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On the south line of Miller township and on the Juniata River Samuel Galbraith lived on lands in 1788, which he took up on warrant issued April 12, 1790. This tract consisted of two hundred and sixty-eight acres, and was sur- veyed on the 18th of April, 1808, and is now owned by George Losh and S. B. Boyer. Back from the river was a tract of one hundred and thirty-four aeres owned by John Elliot, and be- low, in Wheatfield township, Samuel and Han- nah Galbraith had a large tract of land, and Samuel had another tract on the river. Samnel Galbraith had, in 1816, surveyed to him, in trust for the heirs of William Galbraith, a tract of one hundred and seventy-nine acres, lying on the river adjoining Samuel Galbraith's heirs and below Losh's Run. John Smith's tract, now in Wheatfield township, was next below it. Next above Galbraith, General Frederick Watt had three hundred and forty-two acres on an early warrant ; this came into the possession of Peter Sheyer and Joseph Bailey.
Next along the river was Samuel Martin, who held sixty-eight acres on a warrant dated Jan- nary 15, 1768, which had a river frontage of two hundred and seven rods. The Caroline Furnace was sitnated on this tract. Directly back of this tract Frances Beelen had three
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hundred and twenty-eight acres, warranted to him on the 21st of March, 1814. Still back of this tract was one hundred and twenty-nine aeres, warranted October 2, 1766, to John Gil- more, and surveyed to Marens Hulings in 1786. Matthew Hart had the same land and near two hundred and thirty acres more on warrant of August 12, 1781. William Van Comp located seventy arres next above Sammel Martin on warrant of November 12, 1792. This land had been formerly surveyed to Letitia Cunningham, on warrant dated August 27, 1767. This tract belongs to the heirs of Joseph Bailey. Next above, Elizabeth MeCord had twenty-seven acres.
Hugh Miller had one hundred and fifty acres which were warranted on the 6th of June, 1775. This is now owned by the Donaghy heirs and controlled by the Catholies. Ingh Miller also had a back tract of one hundred and nine acres in rear of Sanmel Martin, and above in rear of William Van Comp, was William Oliphant's one hundred and one acres, taken by Frederick Nipple in right of Oliphant, on order of April 27, 1767.
In the bend of the river were the tracts of Ingh Miller, Andrew Stephens and Robert Sturgeon, the last two for one hundred acres each, taken under order dated April 27, 1767, and May 4, 1768. The Sturgeon and Stephens tracts were bought by John S. Demarce in Jan- uary, 1858. Still above and adjoining Sturgeon was David English, to whom was warranted, on the 23d of October, 1766, ninety-seven aeres in a long, narrow strip along the river, containing the Big Roek and English's improvement.
In the rear of this tract. John Anderson hekl three hnudred and twenty-seven acres on order of September 28, 1767, mostly in Miller town- ship, of which two hundred and ninety-seven perches were along the river. This traet was taken in right of William Ramsey, Esq. Next above, and the last on the river in Miller town- ship, was Emanuel Joseph's three hundred and twenty acres. Back from John Anderson's tract was Colonel John Ewalt's one hundred and sixty-two acres, held on warrant dated June, 1801. He also had other lands in the town- ship.
The land at the north foot of Dick's Hill was taken up by Robert and John Woodburn on the 4th of December, 1786, and is now owned by Rev. Thomas Still, David Harper, George Barrick and others. It pas-ed from the ownership of the Woodburns upwards of forty years ago. On this tract was the " Old Wood burn Tavern-Stand," which was a famous stopping-place on the State road from Clark's Ferry to Pittsburgh. General Frederick Watts took up a tract of land on an order dated June 1, 1868, and lived and died on it. It is now owned by Thompson and Abraham IFuss.
Power's Ferry and fishery and tavern-stand belonged to the farm now owned by Oliver Rice, and in 1828 were kept by John D. Creigh, who advertised them as being " five miles below Millerstown and above Bailysburg." This ferry was " Power's" on the Miller township side and " Fetterman's" on the Howe township side of the Juniata River. Francis Beelen's farm of three hundred and twenty-eight acres was the militia parade-ground. Beelen died on the farm. He also had a ferry.
The John Anderson tract of three hundred and twenty-seven aeres is now owned by Charle- K. Smith, Henry Smith, William Evans and the heirs of William Van Comp, Jr.
Caroline Bridge Company, of April 4, 1838, was composed of John D. Creigh and thirty- two other commissioners. The books were opened for subscribers on the Ith of Jume, 1838. . There were to be twelve hundred shares of stock at twenty dollars per share, and the bridge was to be created over the Jimiata River at Caroline Furnace.
Joseph Bailey was born on the banks of the Brandywine, in Chester County, on the 18th of March, 1810, and in 1840 became a member of the Legislature from his native county, and from 1818 to 1845 represented the same con- stituency in the State Senate. He then removed to Perry County, where he became interested in the management of the Caroline Furnace Iron Company, and continned in this for a number of years.
From 1851 to 1853 Joseph Bailey repre- sented the Perry and Cumberland District iu the State Senate. In 1851 he was elected State
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treasurer by the Legislature. Studying law when well advanced in years, he was examined and admitted to the bar in 1860, and the same verr secured a seat in Congress until the close of the Rebellion, in 1865. While in Congress he wasa war-Democrat and always prided himself in having voted for the Constitutional Amendment prohibiting slavery. In 1872 he was elected as a Republican delegate to the Constitutional Convention from his senatorial district. " Bai- by's Station," at his home in Miller township, was named after him.
CreRenEs,-From "Presbyterian Church History in Perry County," by Rev. John Ed- par, the following facts are principally gleaned :
In 1760 the white settlers of Sherman's Val- ley, including nearly all of what is now Perry County, asked for preachers from Donegal Presbytery, and they were sent. In 1766 the same settlers asked that Presbytery for church organization, and, after several visits of Presby- terial committees, three churches were organ- ized, viz., Old Dick's Gap (where is now an un- inclosed graveyard, in which trees of great age are growing near to and even upon graves, and many graves are covered with boulders, seem- ingly to prevent ravages of wolves. What the grave-yard and the old eighteen by twenty feet church foundation represent is the object of this investigation. This church and grave-yard are on the Baileysburg road, four miles cast of New Bloomfield and three miles west of Baileysburg); also Centre Church, in present location, and likewise the Upper Church, still near Blain. This arrangement was finally approved by Presbytery, AApril 14, 1767.
These churches were under the jurisdiction of Donegal Presbytery until October 17, 1786, when Carlisle Presbytery began. Dick's Gap was the cotemporary of the Upper churches, and, with the first Sherman's Creek Church, called the first pastor-elect of the East End at the same time that the Upper End called its first settled pastor-the Rev. John Linn. It was without doubt the first church building in the county.
Rev. Hugh Magill was called to Dick's Gap in 1777, and the first Sherman's Creek Church joined in the call in 1778, but Magill gave them
np in 1779. Before and after his time Pres- bytery sent supplies to the two churches of this eastern part. Their names were John Hoge, Wangh, William Lin, John Linn, Cooper, Henderson, Johnson, MeMordie, Caldwell, Wilson, Speer and MeLane.
Mrs. Jane Black remembered the old church in 1796, when still in an unfinished state and built of pine logs-unfinished in that, though it had a clapboard roof, the logs were not filled in between ; but she remembers that, in 1798, a coat of nmid-plaster made that point all right. She remembers that her grandfather, Jolm Graham, and Robert Johnson were two of the elders, and had heard that they dated back to about 1773, and they were still living in her time. When Mrs. Black speaks of this old church as being unfinished she does not mean not used, but not as well finished as houses in that time.
About the beginning of the century changes took place, and, as a consequence of these changes, Dick's Gap was abandoned and Middle Ridge took its place.
In the Old Dick's Gap grave-yard Marcus Hulings and his wife lie buried.
Pine-Grove Church of God is a frame build- ing, situated on land of William Holmes. This is the only church in the township.
The three school-houses in this township are all used but the "Old Caroline Furnace," which was replaced by a new one last summer. "Pine Grove" school-house is near Pine Grove Church, and Mahanoy about a mile from Losh's Run, along the Watt's Valley road.
Logania Post-Office, at Losh's Run, is the only post-office in the township at this time. There used to be one at Beelen's Ferry, kept by Francis Beelen, postmaster, but it has long since been discontinued.
The Caroline Furnace was erected by John D. Creigh in 1836, and was run by him several years. It afterwards came into the possession of' Joseph Bailey, near whose house the old stack is still standing.
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CHAPTER XXVI.
GREENWOOD TOWNSHIP.1
Ir is evident from the assessment roll of Fermanagh township, made in 1763, that the territory now comprising the townships of Greenwood, Liverpool, Buffalo, Watts aud llowe were embraced in the territory of this township, as the names of Stophel Munce (or Man), Joseph Greenwood and John Foughts (Pfontz) are found upon the assessment rolls of that year. In that year Stophel Mumee took out a warrant for a tract of land lying now in Watts township. He was made the first col- lector of Greenwood township, npou its erection, in 1767, which then embraced the townships hamed.
Joseph Greenwood is mentioned by Marcus Inlings, who owned Duncan's Island, and lived where Dr. George N. Renter now lives, as being one of his nearest neighbors. It was from him also that the township took its name.
John Foughts (Pfoutz) lived in Pfoutz's Valley, now mostly in Greenwood township.
From the foregoing it will be seen that Greenwood township was formed ont of Fer- managh, an original township of Cumberland County, on the 25th of March, 1767. At the July session of the Cumberland County Court, in 1767, the boundaries of Fermanagh town- ship were fixed as follows : " Beginning at the mouth of Cockalamus Creek, up the north side of the JJuniata, and to terminate at the middle of the Long Narrows ; thence (along the mon- tain) to the head of Cockalanis Creek ; thence down the said creek to the place of beginning." That part of Greenwood township north of the Cocolamus, including Millerstown, was in Fer- managh township, and it remained so until the organization of Mifflin County, on the 19th of September, 1789.
The boundaries of Greenwood township were defined in July of 1767 as " Beginning at Me- Kee's path on the Susquehanna River ; thence down the said river to the month of the Juniata River ; thence up the JJnniata River to the month of Cockalamus; theuce up the same to
the crossing of MeKee's path ; thence by the said path to the place of beginning." MeKce's Path here mentioned began at the month of Ma- hautaugo Creek, a short distance below where Thomas MeKee lived, on the Susquehanna River. This path followed the public road which runs through Greenwood township, in Juniata County, westward to the mouth of Delaware Run, at Thompsontown.
When Mifflin County was organized, in 1789, all that part of Greenwood that lay between the present county line and MeKce's Path became Greenwood township, in Mifflin County, and that part of Fermanagh township that lay south of the present county line and north of Cocol- amus Creek was attached to Greenwood town- ship, in Perry County. In 1799 Buffalo town- ship was erected from Greenwood and embraced the territory now Buffalo, Watts and Howe townships. Liverpool was taken off the east- ern part in 1823. On the 4th of January, 1854, a petition was presented to court asking that the lines and boundaries of Greenwood b .: altered, and a portion of Juniata township ly- ing in Raccoon Valley, along the river, was at- tached and remained a part until the erection of Tuscarora township, which was erected out of Greenwood and Juniata townships.
Greenwood township as now defined contains twenty-five square miles, and is bonnded north by Delaware and Greenwood townships, in Juniata County, on the east by Liverpool township, on the south by Buffalo and Howe townships and on the west by the JJuniata River. It contains two post-offices,-Nekoda, in Pfoutz Valley, and Reward, in Perry Valley-and is traversed by two post-rontes, one of which is a daily and the other is a tri-weekly.
LIBERTY HALL was regularly laid out as a village of Greenwood township, for Samuel Grubb, the owner of the ground, by John Rief- snyder, in 1847.
The first store in the place was kept by Messrs. Keck & Goodyear. In September, 1882, Mrs. C. A. Long opened her store, still kept in her dwelling.
Reward post-office was established in this store on the Ist of October, 1883. From the establishment of the office until the Ist of July,
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1.55, the mail only reached this office twice a seek. Since the Ist of July, 1885, a regular tri-weekly mail-ronte, with Henry F. Long as carrier, has been established.
In April, 1885, R. W. Grubb began the erection of a store-house and dwelling on lot No. 35, which he completed, and opened his store on the Ist of June, 1885. Lewis Long keeps a store at his residence in Pfontz Valley. S. H. Baker has a store in lus dwelling, in which he keeps Nekoda post-office. A daily mail is received at this office from MeKce's Half Falls in the forenoon, and from Millers- town in the afternoon.
The Farmers' Mutual Protective Associa- tion was organized on the 8th of May, 1881, and has held monthly meetings since. The object of the organization is the improve- ment of the members and their protection from the imposition of traveling agents.
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At a meeting held the first Monday evening of November, 1884, it was recommended that the name of the valley be changed from Wild- vat, a name given either in derision or by acci- dent, to Perry Valley.
Perry Valley extends from the Juniata River to the Susquehanna River, a distance of ten miles, and is four miles wide.
ROADS .- At the January term of court, 1771, a petition was presented for a road from James Gallaher's, on the JJuniata River, thence to Wil- lisum Patterson, Esq., and thence to James Bas- kins' Ferry, on the Juniata River, which road was confirmed as a " Bridle-Path" at the April term of the same year.
Baskins' Ferry was about a quarter of a mile above Clark's Ferry, and was established seve- ral years before James Baskins took up the tract of land which his descendants still own, on the other side of the river, above Duncannon.
At the same term of court (1771) a petition was received for a road from William Patter- son's Mill, on Cocolamus Creck, to Middle Creek. This road probably extended to Middle- burg, in Snyder County. At the August term of court, held at Carlisle in 1803, a petition was presented for a bridge on the post-road from Harrisburg to Lewistown, across Cocolamus Creek, near its junction with the Juniata River
The location of the old road before a turnpike was made may still be traced past Patterson's mill, which then stood on the flat between the turnpike and the aqueduct, near the spot on which an apple-tree is now growing, and was washed away by a flood. This petition set forth the fact that in winter this road was ren- dered almost impassable by reason of back water and ice. In 1808 the line of stages was organ- ized and began running over this route. This line was known as the "Juniata Mail-Stage Company." Thomas Cochran, Sr., was one of the company.
ASSESSMENT OF 1768 .- Thomas Allen, 50 acres; Peter Ash, 300; Robert Brightwell, 50; Nathaniel Barber, 100; Henry Bentley, 100; John Bingam, 200; Hawkins Boon, 200; William Collins, 200; Robert Crane, 150; Craft Coast, 100; Philip Don- nally, 100; Thomas Desar, 200; Francis Ellis, 200; Andrew Every, 300; Richard Irwin, 150; William and Matthew English, 100; David English, 1100; Joshua Elder, 100; John Pfoutz, 700; Joseph Green- wood, 500; John George, 300; Marcus Ilewlin, 400; Philip Hover, 300 ; Abraham Jones, 100; William London, 100; Everhart Leedich, 100; Stophel Munce, 200; William MeLeavy, 100 ; James McCoy, 200; John McBride, 200; John Montgomery, 200; Alexander McKce, 300; Samuel Purviance, Jr., 300; Edward Physick, 100; George Ross, 350; John Sturgeon, 100; Jacob Secrist, 500; Andrew Ulsh, 100; Frederick Wall, 100.
In the foregoing list of Greenwood township the following were assessed in Fermanagh township in 1763: Robert Brightwell, John Foutz, Joseph Greenwood, Stophel Munce, John McBride, William and Matthew English, who were doubtless represented by their father, James English, at this time.
ASSESSMENT OF 1805 .- Joseph Bonar, tan-yard; Daniel Lewis, forge; Catharine North, saw-mill ; William Stawl, grist and saw-mill; John Sherman, grist and saw-null ; Jacob Ultz, saw-mill.
ASSESSMENT OF 1814 .- William Arbogast, 250 acres and distillery ; Jacob Bonsal, 100 acres and tan- yard; Peter Beaver, tan-yard; Joseph Fry, Sr., 100 acres and distillery ; Harter's estate, 400 acres and grist and saw-mill; Henry Grubb, Sr., 150 acres and distillery ; Henry Grubb, Jr., 150 acres and saw-mill ; George Hootmuau, 1 10 acres and fulling-mill; Jacon Long, 150 actes and saw-mill ; George Mitchell, 900 acres and saw-mill ; Jacob Myer, Sr., 50 acres and saw-mill ; John Rafter, Jr., 190 acres, saw-mill ; Michael
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Rown, saw-mill ; Catharine Shoeman (Shuman), 180 acres, grist and saw-mill ; John Staily, Sr., grist aud saw-mill, and distillery ; John Sweezey, 700 acres and saw-mill ; Jacob Ultz, 200 acres and saw-mill; Adam Wilt, 100 acres and saw-mill; Henry Wilt, 227 acres and distillery.
MIL.I.S.
The first mill, near the junction of Cocolamus Creek with Juniata river, was erected by Wm. Patterson, Esq. "Jones' History " describes it as a tub-mill and gives the information that it was carried away by a flood. It was built prior to and was standing in 1771, for it is made a point in the road from Jolm Gallagher's to Ba-kins' Ferry, but must have been swept away by the floods. Shumau's mill was built before 1805, for in that year John Shuman is assessed as the owner of a grist and saw-mill, and in 1814, Catharine Shuman is assessed as the owner of one hundred and eighty acres of land and a grist and saw-will. This property subsequently passed into the ownership of George Shuman, Sr., Esq., and after his death was purchased by his sou, T. B. Shoman, who sold it to George Mans, who sold it to Sylvester Bergstresser, one of the present owners.
SHRENK'S GRIST-MILL. was erected by Wil- liam Stawl prior to 1805. It was successively owned by the following persons after William Stawi : Cauffinaun, William Thompson, Dan- iel Ward, J. Ward and Rumbangh Dimm's, who failed, when Lewis Gilfillen and James Whitmer bought the judgment and held it until it was sold to Shrouk & Shoop; afterwards Shoop sold it to Solotion Herald, who sold, in 1876, to Henry Shrenk, the present owner.
HART'S GRIST-MILL, was built by Frederick Harter, who lived in Millerstown, and owned a saw-will not in town, In 1805, Harter's estate had four hundred acres of land and a grist and saw-mill. This mill was owned by Michael Wenner, who sold to Joseph Hart, at whose death it descended to his only heirs, -- William Fitzgerald and wife, the preseut owners.
A FEELING-MILE, was built by George Hoff- man prior to 1805, when he is assessed for one hundred and forty acres of land and a fulling- mill. It was subsequently owned by Beaver & Hoffman, and was purchased by Anthony
Brandt, and in June, 1821, was taken by Jame- Peacock. William .. Williams purchased the property abont 1865 and built the new dwelling- house and put in new machinery and contimed to operate it until 1882, when he sold out his personal property and deeded the real estate to Thomas P. Cochran, of Millerstown, who ad- vertices it at private sale.
OLD INHABITANTS OF DISTINCTION .- Ben- jamin Bousall, Sr., was a Revolutionary soldier, who died in 1845, aged eighty-nine years. Benjamin Bonsall descended from a very old family, whose ancestry settled at Darby, in Del- aware Comity, Pa., soon after the arrival of William Penn, in 1682.
The descendants of the Bonsall family have been traced by the family historian, Spencer Bonsall, to the member of more than five thou- sand, and to the time of the Norman Conquest, in 1066.
George Mitchell, Sr., came to Greenwood township in 1791, and settled on sixteen Inin- dred acres of land, part of which is now owned by his descendants of the second generation.
Hle received considerable patrimony from his native Ireland, with which he was enabled to remove from the Eagle Hotel, in Chester Con- ty, and take np so large a tract of land. With him came his ten year-old stepson, Charles Wright, Sr., who also came to be a considerable land-owner, and a man of enough promise to have been elected director of the poor aud com- missioner of the county.
He always prided himself in being able to say that he had seen and shaken hands with George Washington.
Jonathan Wert, of Perry Valley, Greenwood township, has worked at the shoemaking trade for upwards of fifty years, and is in the fourth generation of' descent from Johan Adam Wert, who emigrated from Würtemberg to Lancaster County, aud from thence removed to Lyken- Valley, Dauphin County, about one hundred and fourteen years ago, with a family of nine children, and settled about three and a half miles cast of Millersburg mider a white oak tree, when there were but a few sparse settle- ments, and the Indians surrounded them. At that time the nearest will was at Harrisburg.
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EDUCATIONAL .- County Superintendent 1. R. Height (in his annual report for 1856), says, the school-houses which deserve to be particu- larly named as comfortable and convenient were Juniata, Kramer's, Brandt's, Bou-all's, Mitchell's and Rope Ferry, in Greenwood. I'rom the same report these statistics of Green- wood were obtained : Whole number of schools, nine. There was tax levied for school pur- proces to the amount of $748, and for building purposes to the amount of $ 167.50, being a tax- rate of 3.5 mills for school and two mills for building purposes. In 1876, twenty years of progress, Greenwood had seven schools and an average term of five months.
In 1878 the average monthly salary of males was 821.71, and the mill-rate for school pur- po-es 2.5. In 1885 the average monthly salary of male and female teachers alike is twenty-five dollars.
CHURCHLES.
In the village of Liberty Hall there is a United Brethren Church building on lot No. 38. This church has a cemetery adjoining it. It was erected abont 1850.
WRIGHT'S CHURCH, formerly a school-house, was erected in 1835. There is a well-eared-for and regularly-plotted cemetery of one acre of ground, which was bequeathed for this purpose, iu his will, by Charles Wright, Sr.
ST. MICHAEL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH .- On the 15th of February, 1776, John Foutz, of Greenwood township, in Cumberland County and province of Pennsylvania, gave a deed to John Long and Philip Huber, and the whole Lutheran congregation of the township, conuty and State aforesaid, for and in consideration of the sum of six pounds lawful money of Penn- >ylvania, for a certain tract of land situated and joining John Long's and William Patterson's lands, and to contain two acres, to be laid out from a certain hickory corner tree, adjoining aid Patterson's and Loug's lands. Ou part of these two acres of ground the early pioneer settlers were buried. Before the deed was ex- reated a large school-house had been created on this ground, in which the carly settlers wor- -hipped from about. 1770 to 1798, when St. Michael's Church was erected. In this grave-
yard a number of persons who were massaered by the Indians in their last incursion of 1763 lie buried. The hickory-tree mentioned in the church deed as the corner of the church land, is the one to which the pioneer fathers were tiel by the Indians and made the target of the deadly arrow. They were buried near the tree, and thus the grave-yard commenced.
On the 5th of July, 1776, a slave by the name of " Bob," and his wife, also a slave, were baptized and received as members of this church.
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