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out to a farmer, with whom he remained mutil nineteen years of age, when he removed to Bucks County, Pa., and learned the trade of a blacksmith. There he met and married Miss Catherine Bower, which event resulted in his settlement in that county. The children of this marriage were Jacob, John, George, Philip, Abram and three daughters, -Catherine, Mary and Rebecca.
Mr. Wagner subsequently, with his family, re-
are Samuel, George (deceased), Nauey (Mrs. Ja- cob Yolun, deceased), Elizabeth, Sarah (Mrs. John Sloop, deceased), Sophia (Mrs. Johu Swarner), John, David, Frances (Mrs. John Hager, de- ceased), Julia (Mrs. John Stewart), Mary (Mes. Thomas Stewart) and Susan.
Samuel was born on the 9th of March, 1801, iu Tyrone township, Cumberland (now Perry) C'onuty, in the immediate vicinity of which his whole life has been passed in farming pursuits.
Creo. A Wagner
moved to Cumberland County, where he fol- [ He was, in 1830, married to Elizabeth, dangh- lowed his trade, in connection with farming, continuously for a period of forty-five years.
The death of JJacob Wagner occurred in ISOS, aged seventy-live years, and that of his wife, Catherine, in 1809. Both are buried at Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa.
Their son George was born in 1774, in Bucks County, and, on making Cumberland County his residence, engaged in farming pursuits. He married Catherine fleckerdorn, whose children
ter of Andrew Tresler, of Loysville, Perry County. Their children are Mary C. (Mrs. John Hlager), born in 1831 ; Sarah Aun ( Mrs. Jeremiah Sunday), born in 1832, who died in 1877; Leah, born in 1834, who died in in- fancy ; Eliza Jane (Mrs. L. B. Kerr), born in 1836 ; Rebecca (Mrs. Daniel W. Billman), boru in 1838; George Andrew, born October 6, ISTO; David, born in 1842, who was wounded at Fredericksburg and died at Point
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Lookont, Md., December 25, 1862; Susan S., born in 1844 ; Samuel, born in 1846, a clergy- man of the Reformed Church, settled in Arm- strong County, Pa .; Jemima, born in 1818; and AAlice T. (Mrs. Charles S. Losh), born in 1851.
The birth of George Andrew, the subject of this biographical sketch, occurred in Spring towuship, Perry County, which has been the scene of his active career. After the usual period of youth spent at the common schools, he became a pupil of the Mount Dempsey Acad- emy, at Landisburg, and at the age of nineteen began teaching, which pursuit was continued for eight terms, with intervals of labor on the farm during the summer months. In 1867 he rented a farm and continued to cultivate it, as a renter, for seven years, when a portion of the land was purchased. In 1873 he embarked in the nursery bu-iness, and has since been very successful in the raising of choice fruit and the propagating of fruit-trees and shrubs. Hle makes a specialty of apples, peaches and grapes, raises his own standard pear-trees and finds a ready market in the county for the products of his nursery. Mr. Wagner is a Democrat in his political associations, and, though not an office- seeker, has served as school director and asses- sor of his township. ITis father has served as elder and deacon, and he as dencon of the Re- formed Church of Spring township, of which organization he is now the sceretary.
Mr. Wagner was, on the 29th of December, 1863, married to Miss Mary E., daughter of John R. Sheibley, of the same township. Their children are Silas Edwin, born in 1861; Albert Clement, born in 1866, who died at the age of eleven years ; Clara Lucretia (Mrs. D. M. Thornton), born in 1867 ; John Nevin, born in 1869; Mary Bernice, born in 1871, who died in infancy ; Cora Eveline, born in 1872; Sarah Ann, born in 1875, who died at the age of two years; Samuel Calvin, born in 1877; Lizzie Afice, born in 1880; David Tresler, born in 1882 ; and Mabel Sylvia, born in 1881.
CHAPTER XXX.
HOWE TOWNSHIP.
Hows TOWNSHIP is bounded on the north by Greenwood, on the east by Buffalo, on the south by Watts and the Anniata River, with Miller and Oliver, from the middle of the river, on the west. It is one of the small townships of the county, containing less than ten square miles of surface.
The township now Howe was originally part of Greenwood, later Bullalo, and upon the eree- tion of' Oliver township, in 1836, became a part of it. Petitions were circulated in 1860, which were presented to Perry County Court, asking for the territory of Oliver lying cast of the In- niata River to be erected into a new township, and at the April term, 1861, the following de- erce was ordered :
" No. 26, Deerce of Court, in the matter of dividing Oliver township, and now, 6th of April, 1861, the court order and decree that the township of Oliver be divided into two parts agrecably to the report of the viewers. That part west of the river to retain the name of Oliver and the part east of the river to be called Howe township. By the Court."
ORIGINAL LAND-OWNERS .- The first men- tion of' Greenwood township is in a warrant dated June 2, 1762, for two hundred acres of land to Robert Brison. This tract was sur- veyed in 1766 on Juniata River nearly opposite Newport, and in 1857 was owned by Christian and Abram Horting.
Next below, William MeElroy took up a tract of two hundred and seventy-seven acres, for which warrant issued Inne 3, 1762, and the survey was made April 28, 1765; this is now the tract owned by the heirs of John Hopple and John Freeland.
Thomas Elliott's three hundred and six acre tract, for which the order was issued on the 20th of June, 1768, joined MeElroy's below, along the river, and below this William Howe, after whom the township is named, had three hun- dred acres, which was warranted dime 1, 1813, and patented January 29, 1839. On this tract John Sweezy made an improvement in 1791. Below this, along the river, Frederick Stonertook . np a narrow strip nearly two miles in length, for
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which a warrant was issued to him on the 30th of April, 1800. This was owned later by John Patterson, who kept a hotel, where at one time had been the Fahter's Falls post-office. This traet is now owned by Henry Craft and Lewis Mtechley, the latter living in a new house he created on the site of the old tavern. In the war of this tract Samuel Martin took up three hundred and forty-one acres on order of No- vember 18, 1768. Back of this tract were JJohn Whitemore's three Inumdred and fifty-five acres, and Abram Whitemore's three hundred and nineteen acres, for which warrant issued Sep- member 12, 1774, and back of these were the mountain lands on Berry and Buffalo Mon- tains, for which warrants were issued in 1794 to Awl, Welch, Wert, Dawson, Ritter, Gibson, Smith and Clay. These lands extended from river to river.
On the north line of the township on Juniata River, Jacob Awl and John Welch had a warrant i -- ued to them, on the 3d of February, 1794, for four hundred acres. The survey of this tract was made on the 28th of March of the same year. This tract extended to the Jones tract in Greenwood township, and part of it is owned by Alfred Wright.
Adjoining this tract, and below on the Juniata River was a tract, of three hundred and twenty- one acres, for which the order was issued, an the 16th of JJannary, 1767, and the survey made on the 7th of April of the same year to JJohn Sturgeon. This tract was No. 2444. Below this and joining Robert Brison's land afore- mentioned was one hundred and twenty-four acres, for which an order was issued February 23, 1767, and a survey was made August 1, 1768, for Andrew Lec.
TURNPIKE .- The turnpike following very nearly the bridle-path from " James Gallagher's on the Juniata River, thence to William Pat- tersons', Esq., and from thence to James Bas- kin's ferry, confirmed in 1771," was constructed in 1822, and abandoned by the company in 1857. On this road through the township were the " Fahter's Falls Tavern," where Lewis Stechley lives ; " Fetterman's Ferry Tavern," where William Wright, Jr., lives. The " Red Hill Tavern," a famous oldl Conestoga wagon
stopping-place, was kept in the old house which stood on the site of the one Alfred Wright now lives in. The toll-gate was below Fetterman's, at what is now Potter Miller's place.
Sonoons,-At a meeting of Oliver township school board on the 7th of September, 1839, it was agreed " that there shall be six schools in the district, provided a school-room can be got at. A. Ziegler's, to commence about the Ist of De- cember and to continue three months, and that the salaries shall be eighteen dollars per month for each, except at Newport, which shall be twenty-two dollars." The whole board met on December 21, 1839, and agreed that the district be divided into seven sub-districts, bounded and limited as follows : " That part of the district formerly belonging to Buffalo township to be divided into two sub-districts by a line running from Beelen's ferry (below Fetterman's ferry) to Buffalo Mountain, leaving Jacob Harman to the lower or castern sub-district." In the lower sub-district there was no school this year " on account of raising a house, which absorbed all their funds." On the 5th of May, 1840, the school directors met, and voted by ballot for and against schools. It was decided in favor of schools by three votes. The amount of school tax, which was two-thirds of the county tax, for this year was three hundred and twenty- eight dollars and ten cents, of which there was nine dollars and ninety-five cents deficiency, and the collector, Jacob Smith's, commission was fifteen dollars and ninety-one cents, which de- ducted from the total amount, left three hm- dred and two dollars and twenty-four cents to be applied to the schools. The officers of the board for this year were William Howe, pres- ident ; Abraham Ziegler, secretary ; and William Kumbler, treasurer. The school tax in 1841 was one-half of the county tax, two hundred and forty-four dollars and eighty-seven cents, and the State appropriation of one hundred and seventy- eight dollars, making a total of four hundred and twenty-two dollars and eighty-seven cents. In 1842 the school tax was two hundred and thirty-eight dollars and thirty-four cents and the State appropriation for the same year one hundred and eighty-three dollars, making a total of four hundred and twenty-one dollars
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and thirty-four cents. In this year George Taylor taught in Kumbler's school-house three months, at sixteen dollars per month, and John C. Lindsay, afterward elected, in 1863, a pro- thonotary of the county, taught a three months' term in Howe's school-house.
On May 2, ISI3, the board held an election and voted the school system down by four votes. On March 15, 1844, a general election was held for the purpose of accepting the common-school system ; the result was as follows : For schools, sixty-three votes; against schools, seven votes. The board organized on the 18th of April of this year by electing John Allison, president ; Henry Troup, secretary ; William Kumbler, treasurer ; William Howe, collector.
A tax of one and a half mills was levied, which amounted to $234.09. The teacher's wages were fixed at sixteen dollars per month, and the following teachers were selected for the three months' term in the districts. John Wright, for Howe's school-house; Solomon Bingham for Kumbler's school-house. In 1846 the board met on the 9th of June, and "agreed to divide that part of Oliver township on the east side of the Inniata River into three schools, and appointed Robert Mitchell, JJacob Loy and George Kimes a committee to view and fix upon the sites for said school-honses and report their proceedings to a meeting of the directors at Newport on Saturday, the 18th inst., at nine o'clock."
At this meeting. it was moved and carried "that each district lay out of school one year, or until the houses were completed." At the August meeting of this year the log frame school-honse built on the lands of John Patter- son was let to Philip Peter for one hundred and eight dollars.
At the October meeting it was decided that two school-houses shall be built, one on lands of Jesse Oren and the other on land of Abraham Ilowe, and that both shall be frame houses.
The wages for the year 18:46 were sixteen dollars per month. In 1851 the monthly wages were sixteen dollars and the term four months. In 1884 there were three schools; salary, $25.60 per month.
Chenones .- The Bethel Church, with small
inclosed grave-yard adjoining, is situated one and a quarter miles from Newport, on the Mil- lerstown road. It was built in 1856, and is a frame building, size about twenty-four by twen- ty-six feet. In it a band of devout worshippers, who style themselves the "Church of God," assemble.
Mmaase's PorreRy, about twenty rods below the Fetterman's Ferry Tavern, was built by Jacob Miller, and offered at public sale on the Bd of June, 1857, with the following descrip- tion :
"A two-story potter-shop, with an excellent kiln and kiln-house, situated one and one-half miles from Newport."
CHAPTER XXXI. WATTS TOWNSHIP.
This township occupies the point of land be- tween the rivers Juniata and Susquehanna, from Half Falls Mountain and Duncan's and Haldeman's Islands. Its northern line is mountainous, but sonthward it slopes gently towards the point, where it is but little raised above the level of the river.
The Pennsylvania Canal runs along the river-side for about seven miles, and crosses into Haldeman's Island at the southern point, the old channel between them being filled for that purpose at the west end. A third island for- merly existed, but, since the construction of the canal, the intervening channel has silted up, so that it is now six feet above the usual level of the river. Consequently this (Hulings' Island) is permanently united physically to Perry County, though by the original deeds, and still legally, it is a part of Dauphin County.2
FIRST SETTLERS AND LOCATIONS .- First on the south line, and back from the river, was dohn Eshelman, to whom a warrant was issued, March 21, 1792, for one hundred and sixty acres.
Near the river was John Finton's sixty-six acres, for which a warrant was issued in De- cember, 1839. This tract, although well tim-
1 By Silas Wright. 2 Claypole.
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fred, lay vacant a long time. Below, along the river, was Robert Ferguson, who had one hundred and sixty-four acres, for which the warrant was issued June 22, 1774. Below For- gulson was William Thompson's tract of two hundred and sixteen acres, which was warranted on the 9th of March, 1775, and surveyed on the 2d of July, 1817. The following from the records is of interest concerning Thompson : "CUMBERLAND COUNTY SS.
" I do hereby certify that William Thompson hath voluntarily taken and subscribed the oath of Alle- viance and fealty as directed by an Act of General As- sembly, passed the 13th day of June, A.D. 1776. Wit- ness my hand and scal, the 10th day of June, 1777. "CHURCH Cox [seal]."
Along the river, and reaching back to Half Fall Mountain, are two tracts containing over four hundred acres, for which warrants were issned March 25, 1791, and August 15, 179.1. Below these, along the river, Frederick Watts had one hundred and ten acres, which was warranted to him on the 3d of December, 1794. Below this, along the river and of an earlier date, Frederick Watts had one hundred and two aeres, for which he received the order October 27, 1766. This tract is now owned by S. W. Norris. Back of this, and not on the river, Benjamin Walker had two hun- dred and one aeres, for which the order was issned January 29, 1767, and the survey was made July 5th of the same year. This tract is now owned by Levi Seiders, Robert F. Thomp- son and others. On the southeast of this tract Marcus Tulings had one hundred and ninety- nine acres, order of 25th of November, 1766. This traet is now owned by Kirk Jacobs and Leedy's heirs.
Mareus Hulings had another tract of two hundred aeres, which was located at the june- tion of the Jumiata and Susquehanna Rivers, which was warranted on the Ith of August, 1766, and surveyed July, 1767. This tract is now the property of Dr. George N. Renter. Above Hulings, and extending over two miles along the river, and near to New Buffalo, Sammel Neaves held two tracts containing five hundred and twelve acres, in pursuance of war- rants issued March 5th and June 20th, 1755. Survey was made 29th of August, 1761.
Francis Ellis was next above Neaves on the river. For the Ellis traet the order was issued September 12, 1767. Jacob Steele took this tract in right of Ellis.
Next above, and along the river, was the site of New Buffalo. This tract, No. 4561, of one hundred and eighty-three acres, was taken on order of November 11, 1767, and survey of May 18, 1768, by Christopher Mann. Above Mann's traet is Andrew Long's one hundred and ten acres, which was warranted July 5, 1762, and surveyed May 8, 1766, and above this tract Stophel Munce held one hundred and twenty-four acres on warrant of May 6, 1763, and survey of May 8, 1766. Stophel Munce was the first collector of Greenwood township in 1768. In 1767 this tract was assessed in Fermanagh township, which then embraced all of the territory between the rivers in what is now Perry County. This contradicts the long- entertained opinion that Greenwood township was originally formed out of Rye township, in Cumberland County. Above Munce's tract of land George Etzmiller held one hundred and sixty-two acres by order of November 7, 1767, and had survey made May 8, 1768.
John Miller had one hundred and thirty-one aeres back from the river, and back of Etzmiller, Munce, Long and Maun, for which he held a warrant dated December 29, 1773. Everhard Liddick took up tract No. 5004, adjoining church lands, in 1868, and the survey was made in 1800. April 8, 1775, Joseph Nagle, warranted one hundred and fifty acres, including his improvements, adjoining Dunbar Walker, Abram Jones, Hawkins Boone, Everhard Liddick and Joseph Thornton, on the head of Greenwood Run, in Greenwood township, in the connty of Cumberland. The following from the records is of interest concerning Nagle,-
" Affidavit of Mary Barbara Nagle on her oath which she made on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, doth say that her Imsband, in the year about of our Lord, 1770, told her that he cut logs on the above land and that in the month of March, 1772, this deponent, when with her said husband, and ever since, dwelled and improved on the aforesaid lands.
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"MARY BARBARA X NAGLE. Inark
" Sworn and signed at Philadelphia, before me, " PETER MILLER."
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On the 15th of March, 1803, a warrant was issued to Robert Buchanan for seventy-six acres. This land was taken by James Wilson for him. From the foregoing the reader has learned that Marens Hulings was one of the early settlers of Perry County, and the original owner of the farm now owned by Dr. George N. Reuter.
The following letter, reproduced by Dr. W. 11. Egle, in his sketch of " Marens Hulings and His Family," will be better understood from the foregoing land locations and names of original owners :
" FORT Pur, May ve 7. 1762.
" To William Peters, Exq., Secretary to the Propriattar- ries land office in Philadelphia, etc.
"The petition hereof humbly showeth his griev- ance in a piece of uncultivated land, laying in Cum- berland County on the Northeast side of Juneadgy, laying in the verry Forks and point between the two rivers, Susquehannah and the Juneadgy, a place that I emproved and lived on one year and half on the said place till the enemeyes in the beginning of the last Warrs drove me away from it, and I have had no op- ertunity yet to take out a Warrant for it ; my next neighbor wass one Joseph Greenwood, who sold his emprovement to Mr. Neaves (Samuel), a merchant in Philadelphia, who took ont a warrant for the s'd place, and gave it into the hands of Colonel John Armstrong, who is surveyor for Cumberland County ; and while I wassabsent from them parts last summer, Mr. Armstrong runned ont that place, joyning me for Mr. Neaves, and as my place lays in the verry point, have encroached too much on me, and Taken away Part ofmy Improvements; the line Desided between me and Joseph Greenwood was up to the first small short brook that empyed into Susquehannah above the point, and if I should have a strait line run'd from the one river to the other with equal front on each River from that brook, I shall not have 300 acres in that sttrway ; the land above my house upon Juneadgy is much broken and stoney. I have made a rough draft of the place and lines, and if Your Honour will be pleased to see me righted, the petitioner hereof is in Dnty bound ever for yon to pray ; from verry humble serv't.
" MARCUS HULINGS."
Accompanying was The following nole of later date to Mr. Peters:
" May ye 7th, 1762.
"SIR: I have left orders for Mr. Mathias Holston, liveing in Uper Merion, of Philadelphia County, to take out two warrants for me, one for the Point be- tween the two Rivers, and one for the Improvement I have in the place called the Onion bottom, on the south side of Juneadgy, right opposite to the other,
where I lived six months before I moved to the other place ; from your humble servant. " MARCE'S HULINGS."
Dr. Egle's description of the draft referred to in this letter is as follows :
" Three islands are noted. One now known is Daneun's Island is marked ' Island' and house us ' Widdow Baskin's!' The large island in the Susque- hanna known as Haldeman's Island, containing three lionses, the one to the southern point, ' Francis Baskin's,' one-third farther up, on the Susquehanna side, 'George Clark," while about the centre that of ' Francis Ellis." On the north point is the word ' Is- land.' Almost opposite, on the east bank of the Sus- quehanna, is 'James Reed's house,' while between the centre of the island and the western shore is a triangular 'Island,' so marked. On ' the point' be- tween the 'Susquehanna River' and the ' Juneadey River,' near the bank of the latter stream, is Ilu- ling's house. Some distance from 'the point' is a straight line running from river to river, on which is written, ' this is the way I want my line; ' while be- vond, on the west branch of the Susquehanna, nearly opposite ' James Reed's' honse is . Mr. Neave's ' house. A circuitous line denominated ' Mr. Neave's lines,' crosses the straight line referred to, which included 'Part of Huling's Improvement.' On the south side of the Juniata, below the month thereof, is ' William Kerl's' house; opposite the point of Duncan's Island, 'James Baskin's' house, while 'Huling's house,' another improvement, is farther up, in what is named the 'Onion bottom.' Beyond this, on the same side of the Juniata, is a house marked ' Corne- lius Acheson, who has encroached upon Huling's improvement in the Onion bottom-settled there last spring.' Opposite the islands on the east bank of the Susquehanna are 'Peter's Mountain' and ' Nar- roughs.' "
Thomas Hulings, youngest son of Marcus Hulings, who succeeded to the paternal estate, was born March 3, 1775; died March, 1808, in Buffalo township, Perry County.
PERSONS OF RENOWN. -- Watson says : " Mar- cus Hulings came from Marcus Hook, on the Delaware, and settled at the mouth of the Juniata in 1753. The name is spelled Uhling, Ileslings and Hlulings, and is Swedish. Three years affer locating on the Juniata, in the spring, the Indians reached the Susquehanna on their mission of exterminating the whites, and Hulings was obliged to leave, which he did by placing his wife and child and a few valuable-, hurriedly collected, on a black horse, and with them hastening to the point of the island, ready to
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cross over whenever he should hear of the near approach of the savages. In his haste forgetting something, he returned alone to his house where he found an Indian np-stairs 'coolly picking his flint,' from whom to make his escape with- out being shot caused him to so long delay, that his wife thinking him murdered, 'whipped up her horse and swam the Susquehanna' and reached the opposite shore in safety, despite the high water.
" Hulings finding his wife and child and the horse missing when he did return, it was now his turn to be alarmed, but soon a signal from the opposite shore relieved his anxiety, when, procuring a canoe he, too, was soon beyond the reach of pursuit. The fugitives went to Fort Iluinter, where Baskins and others of their neighbors took refuge."
Marcus Huling> died in September, 1788, and is buried in a grave-yard at Old Dick's Gap Church. Mrs. Inlings, whose maiden name is unknown, was a brave and intrepid woman. She died prior to the Revolution, and is buried in the same grave-yard with her hus- band, but their graves are unmarked.
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General Frederick Watt, of the Revolution, was a land-owner within the present limits of Watts township, prior to the Revolutionary War. His daughter, Elizabeth, was the first wife of Thomas Hulings. Joseph Greenwood was a settler in the township of Fermanagh (later Greenwood, now Watts) before 1762. Ile is mentioned in Hulings' letter, and is assessed on five hundred acres in 1763, and when Greenwood township was erected, in 1767, it was named in his honor.
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