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On November 23, 1756, Colonel Clapham wrote from Fort Augusta to Governor Deuny,-
" The bearer, Captain Patterson, had been very serviceable on two detachments of great fatigne, and has in every other respect during his stay here behaved himself like a brave and honest man. He is the owner of the house where I mentioned the flour was left, and accompanied the detachment sent to that place. Ile will be able to inform your honor more partien- larly on that head."
Some time later he again wrote,-
" The party I sent to the Great Island ( Lock Haven) returned by the Allegheny road withont finding any enemy . Immediately on their return I detached two parties, one to the place where the Allegheny road crosses Juniata, with orders to examine into the state of the flour at Capt. Patterson's, and, if possible, to ambuscade the enemy, the other to Hunter's to escort. provisions."
What Allegheny road this was, and where it crossed Juniata, is hard to tell, but it was proba- bly near the captain's residence. Probably the seven thousand seven hundred pounds of flour brought to Fort Angusta January 7, 1757, by Ensign William Patterson, with sixty-six horses, was part of the flour above spoken of. Patter- son warranted and purchased a number of tracts near Mexico and across the river ; also up the river at Raystown Branch, in Canoe Valley and other places.
ITis residence was called Patterson's and was so laid down on maps of his time. To the river boatmen it was known. as " Patterson's Land- ing." He died here. His will is dated June 9, 1771 ; recorded at Carlisle ; probated January 22, 1772. The grave-yard is on his tract, but no stone records the exact date or age. By his will he left the Juniata lands and the mill prop- erties to James, his second son, and George, the youngest son. George is first a single freeman on the Fermanagh tax-lists in 1781, and that year may be safely set down as the period of his majority.
The wife of Capt. James Patterson was Mary Stewart. She was excentris of his will, and lived at. Mexico until 1783. She moved to her dangh- tor's, Mrs. Moore, at Middletown, and died there in 1785. Her will, probated April 29, 1785, mentions as her children William, Mary (wife of General Potter), Susanna (wife of James
Moore), James and George. Mary had been married first to Thomas Chambers, who was killed by Indians at Big Island (Lock Haven). See " Border Life," (p. 126). With Gent. James Potter she became the mother of James, the hus- band of Mary Brown; Mary, wife of George Riddle and then of William Mcclellan ; John, deceased ; Martha, wife of Hon. Andrew Gregg, once U. S. Senator, and grandfather of Governor A. G. Curtin ; Margaret, wife of Edward Crouch.
William Patterson first married a Galbreath, and by her had one son, who was named Gal- breath Patterson. He studied law and lived in Harrisburg, where he gained considerable dis- tinction. He was the father of Mrs. Judge Hayes, of Lancaster, and Dr. Edmund B. Pat- terson, of Lewistown. About 1800 Galbreath removed to near Williamsport, where he had a large tract of land and soon after died there. William married, as a second wife, Esther Finley, granddaughter of John Harris, of Harrisburg, and by her had John, born 1767; Isabella ; William Augustus, born 1771, died July 15, 1854, in White Deer Valley, aged eighty-three years, James; born 1776. Esther Patterson died in East Pennsboro' township, Cumberland County.
The father of this branch is known as Capt. William Patterson. He settled opposite Mexico and owned a large tract of land. In 1756 he is Ensign; in 1757, Lieutenant; in 1758, Cap- tain in the Provincial service. He was with the forces which brought Fort Augusta in 1757, and described in the Shippen papers as "a gentle- man of limited education, a very good soldier and does his duty well;" and he is often men- tioned in Bard's Journals.
James Patterson, son of Captain James, mar- ried Jane Harris, daughter of John Harris, founder of Mifflintown,
George, youngest son of Captain James, mar- ried Jane, danghter of Colonel James Burd, the most noted military man in this province dur- ing the French and Indian War.
George Patterson was justice of the peace, and lived at Mexico until IS10, when he moved to Mount Airy, near Philadelphia, and from that place his sons, Burd and George, moved to
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Pottsville, where the family have been prominent citizens ever since. The children of George are six, of whom Burd was born at Mexico July 8, 1788, died at Pottsville March 30, 1861, wife, Matilda Dowers; Charlotte, wife of William Thompson; Eliza, wife of Rubens Peale, the artist.
James Patterson and Valentine Sterns took out a warrant for three hundred and thirty-nine acres of land, February 6, 1755, directly below Patterson's Mill tract, at Mexico. This tract was divided, Patterson receiving the upper part (now the farms in part of W. P. Thompson and David Sieber) ; Valentine Sterns took the lower part and soon after died, as Widow Jean Sterns is assessed on the property and appears many years later.
A part of this land was patented, March 28, 1807, to Martin Motzer as " Farmers' Hope," and then contained two hundred and ninety- seven aeres, and was part of the warrants of James Patterson and Valentine Sterns of Feb- ruary, 1755. Matthew Atkinson's land joined it on the north. The land now is in part owned by Henry Hartman.
Matthew Atkinson took out, on order of sur- vey No. 4606, November 24, 1767, two Imi- dred and eighty six acres of land, which, in Jater years, came to the MeKinstrys and Funks, and lay west of the Elizabeth Lycon tract, and is now owned by Michael Bashore.
The board of property had the land re- surveyed January 31, 1803, and it was probably the Robert Guthrie tract of 1762. Matthew Atkinson also took out three hundred aeres on a warrant dated July 28, 1769, which, in Oc- tober, 1791, came to David Walker. The lo- cation of this tract has not been ascertained. Matthew Atkinson was a resident here, as he had a family account at the store of John Ham- ilton from 1774 to 1787. Of his immediate family but little is known. On May 1, 1813, Matthew Atkinson took out a warrant for one hundred acres of land in Wayne township and went there to reside. fle also owned other lands there, and, fune 29, 1813, sold one hnn- dred acres to Lukens Atkinson, who went to Wayne township, Mifflin County, and lived and died there at what is now known as Atkin-
son's Mills. His son Adam, in 1842, bought part of the old Inkens tract, which is now owned by his son, Dr. Louis E. Atkinson, of Mifflintown.
In the account of Richard Peters, given in the preceding sketch of William' White, it will be no- tired that, after completing the work at White's, on their way to the month of the Juniata, they came to the cabin of Andrew Lycon, who, for his resistance, was taken to jail and his cabin was burned. He is not mentioned later; but it is a fact that on the first day of issning warrants, February 3, 1755, one, John Lycon, or Lukens, was granted a tract of land, containing three Imdred and twenty-three acres of land, that lay opposite what is now Vandyke Station and below the White traet on the way to the month of Jumiata, to where Peters, Weiser and the mag- istrates were going, as is mentioned heretofore.
The warrant granted to John Lycon is nin- bered thirty and says : "One hundred acres on the south side of the Juniata, including his im- provement below the settlement of Valentine Stern's." The word south in this case is a eler- ical error, as an examination of the survey of the same land in the Land-Office clearly shows the river and its course and Valentine Stern's tract above it on the river, as his warrant and location will indicate, and both on the north side of the river. Stern's tract was below Patter- son's. (D. O. Run tract).
The Lukens lands, probably embracing also the warrant of Elizabeth, were patented April 13, 1774, as 3657 acres.
It was surveyed by John Armstrong May 9, 1761, and for some reason was " legally con- demned by a court of inquisition," January 22, 1773, and sold by Ephraim Blaine, sheriff of Cumberland County, November 7, 1773, to Abraham Lukens. By him a part was con- veyed to Gabriel, his son, May 29, 1793, who, in 1831, and by his will dated August 12th in that year, left it to his sons, John and Robert, who sold a part of it to Adam II. Atkinson, April 1, 1812.
A tract of one hundred and three acres lying above the Lakens land, was granted on application No. 600, August 1, 1766, to Jesse Jacobs. It passed July 11, 1781, to Wil-
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liam Plunkett, who sold to Thomas Poultney soon after, who patented it May 23, 1785, and sold to Gabriel Lukens May 8, 1800. A part of this tract also came to Adam Il. Atkinson. lohn Lukens sold a part of his original pur- chase, October 28, 1773, to Michael Van Ken- nen, who sold, January 18, 1791, to John Ten- nis. Inkous also sold part May 13, 1780, to Benjamin Kepner. The Lukens traet was re- surveyed for the executors of Abraham Lukens February 27, 1811.
Of the sons of John Lukens, except Abraham, nothing is known. He warranted a tract of two hundred and thirty-two acres March 7, 1775, near the Cookson lands, which is now owned by S. Owen Evans and the heirs of Jomm Kurts. He died in 1808 and left sons-Gabriel, Henry and Abraham. Gabriel settled on part of the original tract and died there. John In- kens, of Port Royal, who died in September, 1885, was a son of Gabriel.
Henry Lukens settled in 1802 on what is now known as the Bradford Fruit Farm. J. Stew- art Lukens, of Thompsontown, is a grandson.
Abraham settled below Gabriel on part of the old tract and was living there in 1803.
Jomm Lakens, also owned a tract of land on Dog Run from 1778 to 1792.
Abraham, son of John owned a saw-mill on some of his land from 1776 to 1799, and Abraham, his son, from 1796 to 1812.
Elizabeth Lukens, probably the wife of John, took up on an order of survey No. 2305, Jan- nary 2, 1767, a tract of land containing two hundred and forty three acres, which was sur- veyed as two hundred and fifty-five acres on the 22d of April, 1767. It was adjoining John Lukens' tract to the rear and north, and in 1824 was sold to Jomm Stauffer (where Cen- tre or Van Dyke now is) and to Thomas Lcon- ard.
George and Nelson A. Lukens, sons of Jacob S. Lukens, Esq,, are living on part of the lands near Centre. On the west was a tract of two hundred and twelve acres of Robert Guthrie warranted in June, 1762, bounded on the north by the Barrens. Ile does not seem to have been a settler here for any length of time as his name disappears.
To the cast of the Elizabeth Inkens tract, Joseph Smith took up, on an order of survey, No. 5081, a tract of three hundred and five acres, dated June 27, 1768, which was surveyed Jime 2, 1770. South of this tract lay one hundred acres of James Patterson's, and still sonth, on the river, was the traet of William Rodman. This tract, in 1801, then embracing the one hundred acres of James Patterson, be- longed to the heirs of John Hamilton. The great road extended along within its limits, and uear the south line. Just over the line on the north, about two hundred rods from the great road, is marked on the survey (now in the sur- veyor's office) a meeting-house, which is near the foot of the ridge. The old Smith tract now belongs to Samnel, George and John Mertz.
The name of William Cochran appears among the list of warrantees, and he took ont a warrant for one hundred and three acres of land March 8, 1755. From all indications, the name is the same as Corran or Curran, and the one here given is evidently the ancestor of the family who settled in this section of country. The tract of land was near the glebe lands of Cedar Spring. His name as Curran appears in the assessment of' Fermanagh in 1763 as owning two hundred aeres of land, and in 1768 as William Corran, owning six hundred acres and one horse and cow, and James Curran as in possession of' fifty acres. William Corran re- mained here until 1771, when he appears to have removed to Donegal, Lancaster County, and the land is assessed to him still in this town- ship, and in 1772 Charles Cochran or Corran is assessed with one horse and one cow, and William on four hundred aeres. On the 17th of December, 1772, " William Cochran or Cor- ran " warranted a tract of land in Tuscarora Valley, which he patented June 18, 1773, as " Williamsburg." In 1775 it is mentioned as having ten acres cleared, and in Lack township James Corran is assessed on one hundred acres and one horse, one cow and twenty acres cleared. There is a tradition among the descendants of the Currans that the mother of Samuel and Margaret Curran, wife of William, at one time carried a bag of rye to Carlisle to be ground. This is not improbable, as he was
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here in 1763 and no mill was in this county imtil 1767. William Curran is mentioned in 1767 as owner of land lying cast of the Alexan- der Lafferty tract. In this year, October 29th, he bought of James Patterson a tract of land on D. O. Run, adjoining James Crampton and John Lakens, which had been warranted to Thomas Evans November 10, 1766. He re- turned with his family to Lancaster County and died in Raphoe township in 1787, and des- ignated his sons, Samuel and James, as executors of his will. JJames was then living in Raphoe ; Samuel had moved to the lands in this township in 1780 and married a daughter of the Rev. Hugh Magill. The widow, after the death of her husband, came to this township and lived with her children until her death. Their chil- dren were Samuel, James, Margaret and Eleanor, and probably Charles and Alexander, who lived on lands in Milford and Lack town- ships. Margaret became the wife of Robert MeMeen and Eleanor the wife of John Moore. Samnel was drowned in Jack's Creek upon the return of the party from Lewistown at the time of the riot there in 1792. He left a son William and two daughters, Margaret and Eleanor.
William married Jane Walker, daughter of James and granddaughter of David Walker, and settled npon the Samuel Curran farm, now owned by his son-in-law, Hugh Latimer Wil- son. They had no sons and five daughters. Jane became the wife of James Templeton and settled in Illinois. Mary married Joseph Adams and settled in Mifflintown. Josephine married Hugh L. Wilson and lives on the home- farm at Van Wert. Anna B. became the wife of Judge Samuel Watts and now lives at Me- Alisterville. Lizzie is unmarried.
Margaret, a daughter of Samnel Curran, mar- ried, first, Joseph MeMeen, and later the Hon. Jolm MeMinn. Eleanor married William Mc- Min, a brother of John, and removed to Centre County, Pa.
The following is a copy of a document found among the papers of James Adams, of Walker township, and is interesting as showing some of the troubles settlers of the early days had to contend with. The William Cochran here men-
tioned is the one later called William Curran or Corran, and is used interchangably.
" LAND-OFFICE, the 13th March, 1765.
" William Cochran enters a Caveat against the acceptance of any survey or surveys made or to be made for Francis West, James Patterson or any other person or persons on an improvement originally made by John Savage upon or near D. O. Run, Patterson Mills Run and the Beaver Dam, which the said Cochran purchased ten years ago or upwards from the said John Savage, and after making considerable im- provements thereon, the same were burnt by the In- dians and he was drove off by them from his said settle- ment. And also against any survey or surveys made or to be made for the said Francis West, James Patterson or any other person or persons on another small in- provement made by the said William Cochran as a provision for some of his children at a spring near the mouth of the said D. O. Run.
" W.M. PETERS, Se'cy."
This description indicates that a certain John Savage had made an improvement on the land warranted by James Patterson, February 5, 1755, as his name particularly is mentioned, and his land was on the east side of the D. O. Run and that of William White on the upper side, and whose name is not explicitly men- tioned.
Two years later than the date of the careat, and in the year when most of the surveys were made, and on June 8, 1767, James Patterson assigned to William Curran a tract of land on D. O. Run, which assignment was witnessed by Eleanor Moore and Jean Patterson, the last being his daughter. This tract was doubtless assigned in compromise for the tract at the mouth of the D. O. Run, to which Curran laid a claim, and the land assigned lay up the run, above Patterson's other land.
The farm on which Hugh Hamilton now lives was bought by his grandfather (John Ham- ilton), who came to this place from near the old Centre Church, now in Madison township, Perry County, in 1769. His father (also John Ham- ilton) was a resident of Chester County, and was possessed of considerable property, part of which was in Sherman's Valley. By his will he left the latter to his son, who moved there to attend to it. He also, later, warranted the tract of land on which the Tressler Orphans' Home how stands, near Loysville, and came in pos-
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session, through his wife, of the property known as Bisler's Mill, in Madison township.
A tract of land containing four hundred acres, iu (now) Walker township, was warranted June 20, 1766, by John Mitchell aud Richard 'Tea, who sold to John Hamilton, November 21, 1768. Ilealso became the owner of other lands in the vicinity, and the old " Hamilton Mill," on Cocolamis Creek, now Robert Humphrey's. Hle moved to the first purchase in 1769, on which there was an improvement, with a log house upon it. The place he named " For- managh," after the township. In 1772 he re- turned to Sherman's Creek and married Mar- garet, a daughter of Hugh Alexander, who had long lived near the old Centre Church. They moved to the home " Fermanagh," where he built a stone mansion-house, and, in 1771, opened in part of it the first store in the limits of Mifflin County, then embracing Juniata, which he continued to keep until his removal to Harrisburg, in 1787. The old books are in possession of Hugh Hamilton, and contain the names of his customers, among which are Sharon, Banks, Purdy, Patterson, Nelson, Stewart, Thompson, Melin, Micheltre, Wilson, Atkinson, White, Stuhl and a host of others. On the 16th of May, 1776, he, with Joseph Sellers, took up a warrant for one hundred and seventy acres of land on Cocolamms Creek, and soon after purchased the interest of Sellers, and in that year erected mpon it a grist-mill, saw- mill and distillery, which he operated until his removal, in 1787, and was owned by him until his death, in 1793. In 1796 the property was sold by his heirs to Joseph Sellers. The grist-mill was abandoned before the sale to Sellers ; it is now owned by Robert Humphrey. At the opening of the Revolution a meeting of the inhabitants of the section was held in the house of William Sharon, who then lived near what is now known as Jericho. John Hamilton was chairman, and, upon a call for volunteers, Hugh MeAlister was the first to respond. A company of cavalry was soon raised, and John Hamilton became its captain. The company marched to the front, and joined the army the next day after the bat - tle of Trenton. They served through several campaigns, and returned home. In 1782 John
Hamilton purchased the tract now known as Oakland Mills of Matthias Stull, and, in 1786, built a grist-mill on the Lost Crock, which, after his death and the marriage of his daugh- tor Martha to James Alricks, became their home.
In 1787 he removed to Harrisburg and en- gaged in business in that place, and died Angust 28, 1793, leaving a widow, Margaret, and six ebildren, -Jean, born 1774; Martha, 1776 ; John, 1782; Hugh, 1785; Margaret, 1789; and Kitty Allen, 1792. Jean became the wife of John McKcan ; Martha, of James Alricks ; Margaret, of Moses MeLean ; and Catharine, of Jacob Spangler.
John, the oldest son, upon the retirement of his father to Harrisburg, remained upon the homestead, and inherited it upon his death. He had three children, -Hugh and two dangh- ters, one of whom became the wife of George T. McCulloch, the other of Dr. James Frow. Hugh, the son, lives upon the homestead tract. Hugh, the second son of John Hamilton, moved, with his father, to Harrisburg, where he became a prominent lawyer, and his de- scendants are now living there.
Margaret, the widow of Jolm Hamilton, in 1795, became the wife of Andrew Mitchell, of Femanagh township. They had several chil- dren, of whom Jane Alexander became the wife of Dr. Thomas Whiteside. Margaret (Hamilton) Mitchell and her husband, Andrew Mitchell, her eldest son, John Hamilton, and several others of the family are buried in the Presbyterian grave-yard at Mifflintown.
The name of David Walker is first men- tioned in 1770 as owning a tract of land con- taining three hundred acres. It was adjoining the tracts of William Riddle and Charles Arm- strong. On the 5th of May, 1772, it was sold to Duncan MeDougal. The David Walker here mentioned was from Derry township, Lan- caster County (now Dauphin), and never resided here. He made his mark as D in the signature to the deed of transfer. The David Walker who settled and became prominent as land- owner, and in all that pertains to the develop- meut of the county, was a native of Antrim County, Ireland, and was a resident in the
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township in 1776, as he was a volunteer in a company raised in the county by Captain Gib- son, and appears as an owner of a horse and cow in the assessment of 1778, and in 1779 was possessed of ninety-one acres of land. Feb- ruary 23, 1787, he bought one hundred and ten acres of land of Sylvanus Moss, who warranted it the year before. This tract is part of the home-farm, where he lived and died.
Hle was successful in business and gradually acemmulated land until he became one of the largest land-owners in the county. He was justice of the peace for many years and also kept a tavern, holding his court on Saturdays at the tavern. He was exceutor and adminis- trator on many estates, and enjoyed the confi- dence of the community in a large degree. He married, before coming to this county, Ann Banks, daughter of James Banks and sister of' Andrew and James Banks, by whom he had nine children,-Samuel, Elizabeth, Polly, An- nie, James, Margaret, David, Jane and Andrew. Polly and David died in youth. Andrew was a graduate of Princeton College, in 1821; was a surveyor and a youth of great promise. He died September 18, 1828, aged twenty-seven years. Elizabeth became the wife of Jolm Stewart and settled in the vicinity ; Annie mar- ried William Black, and settled in Perry County ; Samnel died November 1, 1809, aged thirty-two years ; James married Ann Beatty, and died March 13, 1813, aged thirty-four years; Jane married James Johnson ; and Mar- garet became the wife of Thomas Stinson, and settled on the home-farin, and died January 27, 1866, aged eighty years. David Walker lived to the age of seventy-nine years and died Sep- tember 6, 1831, having ontlived all his sons. His wife, Ann, died February 14, 1828, aged seventy-three years. The mansion-house is now in possession of Miss Lizzie Curran, and the home-farm is owned by John MeMcen.
The Rev. Thomas Barton appears as a war- rantee of four hundred and fourteen acres of land February 7, 1765, adjoining the globe lands of Cedar Spring congregation. His name disappears from the tax-roll in 1779. He was an agent for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. He did not appear
to have ever lived upon the land. The land later came to James Burd, son of Colonel James Burd, who resided npon it and, April 4, 1806, sold to David Weaver two hundred and sixty- one aeres, and bought in [ 809 the remainder of the Harris plantation, cast from Mifflintown. The Bard tract is now in possession of David Ankers, John Gingrich and others.
Weaver and Philip Ronk both married sis- ters by the name of Stouffer and settled upon the tract. The land had not been ploughed deep and they brought with them from Lan- caster a plough to which they attached four horses, and broke the ground to a depth that surprised the farmers in this region ; large crops was the result and it led to better farming in the section.
The children of David Weaver were Joseph, John, Samuel, Michael, Peter, Jacob, Annie, Mary and Fanny, of whom descendants of Joseph are living on the place.
David Weaver, Philip Ronk, Michael Funk, John Stouffer and others came from Lancaster to this region about the same time.
The Funks were in Lancaster County as carly as 1718. Michael Funk, of Blue Ball, kept a noted hostelry on the old Paxtang road, in East Earl township; removed to Walker township, Juniata County, in 1805. His chil- dren were Barbara (married John Stonffer), Jolm (married Polly Miller), Michael (married Rebecca Youin), Betsey (married Michael Shel- ly), Mary and Susan (married Samnel Ran- nels), Naney married Samuel Sieber, son of Christian, who came from Berks County in 1814), Catharine (married Abraham Stoner), George (married Polly Gingrich), Esther (mar- ried Andrew Yocum), Lydia (married Jonas Sieber), Joseph (married Eliza Spangler), Sam- nel. The widow of George moved to Logans- port, Ind. Her children were Joseph, William, Catharine and Nancy M. The latter married Thomas H. MeKee, clerk of the United States Senate document room.
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