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THE NAME .- The name Watts was given for David Watts, of Carlisle, as suggested by Judge Black, who presided over the court in absence of Judge Frederick Watts, when the town was formed, in 18-19.
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Alexander MeAlister, of Powell's Valley, Dauphin County, bought of David W. Hul- ings, April 17, 1839, one hundred and six- teen acres, part of warrant of William Stewart and George Leunfl, dated November 11, 1772, which came to General Frederick Watts, whose heirs sold it to Thomas Hulings, Esq., Novem- ber 28, 1796, and from him, by will, to David
Watts; hence the propriety of naming the town- ship after him. This property adjoined Dr. George N. Reuter's farm on the south and west.
A FERRY .- An act passed March 8, 1799, for a ferry :
" Whereas Mathias Flamm owns lands on the cast side of the Susquehanna, opposite the mouth of Jn- piata, and David Watts on the west side, where the State road crosses the Susquehanna, and that they have established and maintained a ferry at the place for a number of years,-they are empowered by law, at this date, to establish and keep same in repair, and build landings, ete."
CHURerEs,-In the survey to Everhard Liddick, made in 1800, for tract No. 5001, adjoining " vacant land for church and school purposes," about three acres of land lay vacant for this purpose. There was a school-house on this ground, which is said to have sunk into the ground until the teacher could not stand straight in it. This probably was used for the double purpose of church and school. "No legal right was secured for this land till 1810, when we find the following : 'Warrant to Sammuel Albright in trust for the Presbyterian and Lutheran Congregations, dated September 28, 18-10.'" On the basis of warrant, some years ago, Mr. Albright made a deed to the congrega- tions therein named. Tradition says that in ITalf Falls Mountain Gap a small church was erected by the early settlers, some eighty years ago (1780), near a beautiful spring, on land vacant only a few years ago. This church was burnt down about 1800. The foundation stones may still be seen and the spot recognized. There was no grave-yard here. Where the present church is located there is an old and very large grave-yard.
The first church on this ground was built from 1804 to 1809. It was a log structure, without galleries, about thirty-six by forty feet, and was probably used for school purposes. The old church was removed in the fall of 1860 and a new one built on the same site by the Imtherans and Presbyterians. Lutheran ministers who preached in the Gap Church : Mathias Güntzel, 1789-96; John Herbst, 1796-1801 ; Courad Walter, 1801-9; Jolm William Heim, 1814-30.
In 1833 the Liverpool pastorate was formed,
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and the successive pastors since have been C. G. Erlenmeyer until 1836 or 1837; Andrew Berg, 1842-43; Levi T. Williams, 18 13-45 ; Lloyd Knight, 1845-49; Jacob Martin, 1850-51; John P. Heisler, 1852-53; George Nixdorf, 1851 58; William Il. Diven, 1858.
Sentoous-The first school house in Watts Township was on the "Church Lands." It was a log house without a floor and was rebuilt ou the same foundation when it had become so low that the teacher could not stand erect in it. In the carly times of building school-houses, trees growing in the morning furnished the logs or clapboards for a school-house before night. The school-lionses of Watts are now known as "MeAlister's," "Centre" and "Livingston's." They are all frame buildings and were erected at an average cost of three hundred dollars. In the old school-house in Alexander Mc Alister's meadow Professor S. B. Heiges, now principal of the Cumberland Valley State Normal School, taught a term during the winter of 1852-53.
CHAPTER XXXII.
NEW BUFFALO BOROUGH.'
Tue town now known as New Buffalo was laid out by Jacob Baughman, who issued a eir- enlar, as follows,-
"A New Towx .- The subscriber has laid ont a town callled New Buffalo, consisting of eighty-one lots, at Baughman's Ferry, in Bullaloe township Cumberland County, at the junction of the roads leading from Sunbury and Lewistown. The site is elegant, being sitnate in a healthy part of the county, and in a neighborhood that, for the rapidity of its improvement for some years past, is not excelled by many in Pennsylvania, And as the Boat and Ratt channel lies near the west side of the river, this place affords the only safe and convenient landing for many miles above Fahter's Falls. It lies about four- teen miles above Harrisburg, and affords many in- ducements for the industrious mechanic and enter- prising dealer. On the south margin of the town is a grist and saw-mill. A lot, No. 61, the largest in the town, is reserved by the proprietor for the pur- pose of a place of worship and a school house for the use of the town."
1 By Silas Wright.
These lots were to be sold by lottery tickets at sixty dollars each, entitling the pureha-er to the lot drawn as per number, for which he was to pay twenty dollars down and the balance in five years.
" An open space of ground, lying between the cast side of Front Street, and within twenty feet of the brink of the river, is allotted by the proprietor as a right in common for the proprietor, bis heirs and assigns, and the inhabitants of the town, to pile him- ber, plaster, &c., on, but not to build on, nor to ob- struct the free passage of the streets and alleys to the river. The proprietor reserves to himself, his heirs and assigns, the exclusive right to the ferry and fish- ories on the river opposite the town."
The above was entered on the Ith of April, 1825, by Jacob Baughman, Jr. The town was laid out before 1820, and called " BangInnan's Town" before it was decided to call it New Buffalo. Adam Liddick, of Watts township, helped to stake off the town, for which he re- ceived one lot as his wages. In laying out the town, Mrs. MeAlister, Baughman's daughter, assisted in carrying the chain. Jacob Bangh- man, Sr., sold lot No. 19 on the 19th of June, 1820, and, at the same time, lot No. 52, fifty by one hundred and fifty feet. This lot ex- tended from Market Street to Blackberry Al- ley in width, and in depth to Loenst Street. At the same time he sold to Jacob Banghman, Jr., lot No. 46 on Market Square. On the 14th of June, 1820, Jacob B. Maus bought lot No. 73 for forty dollars, and Susan Steele lot, No. 18, on Front Street, for sixty dollars. On the 8th of May, 1823, Jacob Baughman's ex- centor advertised in the Perry Forester as follows:
"TOWN OF NEW BUFFALOE.
" Agreeably to the last will and testament of Jacob Baughman (deceased), late of Buffaloe township, Perry County, will be sold by way of Public vendne, at the house of John Baughman, lan-keeper in the town of New Buffaloe, on Monday, the 2d day of June next (1823), upwards of sixty lots of ground in said town. This town is laid out on the bank of the Susquehanna River, about five miles above Clark's Ferry, and eight miles below Liverpool on a beanti- ful and pleasant situation. There are already u member of buildings created in the town; from the recent period of its commencement and its rapid growth, it is likely to become a town of considerable note in the county in a very short time."
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In the article of agreement of the heirs of and steam-power. Jefferson Wade is the present owner. Banghman's distillery was on the same street, opposite the grist-mill.
Jacob Banghman (deceased), made March 14, 1822, Henry had first choice of the estate, and revived seventy one acres of land, with the mansion house, four lots in New Buffalo and all the ferry and fishery rights. Jacob had second choice, and received fifteen acres of land, with the grist and saw-mill and distillery. John had third choice, and received ninety- four acres of land, and a tract of land in Dan- phin County. Christian had fourth choice, but what he received is not stated.
New Buffalo was incorporated as a borough on the 8th of April, 1848. The streets and al- lys running east and west, commencing at the south, are Front Street, River Alley, Mill Street, Locust Street and Long Alley. Run- ning north and south, commencing at the west, are Shad Alley, Strawberry Alley, Rockfish Alley, Market Street, Cherry Alley, Peach Alley, Walnut Street and Division Alley.
The following is a list of burgesses and their time of serving :
John Shaffer, 1819; Joseph Whitney, 1850; Peter Arnold, 1851; John Beigh, 1852; James Linton, 153; Abraham Varnes, Is54 ; Edward Wells, 1855 ; Valentine Varnes, 1856; John Gamber, 1857-58 ; Jacob Tressler, 1859; John Bowman, 1860; Adam MeElvy, 1861 ; George Lesher, 1862; Andrew Me- Elvy, 180%; John Jones, 1861; Joseph Waite, 1865; Jeremiah Drummonds, 1866; J. L. Arnold, 1.67; Jacob Liddick, 1868; J. D. Steele, 1869; Wil- liam Jackson, 1870 ; E. D. Walls and Alexander Mc- Alister, 1871; John 11. Bishop, 1872; John W. Burd, 13: W. F. Miller, 1874; John Bowman, 1875; 11. V. Wells, 1876; Jacob Steele, 1877-78 ; George W. Bard, 1879; Joseph Waite, 1880; George W. Cook, 1881; N. C. Heyd, 1882; --- Valentine, 1853; ! N. C. Heyd, 1884; E. D. Wells 1885.
MANUFACTORIES,-Urban's tannery was Imih in 1835, but it is not operated now. The property is owned by Joseph Waite. The New Buffalo Boat- Yard issituated in the southwestern part of the town. It was rebuilt by G. W. i Robert Lesher in 1851, and was operated by them six !years. It then employed thirteen hands. It is now owned by the Garnet heirs and managed by Andrew Garnet, who employs from ten to twelve hand -.
Banghman's grist-mill was rebuilt in 1861- 62 by Hillobich & Bowman. It has both water
Currentes, -The Methodist Episcopal Church was the first and is the only one in the town It was erected in 18 11- 12 by Rev. Joseph Parker. The lof on which the church was built was given by Miss Frances A. Urban. It is located at the corner of Locust Street and Shad Alley. Previous to the erection of the church, services were held, first in a private house, on the corner of Front Street and Blackberry Alley, owned by Robert Boas, of Dauphin County. Benja- min Kepner afterwards kept the first store in New Buffalo in this building. After the school- honse was built, about 1834, and until the church was erected, the services were held in it. Rev. Allan Brittain was the first preacher, and Rev. Daniel Hartman was his successor. At the date of the dedication of the first church there were but few members. After the church was dedicated a revival meeting was held, and, as the fruits of it, abont forty persons were added to its membership. The church was rebuilt in 1875-76. The Sunday-school was organized in the school-house, with Owen Bru- ner as superintendent, and Sarah F. Thompson, Mary S. Urban and Benjamin MeElvy as teachers. There were about thirty scholars. The Sunday-school is now in charge of Sammel M. Weltmer as superintendent, and has one hundred and twenty-four pupils, teachers and officers.
Scuoons .- The first school-house was built about 1834, and located on Locust Street, on an uninclosed lot adjoining the church lot, and need until 1874, when the two-story brick building now in use was erected on the same lot. The present house has two rooms, fur- uished with patent furniture, and, with all the conveniences, is well adapted for primary and grammar-school departments.
Previous to the erection of the old school- house in the town, the pupils attended school at the Hill Church in Watts township.
FERRY FORDING AND FISHERY .- Bangh- man's ferry-landing in New Buffalo was at the end of Peach Alley, across and at the foot of the canal bridge, and had a landing on the Dauphin
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County side, at the "Stone Tavern." The ford- ing was near the ferry, and the fishery was across from the boat-yard.
STORES AND TAVERNS .- Before Kepner's store was started the people of New Buffalo and vicinity went to Halifax or Harrisburg to mar- ket in their canoes. At this time there are stores kept by Mrs. J. L. Arnold, Jackson Bros., who keep the post-office, William Hemperly and Mrs. John Shaffer.
The first tavern was Jacob Baughman's, and stood on the corner of Front Street and Black-
berry Alley. Banghman afterward built a hotel on an adjoining lot on the same street, which he kept until he died. This is the oldest building in town, and is now owned by David Burd, of Newport, Pa. The building in which Mrs. John Shaffer has her store was the next hotel building, and in it her husband, John Shaffer, kept hotel at the same time that Bangh- man's was in operation. Both did a good busi- ness during the rafting season. Emory Miller keeps a temperafice house for the accommoda- tion of travelers in the old Baughman tavern- stand.
HISTORY OF UNION COUNTY.
CHAPTER 1.
Erection of Northumberland and Union Counties-The Officers' Land Association-County-Seat and County Division Contests-Civil List of Union-Population.
Ox the 21st of March, 1772, Northumber- land County was erected out of parts of Berks, Bedford, Lancaster, Cumberland and North- ampton. It extended as far west as Lake Erie; as far north as the State of New York ; cast to the heail-waters of the Lehigh or Pike Connty, and south to the month of the Mahan- tango. It was within the lands purchased by Thomas and Richard Penn, of the Six Nations at Fort Stanwix (now Rome, N. Y.), on the 5th of November, 1768.
When the officers of the First and Second Bat- tations, who served under Colonel Bouquet, were returning by way of Bedford in 176 4, at that place they formed an association, and agreed that they would apply to the proprietaries for a large body of land where they could build a fortified town, and have each for themselves a commo- dions plantation. This they proposed to do at some distance from the already inhabited parts of the province, and thus they would become a powerful barrier against the continual inroads and incursions of the Indians. For the great Pontiac had just before conceived his scheme of uiting the whole Indian race against the white race, for its extermination, and these officers had just fought their way through many a bloody and deadly struggle to the relief of Forts Ligonier and Pitt.
The land then owned by the proprietaries afforded no such convenient site, but in the Shamokin country, where the great branches of the Susquehanna met, there lay a great breadth of land, mocenpied and mupurchased from the Indians, which afforded-or would
afford, when the title was scoured- just such a place of settlement as these officers desired.
The officers put their agreement into formal writing and it was signed by Lieutenant-Colo- nels Turbutt Francis and Asher Clayton, Ma- jor John P. de Haas, Captains Jacob Kern, John Procter, James Hendricks, John Brady, William Piper, Timothy Green, Samuel Hunt- er ; Henry Watson, adjutant First Battalion ; Conrad Bucher, adjutant Second Battalion ; Wil- liam Plunkett and James Irvine, captains; Lien- tenant Daniel Hunsicker, Ensigns KeMeen and Piper, et al. They appointed Colonel Francis, Captain Irvine, etc., commissioners to act for all the officers. These commissioners made an application to the proprietaries on the 30th of April, 1765, in which they proposed to em- body themselves in a compact settlement, on some good land, at some distance from the in- habited part of the province, where, by their industry, they might procure a comfortable subsistence for themselves, and by their arms, union and increase, become a powerful barrier to the province. They further represented that the land already purchased did not afford any situation convenient for their purpose ; but the confluence of the two branches of the Susque- hanna at Shamokin did, and they, therefore, prayed the proprietaries to make the purchase, and make them a grant of forty thousand acres of arable land on the West Branch of the Susquehanna. Lieutenant Thomas Wiggins and Ensign J. Foster, who were absent from Bedford when the agreement was signed, were subsequently admitted into the association.'
' The minutes of the association are published in full in the first volume of the Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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It was partly upon the suggestion of these officers that the purchase was made. On the 3d of February, 1769, the commissioners of the officers obtained a grant or order allowing them to take up twenty-four thousand acres on the waters of the West Branch of the Susquehanna, to be divided among them in distinct surveys, each three hundred acres to be seated with a family within two years from the time of the survey.
In the latter part of February, 1769, many of the officers of the First and Second Battalions met at Fort Augusta (Sunbury) and agreed to take the land on the terms proposed by the proprietaries, one traet to be surveyed on the West Branch, adjoining Montour's place (Chillis- quaqne), and the other in Buffalo Valley.
Captains Plunket, Brady, Piper and Lieuten- aut Askey were to go along with Mr. Maclay into Buffalo Valley to direct the surveys there. Ilis field notes are yet preserved among the records of the deputy surveyor's office of Union County. He began at a black oak on the river, afterwards the southwest corner of the Richard Manning tract, and rau to the black or Spanish oak, on the river, on the line of the purchase, or land of George Gabriel, who had built a house at the site of Seliusgrove. The northeast corner of the purchase of 1751-58 was made to include Gabriel's settlement. The river line of the lat- ter, from the mouth of Penn's Creek to the Indian line, was two hundred and ninety-two perches ; to the Richard Willing, next above, from the black or Spanish oak, marked by Gabriel and the Indians, to a white oak, which stood on the river-bank, near Hettrick's store, was two hundred and ninety-five and one-half perches. The next is the Andrew Alle, six hundred and seventy-one perches, to a black oak, which stood below the Sunbury Ferry, nearly opposite the old tavern. The Richard Manning, extending one hundred and fifty perches to a maple, and the John Galloway, three hundred and forty-eight perches more, carry the surveys to the meeting of the waters of the North and West Branches and the bor ders of Union County.
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were Colonel Francis, Major De Haas, Captains Irvine, Plunket, Hunter, Kern, Green, Hous- segger, Sems, Hendricks, Brady, Piper, Bucher, Lieutenants Stewart, Wiggins, Hays, Nice, Hunsicker, Askey, MeAlister, Ensigns Piper, MeMeen, Morrow, Steine and Foster. The Land Office was to open to receive application on the 3d of April, and in the meanwhile the surveys were made on special orders for the proprietaries or their friends.
The first survey in the valley was made for the Rev. John Ewing. From the mouth of the Buffalo Creek it ran up along the river six hun- dred and seventy-five perches to a walnut that stood on Dr. Dougal's (now James Moore's heirs). The starting-point of this survey is sixty or seventy rods above the iron bridge and it contained cleven hundred acres.
On the 24th of February the same surveyor, Maelay, ran the Bremmer tract for John Pen. It gathered in its fold fourteen hundred and thirty-four acres all the fine farms of Andrew Wolfe, Cameron and stretched down to Ellis Brown's, at Smoketown, and across to the back- road, at Francis Wilson's. It was called the " fiddler's tract." James Bremmer was a music dealer in the Strand, London, and it is said that he obtained this grant from the Quaker's jolly son for one night's performance on the violin.
On the 28th of February the site of Lewis- burgh was surveyed for the proprietaries. It was a tract of three hundred and twenty acres, beginning at a white oak, at Strohecker's Land- ing, a mile up the river to the mouth of the Buffalo Creek ; thence out along the ereck to a hickory, at the iron bridge; thence south to a pine (whose stuiup the Lewisburgh and Tyrone Railroad uprooted, near the nail-mill); thence southeast along by the cemetery to the place of beginning.
On the Ist, 2d and 3d days of March, 1769, Samuel Maclay, for William Maclay, ran out the officers' surveys so far as they were located in Buffalo Valley. He commenced at the east end of Limestone Ridge at a white oak, now on Robert Glover's land, and ran west and south- west to the east line of what is now William Young's farm, in Lewis township; the western
The officers in whose favor the order of sur- vey of the twenty-four thousand acres issued line north, three hundred and eighteen perches,
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to the Buffalo Creek; then eastward, crossing the turnpike a little cast of Vicksburg, to a white oak, yet standing, one hundred and twenty-five rods cast of the Salem Church ; then to an chn on Turtle Creek ; then south and southwest to the place of begining. It contained eight thousand acres in the heart of Buffalo Valley. On the 16th of May the offi- vers met at farris' Ferry ( Harrisburg), and lots were cast for the choice of the lands. Captain Hendricks, having won the first choice, took the castern, now Zeller's, Auraud's and others; Captain William Plunkett chose the Driesbach ; Brady, the Maclay, now Green, Camerou aud others; Captain Kern the site of Vicksburg ; Lieutenant Dr. Thomas Wiggins the Simouton places ; Rev. Captain Conrad Bucher the Pon- tions; Captain Timothy Green the site of Rocky Mill; Askey the site of Mifflinburg; Captain Irvine the Kleckner's; Lieutenant Stewart the old Foster place ; Lieutenant Me- Alister the old John Hayes place. On the 3d of March the John Ewing, extending from the east end of the officers' warrants, down along Turtle Creek to the Gundy farm.
Ou the 3d of April the office was open for general applications. So numerons were they, and many of them for the same locations, that they were all put into a trunk, stirred around, some disinterested person drew them out one by one, they were numbered as drawn, and if any were descriptive of the same tract all but the first were laid aside.
In Angust of the same year the greater part of the surveys were made from Colonel Slifer's up to Farmersville, together with most of the surveys in Buffalo and the Lowden surveys in West Buffalo; those along Turtle Creek in August, and down to the county line and from Dr. Dougal to the month of White Deer Creek in October.
The settlers in the year 1769 were, as far as known, John Lee, at Winfield; Johmu Beatty, at the spring near New Berlin ; Jacob Grozean, near Hoffa's Mill; Barney Parsons, at the old Iddings place ; John Wilson, at Jenkins' Mill; Adam Haines, on the MeCorley place; Will- iam Blythe's cabin is marked ou a survey of' the 24th of October, standing twenty-live rods
from the river, on a little run above the Ard place ; Joseph MeLaughlin had an improve- ment on White Deer Creek west of Blythe's, and Bennett had a cabin on the same ereck about one mile above the factory; John Fisher had settled at Datesman's, West Milton; Michael Weyland, at George F. Miller's; William Arm- strong lived at the place where the road comes out to the old ferry below New Columbia, and Jaines Pare had commenced an improvement just above it.
A great many surveys were made in 1770 as also in 1771, in which latter year other tracts wore assigned to officers out of lands surveyed to the proprietarics.
Captain Kern received two hundred and eighty-seven acres, the Chamberlain Mill tract, now Hoffa's ; Lieutenant MeAlister, two hun- dred and ninety aeres, late the Howard farm ; Colonel Francis, for Captain Sems, five hun- dred and twenty-seven and a half adjoining, now owned by Stall and others. The balance of the officers' surveys were about eight him- dred, on the Chillisquaque and on the Bald Eagle, and although the exact dream of their brave hearts may not have been realized (a Ro- man colony perhaps was their ideal), yet they became practically just what they had planned -the bulwark aud shield of the frontier settle- ments.
The country rapidly filled with sturdy, and, in many instances, well-to-do emigrants. The assessments of 1773, 1774 and 1776 are lost, but the assessment of 1775 shows that there were in this valley 4383 acres of land under cultivation, 340 horses, 414 cows, 141 sheep and 6 grist and saw-mills.
At the first sitting of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Northumberland County, which was held at Fort Angusta, the courts being held there until the court-house could be built, the county was divided into seven townships,- Penu's, Angusta, Turbut, Buffalo, Bald Eagle, Muncy and Wyoming.
The township of Buffalo commenced at the month of Penn's Creek, at the head of the Isle of Que ; thence the boundary extended up the creek to its forks at Coburn ; thence by a line to the West Branch, at the month of the Ball
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Eagle Creek, a mile below Lock Haven ; then | April, 1795, by which Northumberland was down along the river to the place of beginning. Buffalo contained all of Union County, all of Suyder north of Pour's Creek, and parts of the present counties of Centre, Clinton and bycom- ing.
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