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Staufer's mill is a very old one, and was built prob- ably by Tobias Miller about 1770.
David Zook built a carding- and fulling-mill on the northeastern branch of D megal Run sixty years ago. It was burned down a few years ago and has not been rebuilt.
Henry Haldeman built a saw-mill at the mouth of Chikis Creek about the year 1826.
Hiestand's saw- and fulling.mill stood on Little Chikis, about a mile above its mouth. It was an old mill and probably built by Nathaniel Little.
Taverns .- The first licensed "ordinary" west of the Conestoga was granted to John Galbraith at the August term of court, 1726. As he had been settled there as early, as 1718, on the great road which branched from the old Peter's road and ran through the thickest part of the settlement, it is probable that he kept a house of entertainment several years prior to the date of this petition, as he had already erected a grist-, corn-, and saw-mill. The tavern stood at the edge of Donegal Meeting-House Run, at the point where the Marietta and Mount Joy turnpike crosses the same. The building is standing on the south side of the turnpike. A hundred years ago it was used as a store. The mill stood at the northwest side of the turnpike. It was probably not used as a tavern after Mr. Galbraith's death in 1751.
Mary Denny kept an ordinary in 1730, on the Pax- ton and Conestoga road.
The Indian traders generally took out a license to sell liquor by the small measure in addition to their " trading ,license; but few of them kept an ordinary, however.
Richard Keys kept the Anderson Ferry tavern in 1777 and 1778.
After Maytown was laid out and.a tavern built it took much of the business away from the old taverns, and when Marietta and Mount Joy began to grow there was but little necessity for taverns outside of those places in East Donegal. The only one of im- portance was the " Black Horse," situated along the Marietta and Mount Joy turnpike, about a mile and a half from the latter place.
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As a curiosity, we insert a specimen old-time tavern petition :
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" August, 1726.
" To the Honorble Bench, the humble petitim of John Galbreath, of Donegal in the county of Chester, launbly showeth-
"That your petitioner, dwelling on a great roud, and many travelers passing thereby, has great encouragement for their relief and accommo- dation to take up ordmary, to which your petitioner is likewise requested by the neighborhood, for their public and common advantage, in a+ much as a great quantity of barley is raised and malted, which by reason of the great distance from a market, without public-houses here, will turn to no account, to their great loss ; for which valuable considerations your petitioner humbly craves that this Honorable Bench may be pleased to grant him to brew and sell beer and ale. And your bumble peti- tioner, as in duty bound, shall ever pray.
" We whose names are subscribed, inhabitants of Donegal and Cones- togoe, do hereby certifio and confirm the truth of the above petition, and also most humbly, with submission to the Honorable Bench, recon- mend the above petitioner, John Galbreath, as a fitt person to keep or- dinary. Dated Donegal, Aug. 27, 1726.
James Patison.
John Carr.
Thomas Howard.
Hugh Moor.
William Dunlap.
Jonah Davenport.
David McCakarty.
James Cunningham.
George Moffet.
Willinin Eben
Juhu Moffet.
William Bryan.
James Mitchell.
Hugh Mcken.
Thomas Wilkins. John Burt.
Witham Iny.
Robert Buchannan,
David Jones.
James Smith.
James Galbreath.
Andrew Galbreath.
Thomas Bayley.
Ephraim Moore.
James Allison.
John Mitchell.
Jamies Moor.
Joseph Cochian.
Hugh Whoit.
Gordon Howard.
William Buckannon. Patrick Campbell.
James Brownloo.
Alexander Ilutchesou.
Joseph Worke.
Robert Me Farland.
John Tayleer.
Richard Allison.
Michael Carr.
Randel Chambers."
Nov. 17, 1742, Richard Peters writing to the Pro- prietaries, among other things, says,-
"James Anderson's Petition for a Ferry was presented to Mr. Thos. Penn, and It gave me a verbal order to make out the Patent; it is not within the Limits of another Grant, and a new County Road is ordered to be made to it, as it hes the most convenient for the New Town of York, to the great mortihention of John Wright, whose Ferry will be much burt by this, for it bilist by its situation be the principal Ferry on the Susquehannah. I spoke to Mr. Cookson to book out for a proper per- sub to take Julin Wright's Ferry, he says every body is afraid to engage, . for the Wright's claim all the Land on both sides, and they will not suffer any person to land on their Ground. I am told they do not intend to apply for a renewal of the Patent, but are determined to keep the Ferry withont one."
Richard Keyes owned a ferry two miles above Anderson's Ferry in 1780. Two years prior to this time he had rented Anderson's Ferry, Christian Vine- gar rented the ferry from Mr. Keyes, and afterwards purchased it. I have not met with any evidence that would warrant the assertion that there was a regular ferry at this point prior to Mr. Keyes' purchase.
Noah Keesey, a Revolutionary soldier, established a ferry across Chikis Creek, near its mouth. He charged two cents to ferry a passenger across.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
David McNeely, Jr., April 14, 1x10 lirain Albert, April, 1865.
l'eter Albright, April 14, 1840. Charles M. Brown, April, ING7.
Isaac Shirtzor, April 15, 1845. H & Albert, April, 1×50.
Matthew G. Marpel, April 15, 1x45. Isaac Shirtzer, April 9, 1850.
C. M. Brown, April, 1872.
HI. S. Albert, April, 1875. C. M. Brown, April, 1877.
Snnon F. Allnight, April 13, 1852. Joseph L. Brandt, April, 1878. James J. Johnston, 1>80.
J W. Breneman, April 10, 1855. Simon F Allright, April 10, 1560, Charles M. Brown, April 15, 1802.
S. Stacks, 1881.
S. F. Albright, 1882.
Maytown,-This antiquated village was famous more than a hundred years ago, and for fifty years it was the most important town in Donegal township. It is located near the centre of East Donegal town- ship, on the " great road" which branched from the ohl Peter's road. This road was in existence, and much traveled by Indian traders and settlers, as early
In the year 1748 Lazarus Lowrey took out a patent for four hundred and eleven acres of land, through which the road ran, and upon which the town now stands. In the same year Mr. Lowrey sold one lun- dred and fifty acres of this tract to one of the traders in his employ, Dennis Sullivan. He paid only part of the purchase money, and was unable to meet his engagements on account of losses sustained by the Indians, The sheriff sold the property in a year or two, and Mr. Lowrey repurchased it, and in the year 1753 he sold the same tract of land to John Kennedy, another trader, who not only met with losses by the Indians, but was wounded and taken prisoner by them. On the 7th day of May, 1754, he was sold out by Sheriff Smith, and Thomas Harris and Joseph Simons, Indian traders, who held a mortgage against the property, became the purchasers. On the 15th day of February, 1760, they sold this tract to Jacob
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Ferries .- The following letter of Richard Peters seems to give the date when the Anderson Ferry was established and the road leading to it was laid out: | Downer, who had settled in Lampeter township in
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Public Improvements .- Along the southern bound- ary of this township runs the Pennsylvania Canal and the Pennsylvania Central Railroad. Along its north- ern boundary runs the Lancaster, Mount Joy, Eliza- bethtown and Middletown turnpike, and the Lancas- ter, Mount Joy and Harrisburg Railroad. Near its eastern boundary a turnpike connects Marietta and Mount Joy. In the southeastern part there is the i as 1719.
Lancaster and Marietta turnpike and the Columbia and Marietta turnpike. There is another turnpike connecting Marietta and Maytown, and another lead- ing from Maytown in the direction of Elizabeth- lown.
The second road of any considerable length, built within the limits of the county, was the old Peter's road, which was laid out in 1718. It entered the township at the northeastern corner at or near Mount Joy, and from thence it ran to Conoy Creek, a little south of Stackstown, or Ridgeville, via Donegal meet- ! ing-house. A large portion of this road is still in use. Another road branched from the old Peter's road at Mount Joy, and ran by John Galbraith's tavern and mill, thence in the direction of the settlement where Maytown now is.
William S. Barr, April 9, 18501.
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1731, and who commenced to purchase land in Done- gal from Lazarus Lowrey in 1750, which bounded this one hundred and fifty acre tract on the east. In the year 1760 lie laid out a town upon the one hundred and fifty acres, which he named Maytown. The town was laid out rectangularly, and measured about a thousand feet upon each side. In the centre was a square reserved for a market-house, in which two main streets crossed at right angles, with streets and alleys bounding the outer edges on the four sides.
Lots sold readily, but only ground-rent deeds were given. The quit- or ground-rents amounted to a con- siderable sum, but not enough to relieve Downer from debts which were pressing him.
James Webb, Jr., high-sheriff of the county, sold Downer out in the fall of 1770, and his lands, in- cluding the ground-rents, were purchased by Col. Alexander Lowrey, and a conveyance was made to him Nov. 10, 1770. Col. Lowrey devised the ground- rents to his daughter, Frances Evans, in 1805, who conveyed them to John Smith about the year 1828, who in turn conveyed them a year or two later to John Whitehill, some of whose heirs continue to re- ceive ground-rent. The largest number, however, have purchased the fee simple title to their lots. Numerous litigations grew out of these ground-rents, which in some instances were allowed to accumulate, and when an attempt was made to collect the rent by levy and sale many poor people were distressed.
The town is beautifully located upon high level ground, about two miles from the river, where there is no miasma. To the absence of its baleful influence Maytown was indebted for its rapid settlement. Many of the pioneer settlers located along the river about the different ferries, but on account of the fever and ague which prevailed among them many sought to escape the dread disease by moving back a few miles.
Pioneer Settlers .- The first settlers in Maytown belonged to the German Reformed and Lutheran Churches. A large number of them were mechanics. They were surrounded by English land-holders. The list of taxables appended for 1780 shows who these early settlers were :
Widow of James Anderson (one slave). Stophel Albright.
Walter Bell (munkeepel).
Nicholas Blaser.
Joseph Lowrey.
George Bart.
Abraham Long.
Christian Bollar.
William Metieary.
Robert Cavin.
Adam Ne-s.
Henry Derr. Peler Dill.
WalHain l'eck
Jolin Enrich.
Frederick Sailor.
Ulrich Tanner.
Margaret Tate (widow of Rev. Jos. Toto). Jacob Winnt.
J.wub Wiant, Jr. Widow Work. Frederick Yeah.
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Henry Haines.
James Adams.
Jobn Hastings.
Peter Albright. George Hollinger.
William Brice.
Enoch Hastings.
James Bradley.
Andrew Hamilton.
Lawrence Beshler.
JIenty Jacobs.
Catherine Bell (widow of Walter Bell).
Robert Johnson.
John Kime.
George Barr, Sr.
Michael Kuster.
George Barr, Jr.
Philip Kingh.
Owen Burr.
Widow Kline.
Johan Boru.
Hemy Lutz.
Widow Brenner.
Martin Lindemuth.
Jacob Beist.
Francis Litlle.
Julin Belst.
James Maize.
Joseph Belt.
John Mcclure.
John Brenneman.
Samuel Mcclellan.
James Buily.
William Mcclure.
Widow Belst.
James Mcclellan.
George Beist.
Charles Murry.
Benjamin Barnet.
Samuel Muckert.
Clau lse Cameron.
Jolin Nicholus.
William Clark.
Christian Peck.
Stephen Chinp.
Nancy Piple.
Robert Canen.
Nicholas Peck.
Jolm Campbell.
Mary Ritter.
M. Cameron.
John Smith.
John Dennison.
Jacob Sehiremen.
Stophel Drevenstadt.
Jolin Stoler.
Robert Duk.
John Swords.
Dominick Egle.
Ileury sunk.
Juines Eagan.
Andrew Shitter.
Stephen Edwards.
Julin Seott
Thomas Eaguu.
Jacob Schireman's estate.
George Ginney.
Frederick Sherborne.
Gilman's estute.
Adam Tate.
Damel Gilman. Widow of Christian Vinegar.
Frederick Gulbongh.
Caleb Way.
Phihp Gorner.
John Warner.
Widow Gorner.
Benedick Witmer.
Anthony Haines.
James Work
Freemen.
Joseph Albright.
Joseph Keesey.
Abraham Bienuemans
William Hastings.
Matthew Dennison.
David Haines.
Joseph Dotel. John Haines.
Henry Egle. John Murray.
Daniel Fondersmith.
Frederik Schireman.
Daniel Gilnian.
John Smith, Jr.
Matthias Gilman.
Alexander Shireman.
Christian Keesry.
Enoch Hastings.
Frederick Gailbach (still-house and inh). Juines Kur.
Daniel Ort.
Laughlin Free. John Gorner.
Daniel Gilman.
Janvah Inines. Charlotte Haines. Henry Hinkle Jacob Hoffman. John Hollinger.
The above list embraces lot-holders only. There is no separate list of "freemen" for the town.
The List of Taxables for 1807 exhibits consider- ablegrowth. Following are the names which it con- tains :
I'rederick Albright.
Prominent Early Settlers .- THE CAMERONS,- In the spring of 1775 there came to America from Scotland, upon the same vessel which brought Rev. Colin McFarquhar to our shores, a family consisting of Donald Cameron and his son John, and Simon and wife (and Ann MeKenzie, who was probably the sister of Simon's wife, who is known to have been a MeKenzie). They came from the same neighbor- hood, and were doubtless intimate friends. The Camerons in their native place were tenant farmers, and when they came to Donegal with Mr. MeFar- quhar, one of the first things they did was to move upon the glebe lands of Donegal Church and farm, taking up their old occupation. The quantity of land
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farmable was about one-fifth of the whole, the rest being covered with timber. After Mr. MeFarquhar purchased a farm about two miles north of Mount Joy they doubtless farmed that, for none of their
Messrs. Gales & Seaton, publishers of the National In- telligencer, at Washington, as a journeyman printer. He returned to Harrisburg in 1822, and entered into partnership with Charles Mowry in the management names are upon the Donegal assessment-roll for two | of the Pennsylvania Intelligencer. Having been the or three years.
early friend and supporter of Governor Shulze, upon his ceasing to be State printer, he was honored by that executive with the appointment of adjutant- general of Pennsylvania.
In June, 1778, Simon and his brother, John Came- ron, took the oath of allegiance before James Bayley, who resided upon and owned the " Graybill farm," now owned by Abraham N. Cassel, Emq. Charles, son of Simon Cameron, learned the tailoring trade in Maytown. After attaining full age he married Miss Pfoutz, daughter of John Pfoutz, about the year 1794. The family were poor, but what they lacked in this world's goods Mrs. Cameron made up for in energy and untiring industry with her needle. She had a vigorous mind and an undaunted spirit that triumphed over what seemed to be insurmountable difficulties that threatened to crush her spirit, and challenge her , should build a canal from Lake Pontchartrain to New husband and her own ability to support a large and growing family.
Gen. Cameron at an early period took a deep in- terest in the development of internal improvements, and took extensive contracts upon the Pennsylvania Canal, then in process of construction. In 1826 he began building the section between Harrisburg and Sunbury, and after this was well under way he took one or two sections on the western division of the canal. When Louisiana granted a charter to the State Bank of that commonwealth, it provided that the bank Orleans. Gen. Cameron took the contract for that great work, which was then regarded by engineers as
Her husband purchased the hotel at the southwest . the greatest undertaking of the time. In 1831 he corner of the square, which he carried on for a few years, without, however, much success. Here their oldest son, William, was born in 1796. In the fol- lowing year the family moved to a small frame house on the south side of the street leading west, and about three hundred feet from the public square. In this house their sons John, Simon, and James, and a sister, who married a Mr. Boggs, were born. The family removed from Maytown to Vinegar's Ferry, and from thence, about the year 1809, to Northumberland, Pa.
started for New Orleans, He employed twelve hun- dred men in Philadelphia, and sent them by sea to that city. He, with his engineers and tools, went down the Mississippi River, embarking at Pittsburgh. lle spent nearly half a year upon the work, and dem . onstrated beyond a doubt its entire feasibility. IIe was recalled from his work on the Lake Pontchartrain Canal by a summous from Maj. Eaton, Secretary of War under Gen. Jackson, who requested him to re- turn to Pennsylvania and organize a delegation to the : National Convention, which had been called to meet enme home and organized a delegation that went to Gen. Simon Cameron. He was born March 8, 1799. | Baltimore in the interest ot Mr. Van Buren for the Vice-Presidency. This was the first National Con- vention ever held in the United States.
Simon, mentioned in the foregoing list of Charles and Martha ( Pfoutz) Cameron's children, was des- in Baltimore. Gen. Cameron respected the summons, tined to become the famous politician and statesman He accompanied the family to Northumberland County when he was about nine years of age, where his father shortly afterward dying he was cast upon After the National Convention in Baltimore he was appointed a visitor to West Point by Gen. Jackson. his own exertions. He entered, in 1816, as an appren- tice to the printing business with Andrew Kennedy,
In the winter of 1832 the Legislature chartered the From the first the bank was successful, but the duties
editor of the Northumberland County Gazette, at North- . bank at Middletown, and he became its cashier. umberland, where he continued one year, when his em- ployer, owing to financial reverses, was obliged to close ; of cashier were so limited that Gen. Cameron sought his establishment. Being thus thrown out of employ- other fields of labor and usefulness, although he re- mained there twenty-five years. He projected and created the railroad, from Middletown to Lancaster, from Harrisburg to Sunbury, from Harrisburg to Leh- anon, and at the same time gave large encouragement to the Cumberland Valley Railroad. And in this connection it may be stated that the Northern Cen- "tral Railroad from Harrisburg to Baltimore was cap- 'tured by him from Baltimore interests and made a Pennsylvania institution ; and he was at one time president of not less than four corporations, all oper- ating lines within a few miles of the spot where he was born. ment, he made his way by river-boat and on foot to Harrisburg, where he secured a situation in the print- ing-office of James Peacock, editor of the Republican, with whom he remained until he had attained his ma -. jority. In January, 1821, he went to Doylestown, Pa., at the solicitation of Samuel D. Ingham, where he published the Bucks County Messenger. In March of the same year be entered into partnership with the publisher of the Doylestown Democrat, and the firm merged their papers into the Bucks County Demo- crat, which publication was continued until the elose of the year 1821, when the establishment passed into the hands by purchase of Gen. W. T. Rodgers, The , In 1838, President Van Buren tendered to Gen. succeeding winter Mr. Cameron spent in the office of | Cameron the appointment of a commissioner with
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James Murray, one of the most respected citizens of Maryland, under a treaty with the Winnebago In- dians to settle and adjust the claims made against the Indians by the traders.
In 1845, when James K. Polk tendered the State Department to James Buchanan, and that gentleman resigned his seat in the Senate of the United States, an election to supply the vacancy beenme necessary. Gen. Cameron was at this time in recognized sym- pathy with the Demoeratie party, and selected as the representative of the wing of the party which favored the poliey of a protective tariff. The regular caucus nominee of the Democracy, however, was George W. Woodward, which was regarded as a free trade tri- umpl, rendering it possible for some other Democrat known to be honestly, devoted to the ever-cherished policy of the State to be elected by a union of the Whigs, Americans, and those Democrats in favor of the protective policy. The result was the election of Simon Cameron to the United States Senate. From March, 1845, to March 4, 1849, he served his State faithfully in that body, and proved himself true to the great interests committed to his charge, and he never wearied in the support of the principles on which he was elected.
In the winter of 1857 the entire opposition mem- bers of the Legislature, consisting of Whigs, Native Americans, and Tariff Men, selected Gen. Cameron as their candidate to fill the place of Senator Brod- head, whose term of service expired on the 4th of March that year. He was elected for the full term, and he took his seat in the Senate on the 4th of March, notwithstanding the futile assault made by his colleague from Pennsylvania, Mr. Bigler, upon his title to the place, and which that body refused to consider. Gen. Cameron's return to the United States Senate brought him again prominently before the pub- lie, and in the political movements which preceded the campaign of 1860 he was named as the choice of Pennsylvania for the Presidency, and his name early associated with that of Mr. Lincoln in connection with the Republican national ticket.
as his political, but his warm personal friend, and there were no such relations existing between the President and his other constitutional advisers. This fatt was well known when the cabinet was organized. While he was in the War Department his counsel was not only potential in cabinet meetings, but was sought by the President in private.
Believing that the civil war would require all the available resources of the nation to preserve the Union, doubting the speedy settlement of the trouble, he began as Secretary of War a scale of preparations to combat it which puzzled the oldest officers in the army and chagrined the leaders of the Rebellion, who had calculated much on the supineness and lethargy of the Northern people. Gen. Cameron frus- trated this hope by his energy, but he had the cabi- net to a man against him. The minister who thus labored to equip his country for a struggle with trea- son, the proportions of which he alone seemed fully to appreciate, was assailed for each and all of these acts. Mr. Lincoln had the fullest confidence in his Secretary of War; he believed in his sagaeity and re- lied on his courage, but he could not wholly with- stand the elamor against him, so that Gen. Cameron, to relieve Mr. Lincoln from embarrassment, resolved to resign, and on the 11th of January, 1862, returned the portfolio of the War Department to the Presi- dent; but in that aet he commanded the renewed . confidence of Mr. Lincoln, who the day he accepted his resignation nominated the retiring minister for the most important diplomatie mission in his gift. Nor was this all: Mr. Lincoln insisted that Gen. Cameron should name his own successor, an act which no retiring cabinet officer ever did before or since. The mission to Russia involved the safe and sagacious handling of our relations with the Czar's government at a moment when it demanded the most prudent direction.
The relations between Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Came- ron were always most cordial, and immediately upon his return to the United States he was the accepted eitizen-counselor at the White House. At this time efforts were being made looking to defeating the re- nomination of Mr. Lincoln for a second term. Gen. Cameron visited the national capital repeatedly at that time, and on reaching his farm in Donegal, after a return from one of these visits had a paper pre- pared, embodying the merits of Mr. Lincoln as Presi-
Gen. Cameron's national career began at the Chi- cago Convention in 1860, when the Republican party, crystallized into a national organization, made its open, clear, and stern antagonism to slavery. With intuitive sagacity the advocates of slavery recognized in the Republican party the force which would ulti- mately overthrow it. When Mr. Lincoln was nomi- Ident, acknowledging the fidelity and integrity of his nated, Gen. Cameron made himself felt in such a first administration, and declaring that his renomina- tion and re-election involved a necessity essential to the success of the war for the Union. That paper was submitted to the Republican members of both branches of the Legislature of the State of Pennsyl- vania, every one of whom signed it, and in this shape was presented to Mr. Lincoln, and telegraphed to the country at large. Its publication accomplished all that the forethought of its originator anticipated. In three weeks after the issuing of this letter, it was a manner as to win the confidence of that illustrious statesman. After the great political battle of that year, Gen. Cameron was the first of those to whom Mr. Lincoln turned for counsel, and the offer of a cabinet office by the latter to the former was a volun- tary act, and that appointment would have been made the first in the selection of his cabinet had not in- trigues interfered to defer it at the time. Mr. Lincoln looked on Gen. Cameron from first to last not only
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