chicago : Waterman, Watkins Number of Pages: 790

Author: Smith, Robert Walter
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago : Waterman, Watkins
Number of Pages: 790