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Neither of these bills passed and Mifflin County was still unchanged.
In the session of 1830-31, John Cummins, a member of the Legislature from Mifflin County and resident below the Narrows, was leader of a movement to bring about the erection of Juniata County. The bill to divide Mifflin County passed the House, and on the morning of February 28, 1831, passed a third and last reading in the Senate and on the final vote the bill received eighteen yeas and twelve nays.
The act was approved by Governor Wolf March 2, 1831, and Juniata County, after vain- ly struggling for a place nineteen years, at last was admitted as an independent body.
The boundaries, as described in the aet, are as follows :
" That all that part of Mitllin County laying south
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and east of a line beginning on the summit of Black Log Mountain, where the Huntingdon County line crosses the same, and running thence along the summit thereof to the Juniata River; thence across the same to a marked black oak, standing by the road on the north side of said river, about the middle of the Long Narrows, known as a line-tree between Derry and Fermanagh townships, in said county ; thence along the summit of Shade Mountain to the line of Union County, and thence along said line down Mahantango Creek to the Susquehanna River, shall be and the same is hereby erected into a separate county, to be called Juniata."
LOCATION OF COUNTY-SEAT .- Section 9 of the act of erection provides,-
" That the Governor be and he is hereby author- ized and required, on or before the first day of May next ensning, to appoint three discreet and disinter- ested persons, not residents in the counties of Mifflin or Juniata, whose duty it shall be to fix on a proper and convenient site for a court-house, prison and county offices within the aforesaid county of Juniata, as near the centre thereof as circumstances will ad- mit, having regard to the convenience of roads, terri- tory, population and the accommodation of the peo- ple of the said county generally."
In accordance with this authority, Governor Wolf appointed General Philip Benner, of Centre, Major Joel Baily, of Dauphin, and Chauncey Frisby, Esq., of Bradford County, commissioners for the purpose of fixing the seat of justice of the new county of Juniata.
The Juniata Telegraph (Mifflintown) of June 9, 1831, says the commissioners "arrived in this place Wednesday evening last, and are now actively and industriously engaged in ful- tilling the duties of their appointment. On Monday morning they set off from this town for the purpose of viewing Tuscarora Valley and returned last evening. This morning they will start through Lost Creek and Greenwood township in order that equal and exact justice may be rendered to all the different conflicting interests."
After the merits of the different sites had been examined, the commissioners located the seat of justice at Mifflintown, where it had been located forty-one years before as the seat of jus- tice of Mifflin County.
The county buildings were erected at Milllin- town and used many years. In 1868, when the question of erecting new public buildings was
brought before the people, an effort was made to remove the county seat to Perryville or Port Royal, and excitement ran so high that a bill was presented to the Legislature for the follow- ing purpose : " Authorizing an election to be held in the County of Juniata relative to a change of county-seat and the erection of new county buildings." This act was approved April 11, 1868 ; the election was held on the 13th of October, 1868, as provided, with the result as given below by townships :
For.
Against.
Miflintown.
200
...
Fermanagh
215
...
Walker.
210
92
Fayette ..
856
5
Delaware
155
45
Thompsontown
41
13
Monroe.
165
16
Greenwood.
67
19
Susquehanna
122
6
Patterson
141
9
Milford ..
162
78
Perrysville
3
121
Turbett ..
13
138
Spruce Hill
1
192
Tuscarora.
105
149
Beale
89
118
Lack.
10
159
Black Log
37
5
2122
1165
The new buildings were erected at Mifflin- town and it still remains the county-seat. .
On the organization of Juniata Connty the Governor appointed the following officers : Prothonotary, William Kirk ; Register, etc., James S. Law, of Fermanagh ; Justices of the Peace, Second District, Fermanagh and Walker, Hugh MeAlister and John Knox ; Third Dis- triet, Milford and Turbett, James Hughes and John North ; Fourth District, Lack and Tusea- rora, Thomas I. McConnell, Esq., and David Glenn, Esq.
ERECTION OF COUNTY BUILDINGS .- On the 22d of March, 1832, twenty-seven inhabitants and proprietors of Mifflintown, in consideration of one dollar, conveyed to the commissioners of Juniata County the public square now occupied by the court-house. It was described as " being the same piece of ground originally laid out by John Harris, the proprietor of said town, and
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intended by him for the purpose for which it is now conveyed, and for none other." It contains one acre and fifteen perches and is one hundred and fifty by three hundred feet.
Plans were prepared for a court-house by Thomas MeCurdy, which were accepted by the commissioners and contract made with Amos Gustine and Everett Oles for the erection of a
it was torn away and the present structure erected. The grand jury of the county, in February, 1868, reported in favor of and recom- mendation of the erection of a new court-house. At that time an effort was made to remove the county-seat to Perryville, which, npon being submitted to a vote of the people, was lost. The matter of repairs or new buildings came. np
JUNIATA COUNTY COURT-HOUSE.
court-honse at a cost of thirty-nine hundred and forty dollars. The house was completed and the last payment made January 22, 1833; a bill of $225.93 for extra work was also paid. The first court was held in the new court-house in May of that year, court having previously been held in the old stone Presbyterian Church, which stood in the burial-ground.
The court-house was in use until 1873, when
from this time often before the commissioners. On the 19th of May, 1873, Mr. L. M. Simon, an architect of Harrisburg, was requested to meet with the commissioners and draw plans for repairing the old house or to build a new one. William Ulsh, president of the board, was appointed to go to Harrisburg with Mr. Simon in relation to remodeling the court-house. No mention is made in the commissioners' min-
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JUNIATA COUNTY.
utes of a report having been received of Mr. Ulsh or a resolution to build a new court-house, but on the Ist of June, 1873, a contract was made with John B. M. Todd to deliver at the court- house four hundred and twenty-five thousand good brick for a new court-house, twenty thon- sand of them to be pressed briek. At a meeting of the board of commissioners July 14, 1883, it was decided to advertise for proposals and to let the contract August 11, 1883, at which time Messrs. Hetrich & Fleisher, of Newport, Perry County, were awarded the contract to build a new court-house, in accordance with plans and specifications, for the sum of forty-two thousand one hundred dollars, the court-room to be fin- ished in time for holding court at the December term, 1884, the whole to be completed Jannary 1, 1885. On February 6, 1874, contract was made with G. W. Smith to take down the old court-house. The location of the new house was decided March 23, 1874.
Ou the 15th of September, 1873, the commis- sioner's resolved to borrow fifty thousand dollars on the credit of the county, under provision of an act of Assembly passed April 9, 1868. Bonds were issued for eight years, at six per cent. interest, which were to be paid in eight annual installments.
Courts were held during the erection of the new building in the Lutheran Church. The house now standing on the northeast corner of the public square was erected for the use of offices until the offices in the court-honse were ready for occupancy. The court-house was completed according to contract, and with bell, clock, furniture, pavement, fences and other im- provements, cost about sixty-three thousand dollars. The first floor contains the offices of the prothonotary, register and recorder, Or- phans' Court-room, county commissioner, sherill' and county treasurer. The second floor con- tains the court-room and three jury-rooms, while in a third story are the rooms for the grand jury.
The commissioners, -General Lonis Evans, William Wharton and George Gilliford, -upon whom the task of building the court-house and jail devolved, procured plans for a jail from the Hon. Everett Oles, and advertised for proposals
to be handed in between February 9 and 26, 1833, for the erection of a stone jail. Contract was made with Emmanuel Wise and Thomas McCurdy for its erection for the smin of twenty- six hundred dollars. It was completed and is still used.
CIVIL LIST OF JUNIATA COUNTY .- Follow- ing are rosters of the officials of Jun 'ata Coun- ty, and of her representatives in the State and national Legislatures, from 1831 to 1885, in- elusive :
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
Amos Gustine, Twenty-seventh Congress, 1841 to 1843.
Andrew Parker, Thirty-second Congress, 1851 to 1853.
Louis E. Atkinson, Forty-eighth Congress, 1883 to 1885. Re-elected to Forty-ninth Congress.
MEMBERS OF STATE SENATE.
1808 .- Ezra Doty (then Mifflin County).
1812 .- William Beale (then Mifllin County).
1840 .- James Mathews.
1850 .- J. J. Cunningham.
1855 .- James M. Sellers.
1860 .- Dr. E. D. Crawford.
1868 .- John K. Robinson.
1871 .- Dr. D. M. Crawford.
1877 .- Dr. D. M. Crawford.
MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY.
1831. John Cummings.
James Hughes.
1832. William Sharon. John Funk.
Thomas Stinson. John H. McCrum.
William Curran. .
William Cox.
John Adams.
Andrew Patterson.
James Mathews.
John McMinn.
Union and Juniata.
1850. John McGlaughlin.
1864. John Balsbach.
1852. William Sharon. 1869. A. H. Martin.
1853. John Beale.
1870. Abraham Rohrer.
1854. John W. Simonton.
1871. Jerome Hetrick.
1876. Jerome Hetrick.
1855. James W. Craw- ford.
1877. T. D. Garmon.
1856. George W. Strouse.
1878. William Pomeroy.
1857. Thomas Bower.
1879. Dr. Lucien Banks.
1859. John J. Patterson. 1861. John J. Patterson.
1881. John. D. Milligan.
1884. James North.
1863. George W. Strouse. SHERIFF'S (1831 TO PRESENT TIME).
1831-34. Amos Gustine.
1859. George Reynolds.
1835-37. John Beale. 1862. Jas. W. Hamilton.
1838. Henry Miller.
18.10. Wm. W. Wilson.
1868. John Deitrich.
1813. William Bell.
1871. Joseph Ard.
1874. Wm. 11. Knouse:
1877. W. D. Walls.
1880. Joseph B. Kelly.
1856. D. M. Jamison.
1883. George Shivery.
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1843. Saml. Mc Williams.
1850. David Mckinstry. 1853. Joseph Bell.
1865. Samuel B. Loudon.
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PROTHONOTARIES.
December, 1831, William W. Kirk. February, 1836, Robert Patterson. Jannary, 1839, Tobias Kreider. February, 1839, Lewis Burchfield.
December, 1845, James M. Sellers. December, 1851, J. Middagh.
December, 1854, Amos H1. Martin.
December, 1860, R. M. Sterrett.
December, 1863, George W. Jacobs.
December, 1866, George Reynokls.
December, 1869, Robert E. MeMeen.
December, 1872, 1. D. Wallis.
December, 1876, Jacob Beidler.
December, 1879, George Reynolds.
January, 1882, George S. Conn. Jannary 1885, Theodore HI. Meminger.
REGISTERS AND RECORDERS.
1831. James S. Law. 1855. John P. Wharton.
1833. Robert Barnard. 1861. R. P. McWilliams.
1836. Tobias Kreider. 1867. Joshua Beale.
1839. Joseph Bogg. 1870. Eli Dann.
1815. William Reader.
1873. J. T. Mittlin.
1848. Benj. Bonsell. 1876. J. D. Musser.
1854. Alex. Magonigle. 1880. J. M. McDonald.
1855. Joseph L. Stewart. 1883. S. Brady Coveny.
TREASURERS.
[The treasurers were appointed by the commission- ers until 1842, when the office was elective.]
Oct. 20, 1831. J. Cum- mings. 1858. D. W. A. Belford. 1860. George W. Stroup. 1836. Wm. H. Patterson. . 1862. Jacob Suloff. 1837. Amos Gustine. 1864. John B. M. Todd.
1838. Robt. Barnard. 1866. Robert E. Parker.
1840. James Kirk.
1868. Jacob A. Christy.
1842. Saml. Penebaker. 1870. David Watts.
1844. James Kirk. 1846. Benj. Bonsell. 1874. Saml. H. Showers.
1818. Jos. M. Belford. 1876. Robt. E. Parker.
1850. Benj. F. Kepner.
1879. John W. Kirk.
1852. George Jacobs. 1854. John Yeakley.
1881. Jacob Lemon.
1881. John M. Copeland.
COMMISSIONERS.
1831 .- Joel Bailey, P. Benner, C. Frisbie.
1832-33 .- George Gilliford, William Wharton and Lonis Evans.
1831 .- John Funk, Louis Evans and David Glenn. 1835 .- John Funk, Louis Evans and David Glenn .? 1836 .- Michael Bushey, Paul Cox.
1837 .- Emannel Wise. 1838 .- Daniel Collins. 1839 .- John North. 1810. - John P. Shitz. 1811 .- John Kenawell. 1812 .- John Crozier.
1813 .- John F. Saeger. 1844 .- James Lauthers. 1815 .- John Dimm. 1816 .- David Beale. 1817 .--- Ezra MeLin. 1848 .- Robert Inners. 1849 .- Samuel Rannels. 1810 .- David Alexander. 1851 .- John Anderson. 1852 .- Thomas J. Milliken.
1853. - William Adams. 1851 .- Joseph Sciber. 1855 .- Din ' I Flickinger.
1856 .- James Anderson. 1857 .- Barnett Rapp.
1858 .- Joseph Kerliss.
1859 .- Henry McConnell.
1860 .- John Landis.
1861 .- William Kohler.
1862 .- James S. Cox.
1863 .- John Foltz.
1864 .- John Kenawell.
1865 .- Matthew Clark, William Logne.
1866 .- David Diven.
1867 .- David Suloff, Sr.
1868 .- Walter App. 1869 .- E. R. Gilliford.
1870 .- William Ulsh.
1871 .- William Von Swearinger.
1872 .- David B. Diven.
1873 .- Alexander A. Crozier.
1875 .- Thomas Watts.
1876 .- James MeLaughlin, David B. Cox, William H. Groninger,
1879 .- J. Banks Wilson, Hugh L. McMeen, John B. Mc Williams.
1881 .- J. Banks Wilson, Hugh L. MeMeen, David Partner.
1884 .- O. P. Barton, John T. Dimm, W. N. Sterrett. COMMISSIONERS' CLERKS.
1831. James Mathers. 1857. Joseph Middagh.
1835. Robt. Barnard. 1862. John Huzzard.
1836. J. A. Christy. 1865. A. J. Greer.
1844. Caleb Parker. 1866. Joseph Middagh.
1847. David M. Crawford. 1872. James Dean.
1848. Lewis Burchfield. 1879. James Irwin.
1851. John Huzzard. 1885. Samuel Loudon.
1855. Tobias Kreider.
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS.
David Laughlin, commissioned July 5, 1854; re- signed July 5, 1855.
W. M. Burchfield, commissioned July 1, 1855 ; term expired June 1, 1860. John B. Porter, commissioned June 8, 1860; term expired June 1, 1863.
11. B. Zimmerman, commissioned June 1, 1863; term expired June 1, 1866.
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1856. Benj. F. Kepner.
1872. Wm. C. Laird.
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George W. Lloyd, commissioned June 4, 1866; re- elected June 4, 1869; term expired June 1, 1872.
David E. Robinson, commissioned June 6, 1872; term expired June 6, 1875.
Jolm M. Garman, commissioned June 7, 1875; term expired June 1, 1878.
Wellington Smith, commissioned Inne 1, 1878; term expired June 1, 1SS1; re-elected June 1, 1881; time expired June 1,. 1881.
Wilson E. Amman, commissioned June 1, 1881; now in office.
POPULATION OF JUNIATA COUNTY.
1800 1810 1820 1830| 1810
(1859) 1860 | 1870 1880
Fermanagh
1505
2529 1132
831
887 1101
993
1111
Greenwood
969
180 ) 2008
1237
1651.
635
7.1.1;
601
Milford
1812
1551 1537
1821
1373, 110%
115%'
1311
Turlwit
1165 1131
1319
1399
703
714
7.17
Lack
1511
671
761
1116 1340
1290
1439
Tuscarora
827
1379
1123
1193
1719
1608
Delaware
956
1126
1557
1079
Fayette ..
1291
120
48.
767
857
812
Monroe.
10211
1078
1125
Patterson Bor.
659
703
Port Royal Bor
518
559
681
Spruce Hill.
1007
Susquehanna
×20
590
733
Thegapsontown Bor
980
275
Richheld
131
Mexico
102
5387
8559,9051 11080 13029 16986 17623 18286
CHAPTER II.
Miscellaneous Matters-Progress of Settlement -- Oddities from the Old Records - Election Districts - Negro Slavery.1
PROGRESS OF FIRST SETTLEMENT .- Statis- tical tables generally make very dry reading ; but if the reader will study and analyze the fol- lowing figures, he will find food for some very interesting reflections on the beginning and prog- ress made by the early settlers. It shows that even during the trying times of the Revo- Intionary War there was a steady advance in clearing and stock-raising, and no doubt much stock was driven to the army, and taken farther west by the onward-moving settlers, es- pecially about the close of the war. The mim- ber of persons owning stock is the best index to the number of actual settlers. Subtracting the stock-owners from the owners of land, leaves mostly non-resident land-owners. A very few names appear withont either land or stock. The land speculators mostly lived at Carlisle, Lan- caster and Philadelphia.
1 By A. L. Gnss.
There must have been a good many residents not taxed, as they appear and disappear so offen without any apparent cause. In 1766 Rev. Charles Beatty says there were eighty-four fiumi- lies residing then in Tusemora Valley ; but the assessment of 1767 does not show more than seventy. He also speaks of there being fifty families on the north side of Juniata who moct together for worship ; yet the Fermanagh list for 1767 does not show more than forty residents " below ye Narrows." It seems pretty certain that in these early days poor people who had no land or stock were generally not placed on the assessment lists. Judging by the population given in 1784, which gives a ratio of 5.72 souls to a dwelling, there must have beeu not far from forty families, in the three townships, of whose presence there is no evidence upon the tax-lists of 1785. Many were drifting westward, hardly tarrying long enough in one place to get on a tax-list. It is apparent, however, that during the decade covering the Revolutionary War the population about doubled itself.
Owners of Land.
Owners of Cleared
Acres of Cleared
Taxables.
Single Freemen.
Owners of Stock.
Horses.
Cows.
Sheep.
1763.
Lack.
71
77
7
.....
Est. for Milford 1 ..
·18
4-4
5
Fermanagh ..
51
51
1
Do. Est. for part2, 1767.
32
32
1
Lack
82
67!
625
84
3
61 110 107
60
Est. for Milford 1.
60'
-18 475 62
758 115,
1 88 156 142: 32
Do. Est. for part 3 1768.
55:
3 403 52.
1 36 66 58
3
Lack
96
78' 587 104
10
70 85
961 45
Est. for Milford !
61
54 412 65
6 47
57
651 28 481 10
Fermanagh. 1769.
78
60 327 73
12. 41
50
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Lack.,.
54: 23. 184 55
9 24 29 27
Milford.
73 57
426' 77
11 49 61 55
Fermanagh .... ....
86 63 541: 87. 17
46 56 61
1591
Walher
1699 1170 2028
MitHintown Bor
Beale ..
711
973
1039
11:30
...
! An estimate of that portion of Lack which fell into Mil- ford.
2 An estimate of that part of Fermanagh west of the Cocalamns.
" An estimate of that part of Fermanagh below the Nar- rows. In the summary of 1767 only this estimate of the Juniata County part is included. The seeming decrease in the acres of cleared land in 1768 is owing to the reduction in the number held by the several individuals, especially in Fermanagh, as given by the assessors, which was done, perhaps, to reduce The taxes as much as possible.
2 48. 80 82
40
Fermanagh. ....
109 86
Land.
Land.
1192
1175 130%
1550 2000- 2051
668
JUNIATA AND SUSQUEHANNA VALLEYS IN PENNSYLVANIA.
OWLers of Land.
OWEer of Cleared
Acres of Cleared
Taxables.
Single Freemen.
Owners of stock.
Hurks.
Cess.
sheet.
1770.
LACK.
58.
220
10
17
65
29
Fermanagh
86
68,
620. 98 23
60 5
30
31
32
6
Milford.
68
61
129
69
10
54
82
67
39
Fermanagh ...
102
80
769 106
21
58
66
79
31
1772.
Lack
62
10
239
67
7
32
20
28
Milford ..
79
73
817
85
21
67
95
90
56
Fermanagh.
89
73
10-18
93
19
56
75
87
1773.
Lack.
69
39
502
69
12
34
47
46
16
Milford ..
79
76
945
81
8
73
79
98
69
76
66
892
84
15
62
71
82
17
Lack
63
49
380
64
6
35
47
47
Milford.
89
85 1010
93
12
107
12
84 101
123
60
Laek
80
48
702 91
10
41 71 89
42
Milford ..
113
91 1331 118
11
89 137
139 125
Fermanagh. 1776.
103
88
1013 108
10
85
97
117
72
Lack
84
48
627 97
9
48 66 66 33
Milford
117 111
1247 137
88 1989 108
27
73
85
104 61
Lack.
76
57
826
15
53
74
88 50
Milford.
108
97 1697 125
17
92
96 122 69
Fermanagh. 1779.
112
99 2264 137
2-1,114
67 209.162
Lack
105
126
10
63
90 99
Milford ...
124
182
25 1 42 243 323
Fermanagh 1780.
152
198
23 152 280 327
Lack.
108
122
11
79 128,162
Milford.
123
167
30 134 253 353
Fermanagh 1781.
147
185
32 154 292 102
Lack.
115
142
15
96 187 246
Milford
129
186
38 156 803 410
Fermanagh 1782.
11
179
36 183 303 384
Lack.
97
125
15 88 171 195 143
Milford
133
193
31 170 278 319 155
Fermanagh 1783.
165
2.15
31 194 334 428 401
Lack
121
146
96 159 183 167 20
Milford
136
193
18 157 258 259 211
Fermanagh
150
1871
20 128 232 295
1784.2
Lack
15 178 210 188
Alilford.
33
290 331 275
Fermanagh. 1785.
Lack
115
186 21 91 169 173
Milford 1-11
181 61 152 235 260
Fermanagh ..
180
1222 33 163'295 330' . .
' in 1777 no assessment seems to have been taken. 1t was not because the settlers were driven out by the In- dinns, us was the cuse in 1764 66, but because of the
YEARLY SUMMARY.
Owners of Lan i.
Owners of Cleared
Land.
Acres of ("leane) Land.
Taxables.
single Freempez.
Owners of Stock
Horses.
Cows
Sheep.
1763.
122
128
1767
1.10
110 1028
136
1
97
165
63
1768
169
138 914
177
23
115
176 135
144
55
1769 ..
213
143 1151
219
37
236
37
235
36
142
155
169
197
282
143
1775.
296
228 3046
317
31
342
58
345
56
58
73
89
77
452
783
942 699
1783.
416
526
53
65
542
115
40 699 763
THE REGION IN 1775-FITHIAN'S JOURNAL. -The following interesting account of a jour- ney made from Path Valley, through the whole
chaotie condition of civil affairs incident to the Revolution- ary changes in the government.
2 The 1784 list was not recovered; but a summary found gives us the following facts, some of them being particulars not found on any other list :
Lack has 122 dwelling-honses, 69 other buildings, 549 inhabitants, 3 stills, 2 grist and 2 saw-mills, 17,828 acres; taxes, £216 16s. 5d.
Milford has 175 dwelling-houses, 178 other buildings, 986 inhabitants, 1 tan-yard, 14 stills, 9 negroes, 3 grist and 3 saw-mills, 21,231 acres; taxes, $394 13x.
Fermanagh has 187 dwelling-houses, 75 other buildings, 948 inhabitants, 6 stills, 1 fulling and 7 grist and 8 saw- mills, 9 negroes, 25,823 acres; taxes, 0501 69. 104.
Greenwood as then constituted had 118 dwelling-houses, 125 other buildings, 498 inhabitants, 1 tan- yard, 2 stills, 2 grist and 4 saw-mills, 2 uegroes, 124 horses, 142 cows, 119 sheep, 19,390 acres ; taxes, £192 16s. 4d.
From this data we would estingite that in 1781 there were within the present limits of Juniata County 450 dwelling-houses and 2575 inhabitants.
The taxes for 1786 were as follows: Lack, quota for United States government, 965 53. 67; State tax, 270 4%. 6d .; county tax, $11 114. Milford, quota for United States, €121 1Is .; State tax, $183 173. 2d .; county tax, E26 16x. 5d. Fermanagh, quota for United States, £168 2s, Ad: State tax, £172 132. 7d .; county tax, 031 11s. 4d. Greeu- wood (mostly now in Perry County), quota for United States, 870 11s. 4d .; Sinte tax. 677 7s. 5d .; county tax, .C15 98. 6d.
Milford
69
1771.
Lack.
54:
34
232.
119 146
134 172 195
125
1771
224
175 1430
186-2104
245
47
35
30
202 252
218 305 345
296
336
419 281
1779
381
1780
378
1781.
388
1782
395
563
1784
722| 872 808
1785 ..
439
181 2339
234
1774.
257
224 2198
264
1776 ..
298
247 3861
1778
291
253 1787
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357
613
749
929;
673 793,1040
Fermanagh. 1775.
105
90 1108
83 104 112
83
1772.
20
1773
218
161 1451
1770.
76
178 205
..
102
Fermanagh 1774.
474
367
435
179 190
228
259
237
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17 107 145 166
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97
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239
507
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JUNIATA COUNTY.
length of Juniata County, to Simbury in 1775, is taken from the diary of Rev. Philip Fithian. He was a graduate of the College of New Jer- sey in 1772, and licensed to preach by the first Presbytery of Philadelphia, November 6, 1774. There being no vacancies near home, he received an honorable dismissal, and af a Presbytery held near Mercersburg. was commissioned to visit Central Pennsylvania as a supply to the scattered churches. May 9, 1775, he left his home at Greenwich, N. J., on horseback, for a tour through Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia. His journal is all interesting, but we give place to only that part which relates to Juniata County. It was addressed to his sweet- heart, Miss Elizabeth Beatty, whom he after- wards married after his return, October 25th. In June following, he became chaplain of Col- onel Newcomb's battalion of New Jersey mili- fia, and died of dysentery at Camp Fort Wash- ington, October 8, 1776. He kept his journal up until after the battle of Long Island, the last entry, on Sunday, September 22d, being : " Many of our battalion sick ; our lads grow tired and begin to count the days of service which remain." We start with him in Path Valley, in Franklin County,-
" Thursday, June 22, 1775 .- This valley is in many places not more than a mile wide ; it is level, and the land rich ; the mountains are both high and so near, that the sun is hid night and morning an hour before he rises and sets. I rode on to one Elliot's; 1 he keeps a genteel house with good accommodations. I saw a young woman, a daughter of his, who has never been over the South Mountain, as elegant in her man-
ner and as neat in her dress as most in the city. It is not plaec, therefore, but temper makes the person, In this valley we have many of the sugar tree ; it is very like a maple ; the bark is more rough and curled. It grows in a low, level, rich land. They told me there has been frost here two mornings this week.
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