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USA > Pennsylvania > Juniata County > History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. V. 1, Pt. 2 > Part 50
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Above Speddy, on the river, is the survey of Agnes Wilson, three hundred and ten acres, April 2, 1767, of which tract Aaron Cotter got one hundred and thirty-eight acres, June 8, 1796. From him, a very deep place in the river near by has been known ever since as Cot- ter's Hole. Into this, it is related, some benev- olent persons threw a cannon, used in former days for firing salutes at Mifflintown on the fourth of July, which had been the means of killing and wounding a number of persons. Another story is that it was done to prevent rival claimants at Lewistown from getting pos- session of the cannon.
Above this lived James Aiken. His sur- vey had one hundred and sixty-seven aeres, extending up to the Tront Run, and has on it now the station called Milford Siding. As far back as 1768 one Robert Gorrel, or Gorewell, lived here, and claimed these lands at the ford- ing. They are now owned by George Heikes.
Above this John Harris warranted sixty- eight acres, March 7, 1785, reaching round the end of the mountain, having on it the Black Log water plug. Here Foreman W. Cloyd Guss was killed by a passing train in January, 1882. Near by once lived a colored man named John Ilall, who called himself "a one-horse Meth- odist preacher," and held forth to his brethren "np in Macedony." Before the making of the railroad there was no travel up the Narrows on this side of the river.
Above Agnes Wilson, westward, John Wilson. took up one hundred and eighty-seven aeres on warrant 4897. It was long the MeCrum place, . now heirs of James MeKnight. Wilson's sons were Nathaniel and William.
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"The grain on this side of the lane I keep to pay law-suits-the other side I raise to sell."
The Hardys and Robinsons seem to have come together to America. They were cousins or brothers-in-law. They are on the tax-list of 1763, and then lived near Robert Hogg, in Sprnee Hill. Being driven off by Indians, they served in the campaign of Bouquet. On their return they found their lands surveyed to others. They then came to "Muddy Run" and bought out the squatter claims of one Wil- liam or Robert Robison. Robison's children were James, who married Jean Hardy, daughter of Thomas ; Sarah, wife of John Cunningham ; Alexander married Jane Sanderson ; John moved to New Lancaster, Ohio ; Elizabeth, wife of Alexander Sanderson ; Margaret, wife of Joseph Shaver; Thomas, married to an Elder, then to Betsy Steel. James' children were Alexander, married Elizabeth Moy ; Thomas, married Catharine Partner, then Nancy Mar- ley ; Ellen, wife of Alexander McCahan ; John, married Jane Kincaid, then Mrs. Mary Marley (he is the now venerable John Robison, living in Patterson); William, married Mary Sel- heimer. The children of Thomas were James, John P., Mary, Thomas, Catharine, William, Jane and David H., late superintendent of public schools.
John Hardy's children were William, James, John, Isabella, Betsey (wife of John McCor- mick) and Jonathan. John's children were James and Jolm. The Hardy race were mi- merons until within a few years past. The Robisous are a host in and out of the county,
Thomas, a brother of lohn Hardy, lived in Carlisle a winter, then moved on Wilson's tract (Port Royal). He took up a tract of poor land in Turbett, but soon bought the MeGuire tract, now William Guss', on Licking Creek, where he died about 1795.
Thomas Hardy's children were Ingh, John, Jean, William, David, Alexander and Thomas, Jr., some, if not all, of whom were born in Ireland. On the run, abont one hundred yards above the "Sink Hole," they had a still-house, in the loft of which William kept school, and here our aged friend, John Robison, of Patter- son, got his education, under his unele. When
Thomas Hardy died there was some trouble among the heirs. JJohn Hardy, lohn Hamil- ton, Alexander Robison, JJolm and William Cunningham were chosen arbitrators to devise a plan of settlement, who, having taken "a vew" of all matters in dispute, decided that certain things were to be accounted for to the executors and the estate divided equally, except as to Thomas, Jr., who was " not to account for any- thing," and " to receive one-half child's share."
One has to wonder what Thomas Hardy and his lot of hardy boys did during all the long years they occupied this farm. As late as 1778 they had only eighteen acres of land cleared. They lived in a cabin, and it is certain they never got rich. The boys likely followed hunt- ing and fishing. Thus the years passed by. One thing broke in on this dull monotony. Young John enlisted, in 1775, with Lieutenant MeClellan. On January 1, 1776, in the attack on the " Barriers," he, together with many others, was taken prisoner. Colonel McClean went among these men to ascertain who among them were of European birth, threatening to send all such to England to be tried for treason. He recruited a regiment from among these poor fellows, who shrank from being thus carried away for trial. Among these was John Hardy. After the Revolution closed he came back to his friends on Licking Creek, and excused his conduct as a matter of compulsion ; but the loyal Whigs of those days never forgave him for his defection. He had taken the oath of allegiance to the British government ; had, it was said, accepted a commission in the British army ; and had married a wife in England be- fore he returned to America. They used to have " musterings " in olden days. On one of these occasions, when warmed up with patriotism and whiskey, there were threats of lynching Hardy for his defection to the cause of independence. Hardy then went to Canada. There he got some lands from the government for his ser- vices, and there his descendants are to this day. One of his daughters, who had married a clergy- man, visited Juniata many years ago, but John never returned. He persuaded his brother Alexander to move to Canada (1798), and after- wards sent him back with a power of attorney
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to lift his share of his patrimony in the old farm, .£293 1Bs. 7d., " in fill for his brother, John Hardy's, share of the estate of their father, Thomas Hardy."
When the course of JJohn Hardy became known at home, his brother Ingh became also tinctured with Tory proclivities. He was a talkative man, somewhat officions and fond of expressing his sentiments. The resentment of his more loyal neighbors was aronsed. James Horrel, who was appointed to look after the malcontents, said he had more trouble with Hugh Hardy than all the rest of the township. It culminated, at last, in his forcible seizure, with a view to some trial or imprisonment at Carlisle. After reaching the top of the Tusca- rora Mountain, Hugh let up on his Tory senti- ments and promised to be a good loyal subject of the State, instead of the province, of Penn- sylvania. They set him at liberty ; but it never suited him after that to get into angry collision with any one, or he would be reminded of " the time he was tied with hickory withes and taken to the top of the Tuscarora Mountain." In after- years he took an active part in public affairs and became well known, which may account for the error concerning his early settlement. But there are yet living descendants of the first set- tlers, who were always true to the cause of inde- pendence, who do not like to see history per- verted to honor a British sympathizer as the first settler.
Between the Robison and Hardy tracts and the Forge Ridge there was a tract long known and taxed (1781-98) as the " Peddler's Tract." The peddler must have gone down into the Deep Spring above Bealetown. He was proba- bly one Philip Connelly, who, October 7, 1766, applied for one Imindred and fifty aeres "adjoin- ing John Hardy." Hardy and Robison in after- years took up this land, and it is the tract on which Shelburn Robison now resides.
James Calhoon warranted two hundred and ten acres June 3, 1762. When Calhoon ap- plied for this tract it was " to be surveyed to him adjoining David Reed and Robert Robi- son." By the time he got it surveyed, April 25, 1765, William Robison is the adjoiner be- low on the Doty farm, and Thomas MeGnire
above. Calhoon, on Angust 3, 1790, signed a deed in Armagh township to William McCor- mick, who sold this land to Henry Aughey, Sr., April 12, 1803, for fourteen hundred pounds, which Anghey brought up with him from Dau- phin County in specie, having fourteen bags, cach containing one hundred pounds. Aughey's son, Sammel, and his grandson, Jacob, still re- side on this tract. The McCormicks sold this good limestone land because they thought it was so worked out that they could not make a living upon it. McCormick moved to Kentucky. Cy- rus McCormick, the inventor of the reaper, was a descendant of his brother.
The Licking Creek Lutheran Church stands on the upper line of this tract. This organiza- tion was formed from the Mifflintown congrega- tion. The church was erected in 1861, and ded- icated about the close of that year. Samuel Anghey, Sr., who gave the ground, named it "St. Stephen's," but it commonly goes by the name of " The Licking Creek Church." The ministers serving this congregation, in connec- tion with that at Mifflintown, were Rev. R. HI. Fletcher, Rev. D. M. Blackwelder, Rev. E. E. Berry and Rev. Philip Graif.
Thomas McGuire warranted two hundred and eleven aeres October 5, 1767. He sold it to Thomas Hardy, the father of John and Hugh Hardy. McGuire had warranted a tract in Turbett, near Old Port, where he lived a short time and then moved on the McGuires' tract. From Hardy's heirs the farm passed to Merch- ant John Patterson, who sold it to Abraham Guss, Sr., father of the writer, who sold parts of it to Samnel and Henry Aughey. The grave- yard adjoining the church is on the part bought by the latter, and given by him for the purpose. The mountain-streams on this and the last-named survey sink before reaching the creek. The underground stream reaches the river below Milford Siding. On this tract Abraham Gu-s, Sr., erected a saw-mill. The springs here have a known origin at the Trout Run above, over a fourth of a mile distant. As the writer first saw light on this farm, the region is crowded with many cherished memories.
Back of this, at the foot of the ridge, the sur- veyor says November 11, 181 1, he found a man
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called Nipple, who had a large cabin-honse and two acres cleared. Here Jane Dayly helped her Imusband catch live fawns and wild turkeys. It is now held by Richard Nankivel. Considera- ble iron-ore has been taken ont along the foot of the ridge.
William Cunningham came to the Partner place in 1762. He came back, in 1763, to cut grain and pull at flax. He and his daughters took alarm and fled over the Tuscarora Monn- tain on the night of July 10th, and escaped the Indians. He returned in 1766, and died, and was the first person buried in the grave-yard at Academia. His resting-place is unmarked, but is in the middle of the yard. His wife, Eliza- beth, took up a traet of three hundred and twenty-three acres, October 29, 1766, in trust for his heirs. From them the several tracts have descended to Cloyd Horning, William C. and William M. Partner and Charles Waream. There was a man once living on this farm who raised Beans six feet long and upwards; his name was John Bean. Henry Wills, two hun- dred and sixty-four acres, and was owned by John Cunningham, Sammel Mettlen, Joshua Shuman ; now John Wetzler, Mes: Zimmerman and others. Here the Fort Granville path crossed Licking Creek.
ningham, of Philadelphia; Richard, moved to New Jersey ; David, moved to New York; Sa- rah (Carson) ; and Mary (MeDowel). William, Jr.'s, children were David, Richard, John, Sally (Phillips) and Elizabeth (Jeffries). They have all been very excellent citizens.
John Partner, who got the Cmmingham man- sion, came to Juniata with Henry AAnghey. He served during the Revolutionary War, and his grandson, Abraham G., still has the old musket which he carried in the war. His name appears as "Portner" in Benjamin Weiser's company of the Pennsylvania German Regiment. His children were Jacob, Catharine (Robison), Eliz- abeth (Hardy), Mary (Nipple). Jolm married Margery Mettlen and moved to Deep Cut, Ohio, whither his father went, and died there.
Above Wills came in Henry Graham, war- rant October 27, 1766, for two hundred and ninety-six acres. Pat McCahan and Fred Nip- ple held this tract in 1812. There was form- erly a pretty rough set of people in the upper end of this valley, and it was a common saying that Sunday never got np Licking Creek farther than the residence of Alexander McCahan. At the school-house here the Methodists form- erly had an organization and stated services, On the upper end of this tract was located the great tannery of Singmasters, Miller, Lippen- cott & Co.
In her application Mrs. Cunningham says that her husband made " an improvement" on this tract five years before the date of her appli- Above Graham, Andrew Donglass, who was wounded at Kittanning under Armstrong, war- ranted a tract of one hundred and eighty acres, October 23, 1766. In 1770 it belonged to John MeClellan. The factory dam was on the lower end of this tract. On the upper end Norton & Selheimer erected a paper-mill. cation, which would be in 1761, and we know of no older settlement on the creek. The sur- vey made in 1767 calls the mountain to the north the " Shade." The house stood one Im- dred yards cast of the present brick, was built of unhewn logs, had a split-log floor, a floor of poles above, and a roof of rnde clapboards. Above Douglass, next the so-called Black Log Mountain, was Jacob Pigsler; but before this in 1812, Pigsler was on the Donglass tract. (Road from Pigsler's on Licking Creek, to river opposite Mifflin, six and one-half miles and fifty one perches, from Pigsler's to Lytle's mill, say seven miles .-- W'in. Beale's Notes.) Mrs. Catharine, wife of Jacob Partner, who long lived on this place, had a most remarkable memory. She told a curious story of the escape of the Cunninghams, in 1763. They fled beenuse of a warning given by a rooster, which persist- ently came inside of the door and crowed 50 Instily that they became alarmed. The children Thomas Husbands had three hundred and eight acres above Douglass, August 1, 1766. It was returned May 6, 1782, to Samnel Wallis "on Locking Creek, adjoined lands formerly were William, died 1836, ancestor of all of the Cunninghams in the county; John, married Sarah Robison, of Alexander, and ancestor of those in Huntingdon County and A. B. Cun- Telaimed by William White, deceased, and to in-
Wim. Graham Rev . War soldier see DAR mag. V. 80 p. 272
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elude a deadening made for Robert Campbell. William Reeve applies for the same." Here lived Leman Burdens ; later Joel Dewalt, and later his son-in-law, David Hough, a well-known surveyor. There was a saw-mill here, and lumber was a principal product. Herding cattle between the mountains was also followed in the summer season.
Above this William Reese took up, on the same day, three hundred acres. Between these tracts and the Shade Mountain Joseph Jacobs had a long strip and an improvement now abandoned. Above this yet lay the surveys of Thomas Say, three hundred and thirty-three acres, adjoining James Stewart ; then Moses Bartram, three hundred and forty acres ; then Jonathan Carmalt, three hundred and seventy- nine acres. These lands took in the Big Thickets and the desolate regions where the deer, wolf and bear hold dominion to this day.
John Mcclellan, November 28, 1798, took up eight acres, on which he died. Locust Grove school-house is on the lower end of it.
James Rodman owned one hundred and sixty- eight acres between MeClellan and Licking Creek. March 25, 1792, he artieled with Beale & Sterrett, of the forge, for thesaleof one hundred and fifty-six aeres. Edward Cahil kept the forge store in the upper story of the stone spring- house on this tract, which is known as the old David Cunningham farm. The Baptist Church and grave-yard are on the upper corner of the Rodman survey: It was built in 1828, and has a yard adjoining, containing a large number of graves. Services are now seldom held there. It was built in place of the church abandoned at Spruce Ilill. Beale & Sterrett built a forge in 1791, on Licking Creek, just below where Roman's grist-mill now stands, The dam crossed the creek one hundred yards below that mill, where a couple of large piles of stones still mark the spot. They took up a large body of the ridge land, still called Forge Ridge, a small strip of which came down to the creek where the forge stood. Beale's warrant was dated February 26, 1790 ; resurveyed on an order to William McCrum, dated June 15, 1819, and contained four hundred and thirty-nine acres. !
The western limits extended as far as the Red Bank school-house.
Demmis Christie had one hundred and nine acres above the forge, on an order of February 14, 1767. The upper part extended across the creek and reached up the stream as far as the road over the creek at Abraham Guss, Jr.'s., where he adjoined William Erwin on the west side of the creek. On this tract stood the grist and saw-mills erected by Ogden, and rim later by the Hardy boys. William McCrum rebuilt the mill of stone. From his son, John Ii. Me- C'ram, it passed to Daniel Spiece, who tore down the stone mill and rebuilt the new one now standing at the lower end of the survey, near the forge, and which he sold to J. Shelburn Robin- son, from whom it passed to Ferdinand Rohm, the present owner. February 19, 1774, Christy sold John McClellan, Jr., two hundred aeres, ex- tending from the Rodman meadow up the creek to Thomas Hardy's land, and in the ridges ad- joining the improvement made by Samuel Hen- derson.
William Erwin, or Irwin, took out an order February 1, 1767, and had one hundred and forty-two aeres surveyed under it, to which sixty-one aeres were afterwards added. It ex- tended across the creek and took in the lands at David Partner's blacksmith-shop. The tract was owned later by Hugh Hardy, and then by his son, Christopher Hardy, Esq., and now by Elder Gilliford, David Kerlin and others. On the flat near the creek, below the smith-shop, the Hardys had their tan-yard.
Above Erwin, on the creek, April 27, 1767, there was taken up two hundred and six and sixty acres by John Buchanan, and "if over three Inindred aeres, the upper part to James Buchanan, Jr., named Widow's Delight, so- called." Here Lewis Shuman and David Su- lonff lived ; now Joseph Sheesley.
Passing up the Shuman Run, around the end of the Shade Mountain, we come to a tract war- ranted No. 1652, to Daniel MeClelian, October 22, 1766, two hundred acres, which he said was to be " on Licking Creek, higher up the creek than the Fort Granville road in Lack township, ('umberland County." The survey was returned for Aquilla Burchfield, seventy five acres. The
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land is in a depression between a ridge and the Shade Mountain, and has been called " Hammer Ifollow," from the blacksmith-shop of Sammel Kerlin, who, as a true Vulcan, long served the people for a radius of many miles. A man vamed Voegle now resides upon it.
Perhaps no people who have ever resided within the present limits of Juniata County have been as remarkable in business circles as those descended from John Lyon, Sr. The name Lyon has been favorably known all over the State for more than a hundred years. As carly as 1750, William Lyon was in Carlisle assisting his uncle, John Armstrong, in laying out that town. Jolm settled at the Sterrett place, in Milford. In 1767 he had two him- dred acres, ten acres cleared, two horses and two cows. He died about 1780,; had six children,- William, James, Samuel, John, Jr., Molly and Frances.
William Lyon married Rebecca Graham, sister of William Graham, Esq., of Tuscarora, and did surveying under Armstrong in Juniata. His son, George A., was cashier of the Carlisle Bank.
James Lyon settled on Juniata. His children were William, James, Margaret (wife of Judge John Oliver), Elizabeth (wife of John Me Vey), Nancy (wife of John Patterson, Esq.), Isabella (wife of John Patterson, merchant), Mary (wife of Robert, father of Robert Forsythe). After the death of the parents, Nancy and Isabella (twins) were taken by their grandmother Lyon to raise. When she died they were taken by their aunt, Mrs. Fanny Graham. When grown up they married the cousins, the John Patter- sons, Esquire and merchant, and their blood has come down in the veins of several hundreds of our best citizens. One of the merchant's danghters married Robert Sterrett, so that part of the old homestead is again in the hands of John Lyon's descendants.
Samuel Lyon moved on the Kelly place, and soon became a leading man in the community. May 21, 1770, he was made justice of the peace. Ile also did a great deal of surveying in this region. Hle removed to Carlisle about 1781, and was register and recorder in 1791. The first. James Blaine in America had a son Ephraim
and a daughter Elenor, who was the wife of our Samnel Lyon ; and their daughter Margaret married James Blaine (20), who was a son of Ephraim. Their son, Ephraim Lyon Blaine, married Maria Gillespie, and they are the par- ents of the Hon. James G. Blaine, of Maine. In other words, Margaret Lyon, the grandmother of the Hon. James G. Blaine, was born in Mil- ford township about 1775, in which year, June 24th, the Rev. Philip Fithian observed in these backwoods the nousual phenomena at Samuel Lyon's honse, namely : " He lives neat, has glass-windows and has apparently a good farm."
John Lyon, Jr., married Mary, daughter of John Harris. He took up additional tracts ad- joining his father's surveys, in 1793. By the will of his father, December 9, 1779, he gave young John a tract of four hundred and thirty- nine acres, extending across the valley from ridge to ridge. He sold this to Stephen Doughman Jume 1, 1797, who, on April 4, 1806, passed it to James, father of Robert and William Sterrett. Lyon then moved to Arm- strong County.
Molly Lyon married Benjamin Lyon, who was a tailor by trade, served as captain in the Fifth Pennsylvania Line in the Revolution; lived at Pern Mills from 1816 to 1821, and died at Shirleysburg at an advanced age. These were the parents of Elizabeth, who married James, a son of flames above-named, and lived in Fulton County ; and John, of the firm of Lyon, Shorb & Co., long and extensively known in the iron trade at Pittsburgh, being, in fact, at the head of the iron business in the West.
Fanny Lyon married William Graham, Esq., already mentioned, and they are the grand- parents of Dr. G. M. Graham, of Port Royal.
The mother of these children was a sister of General John Armstrong, of Carlisle, who, with two brothers, came to America in 1748, and died in 1795. Hisson, John Armstrong, served in the Revolution, was United States Senator from New York, minister to France and See- retary of War nuder Madison.
lohn MeClellan took up a few acres for Eliz- abeth Mcclellan below the rocks at " Taylor's Falls," so called, from Esquire James Taylor,
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who laid ont Mifflinburg on the opposite side of the river.
John MeClellan, Jr., who died at the head of the Chaudiere River in the Arnold expedi- tion against Quebec in 1775, took up one hun- dred and fifty-eight acres, June 3, 1762, south- west of Patterson, where S. D. Kepner now re- sides.
James Sanderson married Nancy MeClellan and lived on part of the MeClellan tract ; later on the Law place, below Patterson, where he kept a ferry. Healso had a tannery prior to 1809 in Mifflintown, which his brother Alexander carried on after that date. Hle kept also a tavern in Mif- flintown. Of his children, Alexander Sanderson married Nancy Davidson and moved to Selma, Ala., taking his mother with him. Joseph Sanderson for many years kept the Merchants' Hotel, on Fourth Street, in Philadelphia. He superintended its reconstruction, having then (1836) another hotel, Afterwards he kept a house on Chestnut Street. His wife was a Tod- Inter.
; Robert Huston warranted two hundred and fifty acres JJuly 6, 1762, long known as the Ben Kepner farm (now John R. Jenkins'). It was surveyed May 31, 1763, then in " Leck " town- ship, and contained two hundred and seventy- three aeres. William Norris was then on the Waldsmith side.
There is a common opinion among the people that the celebrated Sam Houston, of Texas, was a descendant of Robert Houston ( Huston and Instion), who lived at the Jenkins place, a mile east of Walnut post-office, from 1763 to 1783 by the tax-lists. There were also two or three of the name, probably Robert's brothers, living about the same time near MeVeytown ; but there is nothing to prove that these settlers were the ancestors of Samuel Houston. There are five cabins in five counties of this State where it is firmly believed that General Sammel Houston was born.
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