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upon this last line still stand near the cemetery. The present borough. limits contain all this land except down at the southern corner, where what is known as the Spider place was takeu off by an act of the Legislature.
On the 14th of March, 1762, a warrant had been issued to Richard Peters, Esq., for two thousand acres on the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata.
On the Ist of January, 1769, he received an order for two thousand acres in lieu of the above for his service at the treaty of Fort Stanwix,
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to be laid out in the then late purchase of 1768; and pursuant to this order, the proprietary tract of three hundred and twenty acres, called by the name of " Prescott," was patented to him on the 11th of Angust, 1772, and on the 17th of November, 1773, Richard Peters makes a deed of conveyance to Ludwig Derr.
Ludwig Derr lived in Heidelberg township, Berks County, the home of Courad Weiser, the Indian interpreter, in 1756, and this is the first notice of him. He came to Buffalo Valley early in 1769, to look out locations. Charles
Where the upland rose by the run Ludwig Derr built his mill, erecting an ionnense dam across from near the end of St. Catherine Street over towards Asbury Donachy's house, its head near Samuel Maus', where the race began, and its flood far back over the meadows between Fifth and Sixth Streets from St. Catherine's I north,-one can hardly tell how far, but it is now being rapidly built up. The old mill stood close against the eastern side of Smith & Fry's mill ; the race, commencing at Sam. Maus', came across the face of the plateau castward to
LUDWIG DERR'S MILL.
Lukens, who made the surveys from the month of White Deer Creek along the river in October, 1769, mentions in his field-notes that Lud- wig Derr was with him, and he evidently squatted on "the proprietaries' tract " at the time, for the next year, the 20th of September, 1770, Charles Wilson, who made the survey of the tract next below, Strohecker's, mentions iu his field-notes that Ludwig Derr was living on the proprietaries' tract. He was, perhaps, the first settler in Buffalo Valley; certainly the first settler on the site of Lewisburgh.
near the front of the mill, turned south and poured its gathered flood into the dips of the great water-wheel. Just here at its head, before it ran under the bridge of the old mill road into the aqueduct of the flood-gate, it rounded into a basin, on whose northern edge stood a great oak-tree, sentinel over Indwig's trading-post, a story-and-a-half house built of heavy oak logs, its roof half-sloped, like a mod- ern mansard, one heavy battened door to the lower story, two-fcet-square windows, and a dormer in the half-slope of the roof.
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Ile had built there in 1770, and probably went to building his mill at once; although it is not certain which year it was built, it was running in 1772. That year he bought the Joseph Hodnot tract, just west of the other, whose boundary, speaking generally, is along the western side of the " proprietary tract ;" out along the pike as far as Linnville ; up the railroad as far as Ellis Brown's ; then across by the road leading from Linnville to the Buffalo Valley road ; up that road to Shorkley's, and across to the creek; down the creek to the iron bridge. He pur- chased of John Coxe, merchant, Philadelphia, Jume, 1772, for one hundred and seventy-five pounds.
When Ludwig Derr wanted to borrow money of the Loan-Office, in 1774, Robert Fruit and Thomas Hewitt, the county commissioners, valued the tract " on which the said Derr now lives, having a grist and saw-mill, dwelling- house and barn, clear upland and meadow, at 1000 pounds Pennsylvania currency " (about $2,666.60). In 1775 he is assessed with thirty acres of cultivated land, five horses, four cows, two sheep, a grist and saw-mill.
In November, 1771, Walter Clark bought eleven hundred and fifty acres, surveyed to Rev. Jolin Ewing, in trust for himself, Robert Fruit, William Gray, Robert Clark and Wil- liam Clark, just above the month of Buffalo Creek, which they divided into six parts, each taking a part and selling the remaining sixth to Ludwig Derr, July 31, 1773.
In the year 1772 Northumberland County was erected, whose southern boundary was the Mahantango and Juniata, Lake Erie on the west, New York on the north and the head of Le- high on the cast ; and among the first grand jurors of the first court of the county Ludwig Derr appears.
Ludwig Derr was evidently a courageous, disercet and popular man. His mill and trad- ing-post was known far and near, and was a stopping-place for travelers. It was the meet- ing-place of the patriots during the Revolution ; yet his trading-post and mill stood, and he stayed with them, when the torch was put to dwelling, post and mill, by the Indians, from Wyoming to the Mahantango.
He signed his own name Ludwig Doer ; his wife signed her name Catherine Darr ; Richard Miles got his horse show at " Tare's Mill" in May, 1773 ; so that must have been the pro- mmciation of his name.
On a hot summer afternoon in Ang- ust, in the year 1776, a ten-year-old boy, the son of this same Christian Van family, was dabbling his toes in the water from off an old ferry-boat down there at Strohecker's, when he saw the canoes of a party of In- dians dart out from between the islands which chis- tered down below the mouth of the Chillisquagne, glide up along the shore to about opposite where he was; squaws and luggage were put ashore, and the men paddled across to the mouth of the run, disappearing into its shaded recesses. He asked leave of his father to go up to the trading-post. Endwig had knocked in the head of a barrel of whiskey and had supplied the Indians with tin-eups. They got on a fearful bender. The aborigines had one advantage over his white com- petitor on a drunk. They had the war-whoop, and the dance, and the scalping horror well cultivated be- fore the introduction of the fire-water. The boy saw the wild frolic of the drunken Indians in its fullest intensity ; they whooped and danced; seized each other by the hair and imitated the scalping process, tearing off the scalp with their teeth. In the midst of their wild revel a tall, lithe man strode up the bank, from behind the mill, kicked over the barrel, exclaim- ing, "My God, Ludwig, what have you done?" Derr replied, "Dey dells me you gif no dreet down on de fort, so ich dinks ich gif um vou hier, als he go home in bease." Captain John Brady had been at Sunbury, at Fort Augusta, that day-in fact had been one of the commissioners to treat with them-but there had been no presents made. Later in the day, after they had gone, he thought of Derr's fire-water ranch, and mounting his mare, rode home. He lived on Mr. Jon- athan Wolfe's farm, across the river. He saw that they had gotten over there and that the squaws were work- ing the canoes back to that side and were hiding their tomahawks and guns in the thickets of sumae on his own land-a sure sign the Indians were getting drunk. He crossed in a canoe, and he it was who appeared on the scene and ended the frolic. It is said that the In- dians remembered this long years after among their grudges against Brady.
Christian Van Gundy kept a tavern at Stro- hecker's Landing, and his house stood on Derr's land, above the white-oak corner. The remains of it were removed by the excavation for the Susquehanna Railroad. In 1774 he began an ejectment suit against Ludwig for the site of the town. And again in 1781 there were a num- ber of suits about it, which ended in the finan-
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cial ruin of Gundy. The old form of ejectment was then used. This suit was cutitled in the proceedings of the November term of that year, " Lessee of Christian Van Gundy es. Thomas Troublesmme, lessee of Ludwig Derr, with uo- tive to Christian Hettrick, tenant in posses- sion . " 1
During these eight long years of the Revolu- tionary War the settlers of this valley were greatly annoyed by the Indians, and many peo- ple had gone away. The news of peace in 1784 brought them back in great ummbers. Meanwhile Ludwig had dug his race ont from Samnel Mans' corner of Fifth and St. Catherine, along the bank, outside of Fifth Street, following the bank north through his own land and dispensed with his dam. The large embankment of this dam and the deep tail-race were still visible in 18-16, and later before any houses were built up west of the old race.
Some time after 1804 the right to make a dam was purchased, farther back, on the farm of IIngh Wilson (now Ellis Brown's), and it was described as led from a dam erected and built along a race made through the lands of Hugh Wilson, beginning at a marked black oak near the bank of Spring Ran, where the dam is erceted to fall into the race mentioned on George Derr's land, which is described as running from the upper side of his tract, where the new race crosses the line, along the old mill-race, through the lands of George Derr and thence through the lots of the town of Lewisburgh.
On the 3d of April, 1797, George Derr, only son of Ludwig aud Fanny, his wife, sold the
1 Christian Hetrick, a private in Capt. Samuel MeGrady's seven-months' men. His party was called out upon the appearance of some Indians upon Buffalo Creek. They did not come up with them, and on Hetrick's return home, a mile and a half above Van Gundy's mill, he was shot, Octo- ber 6, 1781. When found he had a bullet wound, and was sealped und tomahawked. His widow, whose umme was Agnes, married Ephraim Morrison, in 1787, and these facts are from an affidavit made to get a pension for Hetrick's children. Her children were AAndrew, born May 1, 1775; Catherine, 15th March, 1777; Elizabeth, 15th June, 1779 ; Polly, 16th October, 1781. He was one of the first resi- dents upon the site of Lewisburgh, and is buried just above Andrew Wolfe's, where the rocks jut out upon the road, in the corner of the woods.
tract of two hundred and eight acres ontside of the town plot to Tobias Lehman.
Tobias Lehman died, and on April 2, 1808, John Hays made a survey by which the prop- erty was divided. He left six children,-Henry; Barbara, married to George Bailey ; Elizabeth, to John Freedly ; Margaret Spiller; Catherine, married to Daniel Neyhart ; and Mary, to John Brown. A tract of four acres was ent ont for the mill-site and race. John Freedly married the miller's danghter. The next purpart was the one hundred and thirty-two aeres be- tween the mill and the raee, where it turns west from Fifth Street until it enters the Hodnot tract. This land John Brown became the owner of. Another part, seventeen acres, and still another of fifty-four aeres, were bought by Daniel Nyhart. Freedly was a heavy man and subject to vertigo. Stooping down, one summer morning in June, 1815, he fell in and was drowned in the basin before his mill. Henry Smith, a youth of seventeen years, helped pull his body out. In 1809, March 11th, the heirs of Lehman joined in a deed to Freedly for the four acres mentioned above and the mill-race. Freedly died intestate, leaving but one daugh- ter, Elizabeth, who in 1821 couveyed to John Brown the mill-seat, and thus he became the owner, in fee, of all the land through which the race ran.
John Brown, Sr., died August 7, 1845, at the age of sixty-two, and a survey was made for the purposes of partition November 18, 1845, and the report of the inquisition making the partition was finished March 17, 1846. Substantially, purpart A was land between St. John's and Market Streets, eight acres sixty perches, which latter was the race ; B was be- tween Market Street and St. Lewis Street, ten acres one hundred perches, fifty of which was the race ; C was between St. Lewis Street and the line along Brown Street to river, seventy-four aeres fifty-one perches ; and D was the mill- seat with twenty acres. The land beyond St. John Street had been previously sold; John Brown, Jr., took the mill-seat ; A. J. Foresman, married to oue of the daughters, took C, which became the property of the University of Low- isburgh, incorporated by the act of October 5,
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1846 ; B and A were taken by Joseph Smith, married to another daughter.
In order to remove the race from Fifth Street, on October 1, 1851, John Brown, Jr., bought from Levi Sterner, and so the race remained nntil 1882, when it was proposed to build the Sham- okin, Sunbury and Lewisburgh Railroad. On August 10, 1882, the Borough Council decided that the use of the race as a water-way entailed expense on the tax-payers, and that the public health would be improved by the abandonment of it. Smith & Fry, on April 7, 1883, sold to the borough for thirty-seven hundred dollars their title to the property. The borough then sold, on May 12, 1883, that part between Third Street and St. John's to William Fegley, in trust for the owners of property along it with certain reservations.
The old mill, already described, was built abont 1771. John Brown, Jr., owned the prem- ises until it was purchased by John C. Smith and Jonas A. Fry, April 1, 1869, who, in the summer of 1874, built another mill ou the premises. The mill was remodeled in 1884, the old machinery taken out and improved on the roller-system plan. Prior to 1874 the mill was run by water-power, but in 1874 a steam- engine was attached, but since the purchase of the race by the borough steam is used exclusively. Smith's addition to the borough was laid out May 1, 1847, and Wolfe's addition was laid out by Jonathan Wolfe on July 10, 1854. The university extension was laid ont by the Rev. A. R. Bell, treasurer of the university, James F. Linn being the surveyor.
Ludwig Derr laid out a town in 1785. In March, 1785, Samuel Weiser, the son of the white man who looked over its beauty fifty years before, laid out a handsome plot. He called the streets from the river back Water, Front, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth, and those running from the river westward, begin- ning at the south, St. George, St. Catherine, St. Lewis, Market, St. Johu, St. Mary and St. Anthony. The alleys were named after fruit- bearing trees and bushes. The deed of con- veyance was in consideration of his services.
The first lot sold is the one on the corner of St. Lewis and Water Streets, to William. Wil-
son, on March 26, 1785. On the same day he granted the three lots-the one occupied by J. T. Baker, Exq .- Nos. 42, 44 and 16 to William Gray, Walter Clark and William Wilson, "in trust for the Presbyterian congregation near Lewisburgh, for a Presbyterian meeting-house and burying-ground." The congregation, under an act of Assembly, alleging that many persons were buried on lot No. 48, sold No. 42, and bought No. 48, in the year 1804. The lots were sold slowly ; hence, during the summer of 1785, a lottery was instituted. At least one holds title thereby ; for John Brown paid three pounds Pennsylvania currency, and drew lot No. 21, corner of Fourth and Market Streets, where Dr. T. II. Wilson lives. In September, 1785, Ludwig went to Philadelphia to sell lots and afterwards nothing is known of him. Ile had sold some lots, but how many is not ascertained. The average price of these appears to have been about twenty-five pounds. The lots Nos. 50 and 48 he sold in Philadelphia to Proctor, on October 6, 1785,-Wiedensaul's and the parsonage, were sold for $133.33. Fanny, his son George's wife, said that George, becoming nneasy about him, went to look after him. He looked for him in the market and at his boarding-house, never found him-dead. At that time she was not married to him. She was a sister of Christian Yentzer, a merchant, and she came up here in 1786 and married George in two years afterwards. George was an only son, and inherited all from his father.
He sold the whole town-plot to Peter Borger, excepting about thirteen lots which his father had sold. He reserved the lots through which the race ran, in the southwest corner of the town. This was on December 28, 1788, and on January 2, 1789, Borger conveyed to Baron Carl Ellin- khusen, of the city of Rotterdam, Netherlands, who executed a power of attorney to Borger to sell the same. In June, 1790, Borger made a conveyance of fifty lots to Joseph Mathias Ellin- khusen, the son of Carl, and to Clara, his wife. On September 3, 1790, Carl revoked the license to sell given to Borger, and gave one to J. C. Ilelborn, a Catholic priest. After this event Borger sold one hundred and thirty lots to Richard and James Potter, of Philadelphia.
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The titles became very uncertain, and the im- provement of the town was retarded. Suits on the title of Potter's failed by reason of the de- fective execution of the power of attorney from Ellinkhusen to Borger. There was a test case (Griffith vs. Black, 10 S. & R., 160), which, from an old memorandum, appears to have cost the resident lot-holders $1533.60, and this was paid by John Lawshe, Jr., Andrew Billmyer, George Schnable, William Hayes, Dr. Beyers, Thomas R. Lewis, George Knox, James Black and William Sherrard, proportionally. The last suits were in 1841, in which the writs were quashed.
In November, 1788, just before the sale of George Derr to Borger, William Gray made a resurvey of the town, and his plan indicated the roads then existing, and the lots built upon, with theiroccupants. On Water Street : Lot No. 343, the lot of Martin Hahn, William Williams. Joseph Sherer lived on No. 146 ; Halfpenny's brick honse opposite the factory. On Front Street : Joseph Evans, cabinet-maker, lived on the now vacant lot corner of Front and St. John. The only house on Market Street was on the vacant lot of Jonathan Wolfe, occupied by Nicholas Smith. David Snodgrass lived on the Chronicle lot, and there is a house on Spyker's corner, and opposite, on Marsh's. Dr. Buyer built the honse on corner of Second and St. Catherine, where George Troxell lived. On Third street, Harvey's lot, John Hamersly lived. Jolin Ballinger lived in a house behind William Nagle's. There was a house at John Griffin's; Thomas Arnor lived there. One oppo- site, in which Alexander Steele lived, who had a tan-yard on that square. Edward De Long lived opposite.' Flamairns Byers and Wendel Grove lived next, and those were all the people that lived in the town at that time. Flavel Roan owned three lots,-James Walls', John Nesbit's and Henry Frick's, -- and had the ferry over Buffalo Creek. George Derr lived at the mill ; the old house stood in what is now the garden, just two rods northeast of where Hull's tannery pipe tapped the race. George Knox probably built that tannery somewhere then, as by deed of July, 1787, George Derr conveyed to Knox, for tan-yard purposes, as much water as will
run ont of an inch hole at the bottom of the race, two poles from Derr's house.
The " Encyclopaedia Americana " of 1790 thus describes the town: "Lewisburgh, or Tarstown, a town in Northumberland County, situated on the west side of the Susquehanna, seven miles above Northumberland. It con- tains sixty honses." On one old plan is marked " A plan of Lonis Borough, . . . laid out by Lewis Doerr, 1785," " Resurveyed November, 1788, by William Gray, D. S." By this sur- vey, " All the lots are sixty-six feet in breadth ; those on Water, Front, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth are one hundred and fifty-seven fect six inches in length or depth each, east and west ; those on Market Street, between Water and Second Streets, and between Fourth and Fifth Streets, are one hundred and sixty-five feet in depth north and south, and those between See- ond and Fourth are one hundred and fifty-five feet each ; Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, which are one hun- dred and fifty feet in depth each. Market and Third Streets are sixty-six feet wide; all the other streets are fifty feet and all alleys fifteen feet wide." The plan, hanging in the town clerk's office and recorded in Sunbury, is evi- dently one made about 1791, and is entitled,- " Plan of the town of Lewisborough, laid ont by Lewis Derr in the year 1785, now the prop- erty of M. J. Ellinkhusen, Esq., of Philadel- phia."
Ludwig Derr never intended the land be- tween Water Street and the river to be built upon. His first deed-the Murray Nesbit -- has in it a landing-place, opposite to it and of the same breadth, and the lot of Weidensaul's ITotel calls for low-water mark as its eastern boundary. In March, 1786, George and his mother sold the ground between the railroad and the foot of Market Street, below Water Street, and, meanwhile, his mother having died in September, sold the land between Water Street an I the river, from St. John's Street, or Halfpenny's factory, to St. Anthony Street, or the Buffalo Bridge, to Flavel Roan and Sankey Dixon.
The residents of Lewisburgh in 1785 were Jolin Bolinger, Henry Conser, Godfrey Deering, Joseph Evans, George Knox, Peter Leonard,
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Nicholas Smith and Jacob Welker. In 1786 | October 18, 1791. Ile was elected a member the additional residents were Thomas Armor, John Hammersley, Flavel Roau, David Snod- grass, Alexander Steele, George Troxell and William Williams ; in 1787, Christopher Baldy, James Barett, John Eaton, Wendell Grove, Gideon MeCracken, Allen Seroggs, Frederick Wise and Christian Yentzer.
Of these early residents, Bolinger, Deering and Smith left after one year's residence. Heury Couser removed to Centre County. After sixty years his son, Rev. S. L. M. Conser, a Meth- odist minister, was stationed at Lewisburgh in 1852 and 1853. Joseph Evans lived in a house on the corner of St. John and Front Streets, now vacant, until 1811, when he died, and Cam- cron was the next tenant of it. Captain Evans, as they called him, had two sous, -William and Joseph,-and two daughters,-Peggy, died ummarried, and the other daughter married Val- entine Miller, the grand father of John V. Miller, William lived at MeClure's and Joseph was the father of Thomas, of the book-store. George Knox had the tannery. One of his daughters married William Keith, November 19, 1801. Nancy was married, Angust 31, 1809, to Robert Montgomery; and his son George was married, October 21st same year, to Miss Jane Melvoy, near Pine Crock. He had a sou James and a daughter Belle, who married, as the second wife, William Armstrong, whose son is Hon. W. HI. Armstrong, of Easton. The children of Peter Leonard live about Lewis- burgh. When Mifflinburg was laid ont, in 1792, Jacob Welker, the tailor, moved to that place. Hlavel Roau was born July 31, 1760, the sou of the Rev. John Roan and the brother of Mrs. W. Clingau. He died on February 19, 1817, and was buried in the Presbyterian grave-yard, at Lewisburgh, near the pavement a little cast of the present church. He lived probably in the old house ou the boat-yard lot, near where the blacksmith-shop is, and kept a ferry. That ferry had been leased to Henry Conser in 1784, who sold it to Stephen Duchman, and he to Flavel Rom.
At the first election under the Constitution of 1790, Flavel Roan was elected sheriff of Northumberland County, and was commissioned
of the Legislature in 1791, and afterwards was commissioner, was general seribe of the valley, clerk of electious and of meetings of return judges, wrote the obituary and marriage notices, aud in 1813 became the commissioners' clerk for the county of Uuion, which he retained until his death. He left a diary, kept between the years 1803 and 1813. It was written in a fine hand, had his observations of the weather twice or three times a day, followed by what he did during the day and where he stayed all night, and contains a graphic description of the times .!
He was commissioned notary public of Lew- isburgh September 3, 1791, and served in this position until his death. He died a bachelor, and was a well-educated, painstaking and careful man.
William and Alexander Steele had the tan- yard on Fifth Street. William died ju 1806. George Troxell died in 1790. The Troxells of this country are the descendants.
George Troxell, one of the first residents, was oneof the first to die. Ile lived on the corner of Second and St. Catherine, and it is probable that honse or part of it is the only one of the orig- inal honses of the town. Ile died in 1790. Ile left a number of children-George Troxell, married to Mary Hoffinan May 15, 1806; Abraham Troxell was married to a sister of
Ille was teaching school in Derrstown when he began his journal in 1803. He goes with William Hayes and William Wallace to Mrs. Williams' house, where there is a social hop; it was then Andrew Albright's great tavern, a house so large that people came from Jar and near to see it, old Henry Smith said-where the woolen factory now is. There was a children's ball -- sixty children and forty spectators-and then there is a hop al Mes. Mary Harris', ut Tugh MeLanghlin's and at Thigh Wilson's ; and a ball al Colonel Baldy's, at the Cross Roads, and John Foster comes down from Penu's Valley, and they must have n ball id the Stone tavern, where Griffin's house now stands, of which Edward Morton is nemager. Mr. Graham preaches from Luke xviii. 1, and ke posts books for John Driesbach's lottery, and they wind up the month with n hop al Hugh Wilson's, a ball i Colonel Bally's and n frolic at Billy Ponk's, which is The stone tavern ngain. He mentions once That. Mr. Clark was very sick, and he went to Lewisburgh for the doctor. He did not find the doctor at home, but did find him at the tuvern, where he stayed until "all way blue." The sick amin got the doctor's attendance in the course of'un dny or two.
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