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It was els of wheat to the acre. Rye was raised
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with success before wheat. Peaches and ing to Early's division, bivouacked on the apples were plentiful and cheap. An abund- same night at Farmers Post Office, about four miles to the south. The entire rank and file of Early's division numbered about 8,000 men. A detailed account of Early at Bigmount and his movement toward York, is given in the chapter on the Civil War, found on page 408 of this volume. ance of cider, peach-brandy and apple-jack was made and hauled to Baltimore. Before large covered wagons were used, market- men sometimes used boxes on top of the horse in which the market products were placed and taken to markets.
Captain George Trostle before the Civil War, drilled a company of one hundred men at different places in this district. Philip Beck was first lieutenant. The commands were given in English and translated into German.
One of the landmarks of Paradise Mills. Township is Jacob's Mills in the up-
per end of the township, near the bivouacked for the night in Paradise Town- ship.
Adams County border. The land was orig- inally taken up by a warrant issued to George Jacobs in 1750. Soon after this date a mill was erected which has since been owned by a lineal descendant of the origi- nal settler. For many years it was owned by Amos Jacobs, who had a wool carding mill, grist mill and saw mill, run by water and steam. The stone mansion nearby was erected in 1780. Hollinger's Mill and Noel's Mill on Beaver Creek have long ex- isted. Masemer's mill, on the Beaver Creek and Berlin Road is an old mill site. The stone building now standing, was erected in the year 1794 by Abraham Swigert and was long known as the "Beaver Creek Mill." The mason who constructed it, John Nagle, left his name and date of erection on a large stone tablet in the west end of the mill. The bridge across the Conewago here was re- moved by the flood of 1884, as well as the bridge over the Beaver Creek. Iron bridges have taken their places by authority of the county commissioners.
There are now seven public school build- ings in Paradise all of which are in an ex- cellent condition. Their names are as fol- lows: Harbold's, Church, Eisenhart's, Mil- ler's, Gable's, Stoner's and Bigmount.
Confederate Invasion. June 27, 1863. General Ju- bal Early, of Virginia, com- manding an entire division of Ewell's corps encamped for the night with three of his brigades near Bigmount in Paradise Township. Early led the advance of Lee's army on the inva- sion into Pennsylvania. General John B. Gordon's brigade of Georgia troops, belong- pike as his headquarters. Being worn out
General Early stated in a personal letter to the writer, that he and his staff lodged for the night in the dwelling house of Mrs. Zinn. This property afterwards was owned by George W. Trimmer, brother of Clem- ent B. Trimmer, whose wife, now residing with her husband in York, lived at home with her mother, when Early and his troops
The troops began to arrive about 5 o'clock in the evening and pitched their shelter tents on the fields surrounding the Zinn home- stead. They prepared supper of boiled beef and coffee and other provisions which they obtained from neighboring farmers. Immediately after halting for the night, predatory parties went out in every direc- tion in search of hams, bread, pies and any- thing else that they might get from the farmers. Some of them paid for these pro- visions in Confederate money, but most of the soldiers took whatever they wanted, without paying anything. These foragers also brought in many Paradise chickens and such other fowls as they could catch. These, too, were cooked and relished by the tired and hungry men who had been march- ing continuously for more than a week, rest- ing a few hours each night on their way into Pennsylvania.
General Early and his brigade command- ers, Hayes, Avery and Smith, had given their soldiers instructions that they should not destroy private property. When Gen- eral Early had completed arrangements for the night's encampment, he started about 7 o'clock in the evening and rode four miles southward to Farmers Post Office along the York and Gettysburg Turnpike. Gen- eral John B. Gordon, with his brigade of 2,800 men had already bivouacked for the night in the fields around Farmers Post Of- fice, when Early arrived there. During this night General Gordon occupied the house of Jacob S. Altland on the north side of the
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by the continuous marching of several days, Gordon had retired to his room in the Alt- Borrowed land house and was resting on a feather a Horse. bed.
"So intent was he to take an early nap," said General Early, "that I found him un- der a feather bed when I entered his room."
" I have come to give you directions how you should enter York to-morrow, and you must waken up," said Early to Gordon.
" I am glad you have come," said the lat- ter, " for I have been visited by a delega- tion from York and have agreed to take possession of the town without destroying private property.'
"I could not have given you better in- structions," said the division commander, and then they talked for an hour about the march and how they would soon cross the Susquehanna River and move on eastward. These Confederate chieftains at this time did not know that the Army of the Potomac ful companion for a dozen years.
was then concentrating around Frederick, Maryland, and that Meade on that day, had succeeded Hooker in command of 80,000 men, most of them veterans. These Con- federates still thought that within the next few days they would be opposed only by Pennsylvania militia and would likely soon capture Harrisburg, York, Lancaster and even reach Philadelphia.
After an hour's conference with Gordon, Early returned to the home of Mrs. Zinn, where a bountiful supper had been prepared for him and then he retired to his room. Camp-fires burned all night and sentinels guarded the outposts just as is done at all times when a marching army bivouacs in an open field. For eight hours or more these tired soldiers rested and at 5 o'clock in the morning they were aroused from their beard. slumbers by the beating of drums. After a breakfast was eaten of coffee, hardtack and beef, at the sound of the bugle, they again took up the march, moving over the Canal Road to Weiglestown, and from thence to the Harrisburg turnpike, entering York at noon of Sunday, June 28.
About the same time that Early with his three brigades left the vicinity of Bigmount, Gordon with his veterans began the march from Farmers Post Office, down the turn- pike and entered York just as the church bells were ringing for the morning service at IO o'clock.
Cavalry scouts raided parts of Jackson and West Manchester townships and captured such farm horses as they thought would be of better use to them than their worn out nags that they had ridden for so many months. A Georgia lieutenant took from the stable of Rev. Samuel L. Roth, his beautiful family horse, without the consent of the owner, who pleaded that he should leave the horse behind. But he heeded not the earnest request of this Mennonite min- ister, and presented the horse to General Gordon, who rode this animal as he entered York.
A touching little incident is the sequel to this story. On the following day Mr. Roth came to York. He met General Early at the residence of the burgess of the town and there with an earnest appeal asked for the return of the horse which had been his faith-
" It was not I who rode your horse," re- plied the commanding officer " I presume it was General Gordon, who has gone on to Wrightsville with his brigade."
Mr. Roth awaited the return of Gordon the following day, and upon his request, the family horse was returned to the owner, who took it to his home.
Thirty years passed by and General Gor- don visited York to deliver a lecture on " The Last Days of the Confederacy." While stopping at the Colonial Hotel, a message was sent to his room that an aged man wished to see him in the parlor. At this time General Gordon was United States Senator from Georgia. He quickly ap- peared in the parlor and met the aged min- ister with his flowing locks and whitened
" I came to shake hands with you Gen- eral Gordon, and thank you for the return of my horse thirty years ago, when you were in York on another mission."
The two men embraced each other and tears rolled down the cheeks of both, as they talked briefly of the stirring events of the Civil War.
On June 30, Early's division passed through Paradise Township and East Ber- lin on the return to Gettysburg, where his division took an active part in the battle both on July 2 and 3. Gordon's command returned over the Gettysburg Turnpike and
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in the afternoon of June 30, a detachment of boundary. Slate Ridge, famous for its his brigade halted at Farmers Post Office quarries of valuable slate, diagonally crosses the township, extending into Maryland. The Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad passes through the township to Delta. The Baltimore and Delta Railroad terminates at Delta.
where they planted their cannon on the farm of Henry Ramer, in Jackson Town- ship. At this time they heard the booming of the guns at Hanover, where a cavalry fight was in progress between Kilpatrick and Stuart. On the morning of the same day, Kilpatrick with a division of 5,000 Union cavalry came eastward as far as Ab- bottstown where his rear guard was at- tacked by the enemy and he fell back to Hanover. If it had not been for this inci- dent in the invasion of 1863 Early's divi- sion and Kilpatrick's cavalry would have met somewhere in Paradise Township.
PEACH BOTTOM TOWNSHIP.
Peach Bottom lies in the extreme south- eastern section of York County and bor- ders on Harford County, Maryland. This township was formed by a division of Fawn. The report of the viewers appointed by the court to make the division, was confirmed April 5, 1815. The petitioners requested
The early settlers of Peach Bottom, like that the eastern part be called Peach Bot- other parts of the lower end of York tom. The survey was made by Colonel County, first cleared small tracts of land, James Steele, and according to his draft, the then planted potatoes and corn, and sowed township contained 18,313 acres. On the rye and a little wheat. During the first few margin of the draft, representing the line along the Susquehanna River, a house, farm buildings, and an orchard, are drawn and marked "John Kirk's building and peach orchard."
Fawn Township forms the western boundary, extending in 1815 from a stone bridge at John Donnell's mill, to Maryland. The land owners at the time of the divi- sion, along Mason and Dixon's line, from the river westward in order were Cooper Boyd, Stephen Cooper, John Neeper, Hugh Glasgow, James Steele, John Livingstone, H. Quigley, Boyd Jones, and Colonel Mat- thew Clark.
The northern and western parts of the burned by the farmers and merchants into township are drained by Niel's Run, Fishing Creek. Scott's Run and other smaller streams as tributaries to Muddy Creek, which forms the entire northern boundary, separating Peach Bottom
from Lower Chanceford and flowing into the Susque- hanna. Robinson's Run, McConkey's Run and Rock Run drain the eastern part and flow into the river, which forms the eastern
Near the fourth milestone, west of the Susquehanna, the Temporary Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland is clearly de- fined by reference to old deeds and maps. It runs at this point about forty-five rods south of Mason and Dixon's line. It seems to run a little north of west, thus causing the two lines to converge. Reference is made to this line in a lease dated February 13, 1755, for a tract called "Tom's Knolls Resurveyed," wherein "the Hon. Edward Lloyd, Esq., agent and receiver-general for the Right Hon. Lord Proprietary of the Province of Maryland " lets for the term of ninety-nine years the said tract to Asbel Brannon. This tract was sold in 1788 to Thomas Steele, and in all the deeds the Temporary Line is mentioned.
years, fair crops were raised. Eventually the land became poor, and the owners turned their attention to the cultivation of newly cleared tracts. Much of the land be- came known as "barrens." The raising of wheat was not a success. The introduc- tion of plaster as a fertilizer, caused a slight revival in the business of farming. About 1832, lime began to be used. It was brought down the Susquehanna in arks, and flat-boats. When the Tide Water Canal was opened, in 1840, the business of farming received an impetus in this township. Lime became cheaper. Limestone was brought down from the vicinity of Wrightsville, and quick lime. Lime seemed to work like a charm for a time, but after the second or third use of it on the same land, its effect on the soil was of less value. Next came the South American guano, which was con- sidered well suited as a fertilizer to the slate soil. Phosphates have been extensively used for a number of years, and produce abundant crops.
PEACH BOTTOM
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The following is the
McClery, Henry, farmer.
175
McClery, William, farmer
Meyers, Michael, farmer.
156
Mitchel, George 170
McCartney, Ephraim, farmer
80
Andrews, John, tanner.
100
McFadden, John, farmer.
Amos, Benjamin, farmer
80
McFadden, Hugh
50
Allen, James, farmer.
80
McCoy, heirs of. Morrison, John, farmer 15
Boyd, John, farmer ..
400
Milliken, Thomas, farmer.
Boner, Alexander, stage driver.
25 McCandless, Hannalı
150
Bennington, Jeremiah, farmer.
Balden, Silas, farmer ..
Clark, Matthew, farmer.
Miles, Joseph
Cunningham, Hugh, farmer.
120
McFadden, Hugh 150
Caskey, John, farmer.
120
Michael, Edward, weaver.
Colvin, Robert, farmer.
328
Nichol, John
Cunningham, Robert, farmer
200
Nickol, John
400
Cunningham, Joseph, farmer.
IIO
Nesbit, John, tailor.
200
Neaper, John, farmer 270
Cooper, John, farmer.
500
Norris, Daniel
Cranson, Robert, tavern keeper
Nesbit, Robert
350
Cooper, "Stephen, farmer ..
700
Nickol, George, farmer Oliver, Martha
232
Carman, William (ten houses)
29
Oliver, John, farmer.
Colson, William, storekeeper
Poole, Josiah
II3
Cunningham, Samuel, farmer
99
Quigley, Hugh
17
Donnell, John, farmer, mill.
100
Quigley, William
Davison, Benjamin, farmer
580
Ramsey, Robert, inn-keeper
Edgar, Samuel, farmer.
Reed, Moses, weaver.
Ebaugh, John, grist mill and saw mill.
164
Robinson, James, farmer
Edgar. Mary, miller.
150
Robinson, Walter, farmer
150
Fulton, John, farmer.
94 Raddy, James
160
Fitzpatrick, Thomas
Ramsey, William, farmer
130
Gibson, George, farmer.
Stuart, Ajahle, miller
Gibson, John
Stuart, James, carpenter.
Gibson, Jacob, fulling mill, carding mill.
380
Sivard, A. John, shoemaker.
I33
Gordon, James, wheelwright ..
290
288
Gordon, Robert, farmer.
380
Sample, John, farmer, mill, saw mill.
200
Sample, John, Jr., farmer
460
Harbert, Gideon, farmer.
Steet, James 40
Hall, Johnston, farmer
Hamilton, Robert
Huff, John
6
Thomas, Mordecai, stage driver.
50
Thomas, Benjamin, stage driver
140
Irvin, Francis, farmer.
Jones, Elias, blacksmith.
135
Wiley, Andrew, blacksmith
167
Jones, Isaac, farmer.
2
Williamson, Peter, overseer slate quarry.
Jones, Benjamin, farmer
Wiley, Nathaniel, wheelwright ..
240
Jordan, Samuel, blacksmith SINGLE MEN.
Jonson, James, farmer.
36 John Patterson, John Andrew,
Johnson, Wilsey, farmer.
James Patterson,
John Davison,
Jackson, Mordecai, miller
Wilson Mitchell,
John Reed,
Kirk, John, saw mill, ferry, store.
450
Kinyard, Thomas, farmer.
IC
George Michael,
Samnel Theaker,
Kilgore, Thomas, wagon maker.
216
Joseph Michael,
James Dinsmore,
Kilgore, Soloman, wagon maker.
71/2 Matthew Clark,
William Dinsmore,
Kunkel, Michael, farmer.
Kellogg, Ebenezer, farmer.
Jehu Kilgore, John Caskey,
James Bullock, Thomas Olliver,
Lukens, Eli, hatter.
Livingston, John, farmer.
I30
Archibald Harvey, Joshua Olliver,
Mitchell, George, farmer.
Thomas Gibson,
Matthew Gordan,
McLanghlin, John, farmer
Miller, Robert, farmer 250 Joseph Parker,
William Edgar,
4,050
Edgar, Hugh, farmer.
150
Ramsey, James, farmer ..
73
Foust, Baltzer, farmer
Ross, Joseph
Galbreath, Alexander, distillery.
235
Snyder, Michael, farmer. Stuart, Robert, shoemaker. Scott, Patrick, farmer.
Glasgow, Hugh, Esq. 1,000
Hudson, John, farmer.
Hays, John, farmer.
Steet, Thomas, farmer
84
80 Theaker, John, farmer. Thompson, Israel, miller. Thompson, Jonathan, farmer .. 200
Hawkins, John, sawyer, saw mill.
Hawkins, Thomas
Hawkins, Benjamin
13 Wallace, Thomas, farmer. Wise, Henry, farmer. Walker, William, farmer
I44
Jones, Isaac, weaver.
150
Jones, Theopheles, farmer
Ziegler, Joseph, farmer.
100
100
44 Allen Miller,
Acres.
Taxlist of 1816.
first assessment roll of Peach Bottom Township. Acres.
McConkey, James, store keeper. Macomber, Doctor
100
Mc Millen, John, farmer. 96
Cooper, John, farmer.
Cunningham, William, farmer
Caskey, Torence and son Francis
73
Cunningham, Samuel, farmer
120
Park, Samnel, Rev
200
200
80
26
Boyd, William, farmer
Robert Gordan,
125 Jacob Gibson,
Joseph Cunningham,
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William Edgar,
Robert Nesbitt, of James,
Wilsey Jonson,
Josiah Pool,
Hugh Jonson,
John McClure,
James Robinson,
William Bennington,
Stephen Boyd,
James Wells,
John Cooper,
Reuben Creighton,
John Sample,
John Scott,
William McCoy,
Sampson Bennington,
Thomas Lezer,
David Black,
John Wells,
Samuel Pall,
Lemon Maycommer,
Thomas Miles,
George Maycommer,
Nathaniel McFadden,
Joseph Webb,
Andrew McClure,
Robert Nesbitt,
William Robinson.
Bryansville was named in
Bryansville. honor of Dr. J. Y. Bryan. It
was first a school house site, and being located on a slight elevation, was originally called " Mount Pleasant." Evans Gregg opened the first store. J. W. Van- sant, who was engaged in the mercantile business, secured the establishment of a post office here in 1850. For many years, Dr. Bryan was postmaster, and interested in the mail routes through the lower end of York County. He was succeeded by his daughter, Mrs. Belle Gallagher.
Dr. James Yeaman Bryan was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1805. His ancestors were of French Huguenot stock, and emigrated from France to England, dur- ing the religious persecutions in the former country. In 1832 he moved to the present site of Bryansville, which was named for him. He had a large practice.
Bryansville Seminary was supported by Dr. Bryan. Among the instructors were J. A. Lippincott, afterward a professor at Dickinson College; Revs. T. R. Vickroy and J. B. Ackers.
The church of the Evangelical Associa- tion at Bryansville, was completed in 1882, and dedicated the same year. Rev. P. W. Raidabaugh officiated at these services. The church is a neat frame structure, de- lightfully situated. Rev. H. A. Stoke was pastor in 1907.
The Welsh. West Bangor is situated on the summit of the slate ridge, and its inhabitants are all of Welsh descent. The town was started about 1850, and a post office was established July 31, 1861, which became a money order office July 6, 1876.
have become prosperous as operators of the quarries. The Welsh are representatives of an ancient Celtic race, of which there are 1,500,000 in Wales and 600,000 in America, mostly in the west. Welsh children are all taught English in their native country as well as in America. In Peach Bottom they attend the public schools. Most of them are bright and intelligent pupils. They are taught, however, to hold in great reverence their native tongue, scarcely a word of which is identical with the English. Most of their religious services are conducted in Welsh in a solemn and impressive manner. Infants are baptized only when their par- ents are members of church. The bodies of the dead are placed in the tomb facing the east. As a people they love sacred "music, and some are great singers.
In the Slateville churchyard among the Welsh tombs, is one with the following in- scription : " Er Cof am William Morris Y. Canor, Bu farw Hydref 27, 1869. Aed 44." William Morris who died here at the age of forty-four years, was a noted singer. On one occasion, with his sister, he sang the Unbroken Covenant with great feeling and effect to an audience of thousands of peo- ple collected in Caernarvon Castle, the birth place of the first Prince of Wales. Among the noted men in American history of Welsh descent are two Presidents, Thomas Jeffer- son and James A. Garfield.
The first colony of Welsh that settled in Peach Bottom left the north of Wales in June and arrived in Philadelphia on the morning of July 4, 1848. The party num- bered thirty men, women and children. The adults of the party were: Griffith Evans, who died shortly after the colony had set- tled at Delta and was buried at Penn Hill, Lancaster County; Rev. Henry Roberts, who in 1850 went to Mineral Point, Wis- consin, where he had charge of a Presby- terian church; Rev. Griffith Davis, a local preacher, Hill Williams, Richard Hughes, William D. Edwards, John Loyd, Alexan- der Williams, Thomas W. Jones, William J. Jones, Robert Perry, Richard Roberts, Foulk Jones, John W. Edwards, John Thomas, Mrs. Hugh Williams, Miss Jane J. Jones, a sister of Mrs. Hugh Williams, who married Humphrey Loyd, Mrs. Gwinn
The Welsh, who began to locate in Peach Bottom as early as 1848, coming from the slate region of North Wales, are an intelli- Williams, Betty Perry, a sister of Robert gent and industrious people. Many of them Perry, Howell Williams, John Humphries,
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Evan Humphries, Humphrey Evans, Hugh Thomas S. Williamson, and in the same C. Roberts, Howell Williams, John E. Wil- year erected a frame church. The trustees liams, Griffith Williams and William E. then were Griffith Davies, Robert Hughes, Williams.
David C. Williams and Elias Rowlands. The church was dedicated in 1858, by Revs. Morris R. Remsen, of New York, and David Price, of Utica. Rev. Thomas Williams, later of East Bangor, was the first pastor and served ten years.
The first marriage in the settlement was that of Humphrey Evans and Catherine Williams who were married in August, 1848, and the first Welsh child born was their son, Evan, July, 1849. The first Welsh Sunday School was held in July, 1848, in One of the first arrangements a stone house in Bangor which was de- Slate made by the pioneer Presby- stroyed by fire in 1867. A church which Ridge terians west of the Susquehanna, was used by different denominations was Church. was to establish a church. Soon after the first settlement of Peach Bottom an event occurred which increased their desire for Gospel ordinances. It is stated, "there was so great a revival in Bal- timore County in 1746 and 1747, that it seemed like the first planting of religion there. It was in what is now Harford County and extended from Deer Creek to Slate Ridge and Chanceford." This was an built in 1849 and Rev. Richard J. Hughes officiated at the dedication of the building. During the years 1848-9, Rev. Griffith Dives, a local preacher held services in pri- vate houses. In 1850 some of those who had settled in and around Delta left and went to Fulton Township, Lancaster County, where they opened a slate quarry. Among them were Foulk Jones, Richard Jones, and Edward Jones. When this set- auspicious beginning for Slate Ridge tlement was made in Lancaster County, the Church. The first house consecrated to the men employed had no place convenient for worship of God in this part of the country, religious worship and in 1854 Foulk and was a log building near Muddy Creek. Richard Jones gave a tract of land for a Tradition indicates the site of it at the junc- tion of Scott's Run and Muddy Creek, east of the former and south of the latter. This church site. At the start of this church there were only three members other than the three trustees, Foulk, Richard and Ed- place was chosen for the site of their ward Jones. These were James Philips, John Price and Abel Jones. This small ple of Chanceford and Peach Bottom. When band worked and soon had all the members
sanctuary because it was central to the peo- a house of worship was built and a church of the little colony in the fold of the church organized in Chanceford, a more central and and it was successful up to 1860 when the convenient place was chosen. Two streams quarries closed and the church was used running in opposite directions, the meeting by the Presbyterians for a Sunday School up to 1899 when a new church was erected by that denomination.
The Calvinistic Methodist Church at nature's pleasing pictures. It reminds one West Bangor was erected in 1854, on land of some of the places in Scotland where the donated by Major Williamson under the di- persecuted Covenanters were wont to as- rection of John Humphrey, Griffith Wil- liams and Robert Davis, the first trustees. The future history of this church will be found on page 859.
The Welsh Congregational Church, of West Bangor was organized November 21, 1855, at Slateville, with thirty-seven mem- bers. Hugh Williams and William Morris were first deacons. The worship was then held in the vestry of the Presbyterian Church, and the congregation had no regu- lar pastor. In 1857 the Society purchased, for a nominal sum, a lot in West Bangor, of church, built of squared logs on the same
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