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Revs. Staver, Groft, S. Dasher, N. B. Win- Herring, G. D. Gross, C. B. King, A. B. Ehrhard and George Eveler.
Emanuel United Evangelical Church is situated near the borough of Lewisberry. Its organization dates back as far as 1850. Services were first held in the Pinetown schoolhouse, in the vicinity. In 1871, under the pastorate of Rev. H. A. Dietrich, a church was built at a cost of $1,200. Rev. Dietrich, John Kline and William Downs formed the building committee. The first trustees were J. Parks, William Bushey and George Seitz. The dedicatory ser- vices took place in January, 1872. The
Fairview Bethel, situated two miles northeast of Lisburn, was built in 1874. Be- fore this time religious services had been held by some of the early clergymen of the Church of God in a brick school house, where revival services were conducted on many occasions. For nearly a third of a century religious services had been held by different denominations in the public school house at Cross Roads. In 1891 a Union church was erected near this place by mem- bers of the Church of God, Evangelical As- sociation, United Brethren and German Baptist. The stone and much of the lumber used in the erection of this church was fur- nished gratuitously by the people of the vicinity. Filbert Souders residing here re- ceived the contract for building the church.
In 1737 Zachary Butcher sur-
New veyed for David Priest four hun- dred acres of land, extending from the mouth of the Yellow Breeches nearly down to the site of New Market. About the same time he surveyed a large tract of land for John Harris. This land adjoined the Priest's survey, and extended down the river nearly one-third of a mile. The village of New Market lies upon the Harris tract. In 1738 Anson Price, took up a large tract farther down the Susque-
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ris. The warrant issued to David Priest ticed medicine in the vicinity until his death for a tract of four hundred acres was ac- in 1826. cepted by him in 1744, but he died soon afterward without a will. His land was in- herited by his wife, Susannah, and his eldest son, William Priest. In 1756 this land was sold to Henry Willis, and soon afterward came into the possession of his sons, Wil- liam and Richard Willis.
When these fertile lands along the Sus- quehanna were first surveyed by authority of Thomas and Richard Penn, proprietors of Pennsylvania, they were included in Pennsborough Township, which embraced almost the entire present area of Cumber- land County. In 1742 when Newberry was laid out, this region was included in that township, and so continued until Fairview was organized in 1803.
John Harris was a noted Indian Trader, who settled at the site of Harisburg in 1729. The right for a ferry across the Susque- hanna a short distance below New Market was obtained by him in 1740, and it became a prominent crossing over the river for many immigrants, who settled in the Cum- berland Valley. Harris also owned a ferry two miles farther up the stream. David Priest purchased a large tract of land down the Susquehanna along the Marsh Run in Major John Kirk of this village was a soldier in the Civil War, and afterward served as an officer in the regular army. 1739. He was the original owner of a part of the wooded ridge along the river, below Marsh Run. It was known in colonial In the year 1858 the Lutherans of this vicinity were organized into a congregation, and during that year erected a brick church times as Priest's mountain, and retained that name until after the Revolution. The fertile region south and west of New Mar- in New Market. The first pastor was Rev. ket in the present area of Fairview was all Cyrus Rightmeyer. The original trustees were Henry Mosser, John Row, John Horn and Jacob Grissinger. Rev. Wolgemuth was pastor in 1906. taken up at an early date. By the time of the Revolution, Fairview was thickly settled by industrious farmers, who raised abund- ant crops of corn, barley, wheat and rye. The schools of this village have been con- ducted in a two-story building, near the Lutheran church. The native grasses were used for hay until about 1790 when Caleb Kirk, residing near York, introduced into this county clover and timothy.
Dr. Benjamin Mosser settled in this vicin- ity as a practicing physician in 1775. His medical practice extended over a large area of country on both sides of the river.
Dr. Mosesr had three sons-John, Chris- tian and Henry. At the death of their father each of these sons inherited a farm in the vicinity of New Market. John the eldest son became a physician, and prac-
Henry Mosser, the second son, and Wil- liam Culbertson laid out the village of New Market into 120 lots in the year 1807. This was seven years before New Cumberland was founded by Jacob Haldeman. In 1840 the town had 170 inhabitants, twenty-five dwellings, and one store. The York & Har- risburg turnpike passed over the line now occupied by the Northern Central Railway. Washington Kirk for many years owned a store. A considerable business has been done by various parties since.
The Pennsylvania Steel Works are situ- ated on the opposite side of the river. Some of the employees of these works reside in New Market, which has caused a consider- able increase to its population.
Jacob Kirk, the first superintendent of schools of York County, lived and died at New Market. He was widely known as an educator.
John Wickersham has been justice of the peace at New Market for many years. He served for three years as a veteran soldier in the Civil War, enlisting in the regiment commanded by John W. Geary, afterward Governor of Pennsylvania.
In the year 1806 Jacob Haldeman started an iron forge near the mouth of the Yellow. Breeches Creek. He consumed a large amount of chestnut timber from the River Mountains, for charcoal was used by fur- naces and forges in those days. Haldeman did a considerable business, and in 1814 during the second war with Great Britain he founded the town of New Cumberland on the north side of the creek. The forge was continued for a long time.
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Hake's distillery a short distance up the Sweden. Soon after his return to this creek was an important industry for more country he took up his residence at Harris- burg, where he resided until his death. than half a century. Over by the mountain side at the head of Marsh Run John Eich- inger owned and operated a distillery for twenty years, and it was afterward con- tinued by his son.
The Susquehanna Mills another industry in this section of Fairview were built in 1785.
On this tract of land originally taken up by David Priest in 1737, has recently grown up a village which has been given the name of Bellvista. This village is the outgrowth of the industrial establishments at Steelton, Harrisburg and the borough of New Cum- berland.
The ferry established across the Susque- hanna below New Market in 1740 was con- tinued for nearly one hundred years under authority of the Province, and later the State of Pennsylvania. Benjamin Cham- bers succeeded Harris in the ownership of it, and for a long period it was a prominent crossing place. William Chesney owned it until 1780 when he died. His wife con- tinued to own the ferry and 470 acres of land on the York County side of the river. The entire valuation of the ferry and real estate in 1783 was 2,620 pounds or about $13,000. She also owned a distillery, seven negro slaves, six horses, seven cows and twenty sheep.
General Simpson owned several slaves as late as 1810. When he died in 1813 his
General Michael Simpson, who General Simpson. for a quarter of a century was a leading citizen of Fairview Township, had a somewhat re- markable history. He was born in 1740 at Paxtang on the opposite side of the river. He was the son of Thomas Simpson, one of the early settlers of that region. In his early boyhood he enlisted as a soldier in the French and Indian War, and served as an ensign in the expedition against the Indians in Western Pennsylvania. In 1775 he was a lieutenant in Captain Matthew Smith's company, which marched to Boston soon after the battle of Bunker Hill. He volun- teered with his company to go with Ar- nold's expedition through the forests of Maine against Canada. It was a long and dreary march. The soldiers who accom- panied this expedition underwent all the rigors of a hard winter. The story of their experiences is told in detail in a little book written and published by John Joseph Henry, afterward Judge of the York County Courts. The introduction to this book was written by Lieutenant Michael Simpson. After the return from Canada, he was pro- moted to captain in the First Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Edward Hand of Lancaster. He commanded his company in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, and Germantown, serv- ing in all six years in the American army during the Revolution. General Simpson died in 1813 and was buried at Paxtang.
In 1784 this ferry was purchased by Michael Simpson, who had won distinction as a soldier in the Revolution, and later in life became a brigadier general in the Penn- sylvania Militia. General Simpson owned this ferry and a large farm adjoining, until The late Joseph Wickersham and John S. form and rugged personality of Michael the time of his death in 1813. In 1781 an Prowell remembered very distinctly the tall act had been passed for the gradual aboli- tion of slavery in Pennsylvania, and all Simpson. children born of slave parents after this date should be free.
The history heretofore published that George Washington, while returning from a visit to Western Pennsylvania for the pur- pose of quelling the whiskey insurrection, error. He went through York and crossed the Susquehanna at Wrightsville on this trip ..
property was valued at $12,900. The ferry spent a Sunday with General Simpson is an ceased to be operated about 1820. In later years and before the Civil War Jacob M. Haldeman owned a large farm formerly a Pinetown is the name of a small collec- tion of houses in the northwestern part of the township. In this vicinity a consider- able business is done in the cultivation of part of the ferry property. He erected on this farm a large mansion, which was de- stroyed by fire about 1880. In 1861 Mr. Haldeman was appointed by President Lin- fruits and berries, which are sold in the coln to serve as minister to Norway and Harrisburg market.
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Fairview Township was one of deserted from the military service, and Schools. the seven districts of York came home. He was followed by soldiers County that at once accepted the dressed in Quaker suits, but avoided being provisions of the act of 1834, establishing captured by concealing himself underneath the common school system.
Samuel the floor of a building. Several times a Prowell, who was sent as the delegate to sword was passed up and down along the represent the township in the first conven- cracks between the boards. He was lying lengthwise underneath a board and was never found by the soldiers. tion which met in York to take action in the matter, cast the first affirmative vote of that body. There were but six other dele- gates who voted in favor of accepting the system. This occurred in May, 1835.
Colonel John Steele, who lived in Fishing Creek Valley, was a soldier on the Niagara frontier in 1812. In old age he moved to the West.
James McDanel was in Captain White's
There are now in Fairview Township thirteen schools, with the following names : Pinetown, Cedar Grove, Walnut Grove, company that rendezvoused at Gettysburg South Point, Eichinger's, Brick, Kann's, Cross Roads, New Market, Hickory Grove, Pleasant View, Nauvoo and Marsh Run. in 1814. He was afterward a captain of militia of Fairview for fourteen years, com- missioned by Governor Shultz in 1827. His father, Josiah McDanel, settled in Fairview in 1766, coming from Scotland.
Historical County in the Revolution is Notes. given in the general history of "In September, 1796," says the Oracle of Dauphin, a newspaper published at Har- risburg, "several hundred squirrels per day crossed the Susquehanna from the Cumber- land and York County side. Some of the this volume. In every section of this county, some of these soldiers lived to an old age. Among those last remem- bered as having resided in Fairview Town- ship were General Michael Simpson, Wil- inhabitants were enabled to catch them as liam Sharp, J. Enfield, Jacob Greenawalt, they swam the stream, and salt barrels of them for winter use". William Smith, William Hagerty, and Cap- tain William Prowell.
William Smith served with Michael Simpson in an expedition to Canada in 1775. He afterward enlisted in the Fourth Penn- sylvania Regiment. He became a pensioner in 1818. William Hagerty was a private in the Fifth Pennsylvania Regiment, and was discharged in 1778, while Washington's army was in camp at Valley Forge.
In 1793 yellow fever or something akin to it raged in the vicinity of Lisburn and Lewisberry. It was epidemic in Philadel- phia that year.
The voting place of Fairview is called "The Bunches". A tavern was once kept there by a man who was deformed. He had a "bunch" on his back-hence the origin of the name.
Captain William Prowell, the ancestor of John Moore, afterward associate judge of York County, was one of the early jus- tices of peace of Fairview. He was suc- ceeded by Michael Baylor, John N. Prowell, the Prowell family in Fairview, was a na- tive of Chester County. He commanded a company in Colonel Patton's Regiment, taking part in the campaign in New Jersey, John Wickersham and David Smith. The and in the battles of Brandywine and Ger- last two served twenty-five years each.
mantown. After the close of the Revolu- tion he removed to Fairview Township, and resided in Fishing Creek Valley until his death. He was buried in the family grave- yard on the hillside, a short distance north- west of Salem Church. Many of his de- scendants are also buried in that sacred spot. A biography of his brother, Major Joseph Prowell, will be found on page 213.
In one of the fertile valleys of Fairview which, in springtime and summer, is clothed in rich verdure, in autumn in radiant beauty, and in winter in sombre hues, each of which furnish special charms to the writer, he spent the time of his earliest hopes and purest joys. Near the rippling waters of a pure mountain stream, a tributary to the Fishing Creek, stood the familiar school house, within and around whose sacred
During the War of 1812 Jesse Pearson, portals, 'neath the spreading branches of the who lived a few miles north of Lewisberry, giant maples, walnuts and oaks, in innocent
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study and rollicking play, his early school days were passed.
The adjoining farm where he spent his boyhood was taken up under a title issued by the Penns in 1735, and has since been owned in order of succession by George Hall, John Nichols, Joseph Prowell, Samuel N. Prowell and Silas Prowell.
While some may sing in rapture of the beautiful Hudson, chant the praises of the Blue Juniata, wander in silent admiration along the mirrored waters of the peaceful Mohawk, or weave stories of fairies and angel-loiterers among a thousand Sleepy Hollows, the recollection of the scenes of one's own boyhood are more endearing than all. Here,
THE TOWNSHIP OF FAWN.
Fawn was one of the early townships in the county, and as originally laid out in- cluded Peach Bottom, which was separated from Fawn in 1815. The name Fawn is sig- nificant and interesting, yet very rarely used in geographical science to designate a place. Fawn as at present formed is bounded on the east by Peach Bottom, on the south by the state of Maryland, on the west by Hopewell, and on the north by Lower Chanceford, with the Muddy Creek forming the northern boundary line. The township is drained by this stream and its tributary. The soil, which was for more than a century considered unfertile and non- productive, by improved cultivation has be- come remarkably fertile and productive, and yields as much corn, wheat and other cereals to the acre as any other portion of York County. The increase of the amount of wheat grown within the past decade is encouraging. Tobacco has recently be- come a very profitable crop in this town- ship and the cultivation of it is likely to in- crease.
The township was originally settled al- most entirely by the Scotch-Irish, and some of the land was taken up under Maryland titles before a definite provincial line was run. Some Quakers settled in the vicinity of Fawn Grove. The borough of Fawn Grove is entirely within the original limits of Fawn Township.
Fawn
In 1783 the population of this town. ship, including Peach Bottom, was
in 783. There were 39 slaves, 118 1783. dwelling houses, 89 barns, 8 mills and 18,100 acres taken up. The fol- lowing is a complete list of the names of the taxable inhabitants for the year 1783, to- gether with the number of acres owned by each and valuation in pounds sterling :
Francis Armstrong, 50 acres £12
James Alexander, 40 acres, 2 mills. 222
Isaac Alexander, 201 acres II5
Thomas Allen, 125 acres 100
Robert Adair, 50 acres 26
William Adams, 100 acres
51
John Alexander, 30 acres
18
Stephen Alloway, 20 acres
Allen Anderson, 100 acres I.4
57
William Anderson, 69. acres
Humphrey Anderson 176
I.4
John Bullock, 40 acres
IO
James Buchanan, 200 acres
II4
Samuel Buchanan, 310 acres
138
Moses Benington
16
Thomas Brannen, 100 acres
68
Thomas Brannen, Jr., 100 acres.
60
Thomas Brown, 152 acres
I02
William Boyd, 2 horses
9
Samuel Black, 50 acres
52
Nathaniel Baldwin. 100 acres
52
Jonathan Burgess IS
Jeremiah Barnet, 50 acres 20
Alex. Cooper, 600 acres, 2 slaves 317
Thomas Cooper, 600 acres, 4 slaves
554
Nicholas Cooper, 128 acres
Mathew Clark, 300 acres
Robert Caldwell, 100 acres
IOI
Samnel Caldwell, 100 acres
75
James Cord, 120 acres
74
Samnel Cummings, 60 acres
20
Archibald Cooper, 200 acres
93
John Cooper, 120 acres, I horse. 65
David Cooper, 100 acres
55
Ann Carson. 274 acres, I slave. 88
William Colvin, 273 acres I18
Benjamin Cunningham, 350 acres 203
Patrick Clemmings, 83 acres 14
William Cooper. 175 acres 107
20
Martin Cortz, 100 acres
74
John Campbell
18
John Coz, 80 acres
10
John Daugherty
4
Joseph Dame
2
Robert Dunlap. 150 acres
47
John Day, 140 acres
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Robert Duncan, 294 acres 238
Hugh Edgar, 136 acres 85
Samuel Edgar, 228 acres 178
James Edgar, 150 acres IIA
Alexander Ewing. Jr., 50 acres 26
Alexander Ewing. 75 acres 51
Patrick Ewing. 60 acres 22
Mary Fulton, 200 acres 118
Elijah Forsythe, 30 acres
Adam Fondrew, 100 acres 50
7
Agnew Gilchrist, 139 acres 81
220
166
John Commons, 70 acres
26
Samnel Crow, 200 acres III
Patrick Curly, 50 acres
Peter Cortz. 100 acres
SI
Smiling Spring her early visit paid,
And parting Summer's lingering bloom delayed.
Eliezer Brown, 100 acres II2
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Henry Graham
2 Thomas Smith, 100 acres
50
Thomas Gordon
2
John Taylor, 115 acres
70
James Gordon, 200 acres
95
James Threw 7
Robert Gordon, 100 acres
47
James Taggert, 50 acres 19
Jacob Gibson, 150 acres, I slave, 1 mill.
166
Robert Torbit, 200 acres
II2
John Glasgow, 100 acres
50
Alex. Turner, 30 acres, I grist-mill, I saw-mill.
287
Robert Gibson, 50 acres
32
Alex. Threw, 110 acres
49
John Brown Gordon
16
Nathaniel Wyley, 73 acres
I8
Robert Gilkerson, 250 acres
87
Hugh Whiteford, 100 acres John Whitecker, 140 acres
81
John Guist, 200 acres
109
John Wilson, 300 acres
309
Richard Webb, 133 acres
96
Levay Hopkins, 200 acres
123
William Wallace, 140 acres
6g
Jeremiah Hayton, 80 acres
54
James Webb
Archibald Harvey, 10 acres
I2
Joseph Wiley, 249 acres 183
John Harbison, 100 acres
40
Samuel Watson, 120 acres
56
Josiah Hitchcock, 200 acres
II4
Isaac Whitelock, 100 acres
50
Jesse Jarret, 100 acres
50
Joseph Wiley, Sr.
7
Ann Jones, 60 acres
41
Samuel West, 100 acres
52
Benjamin Jones, 107 acres
47
George West, 100 acres
12
Joseph Johnson, 50 acres
47
Samuel Kincade, 270 acres
II6
Joseph Kathcart, 265 acres
4
Joshua Brown,
William Atchison,
Jesse Badders, Patrick Downey,
John Livingston, 60 acres
31
Alexander Ewing, William Kinard,
John McLean, 50 acres, 2 slaves.
73
William Hepson, Samuel McFadden,
John Howell,
Thomas Scott,
George Suter,
Joseph Scott,
Joseph White, Solomon Watson,
Henry Todd,
John Boyd.
Thomas Mattson, 20 acres
Robert Miller, 100 acres
Robert Mooberry, 100 acres
James McMullen, 200 acres
107
Edward Manifold, 400 acres
236 76
George Mitchell, Sr., 150 acres William Mantle, 150 acres
79
James Milligan, 185 acres
William McClearv, 186 acres
109 86
John Mum, 97 acres
36
John McCleland
7
Hugh McFadden, 85 acres
Israel Morris, 170 acres
IIO 72
Thomas Neill, 140 acres
John Neill, 140 acres 52
George Nicholl, 300 acres, 1 mill, I still. 169
Win. Porter, 340 acres, I saw-mill, 3 slaves.
507 53 80
William Parker, 178 acres
James Parker, 107 acres
James Reed, 75 acres
Walter Robinson, 157 acres
William Robinson, 85 acres
60
Joseph Ross, 200 acres 99
William Rowan, 245 acres
William Reed, 75 acres
Andrew Richie, 120 acres John Ralston, 100 acres
James Ramsey, 396 acres, 3 slaves, 8 persons.
326
John Rowland, 50 acres Alex. Ramsey, 100 acres
32
Cunningham Simple, 260 acres, 4 slaves. 384
Patrick Sloan 9 565
John Simple, 1,005 acres, I still, 4 slaves.
Thomas Steel, 282 acres
II7
Rachael Steel, 160 acres, I slave
55 172
John Suter, 115 acres 56
John Sharp, 80 acres 37
Rev. John Slemmons, 230 acres, 3 slaves .. 244
James Smith, 93 acres
78
Centre Centre Church was about the Church. year 1780. December 15, 1782, Alexander Ramsey, David Wiley, James Denny, Joseph Wiley and Joseph Cathcart, trustees, purchased from William Gray, for the sum of three pounds, three acres of land, "on which is to be erected a meeting by a congregation called Centre." It is evident there was a permanent organ- ization in 1782. How the church received its name is unknown. Divine service, after the Presbyterian form, was conducted at this point several years before this organ- ization was effected. The first pastor was Rev. George Luckey, a native of Fagg's Manor, Pennsylvania, who graduated at Princeton in 1782, and was licensed by the Presbytery of New Castle in 1776. He was ordained at Chestnut Level, April 27, 1785, and installed, previous to August 30, of the same year as pastor of Centre and Bethel . churches, the latter being in Harford County, Maryland.
In 1786 Baltimore Presbytery was erected out of the Presbytery at New Castle, and Centre Church and its pastor were sent over
SINGLE MEN.
17I Thomas Alexander,
Eli Adams,
Henry Long, 100 acres
39
Edward Moore
2
John Major
13
John McKitruk, 50 acres
22
George Mitchell, 200 acres
95 21 49 66
George Mitchell, Jr., 250 acres
89 60
The date of the organization of
James McCullough, 160 acres
James McCandless, 756 acres, 2 slaves 407 Joseph Mitchell, 150 acres, I still. 68 37
John Parks, 75 acres
71 37 3I
105 42 59 64
37
Patrick Scot, 272 acres, I slave
50
William Gray, 200 acres I2I
John Hamilton, 100 acres, I slave I2I
John Lemmon, 40 acres
The population of Fawn in 1820 was 803; 1830, 785; 1840, 859; 1850, 1,043; 1860, 1,309; 1870, 1,457; 1880, 1,685; 1890, 1,647; 1900, 1.554. The Borough of Fawn Grove was incorporated October 10, 1881.
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to that Presbytery. There they continued until 1799 when they were sent back again to New Castle. Mr. Luckey was moderator of the Presbytery of Baltimore in 1796 and its clerk for many years. He was moder- ator of the Presbytery of New Castle in 1804. He continued to serve Centre Church for a period of thirty-four years, until April 6, 1819. He died December 13, 1823, and was buried in the cemetery at Bethel, Har- ford Co., Md., where a marble tomb erected by the church he so long and faithfully served, marks his last resting place.
Mr. Luckey is spoken of as a fine scholar, and intelligent preacher, plain in his man- ners, unwearying in labor, and unexcelled in his acquaintance with the Scriptures. The next pastor was Rev. Samuel Parke, who was licensed by the Presbytery of New Cas- tle at St. George, Del., April 7, 1813, and or- dained August 10, 1814. At a meeting of the Presbytery April 4, 1820, a call from Centre for one-third of Mr. Parke's time was presented and accepted by him. He was installed May 2, 1820. Centre congre- gation was then worshipping in a log build- ing familiarly known as the "tent," which had succeeded a similar structure removed some years before. In 1822 a subtantial house of worship was built. This structure was of stone and was an enduring monu- ment to the energy of the pastor and the liberality of his people. This church build- ing became too small for the purposes of the congregation and the present beautiful and commodious house of worship was built on the opposite side of the Baltimore road.
In 1842 the' Presbytery of New Castle was divided and out of it Donegal was or- ganized. Centre Church and its pastor were now under the care of Donegal Presbytery. Mr. Parke resigned December, 1848, after a pastorate of twenty-eight years and seven months.
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