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The Emanuel Church is located at Union, in Buffalo township, from which circum- stance it is sometimes called the Union Church. It was built in 1859, and dedicated on the 4th of December of that year, when the following were chosen trustees : Peter S. Stahl, Jolm Hartman, David Herbst, Elias Kling and Jacob Ziebach. It is a frame building, and was repaired in 1884. Thereare about one hundred members, whose services are exclusively English. The trustees in 1886 were M. Rank, E. M. Kling, A. W. Barber, Jacob Duck and I. C. Encas.
The Coran Church was built a few years ago, during the pastorate of the Rev. D. P. Kline, and is a new frame building, thirty-six by fifty feet. The membership at this place is small, as the congregation was so recently or- ganized.
The flourishing church at Lewisburgh is a recent offspring of this cireuit, and as many of the former members were located at that place, their carly religions history is essentially the same as that of the old Buffalo charge.
CHAPTER VIII.
UNION TOWNSHIP !!
THE formation of the present township of Union, and its various transmutations, have been given in the general history of the territorial for- mation of the county. Its present boundaries may be stated generally : On the cast by the river, on the south by a line following the stage- road from Blue Hill to the lime-kilo of Henry Mowrer ; the western line rons from that point due north until it intersects the division line of Union and Buffalo, then follows the top of the
mountain cast until it strikes the river a little sonth of Jenkins' mill, at the month of Turtle Creek.
Long back of us, a century and more, while the line of Cumberland County rau from the black oak at Hetrick's store, in Snyder County, across by Mensch's farm, through the valley to Malone's, on the Bald Eagle, along the line of the Indian purchase of 1751, as it was then understood, John Lee had built his cabin near the spring by the stone barn at Winfield, and cleared his field around it,-the carliest clearing of the valley. James Wilson laid the Craig survey, on the Ith of October, 1769, around it; for when, the next March 23, 1770, he surveys the George Palmer, embracing Winfield, he speaks of commencing at Lee's spring and ruu- ning to an ash on the river, and theuce, by the back side of Lee's fields, to the river. This ex- plains the corner left out of the Craig survey below, and shows that Lee had cleared the fields where Thomas Parsel now lives, and its exact locality is thus defined. Then the sur- veyor laid out a tract stretching from Dry Run beyond Turtle Creek, along the bank of the river,-the Thomas Lowry, -and the same day, August 3, 1769, another skipped up Dry Run a little and laid out the James. Sheddon tract, reaching as far as Abraham Ever's. Next down below the spring, on the 4th of October, is laid the Alexander Craig, of three hundred aeres, and immediately below it, along the river, the Andrew Culbertson, one hundred and sixty- three aeres, and away out in the forest, where the road comes by way of Chappel Hollow, William Maclay, on the 4th of December, surveyed a tract of three Iundred and four acres for Joseph Simpson, (now Michael Fought), marked vacant all around on his draft, except that on one side it calls for a big hill, and the day before Christmas the John Galloway was laid on Blue Ilill.
The James Cochran, December 20, 1769, fol- lows Dry Run farther up the main stream. and then, March 23, 1770, James Wilson laid ont the George Palmer, for Lee, which takes in the spring, and winds in and out cast and south of the Sheddon and north of the Craig, away up along one branch of Dry Run; and the
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Joshua MeAffre was laid ou this side of Bhwe Hill; the Abraham Everly between the Shed- don and Simpson, and surveyed in 1772.
On the 15th of May, 1772, Wilson made the leading survey in the lower end for Daniel Rees, so many years owned by Joseph Fearer, and now owned and occupied by Joseph Shann, and right cast of the Kercher & Shoup. In conse- quence of the suit bet wech Bonham and Gibbons, referred to in Emerick's story, the lines were often run and are well marked. In his original field-notes Wilson says: " The land is situated about two miles from John Lee's, on both sides of the path that leads to Treaster's," at the mouth of Tuscarora Creek, a mile above New Berlin.
On the 12th of May, 1770, Wilson surveyed the Thomas Sutherland tract, just south of Kun- kle's, which he notes that " Robert King bought," thus indicating where the first consta- ble of Buffalo township lived. To this Robert King, Thomas and Richard Penn, by letters- patent, granted the privilege of keeping a ferry across the Susquehanna, at Sunbury. He sold this to Adam Hoverling the next year, Novem- ber 30, 1773.
James Young settled on the place now owned by David Gross in the year 1774. Isaac Hanna, a gunsmith from Lancaster, paid, in 1780, 6600 for three hundred and nine acres. May 6, 1775, John Forsyth, deputy for William MeClay, surveyed the Jacob Haines, just below the Craig, and on the 12th of July Nehemiah Breese, of Sunbury, surveyed the John Sneagon tract, next north of the Simpson, now Chap- pel's Hollow, then called Haverly's Gap. Mower tabled his notes (he died not long after) and made the return of survey-made the North 20° west line from the pine one hundred perches, instead of sixty, to chest- nut, which produced a dispute afterward be- tween Abraham Eyer and John Brown. The Ludwig Kercher is surveyed 27th April, 1775, on warrant dated October 25, 1774. Conrad Shap has a warrant laid south of this dated Oe- tober 24, 1774, surveyed November 8, 177.1, which interferes, and settles on part in October, 1775, cleared three or four rods, felled some trees, planted some apple seeds and raised a
cabin four logs high. The part outside of the interference was patented to Peter Bronse and by him sold to Abram Eyer, April 11, 1817. George Overmejer, John Rearick, Christian Shively and Michael Focht were brothers-in- law. Overmeier settled near where Philip Secbold lives, near New Berlin ; Shively at the mouth of White Spring Run; Rearick near Wehr's tavern; Focht in Dry Valley, on the Simpson. Philip Seebold is a grandson of Over- meier. Ile often heard Mrs. Fought tell of the raid of the Indians in 1778, and it is one of the most touching incidents ever related as happening,-
She said they were threshing flax on their place, where the road through Chappel's Hollow comes out into Dry Valley, when the Indians came upon them suddenly. Her baby was near her, and she picked it up and_an. Another child, that could just run about, was back of their little barn. She heard it call, 'O mother, take me along, too." She looked around and the Indians were close upon her. She ran the whole way-two miles-to Penn's Creek, to a house where the neighbors had gathered. She never heard of her child again; but as there was no indica- tion that it was killed, she hoped for its return some day. At night, and in the quiet hours of the day, the last words of her child, "O mother, take me along, too," she said, rang in her ears long years after.
She said the house they took refuge in was sur- rounded by the Indians. They suffered from thirst, and a man named Peter - said he would have water, if he died for it. They allowed him to go out, and as he turned the corner of the house a rifle cracked, and he fell dead. The next day the Indians withdrew, and they embarked in canoes, and went down Penn's Creek. On the Isle of Que, she said, she went into a house and found no one about. A baby ent propped up in a cradle. On close inspection she found it was dead, and the marks of the tomahawk.
David Emerick, who came up from Dauphin County, settled in Shamokin County, first where the road comes up to meet the river road, where Widow Brown's tavern used to be, or near it, called Gibbon's place, before the Revolutionary War, in 1773, where he built a house, cleared ten aeres of land and planted apple trees. Ile sold this place by deed dated 21st of June, 1780, to Daniel Rees. On the 15th of November, 1779, he purchased of Andrew Glen a tract of two hundred and eighty aeres for $2925. This is the first farm to the left as you turn cast to go toward the river from the Chappel Hollow
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road, on the farm of P. Seebold. Here he cleared a piece of land, built a cabin and was residing in April, 1781. Henry Bickle, who lived on this side of the mountain, where Henry Mertz lately lived, had gone over there that morning to help roll logs at the clearing. The Indians came down upon them, shot Bickle, and, plundering Emerick's honse, carried him and his family away prisoners. They loaded Emerick with the phinder, and after proceeding a little way, he sat down on a log and refused to go farther. They plunged a tomahawk into his head and left him dead. The baby they impaled on the sharpened end of a sapling, and let it fly into the air. They were taken to Canada, one of the daughters dying on the way from excessive bleeding at the nose. One of the daughters was in Dauphin County at the time. The widow and daughter captured married into the tribe of their captors-Cathe- rine, the widow, to Archibald Thompson ; Mar- garet the daughter to James Thompson, of Stam- ford, in the district of Niagara, province of Upper Canada. The other daughter, Catherine, mar- ried James Bamler. Many years afterward Mrs. Emerick and her Indian husband and her daughter came back to Henry Myers', near Harrisburg, to draw money from her grand- father's estate there, and receive their share of the murdered man's estate. They were infatu- ated with their life, and Mrs. Emerick endeav- ored to persuade some of her female relatives to go off with her from here, They came in grand style, on horseback, decorated with all the tin- sel of Indian dress. There are on record, at Sunbury, a letter of attorney, dated January 12, 1805 (M. 516), from Archibald Thompson to James Thompson, authorizing him to collect the estate of David Emerick, and from the heirs and exceutors of Conrad Sharp, of Berks Coun- ty, and a letter of attorney from James Thomp- son to George Schoch to convey their interest in the tract of land adjoining Hessler, Hugh Beutz, George Olds and James Jenkins, containing one hundred and seventy-one acres, " which they hold as tenant in common with John Bickle," aml recited to be conveyed by Andrew Glen and wife. This is the William Glen, and is the tract north of Win. Hessler or John Kunkle's.
On the 9th of August, 1786, John Anrand is ap- pointed guardian of Margaret and Catherine Emerick, children of David Emrick, deceased. Finally there is a release recorded at Lewisburgh, dated the 20th of September, 1816, from Jantes Thompson to George Schuch, which rechtes that David Emerick Jeft a widow, named Catherine, aud two daughters, Margaret, intermarried with James Thompson, and the other intermarried with George Bander, and he, Thompson, releases his wife's share of David Emerick's estate, amounting to $516.75.
In 1825, Bonham's heirs brought an ejectment against William Gibbons for a tract of land in the warrantec name of David Emerick, and, to sustain their title, gave in evidence a deed, dated the 21st of Jump, 1780, from David Emerick to Daniel Reese, under whom Bonham claimed The defeuse subpana- ed all the old settlers in the country to prove that David Emerick was killed in 1778 or 1779, from which the lawyers argued the deed a forgery, though it purported to be acknowledged before Christopher Gettig, Esquire. Among others was Michael Smith. lle said " I was living in the place where I am now living (1830) during the Revolutionary War. There was a massacre by the Indians in Dry Valley. Henry Bickle was killed ; the only one, as far as we know. David Emerick and his family were taken prisoners on the same day. His woman came in afterward, and said Emerick was killed on the road. David Emerick never appeared again. It was three years afterward when his wife returned. She was afterward married to Thompson, in New York. Bickle's wife had a son abont four months after his murder. His name is Henry Bickle, I saw Henry Bickle after he was murdered. My father lived about two miles from Bickle at that time. My wife's mother and Emerick's wife's mother were sisters, I saw Thompson after he was married to Mrs. Emerick.
" Lee's massacre was about a year after Emerick's. It was in Dry Valley, and about the time of the gen- oral runaway. I saw Lec's family all lying sealped. Emerick has some children. I never saw any of them. There was one of the girls down below at the time, who was at my house about a year ago. Emerick lived near the hill, not far from Hummel's tavern, in Dry Valley. Emerick's children were all taken, ex- cept the one. I saw Lee killed in the house. They had their heads all scalped, and were laid on a bundle of straw." Jacob Bower, of Union township, stated that he knew David Emerick. He was taken by the Indians. "They killed him on the hill, and we fled to Lee's, and lived there until after hay-making. Lee was after the Indians when Trinkle and Fanght were killed. Lee was killed by the Indians after- wards. Emerick was not taken prisoner the same summer Lee was killed, but the year we lived at Lee's."
Henry Biekle, sworn : " Was born in 1778. I have been always told I was born about four months after
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my father was killed. I saw Emerick's wife. My mother lives twenty miles from here. Mrs. Emerick gave me a pen-knife when she was in. My mother is righty-five the 7th of next September. I was born in July, and my father was killed in April, as I have always been told. Emerick's wife and my mother were sisters. My mother was married to old George Schoch, who is dead."
Defendants called Philip Hoyens, who swore he knew David Emerick and Henry Bickle. " Emerick first lived on the Gibbons place. He made an im- provement, built a house and cleared about ten acres. Bickle and Emerick were killed by the Indians. 1 think they took Emerick away. Emerick moved to this place of Gibbons' before the war. It was two miles from Northumberland."
An examination of the assessment books in the commissioner's office would have shown that John Lee was assessor on the 27th of March, 1782, where- fore, according to the testimony of all the witnesses, the Bickle and Emerick massacre must have been in 1781.
The deed from Glen and wife to Emerick showed that Emerick was alive on the 15th of November, 1779, while Smith and Bickle's testimony would make out that he was killed in 1778 or 1779. The assess- ment books show that Emerick and Bickle were both alive on Ist of November, 1780, and in the one made by John Lee himself, in March, 1782, for the year 1781, Bickle's property is assessed to his widow, and the name and family of Emerick disappear forever from the assessment lists after 1781.
Hummel's tavern, in Dry Valley, was at the inter - section of the roads at Adam Miller's, beyond Samuel Guise's.
Henry Bickle, who was killed when Emerick's family was captured, left the following family : Chris- topher, the eldest, who took the farm in 1792, at forty shillings per acre; Maria C., married to Benjamin Stroh; Elizabeth afterwards married Jacob Kamerlin ; Henry, as stated. The widow, Esther Regina, mar- ried George Schoch. Christopher sold it to John Meyer in 1806, who sold to Daniel Nyhart, who sold, 4th May, 1822, to Jacob Mertz, whose son, Henry, re- sides at the old place.
Michael Smith, in his testimony, said : " Lee was after the Indians when Trinkle and Faught were killed."
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On page 201 of Lin's "Annals" casual refer- ence is made to the killing of the Trinkles and Faught; no trace of the history of this marand was then accessible. Time has thrown more light on the transaction. We quote from a letter in Oswald's Gazetteer (Philadelphia) of May 25, 1782. The letter is dated Sunbury, May 13, 1782.
"The savages commenced their scalping again in the beginning of this month, and in a few days Billed several of our inhabitants and poor helpless women and children in different parts. The wife of one Trinkle, near Penn's Creek, endeavored to escape with an infant in her arms ; but so close was the pursuit she dropped the child, but was overtaken and toma- hawked. The little child was sealped, and having some small remains of life, made its way to its mother and was afterwards found expiring on her breast. The party has since fled, having taken a num- ber of people with them."
The name of Charles Trinkle appears upon the assessments of Buffalo township from 1781- 87. Rev. John William Heim, pastor of Lu- theran Churches around Mifflintown, Pa., in 1814, married Catherine Drenkel, daughter of the murdered woman. The family account is : Her father resided on Penn's Creek ; the Indians came upon the family while Mr. Drenkel was in the field at work ; he hastened to their res- que. Though he saved the life of Catherine, the wife, a little brother and the babe in the cradle were cruelly murdered. The mother was scalped and she was afterwards buried with the children on the banks of the creek. Lee him- self was soon to suffer.
MAJOR LEE AND OTHERS KILLED BY THE INDIANS .- The attack on John Lee was made in August. A party of Indians, supposed to be sixty or seventy in number, killed Mr. Lee and family, a few miles above Sunbury. Me- ginness, in his narration of this event, says,-
" It was a summer evening, and his family were at supper. A young woman named Katy Stoner escaped up-stairs, and concealed herself behind the chimney. Lee was tomahawked and scalped, and a man named John Walker shared the same fate. A Mrs. Boatman and daughter were also killed. Mrs. Lee, with a small child and a boy named Thomas, were led away captives. They took the path up the valley, crossing White Deer Mountain and then the river. One of Lee's sons, Robert, re- turning about the time, saw the Indians leaving. Hle lled to Northumberland, and gave the alarm. A party was organized by Colonel Hunter, and started in pursuit. Henry MeHenry, father of A. H. Me- Henry, of Jersey Shore, was in this party, and gave an account of it to his son. In crossing the moun- tains, Mrs. Lee was bitten by a rattlesnake, and her leg became so very much swollen she traveled with great difficulty. The Indians, finding them- selves pursued, urged her on as rapidly as possible, but her strength failed her. When near the mouth
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of Pine Run, four miles below Jersey Shore, she gave out and sat down. Au Indian slipped up be- hind her, placed the muzzle of his rifle to her car, and blew off the whole upper portion of her head. One of them seized her little child by the heel and dashed it again-t a tree. They then fled, cross- ing the river at Smith's fording, and ran up Nippe- nose bottom. When Colonel Hunter came up with his men the body of Mrs. Lee was yet warm, and the child, but little injured, was moaning pite- ously. Near Antes' Gap the Indians separated, and ran up both sides of the mountain, and the party gave up the chase, as they were nearly exhausted. They came back and buried Mrs. Lee where she died, and brought the child back. They dug a hole along- side of Walker's body and rolled him in. Mrs. Boatman's daughter survived and lived many years afterwards. Young Thomas Lee was not recovered for many years afterwards. His brother made ar- rangements with the Indians to bring him to Tioga Point (Athens now), where he was delivered to his friends. Such was his love of Indian life, that they were obliged to tie him and place him into a canoe to bring him home. When near Wilkesbarre they untied him, but as soon as the canoe touched the shore he was out and off' like a deer. They caught him, however, and, on arriving at Northumberland, he evinced all the sullenness of a captive. Boys and girls played about him for several days before he showed any disposition to join them. At last he began to inquire the names of things. By degrees he became civilized, and obtained a good education."
The same Gazetteer before quoted, of Sep- tember 11, 1782, contains a letter from a gentle- man of Sunbury, dated August 16, 1782, as follows :
" A few days since, at noon, the savages entered the house of Major John Lee, three miles from North- mumberland town, and took him and his family and part of two others, to the number of thirteen, deelar- ing if they would submit they should not be hurt; they acquiesced and proceeded as prisoners about a half-mile, when the savages murdered seven of them, who were tomahawked and sealped in the most shock- ing manner. A party of volunteer inhabitants, upon hearing of the affair, went to their relief. The scene and groans of the dying people were enough to have melted any heart of flesh. Since last spring no less than sixty-two of our people have been butchered by the Indians. Two of our neighbors who were taken prisoners last year have just made their escape from the Indian town."
The same paper has an item,-
"By the deposition of John Hessler, who hath escaped from the savages, taken before Christian Gettig, Esq., of Sunbury, says, 'the Indians have been supplied with lead by the enemy.'"
To the details of the massacre we add all account taken from a letter of Judge Jolm Joseph Henry to Henry Dearborn, Secretary of War, February 5, 1807. He says,-
"John Lee, who was an uncle of Captain Andrew Lee, of Wayne's regiment (who was then applying for a pension, which was the occasion of Indge Henry's letter), was known to me at an early age, who, in the course of the war, as subsequently informed, evinced much patriotic resolution. He resided on the West Branch of the Susquehanna, some miles above Sun- bury. Captain John Lee was returning from his labor in the woods, and was shot down near the house. Two of his sons, beardless boys, were slaught- cred at the threshold. His wife, an amiable woman, with a suckling in her arms, and four other children, were led away captives. Two miles from the house the babe's brains were dashed out against a tree. The tears and wailings of Mrs. Lee for her infant, in that or the next day, caused a silence to her grief by the application of the hatchet. The survivors,-two girls and two boys,-none of them above twelve years old, were held in Indian bondage till 1781-85. The two latter, Robert and Thomas, I have been informed, have of late years been honored by the general gov- ernment with military command. The particulars of this story, which are numerous, very pathetic and interesting, I have derived from Rebecca, one of the children. My father, when a delegate in Congress, 1784-85, coming homeward from New York to Lan- caster, found the returning captive desolate and moneyless. Ile brought her to his own house, and, in a few months, restored her to her relations. Capt. Il. Lee made three journeys into the country of the Senceas in search of his uncle's children. The first journey produced the recovery of Rebecca, my in- formant ; he brought her to Albany, clothed her and gave her money to travel to the Susquehanna. He went back from Albany, and, by a considerable ran- som, redeemed another of her children. A third voyage, by Mohawk River, Oneida, Ontario and Eric Lakes, in pursuit of the captives, obtained a third of these orphans. Thomas came in a few years later." (See " l'a. Mag. of Hist.," vol. 3, page 168, for Judge Henry's letter).
Lee was elected second major of the battalion of the lower division of Northumberland County, 7th of February, 1776, and was sent by the Associators, in August, to Harris' Ferry for powder and lead, and on 24th December, 1776, a company out of the battalion volun- teered for the war and chose Lee captain; Hugh White, first lieutenant ; Thomas Gaskius, second lieutenant ; and marched that day, Colo- nel Hunter impressing guns and blankets for
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them. They left Reading January 3, 1777, and were attached to Colonel Potter's (second) battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel James Murray, Majors Jolm Kelly and Thomas Robinson, and they reached the army in time to get into an engagement at Piscataway, N. J., where Lieu- tenant Gustavus Ross, of the company, was mor- tally wounded The returned battalions and officers are used on the frontier against the In- dians.
December 4, 1778, John MacPherson bought Andrew Gibson's place and ferry, now Canley's, Winfield. He lived near Winfield until Angust 2, 1827. He served in the navy of the Revo- lution, was badly wounded, and on that account received a pension from the State. He was as- sociate judge of Northumberland County for twenty-three years.
The land of the George Palmer tract is confirmed to John Lee, by patent of the date of May 17, 1771, in pur nance of a warrant dated the 13th, in order to confirm his title upon a deed of conveyance from George Palmer, dated December 21, 1769.
Thomas Lee, by release dated April 1, 1797, William Beard and Sarah, his wife, Robert Hursh and Rebecen, his wife, and Eliza Lee, by release of April 21, 1797, conveyed to Robert Lce, and Robert Lee, May 2d, to AAbraham Eyerly. This Abraham Eyerly becomes the Abraham Eyer of our day, and he dying, Oeto- ber 30, 1823, there was an inquisition upon this three hundred aeres in 1825, and an order of sale because of non-acceptance ; and on the 25th of March, 1834, L-aae Eyer, the adminis- trator, conveyed the same to Nicholas Mensch. In 1800 Bishop Newcomer says he crossed the West Branch at Northumberland with a great deal of trouble, and reached the house of Abra- ham Eyerly after dark. His wife, Catherine, was born October 15, 1752; married May, 1776 ; died September 22, 1806. Himself died Octo- ber 30, 1823, at the age of seventy-five. While Mensch owned it, November 17, 1840, Halker Hughes leased the right to iron-ore and lime- stone and privilege of erecting necessary build- ings for successful operation of iron-works, and this lease was assigned to Napoleon Hughes March 1, 1841. In 1842 the iron-ore below
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