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Your obt. servts. JAMES LYON BENJ. ADAMS JAMES D. EAKIN.
We the undersigned Commissioners appointed by an Act of Assem- bly passed the 15th day of April Anno Domini 1834 to sell "In Lots," in the Town of Beaver, and other Lands adjacent thereto, in compliance with said Act, do report that they have sold the following In & Out Lots, to the following persons for the prices set opposite their names, as Pr. statement below to wit:
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In Lots
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William Fields
$127.00
Jackson Sloane
62.00
53
Samuel Powers, Esquire
30.00
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Samuel Powers,
30.00
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Samuel Powers,
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Richy Eakin
40.25
Richy Eaken
31.00
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David Minis
45.00
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Richy Eaken
50.00
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James D. Eaken, Esquire
50.25
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James D. Eaken,
40.50
John Braden, Esquire
40.00
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92
James McCreary
69.00
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Adam Gormly
65.25
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125
Henderson C. Hall
31.50
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126
Henderson C. Hall
35.00
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127
Henderson C. Hall
34.50
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Adam Shoemaker
35.00
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31.00
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135
Richard Ayres
21.25
136
Richard Ayres
40.123
172
Henry Woods
42.00
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173
Mahlen T. Stokes
62.00
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174
Mahlen T. Stokes
45.00
175
Mahlen T. Stokes
57.00
122
Nancy Moore
79.00
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52 James D. Eaken, Esquire
26.00
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John Dicky, Esquire
34.00
48
Benjamin Adams & John Dicky, Esquires
32.00
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Benjamin Adams, Esquire
30.00
46
Charles Reisinger
27.00
45
Sylvester Dunham, Esquire
28.00
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44
Sylvester Dunham, Esquire
30.00
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43
Sylvester Dunham, Esquire
24.00
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42
Sylvester Dunham, Esquire
28.00
41
Sylvester Dunham, Esquire
17.00
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158
William Cairns, Esquire
39.00
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Thomas Hoops
30.00
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21
Henry Judy
$163.00
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24
John Shively
140.00
25
James Allison, Esquire
227.00
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William Porter, Esquire
75.00
38 William Porter, Esquire
60.00
665.00
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Given under our hands this 8th January, 1835. JAMES LYON BENJ. ADAMS JAMES D. EAKIN
Commissioners.
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Adam Shoemaker
32.50
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Richard Ayres
23.25
171
Henry Woods
41.00
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90
91
James D. Eaken Esquire
51.00
87
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Out Lots
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A List of "In Lots" and "Out Lots" in the "Beaver Reserve," in Beaver County, as appears on the Land Lien Docket, in the Depart- ment of Internal Affairs, giving names of original owners and names of patentees.
"IN LOTS"
No. 10 David Johnston patented Aug. 10, 1870, to T. M. Johnston.
35 Henry Wolf, patented Oct. 26, 1897, to Beaver Borough School District.
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36 James Carothers, patented Oct. 26, 1897, to Beaver Borough School District.
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The above is a draft of a Frast of land Surveyed the 25th day of September 1801 . when of the Governor and for the use of an Academy that may haveafter The established by low in the Form of Beaver Situate Gon the West side of said Town and adjoining the Ohio River , in the Reserved track of Land ; Containing 500 aoba Solidt Measure. Samuel Cochran, Esquire S. g.
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An Jealimony. That the above is a copy of the original remaining on file in O the Department of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of said Department to be affixed at Harrisburg, the fifth day of May 1904.
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The above is a Draft of a certain fractional part of the reserved tract of Land at the Mouth of Big Beaver Creeko in Beaver County Granted to James Moore by an act of Afsembly passed the 2nd day of february 1803. Warrant Granted the 8th day of March 1816. Situate in New Sewickley township, Beaver County Containing 219 alors and 198 punches Strict Measure Surveyed 10. Nov. 1818.
Hugh Alullough do Certify that the said James Moore was actually residing on the land at the time of Surveys -To Jacob Spangler Bylo
Hugh Willough. D.S. Surveyor General. Nort: 16# 1818.
In Testimony, That the above is a copy of the original remaining on file in the Department of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of said Department to be affixed at Harrisburg, the fifth day of May 1904.
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APPENDIX No. VIII
THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON AND STEEL IN BEAVER COUNTY
BY JAMES M. SWANK
General Manager of the American Iron and Steel Association
IMMEDIATELY after the organization of Beaver County in 1800 the manufacture of iron from the raw materials was undertaken in a small way within its limits.
A blast furnace was built at Beaver Falls, then called Brighton, on the west side of Beaver River, in 1802, by Hoopes, Townsend & Co., and blown in in 1804. A forge was connected with it from the beginning and it was in operation in 1806, according to Cramer's Pittsburgh Almanac. Both the furnace and the forge were in operation in 1816. The whole enterprise was abandoned about 1826, after frequent changes of owner- ship. The ore used at the furnace was picked out of gravel banks in the neighborhood in very small lumps. The fuel used was charcoal.
There was another carly charcoal furnace in this county, named Bas- senheim, built by Detmar Basse, the history of which is so interesting that we make room for the following letter we received many years ago from Mr. Henry Muntz, an aged citizen of Zelienople, Butler County.
Bassenheim Furnace was built and put into operation in the year 1814 by Detmar Bassé, a German gentleman of education, much enter- prise, and some means. He carried it on to 1818, when he sold out to Daniel Beltzhoover, Robinson & McNickle, who worked it five or six years more. About that time, viz., 1824, the charcoal and iron ore beginning to fail in the neighborhood, and their capital being pretty much sunk, they ceased operations and retired, leaving the furnace a ruin, and now there is nothing to mark the place of its location except a large stack of stone overgrown with moss and bushes, and also a great pile of cinders, clinkers, and ashes, to show where the furnace had been. This furnace was not located in Butler County, but in the adjoining county of Beaver, between two and three miles from Zelienople and lower down the Conoquenessing Creek and about a mile west of the Butler County line. Its owners, Detmar Basse and also Daniel Beltzhoover, re- sided at Bassenheim farm on the Butler side of the county line, and much of its business was transacted at Zelienople.
These circumstances will account for the popular belief that this fur- nace was located in Butler County. There was no forge connected with it, nor any other work except to convert iron ore into pig metal, stoves,
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kettles, pots, fire irons, etc. The ore was mostly dug out of the ground within a mile or two of the furnace in lumps weighing from one pound to fifty, generally of a blue color. At first the bellows was blown by water- power, but, after the high water of the creek had washed one of the abut- ments of the dam away, and let the water out, the owners were obliged to apply a steam-engine at considerable expense, by which it was after- wards operated with much trouble and little profit. After the War of 1812 times were very hard and money exceedingly scarce. One other reason that this work did not succeed and pay better was the great ex- pense of getting its metal and wares to a market. I remember well that in February, 1818, $12 per ton were paid for hauling the pig metal to Pittsburgh, thirty miles, over a bad road.
Mr. Bassé's homestead, "Bassenheim," stood on the hillside near Zelienople, in Butler County. Zelienople was so named after Mr. Bassé's daughter Zelie, who became the wife of a fine German gentleman, Philip Passavant, and the mother of the late philanthropist, Rev. William A. Passavant, D.D.
John Henry Hopkins, who subsequently rose to distinction as Protes- tant Episcopal Bishop of Vermont, was a clerk at Bassenheim Furnace about 1815. He was afterwards manager of Hermitage Furnace, in Ligonier Valley, in 1816 and 1817, when it was operated by O'Hara & Scully. Hermitage Furnace had been built about 1802 by General Arthur St. Clair, who failed in business in 1810.
Still another furnace in Beaver County was Homewood, in the north- western part of the county, on the Beaver Canal, near the mouth of the Conoquenessing Creek, and two miles from Homewood station on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway. It was built by James Wood of Pittsburg, to use coke or bituminous coal, and was put in blast in 1858. It was finally blown out in 1867 or 1868. There are now no blast fur- naces in Beaver County.
The manufacture of finished forms of iron and steel, in which Beaver County is now so prominent, was commenced in this county several years after its first blast furnace was built in 1802, the admirable water-power furnished by the Beaver River and the facilities for shipment afforded by the Ohio River and subsequently by the Beaver Canal presenting special inducements to manufacturers of iron and steel products, as well as to millers, wood-workers, and other manufacturers.
In 1828 Robert Townsend & Co. built at Fallston, on the opposite side of Beaver River from New Brighton, in Beaver County, a mill for the manufacture of iron wire. In 1864 Robert Townsend retired from the company and W. P. Townsend became the head of the firm, which was thereafter styled W. P. Townsend & Co. W. P. Townsend, son of Robert Townsend, retired in 1894 and was succeeded by his sons, constituting the present firm of C. C. & E. P. Townsend. About 1852 the manufac- ture of rivets was added to the business, and in 1887 the manufacture of wire nails was commenced. The founder of this early and successful enterprise, Robert Townsend, was at first a dealer in wire and wire goods, having engaged in this business in 1816 on Market Street, Pittsburg. One of the buildings of the present firm of C. C. & E. P. Townsend at Fallston occupies the site of Robert Townsend's first mill, built in 1828.
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The firm of Hoopes, Townsend & Co., mentioned above in connection with Beaver County's first blast furnace, had no connection whatever with Robert Townsend's wire enterprise.
For more than a quarter of a century Beaver Falls has been one of the country's prominent iron and steel manufacturing centers. In 1859 the Harmony Society (commonly styled the Economites) bought several hundred acres of farm land at what is now the town of Beaver Falls, and subsequently it bought other farms adjoining its first purchase, all of which it laid out into town lots and in time sold, at the same time offer- ing inducements to business men to establish manufacturing plants at the new town, one of these inducements being the excellent water-power which the Society controlled. It was not long until the Society itself became actively engaged in various manufacturing enterprises at Beaver Falls. As the result of its own enterprise and that of others the man- facture of cutlery, files, saws, axes, hoes, shovels, etc., which technically consume iron and steel, was soon established, and subsequently the manu- facture of steel itself was added. As this article is devoted especially to the manufacture of iron and steel, no attempt will be made to enumerate all the enterprises at Beaver Falls or elsewhere in Beaver County which merely consume these products, but the most important will be mentioned.
In 1871 the firm of Emerson, Ford & Co. established extensive saw works at Beaver Falls, James E. Emerson being the leading member of the firm, the name of which was afterwards changed to Emerson, Smith & Co. The works are still running. They have always done a large business in the manufacture of circular and other saws.
In 1875 an enterprise was established by Abel, Pedder & Co., at Beaver Falls, styled the Beaver Falls Steel Works. In 1881 these works were purchased by the Harmony Society and operated by it until 1893, under the name of the Beaver Falls Steel Works, when they passed into the hands of James M. May and others, Mr. May being treasurer and general superintendent. For many years these works were very success. ful and constituted one of the leading industries of Beaver Falls, their products being plow, spring, cutlery, file, and tool steel. On July 1, 1900, the works were absorbed by the Crucible Steel Company of America, and have been idle ever since. At first water-power was used exclusively.
In 1879 another enterprise was established at Beaver Falls, by J. S. Craft & Co., styled the Beaver Falls Rolling Mill. Its products were at first refined blooms, bars, and billets for steel-making. A new firm soon came into possession and added sheet iron as a leading product. After- wards, in new hands, the works produced only fine sheet iron. They were burned in 1888 and were not rebuilt.
In 1883 the Hartman Steel Company, Limited, built extensive works at Beaver Falls for the manufacture of merchant steel and wire rods, to which the manufacture of wire nails, fencing wire, steel wire mats, and other steel products was afterwards added. H. W. Hartman was chair- man of the company, and R. A. Franks was treasurer. In a few years these works passed into the hands of Andrew Carnegie and his associates, then into the hands of the Consolidated Steel and Wire Company, and
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then into the hands of the American Steel and Wire Company, their present owners.
In the same year, 1883, H. M. Myers & Co., Limited, built a rolling mill at Beaver Falls for the manufacture of sheet steel to be used by the firm in its shovel, spade, and grain scoop factory at Beaver Falls. These works are still in active operation.
In 1888 the Hartman Manufacturing Company established works at Beaver Falls for the manufacture of "Hartman " steel wire mats and the "Hartman" steel picket fence, both being entirely new products. The plant was removed to Ellwood City, Lawrence County, in 1892, and oper- ated until 1901, when it was removed to New Castle, in the same county.
At Aliquippa, on the Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad, in Beaver County, the Aliquippa Steel Company built, in 1892, the Aliquippa Steel Works for the manufacture of open-hearth and crucible steel for con- version into special qualities of plate and sheet steel. These works are now owned and operated by the Crucible Steel Company of America. In the same year the Aliquippa Tinplate Company established works at Aliquippa for the manufacture of tinplates and terne-plates. These works have since been abandoned.
In 1893 the Russel Shovel Company built works at Aliquippa for the manufacture of shovel blanks from purchased billets, to be used in its shovel works at Aliquippa.
In 1895 the Ohio River Sheet & Tinplate Company built works at Remington Station, on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway, in Beaver County, for the manufacture of sheet iron and black plates for tinning. After being operated for several years by the company men- tioned, these works passed into the hands of the American Tinplate Com- pany, which has abandoned and dismantled them.
In 1897 the Keystone Axle Company built works at Morado, near Beaver Falls, for the manufacture of circumferentially rolled car axles. These works have recently been purchased by W. A. Crist for himself and others. They were in operation in 1901.
In 1899 the Atlantic Tube Company built works at Grand View Sta- tion, near Beaver Falls, on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway, for the manufacture of seamless drawn tubes from steel blanks, also made by the company. Since January 1, 1902, these works have been oper- ated by the Pittsburg Seamless Tube Company. This plant is one of the most complete of its kind in the country. Boiler tubes and hollow shaft- ing are leading specialties.
In 1900 a small experimental plant was built at West Bridgewater. Beaver County, for the manufacture of rolled car axles, but it has never been put in operation.
The New Brighton Steel Company built works in 1900 and 1901 at New Brighton, for the manufacture of crucible tool steel, wire-drawing plates, and steel forgings. J. J. Blake is president and general manager of these works.
The bicycle craze led to the establishment between 1890 and 1900 of many works in this country for the manufacture of bicycle tubing. Two
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of these works were built at Beaver Falls-one the Brown Manufacturing Company and the other the McCool Tube Company.
In 1901 the firm of Kidd Brothers & Burgher Steel Company, since changed to the Vulcan Crucible Steel Company, established works at Ali- quippa for the manufacture of tool steel and rolled steel products. These works were successfully started in February, 1902. In their construction the buildings of the abandoned works of the Aliquippa Tinplate Company were utilized.
In 1901 the Colonial Steel Company commenced the erection of exten- sive steel works at South Monaca, Beaver County, for the manufacture of crucible and open-hearth steel and various rolled steel products. These works have been put in successful operation in 1902. James W. Brown is the president of the company.
The Penn Bridge Works, at Beaver Falls, build railroad and highway bridges and erect iron and steel buildings. These works were established in 1868 in New Brighton by T. B. White & Sons.
A few years ago the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, of East Berlin, Con- necticut, purchased about 105 acres of land above Economy, in Beaver County, and lying between the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway and the Ohio River, on which it proposed to erect a bridge-building plant. The erection of this plant was commenced, but work upon it was soon suspended. The Berlin Iron Bridge Company was absorbed in June, 1900, by the American Bridge Company. This latter company has now in course of erection on the land above referred to above Economy probably the largest bridge-building plant in the United States. When completed, which will be in the near future, this plant will also embrace a yard for the construction of steel barges.
The manufacture of chains was undertaken at New Brighton a num- ber of years ago, but the works, although projected on a large scale, were not long in operation. The works were located in the building near the present passenger station of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Rail- way, which was built for a car works and is now owned by the Pittsburg Wall Paper Company.
The Roberts Manufacturing Company was organized several years ago at Beaver Falls, to make steel link-belting, but the business has been abandoned.
At New Brighton the Standard Horse Nail Company has for several years manufactured machine-made horse nails of all sizes.
About ten years ago the National Separating and Manufacturing Com- pany built a small steel plant at West Bridgewater for the manufacture of light steel castings. Provision was also made for the manufacture of light castings of iron, solder, or Babbitt's metal. These works were not successful and were soon abandoned.
The prominence of Beaver County in the manufacture of iron and steel during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and at the present time, has been largely due to the development within its borders of an ample supply of natural gas. Beaver Falls, its leading iron and steel manufacturing town, is located within less than thirty miles of Pittsburg.
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APPENDIX No. IX
GEN. SAMUEL H. PARSONS - HIS DEATH BY DROWN- ING IN THE BIG BEAVER IN 1789-CORRE- SPONDENCE RELATING THERETO
IN The Olden Time (vol. ii., p. 527) we have the following reference to the subject of the correspondence which we give below:
During the winter of 1845-6, the editor had occasion to visit Phila- delphia. While there, he fell one day in conversation with Chief Justice Gibson, who once resided at Beaver, and in the course of it, that gentle- man inquired whether we had ever heard of the death of a high officer (British, he thought,) by drowning, at the Falls of the Big Beaver, many years ago? We replied we had never heard of it. He was sure such an accident had happened, but he had no recollection of the name of the sufferer at the time. Since then we had made diligent inquiry, but could not get the slightest information on the subject. One gentleman only
" Samuel Holden Parsons: soldier and jurist; was born at Lyme, Conn., May 14. 1737; graduated at Harvard, 1756; studied law at Lyme in the office of his uncle, Governor Matthew Griswold; was admitted to the bar. 1759: was representative in the Legislature many years in succession from 1762; became king's attorney. 1774. when he removed to New London: was a member of the Connecticut Committee of correspondence, 1775. in which year he took command of the Sixth Connecticut Regiment at the siege of Boston; took part in the battle of Long Island: was chosen by Congress brigadier-general, Aug. o. 1776; succeeded Putnam in command of the Connecticut line, 1770: became major-general, Oct. 23. 1780; practiced law at Middletown after the peace; was commissioner to treat with the Miami Indians, 1785; member of the Connecticut convention for the ratification of the Constitution of the United States. Jan., 1788; was appointed by Washington first judge of the Northwest Territory: was commissioner of Connecticut to purchase from the Wyandot Indians the tract in Northeastern Ohio known as the Connecticut or Western Reserve, 1789: settled near the Ohio River: published a paper on the antiquities of the Western States in the Transactions of the American Academy (vol. ii.); was drowned in the rapids of the Big Beaver River, Ohio, Nov. 17. 1749. (The Universal Cyclopedia, vol. ix., p. 147.)
By error this article locates the Big Beaver in Ohio, instead of Pennsylvania. See Western Annals, page 442, a letter from General Partons to Captain Hart of Port Harmar, dated " Ft. Finney, Dec. 20, 1785," giving a very interesting account of the treaty conference with the Miami Indians, in which Parums, the General Ruchard Butler referred to in this correspondence, and the celebrated General George Hoger Clark were Commissioners of the United States.
Living descendants of General Parums are Mrs. M. S. Turrill of Los Gatos, Cal., now over ninety years of age, where husband, Judge Turnil, was sent out on the frigate Con- gress as our first consul at the Sandwich Islands. She is the only living granddaughter, but there are several great-granddaughters. There are besides, Samuel Holden Parsons of New York City, a grandson; Gereg Parma Lathrop and his brother Francis; Chas. S. Hall, Esq. of Binghamton, N. Y., his brother, Therewere Parwas Hall of German Prince, a suburb of Detroit, and possibly others.
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