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Morrison, Ephraim, single man, 1 inlot in Warren.
Murdock, Abijah, II inlots and 6 outlots in Warren, single man.
McClain, Neil, 200 acres land, 2 oxen, 2 cows. McClain, John, 150 acres land.
Murdock, Galen, 100 acres land, 2 cows, 1 horse.
Murdock, Moses, 100 acres land, 2 cows.
Miles, Robert, 1650 acres land, 2 cows, 2 horses.
McClay, Charles, 150 acres land.
Marsh, John, 800 acres land, I cow, 2 oxen, I outlot and 4 inlots in Warren.
Marsh, Hugh, 500 acres land, 2 cows, 2 oxen, I horse, 3 outlots and 2 inlots in Warren. Mead, Darius, 300 acres land, 2 oxen, 3 cows, I saw-mill, } grist-mill.
Mead, Joseph, 400 acres land, 3 cows, I horse, 2 oxen, I saw-mill, } grist-mill, 2 inlots in Warren.
McQuay, Daniel, 400 acres land, 2 oxen.
McNair. Charles, single man, 200 acres land, I horse.
Murphy, Jesse, 200 acres land, I cow.
Maxwell, William, 400 acres land, 2 cows, 2 oxen.
McCue, Daniel, 100 acres land.
Morrison, Hugh, 400 acres land, i horse, I cow.
McGuire, Hugh, 400 acres land, I cow, I horse.
McClain, William, 100 acres land, 2 cows, 2 horses.
McDowell, Alexander, 9 outlots and 4 inlots in Warren, II acres Reserve.
Mckinney, Barnabas, 100 acres, I cow, 1 horse, 2 oxen, { saw-mill.
Mckinney, John, 500 acres land, 2 oxen, 2 in- lots in Warren.
Miner, Allen S., single man.
Neville, John, 400 acres land.
Olds, Gilbert, 100 acres of land, I " stear," I horse.
Peelman, Christopher, single man, 100 acres land, I cow, 2 oxen.
Peelman, John, 100 acres land.
Prosser, Daniel Sen', single man, I cow, I horse.
Prosser, William, 100 acres land.
Prosser, Daniel Jr., 100 acres land.
Prosser, Isaac, 100 acres land.
Putnam, Michael, 133 acres land.
Putnam, Nathaniel, 133 acres land.
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Portman,1 John, 800 acres land, 2 cows, 2 oxen.
Ross, Stephen, 400 acres land, I cow, t horse, ¿ saw-mill.
Reese, Martin, 2 cows, i horse, 2 oxen, 117 acres Reserve lands, I inlot in Warren.
Reese, Martin, Jr., single man, one horse. Rogers, James, single man, one horse,
Russell, John, 200 acres land, 3 cows, 2 oxen. Russell, Thomas, single man, 100 acres, I cow. Russell. Robert, 100 acres land, I cow, 2 oxen, I inlot in Warren.
Robertson, Jonathan, 200 acres land, 2 cows, 2 oxen.
Rinard, Isaac, 400 acres land, 2 cows, 2 horses. Stuart, John, 100 acres land, 1 cow.
Stuart, James, 200 acres land, I horse. Stuart, William, single man, 100 acres land. Shelletto, Edward, 400 acres land, I cow.
Shipman, James, 100 acres land, 1 cow, 2 oxen.
Stiles, John, 400 acres land, I cow, 2 oxen. Stage, Samuel, 50 acres land, 3 inlots and 2 outlots in Warren.
Slone, George, 400 acres land, 3 cows.
Smith, John, single man. Swar, Jacob, 2 inlots in Warren.
Simon, T. G. V., 200 acres land, : cow, 2 horses.
Stewart, James, single man.
Sims, James, single man, 400 acres land, 1 in- lot in Warren. Shearer, Joseph, single man, I horse.
Sims, William, 1 50 acres land, 1 cow, 2 horses, I inlot in Warren. Spitler, William, 2 horses, 2 cows, 2 oxen. Sample, John. I cow. Stearns, Ellesus, 200 acres land.
Sample, John, Jr., 150 acres land, 1 horse, 2 COW'S.
Stewart, Richard, 100 acres land, 1 cow, 2 oxen.
Smith, Charles, 400 acres land, 1 cow.
Tyler, Joel, single man, 200 acres land, 1 cow. Thompson, Aaron, 400 acres land, 1 cow, 1 horse.
Thompson, Daniel, 400 acres land, t horse. Thompson, Alexander, 50 acres land.
Talmage, Levi, single man.
Welch, Samuel, 800 acres land, 2 cows, 2 horses, 2 oxen.
Winton, David, single man, 200 acres land.
Watts, John, Jr., single man, 150 acres land, I OX.
Wilson, Hugh, 300 acres land, I cow, 2 oxen. White, Alfred, 100 acres land, 2 cows, 2 oxen. Wilson, William, 600 acres land, i horse, 2 oxen, 2 cows, 2 inlots in Warren.
Wilson, James, 200 acres.
White, Giles, 100 acres land, 2 cows, 2 oxen.
Wales, Moses, 400 acres land, 2 oxen.
Wilson, Samuel, 400 acres land, 1 cow, 2 oxen.
Wright, Isaiah, single man, t horse, 3 inlots in Warren.
Woods, John, 400 acres land.
Watts, Alexander, single man, 200 acres land. Watts, James, single man, 300 acres land. Watts, John, 200 acres land, 1 cow, 2 oxen. Waldo, Frederick, 400 acres land, 2 cows. Young, John, 2 inlots in Warren.
York, Amos, 100 acres land, 2 cows.
Young, Mathew, single man, 400 acres land, 1 saw-mill.
Young, Christopher, 400 acres land, 2 horses, single man,
I At the June term of court, 1821, John Portman, then seventy-one years of age and living with Hugh Marsh, made affidavit that he enlisted in August, 1776, in a company commanded by Captain Moses Carson in the Eighth Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line, Continental Army. The regiment was commanded by Colonel Enos MeCay until his death, and subsequently by Colonel D). Brodhead ; that he ( Portman) continued under the command of Carson until he (Carson) revolted, when the com- pany was commanded by Captain John Findlay, with whom he served till the close of the war. The affidavit further states that Portman was engaged in the battles of Brandywine and Boundbrook and various skirmishes. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Brandywine and confined at James Island, S. C., but escaped the evening before the British evacuated Charleston,
The old veteran was then (1821) an insolvent debtor, and this statement was made under oath, to the end that he might avail himself of a recent act of Congress, passed for the relief and immunity from imprisonment of old soldiers thus circumstanced.
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The assessor for that year was Hugh Marsh, and the total amount of the tax levied upon the taxable property in the township, or county rather, was $441.122.
Here, then, are shown the names of two hundred and six of the earliest residents of Warren county, the representatives of a population of nearly one thousand people, or a much greater number than has heretofore been supposed to have existed here at that time. But to determine who among them was the first settler, or the first dozen families to settle in the county, is an imprac- ticable task. It is probable, however, that if it should be asserted that the Andrews, Arthur, Brown, Bonner, Corbett, Call, Davis, Evers, Elder, Framp- ton, Frew, Gray, Gibson, Gilson, Huffman, Hildebrandt, Hicks, Hare, Irvin, Jackson, Jones, Long, McQuay, Marsh, Morrison, Miles, Mead, Mckinney, McDowell, Prosser, Reese, Russell, Stewart, Slone, Sample, Thompson, Welch, Watts, Wilson, and Young families were among the very first, and that they became residents here during the years from 1797 to 1802, the assertion would not be far from being correct.
It has been claimed that settlements were made in Pine Grove and Colum- bus townships prior to 1795, but from facts already set forth in previous chap- ters, viz .: that the Indians, including Cornplanter's band, were hostile until 1795; that the British did not evacuate forts on the American side of the line until the following year; that this immediate region offered no special induce- ments for settlement over others situated in less dangerous localities; that this territory had not then been surveyed and legally opened to settlements, and that so far as authentically known no settlements existed in all this part of the State prior to 1795, other than those at the mouth of French Creek, and at Meadville, and those composing these settlements were glad to seek the pro- tection of Forts Franklin and Le Bœuf until long after Wayne's victory-we do not believe that any permanent settlements were effected in Warren county until about 1796-97. True, a block-house had been erected at Warren about 1795, but this was intended for the storage of supplies, etc., sent here for the use of those engaged in surveying the lands of the Holland Company, and when their work was completed, or when winter came on, it is but natural to presume that these men returned to their homes. However, for more detailed accounts of early settlements the reader is referred to township histories, and the personal sketches to be found in other pages of this work.
At the June term, 1806, of the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Ses- sions, held at Franklin by the Hon. Jesse Moore and his associates, Samuel Dale, John Andrews, and Thomas Beard were appointed by the court as com- missioners to lay off the county of Venango and the territory annexed to it "into convenient districts for townships." Dale and Beard resided in Venango, and Andrews in Warren county. Their report was not rendered until nearly two years afterward. It will be referred to, however, in its proper place.
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In December of the same year Daniel Jackson, of the town of Warren, and Giles White, of Brokenstraw township, were recommended to the governor by the court as suitable persons to keep houses of public entertainment. One year later Salmon Fuller, a millwright, was licensed to keep a public house in Conewango township. These were the first persons licensed to "keep tavern" in Warren county of whom we have authentic knowledge.
It seems that a division of the county into two townships had been accom- plished as early as June, 1807, for we find Daniel Jackson and Joseph Gray then mentioned as the constables respectively of Conewango and Brokenstraw townships, but the announcement had not yet been made by court; hence the names of the taxable inhabitants for that year were all shown upon the lists made out for Brokenstraw township.
The names appearing upon the rolls in 1807, for the first time, were those of Benjamin August, a tailor, James Alden, Thomas Bell, James Bonner, An- drew Clark, John Carpenter, jr., Joseph Cole, James Cole, George Carpenter, owner of one-half of saw-mill, James Dosser, Samuel Fancher, John Garner, Daniel Horn, John Hines, Cornelius McCue, James McLister, a shoemaker, Robert McNamara, Humphrey Miller, William Mead, Joseph Page, Charles Smith, Ezra Tillotson, Nathan Winton, and Joseph Watts.
At March sessions, 1808, of the Court of Common Pleas, etc., held at Franklin, the report of the commissioners appointed in 1806 to lay out town- ships in the counties of Venango and Warren was acted upon, and so far as it related to the two Warren county townships, was promptly approved. The boundaries of these townships were then described as follows:
"Beginning at the South East corner of Warren County, thence by the line thereof west to the west boundary of a Tract of land surveyed to the Holland Land Company on Warrant No. 3194, thence north to the Allegheny river, thence down the same to the West end of the Reserve of Warren, thence by the same to the north west corner, thence in a northerly direction to the south east corner of a tract surveyed on warrant in the name of George Lex, thence north to the line dividing the tracts surveyed on warrants in the name of Caleb and Paul Cato, thence west to the line dividing the tracts surveyed on warrants in the name of Stephen and Simon Nim, thence north to the northern bound- ary of said county, thence East by the same to the Eastern boundary, thence south by the same to the place of beginning, to be called Concwango Town- ship."
"Beginning at the north west corner of Conewango township, thence by the line of Warren County west to the western boundary of said county, thence by the same south to the southern boundary thereof, thence by the same East to the south west corner of Conewango township aforesaid, thence by the same to the place of beginning, to be called Brokenstraw Township."
This division, as will be noticed, placed the jurisdiction of the eastern part
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of the county under Conewango township, and the western part under that of Brokenstraw. The rolls for that year (1808) show that Conewango township then contained one hundred and thirty-nine taxable inhabitants, and Broken- straw one hundred and seventeen-a gain of fifty in two years. Their names, etc., were as follows:
Conewango :
Andrews, John, I outlot and 6 inlots in War- ren.
Andrews, Robert, 2 inlots in Warren.
Andrews, James, I inlot in Warren.
Armstrong, George, 2 outlots and 2 inlots in Warren.
Addison, Alexander (decd), 2 outlots, 2 inlots in Warren.
Allen, Hugh, 3 inlots in Warren.
Arthur, Robt., I cow.
Arthur, James, I horse.
Arthur, William, 110 acres, I horse.
Baldwin, Henry, 43 inlots in Warren.
Butler, Samuel, 2 inlots in Warren.
Barr, John, 100 acres, I cow, 2 oxen.
Brown, John, Sen', 300 acres, I cow.
Brown, John, Jr., I cow.
Brown, James, 100 acres.
Brown, David, 200 acres, 2 horses, 1 cow, 2 oxen, 2 inlots in Warren.
Budd, Benjamin.
Baird, James, 200 acres, 2 oxen.
Baird, Edward, I cow.
Biles, Charles, 400 acres, 2 oxen.
Clemons, Jacob, 12 inlots in Warren.
Corbett, Daniel, 3 inlots in Warren.
Cole, John, I cow, 2 oxen.
Cole, Benjamin, 100 acres, I cow, 2 oxen.
Colt & Marlin, 400 acres, I saw-mill, 2 oxen, 2 cows.
Cole, Cornelius, 100 acres, 2 horses, 3 cows. Craig, Isaac, 1,688 acres.
Campbell, John, single man.
Campbell, Samuel, 2 horses, I cow.
Cheeks, Nathaniel, 1,000 acres, 1 cow, I OX.
Dickson, John, one inlot in Warren.
Dougherty, Charles, 3 inlots in Warren.
Davis, William, 2 inlots in Warren. Dike, Isaac, 2 inlots in Warren.
Dale, Samuel, I inlot in Warren.
Davis, William, 150 acres, 2 horses, 2 cows. Davis, Thomas, 150 acres.
Egan, William, 400 acres, 1 horse, I cow, 2 oxen Eddy, Zachariah, 400 acres, I horse, I cow, 2
oxen, 2 inlots in Warren, asssesor for 1808.
Ford, William, 5 inlots in Warren.
Foster, William B., 4 inlots in Warren.
Frew, Hugh, 200 acres, 2 cows, 2 oxen, 1 grist-mill.
Fuller, Salmon, 2 cows, i horse, 141 inlots in Warren, millwright by occupation.
Graff, Andrew, 4 inlots in Warren.
Goodwin, Jacob, 600 acres, 2 horses, 2 cows, 2 oxen, 2 inlots in Warren, } saw-mill.
Greenwalt, Mathias, I cow, I ox.
Gray, Joseph, 2 inlots in Warren.
Geer, Asa, 2 cows.
Goodwin, Joseph, 125 acres.
Hurst, Henry, 2 inlots in Warren.
Hill & Torbett, ro inlots in Warren.
Hackney, Joseph, 6 inlots in Warren.
Harper, Elisha, 2 inlots in Warren.
Hood, John, 100 acres of land, I horse.
Hadley, Stephen, 66 acres, { saw-mill.
Hawley, John, 150 acres.
Jones, Isaiah, Esq., 329 acres, I cow, justice of the peace.
Jackson, Daniel, Sen', 133 acres, 2 horses, 4 cows, 8 lots in Warren, I saw-mill, justice of the peace.
Jackson, Daniel, Jr., 400 acres, I horse, I cow, I inlot in Warren.
Jackson, Ethan, 470 acres, 2 cows, 2 oxen, 2 inlots in Warren, } saw-mill.
Kennedy, Thomas R., 6 outlots in Warren.
King, John, single man.
Kerson, John, 200 acres, I cow.
Kerson, Samuel, I cow.
Lynch, George, I cow.
Lapsley, William, 200 acres, 2 cows.
McKinney, Michael, 400 acres, I horse, 2 cows, I OX.
McDowell, Alexander, 3 outlots and 6 inlots in Warren.
McNamara, Robert, I outlot and 12 inlots in Warren.
McNair, Charles, 2 inlots in Warren.
McKinney, John, 2 inlots in Warren
Murdock, Abijah, 100 acres, 1 cow, 4 oxen, I saw-mill, 18 inlots in Warren.
Murdock, Moses, 100 acres, 2 cows, 2 oxen.
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Murdock, Galen, I cow.
Marsh, John, 200 acres, [ horse, 3 cows, 4 oxen, 2 outlots and 2 inlots in Warren.
Marsh, David, 100 acres, I cow, i horse, i in- lot in Warren.
Marsh, Mulford, 400 acres, 4 cows, 3 oxen, 2 outlots and 6 inlots in Warren.
Morrison, Samuel, 133 acres, I cow, 2 oxen, 2 inlots in Warren, 3 of saw-mill.
Miles, Robert, 1,400 acres, 2 horses, 3 cows, 2 oxen.
McClay, Charles, 1,200 acres, 6 inlots in War- ren.
Miles, William, 200 acres.
Marsh, Hugh, 400 acres, [ horse, 2 cows, 4
oxen, 1 bull, 2 outlots and 3 inlots in War- ren,
McGinty, Daniel, 100 acres, I cow, ¿ saw- mill.
McClain, Neal. 200 acres, 2 horses, 2 cows.
McClain, John, 200 acres, 2 cows, 2 oxen.
Mullen, John, 3 inlots in Warren.
Morrison, John, 400 acres, 2 cows, 2 inlots in Warren,
Morrison, Jeremiah, 400 acres, 1 cow, 4 oxen, [ inlot in Warren, & saw-mill.
Morrison, James, Jr., 65 acres, I cow, 2 oxen, I inlot in Warren.
Morrison, James, Sen', 2 cows, 2 oxen.
Morrison, William, 200 acres, I cow, 2 oxen, I inlot in Warren.
Murphy, Jesse, 200 acres, 2 cows, 2 oxen. Neville, John, I cow.
Owen, John, I cow.
Powers, George, 38 inlots in Warren.
Pastorius, William, I inlot in Warren.
Parmlee, Lothrop S., single man.
Phillips, Ira, 66 acres, Į saw-mill.
Peelman, Christopher, roo acres, I horse.
Portman, John, 100 acres, 3 cow's.
Portman, James, 100 acres.
Reed, James, I inlot in Warren.
Russell, Thomas, 100 acres.
Russell, Robert, 100 acres, I cow, I inlot in Warren, millwright by occupation.
Russell, John, Sen', 100 acres, 2 cows, 2 oxen. Russell, John, Jr., 100 acres, 2 oxen.
Ross, Stephen, 400 acres, 2 horses, 2 cows, 2 oxen, I saw-mill, I inlot in Warren.
Robertson, Jonathan, 275 acres, I cow, 2 oxen. Reilly, James, I inlot in Warren.
Rason, Jacob, 2 inlots in Warren.
Reese, Martin, Sen', I horse, 2 cows, 2 oxen, 7 outlots and i inlot in Warren.
Reese, Martin, Jr., 117 acres, 2 oxen.
Reese, John, 2 inlots in Warren.
Ramsey, Robert, 100 acres, I cow.
Swar, Jacob, 2 inlots in Warren. Sherman, Elisha, I inlot in Warren.
Stiles, John, 375 acres, 2 cows, 2 oxen.
Stewart, William, 100 acres, I horse.
Slone, George, 2 cows, a blacksmith.
Shipman, James, 100 acres, [ cow.
Stuart, James, 200 acres, 2 cows. Stuart, John, 100 acres, I cow. Smith, John, 4 inlots in Warren.
Sims, William, Jr., I inlot in Warren.
Simons, Titus A., I inlot in Warren.
Simons, David S., I inlot in Warren.
Stage, Samuel, 300 acres, 2 horses, I inlot in Warren.
Schoonover, Christopher, 400 acres, I horse, 2 cows.
Thompson John, 3 inlots in Warren.
Tyler Joel, 200 acres, I cow.
Uppenhouser. Hendrick, I horse.
Wright, Azariah, 4 inlots in Warren.
Work, Edward, 4 inlots in Warren.
Wilson, Hugh, I inlot in Warren.
Woodworth, Joseph, 200 acres, 2 oxen.
Woodworth, Isaac, 200 acres.
Waldo, Frederick, 200 acres, 2 cows.
Young, Jotham, single man. York, Amos, 100 acres, 2 cows.
Single men were taxed 75 cents each. The rate per cent. on real and per- sonal estate was six mills on the dollar.
The total amount of valuation was $75,140.803, and the court of appeals was ordered to be held at the house of Daniel Jackson.
Brokenstraw :
August, Benjamin, tailor, I cow.
Andrews, James, 100 acres.
Andrews, Robert, 300 acres, 2 horses, 2 cows, I saw-mill, and justice of the peace.
Andrews, John, 600 acres, 2 oxen, I horse, 4 cows, 2 stills.
Arthur, John, 150 acres, § saw-mill, 2 oxen, 2 cows. Adams, William, 100 acres, 2 horses.
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Adkins, James, 1 horse, single man.
Buchanan, Andrew, blacksmith, 100 acres, 2 oxen, 2 cows.
Bonner, Robert, 400 acres, I grist-mill, i saw- mill, I cow, I horse.
Berry, George, 100 acres. Bell, Robert, single man, I yoke oxen.
Bell, John, 500 acres.
Bonner, Francis, single man, millwright. Bonner, James, single man.
Chamberlain, Stout, 250 acres.
Campbell, James, I horse.
Campbell, Samuel, i horse, I cow.
Crawford, John, 200 acres, 2 oxen.
Culbertson, James, 450 acres, I saw-mill, 2 oxen, 2 cows, I horse.
Cover, George, single man, I horse.
Corbett, Daniel, 350 acres, I saw-mill, 2 yokes oxen, 2 horses, I cow. Call, Daniel, 200 acres, 2 oxen, I cow.
Call, Dennis, 150 acres.
Call, John, 150 acres, Cochran, William, 2 oxen, I cow.
Carpenter, William, Sen', 250 acres, 2 cows, I horse.
Carpenter, John, 150 acres, I saw-mill, 2 oxen, I horse.
Carhart, Stophel, single man. Cunningham, Richard, 200 acres.
Collins, Jonathan, 100 acres, I cow. Davis, Elijah, 100 acres, 2 oxen, 1 cow.
Davis, John, 100 acres.
Davis, Abraham, 100 acres, 2 oxen.
Evers, Andrew, 200 acres, 2 oxen, I cow, I horse.
Elder, James, Jr., I horse, I cow. Elder, John, 100 acres.
Frampton, John, 250 acres, 2 oxen, 3 Cows, I horse.
Ford, William, 200 acres, I ox, I COW.
Fancher, Samuel, 100 acres, I horse, I cow. Ford, Obediah, single man.
Groves, Thos. W., 400 acres, 2 oxen, 1 cow. Gray, Joseph, 600 acres, 2 horses, 2 cows, 2 oxen.
Green, James, 2 oxen, I cow. Hare, James, 100 acres. Hare, Michael, 100 acres, I cow.
Henry, William, cabinet maker, I cow.
Huffman, Jacob, 200 acres, 4 oxen, I horse, I COW.
Henderson, Richard, 400 acres, 2 oxen.
Hunter, Robert, 4 acres, I cow.
Hinds, John, blacksmith, 400 acres, 2 oxen. Hildebrandt, George, Jr., 100 acres.
Hildebrandt, Solomon, 100 acres.
Hildebrandt, George, Sen', 100 acres, 2 oxen, I cow, millwright by trade.
Hicks, Levi, 100 acres, 2 cows, I ox, I horse. Hicks, John, 100 acres, 2 horses, I ox, I cow. Horn, Daniel, 100 acres, I horse.
Huffman, Philip, 395 acres, 3 horses, I cow. Justice, John, I horse, 2 oxen.
Justice, James, 200 acres, I cow.
Irvin, James, 200 acres, 2 horses, 2 cows.
Irvin, George, 100 acres.
Jackson, Elijah, 150 acres, 2 oxen, t horse. Jones, Daniel, 100 acres, 2 cows.
Jones, Edward, single man.
Long, John, Jr, 200 acres, I cow, 2 oxen.
Long, John, Sen', 160 acres.
Cover & Horn, 400 acres, I saw-mill.
Long. George, 2 oxen, 1 horse, I cow.
Linn, James, 100 acres, I horse, I cow.
McQuay, Daniel, 400 acres, 2 oxen.
Miller, Humphrey, 2 cows, I horse.
Mckinney, Barnahas, 4 oxen.
NcNair, Charles, 700 acres.
Maxwell, William, 400 acres, I horse, 2 cows, Mead, Joseph, 400 acres, 4 oxen, 3 cows, I horse, 1 saw-mill.
Mead, Darius, 500 acres, 1 grist-mill, I saw- mill, 6 oxen, 3 cows, 2 horses.
McClain, William, 100 acres, 2 horses, 2 cows. .
McGuire, Patience, 400 acres, 2foxen, 2 cows.
Miller, John, 100 acres, I horse, I cow.
McGahan, William, 2 oxen, I cow.
Mckinney, John, 200 acres, 3 oxen, 2 horses, 3 cows, { saw-mill.
Mead, William, 100 acres, I horse.
McLister, James, shoemaker, 100 acres, 2 cows.
Mccullough, Robert, single man.
Mead, John, single man.
Olds, Gilbert, shoemaker.
Prosser, William, 100 acres, 2 oxen, I cow. Prosser, Daniel, 100 acres.
Prosser, Isaac, 100 acres.
Putnam, Nathaniel, 266 acres, 2 oxen, I cow, I horse, ¿ of saw-mill.
Porter, Andrew, 100 acres.
Page, Joseph, 100 acres, I cow. Rhinehart, Isaac, 100 acres, 3 cows, 1 horse. Sims, James, 400 acres.
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Sims, Catharine, 2 oxen, 2 cows, 1 horse. Sample, John, 1 50 acres, 2 horses, 1 cow.
Siggins, William, 1 yoke of oxen. Sample, John, Sen', I cow.
Smith, Charles, 100 acres, I cow.
Stewart, Richard, 100 acres.
Tuthill, Francis, 200 acres, I cow.
Watts, John, 100 acres, 1 horse, 1 cow.
Thompson, Daniel, 100 acres, 2 horses.
Thompson, Thomas, single man.
Wilson, Samuel, 400 acres, 2 oxen, 1 cow.
Wilson, William. 400 acres.
Watts, James, 300 acres, 2 oxen, 1 horse.
Watts, Alexander, 500 acres.
Winton, Nathan, 2 oxen, 2 Cows.
Winton, David, 133 acres, 2 oxen, { saw-mill.
White, Alfred, 100 acres, 3 cows.
White. Giles, 100 acres, 4 oxen, 3 cows, 2 horses.
Williams, John L., 50 acres.
Willison, James, 100 acres, 1 cow.
Welch, Samuel, 500 acres, 3 horses, 2 cows.
Wilson, Hugh, 300 acres, I cow, I horse.
Young, Mathew, 400 acres, { saw-mill.
Hugh Wilson was the assessor.
The tax upon single men and the rate per cent. upon real and personal estate were the same as in Conewango township. The total valuation of taxable property in the township was $58,766.99, and the house of Robert Andrews was named as the place for holding a court of appeals.
In June, 1808, a delegation of Wyandot and Seneca Indians from San- dusky River passed through Warren and up the Allegheny River, on their way to a council with the Seneca nation. They were bringing a friendly message from the Ohio tribes, to allay any fears of an Indian outbreak in that locality. During the same summer some twenty or thirty Senecas, from their reservation on the Allegheny, went to Sandusky, where a council was held with the West- ern tribes. They also passed over the same route going and returning, and it was learned that the council's deliberations related principally to the existing differences between the United States and England, and in the event of a war they had decided to observe a strict neutrality. This decision, however, proved of very little stability, as the Senecas sided with the United States, while most of the Western Indians, through the influence of Tecumseh, assisted by British gold, went with England.
When the War of 1812-15 broke out, a want of confidence began to be manifested between the inhabitants of Northwestern Pennsylvania and the In- dians on the Allegheny River, which excited some uneasiness, lest disagreeable consequences might result from it. To quiet all apprehensions, the citizens of Meadville held a meeting, and deputized General David Mead, Colonel Joseph Hackney (afterwards for many years a well-known citizen of Warren), and Major Patrick Farrelly to visit the Indians and ascertain their disposition in the coming war with England ; also to make what explanations might be dcemed necessary to continue the good understanding that had hitherto exist- ed with thesc tribes. A council was held at Jennesadaga, Cornplanter's village on the Allegheny, at which were present a number of chiefs and warriors of the Seneca nation, among whom were Cornplanter, Silver Heels-the old prophet, who, it has been stated, was a brother of Cornplanter-Joseph Beads, John Purfer, Major Henry O'Bail and Charles O'Bail, sons of Cornplanter.
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