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Mr. Barclay was one of the main supporters of the New Jerusalem or Swedenborgian church in Bedford, and was ever devotedly attached to it. He died in Philadelphia, January 3, 1853. He had gone to the city on business during Christmas week, and being suddenly aroused in the night by a disastrous fire near his hotel, he contracted a severe cold, which brought on pleurisy and resulted in his death.
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five stripes and Miller twenty-one stripes on their bare backs, " well laid on," also to pay the costs of the proceedings against them.
" Wood Ranger " was the title conferred upon those who were appointed by the court to attend to and dispose of the estray stock of the county. George Woods, Samuel Davidson and George Funk were the first to fill that position, and were licensed in January, 1776.
The phrase, "The King vs." A B, was last used during the April sessions of 1776, the record for the opening of that term reading as follows :
A Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, &c., held at Bedford, in and for the county of Bedford, the Third Tuesday in April in the sixteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third of Great Britain, France and Ireland &c., in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy- six, before Barnard Dougherty Esq and his associate justices of the same court.
In consequence of the Americans having rebelled against their " lord" the king, court affairs in Bedford county, as in every other por- tion of the colonies, were in a chaotic state, and except a court of petty sessions, which was held at the house of Henry Wertz in Bedford on the 27th day of September, 1777, court was not con- vened again until October 14, 1777. At this term the expression "The Commonwealth vs." A B was first employed. After appointing constables for the several townships, taking five recognizances in " open court," and recommend- ing Robert Culbertson, Richard Dunlap, Cor- nelius McAuley and Benjamin Martin as suitable persons to keep taverns, this court adjourned.
Prior to this time, or in September, 1777, the attorneys, justices and other officials of the county had subscribed to the following oath :
I, A B, do swear that I renounce and refuse all allegiance to George the Third, King of Great Britain, his heirs and successors, and that I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a free and Independent State, and that I will not at any time do, or cause to be done, any matter or thing that will be prejudicial or inju- rious to the freedom and independence thereof as declared by Congress; and also that I will discover and make known to some one Justice of the Peace of the said State all treasons or traitorous conspiracies, which I now know or hereafter shall know to be formed against this or any of the United States of America. So help me God.
Offenders against the established laws con- tinued to be punished according to the old
regime, even after the British yoke had been thrown off. In October, 1780, Thomas More- head was sentenced to be taken to the common* whipping-post and there receive twenty-one lashes on his bare back, "well laid on." At the same time it was further ordered that Thomas Kelly should receive fifteen lashes. But the most extraordinary sentence made a matter of record in the court minutes of Bedford county was enunciated during the October sessions of 1782. Before James Martin, Esq., president of the court, and his associates, David Jones, James Croyle, John Canan and Thomas Paxton, a jury composed of Hugh Barclay, Daniel Rhodes, John Johnston, John Graham, Dickey Burkshire, Robert Wadsworth, Thomas Conway, George Elder, Shadrack Casteel, Joshua Davis, Samuel Skinner and Robert Gilson, Daniel Palmer was found guilty of horse-stealing ; whereupon sen- tence was pronounced as follows :
It is therefore considered by the court that the said Daniel Palmer shall be taken tomorrow morning to the Public Whipping Post, and between the hours of eight and ten o'clock shall receive thirty-nine lashes to be well laid on his bare back, and that im- mediately afterward the said Daniel Palmer shall be placed in the Pillory, where he shall stand for one hour and have his ears cut off and nailed to the Pillory Post, and shall forfeit to the Commonwealth the sum of fifteen pounds, being the value of the Goods of Ludowick Fridline, of which the said Daniel Palmer is convicted of stealing, and shall pay the costs attending the Prosecution, and be committed until the whole of this sentence is complied with.
The severity of the punishment meted out to Palmer did not, it seems, deter others from following in his footsteps, for at the January term of 1787, in the case of the "Commonwealth v8. Brice Mc Whinney," the defendant was found guilty of horse-stealing, and the sentence of the court was :
That the said Brice McWhinney do restore the horse stolen or the value thereof to the owner, if not already done, and pay a fine of ten pounds into the State treasury for the support of government. That he be taken tomorrow morning between the hours of nine and twelve o'clock to the Common Whipping Post and there receive thirty-nine lashes on his bare back well laid on. To have both his ears cut off and nailed to the Pillory and stay there one hour, and stand committed until this sentence is complied with.
* The Bedford whipping-post and pillory. so frequently re- ferred to in the records, stood in the near vicinity of the original court-house and jail - across the street and just north of the present court-house. For nearly twenty years they were in use, but in 1789 " an Act amending the penal laws of the State " went into effect : the whipping-post and pillory were in consequence abolished.
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After the declaration of American Independ- ence, and until the adoption of the constitution of 1790, James Martin, Barnard Dougherty and George Woods were commissioned, and served alternately, as presidents of the county courts. Following is a copy of the commission issued to Judge Woods in 1790 :
" Presidency.
IN THE NAME and by the authority of the Seal of The State of Penna freemen of the Commonwealth of Penn- sylvania. The Supreme Executive Coun- cil of the said Commonwealth to George Woods, Esq., of the County of Bedford. WE reposing especial trust and confidence in your Patriotism, prudence, integrity and Knowledge, have appointed you president of the County Court of Com- mon Pleas, of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, and jail delivery, and of the Orphans' Court in and for the County of Bedford, giving hereby and granting unto you the said George Woods full power and authority to execute and perform all the several acts and things to the said office belonging.
GIVEN under the hand of His Excellency Thomas Mifflin, Faq., President, and the Seal of the State, at Philadelphia, this twentieth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety. Attest,
CHARLES BIDDLE, Secretary.
The second section of the act of April 13, 1791, provided for the division of the state into five judicial districts, and the third section of the same act further provided that a president judge, "learned in the law," should be appointed by the governor for each district, and not less than three nor more than four associate judges should be appointed for each county. Hence, in carrying out the provisions of this act, Gov. Mifflin, on August 20, 1791, appointed Thomas Smith, Esq., of Bedford, president judge of the fourth judicial district, which was then com- posed of the counties of Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Huntingdon and Mifflin, and on the same day appointed George Woods, first associ- ate, James Martin, second associate, Hugh Bar- clay, third associate, and Peter Hopkins, fourth associate, judges of the county of Bedford.
Judge Smith continued to serve as president judge of this district until January 31, 1794, when he was appointed one of the associate judges of the supreme court of the state. His successor was Hon. James Riddle, of Chambers- burg, who first visited Bedford as judge during the April sessions of 1794 (having been com- missioned February 4 of that year), and con- tinued on until the November term of 1804. Then came Hon. Thos. Cooper, who presided
over the district composed of Bedford, Hunting- don, Mifflin and Centre counties, from the beginning of November sessions, 1804, until the close of November sessions, 1805.
On March 1, 1806, Hon. Jonathan H. Walker, the father of Hon. Robert J. Walker, secretary of the United States treasury in Polk's administra- tion, was appointed president judge of the dis- trict vacated by Cooper. He resided in the building now known as the Union Hotel, Bed- ford, Pennsylvania, and continued to preside over the courts of the fourth district until the close of the April term in 1818. Hon. Charles Huston then became the successor of Judge Walker, and beginning with the August term of 1818, continued until the termination of April sessions, 1824. Another distinguished citizen of the town of Bedford succeeded Judge Hus- ton to the presidency of the sixteenth* judicial district, the territory then embraced by Frank- lin, Bedford and Somerset counties, upon the appointment of the latter to the supreme court bench. We refer to the Hon. John Tod. Judge Tod came to Bedford from the State of Con- necticut about the year 1800. He was admitted to practice in the courts of Bedford county dur- ing the August term of 1802. Subsequently he represented this district in the assembly and senate of the state and in the national house of representatives. His commission as the pre- siding officer of the courts of the sixteenth dis- trict bore the date of June 8, 1824. He held his first term of court in Bedford during Au- gust and September, 1824, and continued to pre- side in the district mentioned until the termina- tion of the April sessions, 1827, when he, too, was appointed one of the associate justices of the supreme court of the state, his appointment as such bearing the date of May 25 of the year last stated.
The successor of Judge Tod was Hon. Alex- ander Thomson, of Bedford. Judge Thomson had been a teacher in the Bedford Academy. He studied law in the office of Samuel Riddle, Esq., and was admitted to practice in the courts of Bedford county during the October term of 1816. His first term of court, at Bedford, began during August, 1827, and he continued his duties as the president judge of this district until the end of the January sessions in 1842. By the provisions of the constitution of 1838, the terms of the judges then in commission were all short-
* Formed March 29, 1824.
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JAMES MEPHERSON RUSSELL.
HON. JAMES McPHERSON RUSSELL.
Hon. James McPherson Russell, a son of Alexander Russell*, was born November 10, 1786, in the town of York, York county, Pennsylvania. Having availed himself of such educational advantages as the county of Adams, Pennsylvania, and an academy taught by James Ross, Esq., afforded, he read law in the office of his uncle-Hon. James Riddle, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania-and was admitted to the bar of Frank- lin county, Pennsylvania, November 10, 1807. On the 17th day of March, 1808, he settled in the town of Bedford, Pennsylvania, and for a period of more than threescore years thereafter he was widely known as one of its most prominent and respected citizens. At the first court after his arrival in Bedford, in 1808, he was admitted to the Bedford county bar, and soon acquired a large practice. On the 6th of February, 1812, he married Rebecca, a daughter of Col. Samuel Lyon, of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. He served as lieutenant of a military company called the "Bedford Fencibles," and as colonel of a regiment of militia, but was never in active service. He also held a number of civil offices: trustee of the Bedford Academy; treasurer of the Chambersburg and Bed- ford Turnpike Road Company, at the time the road was being constructed, in the years 1816-17-18, etc .; manager of the Bedford Springs, and the first chief burgess of the town of Bedford of whom we have authentic record. He was a member of the consti- tutional convention of Pennsylvania, which framed the instrument known as the constitution of 1838. In 1840 he was elected a member of the twenty- seventh congress of the United States, and served during the years 1841-3. He died in Bedford, Pennsylvania, on the 14th day of December, 1870.
. During the revolutionary war, Alexander Russell served for five years in the Pennsylvania Line, as lieutenant of the com- pany commanded by Capt. Alexander, of Carlisle. He married & Miss Mary McPherson.
HON. SAMUEL LYON RUSSELL ..
Hon. Samuel Lyon Russell, a life-time resident of the town of Bedford, a gentleman of liberal education, of marked ability and sterling integrity, is a son of Hon. James M. Russell. He was born in Bedford, Pennsylvania, July 30, 1816. After attending the schools and academy in Bedford, the Gettysburg gymnasium at Gettysburg. Adams county, Pennsyl- vania, and Washington College, at Washington, Wash- ington county, Pennsylvania, he graduated from the latter institution in September, 1834. Soon after, he began the study of law in his father's office, and on the 29th day of November, 1837, was admitted to practice in the courts of Bedford county. He thus ranks as the oldest active member of the present Bed- ford county bar. During the forty-six years which have passed since his admission, he has practiced his profession continuously, and, we may add, most suc- cessfully; yet intervals have frequently occurred when he has been called upon to perform important official duties. On the 27th of August, 1838, he was sworn into office as deputy attorney-general of the county. He held the office but a brief period, how- ever, for Gov. Porter, a democrat, was elected in the fall of 1838, and Mr. Russell being a whig, the latter soon had to relinquish his position. Prior to 1847, he served as lieutenant of a Bedford military company called the "Independent Greys." He was also commissioned major of a volunteer battalion. In October, 1852, he was elected a member of the thirty- third congress, and served during the years 1853-5. Twenty years later, or in October, 1872, he was elected a member of the constitutional convention, which framed the present constitution of the State of Penn- sylvania. Mr. Russell has also held quite a number of minor offices in the borough of Bedford, which it is needless, perhaps, to give in detail. Yet we will add that he has always displayed much activity and zeal in the cause of education.
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ened, and thereafter the president judges were nominated by the governor, with the consent of the senate, to hold for ten years, and the asso- ciate judges to hold for five years.
Hon. Jeremiah S. Black, of Somerset, appeared at Bedford, as the president judge of the six- teenth judicial district, at the beginning of April sessions, 1842, and continued (though Hon. George M. Taylor and Hon. Samuel A. Gilmore had each held court here in 1850, by an arrange- ment with Judge Black) until the close of the November term, in 1851. By an amendment to the constitution of 1850, the office of all judges was then made elective. Consequently, the successor of Judge Black *- Hon. Francis M. Kimmel, of Somerset - was elected president judge of the sixteenth district, embracing the counties of Franklin, Fulton, Bedford and Som- erset, in October, 1851. He held his first court in Bedford, in February, 1852, and continued to perform the duties of his office for the full term of ten years. Judge James Nill, of Chambers- burg, was elected for the succeeding term in October, 1861. He died May 27, 1864, when Hon. Alexander King, of Bedford, was ap- pointed (June 4, 1864) to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Nill. Judge King was elected president judge of the sixteenth district t in October, 1864, and was commissioned De- cember 3d of that year, for a ten years' term. He died in office, however, January 10, 1871, when Hon. William M. Hall, Jr., of Bedford, was appointed February 1, 1871, to fill the va- cancy. In October, 1871, Judge Hall was elected for a full term.
The present president judge, Hon. William J. Baer, of Somerset, was elected for a term of ten years in November, 1881.
As mentioned in a marginal note, under the constitution of 1873, Franklin county became a separate judicial district, to which Fulton county was soon after attached. Hence, Bedford and Somerset counties, alone, constitute the present sixteenth district, a district of which they have formed a part since March 29, 1824.
THE BAR.
Since the formation of Bedford county about three hundred attorneys have been admitted to practice in its several courts. The list shows
. It is a noteworthy fact that Judges Black, Kimmel and Baer were born within a circuit of three miles, and that they all rose to prominence from the middle walks of life without collegiate educations.
t Hon. D. Watson Rowe, of Greencastle, Pennsylvania, was
the names of men who were not only prominent in the struggle for national independence, but who aided in the organization of the common- wealth; beside a large number of others who during later years have distinguished them- selves. A chronological list showing the date of admission of each -which may be considered nearly perfect - follows herewith. The names of those now practicing are designated by an asterisk :
Robert Magaw Admitted Apr. 16, 1771.
Andrew Ross
Apr. 16, 1771.
Philip Pendleton
Apr. 16, 1771.
Robert Galbraith
Apr. 16, 1771.
David Sample.
Apr. 16, 1771.
James Wilson
Apr. 16, 1771.
David Grier.
July 16, 1771.
David Espy
July 16, 1771.
George Brent.
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July 14, 1772.
Thomas Woods
Oct. 14, 1777.
James Martin .
Oct. 14, 1777.
Jonathan Seigart
Jan. term 1778.
George Woods
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Apr. " 1778.
Thomas Smith
Apr.
1778.
James Carson.
Apr.
1786.
James Riddle.
Apr. "
"
1790.
John Cadwallader
Jan.
" 1790.
Jacob Nagle
July
1790.
Samuel Riddle.
Apr. " 1791.
John Woods.
Apr.
1791.
Robert Smith
Date unknown. "
George Thompson
Aug. term 1792.
Henry Woods (son of Geo.).
Nov.
1792.
David McKeehan
Nov. " 1792.
Samuel Selby
Aug. 1793.
James Morrison
Jan.
1795.
John Lyon.
Apr.
1795.
Richard L. Carmick
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Nov.
" 1795.
George Armstrong.
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Nov.
1795.
William Reynolds
Aug.
" .1796.
Joseph Weigley
Sept.
1800.
Wallace
Nov.
1800.
Thomas Thistle
Aug.
1801
Samuel Duncan
Nov.
"
1801.
Rezin Davidge
May
1802.
Joseph Vickroy
Date unknown.
James Kedie.
Aug. term 1802.
John Tod (of Connecticut). .
Aug.
1802.
William A. Thompson.
May
1803.
Josiah M. Epsy
Sept.
" 1804.
Otho Shrader
Sept.
1804.
appointed additional law judge of the sixteenth district, March 18, 1868. In October of that year he was elected to the same po- sition for ten years, beginning with the first Monday in Decem- ber, 1868. When Franklin county became a separate judicial district, Judge Rowe was commissioned president judge of it - the thirty-ninth district.
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William M. Brown
Jan.
July 16, 1771.
Andrew Scott
Apr. " 1791.
John Clark
Jonathan Hindman
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James Carson.
Admitted Sept. term 1804.
James Nill .
Admitted Sept. 3, 1851.
William Ward, Jr.
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Feb.
1805. John J. Bonnett
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Sept. 3, 1851.
Andrew Dunlap.
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Nov.
1808. John P. Osterhout
Sept. 3, 1851.
William R. Smith
Apr. = 1809. John P. O'Neill
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Sept. 3, 1851.
William Dean.
Nov.
1809.
John H. Filler
Sept.
3, 1851.
John C. Walker (of Vermont)
=
Jan.
1810.
John P. Reed*
Feb.
9, 1852.
George Burd.
Apr.
1810.
Samuel Ake*
Feb. 13, 1852.
James M. Russell
Nov. = 1808.
Thomas A. Boyd.
Feb.
24, 1853.
John Johnson
June " 1811.
William H. Koontz
Aug.
29, 1853.
James Espy
Aug.
1812.
Joseph W. Tate* =
Nov.
21, 1853.
William D. Smith
Date unknown.
George H. Spang*
May
3, 1854.
Benjamin R. Stevens
Aug. term 1812.
T. W. B. McFadden.
May
4, 1854.
William Magruder.
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Nov. " 1814.
John S. Robinson
May
4, 1854.
Guy Gaylord.
Aug.
1815.
J. Buchanan Boggs
May 4, 1854.
John A. T. Kilgore.
Aug. " 1816.
John W. Lingenfelter* =
May
5, 1856.
Alexander Thomson
Oct.
" 1816.
Benjamin F. Meyers.
Sept.
6, 1856.
William Swift.
Date unknown.
Richard De C. Barclay .
Feb.
9, 1858.
Charles B. Seely
Oct. term 1816.
Samuel Lyon
May 5, 1858.
Alexander B. Fleming.
Jan. " 1817.
O. H. Gaither
Aug. 30, 1858.
Jonathan Carlise.
Aug.
1822.
J. Selby Mower
Feb.
17, 1859.
Thomas B. McElwee
Jan.
1822.
John E. McGirr.
Apr.
30, 1860.
John A. Blodgett.
Nov. 1822.
William T. Daugherty :
Feb. 11, 1861.
Samuel Canan
Jan.
1823.
John Palmer
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Feb.
14, 1861.
David R. Denny
Aug.
1824.
Joseph R. Durborrow
May
6, 1863.
John Williams.
Aug.
1824.
Espy M. Alsip. =
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May
5, 1864.
Horatio N. Weigley
Aug.
1824.
Moses A. Points*
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Nov. 23, 1864.
Francis B. Murdock
Date unknown.
Nathaniel P. Fetterman
Nov. term 1825.
Richard B. McCabe.
Jan. "
1825
John T. Keagy
Feb. 15, 1865.
William R. Roberts
Jan.
= 1825
William Van Buskirk
=
Apr.
1826
"
Feb. 13, 1868.
A. J. Cline.
Aug.
1826.
=
July 20, 1869.
John Mower*
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Apr. Jan.
24, 1832.
Humphry D. Tate*
Dec. 14, 1870.
Alexander L. Russell
Aug. 28, 1834.
B. Franklin Mann.
Apr.
18, 1837.
James C. Russell*
Mar.
31, 1873.
William C. Logan
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Apr.
15, 1839.
Samuel H. Tate.
Aug. 23, 1841.
John K. McCulloh
Feb. 26, 1877.
Francis M. Kimmel
Jan. 25, 1842.
Frank Fletcher*
Dec.
3, 1877.
Joshua F. Cox.
Aug. 22, 1842.
Rufus H. Black.
Sept. 16, 1878.
David H. Hofius.
Nov. 29, 1842.
Thomas M. Armstrong*
Dec.
2, 1878.
Ross Forward.
Mar. .. 1843.
Robert C. McNamara*
Apr.
15, 1879.
Oliver C. Hartley
Apr. 23, 1844.
Nicholas L. MeGirr*
July 19, 1880.
Jacques W. Johnson
June 10, 1845.
J. Frank Minnich*
July
19, 1880.
John Cessna*
June 25, 1845.
Howard F. Mowry
July
19, 1880.
Edwin C. Marim.
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Aug. 27, 1845.
Joseph S. Stayer*
=
Apr. 17, 1882.
William P. Schell
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Oct. 8, 1845.
Rufus K. Hartley
Apr. 10, 1847.
Joseph Mann.
29, 1847.
Joseph F. Loy
5, 1847.
Josiah E. Barclay
Dec. 21, 1847.
William M. Hall.
Sept. 1, 1848.
Oliver E. Shannon
Nov. 15, 1848.
William M. Hall, Jr*
Aug. 29, 1849.
Concerning the foregoing list of attorneys, we learn that Robert Magaw, the first attorney admitted to practice in the courts of Bedford county, was a resident of Carlisle. A little more than four years after his appearance at
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Apr.
1827.
William C. Hollahan
Dec.
13, 1869.
John M. Reynolds*
Feb. 15, 1870.
Alexander King.
Nov. 26, 1833.
William C. Smith*
Dec. 14, 1870.
John H. Jordan*
Sept. 7, 1871.
Samuel L. Russell*
Nov. 29, 1837.
Job Mann.
Apr. 20, 1839.
John W. Rouse*
Apr. 26, 1875.
W. Scott Lee.
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Mar. 2, 1876.
Samuel M. Barclay
Aug.
1826.
Hayes Irvine*
Apr.
25, 1867.
John Alsip.
David S. Elliott*
Feb. 10, 1869.
William Lyon
Aug.
¥ 1824.
Jonathan B. Cessna*
Feb.
15, 1865.
Edward F. Kerr *.
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Feb. 15, 1865.
J. W. Dickerson.
May
1, 1866.
Jan. 1826.
Jacob H. Longenecker"
Sept.
3, 1866.
James Hepburn.
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Alexander King, Jr*
28, 1829.
Espy L. Anderson
John Lutz*
May 6, 1863.
William F. Boone
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Francis Jordan
June 25, 1845.
Rufus C. Haderman*
Dec.
6, 1881.
J. Nelson Alsip*
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Nov. 22, 1882.
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Bedford, or in June, 1775, he was commissioned major of Col. William Thompson's Ist Penn. Rifle Batt., and with that command (which con- tained a company of Bedford county troops) joined Washington, then besieging the British at Boston, Massachusetts, in August of the same year. On January 3, 1776, Magaw was com- missioned colonel of the 5th battalion of the Pennsylvania Line. He and his whole com- mand were captured by the British at Fort Washington, Long Island, November 16, 1776, and paroled, but not exchanged until October 25, 1780. He died at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Janu- ary 7, 1790, and was buried in "Meeting-House Spring cemetery."
Of Col. Robert Galbraith, David Sample, Col. David Espy, James Martin, Esq., Col. George Woods and Col. Thomas Smith frequent mention is made in the chapters relating to the settlement of this region, the organization of Bedford county and the revolutionary period. All were residents of the town of Bedford before the beginning of the struggle for national inde- pendence, and all achieved an enviable and widespread reputation. See Bedford county civil lists. David Sample removed to Pittsburgh at an early day and passed the remainder of his life there. As was customary with many promi- nent attorneys one hundred years ago, his prac- tice extended into all the counties of the south- west quarter of the state, and the journeys from one seat of justice to another were invariably made upon horseback. During one of these trips an amusing colloquy took place between a judge and a limb of the law, which Sample took great delight in repeating afterward. It appears that the attorney was Sample himself and that he was accompanied by the president judge of the district. The judge had recently supplied himself with a new pair of leather saddle-bags, the sides of which were neatly secured with small brass padlocks. They had proceeded but a short distance upon their journey when the judge's recent acquisition attracted the attention of Sample, and the latter passed a remark or two concerning the beauty and completeness of the outfit. " But, judge," added Sample, "why have you had padlocks placed upon them?" "To secure the contents, of course," replied the judge. "But suppose a thief was determined to secure the contents of the saddle-bags," con- tinued the lawyer, "of what use would be the padlocks, providing the thief had a sharp knife
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