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In 1796 John Gustine (the father of Amos Gustine, who settled in Mifflintown in 1811, as a school-teacher and later as a merchant), bought nine acres of land adjoining the town, upon which he erected a cooper-shop and conducted it several years, and soon after three and one-half' acres were sold to William Speedy. Sammel Nieman conducted a pottery from 1821-28. The plot contained over one hundred and eighty live lots, as in a printed form of deed dated 18th March, 1805, James Taylor conveys to James Blair for .E8 188. 3d .; lot 185, which
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is as follows: "One lot of ground in the new town, called Mifflinburgh, laid out by the said James Taylor between the bank of the Juniata River and the Great Road leading up the river from the Susquehanna to Lewistown, thence to the new country westward." ! Streets are mentioned in deeds, road records, etc., as Market Street, Chestnut Street, Raspberry Alley. Lots were cach fifty-two and one-half by two hundred feet, and were each subject to a ground- rent of cleven shillings and three ponce yearly.
Mention is made in the court records several times of Mifflinburg, and in 1794 a petition is made for a road from John Lyons, " through the town of Mifflinburg, to John McClelland's old ferry." This road was confirmed in April, 1796, and is mentioned as starting from Market Street, on the northeast side of Mifflinburg. This road is still to be seen and is used from the canal to the turnpike. John McClellan's ferry was first established at Mifflinburg several years before, and, it will be noticed, is here men- tioned as the " Old Ferry." In the petition for a road, in 1793, from Mifflintown to what is now Me Alisterville, the proposed road was to start from the fording at Mifflintown, and in 1795, when it was completed, it is mentioned as " begining at Mifflintown, opposite John Me- Clelland's ferry, he having moved it up from Mifflinburg a short time before."
James Taylor died about 1808, and left nine children, of whom was Matthew, a son in whom the property was vested. Andrew Walker sur- veyed the estate for the heirs of James Taylor, deceased, January 14, 1811, and after reciting its warrant and member of acres, says : " A part of the above tract of land is laid out into a town called Mifflinburgh, by James Taylor, Esq., dee'd ; said Taylor sold nine acres of said land to lohu Gu-tine, and three and one-half aeres to William Speedy, and thirty-nine scattering lots to other persons, each to contain a quarter of an acro."
The property, containing at this time two hundred and fifty-two acres, was sold, March 11, 1815, by Matthew Taylor to David and John Miller. The village did not thrive and
seemed to lose entirely the name of Mifflinburg and was known as Taylorstown, and the locality is still known as such. The lots were in time absorbed in the farm, and are now owned as farm lands by Ezra D. Parker and Calvin B. North.
MOUNT PLEASANT.
A settlement on the turnpike below Mifflin- town was a part of a large tract of land origin- ally owned by James Riddle, and later came in parcels to William MeCrmm, John Davidson and Dr. Philo Hamlin. The old two-story stone house built by James Riddle the eller, with seventy two acres, was bought of James Riddle by Dr. Philo Hamlin, of Mifflintown, June 15, 1847. In 1798 Samnel Belford had at this place a blacksmith-shop and John Rid- dle a wagon-shop. They are mentioned in a road record of a few years' later date. They kept these shops at the place for many years. Adam Johnston purchased a tract of land at the place March 29, 1824, of John Davison, and soon after erected a stone hotel, which, being on the turnpike and well kept, soon became a favorite stopping-place with the wagoners. He purchased other lands near by in 1828. He began selling lots in 1850 and abont 1854 sold the most of the remainder to Robert C. Gallagher. Dr. Philo Hamlin, in April, 1840, bought of the heirs of Jane. Belford, who was a daughter of William MeCrum, twenty-one acres of land near the place, which was in 1812 sold to Henry Kauffman. The settlement had obtained the name of Dogtown, but mpon the settlement of Dr. Philo Hamlin upon the old Riddle place it was changed to " Mount Pleasant," which it still retains, although the old name still clings to it.
CENTREVILLE, OR VAN DYKE.
This is a settlement in Walker township, be- tween Mexico and Thompsontown, and is located on the east part of the Elizabeth Lukens tract. V John Stanffer, in the year 1808, opened a tavern at this place and continued till his death, after 1857. It was in this year the Juniata Stage Company began running a line of stages from Clarke's Ferry, near the month of the Juniata, to Huntingdon, past this place. This tavern became a noted stopping place for
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the stages, and after the completion of the turn- pike, in 1822, for wagoners also. It was not until 1854 the Intheran brick church was erected. The congregation was composed of residents in the vicinity who had attended church farther away. This congregation came under the same care as the congregations of Thompsontown and Me Alisterville, an account of which will be found in those settlements. A school-house for many years had been at Clear- field before 1835, and soon after the completion of the church a school-house was built at this place and served its purpose until 1878, when the present one was built on its site.
VAN WERT.
This place was first known as Slabtown, and is on the old Curran tract. Abont 1850 John MeMinn established a store at the place, which continued until 1860, when it was destroyed by fire. A post-office and store are now kept by W. W. Dimm.
DAVIS LOCK.
In August, 1818, Augustus Jones opened a store at this place, located between the lock and the river. In 1851 he sold out to Ezra Pettis and Colonel Ray, who continued it two years and sold to Morgan R. Davis, who kept it until 1857, when it was abandoned.
CHAPTER XVIII. DELAWARE TOWNSHIP.
IN the year 1835 a petition was presented to court, asking that a new township be formed out of part of Walker and Greenwood. In answer to this petition, viewers were appointed to examine the territory, and, if deemed advis- able lay out a township, and report to the court. John Patterson, S. Turbett and A. Gustine, viewers, reported September 2, 1835, and pre- sented a draft of the proposed boundaries and suggested to the court that the new township be called Delaware.
'The report was filed September 9, 1835, and on the 9th of December of the same year it was referred back to the original viewers for cor- rections. At the next session of the court the
amended report was presented with the follow- ing specification :
"To the Honorable the Judges within mentioned And now to witt 27th day of January, 1836. On reconsideration began at a post corner southeast cor- ner of Fayette township; then south bve degrees east three miles and one hundred and thirty-two perches to a chestnut oak on the summit of Turkey Ridge, standing in the line of Perry County ; thence along the different courses of the same as aforesaid, as rep- resented by the red line through the above draught and lounbly submit the same to court.
" A. GUSTINE, "S. TUREETT."
The report was laid over until February 3, 1836, when it was read in open court and cou- firmed.
The township is bounded on the south by Perry County, on the east by Perry County and Greenwood township, Juniata County, on the north, by Fayette township and on the west by Walker township. Cocolamus Creek extends through the northeastern part of the township, and Delaware Run, which rises in Fayette township, flows in a southwesterly direction through Thompsontown and enters the Juniata a short distance below the town. This stream doubtless took its name from the Delaware Indians, and is called Delaware Rim in the earliest records, papers and surveys.
EARLY SETTLEMENTS, -- There were many tracts of land in the territory of the purchase of 1754 that were located by speenlators, whose names disappear after a few years. A tract of six hundred acres, adjoining land of James Crampton, was taken up or purchased by Boyn- ton, Wharton, Morgan & Co., before 1767, as they are assessed on that amount of land in that year, who held it until 1787. In 1769 they are assessed on six hundred acres of land in Lack Township. They were a firm of Philadel- phia merchants, who took up lands in different parts of the New Purchase and also in the pur- chase of 1768, lying farther west. They became possessed of many thousands of aeres, not only in Pennsylvania, but in the Northwest Territory, those embracing Ohio.
Thomas Evans resided here from 1767 to 1771, and his lands passed to the Cooksons. James Gallagher resided near the river from
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1763 to 1780, when he disappears. Of other names of parties who took up lands, some of' whom resided here, are Edmund Huff, Edward Edwards, James McLin, Dunem MeDougal.
The following sketches are of a few of the early families who settled within the limits of what is now Delaware township :
William Stewart, whose name appears on the assessment roll of Fermanagh township in 1763, came to this county in October, 1752, with his parents, Archibald and Margaret Stew- art, from Newry, Ireland, and in September, 1753, came up the Juniata and settled on what later was known as the " Bark Tavern Tract," in Perry County. He was driven off by the Indians, as were the other settlers, and went down to the other side of the mountains, near Carlisle. In 1761 he came up the Juniata River, above his early settlement, to one mile above what is now Thompsontown, and on November 17th, in that year, purchased of Henry Cooper a tract of three hundred acres of land, which was warranted to Jas. Chambers, September S, 1755, and conveyed to Cooper July 15, 1761. In September, 1763, he warranted forty-three acres adjoining. He returned to near Carlisle in the second exodus of the settlers, and in 1765 married, and Elizabeth, his wife, in an affidavit made in 1810, says that in the spring of 1766 they went to the settlement on Little JJniata Creek, now Centre township, Perry County, (where an account of their carly settlement will be found), and in the fall of 1766 they came to the settlement above Delaware Run, where he lived until his death. On August 13, 1768, he purchased an improvement on the opposite side of the river from his settlement, of William Willcox. This tract was then in Milford town- ship, and in 1791 came to Fermanagh. A part of the land on this side, called " Barley-field and Hop-yard," was sold November 21, 1775, to William Brown and David Walker.
The settlers in this region, then known as the Western County, though themselves struggling with adverse circumstances, responded to the appeal in 1774 of the sufferers of Boston by the infamous Stamp Act, and of the contributors was William Stewart, who paid to that end sixteen shillings. He was out on duty with
others from this section in 1778, as the follow- ing will set forth :
" Permit the bearer, William Stuart, to pass un- molested to Cumberland County, as he hath served two months honestly and faithfully in the 4th Class of Cumberland Militia. Given under my hand this 4th day of January, 1778.
" Pinar MATHIAS, Capt."
ITis name also appears in 1780 among those who were associated in this county for protec- tion. He lived until the close of the Revolu- tion and died July 29, 1784, and his wife, Eliz- abeth, lived with her children until August 12, 1822.
The following receipt is of interest :
" Received of Mrs. Elizabeth Stewart one musket, bayonet and belt complete, the property of the United States.
"SAMUEL BRYSON, "Lieutenant Mitllin County. " September 2, 1798."
The children of William and Margaret Stew- art were John, Wilson, Sarah, Mary, Margaret, Gracey, Elizabeth, Rachel and Rebecca.
John, the eldest, married Elizabeth, a daughter of David Walker, and settled on the home-farm and died April 13, 1831, aged sixty years and ten months. He was a justice of the peace from 1821. His son David succeeded to the farm and died in September, 1886, aged thirty year-, the last of the name. The prop- . erty now belongs to J. Stewart Lukens, a de- scendant of William Stewart and grandson of Henry and Gracey (Stewart) Lukens. The children of John Stewart were Anna (Mrs. Abraham Lukens) ; Elizabeth died umarried ; David married Elizabeth Mc Allister"; William died March, 1832; Wilson died May, 1814; Eliza married Dr. Cyrus MeCurdy ; Mary be- came the wife of Dr. John Irvin. Of the other children of William and Margaret Stewart, Sarah married Abraham Deen ; Mary became Mrs. Noble Crawford ; Margaret married George Brown; Gravey married Henry Lukens; Elizabeth married Isage Cook ; Jean became the wife of Andrew Thompson, tailor ; Rachel, Mrs. John Thompson ; and Rebecca, Mrs. Andrew Thompson, whose husband was a farmer.
In the year 1799, Widow Elizabeth Stewart.
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was assessed on a shad fishery, then kept at Black Rock, which was at the Stewart farm, on the river.
The Stewart farm was, in 1756, owned by James Chambers and ocenpied by Edward Nich- olas, his wife and children,-Joseph, Thomas, Catharine and Edward. William Willcox lived on the opposite side of the river. In February, 1756, Shamokin Daniel, with a party of Indi- ans, came up the Juniata and stopped at Hugh Micheltree's house and killed his wifeand young Edward Nicholas, who was staying with her while her husband was away to Carlisle. The Indians then went up the river to the Chambers tract and killed old Edward Nicholas and his wife and took the children and John Willcox, James Armstrong's wife and two children prisoners. On March 29th, the same year, Hugh Micheltree was taken prisoner. In the fall of that year Samuel Clifford, son of Joseph and Catharine Nicholas, two of the children carried off by Shamokin Daniel's party at a Tutelo town, forty miles above Tioga (now two miles from Ithaca, N. Y.), a town lately destroyed by Sullivan.
The reader is referred to the third chapter of the General History for an account of the In- dian troubles.
James Crampton warranted land on the Ju- niata River, as the following receipt will show :
"PHILADELPHIA, May 12, 1755.
" Received of James Crampton fifty shillings in part for fifty aeres, as to be surveyed to him adjoining other land granted him by warrant of this day on the waters of Juniata, Cumberland County.
" For the Hon. the Proprietors, " EDMUND PHYSICK."
On the other side of this receipt is the fol- lowing assignment :
"I hereby assign to David Stout my Right to the lands within mentioned, as a seenrity on his passing his word for me to appear at next Court and enter Special Bail in the action of James Collom.
" Witness my Hand the 22d of December, Anno Dom. 1762.
"JAMES CRAMPTON. " FELIX DONNELLY."
paper was killed by the Indians at Big Spring, near Huntingdon, Pa., June 19, 1777. The name of David Stout does not appear in the assessment roll of Fermanagh township, and he probably did not enter as " Special Bail."
In 1767 Crampton is assessed for one hnu- dred acres of land, ten aeres cleared, two horses and one cow. He remained on the land until his death, in 1788, and in 1789 his heirs are in possession of the property.
Adjoining his land Edward Huff warranted two hundred and fifty-six acres on Delaware Run, October, 1766, which was patented as " Barley-field."
From 1789 the name disappears from the county; the lands came into possession of the Cooksons, and are now in part owned by Sam- nel Evans and John Kurtz, and lie about a mile above the Evans mill.
James Micheltree was a warrantee in this township, in 1755, but where is not known ; but the farm now owned by Robert Thompson and William G. Thompson was taken up by him on an order of survey, No. 3229, March 22, 1761, and where he lived until his death, in the early part of 1803 ; he also took up on order of survey a traet March 27, 1767. In his will, made Jan- uary 3d in that year, he appointed James Me- Lin and David Walker excentors of the estate, who sold it, April 1st the summe year, to John Thompson, who, on the 6th of March, 1817, conveyed it to Andrew Thompson, farmer, who married Rebecca, danghter of William Stewart.
The family of Micheltree became extinet in this section, with the death of the one here men- tioned. One Hngh Micheltree was carried off by the Indians March 29, 1756. Jolm is men- tioned from 1768 to 1782 as a drover ; Samuel in 1770 ; Joseph in 1792. John Tennis, who purchased in 1761 the land on a part of which Thompsontown is laid, and who sold a part in 1770 to John Kepler, kept one hundred and fifty acres that lay above the old river bridge. He had four sons,-William, Stephen, Anthony and Sammel. William was in the Revolution- ary War, and does not again appear. Sanmel is mentioned as a freeman in 1776, and as
The Donnelly who signed as witness to this | owner of land and stock from 1777 to 1793,
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when he went West; Anthony, as a freeman from 1785 to 1790, and owner of land and stock from 1793 to 1802, when he sold and went West; Stephen, as a freeman from 1788, owning stock in 1791 and land from 1796. He settled mpon the homestead and died there in 1808. John Tennis, now living in Fayette township, eighty-four years of age, is a son of Stephen. When fifteen years of age (1817) he learned the trade of a black- smith of Samuel Belford, then living at what is now Mount Pleasant. He worked at his trade for several years, at Mifflin and Jericho, and in 1833 bought a farm in Walker township, where he lived until 1865, when he moved to Fayette, where he now lives. Of the family of Tennis who now live in Thompsontown, Israel Tennis came to this place in 1841, from Montgomery County. A brother, William, had lived below the town since 1820. The family probably have a common origin, but it is not certainly known. The Tennis lands are now owned by the heirs, William and Robert Thompson.
John Tennis, Sr., purchased one hundred and eighty acres of George Patterson February 4, 1879.
The name of Thomas Jordan appeared in 1766 as the owner of two hundred acres of land which he had warranted in that year, and the land ro- mained unseated for several years, and in 1776 he ereeted upon it, and upon Delaware Run, a little below the site of the present Evans mill, a grist-mill, which was continued until about 1803. The stones that were used in this old mill are still in nse at the mill of Samuel Evans. Soon after the grist-mill was erected a saw-mill was built and a distillery a few years later. In 1791 a road was laid from David Walker's to Jordan's mill, and thence down to John Smith's mill, on Cocolamus Creek, which was farther down, and had been in operation from 1785. In 1794 Thomas Jordan took up on warrants other lands near his mill lands. He became in- volved financially, and February 10, 1802, his property was sold at sheriff's sale, and bought in by Elias W. Hale, of Lewistown, as attorney for General Louis Evans, of Mont- gomery County, who moved at once to the lands and began improvements. The property
then consisted of the mill tract of three hundred aeres, the grist and saw-mill and two hundred acres in Greenwood township. At that time the distillery was abandoned. In the next year General Evans erected a four-story stone grist-mill between the present mill and the site of the old mill, which was used until 1871, when S. Owen Evanserceted the present one. The old saw-mill was nearly half a mile above the present mill, and was abandoned soon after its purchase and a new saw-mill built near the grist-mill, which was rebuilt about 1815 and abandoned about 1815. The present saw-mill was erected by S. Owen Evans in 1857.
An oil-mill was built in 1803, near the old saw-mill up the creek, which was used about thirty years. To it was attached another building in which carding and fulling-machines were placed and operated. About 1820 this was enlarged and the manufacture of woolen goods was begun, which continued until a few years ago. The old log house of Thomas Jor- dan is still standing, and in 1812 General Evans built the east part of the stone mansion, to which, in 1835, an addition was made. About 1820 General Evans purchased a part of the Cookson lands and other lands which embraced parts of the old Crampton, Evans and Lukens tracts. These lands are now owned by Samuel Owen Evans and the heirs of John Kurtz.
S. Owen Evans is of Welsh extraction. His grandfather, George Evans, Jr., resided near the Trappe, in Montgomery County, Pa. He married Elizabeth North, of the same county, where children were Frederick, Lewis, Lydia, who married Charles Cookson, and Caleb, who died at the age of twenty-one years. Lewis, who served in the War of 1812, was a native of Montgomery County, and, by occupation, both a miller and a farmer. He married Amelia Groathouse, whose children were Julia Ann, wife of Dr. T. I. Davis ; S. Owen; Lydia, mar- ried to Dr. T. I. Davis; Mary, wife of Adam Il. Atkinson ; and Amelia, wife of James Mathers.
The death of Mr. Evans occurred on the 18th of August, 1852, in his seventy-fifth year. His son, S. Owen Evans, was born on the 15th of February, 1807, in Greenwood township, Mif-
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flin County (near Thompsontown), on or near which spot his whole life has been passed. The subscription schools of the day enabled him to acquire a rudimentary education, his attendauce being chiefly confined to the winter mouths, after which he gave a hand at the work ou the farm and in the mill, and assisted his father iu his various business enterprises. On the death of the latter, Angust 18, 1852, he came into possession of the property included in the
farming, he now devotes his attention exehi- sively to milling. In his political predilections Mr. Evans is a pronounced Republican, having, in former years, affiliated with the Whig party. Thongh active in the political field and at various times the incumbent of offices in the township, he is not an aspirant for official position. His iufmience has been marked in all matters which affect the welfare of Delaware township. Mr. Evans was educated in the faith of the Protest-
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farm, and purchased the mill. He was, on the 13th of Angust, 1844, married to Amelia, daughter of Hon. George Kremer, of Snyder County, Pa. The children of this marriage are George Kremer, who resides with his father and assists him in business ; Ibri, deceased ; and Aurelins Bradford, of Carrollton, Greene Co., III. Mr. Evans, prior to the death of his father, managed his business affairs almost exclusively, and after that event continued these enterprises in his own behalf. Having recently abandoned;
ant Episcopal Church, to which he still faith- fully adheres.
The name of Jordan was quite well known in an early day, and was probably connected with Thomas Jordan, if not his sous. David Jordan, from 1787 to 1798, kept the "old Jordan Tay- ern," later known as the "Seven-Mile tavern," in the Narrows above Mifflin, where he also, in 1792, established a ferry, and later went to Lew- istown, where he died. Robert was a freeman from 1793, and in 1794 owned land. John
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owned land from 1801, and Nancy from 1820. Francis was a tanner, and sunk a tannery at Mexico, which he continued until 1856.
Thomas Jordan, on April 1, 1777, purchased, on an article of agreement from William Patter- son, Esq., forty acres of land on Delaware Run, " with a saw-mill thereon," which he sold, on an article of agreement, to Joseph Cookson October 12, 1778. The deed to this land was not given until after the death of William Patterson, and was given by his heirs June 19, 1798. Jordan deeded to Cookson the property Angust 6, 1799.
On the 16th of May, 1776, John Hamilton and Joseph Sellers took out a warrant for one hundred and seventy acres of land on the bank of Cocolamus Creek. The name of Sellers does uot again appear in connection with the prop- erty, and Hamilton undoubtedly purchased his interest. John Hamilton built on the creek a grist-mill and saw-mill. In July, 1781, a road was laid from John Kepler's (who then owned a part of the tract of land on which Thompson- town was afterward laid out) to John Hamil- ton's mill, and in the next year a road was ordered laid out from Harris' plantation (now Mifflintown), past Gabriel Fry's smith-shop (now David Dimm's farm), to Hamilton's grist-mill. A road soon after was laid out over the ridge from the settlement in and about what is now MeAlisterville. John Hamilton was the owner of a large tract of land in what is now Walker township, and in part owned by Hugh Hamil- ton, his grandson. He moved from " Ferman- agh " (the name of his farm) to Harrisburg in 1787, and left his property in this section of country in the care of his son John, who re- mained on the place. The mill was conducted by him until the death of his father, in 1793, and in 1796 the mill property on Cocolamus Creek was sold by the heirs to Joseph Sellers.
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