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Jacob Souder, 150; George Smiley's heirs, 600, and saw-mill ; Alexander Shortess, 237, and saw-mill ; Mathias Sowder, 22; Henry Sowder, 100; Rev. John suider, 275; William Anderson Smith, 300; Jacob Sweigert, 200; Jacob Smith, 230; Frederick Specht, 315; John Stewart, 121 ; Jacob Sidel, 100, grist and saw-mill; George Shade, 21; David Shade, 16; Conrad Sloop, 125; Isaac Swartz, 60; Adam Swartz, 172, saw-mill; Read Shafer, 110; Joseph Spring, 86, distillery and ferry ; Andrew Smith, 159; Peter Tise, 50; Mathew Taylor, 900; John Tummer, 106; Nathan Vantussin (merchant), 80; Robert Wooster, 108; John White, Sr., 200; Robert Wallace, 200, saw-mill; John White, Jr., 100, saw-mill ; Philip Wax, 217 ; John Wolf, 48 ; John Wallace, 13 ; Henry Wax, 150; Charles Wingerd, 302; William White, 128; John Woodward, Fr., 300, distillery; John Woodward, Jr., 361; Frederick Watts, 70; William Wattson, 100; James Willis, 170; David Watts, Esq., 1700; John Welsh, 15; James Watts, 130; James White, 280, fulling-mill ; Robert Wallace, 100; James Wallace, 140; Whitehill's heirs, 185; William Walker, 100; James White, 190; John Winn, 61; Widow Wisor, 117; Felix Young, 135; Daniel Yohe, 60; Conrad Yohe, 183.
At the time of this assessment the township embraced within its limits the townships of Wheatfield, Penn, its present territory and parts of Carroll, Centre and Miller, all of which were formed from it. The township as at present constituted lies in the southeast corner of the county. Its topography will be found in Clay- pole's "Geological History of Perry County" and in the first chapter of this history.
EARLY SETTLERS .- The first to locate land in the present limits of Rye township of whom anything is known was Colonel Samnel Hunter, of Dauphin County. His first warrant was dated September 8, 1755, for land now occupied by Marysville and above and below ; two other warrants of September, 1767, and two orders of survey of 1766 covered a large tract of eight hundred acres, extending two miles on the river and over three miles up the Fishing Creek Valley. A fuller account will be found in the borough of Marysville.
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Adjoining Hunter's tract on the south and on the river was William Swanzey, who was grant- wl three hundred and twenty-two acres, with a river front of thirty rods, and extending up the valley. Still below on the river and reaching to the county line, was a tract of three hundred
and twelve acres, warranted to Hartley Worm- ley, Jime 23, 1792. Adjoining the Hunter tract, above, lies a tract of three hundred and twenty-two acres, with its north part lying on the river. This was warranted to John W. Kittera, September 2, 1792, and surveyed in June, 1794. Alexander Berryhill warranted a tract frouting on the river. Above the Hunter tract, and bounded south and west by the Kit- tera tract, Dimean Stewart warranted one hun- red and forty-two acres of land above Kittera, and reaching to the township line. Back of these were Barefoot Bronson, ninety oue acres, war- rauted March 4, 1781; Henry Robison, two hnn- dred and forty acres; and James Starr, three hun- dred and fifty-nine acres. South of the last was William Swanson, three hundred and twenty-two acres ; William Davis, three hundred and twenty- seven acres; and George MeLaughlin, four hun- dred and forty-two aeres. Above the Hunter tract on Fishing Creek were the lands of John Bow- man, who, in 1798 had on the place a grist and saw-mill and a carding-machine. Still above, up the valley of the Fishing Greek, were John Wiley and John Bolton three hundred and seven acres, warranted in 1792; Alex. Johnson, four hundred acres ; Humphrey Williams, three hun- dred and eleven acres; James McFarlane, three hundred and twenty-nine acres, warrant dated September, 1792; Thomas Buchanan, three hundred and twenty-nine aeres, warranted Oc- tober 6, 1793; William McFarlane, three hun- dred and twenty-two acres, warranted in 1793; David Ralston, three hundred and twenty- three aeres, warranted in 1792 (on this tract Keystone post-office is located); John Clous or Cless, two hundred and eighty-one acres, warranted January 22, 1789 (now owned in part by II. Kocher) ; Robert Wallace, three hundred and thirty-seven acres; Robert Whitehill, one hundred and five aeres, warrant dated in 1795. This tract extends to the Carroll township line, on which Grier's Point is situated,
Nicholas Wolfe, the father-in-law of John Bowman, was associated with Bowman in the building of the mills in 1798. The grist and saw-mills were still in operation by Bowman in 1830, and a distillery was also at the place. It was four miles up the valley from the mouth
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of Fishing Creek. The mill property is now owned by Alex. Hartman.
On the 7th of August, 1765, Thomas Burney warranted three hundred aeres, including an im- provement, Adam Carron, Andrew Branson, James Galler and Daniel Nuthery.
Robert Allen, August 28, 1795, warranted fifty acres, including improvement, adjoining Thomas White, Godfrey Sille and Robert Whitchill.
On September 3, 1792, a tract of three hun- dred and twenty-nine acres of land was warrant- ed to James McFarlane, which December 13th, the same year, he sold to Daniel MeClintock and John Nicholson, by whom it was patented under the name of " Partnership." Nicholson released to Mcclintock, February 28, 1793, who held it until February 10, 1810, when he sold to Charles Bovard, of Carlisle, who moved to this place.
Hle took ont a warrant, May 9, 1815, for two hundred and fifty acres, and, June 2d the same year, his daughter Nancy took up four hundred acres in two tracts of one hundred and fifty and two hundred and fifty acres. Upon this land Bovard built a tavern, which he kept until after 1834; it was on the old road from Carlisle to Sunbury. He had four daughters- Nancy (who married - Willis), Rachel, Rebecca and Marguerite. The latter married Robert Clark, and, after his death, became the wife of Zach- ariah Rice. John Greer and Socrates Green each married a daughter of Charles Boyard. Mr. Bovard was for many years a justice of the peace. The property owned by him is now in part owned by Emmanuel Keller. The town of Keystone is also on part of it.
Christian En-minger in 1797 was in posses- sion of about six hundred acres of laud lying between Fishing Creek and Pine Hill. About that time he built a saw-mill, which was con- tinned long after 1820. He died before 1840. Ilis sons and danghters were as follows: John (who settled in Lebanon County), David, Su- sanun ( Mrs. George Billow), Daniel, Mary (Mrs. Henry Gamber) Jacob, Hannah (Mes. John Reed), Rosmua ( Mes. William Albright), Joseph and William, Jacob and William are living neu the old homestead, far advanced in yours.
Solomon Finicle was a settler in the valley about 1800, and his sons-John, Simon and others-purchased lands from Jacob Sidles, Christian Ensminger and others. The family is still in the valley.
The Foulks settled in the valley in 1790, and, in 1820, David Foulk owned one hundred acres and Philip two hundred and twenty-five acres. The family are still residents.
Jacob Sidle was an early settler in Fishing Creek, and in 1820 was the owner of four huu- dred and eighty acres of land and a grist and saw-mill; he was living in the upper end of the valley, in Rye township. Soon after 1820 he took down his grist-mill and moved it across Pine Hill to the site of the present Dugan Mill, where he lived many years. The family were quite numerous and appear in different parts of the county.
Near Cove Mountain, and adjoining land ot Barefoot Branson and Henry Robinson, Martin Dubbs took ont, December 21, 1793, a warrant for four hundred acres of land.
August 16, 1774, William Glover located, by warrant, one hundred and fifty acres in the val- ley, adjoining Charles Stewart.
Alexander Johnston also took up five acres in the valley, five miles from the month of Fish- ing Creek.
Of families who were residents in the valley within the memory of those living were those of William, Andrew and Thomas Glover, Will- iam Messenger, Peter Foulk, Conrad Stroop, John Finicle, Godfrey and Jacob Sidle, Daniel Yohe, Samuel Grier, Samuel Good, John Sheaf- fer, George Rhodes, David Cowen, Nathan Col. lins, John Bowman, Charles Bovard and Chris- tian Ensminger.
The gap on the mountain was carly known as Croghan's Gap, and later as Sterrett's Gap, by which name it is still known. John Arm- strong took out, ou order of survey No. 1288, a traet of ninety-three aeres, which he sold to Nathan Andrews. It was returned to the sur- veyor's office June 21, 1788, in the name of Ralph Sterrett, who, with John and James Ster- rett, warranted four hundred and eight acres of land along the erest of the mountain, extend- ing over three miles cast from the gap.
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In 1821 a road was laid out from George Barnett's farm (New Bloomfield) to the top of the mountain at Sterrett's Gap, now in Carroll township.
The time the old Valley road down Fishing Creek was laid ont is not known, as no record of it has been found and its existence is beyond the recollection of the oklest inhabitant. It was early made a post-route, and Peter, Samuel and John Harold were post-riders.
The new Valley road from Marysville to Hart- man's mill was begun in 1868 and finished in 1870. The State road leading from the west end of Harrisburg bridge to Petersburg (now Dunemummon) was laid ont in 1829. The com- missioners who located it were John Clendenin, A. Wills, Alexander Branyan, R. T. Jacobs and Robert Clark. Before the State road was con- structed there was a very rugged and stony by- way along the river. The main travel was over the mountain, at what is now known as Miller's Gap, two miles from the river. In addition to these roads there are several that leave the Valley road and cross the mountain. One leaves Hart- man's mill and passes north over the Cove Mountain; another leaves Keystone north; both pass into Pen township ; another leaves Grier's Point, extends northward through a small val- ley in the Pine Ilill into Wheatfield. The roads from the Valley road that pass southward pass respectively through narrows in Little Mom- tain, and over Lamb's Gap, Miller's Gap, to Hempfield, Dean's Gap and Sterrett's Gap.
Mnas,-Hartman's mill was built on the site of the present mill, in 1798, by Nicholas Wolf and his son-in-law, John Bowman. They built, at the same time and place, a carding-mill and a saw-mill, which have long since disappeared. A son of John Bowman, also named John, re- sides at Camp Hill, Cumberland County, and is past ninety years of age. The mill was destroyed by fire in 1880, when owned by Neyhart & Son, who rebuilt it and it soon after passed to Alex- ander Hartman, who increased its capacity to fifty barrels of flour per day. The improved roller-process machinery is used.
Jacob Bishop built a saw-mill, about 1835, on the property now of JI. Kell, about four miles From Marysville, which stood until 1878, when
it was taken down. The Keller saw-mill, west of Keystone, was built by Charles Bovard, but was destroyed by fire a few years ago. The Messinger chop and saw-mill was built by Cap- tain William Messinger, about 1835, on the Messinger Farm, cast of Keystone. The Billow saw-mill, west of the Stony Ridge, was built about 1835 by Peter Billow, on the property now owned by Amos Billow.
The Conlter saw-mill, along Cove Mountain, north of Greiger's Point, was built by Mr. Coulter about forty years ago. A saw-mill was built on the property of George Kocher many years ago, but has long since been taken away.
KEYSTONE.
Keystone is on part of the old Charles Boyard farm. The Old Tavern was sitnated on the Emanuel Keller farm, and was the only tavern from Sterrett's Gap to the Susquehanna River. A school-house was in the vicinity before 1828, and was known as "Congruity." This settle- ment now contains a few houses. The store and post-office are kept by Charles Barshinger, who erected the first brick house in the hamlet.
GRIER'S POINT.
Grier's Point is situated on Fishing Creek, and on the line between Rye and Carroll town- ships. It took its name from Sammel Grier, or Grieger, who settled there after 1820. The first frame house built at this place was erected many years ago by Daniel Ensminger. This hamlet at present contains a few houses, a store, kept by David P. Lightner, and a post-office, kept by Benjamin Leonard. The old White fulling- mills, now owned by the heirs of James Sykes, are abont one and one-half miles above, on Fishing Creek, in Carroll township. Captain William Messinger had here the first store. He was followed by Samuel Grier, or Grieger, who also kept a tavern in the building.
Senoors .- On the old Valley road, above George Kocher's, and near the residence of Jolm Kell, a log school-house was built several years before 1800. It was covered with clapboards and lighted by an opening between two logs, through single panes of glass placed side by side.
At Daniel Cowen's, fourteen miles above
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Marysville, on the old road, is the site of two school-honses-one built long before 1800, and the second built about 1805, a little cast of the site of the first. This house was used as late as 1830. Among the teachers were Isaac Gray, Samuel Coble and Widow Barbara Miller, mother of ex-Governor Stephen Miller, of Minnesota. Near the residence of John Seerist, on the old Valley road, a school-house formerly stood.
One of the earliest schools of which any ac- curate information is obtained was built on land of Jacob Sidle, who, on the 2d of February, 1819, sold forty perches of land to Christian Ensminger, William Messinger, Peter Foulk, Conrad Sloop, Peter Gamber, George Albright, Conrad Yohe, Philip Hench, George Shade, Daniel Yohe, David Shade, Solomon Finiele, David Myers, James White, Peter Billow and Jacob Sidle for the purpose of erecting a school- house thereon. The deed recites that they were to pay " unto Jacob Sidle the sum of one dollar fur thear shears of said school, and the said subscribers is to pay an Eaquel Portion fur building said house and to keep the said house in good Repear."
On the Bovard farm a school-house was erected before 1828, which was named "Con- gruity," and on the 28th of June, in that year, Charles Bovard sold to the trustees seventy feet square on the public road leading from Landis- burg to the Susquehanna River, it being a part of land Bovard bought of George Frees (on which Congrnity School-house is bnilt), adjoin- ing the southwest corner of John Reed's lands. A house was built at Keystone in 1846, and the present one in 1879. The township at present contains five schools,-Grieger's, Keystone, Zorgnis, Glenvale and Kinert's.
CHURCHES .- Bethel Church, of the Evan- gelical Association, was built in 1846, at a cost of eight hundred dollars. The first meetings were held some years before the erection of the building. Among the original members were Martin Sonder, Mary Sonder, George Finiele, Sarah Finide, B. F. Leonard, Elizabeth Leon- ard, George Kocher, Sr. The ministers who served this congregation also served the congre- gation of the sune denomination at Marysville.
The membership for the year 1886 is sixty- five.
Salem Church, of the Evangelical Associa- tion, was built in 1856. The first meetings were held in connection with the Bethel Church by the same pastors. Among the first members were Israel Dick, Elizabeth Dick, Henry Foulk, Jacob Bitner, Sr., Frances Bitner, Im- manuel Keller, Elizabeth Keller, Charles Bar- shinger, John Kreamer, Sarah Kreamer, David Benfer and Matilda Benfer. The Evangelical Association built a log house of worship at Sitterly's grave-yard, about 1838 or 1840, about one mile up the valley from Marysville, which was removed about 1867.
The Church of God was built at Hartman's Mills, or Glenvale, in 1882, at a cost of eighteen Inindred dollars, and is the finest church struc- ture in the valley. Meetings of this denomina- tion were first held in a school and in private honses. The ministers of the Church of God at Marysville have served here as part of the charge. Among the old ministers of twenty to thirty years ago were David Maxwell, Henry Clay, Win. MeFadden and A. Swartz. Some of the original members were Jacob Farten- bangh, Sr., and wife, and Alexander Hartman and wife.
The first church in this end of the township was situated near Grier's Point, now in Carroll township. It was a log structure, built in 1822. In 1818 Rev. Benjamin Keller, of Carlisle, Pa., a Lutheran minister, counneneed to preach for the congregation and served it a number of years. A fuller account of this church will be found in Carroll township.
CHAPTER XIV.
MARYSVILLE 1
Tur land at the month of Fishing Creek was taken up by Samuel Hunter September 8, 1855, and embraced a large traet extending two mikes along the river and three miles up the Fishing Creek Valley. He took up other lands adjoin-
1 By Dr. G. W. Eppley.
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ing, on two orders of survey, in 1766, and one on a warrant of September 22, 1767. At the month of the creek he erected a saw-mill near or on the site of Seidel's Forge. On the 6th of October, 1767, he sold the property, with the mill and other improvements, at the month of " West's Fishing Creek," to Elizabeth Stewart for twenty pounds. A portion of this land, after passing through several hands, came to R. T. Jacobs, who, on the 24th of January, 1821, patented a tract containing five hundred aeres and allowance, extending one mile on the west bank of the Susquehanna, and west from the riverabout one mile and a half to its western boundary. This property passed from R. T. Jacobs into the hands of Robert Clark, and from him to the Hon. Frederick Watts, and from him to Jacob M. Haldeman, one undivided moiety, and to Jacob and Christopher C. K. Pratt, the other moiety. JJacob Haldeman sold his part, or moiety, to Thomas Morley. Jared Pratt and con sold their part, or moiety, to Hiram P. and Thomas W. Morley, and from these parties the property passed into the hands of the heirs of Jacob M. Haldeman, from whom it was pur- chased, on the 1st day of December, 1860, by Theo. and Margaretta D. Fenn. At this time Marysville contained but five buildings, viz. : The Kittatinny House, at the west end of the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, then kept by Sumnel Strasbaugh, the present proprietor of the St. Cloud Hotel ; the house erceted by Richard T. Jacobs, on the bank of the river at the saw-mill, now Seidel's Forge ; the honse owned and ocenpied by David Stahler, that owned and occupied by William W. Jackson, and that belonging to and occupied by John B. Reiff. The first house erected after December 1, 1860, was built by John Rhiver, known as the Railroad Hotel, now owned and ocenpied by George Falk as a hotel; the second was built by Simon G. Eppler, afterwards owned and kept as a hotel by John Rhiver, now ocen- pied by 1. B. Traver as a store-room ; the third store-room built by W. B. Millett (where the St. Cloud Hotel now stands). In the spring of 1861 lots were laid out by Theo. Fem and sold, and the creation of houses began. In the year 1862 about one Indred and fifty acres
were sold by Theo. Fenn and wife to Hon. John B. Seidel and Henry Seidel, inelnd- ing the house built by Richard T. Jacobs, etc., with the saw-mill and water-power, where the " Perry Forge," built in 1862, now stands. At that time the Northern Central Railway had a watering-station here called the Y, since changed.
In 1865 it was deemed advisable to have the town incorporated into a borough, which was done by an act of the Legislature bearing date 1866. The first election under the charter was held April, 1866, at which time John B. Reiff was chosen chief burgess. Mr. Reiff was the proprietor of the property known as the " Reiff Farm," on which a considerable part of the present town has been built.
After the organization of the borough the erection of churches, school-houses, and the im- provement of the streets began. The town has now five churches, six well-graded schools, with an eight months' term. There are also a large round-house, two passengers and two freight stations, with telegraph-offices, etc. In 1860 the town contained about fifty persons, now abont fourteen hundred.
We will now give a brief history of the old- est citizens and buildings of the place of seventy years ago. At the west end of the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, where the Pennsylvania Rail- road is connected with the Northern Central Railway, was a two-story honse owned by the Henrys, which was for a number of years oceu- pied by a band of horse-thieves. Near by stood a large stone still-house and a two-story log house, also owned by the Henrys, but was taken away when the Pennsylvania Railroad was built. Another, just north on the State road, was built and owned by the Mussers. There was a stone still-house and saw-mill where " Perry Forge " now stands ; further north was a one-and -a-half- story house owned by a Mr. Barry, a little west of which (where Mr. A. W. Ensminger's house now stands) was a house built by JJonas Good- man, northeast of which yet stands Lyman Jackson's two-and-a-half-story log honse. This house was built by his brother, William Jackson, and was kept as a public-house for many years; it was known as the half-way honse between
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Harrisburg and Duncannon. It was built soy- enty years ago, is still standing in good condi- tion, and had its second shingle roof six years ago. Northeast of it was a house owned by Jolin Norton. Where the Marysville Station now stands was a two-and-a-half-story house, occupied by John Leadam and owned by the Hatfield heirs. .
Neyhart & Heisley built a steam chopping- mill in Marysville in 1882, which is in running order.
THE CHURCH OF GOD .- The first meetings of this denomination in Marysville were held in 1850. Occasional services were conducted until 1866, when an organization was effected. In 1869 the congregation erected a fine frame house, forty by fifty feet, at a cost of twenty-five hun- dred dollars. David II. Stahler, Mary A. Staller, James S. Miller, Sarah J. Miller, Mary A. Stahler, A. M. Brady, M. A. Brady, Joseph Gensinger, Susan Gensinger, David Cowen and Elizabeth Cowen were among the original mem- bers of the congregation.
The following-named ministers served the congregation : A. Snyder, T. Still, S. V. Sterner, C. L. Amy, J. C. Owens, G. W. Getz, S. S. Richmond, G. W. Coulter, J. A. MeDannel, C. Koler.
THE CHURCH OF THE UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST .- Marysville was first recognized as a preaching place by the United Brethren in Christ March 18, 1866. Rev. J. P. Bishop was the pastor, with Rev. J. X. Quigley assistant. In 1867, Rev. N. Altman was pastor, with the sanne assistant, Revs. G. A. Colestock and J. Neidig were succeeded by Rev. W. Owen. Rev. G. W. Lightner took charge of the work in 1870 and organized a class, composed of D. Brightbill and wife, Joseph Hayes and wife, I. A. Stiles and wife, N. Knapp and wife, Mary Thekey, Mary C. Hornberger, Mary Nye, Nancy J. Robinson, Catharine Shaffer and Eliz- abeth Caunt.
J. S. Bradford and H. Brown were the next pastors. G. W. Lightner served a second term of three years, during which time the church was built, the services being held up to this time in the school-house and the Union Church. The trustees were Joseph Hays, D. Brightbill, G. W.
Lightuer, B. Longnecker and J. F. Slumber- ger. The house is a frame, forty by thirty-two feet, and cost about twenty-two hundred dollars. It was dedicated by Rev. W. S. H. Keys, D.D., May 15, 1875.
The following-named pastors have served since : J. R. Hutchison, R. 11. Whitlock, D. D. Lowrey, J. C. Crider and J. P. Anthony.
In 1882 the church was struck by lightning and considerably damaged, but was neatly re- paired and is in good condition. The present membership is about twenty, with a Sabbath- school of about forty members.
EMANUEL CHURCH OF THE EVANGELICAL AssociATION .- In 1866 funds were collected and a lot presented to the association by Theo- dore and Margaretta D. Fenn. The corner-stone of the building was laid Jme 24, 1866, and it was dedicated December 23, 1866. The build- ing committee were Rev. John Cramer, Levi Dice and Leonard Swartz. Among the names of the first members of the congregation the fol- lowing appear on the church record : Levi Dice, Sr., Jacob Scantling, E. C. Gault, Lonia Gault, Elizabeth Hondeshe, George Kocher, Chauncey S. Wise, Ella Wise and W. S. Gault. The ministers and assistants stationed here and who also served Salem and Bethel churches in Rye township, were Reeser and Harris, Farnsworth and Irwin, J. Young and MeGaw, S. T. Penington and J. Y. Reed, S. T. Buek- nell and Detweiler, Anrand and Morris, Sloat and Davis, Miller, W. IT. Stover, S. I. Shortess, George W. Zehner, George Joseph, R. W. Run- yan, 1. C. Yeakel. The membership in 1886 is fifty-three.
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