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and active in the local political issues of the day, having for seventeen snecessive year- held the office of school director of the township, as he does at present. He has also been county anditor, and filled the position of county com- missioner. Ilis services are frequently sought as guardian and in the settlement of estates. Mr. Close aided materially in building the East Ki-bacoquillas Presbyterian Church, of which he and his wife and daughters are members.
OLIVER P. SMITH.
Oliver P. Smith is the grandson of Conrad Smith, who, on his emigration from Germany, settled in Lancaster County, Pa., from whence he removed to Cumberland (now Mifflin) County. He was nnited in marriage to Esther Anderson, and had children,-John, who settled in the Kishacoquillas Valley in 1781 ; Samnel, who resided in Lewistown; Jacob, who removed to Philadelphia ; Joseph, who also settled in the Kishacoquillas Valley ; and two danghters : Elizabeth (Mrs. Jonathan Alexander) and ('atherine. The birth of John Smith occurred in Lancaster County, on the 7th of April, 1766, from whence he remaved, when a youth, with his father to Milllin County, performing the journey entirely on foot, as other means of travel were rendered impossible from the want. of roads of any kind. He began with seanty aids and in a very humble manner the calling of a farmer, but eventually, as success crowned his persevering efforts, purchased the farm now owned by his son, Oliver P. Smith. John Smith married Sarah, daughter of Stephen Beatty, of the same county, and had children,- Samuel, born November 12, 1798, and married to Eliza Porter, of Pittsburgh, Pa. ; William, born March 21, 1801, married to Nancy Me- Farlane ; Mary E., born October 16, 1806, married to Andrew McFarlane; John, born October 20, 1809 ; James B., born May 1, 1812, married to Eliza Campbell ; Oliver P., born July 16, 1814 ; and Sarah J., born December 27, 1816, wife of Samuel Kyle. John Smith died March 11, 1848, in bis eighty-second year, and his wife October 7, 18:16, in her seventieth year. Their son Samuel graduated from the Medical
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Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1823, and after a brief interval of practice removed to Pittsburgh, where he became the senior member of the firm of Smith, Pryn & Co., irou manufacturers. He also became in- terested in steamboat enterprises and in other im- portant business schemes. Later he embarked in thedrug business, which was continued until a few years prior to his death. He possessed a com- manding presence, a clear and well-cultivated | died September 15th of the same year ; Eliza-
inheritance, and the remainder being purchased, he continued to cultivate the land until 1864, when, having decided to abandon active labor, the farm was rented. Mr. Smith was married, on the 25th of November, 1815, to Margaret I., daughter of John and Elizabeth Taylor, of Brown township. Their children are John W., born July 10, 1847, who died November 22, 1861 ; Sally G., born January 7, 1857, who
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mind and a remarkably genial nature, which rendered him justly popular. His death oc- curred June 7, 1883. Oliver P. Smith still oc- cupies the farm which was the scene of his birth. After such opportunities of education as the subscription schools of the day afforded, he bore his share, though at a very early age in the labor of the fields. Continuing thus a willing aid to his father until his thirtieth year, he theu, with his brother James B., took the farm on shares. Eventually a part came to him by
beth T., born August 24, 1848, married to George R. Frysinger, of Lewistown; and James B., born October 17, 1851, married to S. Jennie, daughter of Henry L. Close. The death of Mrs. Smith occurred February 20, 1864, and Mr. Smith was again married, February 20, 1868, to Amelia E. Ilehan, of York County, Pa. In their political sentiments the Smith family have always been Whigs, and the sub- ject of this sketch has, since the formation of the Republican party, supported its principles.
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Ile has served as county commissioner and held various township offices. His integrity and judgment have rendered his services on many occasions desirable in the capacity of guardian. Both Mr. and Mrs. Smith are mem- bers of the East Kishacoquillas Presbyterian Church, of which the former is a trustee.
CHAPTER VII.
WAYNE TOWNSHIP.
THE territory now comprised in Wayne, Oliver and Bratton townships was a part of Derry township, in Cumberland County, from its erection in 1767 until the division in 1782, when Wayne township was erected from the upper part of Derry. The following from the Cumberland County Court records of the July term, 1782, shows the action of the court and the boundaries then made :
"Upon the petition of the inhabitants of Derry township to the court, setting forth that they labour under considerable disadvantages, from the great ex- tent of their Township and the inconvenience of serv- ing in public offices for the same, Met by appoint- ment on Thursday, the 18th day of June, 1782, and chose Arthur Buchanan, Samuel Holliday, John Krever, James Ross, Joseph Westbrook, William Armstrong and Mathew Wakefield to form a line to divide said township into two equal parts, and that they mutually agreed the run called Brightfield's Run should be the division line, from the rise of the main branch thereof untill the month, and from thence in the course that it enters the river Juniata, directly to the mountain. And praying the Court that the said Division may be confirmed and entered of record ac- cording to the aforesaid line, and that the inhabitants of the upper division desire the name of their town- ship may be distinguished by the name of Wayne township, which division having been taken into con- sideration by the Court, is accordingly approved of and Confirmed, and that the upper division thereof be distinguished by the name of Wayne township."
At that time the township line ran from Con- cord Gap to a point on the river between Galloway's Ford (now Wharton's) and Me Vey- town, and that. portion remained a part of Huntingdon County until annexed to Mifflin County by act of Assembly, April 15, 1834. At the April term of court, 1835, Oliver town- ship was stricken from Wayne, and embraced
the territory of Oliver and Bratton, reducing it to its present limits.
An incident occurred in 1791, at Samuel Drake's ferry-house, in the Narrows, that shows the feeling that existed at the time of the dis- pute over the boundary line. When Sheriff William Patton, of Huntington County, was "executing some writs in the disputed terri- tory, he must needs pass through a small cor- ner of Mifflin on his return home. This was at Mount Union, where the ferry-landing was a few rods below the point where the county- line left the north side of the river. The Mif- flin County men gathered, preceded the sheriff on their own side of the river, hid in the Ferry Tavern, and as he came over the river they told his prisoner he was free, being now ont of the sheriff's bailiwick, and they then arrested the sheriff and lodged him in the jail at Lewistown, from which he was released under a writ of habeas corpus."
Considerable dispute was maintained for sev- eral years over the boundary line between it and Huntingdon County, and in 1792 the as- sessment was made in two parts, one of which was of the disputed territory. An act of Assem- bly passed March 29, 1792, altered the bound- ary line and settled the dispute. (A further account will be found in the chapter on the erection of Mifflin County, which shows the changes in the county line.)
The following are the names of the persons who were assessed in Wayne township in 1783, with the number of acres, mills and other inter- ests, and the assessment of 1790, the first year after the ercetion of Mifflin County :
John Allen, 50; Benjamin Armstrong, 200; Wil- liam Brown (Carlisle), 490; James Bratton, Sr., 180; William Bratton, Esq., 200; John Bratton, 150; John Blair, 60; George Bratton, Sr., 75; George Bratton, Jr., 75; Edward Bratton, 60; John Beatty, 163; Jmnes Bratton (Little), 100; John Brown (weaver), 100; John Brown, Sr., 300; Captain Robert Burns, 450; William Bratton, Sr., 80; James Bratton (Big), 100; Mathias Breckney, 30; John Bell, tan-yard ; Richard Coulter, 200; Thomas Collins; 60; John Carlisle, 50; James Creswell, 160; James Christy, 100; Jolm Culbertson, 200; Robert Crawford, 165; Joseph Corbet, 50; John Cunningham, 150; Robert Creswell's heirs, 100; Daniel Carmichael's heirs, 167; Joli Carmichael, 308, 2 stills; Joseph Corbet, 40;
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William Dixon, 50; James Dixon, 65 ; Samuel Drake, 50; Heury Dickson, 119; Patrick Dann, 200 ; Daniel Duncan, 200; Robert Elliot, 80; John Elliot, 175; Robert Forgey, 168; George Frye, 875 ; Sammel Cial- loway, 95; Joseph Galloway, 100; Jacobus Consales, 230; William Giflin, 50; Joseph Graham, 20 ; George Gilston, 230; Francis Hamilton, 100; Henry Hubble, 100; James Huston, 200; William Herron, 50; Sam- nel Holliday, 200, grist and saw-mill and still; for- don Howard, 53; Henry Hanawalt, 250; Thomas Hunter, 200; Margaret Hamilton, 50; Widow How- ard, 350; George Irwin, 700; John and William James, 100; William James, 150; Lancelot Johnston, 100; James Johnston, Sr., 130; William Jones, 10; Alexander Jacobs, 50; Edward Johnston, 104; Rich- ard Johnston, 50; Andrew Junkin, 80; William Jun- kin, 113, grist-mill; William Lanther, 120; James Lyon, 200; James Morrison, 10; Alexander McKins- try, 150; George Mitchell, 311 ; James McGlaughlin, 15; Alexander Mellatton, 75; Archibald McClosky, 100; William Marden, 100; John Maughen, 70 ; John Moore, 100; John MeClelland, 200; Joseph MeKins- try, 150; Widow Moore, 170; Samuel McKeehan, 251; James Macklin, 80; Alexander McDonald, 200; Daniel Moore, 300; Widow MeMillin, 100; David McMurtrie, 170 ; John MeDowell, 50; Samuel Mitch- ell, 30, 2 stills; Samuel Moorhead, 100; Joseph Neeklin, 100; Patrick Nugent, -; John Oliver, schoolmaster; Solomon Palmer, 100; John Rankin, 185; James Ross, 300; John Rodgers, 100; William Robinson, 200; Jacob Sower, 100; William Scott, 200; Arthur Start, 212; Marshall Stanley, 321; Rob- ert Samuels, 200; Archibald Stewart, 200; James Sterrett, 170; Alexander Stewart, 200 ; JJohn Taylor, 50; William Thompson, 70; William Taylor, 100; Jolin Uneles, 515, saw-mill; Samuel Wharton, 120; Joseph Welden, 100; Stephen White, 250; James White, 100; John Wakefield, 146; Mathew Wake- field, 222; James Wilson, 75; Joseph Westbrook, 120; Samuel Weyburn, 80.
ASSESSMENT FOR WAYNE TOWNSHIP FOR 1790.
" Adams, David, 1h, 1c. Armstrong, James, 200a. Allen, John, 200a, 1h, 1c. Bratton, George, Sr., 2h, 1c. Bratton, Edward, 150a, 1h, 1c. Bratton, Isabella, 100a, Ih, le. Bratton, George, Jr., 317a, 2h, 3c. Bratton, William, sailor, 100a. Bratton, James, 100a, 2h, 2c. Bratton, William, x 100a, 2h, 2c. Brown, John, Sr., 200a, 2h, 2c. Brown, John, Jr., 100a, 2h, 2c. Brown, William* (Carlisle), 100a. Burns, Robert, captain, 750a. Carmichael, John, 306a, 8h, le, 2 negroes, I still. Carmichael, Daniel, heirs, 200a,
Christy, James, 100a, 2h, 2c.
Carlisle, John," 50a. Cox, Charles, 100a. Crawford, Robert, 160a, 2h, 26. Cunningham, John, 100a, 2h, 2c. Corbet, Joseph, 200a, 21, 2c.
Craig, John, Ih, Ic. Caghey, John, Ih, Ie. Coulter, David, 1701, 21, 2c. Culbertson, John, 200a, 2h, 3c, I fulling-mill.
Dixon, James, 100a, 2h, 2c.
Dixon, Henry, 149a, 2h, 2c. Dixon, William, 100a, 2h, 2c.
Depugh, Daniel, 120a.
Douglass, William, 260a, 1h, 1c. Duncan, Daniel, 500a. Drake, Samuel, 150a, 1h, 2c.
Elliot, Robert, 50a, 2h, 2c.
Forgey, Mary, widow, 82a, 1c.
Forgey, Robert, 82a.
Frey, George, 400a. Gunsaulus, widow, 300a, 2h, 2c. Graham, Joseph, 50a, 1h, 1c.
Galbreath, George, 400a, Ih, le, I saw-mill.
Hanniwalt, Henry, 800a, 2h, 2c.
Humphrey, William, 70a, 1h, 1c.
Huston, William, 100a, 2h, 2c.
Huston, John, 2h, 2c, 1 still.
Huston, Abigail, widow, 200a, 3h, 3c.
Holliday, Sammel, 200a, 3h, Be, 1 negro, 1 grist-mill. Hamilton, Francis, 150a, 2h, 2c.
Hamilton, Nathaniel, 2h, 1c.
Hamilton, Margaret, 50 ;.
Henderson, Robert, 2h, 2c.
Hunter, William, 200a, 2h, 2c.
llarper, William, 100a, 2h, 2c.
Irwin, George, 800a.
Jones, William, 200a, 1h, 1c.
James, John .* 100 ;. Junkin, William, 229a, 3h, 3c, 1 mill.
Johnston, Lancelot, 100a, 2h, 2c. Johnson, James, 100a, 2h, 2c.
Johnson, John, Jr., 1h, 1c. Johnston, James, Rev, 200a, 3h, 3c. Johnson, Edward, 100a. Jacobs's, Alexander, heirs, 150a. Lyon, John, 1h, 2c. Lyon, James, 200a, 3h, 4c. Lindsey, John, 200a. MeLaughlin, Duncan, 100a, Ih, 1c.
MeLerty, Samuel, 100a, 1h, 1c. MeLerty, John, 200a, 2h, 2c.
Mekce, John, 2505, 2h, 20.
Mc Vey, William, 201.
Me Vey, John, 2505, 1h, 6c. MeVey, Enoch, 100a. Me Kechen, Samuel, 250a, 2h, 2c. MeDowel, John, 340a, Ih, Ic.
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McMurtry's, David, heirs, 175a. Moore, John, 150a.
Moore, Isabella, 200a, 31, 2c.
Mardon, William, 100a, 3c. Mardon, Jonathan, 70a, 2h, 1 still. Mahou, Alexander, 70a. Mitchel, George, 300a, 2h, 2c.
Maelin, James, 100a and J00a Agnew's land, 2h, 2c. Oliver, John 200a, 2h, 3c, 1 still.
Oashel, Henry, 3h, 2c.
Patton, Robert, 100a. Postlethwaite, William, 2h, 2c. Ross, James, 300a, 2h, 2c.
Ross, William, 100a, 2h, 1c.
Rankin, John, 100a, 1h, 2c. Robison, William, 400a, 2h, 2c, I negro, 1 still.
Robison, Alexander, 150a, 1h, Ic. Stephen, Matthew, Rev'd, 125a, 2h, 2c. Stackpole, James, 50a, 1h, I still.
Stuart, Widow, 200a, 1h, 2c. Stuart, Archibald, 143a.
Simpson, John, 1h, 1c. Smith, Thomas, Esq., 500a. Scott, William, 300a, 2h, 2c. Sunderland, David, 2h, 2, 1 still. Turner's Jane, Heirs, 100a. Taylor, Widow, 50a, 2h, 1c.
Unkles, John, 300a, 1h, 3c, 1 grist-mill, and 1 saw- mill. Westbrook, Levi, 100a, 1h, le. Walker, James, Ih, Ic. Wilson, James, 150a. Wilson, Alexander, 200a. Wakefield, William, 1h, 1c.
Wakefield, John, 196a, 2h, 2c, I saw mill.
Those marked thus (*) and the following appear the next year on what is called the " Disputed Part," being claimed also as a part of Huntingdon County :
" Armstrong, William, 2h, 3c. Bratton, James, Jr., 2h, 2c. Bratton, Sammel, 150a, 2h, 4c. Bratton, John, 250a, 2h, 9c, 1 negro and 140a on Sugar Bottom.
Bratton, William, Esq., 200a, 2h, 2c, 1 saw-mill. Beard, John, 100a, 2h, 3c. Beatty, John, 100a, 2h, 2c. Carmichael, James, 200a, 2h, 2c. Caruthers, James, 180a, Th, 2c. Collins, Thomas, 50a, 2h, 2c. V Carlisle, John, 80a, 2h, 20, 1 still. Coulter, Joseph, Jr., Be, I still, I tan-yard. Coulter, Joseph, Sr., 100a, Th, 20. Criswell, John (mountain), 120a, 2h, Bc. Criswell, John, Sta, 2h. 26. Criswell, Michael, Soa. T. 2. Fanetus, Ford. Th, 2r.
Galloway, Joseph, 200a, 1h, 3c, I tan-yard. Hubble, Henry, 100a.
Mitchell, Widow, 200a, 3h, 4c.
Mortland, Alexander, 100a, 2h, 26.
Mckinstry, Alexander, 250a, 2h, 3c. MeConaughey, Dauiel, 85a, Ih, 2c. Nugent, Patrick, 100a, Ih, le.
Romach, George, 2h, le. Stanley, Marshal, 170a, 2h, Je. Stanley, Nathaniel, 2h, 2c. Stallford, Alexander, 50a, 1c. Wharton, Samuel, 120a, 2h, 3c.
White, Thomas, 150a, 2h, 2c.
" WILLIAM BRATTON, Assessor. " JOHN OLIVER, " WILLIAM SCOTT, S
1 _Assistants, "
NoTR .- In 1792 the " unseated " list has Arthur Nugent 50a. on Licking Creek, and " Sammel Wallace and Com- pany, 1000a on the head of Licking Creek, near the road leading from Wayne township to Carlisle."
EARLY SETTLERS .- The first land located in the present limits of Wayne township was warranted to Barnabas Barnes February 14, 1755, the second day of issue of warrants of acceptance for the lands granted by the treaty of 1754. It was described as " sitnate on the north side of the JJuniata River, about a quarter of a mile below the falls." The original tract contained two hundred and twenty-seven acres and was three hundred and fifty perches on the river front. In the patent it was named " Wal- nnt Bottom." Barnes conveyed the tract to Richard Tea, who, December 9, 1767, sold it to Daniel Carmichael, whose brother, John Carmichael, had located one hundred and fifty acres of land near the place October 4, 1762, and who, in 1783, was in possession of three hundred and eighty acres and two distilleries. His name does not appear in the assessment of 1793. Daniel died in 1778 and left his property to his sons, James and Duncan, who, September 9, 1795, sold it to Joseph Dysart and moved to Tennessee. He lived and died upon the place and left four sons, -William, James, John and Joseph. William married Mary, the daughter of Duncan Carmichael. Their son, James C. Dysart, now lives on the Immingham tract. An Alexander Dysart died in 1798, aged seventy-three years, and is buried in the old Bratton grave-yard.
James Ross, Hugh Brown, John Carmichael, . John Miller and Christian Hamilton all located
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land and settled upon it in 1762. Of these, | James Ross, a native of Ireland, came to York County about 1760, when fourteen years of age, and soon after to what is now Wayne township, and located one hundred aeres of land on the south side of the JJuniata River, on land now owned by John Saylor. His warrant bears date February 3, 1762. ITe soon after located other lands adjoining, and in 1783 was in possession of three hundred acres. He had two sons, James and David, who settled on the homestead, and about 1802 sold it to JJohn Ianawalt. General John Ross, who settled in Me Veytown, was a son of JJames Ross. Of the daughters were Mary (Mrs. John Criswell), Sarah (Mrs. Jolm Postlethwait), Martha (Mrs. William Jenkins), Elizabeth (Mrs. William Mckinstry) and Jane (Mrs. David Criswell). The most of these, with their husbands, moved to Westmore- land and Armstrong Counties, in this State, where they settled and where their descendants now reside. General John Ross, settled at Mc- Veytown, was engaged in the construction of the canal and in varions branches of business in the vicinity. William Jenkins, who married Martha, one of the daughters of James Ross, settled in the township and died in 1826. They had three sons,-David, James and Robert. David settled on the Juniata River in 1826 and owned where the Vineyard Farm and Station how are. In 1845 he purchased the four hundred acre tract where he now lives, which was the tract taken up in 1762-69, as will be hereafter shown. He has three sons, James W., David B. and John R .- and four danghters, of whom Martha married Theodore C. Bennett and resides in Illinois; Anna, Sarah and Mary reside at home. Of the sons James settled in Warren County and John in Juniata County ; David B. was in the late war, and of the Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry. He is now at the homestead.
David Jenkins, the grandfather of David Jenkins who now lives on the Juniata near the old Galloway's Ford, was a native of Done- gal, Ireland, and came to this country as an officer in the command of General Braddock, and was with the army when defeated, July 9, 1775. A few years after, he came to this region
of country and taught school in various parts of Mifflin County. He married a Miss Miller, a cousin of General Anthony Wayne, in whose father's family she was brought up. Their children were William, the father of David Jenkins, now of Wayne township; James in carly life enlisted with the expedition that went out with Aaron Burr (he was also in the War of 1812, and was wounded at Sandusky) ; Robert was also in the War of 1812 and was killed at Black Rock ; David, the youngest son, emigrated to Ohio.
The farm now owned and occupied by David Jenkins, on the south side of the Juniata River, was warranted on several applications to Wil- liam Brown. The first application was dated August 3, 1769, and warrant of acceptance is- sned February 23, 1785. A warrant was is- sned October 12, 1784. These two tracts contained one hundred and eighty-six acres, and in the patent dated March 15, 1785, are named Teague's Ramble. Another tract, containing one hundred and twenty-seven aeres was war- ranted to William Armstrong, June 1, 1762, and conveyed to William Brown, July 26th, 1765.
This tract in the patent, dated March 9, 1786, is named Long Bottom. Another tract of twen- ty-eight acres was warranted to William Brown February 23, 1785, on application made Angust 3, 1769. These tracts were all allowed six per cent. for roads. The William Brown here men- tioned is not the one known as Judge William Brown, of Kishacoquillas Valley, but is al- ways mentioned in the records as William Brown, of Carlisle, where he lived. On one of the tracts was an improvement by a man by the name of Felty, and the site of his log cabin is still known to some of the old residents; near it is a spring known to this day as Felty's Spring. George Brown, a son of William, came to the place and made some improvements on the tract, and lived at the house of George Galloway, who resided below, on the river. He was a tammer and built a tannery on the Gallo- way farm, which he operated several years. Later in life he resided at Baltimore. David Jenkins rented the farm in 1826 and ocenpied it for nineteen years, and in 1815 purchased it
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of George and Thompson Brown, sons of George Brown.
Patrick Dum made an improvement on the William Brown farm, which was bought by Brown at sheriff's sale in 1785. He lived ou part of the present David Jenkins farm and soon after moved away.
HIngh Brown took ont a warrant for two hundred and fifty acres of land June 15, 1762, on the south side of the river, and later took up other lands on the north side of the river, where Newton Hamilton now stands and where he lived. He was killed at the place by the In- dians, who captured, at the same tinte, Hester Hamilton, his half-sister, who afterwards mar- ried Colonel William Bratton. A portion of the land came to his half-sister Hester and Margaret, the last of whom inherited the tract on which Newton Hamilton now stands. The village was laid out by her and she lived and died there. \ portion of the Hugh Brown tracts, in 1813, passed to Lukens Atkinson.
On the 4th of June, 1762, John Miller took out a warrant for ninety-four acres of land. He sold it, in 1777, to James Carruthers, who, in 1795, conveyed it to Daniel Seerist. It later passed to John Purcell and to Elijah Me- Vey (son of John Me Vey, the founder of Me- Veytown), who left it to his son, John R. Me Vey, who now owns it.
Christian Hamilton, on June 5, 1762, took up one hundred and eight acres of land, adjoin- ing Miller's, known as the Jonathan Leslie farm, and now owned by L. B. Postlethwait.
George Galloway took out a warrant for one hundred and fifty acres of land February 28, 1766, on the south side of the Juniata River, at the place long known as Galloway's Ford, and later as the Wharton property. He lived on the place till his death. In 1783 his son Sammel owned ninety-five acres and Joseph owned one hundred acres ; a part of other land he had purchased had been sold. Samuel Gal- loway, September 3, 1785, took up one hun- dred and twenty acres, and May 9th, the same year, warranted sixty acres. Joseph, at the same time, in May took up thirty acres. Joseph lived on the homestead tract. He was much given to speculation, and for that purpose
would sell parts of the tract, which Samuel Wharton, his neighbor, was always ready to buy. The latter eventually possessed the whole tract. Joseph had sons,-William, John, George, James and Joseph, -who moved to the West after the sale of the property and took their father with them.
William Scott, on the 22d of February, 1776, took up one hundred acres of land on the site of Atkinson's Mills, and later warranted one hundred acres more at the head of the Long Hollow, now owned, in part, by William Luk- ons and Benj. Rhodes. He had sons,-Mat- thew, Hugh, William and Hamilton. They were men of great size and strength and settled there for a time. On the 15th of September, 1812, Lukens Atkinson, of Thompsontown, purchased of Susanna, Matthew and Hamilton Scott a tract of land, and, in 1817, purchased one Inindred and eight acres of land adjoining of William Armstrong, James Crisswell and Elias W. Hale. On this and land on Beaver Rum he built a frame grist-mill, known as At- kinson's Mill.
Arthur Starr, in 1783, was in possession of two hundred and twelve acres of land, near the MeVey and Postlethwait farms, which was sold to Daniel MeConahey and Daniel Seerist.
Joseph Corbet in 1783 was assessed on forty acres of land, and in 1793 on two hundred acres. On the 28th of January, 1795, he warranted three hundred acres. His son William warranted one hundred aeres August 25, 1803, and one hundred acres December 15, 1808. They both died on their homesteads, and the land is in part. owned by West Shafer and John Lane.
John Cunningham, a native of Ireland, was assessed in 1783 on one hundred and fifty aeres of land on the north side of the Juniata River, where his grandson, James C. Dysart, now owns. He had two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary. The former married James Carmichael, and Mary married Dimean Carmichael, a brother of James, and both sons of Daniel Carmichael, who settled near Cunningham in 1762. They removed West in 1802, and in 1810 Duncan returned with his family. His daughter married William Dysart, the father of James C. Dysart, the present owner of the farm.
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