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George Yentzer ; one of his daughters, too, was married to John Betz, school-teacher, under whose skillful hands the organ of the Dries- bach Church was repaired in the great revival under Frommer, and who, with his wife, were accounted the handsomest couple in Uniou County ; a daughter of theirs was married to the Hon. George Schinable, whose children were George, and Mrs. Catherine Packer, of Wil- liamsport ; another daughter was married to Andrew Eusworth.
William Williams was the first store-keeper. The old store-room stood next to Martin Hahn's, the house of MeKinty being in the rear of it. It was torn down by James F. Linn forty years ago. Flavel Roan mentions being at a social hop at Mrs. Williams' in 1804. Christo- pher Baldy was constable of Buffalo in 1790-93. Commenced a tan-yard at Buffalo Cross-Roads in 1793. A danghter of his, Susan, married Jacob D. Breyvogel, printer, of Sunbury, in 1881. Hle kept a hotel at Buffalo Cross-Roads in 1802, and was one of the Republican standing com- mittee of that year ; postmaster at Lewisburgh in 1807 ; elected brigadier-general of the First Brigade of militia. His wife, Susanna, died July 27, 1808, and he afterwards, June 11, 1809, mar- ried Eve, the widow of Daniel Metzgar, the latter also dying in this year (1808). Flavel Roan chronicles a call on him on the 12th of June, and a young son born to them on the 31st of December. Next to his quotation of the text at Buffalo, he puts in brackets, " I make it a point to always stop at Baldy's." And on the 18th of June, 1810, he mentions General Bal- dy's flitting in town. He removed to Cayuga Bridge, Seneca County, N. Y., where he contin- ued keeping hotel. Wendell Grove was the brother of Michael Grove, the celebrated Indian fighter, and kept the ferry across the river at the woolen-factory. He was still a resident of the place in 1792. Frederick Wise became sheriff of Union County in 1816 ; married a daughter of John Wierbach and moved to Brush Valley. Christian Yentzer was a merchant, and was in partnership with Derr in a store, muider the firm-name of Derr & Yentzer. His -ister Fauny, then a girl of eighteen or twenty years of age, above mentioned, married George
Derr, and one was married to Abraham Trox- ell, which may serve to explain somewhat the tangled web of relationships for which Lewis- burgh has been proverbial.
In 1789 Henry Fulton was a merchant of the town, and in May, 1790, Josiah Haines and John Thornburgh started a store. Colonel Matlach, who had been appointed one of the commissioners to survey the Susquehanna for inland navigation, on May 19, 1790, detained his boat at Northumberland to carry Haines & Thornburgh's goods to Derrstown. Out of the unused leaves of their day-book John Hayes made a docket for his business as justice of the peace, beginning May 25, 1790, and ending September 26, 1795. He married Clara El- linkhusen, Josiah Haines was a member of the Legislature in 1793.
In 1791 James Black came to this town. He belonged to the class of well-to-do people in those days. He kept a store where Murray Nesbit lives, and also conducted Ellinkhusen's ferry. That lot was sold to Francis Guise October 5th, and the deed recited a privi- lege of a landing on the bank of the river, op- posite to and of the same breadth as the lot. George Derr had sold to Cowden & Hepburn the land between Market Street and St. Lewis Street, east of Water Street, and built a store and house, which, remodeled, is now owned by Mr. Wolf. He had a writ of ejectment issued, which reached the Supreme Court in 1798, where it was held that an ejeetment would not lic for an incorporeal hereditament. That was the last of it. Mr. Black's store was burned ; he became financially involved. Hugh Wilson bought the lot in 1800 and sold it, May 4, 1810, to Adam Grove, who sold it to Thomas Nesbit May 8, 1822. It is now owned by his son, Thomas Murray Nesbit. The property north of the alley was given to the Black family, and there they kept hotel and boarding-house, retaining their old-time gentility, until the maiden sisters Polly and Hannah dropped into the grave. Among the clerks of James Black in 1797 is William Hayes.
The " Annals of Buffalo Valley " contains the following, relative to William Hayes and his descendants :
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" His ancestors, John Hayes and Jane, his wife, with four children, emigrated from Londonderry about the year 1730 ; settled in Chester County, where his house burned. He then moved to Northampton County, where he kept public-house and store. Dur- ing the Indian troubles he used to beat a drum on the hill-top, near his house, to warn the settlers of ap- proaching danger. He died in 1788, aged eighty- three. His widow died at Derry, Northumberland County, aged ninety-four, in 1806. Of the four chil- dren born in Ireland,-1, William, moved to the State of Virginia at an early period; 2, Isabella, married to Patton, whose descendants live near Bellefonte; 3, John, died near Meadville, Pa. ; 1, Mary, married a Gray, afterwards a Steele. Of those born in l'eunsylvania,-5, Elizabeth, married Thomas Wilson (grandfather of Franeis Wilson, of Buffalo) ; 6, James; 1 7, Robert, born in Northamp- ton County in 1742; 8, Francis, who moved to Ten- nessee; 9, Jane, married a Brown, settled first in Virginia and afterwards moved back to Pennsylvania. Robert married Mary Allison, and moved to North- umberland County in 1790. He lived nine years on a farm near Warrior Run Church, seven years at Derry, and in 1806 moved to the farm in Delaware township, where his son Joseph lately lived. At that time there were seven or eight acres of the place cleared and two indifferent huts on the premises, which were used as a dwelling and school-house. Ile died in 1819, and his children were,-1, John, whose descendants live at Waterford, Erie County, Pa .; 2, Jane, married to Moses Laird ( father of Rob- ert II. Laird, Esq., of Lewisburgh); 3, William Hayes, born in 1776; 4, James Hayes ; 5, Joseph Hayes, who was living a few years since at the age of ninety ; 6, Mary Walker, who died at eighty- four years of age ; 7, Sarah Shipman, descendants re- siding in Michigan ; 8, Elizabeth, married her cousin Brown, living near Franklin, Pa. William Hayes' wife was Mary, daughter of William Wilson, of White Deer, now Kelly township. Children,- Robert and Thomas, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Dr. Seiler, of Harrisburg; Mrs. John Chamberlin; Mrs. Dr. Thomas Murray ; James Hayes, late of the auditor-general's office at Harrisburg; Dr. Wil- liam Hayes, of Muncy. Mr. Hayes was the second postmaster of Lewisburgh, and held the office a long time, in connection with his store, which was the principal one in the valley for many years."
) Lientenant James llayes served under Colonel Boquet in the French and Indian War, and received for his ser- vices a tract of land at the month of Beech Creek, in Clin . lon County, on which he settled, raised a large family and died. He is buried in the Hayes grave-yard, so called from him, ut Beech Creek. lle is the only one of his brother officers who fulfilled to the letter his contract with the proprietaries by settling upon his allotment.
William Hayes became a leading property- holder and citizen of Lewisburgh and of the county. In 1819 he built the stone house iu which Mark Halfpenny lives, and died there February 17, 1843, at the age of sixty-one years.
William Hayes stopped business in the spring of 1829. Robert Hayes kept the store until 1839 and sold it to Thomas Hayes and Peter Beaver. William Hayes bought the tannery of George Knox in 1825. Thomas Hayes had learned the trade with Knox, commenced operating in 1826, and sold to Henry W. Fries in 1840.
Henry Gross came to town in 1840, was clerk for Hayes & Beaver. Thomas Hayes bought out Peter Beaver and the firm was L. Hayes & Co., with Gross as partner, until 1845, Henry Gross went to Aaronsburg, where he kept store until 1853; was in the Custom- House, Philadelphia, three years, and then went into the coal business in Philadelphia, where he now is.
John Black, son of James, became employe of William Hayes, and a boatman at the time when the keel-bottom boats were in nse.1
1 Keel-boats .- They were fifty to sixty feet long, ten to twelve feet wide, pointed at both ends, with a long oar and swivel that could be shifted to either end. They had no deck, but tarpaulin was used in bad weather. Loaded, they floated down the river, but coming up, they were poled. Two planks ran side by side along the centre of the vessel, and with long poles pointed with iron, the polers placed their shoulders to the end and walked the plank.
John Black was born in Lewisburgh, Union County, on the 4th of October, 1796. He helped build the dam at the mouth of the Juniata, and two sections of the canal ut Bainbridge. In 1832 he was superintendent of the con- struction of the York County Imlf of the Columbia bridge, which was burned in 1863. In 1835 and 1838 be rebuilt all the dams and loeks on the Conestogn from Lancaster to the Susquehanna River. About the same time he also Imilt the lock and a section of the Tide-Water Canal, the Tide-Water dam at Columbia and the tow-path bridge connecting with the old Columbia bridge. In 1840 he un- dertook and successfully completed what was then consid. ered a remarkable fent in engineering skill -- tearing down the old and building a new bridge on the Pennsylvania Railroad over Mill Creek without causing any dehy lo travel. He was one of the contractors and chief manager of the construction of the Croton aqueduct, by which New York City is supplied with water. In 1843 or 1844 he went to Canada and built a section and lock of the Benu-
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UNION COUNTY.
Just below Williams' store-room, next the now vacant lot in front of MeKinty's, stood the house of Joseph Mathias Ellinkhusen. The first story was built up with stone ; the second door was on a level with the garden in the rear of the house. Just in front from the shore the Ellinkhusen, or lower ferry, kept by James Black, stretched across the river, by the foot of a little island, just below the month of the old Present canal, to the old Steadman Tavern, as it was known in those days, where Flavel Roan ant John Lawshe, Sr.'s, always stopped to get a drink on his way to and from Sunbury.
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The. Ellink husen house had an uncanny repu- tation for many a long day ; the little girls that went to school in the old Williams' store-room, they came out, gathered in a little flock to ruch by the haunted old house. Mathias Joseph Ellinkhuisen was a son of' Baron Carl Ellink- Ingen, of Rotterdam. He first appears among the residents of 1791. He was evidently in this country in 1783. On a pane of glass in one of the windows of what is known as the Tolland House, Germantown, there is engraved, as by the diamond of a ring, a likeness of Fred- erick the Great. On the lower margin is in- Frihed . M. J. Ellinkhuysen, fecit, 1783, Phila- delphia." Mr. Toland, the proprietor, had the pane removed and framed. At the time of the Revolution this house was George Miller's, a captain and colonel in thearmy, and it was or- cupied by his family. In 1783 the war had closed, and he must have been a guest there, and it was supposed he was a Messian officer.' A deed dated the 12th of January, 1789, for two lots, Nos. 66 and 291,-Ralph Kar Ruff and Mrs. Frick opposite, to Captain Bartholomew
baruvis ship canal around the rapids in the St. Lawrence. From 18th to 18 th he was engaged in the construction of the outlet lock and basins of the lachine Canal at. Mont- real, and in the construction of the Atlantic and St. Law- renve Railroad, running from Montreal to Portland, Me., a distance of over three hundred miles. In 1852 be re- mirned to Laneister and rebuilt the Harrisburg Railroad from Harrisburg to this place. This last public work was done soon after this, when he rebuilt the York Furnace tridge. Since then Mr. Black has been living in retire- ment, enjoying the rest he had so well earned. He diet in 1885.
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Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. v., p. 247.
Von Heen-entitles him " major," and that was no doubt his rank in the Hessian contingent, and he remained in this county, as many of them did. However, as stated, Peter Borger sold fifty lots to Joseph and Clara, his wife. They came in 1790 with a good outfit of cloth- ing and money, with his trustee, Rev. Charles Hilburn or Helbron.
The principal notice we have of the son and his wife are from the recollections of Mrs. Mary Brady Piatt. Mrs. Ellinkhusen was short in stature, very lady-like in manner and astonished the people by her elegance and passionate fond- ness for skating. She married Jolm Thorn- burg, who died young. She afterward married Mr. Moore, and removed to Erie, Pa. Ellink- husen was a man of very genteel address, and fond of society. His father had given him the town site and a good onthit of clothing and money. Emigration declined, and the convivial habits he had acquired, probably before leaving Europe, shortened his days. Personally he was much esteemed. He was quite an artist, and often drew with pencil striking likenesses of his companions. Sheriff John Brady was a joker. He had found a cannon near Muddy Run, and he told Ellinkhnsen that he would present it to him if he would take care of it. On cleaning out the mud which covered the muzzle, two large black snakes came out, greatly to the hor- ror of Mr. Ellinkhusen. He told Brady the cir- cumstance afterward. " Why," said Brady, " they were my pets; I would not have lost them for a hundred dollars; " and Ellinkhusen, no doubt, died in the belief that he had let loose some play-fellows of Brady's. Ellinkhusen and Thornburg were both buried beneath what is now the vestibule of the Presbyterian Church. The annalist recollects well the wild cherry tree that stood near the brick wall inclosing these graves. The tombstone of Ellinkhusen was preserved by the late James F. Linn, Esq., and is in the cellar of the church.
The taxable residents in 1793 were as fol- lows:
James Black, Thomas Caldwell, Francis Deering, Edward Delong, John Donachy, John Dunlap (ferry), Clara Ellenekhuysen, Joseph Evans, Leonard Gronin- ger, Adam Grove, Wendel Grove, Samuel Heineman,
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George Hold-hip, Lawrence Kemble, George Knox, George Links, Alexander Lewis, Daniel Metzger, William Poak, David Russel, Joseph Sherer, David Snodgrass, Lewis Swinchart, John Thornburg, Abra- Jam Troxel, Benjamin Wells, Joseph Wells, Christian Yentzer, Dr. Charles Buyers (physician), Alexander MeBeth, Matthias Shaffer, Hugh MeLanghlin, Wil- liam Stedman (Esquire).
In 1791 a bridge was built across the month of Buffalo Creek. . The Court of Quarter Ses- sions dirceted an allowance of fifty pounds, or one hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty- three cents. It was withont a roof. In 1807 the ice broke in Buffalo Creek and carried off this bridge. It was rebuilt in 1809 by James Moore, Sr., and in 1848 the west hall of the bridge was carried away and lodged on the river bridge. It hung that way until 1851, when the old bridge was removed and a new one com- menced, and that was burned in 1854, October 15th, when the saw-mills of Frick, Slifer & Co. were burned.
The people of the town were in the Whiskey Insurrection ; some of them, at least, erected a pole with a flag and motto " Liberty." It stood on the site of the brick house late of Samuel Wolfe, and was cut down when the troops passed by out to Billmeyer's. Ten years have passed since the town was laid out. The honses numbered thirty-seven, and there was a popu- lation of one hundred and twenty-five.
William Steadman had become a merchant, under the name of Steadman and Smith, in the stone store across from Thomas Nesbit's, which had caused the lawsuit with Black. The liest post-office was established in Lewisburgh July 1, 1797, and he was appointed.
Henry Spyker became a merchant also. He was a son of' Peter Spyker, who was president. of the courts of Berks County in 1780. The Spykers, Christs, Kadermans, cte., came over with Conrad Weiser to New York, in 1710, from a place called Herrenberg, in Wurtem- berg, Germany. In 1729 they all removed to- gether to Tulpehoeken, where Henry Spyker was born, 29th Angust, 1753. He was adju- tant, in 1776, of a militia regiment on duty at Amboy, N. J., where he heard the thunder of the battle on the 25th, 26th and 27th. His manuscript journal is yet in the pos-
session of his granddaughter, Mary Spyker, at Lewisburgh, together with many valable pa- pers, a complete file of almanacs from 1756 down. He was paymaster of the militia from October 1, 1777, to July 27, 1785, during which he disbursed $122,817 78. 6d., and ar- comted satisfactorily for every cent. He was afterwards member of Assembly for Berks, 1788 to 1790. In 1797, when Jonathan was twelve years old, just the ageof Lewisburgh, he removed to Lewisburgh, where he engaged in store-keeping for a few years; was then ap- pointed a justice, which office he exercised until within a few days of his death. He used to tell of two Germans of the valley, who came to his office to make some sale and have a note written, and when through, the party who was to have the note told the other to keep it, and he could then know when it was due and come and pay him.
On 5th of August, 1795, Henry Spyker com- meneed building the first brick house ever erected in Lewisburgh (still standing), on the corner of' Front and St. Catherine Streets, and owned by James S. Marsh. John Meffert, of Tulpchocken, was the contractor. Most of the brick were brought from some point down the river, and a few were made on Thomas Wilson's place, now a part of George Wolfe's, near the fair-ground. Abraham Troxell did the haul- ing.
This is the house where the large chimney with its crane was built, so that apple-butter You'd be boiled there, and the people of the house saved the trouble of carrying it to the garret. Christian Reed built a barn for him in 1791, and he charges him with sixteen gallous of whiskey, used at the work during July and Angust. Spyker was commissioned a justice of the peace for East Buffalo March 9, 1799.
Thomas Caldwell kept a store on lot of Dr. Harrison ; John Metzgar opposite the Camerou House and Dr. Byers. John Pollock opened a store in 1795.
General Potter hauled his iron from Centre Furnace to Lewisburgh to be shipped in keel- boats. They hauled their whiskey from Pot- tor's.
Hon. Andrew Albright came to Lewi-burgh
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in 1798 and opened a tavern where Halfpen- ny's factory now stands, where he resided until he was elected sheriff; commissioned October 21, 1803, when he removed to Sunbury. He was member of Assembly in 1808. His wife died March 9, 1810, and he subsequently married the mother of Mrs. Jolm G. Youngman, of Sun- bury. He was appointed associate judge in 1813 in place of General Wilson, deceased, and had just been elected to the State Senate when he died. He was noted for his integrity, and was very popular throughout our valley. He owned Colonel Slifer's upper farm on Buffalo Creek when he died. He left no children, but broth- it's Henry, Jacob, Godfrey, and a sister, Susan- na, married to Philip Backman. An obituary in the Sunbury Enquirer of that date concludes: "Society has been deprived of a valuable mem- Ler, and a wife of an amiable husband. In private life he sustained the character of an honest man and Christian, and was universally beloved. He has held various public and re- sponsible offices, with honor to himself and ad- vantage to his fellow-citizens." . He died on Tuesday, November 21, 1822, at Simbury, after am illness of three months, in his lifty-third year. He was born at Lititz, February 28, 1770. Ilis father's name was Andrew ; his mother, Elizabeth Orth, of Lebanon. Ilis first wife was a daughter of Melchoir Rahm, a very prominent man in Dauphin County.
We built a long, two-story, weather-boarded house, painted red, long after known in the parlance of the town as the " Red Roost." It was so large a house that people came from a distance to see it. He was postmaster in 1802, and it is related that in that year, the night of December 23-24, a fire occurred at Nesbit's, on the east side of the river in the night. It was noticed by Andrew Albright. The night was fearfully cold, and, observing no one stirring at the house, he mounted his horse and swam him, through the floating ice, across the river, awakened the family, and thus saved them from destruction. Barnaby MeMaster, the weaver, lost his loom and all he had, barely escaping with his life and family.
It was at this house that Stewart was said to have stayed the night before his duel with John
Binns, which took place across the river, "at the end of the fence behind Lawshe's house, oppo- site Derrstown." 1
Daniel Franklin kept the hotel next, who died of a sore leg, Flavel Roan says, and short- ly after, his widow, Jean Franklin, married Charles Seagraves, who thereafter kept it.
For many years before it was torn down to give way to the grist-mill it was the habitat of a number of tenants, whose quarrels among themselves, and with the tenants of a long two- story building opposite, inhabited in the same way, gained for them the names of the Red and White Roosts.
In November, 1853, Nesbit, Hayes & Ficht- horn tore away the " Red Roost " and erected the first steam flouring-mill on the site, called Eagle Mill. This was burned and re-erect- ed, and afterwards purchased by William Brown, who sold it to Abraham Frederick, who, in turn, sold it to Mark Halfpenny. The lat- tor's woolen-mill at Laurelton had been burned June 11, 1866. He purchased the Eagle Mills, with the " White Roost " opposite, and fitted it up as a woolen-mill, with machinery compris- ing two sets of forty-eight-inch cards, two hand-mules, (three hundred and sixty spindles cach), ten narrow and three broad looms, and machinery necessary for the manufacture of flannels, etc., and an annual capacity of abont seventy-five thousand pounds of wool. In 1870 the firm of M. Halfpenny & Sons was formed by the admission of W. E. Halfpenny and W. S. Halfpenny, and in 1874 the firm of M. Halfpenny & Co. was formed of M. Halfpenny, W. A. Scheyer and W. I. Halfpenny, and the annual capacity increased to one hundred and twenty thousand pounds of wool.
The factory was burned in 1878, May 17th, and with it the " White Roost" went up in smoke.
The present structure, built the same year, of brick, has a main building, two stories, fifty-four by one hundred and fourteen, with two wings, forty by forty-eight and thirty by sixty ; one- story boiler and dye-house, twenty by seventy, having machinery consisting of three sets of -15-
! lin's " Annals," 319.
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inch cards, eight automatic jacks, two thousand one linndred and sixty spindles, fifteen Crompton broad looms, and all the machinery necessary for the manufacture of fancy cassimeres. The present capacity is ninety thousand yards six- quarters cassimeres ; they employ fifty hands. Frank Halfpenny was admitted to the firm in 1878.
Of the inhabitants of Lewisburgh, we may notice that in 1801 .lolm Lawshe, Jr., is keeping the "Pennsylvania Arms," which remained known as the Black Horse -- the horses rampant. of the State coat-of- arms being thus recognized -until it was torn down to give way to the private residence of William Cameron, Esq., on the corner of Second and Market.
November 1, 1801, Mrs. Jean MeChire died ; buried on the 5th in the Presbyterian yard, Lewisburgh. She left fourteen children, one hundred and ten grandchildren, one hundred and forty eight great-grandchildren and four great- great-grandchildren, -total two hundred and seventy-six. Thirty-six of them attended the fimeral. She was of an amiable, benevolent and friendly disposition, and might be called a true Christian .!
In 1802 Isaac Latshaw, John Metzgar and Albright, at the ferry, were keeping hotels; John Brice ; John Donachy, weaver ; Daniel Franklin ; Thomas Hartley, carpenter ; Barney MeKinty ; David Russell, mason. In 1803 John Ely, George Gneker, John Moore, black- smith. In 1805 the log school-house or acad- emy was built on the present. site of the parson- age of the Presbyterian Church. It was one story, about twenty feet square. In ISIB Jonas Butterfield kept school there. This was orcu- pied as a High School under varions teachers, and as an academy inder James MeChine a while, and until the brick academy on the cor- ner of Front and St. Mary's Streets was built. MeCInne went to Mifflinburg. In 1840 Rev. Ilngh Pollock, from Belfast, arrived and took charge of the academy, made vacant by the removal of James MeChine to Mitilinburg. In ISIT John Robinson became the principal ; in 1846, the Rev. Samuel Shaffer, who pur-
ebased it of the stockholders. It afterward- passed into the hands of John Randolph, and has now subsided into a double dwelling-bon-c.
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