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Robert Lxtle, January 22, 1767, located the survey, one hundred and sixty-five aeres, after- wards Robert Monteith and later Charles Hite, and now Waldsmith brothers.
Charles Pollock warranted one hundred and fifty-three acres on the south side of Houston,
March 3, 1789, though he had lived here al- ready in 1767 and perhaps earlier, It is now George Wilson's place, farmed by D. P. Show- ers.
Heury MeCrum, a Revolutionary soldier, moved to Juniata County in 1788. His chil- dren were Michael, who served in Lee's Par- tisan Rangers during the Revolution (he and his comrade came to Milford two years before his father ; abont 1790 he removed to Sauls- bury, in Huntingdon County) ; William, the owner of the upper mill on Licking Creek and ancestor of most of those of the name now in the county ; James married to Margaret Camp- bell; George married Polly Campbell ; Philip married the widow of James ; Joseph married Jane HTorrell, and their children were Johm HI. (the father of Colonel E. B. MeCrum) Jane, Sarah, Margaret, Mary (now the wife of John Robison, in Patterson). Jane, daughter of Wil- liam, married Samuel Belford, grandfather of Congressman Belford, of Colorado.
Robert Campbell, September 23, 1766, took up one hundred and twenty-eight acres since known as the Peter Shitz farm ; not Mitchel Vares.
John Hamilton warranted two hundred and fifty acres, February 9, 1769, a little lower down and across the ercek from the forge. He was a kind of backwoods home doctor in his day. The tract is now owned by John Beshore, Har- rison McDonald and Jacob Lanver, and was formerly long held by Richard Cunningham.
Next the creek, at Thomas Stewart's, Duncan McDonald had fifty-four acres, October 31, 1766, and Thomas Bowel (Boal) had ninety- five and one hundred and thirty-eight acres on two orders, March 23, 1767. This passed to Jolm and Jean Anderson ; later the Alexander farm ; now Orrin Groninger and Herman Me- Donald.
Inne 29, 1803, William Harris, surveyor, divided the MeDonald survey " at request of Thomas Anderson-the Dutchman, not satisfied, alleging there is too much of the ridge on the south side included, and says that the fence was the line sold to him."
John Blackburn had surveyed to him two hundred and seven acres, August 18, 1762,
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bordering on Licking Creek, where J. K. Rob- ison now lives, and half of which is owned by Judge Lewis Burchfield. This is the Thomas MeCahan fraet, spoken of elsewhere. At Burch- field's formerly lived Esquire Patrick Me- Kennan, who voted and acted as justice of the prace many years, but was not naturalized. One Jacob Kinzer challenged his vote at the polls simply to annoy him, when it was discov- ered that he was naturalized, and his judicial acts all being illegal, it made quite an excite- ment. The Legislature came to the rescue sub- sequently with an act to legalize all his pro- ceedings.
John Lyon warranted two hundred and seventy-three acres, September 13, 1766, beyond Blackburn and Anderson, where William Ster- rett now resides, and comprising the farm of Judge and Dr. Sterrett. His sou, Sammuel Lyon, warranted two hundred and sixty acres beyond him, September 13, 1766, in the heart uf the valley. The lands next the ridges at each side were taken up by them at a later period. The lands of the main surveys were held ou " an improvement made by Robert Crungleton," whom the Lyons bought out. . William Lyon was a surveyor at Carlisle, and looked out this tract for his father, John, before he came over from Ireland. Samuel Lyon sold to John Kelly, April 12, 1794. From Kelly it passed to Joseph B. Ard, then to Moses Kelly, from whom part passed to Jomm P. Kelly, Doyle's Mills, and part, two hundred and eighteen acres, to Pomeroy's heirs. The stone house of John Kelly, built in 1810, was struck by light- ning in January, 1811,-a very unusual freak of nature.
The tract along the river just above Wilson, at Port Royal, was warranted to William Blythe, and sold to George Armstrong, August 3, 1762, who sold it to Charles Stewart in 1766 ; now John Kepner's heirs.
In ISOT Josiah Wilson sold John Rice his part of his father, Thomas', estate adjoining the creek bridge. Most of this is now owned by Professor David Wilson, principal of Airy View Arany.
Robert Campbell and William Buchanan got warrant for twenty-five acres, March 17,
1755, " including a mill-seat and meadow on the north side of Licking Creek." This seems to be the middle mill. The same persons, on the same day, got a warrant for seventy-five acres, " including an improvement made by Robert ('ampbell near the month of Licking Creek." This was the bottom-land, midway between the two lower mills; afterwards sold to Thomas Armstrong, and then to George Wilson. Thomas Wilson and Thomas Jeffries, February 9, 1767, took up the tract above. The lands at the lower mill were in Thomas Wilson's Port Royal surveys. An old draft gives the lower mill locality, and says "cut off for Robert Campbell, 15th April, 1767." Another draft says : " William Buchanan and Robert Camp- bell, thirty acres, being part of the two hundred and seventy-one avres warranted by Wilson February 3, 1755." This looks a little as if Campbell's mill at first wa- at the site of the lower mill, but we have no further evidence. He had his mill from 1767 to 1790 ; then his son William to 1796. The conveyance of Campbell to his son, in 1790, proves that his mill was the middle one on Licking Creek. Strange to say, William Campbell and Michael Monahan obtained a new warrant, April 5, 1796, for one hundred aeres, and laid it on this very property, theu having the mill upon it. It then passed to John Lytle, who ran it over thirty-five years. Since then it has been owned by John II. Stewart, who built the present mill ; then by John S. Miller, Jacob Lemon and Ilawn brothers.1
Jones, who wrote history ont of his own head like a novelist, says that " several persons were wounded, but there is no authentic record of any one being killed " at Campbell's. It is a
1 The reader is referred to the third chapter of the Gen- oral History for the accounts of the attack on Robert Camp- bell's house, July 10, 1768, as given in a letter written at Carlisle, July 12th, and published in the Pennsylvania Gia- selle, July 21st following. Also Robert Robison's Narra- live, published at Carlisle in 1808. The latter account says the incident occurred on July 6th, but as it was writ- len several years after, the 10th, as given in the Carlisle let- ter, written two days after. is probaldy correct.
In the chapter on Election District of Juniata County, it will be seen that the election in 1776 was held at Koh. en Campbell's mill.
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question where Campbell's house was at this time. Hle owned the land at the point between Tuscarora and Licking Creeks, and also a large tract across the creek, where David Hertzler lives, and also at the Middle Licking Crock Mill. We prefer to locate him at the point where the creeks unite. There are such well- founded traditions as to this spot that it seems pretty certainly to have been the place. This land afterwards fell into the hands of Thomas Wilson, then to his son, George Wilson, then to his son, William W. Wilson, who in his life-time gave the writer a circumstantial account of the traditions handed down in the family, which, among other things, was that Campbell's house was on this point where the creeks unite, and that " the men killed were buried near the gate, just as you go into the house, and were marked by having an apple-tree planted on each side of the graves," by which they were pointed out for many years, even within his memory,
Campbell was not at the house on the 10th of July. Who the four men were, beside Jeffries, who were killed is not known. Wilson thought. Campbell had a son killed, who was married and left a male child. This is very improbable. Ile could not then have had a son so old. His house is often called Camp- bell's Fort. It was, however, probably after this raid that it was fixed with loop-holes and facil- ities for defense. The historical map places this fort at the point where the ereeks unite. Ile had two daughters, married to Thomas Arm- strong and Abraham Wilson. His daughter, Margaret, married James McCrum, then Philip McCrm. He has sous, William and John, living in 1790. No doubt the old gentlemen lived with Robert, Jr., son of James, at this old fort mansion, in 1790, for he provides for food and lodging at this place during his life. The location is fixed in the terms elsewhere given, calling the place the Diven and White tract. Ilis son James had, beside Robert, Ir., sons named John and William, and a daughter Polly, married to George MeCrum. It is of James, who disappears from the tax-lists after 1778, that the story is related that he was cap- tured by Indians, shot through the wrist, his comrade killed and he tied to a tree near Mil-
ford Siding. This event is not very surely dated, some giving it as occurring during the Revolu- tionary War, which renders the story improba- ble. Ile was married to Mary Armstrong, whose father was drowned at Groninger's, and had a son William, a blacksmith, who had a son James. There was a son of JJames, son of the blacksmith, William, that went to California, where it is said he has become very wealthy. Some six years ago he came to Juniata to sce the old mill-site and other places made sacred in his ancestral history.
Campbell, who owned the middle mill, had a good many other tracts of land. one of which was just below Mifflintown. Wilson built the lower mill on Licking Creek for his son George. In course of time these men differed, quarreled and went to law about their lands, the rival mills perhaps creating jealousy. After spend- ing much of their means in law-suits, their sous, the most interested parties, saw their paternal estates wasting away in disputes in which they felt little interest. They accordingly prevailed on their paternal heads to leave them settle the disputes, which they did, and put on record at Lewistown the following novel, yet sensible, agreement. It presents a good lesson to men in our day.
" Mifflin County, S. S., Milford township :
"We, the under named subscribers, Thomas Wilson and Robert Campbell, do solemnly swear that we will stand to and abide by the judgment and award of William Campbell and George Wilson, in all the dis- pates that we have with each other relating to land and other ways, and that we will sign all writings or instruments of writing that the aforesaid William Campbell and George Wilson will (decide) necessary for us to sign, relating to the settling of all disputes and controversies subsisting between us, and that we will sign all bonds aud conveyances and pay all costs that the aforesaid William Campbell and George Wilson will judge us to pay and sign relating to the settling of the aforesaid controversies betwist us, and that we will never infringe on the judgment and award of the aforesaid William Campbell and George Wil- son.
"Sworn and subscribed this 3rd day of April, A.D. 1790, before William Bell.
"THOMAS WILSON.
June 21, 1790, Robert Campbell, for a bond of William Campbell and Thomas Turbett for
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fifteen pounds specie, to be paid every year during his life, disposed of a tract of three Inmdred acres, " whereon my grist-mill and so-mill stand," and bounded by lands of John Lyon, William Henderson, James Rod- man and claim of Thomas Wilson,
June 29, 1790, Robert Campbell, of Mil- ford township, sold * to John Campbell the tract now in possession of Michael MeCrm. June 29, 1790, Robert Campbell, for paternal affection and natural love gave "for my son James Campbell, deceased, and which I now have. for my grandson, Robert Campbell, Jr., son of James, one-half of the William Diven and George White tract for seven pounds specie during life yearly, and meat, drink, washing and lodging when asked."
Thomas Wilson built a saw-mill at the mouth of Licking Creek in 1794. He died in 1796. In 1797 his son George had the mill, and by the next year he added a grist-mill. In 1820 the mills passed to Matthias Gish ; later, owned by William Miller and others. Some years since Stewart McCulloch, the present owner, rebuilt this mill. Near by the mill a woolen-factory was erected, which, after running a short time, was turned into a handle-factory, and, as such, rim for about three years. It is now idle, Near the head of this dam, on the west side, at the cliff, there was a spring of salty water, and an effort was once made to hore for saline waters strong enough to manufacture salt.
As late as March 1, 1787, George Bratton applied for one hundred acres " on Licking Creek, at the Beaver Dams." This was prob- ably well up the ereck.
Daniel Jones, August 1, 1766, wanted fifty acres " on south side of AInniata, on Beaver Run,"-a name now lost sight of, but supposed to be in Juniata County.
James Sterrett lived near Mount Joy, Lan- caster County, and had sons,-James, Robert, Charles and William. Robert removed to Mifflin County and had sons, David and John. Charles removed to New York. William re- mained in Lancaster. The children of James, Jr., who married Annie Kennedy, were Jantes, Samuel (who died near Academia in 1819), Polly (wife of Alexander Patterson), Robert
(married to Margaret Patterson, died in 1862). Sarah and William (married a danghter of Goshen John Thompson). The sons of Robert are Judge James P. Sterrett, of the Supreme Court, and Dr. John P. Sterrett, of Pittsburgh.
William Diven and George White warranted one hundred and fifty-four acres, March 3, 1755, at the confluence of Licking Creek with the Tuscarora, and up along the latter. This tract was bought by Robert Campbell, who gave the upper part, one hundred and one acres, to Abraham Wilson, his son-in-law, and the lower end to his grandson, Robert Camp- bell, Jr.
That part of Milford township bordering on Tuscarora Creck, above the Groninger bridge, is full of historic interest. It will be seen by a document, under the head of Beale township, that Robert Bell actually had a " settlement " in this region before the lands were purchased from the Indians. At a later period we find Jolm Johnson between Robert and William Bell, as appears by the following :
"Know all men by these presents, that 1, John Johnson, of Cumberland County, yoman, hath sold all my right, title and Interest of that track of Land I formerly lived on, which I supos to be about five hundred acrakers, with the indin Corn raased this Sumer, Lyeing and situated on the nor west side of toskarora Crecek, -- robert bell a bove and william down below, -- to Jeames Sample and Thos. Harris, in the County of Lancaster, for Eight pounds payed to me in hand, and dos warrant and defend Said track of Land and Corn from all manor of person or persons what sume ever Leaying any prayor Claim or title there unto, the honorable proprietors excepted. " Given under my hand and seall this ID day of no- vember, 1755.
"Joux Jonssos [Seal].
"testator : Benjamin Price. James Clark. " ( Endorsed) : John Jobston. His Bill of Sale. " Received of Jenues Sample and Thos. Harris Eight pouns, it being in full for the plantation I Lived on and the Indian Corn 1 rased this Sumer ther nn. november 10, 1755.
"JOUN JOHNSON.
" Witness present : James Clark. Benim. Price. "(Endorsed): Mr. Johnson. His recet for eight Pound."
This document carries ns back one hundred and thirty years,-just after Braddock's defeat. This yeoman, John Johnson, the White Hunter,
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must have been leaving this section in a hurry, or he would not have sold his entire corn crop for eight pounds, and thrown about five hun- dred acres of land into the bargain. It was a mere " improvement " right that was sold.
James Armstrong warranted one hundred and fifty acres on the bend of the creek, where Jacob Groninger, Sr. and Jr., now reside.
Above this, on the road and creek, Ralph Sterrett, the ubiquitous land-jobber, warranted a tract of one hundred and twelve acres, July 22, 1762, where John Robison, Jr., now resides. It passed to Captain Patterson.
David and William Bell warranted one him- dred and eighty-seven acres September 8, 1855, now owned by the heirs of John Robi- son and by Robert Robison. William, David and Arthur were brothers. William married a Bryson and lived on the island, and his sons were Robert and General William Bell, of Mif- flintown.
Above these on the creek came the survey of Alexander Maginty, and above it to the north that of Clement Horrell ; but as these are in Beale, the reader is referred to that township, though all these tracts along the ereek are inti- mately connected and the lines changed in later times.
Back of the Bell tract was the tract of two hundred and ninety-six acres warranted to Robert Taylor September 28, 1767, afterwards held by William Bell.
Below this, and reaching the ereck back of Sterrett and Armstrong, was the tract warranted to Harris and MeKee, two hundred acres, June 10, 1762.
Above Harris and MeKee, Ann Taylor war- ranted two hundred and fifty-eight acres No- vember 28, 1767.
The Johnson corn-field was in the northeast. corner of the tract surveyed to Sterrett, and as William Bell was down below, it is probable that the Armstrong claims were based on his improvement. The claim of the White Hunter was sold to James Mays, and the following shows his disposition of it :
"Know all men by these presents that I, James Mays & Sarah mays, of the township of Ralphe & County of Lucaster & province of pennsylvania, hath Sold to
Robert taylor, of the township of Dery and County afforesaid, for and in Consideration of the Sum of Eight pounds Lawful Money of pensylvania, to me in hand paid for all our right aud title of a track of Land Sitnate on fuskarora Crock, formerly the Clame of Johnston, formerly known By the name of the white hunter, which we warant & Defend onr part of Said Land from all person or persons whatsoever, the honorable propriator excepted, as wittnes hands this fifteenth day of September, 1766. "JAMES MAYES,
"SARAH MAYES. " Wittness present : Abraham Morrow, James Morrow (signed by mark), Jno. Sample.
" (Endorsed) : James Mayes, title."
On September 29, 1767, Robert Taylor entered a caveat against Armstrong's survey, claiming that " the survey includes the best of the land necessary to support his improve- ment." They had a hearing, but the authori- ties confirmed Armstrong's title and told Taylor to fill out his claim by extending back on the ridge. Taylor had fooled his time away in not getting a warrant and having his land surveyed. The live hundred acres of the White Hunter are embraced in the Sterrett, Robert Taylor and Harris and MeKce tracts-MeKee taking the place of Sample. The latter, where Leonard Groninger now resides, reaches the creek where Merchant John Patterson had a warehouse and built arks at the mouth of a run on which Groninger has a saw-mill. Robert Taylor bought out the heirs of Armstrong and had it patented October 6, 1802, under the name of " Taylor's Hope."
On September 8, 1755, Surveyor Samuel Lyon ent out of the Bell tract, at the east side, a small piece for a mill-seat for Robert Taylor- the survey here extending over the ereck-and Taylor at this time also held the Sterrett survey. Abont 1803 Taylor had a mind to erect a mill here. Merchant John Patterson, at Pomeroy's Mill, had an eye to business, and blocked that littlegame of building an opposition mill by pur- chasing the adjoining Sterrett-Taylor traet. Taylor and his wife and two children were among those faken captives by the Indians in 1756, at Bigham's Fort. How long he was held in captivity and how he got back is not recorded, but on July 11, 1758, he was exam- ined, in connection with Francis Iunis and his sister, before the Provincial Council, as to the
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behavior of one Lawrence Burk, who had mar- ried and lived among the Indians during the war.1
CHARLES Guss, the progenitor of all bear- ing the name in the United States, as far as known, emme from Baden, Germany, to Amer- ica abont 1750. Ile was a school-teacher, and lived most of his time in Vincent township, Chester County. His wife was Mary, daughter of Simon Shumk, whose wife was a daughter of Conrad Shimer, a wealthy gentleman and bene- factor of the churches of Pikeland and Zion. Simon seems to have been the unele of Gov- ernor Shunk.
The children of these parents were Mary Magdalena, Charles Jr., Rachel, Catharine and Elizabeth (twins), Simon, Salome. Rachel and Salome were married to Conrad Holman, who moved near Landisburg, in Perry County, where many of' his descendants still reside, being intermarried with the Leiby, Jordan, Stroop, Sheibley, Burtnett, Baker and Kohler families. Charles, Jr., married Martha Lim- burg, and their children were Samuel (Potts- ville), John (Sunbury), Casper ( Fremont, Ohio), Lewis (Winnemac, Ind.), Christiana, Sophia, Catharine. Their descendants are scattered far and wide, the wife of Dr. G. L. Derr, of Mifflintown, being a daughter of Samuel.
Charles Guss died in 1795, aged sixty-three years ; his wife Mary died in 1821, aged eighty years. They are buried at Rhodes' Mennonite Meeting-House, near Spring City, built in 1750, in which house at one time Charles taught school.
Simon Guss was born February 15, 1773, and was five years old when the patriot army lay near by, at Valley Forge. His trade was that of a shoemaker and he resided near Kim- berton. In 1803 he moved near Landisburg, Perry County, near where Holman, the husband of his sister, and Zachariah Rice, Jr., the hus- band of his wife's sister, had moved previously. In 1815, Simon Guss and his son Abraham came over the Tuscarora Mountain to Milford township, in Juniata County, after the en-toms of those days, when tailors, shoemakers and
I See Col. Ree, viii. 143 147.
such tradesmen did their work from house to house. Being pleased with the country and the business outlook in that region, the family was moved over the next year.
Simon Guss married Barbara, daughter of Henry Knorr, who came to AAmerica a poor boy, in 1752, served his time to pay his passage with Conrad Selber, and as the result of a prosperous life, he died about 1805, leaving an estate worth near ten thousand dollars. In re- turning from a trip to Chester County, Barbara brought with her one time, tied on behind the saddle on which she rode, two small sweet cherry trees, one black and the other red, which were planted at her residence, where Ephraim Guss now lives, and were the first fruit of the kind planted in that region.
Simou Gnss died in 1818, aged forty-five years ; and his wife Barbara died in 1843, aged seventy-five years. They are buried at the Lutheran Church in Mifflintown.
The children of Simon and Barbara Guss were Henry, John, Samuel, Charles, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, George, Elizabeth aud William, all born between the years 1762 and 1777. All but the second and fourth raised families. Samuel died in West Chester (1859) and Jacob near Spring City (1875), in Chester County. Henry (186G), Isaac (1877), Elizabeth Kerlin (1851) and Abraham died in Milford, while George still lives there, and William near Barry, 111.
Abraham Guss, Sr., was born on French creek, East Vincent township, Chester County, September 13, 1800. At the age of eighteen he was left the oldest of six children at home, who, with a widowed mother, were to care and pro- vide for. Thus placed at the head of the fam- ily, he passed through a severe and trying school, but it no doubt tended greatly to develop his self-reliance and fit him for a successful after-life. For several years he traveled over a radius of half' a dozen miles, carrying his kit of tools, and even a stool, making his home for the time being with his patrons, according to the enstoms of those days. By the aid of his indus- trions, exemplary and economical helpmate, he accumulated sufficient to buy the MeGuire- Hardy-Patterson tract, on Licking Creek, in
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1832, on which he lived fifty-two years, on which he erceted a fine brick house, a large bank barn, cider-press, saw-mill, a tenant-house and other buildings, and greatly improved and enlarged the farm. He was a successful farmer, a substantial citizen, an honest and judicions man. In 1820 he joined the Imtherau Church at Church Hill, near Port Royal ; soon after- wards he transferred his membership to Mifflin- town, where he was an elder as early as 1837; and his name is found at the head of ahnost every subscription paper up to 1861, when he took an active part in the erection of a new church near his home in Licking Creek, and was the largest contributor to that landable enterprise.
In 1820 he married Mary M., daughter of Henry Ache (or Anghey), Sr. She was an estimable woman, who, during a long church life, " maintained a consistent deportment and performed the relative duties of life with faith- ful assidnity." After a painful illness, she died peaceful and happy, August 6, 1854, aged fifty- eight years and four months, and was buried at the church in Mifflintown. The Ache family were French Huguenots. Three brothers came to America September 22, 1752. One of these, who on arrival signed himself Johan Ludwig Ache in fine Latin script, taught French and learned English in the "hoch schul " in Phila- delphia ; removed to and taught school in Vin- cent, Chester County ; served in a company againt the Indians ; removed to Tulpehocken, Berks County, before 1759 ; then near Lingles- town, Dauphin County, in 1774, where he died after 1793. His son Henry, who removed to Milford township in 1803, was married to Eliz- abeth, daughter of John, son of Daniel Shucy, also a French Inguenot, who landed here in 1732-the name being originally Shue, like Ache, Inche and such names. A Shuey geneal- ogy has been published. Conrad, brother of Elizabeth, lived near Lieutenant Caleb Graydon in Pastang, bought his tract above Patterson, moved up in 1792 and was the means of getting the Ache family to move up. Conrad after- wards moved near Greensburg.
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