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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 56
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"3. One of the most interesting remains of this fort or ancient fortified village, is a series of 'steps' eut in the rock, near the point of the enclosure, leading down to Doyle's Run. These steps were very distinct to the first settlers, and are, in fact, yet well defined. Neighboring children used to go to 'play at the In- dian stone steps,' These steps could not have been formed by any process of nature, such as the crumb- lings of alternate seams in the strata, for the rock is tilted on its edge and admits of uo lateral cleavage.
" We have here the earth-work, the hearth and the carved steps, and their proximity to the mound cor- tainly link their history together. Was this a mili- tatry fort, aud are the bones the result of the battle fought there, or was it simply a fortified village and the bones the natural accumulation of successive burials ? We venture an opinion of their origin and history.
" The traet including the Fort. Field was taken up by Ralph Sterrett, and he no doubt for a time lived
here. As mentioned under the head of Bigham's Fort, it is probable he had a kind of fort at this place. The question arises whether his block-house may not have given origin to the traditionary ' Old Fort Field.' Some have so supposed. We very decidedly think not. Sterrett's residence must have been farther up the run, at the spring and near the Chamber-Milliken mansion. He had nothing to do with the enclosure formed by the earth-work, and there was no spring in it. Ile neither could have made it nor utilized it. It is very likely, however, that he had his fort near by the Fort Field, and being a trader and conversant with the country, even before it was purchased, it is very likely that he selected this tract because of the old Indian-cleared corn-fields that were with little labor ready to be again planted. His house, with its loop-holes for defense, could not have given the name to the field."
A MASTODON .- In 1847 Drs. J. P. Sterrett and J. L. Kelly discovered in the ancient sur- face alluvium of the Post-Tertiary period, along the bank of Tuscarora Creck, near Academia, a tusk and a number of teeth of a mastodon gi- gjunteus, a fossil member of the elephant fam- ily. The animal, when alive, must have been twelve feet high and twenty-five feet long, al- lowing seven feet for the tusks. The remains were found six feet below the surface. The tusk was nine feet long, about two feet of which must have been in the socket. It was eight inches in diameter at the socket end, and gradually tapered to a point. One of the teeth had yet a portion of the jaw remaining. Though many have been found in miry grounds elsewhere, this is the only " find" that we know of in this interior mountain region of our State.
CHAPTER XII.
SPRUCE HILL TOWNSHIP.'
This township was formed by dividing Tur- bett on September 10, 1858, and is the young- est township in the county. The viewers ap- pointed were Joseph Middaugh, of Turbett, Isaac Kurts, of Walker, and David Bashoar, of Fermanagh. The line from the Tuscarora ('rock to the top of the mountain is nearly straight. The first assessment was taken in 1859. There were then about one hundred
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and eighty-six resident taxables and forty-four single freemen. The name given this township was derived from a place on the bank of the Tuscarora where there were formerly a great many spruce-trees, from which it obtained the name of Spruce Hill. A school-house after- wards had the same name ; then it was given to the post-office and finally to the township.
Spruce HTill is bounded on the north by Beale and Milford, on the west by Tuscarora, on the east by Turbett with the Tuscarora Mountain to the sonth. The northern line fol- lows the creek, except the Half-Moon, a loop in front of Academia, which is included in Spruce Hill. The Limestone Ridge divided the settlers in the valley next the mountain from those along the creek, excepting at the Half-Moon.
As this territory was in Turbett prior to 1859, and in Milford prior to 1817, and in Lack prior to 1769, the reader is referred to those town- ships for assessment lists of the first settlers, and to Milford for a list of early taxable in- dustries.
EARLY SETTLERS .- Hugh Quigley war- ranted one hundred and nine acres, Jime 12, 1762, on the Tuscarora Creek, in a loop, now owned by Jolm F. G. Long. The first road from the Rum Gap was to pass his honse.
Samnel Christy warranted one hundred and forty-eight acres May 29, 1767; now the Cas- ner brothers. This was Hunter John Wil- liams' old place, where he was in 1763, when the Indians visited the valley and from whom he made a narrow escape.
William Stewart got a warrant, February 3, 1755, for a tract on the south side of Tuscarora. Hle was killed by Indians before the land was surveyed. John Williams, hunter, married the Widow Stewart, left his " old place " to Christy, as stated above, and moved to the Stewart place, which, January 11, 1788, he warranted in his own name, not forgetting, by an unnatural line, to include the best part of his old place, thus making two hundred and ninety-nine acres, and now owned by JI. Nevin Pomeroy, being just across the creek from his store.
Captain John Williams was wounded in the battle of Brandywine. Ile was the grandfather of Captain John P. Wharton, father of John
Williams, Jr., and grandfather of Joseph Wil- liams.
William Stewart came from the Yellow Breeches and was married to an Irwin. His children were William, Jr., James, and a daughter married to Edward Milliken and another to Thomas Kenny. Milliken moved to Washington County and Keny to Ken- tucky. James died in Carlisle. William mar- ried Alice Graham. He died about 1805,, leaving the following children: William mar-> ried Peggy Copeland ; Annie, wife of Wil- liam Wharton, who was in "St. Clair's De-t feat ;" Margaret; James, above Johnstown ; George went to Chillicothe ; John went to In- diana County ; Thomas, married to Elizabeth! daughter of Peter Rice, and is still living at &t very ripe old age in Turbett ; Robert, a tailor}, married Margaret Groce ; Rebecca, wife of Nicholas Arnold ; Mary, wife of Peter Hench. The children of Mrs. Stewart to Jolm William's were John, Benjamin, the wife of Robert Pat- ton, the wife of William Jacobs, the wife of George Jacobs, the wife of Jesse Packer, grand- father of ex-Governor Packer.
The circumstances of the death of the first William Stewart are related by Thomas, above- named, as follows : Hle went across the creek to hunt for his horses at John Allen's place. Two Indians came upon him-a large one and a small one. Stewart and the large one got into a seuflle ; Stewart took the Indian's tomahawk from him and threw it away. The small one got it and struck him on the head. They took his scalp and departed. While this was taking place, his son William, who had accompanied him, made his escape. When found, his dog was beside him and fought for his body. Ile was buried there under a poplar-tree which is said to be still standing.
John Sherrard warranted two hundred and four acres October 25, 1765, and John Arm- strong three Inmdred and fifty-six aeres Febru- ary 3, 1755. It would seem, from the fact that Sherrard had to pay interest on his land from March, 1760, the same as James Gray, hereafter cited, that Sherrard had improved his tract as early as Gray, namely, in 1751, allowance be- ing made, as in the case of Mrs. Mary Ander-
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son, for the time he was driven away by the Indians. Armstrong's application calls for "300 acres on Tuscarora Creek, where some Indians called by the name of Lakens live, about six miles from the month of Tuscarora." These two tracts constitute the Half-Moon, being that | about two hundred and twenty-five acres. He part of Spruce Hill township lying north of the was here in 1763. Enoch Beale now lives here at the Okeson fording. John, Thomas and David were sons of William Beale, of White- land, Chester County. Their father never moved here, but took up in his name several tracts, and other tracts were taken up by his sons after they moved here and had established themselves. John is first named on the tax- lists in 1763, Thomas in 1767, David, 1772. Thomas lived at Pomeroy's, in Beale; David is a single freeman in Milford in 1772, and after that date at Bealetown. John had a son William, the father of Samuel, who was the father of Enoch, the present owner, and they all lived on the same place at the Okeson fording: creek. Armstrong had surveyed his tract and then it was resurveyed together with the other tract May 10, 1768, and soon after Cox & Co. got both tracts and are so marked in 1770. In this loop there was an Indian town of the Tuscarora tribe called " Lackens " in 1755, and the bill of sale given under the head of Beale township shows that in 1754 the ridge running across the neck of the Half-Moon loop was "the extent northward of the Indian claim who are now settled on the bottom surrounded by the creek." They were still there in 1762, when a chief from New York came to Philadelphia and wished to be shown the way and given a pass to see his brethren in Tuscarora Valley.
Across the ereck westward from John Arm- strong, on February 3, 1755, George Armstrong got a warrant for one hundred acres " on the south side of Tuscarora, opposite to the settle- ment of the Indians called Lackens." This warrant was addressed to William Maclay, surveyor. This survey was along the creek where David Esh now lives and E-quire John Patterson's old place. It was soon added to the William Graham surveys and shares their history.
Above this, on the ereck, lay the survey of James Kenny, one hundred and seventy-six acres, warranted February 3, 1755. The date of this warrant, and that for his large traet in Thebett, show that this man had been sighting around for lands at an early date. It is now owned by William Telfer, Joseph Ard's and Jacob Eshi's heirs. On this Kenny survey, near the Mill Run, a fourth of a mile cast of Pleasant View, is Ebenezer Church and grave-yard- " surveyed February 4, 18443, at the request of Samuel Heddin for the use of a Methodist Episcopal Church." The draft shows a spring in the corner of a one-acre lot. The present church was dedicated October 7, 1877; Rev. E. J. Gray, president of Williamsport Seminary, officiated.
John Beale, one of the early settlers, had a survey on the bend of the creek, above Kemmy and below Chambers, to which he added from tine to time, some of it, perhaps, warranted in the name of other people, the whole making
Ralph Sterrett, an Indian trader, had a claim to a tract of about seven hundred acres, now the site of Pleasant View, and hell part by right of sundry improvements in the name of other persons, and they were warranted in the name of David Chambers, Charles Stewart and others, except one hundred and twenty aeres which Sterrett himself warranted, Sep- tember 22, 1766, and took in the land of the pres- ent little village. The Charles Stewart warrant for one hundred and seventy-two acres is dated August 3, 1787. These lands are now held by James Fitzgerald(J. L. Barton, Theodore Mem- inger, Jacob Eshe's heirs and David Barton. ~ Northward of the above, on the creek, lay the David Chambers survey, one hundred and sixty seven aeres, November 4, 1766, now known as the Bryner property.
PLEASANT Vrew is a small village, containing only eight dwelling-houses. The school-house here has the title La Grange, so named by Ben- jamin Reynolds, who deeded the ground for school purposes about 1856. The post-office here was formerly called Tuscarora Valley, and seems to have been established about 1830, with James Milliken as postmaster ; after his death James B. Milliken, then Benjamin Cresswell. About 18-18 Henry Louder became postmaster,
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and about this time the name was changed to Pleasant View. The postmasters since have been as follows: Joseph Barnard, James S. Patterson, from 1862 to 1870, and J. L. Bar- ton, since the last date.
Norris Williams, on the creek above, war- ranted eighty acres January 13, 1791. On this place was the Jesse Evans saw-mill, 1795; now Thomas Ramsey; late Telfer. The saw-mill tract (three acres) was sold by Samnel Williams to Jesse Evans, May 4, 1805. On November 28, 1805, Charles Morrow sold Daniel MeDon- ald the mill-race, cte., formerly occupied by Jesse Evans. On August 29, 1807, Evans sold the three aeres to MeDonald.
Joseph Med oy took up three tracts, making one hundred and eighteen acres, in 1788, lying between Williams and the John Gray place. These he sold to JJesse Evans, March 18, 1805; and he to Daniel MeDonald, one hundred and thirty aeres, Angus 29, 1807. Theodore Mem- inger, present prothonotary, now resides upon and owns most of this tract.
Charles Murray warranted, March 26, 1788, three hundred and thirty-nine acres, west of McCoy, comprising the highlands.
James Scott's survey extended across the creek to the amount of sixty-seven acres, wal- ranted April 16, 1767, now David Swartz.
Abraham Enslow had a tract in the northwest corner of the township, now owned by G. & D. Ubil.
Having followed the creek side, we now re- turn tothe main valley adjoining the Turbett line.
William Rennison warranted two hundred and sixty-four acres at the Spruce Hill line ad- joining Turbett, surveyed May 6, 1761, and warranted February 3, 1755, though the Land- Office itself seems to be withont this date. It was a choice traet and is now owned by Thomas Stewart, Yost Yoder, Joseph Yoder and Samnel Graham. Rennison sold seventy-five acres to his son John, who sold to William Stewart, November 28, 1782, who also got twenty-five aeres more of the main tract in 1781, and it has been held by the Stewart family ever since.
John Crozier warranted two hundred and nineteen acres September 10, 1766, where Som- nel Wharton now lives.
William Kenny and Charles O'Harra, in two tracts, took up four hundred and thirty-nine aeres over towards the mountain from the above, now Calvin Gilson and others.
John Christy took up, November 27, 1766, a tract of one hundred and fifty-four acres above Rennison.
William Christy, by application 1994, No- vember 4, 1766, took up one hundred and fifty- four acres west of Rennison, which, by will, descended to his son William, who sold it to William Wharton, Angust 14, 1811, then one hundred and seventy-eight acres. It has since passed to William Wharton, Jr., and is now owned by his son William, being the fifth Wil- liam owner of this place. This is probably the original settlement of the Widow Christy on the tax-list of 1763, and possibly her husband lived here. William, James, John, Samuel, who took up this and adjoining tracts, and also Den- nis, on Licking Creek, were probably all her sons. The Wharton grave-yard is located on this farm.
James Christy, on order of November 27, 1766, had surveyed, April 15, 1767, one hun- dred and twenty-eight acres, now owned by Henderson Gilson. It lay between Crozier and Patton.
A little east of this the traveler will observe a farm with a conspicuous residence perched up against the side of the Tuscarora Mountain. This is where Leonard Mauger now lives, be- fore this called Stewart Cummin's place, twa hundred and two acres. It is historie as the residence of John Cummin, the father of Juniata County. Side by side with the above, and highest up the mountain, may be seen the old home of Roger Staynor, an old Revolutionary soldier.
John Patton, by warrant of August 23, 1785, took up two hundred and fifty aeres at Spruce Ilill, now owned by John Gilliford, George Meminger, William Evans, Thomas T., William A. and .J. Harvey Patton and others. By his will it descended to his son William. John Patton's church certificate, July 22, 1753, shows he came from Ballygawley, Ireland. John Patton never lived on his tract, but his son William came upon it abont 1787. Patton is
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taxed for this land already in 1763, and is con- stantly given as an adjoiner.
William, son of John, served all through the Revolutionary War. His son, James S., married Jane Gilliford, a granddaughter of John, who settled opposite Hollidaysburg, or, as Jones says, near Blair Fornace, and was killed by Indians in 1778, a number of whose descend- ants now reside in this county.
William Patton had erected a saw-mill on his tract as carly as 1790. On February 26, 1798, he conveyed to John Francis thirteen acres, including the saw-mill, which he then sold to Thomas Gil-on, January 1, 1799. Thomas Gilson is first taxed with a grist-mill in 1790, the same year that the saw-mill com- mences. That was his old mill up the run, where the fulling-mill and tannery were created afterwards. It was not withont some research that the location of the old mill was discovered. Thomas Gilson was drowned at the bridge at the " Old Port" town in 1816. Ilis son Wil- liam carried on themill, and from him the thir- teen-aere mill property passed to his son Wil- liam, who conveyed it to Jesse Rice, March 5, 1839 ; Rice sold to W. H., John and Robert Patterson, May 1, 1816, who sold to Robert Patterson, Jr., April 3, 1819, whose heirs still own it.
BAPTIST CHURCH .- On June 9, 1794, Wil- liam Patton conveyed to Nathan Thomas, Daniel Okeson and Jesse Fry, " representing the Baptist congregation of Milford township, in trust, one acre, to erect a house of worship," adjoining Patton's mill-dam and race, " together with the free privilege of a spring and way to and from it, situated over the mill-race." On this ground they erected a log elmirch building, in which they occasionally held service. The congregation becoming weak in this vicinity, it was abandoned to strengthen another church erected near the old forge on Licking Creck. The land was sold to William Gilson by Lewis Morning and Dennis Randolph, trustees of the church, April 12, 1829. Before this a number of persons were buried here on this church property.
On a part of this tract Thomas Gilson erected a grist-mill, taxed as early as 1790, built of
logs, aud which he abandoned in 1799, after purchasing the saw-mill and water-power lower down. On the old mill-site he put upa fulling- mill in 1811, which was run by him and his son David until the product of such mills was superseded by factory goods. After this, abont 1850, John Moffet, Elias Graver and Sammel Shearer built a tannery where the fulling-mill had stood, and after running it some time, it was burned, when they rebuilt on a larger seale and did an extensive tanning business. It was sold to John A. Sterrett, of Lewistown, and ceased rumning about 1880. It is near by Spruce. Hill post-office, often called " Conn's Store," a small hamlet near the mill, on the main road up the valley.
Arks were formerly built at Spruce Hill (before the erection of Patterson's mill-dam), in the ereck, which, when floated down to the Royal Port, could be loaded with five hundred barrels of flour, and taken safely out of the mouth of the creek and down the river.
Samuel Rogers, on application, September 15, 1766, took up two hundred and five acres sonthwest of Patton, which passed to Charles Stewart December 23, 1766 ; to David MeNair August 14, 1771 ; to Joseph Gordon May 4 1772; to Jolin Kerr, who had it patented, call- ing it " Prospect." From Kerr it passed to Samnel Hogg, and then to George Gilliford, the present owner.
Stephen Cochran warranted three hundred and thirty-five acres September 28, 1767, west of Rogers, which he sold to Matthew Hender- son, which he sold to William Graham Jime 10, 1774; now owned by Samuel Graham's heirs, Jonathan Swartz and Allison Hench. There is a cave back of Widow Graham's house, which has never been explored.
John Graham had a warrant for one hundred aeres, "including a Deer Liek at the foot of the Tuscarora monntain," September 20, 1762. He was a son of William Graham, mentioned he- low, and was killed by the Indians on July 11, 1763, over the mountain at Buffalo Creek. When last seen he was sitting on a log near the place of attack, with his hands on his face and the blood running through his fingers. His traet is now partly the property of Noah Esh,
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one hundred and seventy-two acres. Johu Gra- ham had also warranted one hundred and sev- enty-two acres March 1, 1763. The deer-lick is on Noah Esh's farm.
John Fitzgerald warranted a tract Jannary 11, 1765, part of which was included in the C'ochran survey.
William Graham, a pioneer in this section, warranted a tract of one hundred aeres Septem- ber 20, 1762, adjoining James Kenney, Robert Hogg and his other lands. He also warranted one hundred acres "on south side Tuscarora creek, in Leck township, including his improve- ment," March 2, 1763. Il is house on this prop- erty was burned by the Indians July 11, 1763. It stood on Benjamin Hertzler's lot, near a spring in front of Mrs. Isabella Graham's honse. Ile purchased the tract of John Arm- strong, already named as being opposite Lack- ens, and the three surveys added together made four hundred and nineteen acres, and are known as the " Graham lands." The lines have been very much changed. Parts of the surveys of Armstrong, John Graham and the two William Graham tracts were patented, March 12, 1839, by Joseph Yoder, two hundred and thirty-nine aeres ; now owned by David B. and Noah II. Esh. John Patterson, Esq., patented one linn- dred and fifty-four acres April 12, 1827, parts of Armstrong and the two William Graham tracts. On this tract, on a mountain-stream, Willinn, son of William Graham, erected grist and saw-mills in 1813, which were continued by his sons, then by Yost Yoder, John Esh; now Benjamin Hertzler ; but the mills have been abandoned for several years.
Robert Hogg, claimed by some writers to be one of the first settlers, had a large tract of three hundred and ninety-three aeres warranted April 11, 1763. It is choice land, and is now held by John L. Patterson, George Patterson, William Patterson, Christ Yoder, James Fitz gerald, the latter's mill being on the tract.'
Robert Hogg's danghter, Mary, was married, September 15, 1778, by Rev. Ingh Magill, to John McKee, and they ocenpied part of the mansion tract. Their children were Robert, Thomas, William, Mary, James, John, Martha, David, Logan and Sarah. They all left Tusca-
rora Valley except William, who married Eliz- abeth, daughter of Sammel Laird, in 1816. Mrs. Sanmel Cooper, of Port Royal, and Mrs. M. Forsyth, of Derry, Millin County, are daughters. John McKee laid out on his land `a lot for a church and grave-yard. No church was ever built here; but the ground was used for a grave-yard, and here Robert Hogg and wife, Letitia, John MeKee and others are buried. It is known as " McKee's grave-yard," and is on the farm now Christ Yoder's. Here, there- fore, repose the remains of one of the pioneer adventurers into Tuscarora. There is a story that, at the time of the taking of Bigham's Fort, Mrs. McKee and her father (Robert logg) were taking some goods across the mountain on a cow, and were seen by the Indians, who let them pass, because they did not wish just then to alarm the fort.
Although William Maclay surveyed and re- turned for Hogg three hundred and ninety-three acres under his warrant, yet this was more than could be held under it. One John Kennedy thought he would like to lay a warrant on the surplus. logg entered his caveat and they were cited to appear July 28, 1765. Kennedy not appearing, Hogg was heard. The decision was, " That Ilogg made an improvement on the place in dispute long before Kennedy obtained any warrant for the same, and was driven off by the Indians; therefore Ilogg is to have three Indred and ninety-three acres, provided he take ont a new warrant for one hundred and fifty acres, but this must not interfere with John Gray." Hogy sold the benefit of this grant to lohn MeKee JJune 7, 1786, who war- ranted one hundred and fifty-one aeres inside of Hogg's old lines. The time Hogg was driven off' by Indians must refer to 1756, when Big- ham's Fort was taken. The reader will note the special tender regard for Hannah, widow of John Gray, that the lines of her survey remained unchanged, and that she be not troubled with any interferences.
The name of this old pioneer was spelled Hogg in former days. He came from East Pennsborough, in Cumberland County, where numbers of the family spell their name Hoge. Jonathan Iloge was long active and useful in
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the early days of this State. The tombstones say Robert Hoge died January 20, 1798, aged eiglity years. Letitia Hoge died March 12, 1812, aged eighty-eight years. John MeKce died November 10, 1830, aged seventy-six years. His wife, "old Mrs. MeKce," of the famous law-snit, and ouly danghter of Robert Hoge, died in the West. There is an old path here, crossing the mountain, which was known as Hogg's, and later, McKee's Gap, though there is no depression in the mountain.
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