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From the fort there was a path over to Perry County by way of Bigham's Gap. This route has not hitherto been understood. Liberty Val- ley was an impenetrable thicket of laurels and spruce. No carly trader or adventurer passed through it. It took much and hard labor to make a path through it. The West Tu-caron Mountain and the Conococheagne Hills form an antielinal axis, with Horse Valley scooped out of the crest. Just where they begin to separate, the broadened mountain has ravines on each
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side, and it was along these ravines that the early path led over the mountain. The oldl " Trad- ers' road " passed up through a ravine north of Andersonburg, and came down a ravine at Mobiler's tannery, in Liberty, and crossed direct- ly over the depressed end of the East Tuscarora Mountain by Bigham's Gap. Isenminger's Ridge is a foot-hill parallel with the mountain and nearly as high. The path led castward behind the ridge, and bent westward around its end.
PUBLIC Schools,-Tuscarora township has ten public schools. MeKinley's, Barren Run, MeCoysville, McCulloch's Mills, Willow Run, Collins', Union, Reed's, Bealetown and Water- ford. James Butler taught near MeCoysville in 1807. John Erskine taught in a house where William Woodward lives, near Reed's Gap. In 1812 a Mr. Gardner opened a school near An- derson's fulling-mill. He treated his pupils to whiskey and sugar. In 1813 William Knox taught at " Beggars' Row," near where Joshua Barton lives ; James MeKinstry was one of his pupils. William P. Law taught in Tuscarora, 1807-20. Alexander Given, John Glasgow and Dr. James Montgomery taught in a house near Mrs. Laird's, in MeCoysville. At MeCul- loch's Mills Sammuel Telfer taught in 1825. John Keys and Thomas Telfer taught in a house now owned by Charles Milhouse. In 1825 there was a log school-house in East Waterford, where the present house stands, where Samuel and William Barton taught. William W. Kirk and Robert Barnard taught at Bealetown. The first school board was Matthew Langhlin, John Dobbs, Thomas Morrow, William Arbuckle, Jesse Beale and Dr. James Galbreath. The first schools under the law were those at East Waterford, McCoysville, Bealetown, Collins' and the house of James Knox. The number of children in Tuscarora attending school in 1884 was four hundred and thirty.
Tuscarora township has sent out some of her sons to benefit mankind in other fields. Rev. D. J. Beale is the Presbyterian minister at Johnstown, Pa. Rev. John Laird is a teacher as well as preacher in the same church. He is a grandson of Rev. John Coulter, whose papers are still preserved in the Laird family.
CHAPTER IX. MILFORD TOWNSHIP.
MILFORD TOWNSHIP was erected 1768 under theanthority of the court of Cumberland County, of which county it originally formed a part. The following documents were transcribed from the court records at Carlisle :
" To the Honorable Court of Quarter Sessions Held at Carlisle the Third Thursday in October, 1768. Greeting :
"Whereas, the Township of Lack is Very Unconve- nient for all Township Offices, it being of such an Extensive Length, viz., of above thirty miles, Which makes us pray your Worships to order a Devision of s'd Township from Tuskerora Mountain, by James Gray's, to William Scot's, at the foot of the Shade Mountain, and your Humble Petitioners Will be In Duty Bound to ever pray.
"Thos. Beale. Hugh Quigley.
William Irwin. William Bell.
Robert Campbell. William Christy.
Clement Horrell. James Armstrong.
Robert Hogg. David McNair, Jr.
James Christy. Chas. Pollock.
John Beale. Robert Littel."
William Renison.
November 7, 1768, the court made the fal- lowing order on the above :
" Milford Township : To be bonnded by Lack, and to run across the valley by James Gray's and William Scot's, throwing these two inhabitants into Lack or the upper part of the valley-the Lower part here- after to be known by the name of Milford township, etc."
The origin of the term Milford is of course mill-ford or the fording at the mill.
Milford township is bounded on the cast by the Juniata River, on the north by the " Black Log," properly called the Blue Ridge, on the south by Turbett and Spruce ITill, on the west by Beale. It extends up Licking Creek to the Tuscorara line. It is shaped like a pipe, Lick- ing Creek valley being the stem, and the open- ing of the bowl is at the loop below Groninger's bridge. The front of the bowl is ornamented by the boroughs of Patterson and Port Royal. The lower end of the Licking Creek valley towards the river, after the creek deflects sonthward, is called Muddy Run. It is drained principally by Licking Creek. The end of the . Shade Mountain and the Forge Hill separate
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the Valley of Licking Creek from the Johns- town Valley ; the Herring Bone Ridges again separate the latter from the Tuscarora Creek settlements.
The names of the early settlers of this town- ship will be found in the history of Lack town- ship.
NAMES OF ADDITIONAL SETTLERS IN 1770.
Alex. Denniston's heirs. Thomas MeKeever.
George Glassford. William McCormick.
Daniel McClelland. Thomas Millegan.
ADDITIONAL NAMES FOR 1771.
Thomas Burchfield. Philip Land.
Wm. Donegal Chorran.
John Parker, renter.
Joseph Gordon.
Purviance & Cox.
John Henderson.
Robert Walker, Jr.
John Holmes.
Single Freemen.
John Cunningham. Nicholas Shrader.
Barney Peterson. Hugh McCully.
Edward Irvin. Richard Wilson.
ADDITIONAL NAMES FOR 1774.
Robert Boreland. John Kerr.
John Boner.
John Little.
George Crain.
John MeClelland, Jr.
Charles Cox.
Dudley McGee.
Samuel Davis.
Hugh McCully.
Caleb Graydon.
James Moore.
Epenitus Hart.
Abraham Stills.
William Henderson. Rudolph Stayors.
Widow Irwin. Thomas Turbett.
Single Freemen.
John Anderson. Edward Miligan.
Benjamin Lyon.
Alex. Snodgrass.
John Sloan. Thomas Gallaher.
Thomas Bowle. Joseph MeCaskey.
ADDITIONAL NAMES FOR 1775.
James Bigham. Samuel Leonard.
Thomas Black.
Joseph McConnell.
Matthew Boreland. William MeCracken.
Widow Brown. Thomas MeGlanghlin.
James Campbell. Daniel Neane.
Aaron Cotter. William Orr.
James Crawford Alexander Reed.
William Gray.
Joshua Smith.
John Harris.
George Stewart.
John Henderson.
Philip Walker.
Francis Hieman. Samuel Wharton.
Samnel Kearsley. Thomas Wilson.
Single Freemen.
Samuel Bell. Nicholas Sheridan.
Thomas McCahan.
John Irvin.
Robert Watson. Thomas Toner.
Martin Cunningham,
ADDITIONAL NAMES FOR 1776.
HIngh Black.
William Jones.
James Boggs.
John Lyon, Jr.
David Boal.
Jock Leacock.
Thomas Boal. Dennis Molloy.
James Campbell. James Ross.
Tristram Davis. Philip Strouce.
James Dever.
William Thompson.
Peter Daly. James Williams.
Dutchman. Alexander Walker.
Robert Gulliford.
Mingle Freemen.
Robert Anderson. Felix O'Neal.
Benjamin Hickman. Adam Chambers.
John Moon. John Molloy.
John Chambers. William Thompson.
Christopher Irwin. James Kerr.
Joseph McMullen. John McClel und.
James Camble.
Joseph Cashey.
Thomas Moore.
John Curry.
Robert Ralston.
John Dust.
William Shaw.
Peter Graham.
Hugh Stoop.
John Lyon.
William Wilson.
James MeLanghlin.
ADDITIONAL NAMES FOR 1773.
William Bear. James Kiles.
Jolm Bowen. Theophilus MeDonald.
John Dilling (Dillin). Pattis Hart.
Edwin Owen.
William Wilson.
Richard Hall.
John Williams.
Enoch Williams. John Wood,
Thomas Forsythe.
Single Freemen.
John Dillon. Neil McCoy.
James Kerr.
Charles MeLanghlin.
Robert Kirkpatrick. Edward Milligan.
ADDITIONAL NAMES IN 1772.
John Anderson. John Freeman.
John Anderson. William Guston.
Arter Ackles.
James Heddleston.
Aquilla Birchfield.
Nelas Hearts.
Ezekiel Bowen.
Samuel Lyon, Esq.
Bennedy Capler ( Benja- min Kepner).
Mathew McKaskey.
John Christy.
Joseph Poultney.
Samuel Christy.
David Scott.
John Dickson.
William Shaw.
John Eliott.
William Stuart.
Samuel Fear.
Henry Wills.
Philip Fisher.
Richard Wilson.
William Forist.
Single Freemen.
David Bails.
George McCully.
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TAXABLE INDUSTRIES .- The tax-lists of Milford township from 1763 to 1831 show as- sessments on the following in addition to lands and stock. Those that fell into Turbett in 1817 are marked " Tt." Spruce Hill was formed out of Turbett and Beale ont of Milford at dates later than these lists.
GRIST- MILL.S.
Beale, Thomas, 1768-1804.
Bollinger, Daniel, 1811-13, chop. m. Campbell, Robert, 1768-90. Campbell, William, 1791-96. Doyle, Richard, 1807-31. Evans, Isaac, 1793-95. Gilson, Thomas, Tt., 1790-1816. Gilson, William, Tt., 1817-31. Gish, Matthias, 1820-31.
Graham, John, William and Samuel, Tt., 1817-28. Graham, William, 1813-16.
Hardy, David, 1790-94.
Hardy, Thomas, Jr., 1789-92.
Ilarris, Thomas, 1779-95.
Lytle, John, 1797-1831. McCrum, Joseph, 1831.
McCrum, William, 1795-1830. Ogden, Isaac, 1787-88. Patterson, John, 1811-31.
Rice, Jacob, Sr., 1805, chopping-mill, 1823-29. Stuart, Thomas, 1796-1806. Wilson, George, 1798-1819.
FULLING-MILES.
Elliott, Thomas, 1819-31.
Gilson, David, Tt, 1817-31. Gilson, Thomas, 1811-16. Hench, Peter & Reese, Tt., 1830-31.
McAfee, Daniel, Tt., 1820-28.
CARDING-MACHINES.
Elliott, Thomas, 1826-31. Fry, Abraham, 1820. Gilson, David, Tt., 1820-31. MeAfee, James, Tt., 1829. Rice, Jacob, Sr., 1820-29. FORGES.
Beale, Thomas and William Sterritt, M., 1792-94. Evans, Thomas, 1795. Cahill, Edward, 1796. Sterrett, William, 1797. Cromwell, Thomas, 1798-1800.
SAW-MILLS.
Beale, Thomas, 1769-180-1. Beale, Thomas and Sterritt, William, 1792. Bolinger, Daniel, 1811-15. Bolinger, Rudolph, 1804-7. Burkey, Jacob, 1816. Bushy, Jacob, 1818-31.
Campbell, Robert, 1781-90. Campbell, William, 1791-96. Doyle, Richard, 1812-31. Elliott, Thomas, 1819-31. Evans, Jesse, 1795-1804. Fahnestock, Benjamin, 1798-99. Francis, John, 1795-98.
Gilson, Thomas, 1799-1816. Gilson, William, Tt., 1817-31. Gish, Matthias, 1820-31. Graham, William, Tt., 1813-16. Graham, John, William and Samuel, Tt., 1817-28. Graham, William, Jr., Tt., 1829-31.
Harris, Thomas, 1779-95.
Kepner, Benjamin, Jr., 1805-31. King, Lawrence, 1794-1800.
Lytle, John, 1797-1831. Monahan, Michael, 1818-19.
McCrum, Joseph, 1831.
McCrum, William, 1796-1830.
McDonald, Daniel, Tt., 1809-31.
Norton, James, 1817-19. Patterson, John, 1811-31.
Patton, William, 1790-94.
Rice, Jacob, Sr., 1804-30.
Rice, Jacob, Jr., 1826-31.
Rice, Jacob, Jr., Tt., 1830-31.
Selheimer & Kirk, 1823-31. Selheimer & Norton, 1820-22.
Stuart, Thomas, 1796-98. Turbett, George, Tt., 1820.
Turbett, Stewart and William, Tt., 1821-31.
Turbett, Thomas, Tt., 1811-19.
Williams, Samuel, Tt., 1805-31.
Wilson, George, 1797-1819.
Wilson, Thomas, 1794-96.
PAPER-MILLS.
Norton, James, 1818-19. Norton & Selheimer, 1820-22. Selheimer & Kirk, 1823-31.
STORES AND MERCHANTS.
Cahill, Edward, 1796.
Creighton, Robert, 1800-2.
Graham, William, 1776. Henderson, Thomas, Tt., 1817.
Kepner, Benjamin, Jr., 1821, '24, '27.
Magonigle, Alexander, Tt., 1827.
Patterson, John, 1796, '99, 1820-26.
Rowan, Stuart, 1797-98. Stuart, Thomas, 1793-99.
Stuart, William, 1794-1804.
Stinson, Thomas, 1820. Furbett, Samnel, 1796. Wilson, George, 1812.
DISTILLERIES.
Beale, Peter, 1801-12.
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Beale, Thomas & William Sterritt (2), 1794- 1803. Beale, William, 1801-20. Black, Thomas, 1791-92.
Borland, William, 1779, 1783-87. Bushy, Jacob, 1828-80. Christy, William, 1787-92. Cunningham, John, 1786-97. Delaney, Charles, 1805-07. Dickey, Nathaniel, 1797-1804.
Dillon, John, 1804. Dillon, John, Jr., 1805-31.
Elliott, John, 1779-81.
Feer, William, 1805. Finlay (at Hardy's), 1792.
Frow, Gawin, 1811-23. Gallaher, Patrick, 1797.
Gilson, Thomas (2), 1809-16.
Glassford, Alexander, 1794-97.
Glassford, George, 1804.
Graham, Hamilton, 1794-1804.
Graham, John, Tt., 1809-31.
Graham, William, Tt., 1787, '96, 1809, '15.
Graham, William, Tt., 1823-25.
Gray, Robert, 1797.
Greer, David (2), 1797.
Hardy, David, 1820-21.
Hardy, Hugh, 1782. Hardy, John, Sr., 1779-94.
Hardy, Thomas, Sr., 1779-94.
Harris, John, 1804.
Harris, Thomas, 1782.
Heddleston, John, 1795. Henderson, Thomas, 1813-15.
Huston, Robert, 1779-83. Irwin, Jantes, Jr., 1794-95. Irwin, William, 1814-19. Johnson, William, 1821. Kelly, William C., 1823-24. Kenny, William, Sr., 1791.
TAN-YARDS AND TANNERS.
Guss, Simon, 1816. Hardy, Hugh, Jr, 1823-31. Hardy, William, 1805-07. Irwin, Robert, 1820-21. Mohler, Rudolph, 1823-24. Patterson, James, Tt., 1821-31. Shaw, John, 1827-29. Showers, Daniel, 1811. Stuart, John, 1811-25. Stuart, Thomas, 1791-96, 180.1. Turbett, Stewart & William, Tt., 1821-31. Turbett, Thomas, Tt., 1776-1821. Vanormer, Joshua, 1821 22. Wills, Henry, 1781-82. Woodward, James, Sr., 1779. Williams, James, 1776,
INNS OR TAVERNS.
Bryner, John, Tt., 1827. Casner, George, 1796. Henderson, Thomas, Tt., 1817-20. Johnitz, Henry, Tt., 1825.
Kelly, John, 1797-98. Kepner, Benjamin, Jr., 1812-31.
Love, James, 1820. McClelland, Joseph, 1796. Okeson, Nicholas, 1796-1812. Patterson, John, 1796, '99. Rice, Jacob, Sr., 1812. Rife, Sammel, 1820. Stewart, Thomas, Tt., 1827.
FERRY.
Abraham, Noah, 1800-06 ; heirs, 1807-30.
Gross, Henry, 1817-26.
Kepner, Benjamin, Sr., 1827-31.
Law, Benjamin, 1816.
Love, James, 1816-21, ocept.
Love, Jolin, 1822-24.
Mettlen, Samuel, ocept., 1807-15. McClelland, Joseph, 1791-1800.
Robinson, John, 1817. Sanderson, James, 1811-15.
PLATE.
Beale, Thomas, 1780.
Blair, John, 1780.
Lyon, John, Jr., 1780-82. Lyon, Samuel, 1780. Stewart, George, 1780. Wills, Henry, 1780.
SHAD FISHERY.
Cummings, William, 1826.
DISTILLERIES
Kinzer, John, 1813-16.
Little, Robert, 1779-97. Lyon, James (2), 1810-11. Lyon, John, 1779. Lyon, John, Jr., 1780-86. Lyon, Samuel, 1778-82. Milliken, Edward, 1791. Monahan, Michael, 1807-13. Mel'ahan, Alexander (2), 1809.
MeCahan, John, Sr., 1801-07. McClelland, Joseph, 1792-97. McCrum, James, 1796-97. McCrum, James, Jr., 1825-31. MeCrum, John, 1831. MeCrin, William, 1791. McFadden, Samuel, 1789. McKee, John, Sr., 1792, 181 1, '16. Mckee, Robert, 1809-13. Orr, John, 1781 86. Parks, Alexander, 1796- 97.
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Patterson, John (2), 1794-1811; (1), 1811-31. Pigsler, Jacob, 1805-13. Pollock, Charles, 1779-88. Reed, Alexander, 1779.
. Reed, Alexander, Jr., 1779-82. Rice, Jacob, Sr., 1801. Rice, Peter, 1805-28.
Robison, Alexander, Sr., 1779-86. Robison, Alexander (at Hogg's), 1791-95. Ross, John, 1781-1812. '
Sheets, George, 1811-13. Sterrett, William (2), 1795. Stuart, George, 1821-22. Stuart, George & N. Martin, 1820.
Stuart, John (2), 1797-1810.
Stinson, Thomas, 1811-28.
Wharton, William, Sr., Tt. (2), 1810-1811; (1), 1813-31.
Williams, Norris, 1786-97.
Wills, Henry, 1780-1807.
Wilson, George, 1813-16 ; (2), 1811-12.
Wilson, Thomas, 1779-96.
Woods, Joli, 1780.
Wilson, Abraham, 1780-83, 1790-97.
TURBETT DISTILLERIES AFTER 1817.
Barnard, Joseph, 1822.
Bryner, Jolin, 1820-31.
Burns, John, 1823.
Graham, Samuel & William, 1820-22.
Henderson, Thomas, 1817-19.
Hoke, David, 1821-22.
Irwin, William, 1820.
Lauver, John, 1829, '31.
Martin, Nathaniel, 1828, '31.
MeAfec, James, 1826-29.
MeCracken, William, 1824, '26.
Rice, Samuel, 1825-26. Robison, Alexander, 1820.
Robison, Alexander & Thomas Henderson, 1820-21.
Woods, Robert, 1826-28.
EARLY SETTLERS. - John Mcclellan had previously lived in Franklin County. He be- longed to a family still numerously represented in that region. He settled on the river-bank, at the present site of Patterson. His warrant, September 8, 1755, called for five hundred and fifteen acres below, on the river. McClel- lan's wife was a Widow Houston, whose maiden- name was Catharine Buchanan,-a sister of the father of President Buchanan. Her first Inis- band belonged to a family of that name in this region, from whom the celebrated Sam. Hous- ton, of Texas, was descended. Mrs. Catharine
" By her first marriage she had two daughters, -lane 48
Buchanan Houston, by her second marriage, to John McClellan, became the mother of Daniel, Joseph, John, Jr., and perhaps other sons, Nancy (wife of James Sanderson), Cath- arine (wife of William Lyons and then of James Hite). One of Hite's daughters was the wife of John Lytle, Esq., and mother of Robert, James, John and David Lytle, later well known in Blair County.
Daniel Mcclellan was a soldier with his brother John, and was at Quebec in 1775. He went to Kentucky. On October 22, 1776, he applied for two hundred acres of land "on Licking Creek, higher up the creek than the Fort Granville road." Aquilla Burchfield afterwards had seventy-five aeres surveyed under it in " Hammer Hollow."
Joseph Mcclellan kept the ferry at Patterson, as elsewhere noted. He also taught school in Mifflintown. He removed to Franklin County ; his wife never returned ; but he died in Mifflin- town. The old pioneer lived many long years on Clayland ; then moved over the hills to the banksof Licking Creek, where he lived with some of his descendants, and he died about 1804, at a ripe old age, one-half a century after he first penetrated this (then) wilderness. His widow survived him. A lively town has sprung up on the land which he, by muscular force, cleared of its ancient forests; and of the hundreds living here in comfort, how few have ever even heard of John MeClellan !
" Lieutenant John McClellan, son of John MeClel- lan, at Patterson, was the first commissioned officer from this county in the cause of American freedom. He lived either on the Kepner farm below town, or possibly on the part of his father's tract above town. He had a wife and daughter. Shortly after the breaking out of the Revolution, William Hendricks raised a company in Cumberland County, as it then was, for Colonel William Thompson's regiment, which marched to Boston. A large part of the regi- ment was recruited in Juniata and Perry Counties,
and Sarah. Jane was the wife of John Elliott, a Revolu- tionary sollier, and was, in 1763, one of the twelve men who came over from Perry County after the Indians that killed the people at White's, Campbell's and Anderson's, and were themselves waylaid and half their number killed. Elliott's daughter, Catharine, was the mother of Hugh T. MeMister, Esq. Sarah was the wife of Andrew Donglass, elsewhere named as wounded at Kinanning, but who lived to an old age.
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Some fifteen on the roll of eighty men in this com- pany, of which MeClellan was lientenant, can be identified as residents of Junida, aud as many more correspond to the names of residents here about that time. They were a set of tall, hardy, bold frontiers- men, excellent marksmen, and attracted a great deal of attention along the route as they marched on foot from their homes all the way to Boston. They were dressed in homespuu, armed with their own gnus, and undisciplined.
" About the Ist of September, Washington sent Benedict Arnold to Quebec to enlist the Canadian Provinces. The plan was to go by the way of the Kennebec and Dead Rivers, through the Wilderness, and down the Chaudiere River to Quebec, and capture this key to the upper St. Lawrence and the Lakes. It was a most fearful undertaking. After lying for a time in front of Boston, Hendricks' company, and that of Matthew Smith, of what is now Dauphin County, started September 11, 1775, with the detach- ment which made the memorable expedition to Quebec. With the former company went MeClellan, who died near Quebec, a martyr to the cause of lib- erty.
" They were two mouths on the march and for a good part of that time on short allowance. So desperate became their condition that dogs were killed and eaten. Even shoes and shot-pouches were boiled and eaten. John Joseph Henry, then a young man of seventeen, who passed through this ordeal, in after-life a judge of the Lancaster, York and Dauphin County Courts, wrote a narrative of the ' Expedition against Quebec,' from which are taken a few extracts relating to Mcclellan. On November 20, after leaving Chau- dicre Lake, some of the boats were wrecked at a cata- raet iu the river, and MeClellan, who had previously been in an cufcebled condition, was one of the in- jured. Judge Henry, who came upon the party, who, having lost all but their lives, were sitting around a fire on the shore, says . Oh, God ! what were our sen- sations, Poor Mcclellan was . . . lying by the five. Ile beckoned to us. His voice was not audible. Placing my ears close to his lips, the words he uttered, scarce- ly artienlate, was " Farewell." Simpson, who loved bim, gave him half the pittance of food he still pos- sessed. All I could give was-a tear,'
" The short, but melancholy story of this gentle- man, so far as it has come to my knowledge of him, commenced in the camp near Boston. He was en- dowed with all those qualities which win the affec- tions of men. Opeu, brave, sincere and a lover of truth.
" Ou the Dead River the variable wind brought on a cold, which affected his lungs. The tenderness of his friends conducted him safely, though much re- dueed, to the foot of the mountain, at the head of the Dead River. Hence he was bonne in a litteracross the mountain by his fellow-soldiers, Captain Hen- dricks assisting. From our camp Mcclellan was
transported in the boat to the place where we found him. The crew couducting the boat . . . descended unaware of the pitch before them, until they got nearly into the suck of the falls. Here, Inekity, a rock presented, on which it was so contrived as lo cause the boat to lodge. Now the crew, with great labor and danger, bore their unfortunate lieutenant to the shore where we found him.
" Med lellan was left behind and two Indians were sent back for him in a canoe. They found him and three days later brought the then dying man to the first house down the stream. The following day he died, and his corpse received a due respect from the inhabitants of the vicinage. "
Thus, on Nov. 9, 1775, about eighty miles above Quebec, perished Lientenant Jolin Me- Clellan, whose youth was spent where now flour- ishes the pleasant town of Patterson. His mother's name was Elizabeth Martin. McClel- lan's infant daughter was named Priscilla. No- vember6, 1787, Pennsylvania voted her a pension of one hundred and eighty pounds, in care of her grandfather." In later years she married David Greer, a weaver by trade. Priscilla Greer's daughter, Margaret, was the wife of Captain John IL. MeCrum, father of Colonel Ephraim B. MeCrmm. John Greer lives in Seranton. Jane moved to Selma, AAla. Betsey, the last of Priscilla's children in this county, died in 1885.
Among those who enlisted with MeClellan from Juniata were Third Lientenant George Francis, Sergeant William McCoy (afterwards second lientenant of the Ninth Pennsylvania Line), Thomas Anderson, Joseph Caskey, John Chambers, Arthur Eccles, John Henderson, James Hogg, Daniel MeClellan, James Reed, William Smith, Abraham Swaggerty, Joseph Wright and John Hardy (of whom, see an ac- count under Milford township).
John McClellan, Sr., gave his son John, Jr., one hundred and one aeres, in 1778, off the up- per part of his tract. As his son died in the war a little later, he sold part of this tract to Thomas Gallagher, father of Robert C. Gallagher, long a well-known merchant in Mifflintown. It has been since known as the Wright farm; now Henry Groninger. Near by Gallagher had a shad fishery.
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Thomas Gallagher came from Ireland ; first lived with the Nelsons at Cedar Springs, then just above the Patterson Machine-Shops. Ile died in 1807 ; his children were Lucretia, Mary Ann, Thomas Andrew Nelson (the printer), Rob- ert Cooper (the merchant), Harriet and Sophia.
Above this, on the river, was the Caleb Gray- don survey of January 29, 1767. He sold it to Conrad Schne (Shuey), who moved upon it in 1791, and while there was instrumental in intro- ducing Henry Ache (Anghey), Sr., also of In- gnenot stock, his sister's husband, to purchase land and remove to the township in 1803. Shiney was an elder and active promoter of the first Lutheran organization in Mifflintown. He removed to Westmoreland County.
Above this is a tract of two hundred and eighteen acres, warranted Angust 4, 1767, to William Speedy. A small rift in the river, op- posite, was called " Purdy's Riffles." Hle re- moved to Wyoming, for what reason is not known ; but he there identified himself with the Connecticut people in their efforts to hold the land as far south as forty-first degree of latitude, which passes a mile north of Lewisburgh.
In December, 1776, Speddy volunteered in Captain John Clarke's company of Northum- berland County, and served during the campaign of Trenton and Princeton. In 1782 he was one of the assessors of Buffalo township. His sig- mature to the assessment is in a full, round, beautiful hand. In 1785 he disappears from the assessments of that county, but reappears in that year in Fermanagh township, where he cou- tinnes until 1791. ITe lived at a place called Speddy's Gap, near MeAlisterville, where he died. He had a son William, JJr., who appears upon the tax-lists of Milford from 1782 to 1787, John Hardy warranted two hundred and twelve acres, and Alexander Robison two hm- dred and thirty-six acres, both February 23, 1767. These are choice lands. The former is now owned by James North, but before him by three John Hardys in successive generations. The latter tract has long been known as the Doty farm. Once it was leased to Henry Rice, of whom it is related that he had the farm all in one field, with a road through the middle, and that he sowed wheat every year ; and that having and in Fermanagh from 1791 to 1814, and his heirs to 1828. Hle had a son named Alexander, who was long known in Mifflintown as "A. Speddy Tailor," the name being pronounced "speedy." The last-named was the father of Editor John W. Speddy, of Port Royal. A for- ther account of William Speddy will be found in the History of Union County. The lands of Speedy in Milford township later passed to John Elliot ; are now owned by Baltzer Lauver. The Granger Pienie-Grounds are on the Speddy tract. I some litigations with the Robisons, he said,
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