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William Gray was the deputy surveyor who made the resurvey of Lewisburgh. He had adis- tillery there in 1789; was a justice of the peace, connmissioned Angust 31, 1791; died 1815. His children were Mes. Mary Dualap ; Susam a married first to William Hudson and then to Andrew Forster; Eleanor, to John Robinson ; Margaret, to John Hayes, Esq .; Nancy, widow of Hudson Williams ; Jane, married to Sammel Hutchinson. James Wilson purchased the place in 1825, and his son William lived there nutil his death, when it was purchased by Paul Geddes.
Robert Clark died on his place in 1798, leav- ing a widow, Jane and children,-Eleanor Fruit, Margaret Ayers, Robert, George, Charles, John ; and Willim, died ou his place, leaving a widow, Elizabeth, and children,-George, Mary (mar- ried James Foster, and died, leaving Jane Marr and Thomas Smith), Rebecca, Roan, Sarah, William, Walter, Flavel, James.
George Clark was a prominent surveyor in the valley until 1800, and then rentoved to the West. He lived in a house near Judge Thun- mel's, uow torn down. He was an exceedingly
tall man, and took delight in making his axe- marks as surveyor beyond the reach of other men. Ile once made a narrow escape from the Indians, by leaping Little Buffalo Creck, from the high bauk near the late Jacob Moyer's.
These original settlers all appear in the as- sessment of Pastou township, Dauphin County, in 1770.
The greater part of the surveys along the north side of Buffalo Creek from Colonel Slifer's to Cowan were made in August, 1769. Those from Dr. Dongal's up to the month of White Deer Creek, along the river, were made by Charles Inkens in October.
Shikellimy's home was just above. Conrad Weiser, in his journal March 8, 1737, says, -
" On the 8th reached the village where Shikelimo lives, who was appointed to be my companion and gnide on the jouruey. He was, however, far from home on a hunt. Weather became bad and the waters high, and no Indian could be iudneed to seek Shikel- imo until the 12th, when two young Indians agreed to go out in search of him. On the 16th they re- turned with word that Shikelimo would be back uext day, which so happened. The Indians were out of provisions at this place. I saw a new blanket given for about one-third of a bushel of Indian corn."
The site of this village is, beyond doubt, on the farm of Hon. George F. Miller, at the month of Sink- ing Run, or Shikellimy's Run, one-half mile below Milton, on the Union Conuty side.
When the Land Office was open for " the new pur- chase," on the 3d of April, 1769, there were very many applications made for this location. In all of them it is called either old Money town or Shikell- imy's town. It is referred to as a locality in hundreds of applications for land in the valley. I will only quote one : "Samuel Inling applies for three lam- dred geres on the West Brauch of the Susquehanna, abont one mile above Shikellimy's old town, inelnd- ing a small zun that empties into the river opposite an island." The Huling location was seenred by John Fisher, one of the oldest of our settlers, and West Milton is now built upon it. Shikellimy's town was on the "Joseph Hutchinson " and "Michael Weyland " warranted tracts.
Shikellimy, some time after Weiser's visit, removed to Shamokin (now Sunbury) as a more convenient point for intercourse with the Proprietary Governors. On the 9th of October, 1717, Courad Weiser says he was at Shamokin, and that "Shikellimy was very sick with fever. He was hardly able to stretch forth his hand. His wife, three sons, one daughter and two or three grandchildren were all bad with the fever. There were three buried out of the family a
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few days before, one of whom was Cajadis, who had been married to his daughter above fifteen years, and was reckoned the best hunter among all the Indians." He recovered, however, from this sickness, and, in March, 1748, we find him with Weiser, at Tulpe- hocken, with his eldest son, Taghenegadourus. Ile died in April, 1700, at Sunbury, and the latter sue- ceeded him as chief and representative of the Six Nations.
Hle listened with great attention, and at last, with tears, respected the doctrine of Jesus, and received it with faith.
The most celebrated of his sons was Logan, the Mingo chief, who lived at the mouth of the Chillis. magne Creek, Angust 26, 1753, aml in 1765 in Rac- coon Valley. He could speak tolerable English, was a remarkably tall man-over six feet high-and well- proportioned ; of brave, open and manly conuten- ance, as straight as an arrow, and apparently afraid of no one. In the year 1774 ocenrred Lord Dun-
Loskiel thus notices this celebrated inhabitants of our valley : " Being head chief of the Iroquois living on the banks of the Susquehanna as far as Syracuse, | more's expedition against the Shawanese towns
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N. Y., he thought it incumbent upon him to be very circumspect in his dealings with the white people. Ile mistrusted the Brethren (Moravians) at first, but upon discovering their sincerity, became their firm and real friend. He learned the art of concealing his sentiments; and, therefore, never contradicted those who endeavored to prejudice his mind against the missionaries. In the last years of his life he became less reserved, and received those Brethren that came to Shamokin. He defended them against the insult of drunken Indians, being himself never addicted to drinking. Ile built his house upon pillars for safety, in which he always shut himself up when any drunken frolic was going on in the village. In this house Bishop Johannes Von Watteville, and his company, visited and preached the Gospel to him.
] (now Point Pleasant, W. Va.), which was the occa- sion of Logan's celebrated speech, commencing,-" 1 appeal to any white man to say if he ever entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat;" which will go down to all time, whether properly his or not as a splendid outburst of Indian eloquence.
Heckewelder says he afterwards became addicted to drinking, and was murdered, between Detroit and his own home, in October, 1781, while he was, at the time, sitting with his blanket over his head, before it camp-lire, bis elbows resting on his knees, when an Indian, who had taken some offense, stole behind him, and buried his tomahawk in his brains.
Of the Indians who ocenpied Buffalo Valley, nothing can be positively ascertained, except that they belonged to the Money-Minsi or Wolf tribe of
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I Lam-Lenape. The valley was more a hunting- ground than a usidence. Some remains have been : and at prominent points along the river, --- as, for butter, at Colonel Sliter's house, on the river, shove the month of Buffalo Creek, some skeletons, evidently of one family only, were uncovered. The large monuds were on the other side of the river, th Joseph Nesbit's place; and the principal towns or villages, Chillisquaque, at the mouth of that crock, south side, and Shamokin, on the island and main- Lund, where Sunbury now stands.
Michael Weyland was living on this place in 1769. Ilis application was the thirty-second drawn. He died on this place in 1772, leaving widow, Magdalena, and mine children,- Michael, Jr., Jacob, George, John, Samuel, Mary (married to Peter Swartz, Jr.), Margaret tto Christian Mover), Catherine and Magda- lena. Magdalena, widow of Michael Weyland, was married to Peter Swartz, Sr. The latter then moved upon the place described as contain- ing three hundred acres at Sinking Spring. Ou the 18th of December, Mrs. Swartz took ont letters of administration npon her former hus- band's estate, the first ever issued in Northum- berland County. Her account was filed Sep- tember 8, 1774, in which Peter Swartz joins. It has an item on the debtor side of deer-skins accepted for a debt dne the estate from Captain lohn Brady. This place was afterwards known in military annals as Fort Swartz. The family lived there and were married, and Peter Swartz, Sr., owned all the land from Dougal's to Dates- man's.
John Michael Bashor came from Bethel township, Berks County, in 1774, and bought a part of the "Jacob Rees " tract, near . New Columbia, of Hawkins Boone. In April, 1777, he sold it to Richard Irwin, and moved down on the place of his father-in-law, Peter Swartz, Sr. In the first week of July, 1778, when the Indians were crowding down over the settle- ments,-it was the time of the great run- away,-the river was full of all sorts of boats and rafts loaded with their honschold goods. Boats, canoes, hog-tronghs, rafts of all descriptions were in use. Whenever any ob- struction ocenrred at any shoal, the women would leap out into the water and put their shoulders to the raft or boat and launch it into
deep water. The men of the settlement came down in single file along on cach side of the river, to guard the convoy from the Indians, abandoning the whole range of farms on the West Branch to the savages.
Michael Weyland, Jr., and another had pushed a heat over from the east side and took up Bashor's goods, and then pushed out into the river. Bashor went to the stable and got a horse, and attempted to drive some cattle along the shore. When he got to the bluff at the lime- kiln, just by a red oak that was still standing a few years back, he was fired upon by Indiams in ambush and killed. Weyland and his com- rade, who were lying down in the boat, rose to fire, and Weyland was struck on the lip with a spent ball, the mark of which he carried to the grave.
The Indians burned Peter Swartz's house to the ground. John Fisher lived at the time at Datesman's, and, with his two sisters, concealed themselves in the straw in the barn, and ex- pected every moment to be burned up; but the Indians went into Hoffman's house, just above, and carried out a good many articles, among the rest a clock. They seated themselves to exam- ine the clock, when Aaron Norcross, John Fisher, Jr., and others who had gathered, hal- looed and startled them off, leaving their plunder. This old clock is still in the possession of Jacob Hoffinan, living in the Money Hills. The peo- ple returned after the peace.
The daughter of Bashor (Catharine) married Jacob, Wolfe, and is the mother of Sammel and Jonathan Wolfe. As you pass there, on the hill-side, just beyond the stump of an apple- tree, the spot where Bashor was buried is pointed ont ; and his bloody clothes were pre- served in the garret of his father's house, in Berks County, for many years, and his vest is in the possession of William II. Bashor, at Pleasant Hill, Ohio.
George Hoffman became owner of the place, and it is mentioned in history that his dangh- ters poled the ferry-boat over.
Hoffman sold the place to John Boal in 1810, who died there in 1819. John Boal was a younger son of a good family from the north of Ireland ; married to a Sawyer. He was a prom-
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inent man, and was foreman of the first grand jury of' Union County. His daughter Eliza- beth married Mathew Laird ; Mary, John Rez- nor; Sophia, Samuel Woods; Margaret; Mary married .. Foster Wilson, of Hartletou.
In the spring of 1775 Yost Hoffman, of Lancaster County, blacksmith, bought of Jacob, Baker the place next above Datesman's,
As has been mentioned, Derr bought the sixth part of the Ewing. Christian Dich] (written Dale) lived on it, near the iron bridge. John Beeber's father's term of service was pur- chased by him from his captain whose ship he came over in, and he helped Dichl clear that place in 1772. Adam Beeber then returned to Phila- delphia, served five years in the army, afterwards coming to Muney, where he settled and died.
Where Thomas Ream lives now, on the Ilth of July, 1780, lived a man named Allen, hav- ing a wife and three children. The Indians came upon them ; the woman escaped across the creek, and, looking back, saw an Indian dash out the brains of the youngest child against a tree. The husband and the two other children were also killed; and a marsh by the road near Martin Meisell's was long haunted with the ghost of a horse and boy, fourteen years old, shot there in 1782.
Looking up from this latter point, you see the stone house on the hill, " Fairview," of Rev. Jacob Rodenbangh. William Wilson, son of Jeunes, bought this of his father, 1771, the Jolm Moore warrantee. He was then unmarried ; boarded at a house in Mortonsville; walked over every morning to his clearing, where he settled in 1772, and where he died in 1824. If yon started along that road, laid ont in 1802 from John Boal's ferry, passing Andrew Heckle's, the first house you came to was that of William Clingan, E-q .. at the Little Buffalo, where he came in 1900. Ile came from Mount Joy, Lancaster Comty, was married to Jane, a daughter of Rev. John Roan ; died May 21, 1822, aged sixty-four years, leaving children, -Margaret, wife of Thomas Scott; Ann, wife of Joseph Lawson ; Thomas; Elizabeth, mar- ried to Thomas Barber; George and Flavel. Flavel Roan in his diary of March 1812, says of the marriage of the Clingans :
"March 19th, James Lawson to Nancy Clingan. Calf and two turkeys killed. Twenty-sis strangers at the wedding. March 26th, Thomas Barber to Betsey Clingan. Groom came with fourteen attend- ants; thirty-seven strangers, altogether. 27th, twenty strangers, beside the bride sord groom, breakfasted at Clingan's; twenty-two of us left Clingan's with the bride and groom ; four joined us at Doctor Von Val- zale's; went to Esquire Barber's, where there was a very large party and much dancing, although Quak-
On that old road the next place that is marked is William Chamberlin's.
Jacob Grozean, or French Jacob, was settled here in 1769. This was one of the officers' warrants to Captain Kern, two Inindred and eighty seven acres.
John Bear of Lancaster, bonghit the property of William Charters in September, 1784, and erected the first grist-mill. The saw-mill he added in 1787, and in 1790 he had with them an oil and saw-mill.
The next owner was Colonel William Cham- berlin. Colonel Chamberlin came from Ium- terdon County, N. J., where he was born September 25, 1786. Served as lieutenant- colonel in Second Regiment, Colonel David Chambers, his commission bearing date 9th September, 1777, in November of which year, by order of Governor Livingston, he was di- rected to call on Messrs. Penn & Chew, at the Union Iron-Works, to conduct them to Wor- vester, Mass, and deliver them to the Com- cil of that State; was also directed to por- chase, in Connectient or Massachusetts Bay, twenty thousand flints for the Council of New Jersey ; participated in the battle of Mon- month, where his eldest son, Lewis, was killed by a cannon-ball ; moved into our valley in 1783, and on the 16th of August, 1794, married his fourth wife, Mary Kemble. He was the father af twenty-three children, fifteen of whom were born in New Jersey. Of his children, Nell; married Jolm Lawshe, Sr. ; Am, John Ross; Laveretia, Christian Nevis; William ; Enoch ; Tenbrooke ; Sarah, married to James Wilson ; Uriah ; Elizabeth, to Win. MeCreery ; Aaron came with him. His fourth wife's children were John, James, Lewis, Mary, Frances (married to John Linn), Joseph P., James D) and Moses, the latter still residing at Milton.
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This property was sold by the Chamberlin I irs to John M. Van Valzah, who sold it to Cyrus Hoffa, by whom it has been operated tor twenty years.
Retracing the road from Chamberlin's, we pass the " Richard Edwards" (Stoltzlus' place lately), where there was an lodian field and plum orchard, mentioned in the application for it. At Kelly Point, in the old house now torn way, on the north side of the road, the Rev. Thomas Hood lived-one of the social houses of the day. At the point where the store stands, in the days of the Morus multicaulis, he planted a grove of the broad-leaved mulberry, but the cold killed his silk-worms, and the place grew up a thicket, where Mr. Hood spent many hours. It was called " Hood's Study." He had quite a Latin school, often mentioned by Flavel Roan.
Philip Gemberling bought this place. His won Benjamin cut down the thicket and built a store-room, and Spencer Beaver, who was she- verded by Albright Hock, and he made it a post-office. He sold out to A. A. Difenderfer, who has sold to C. P. Glover. The store- keepers were the postmasters.
Following the road west from Kelly Point, at Laird Howard's spring, an Indian im- provement is mentioned in the application of 1769. Here commences Colonel Francis' war- cant, bought by William Ling, and mentioned in his biography of dames F. Lin, and fol- lowing the road toward Colonel Kelly's, is the -rene of Captain Thompson's pathetie story, here given (see Linn's "Annals," p. 195, where will be found an interesting story, illustrating the story of Indian captives).
Captain Thompson removed his family to Chester County, where they remained until after the Indian troubles were all over. They then returned, and he purchased of the Widow Dempsey the place now owned by Jacob Zie- bach, ou Spruce Run, in Buffalo, and resided there until the year 1832, when he went to reside with his son-in-law, Boyd Smith (son of Gideon Smith, who lived at the mouth of Little Buffalo), hear Jersey Shore, where he died February 9, 1537, aged ninety-three years, nine months and nine days. When ten years of age he was
with his father at Braddock's defeat. He was a remarkable man in old age, often walking from Jersey Shore down into Buffalo Valley, a welcome guest in every house from l'ine to Peut's Creek. His son William married Su-an Lium in 1804, and removed to Sugar Creek, Venango County. Their son James die from an explosion, which took place in his store in 1833. Ile was carrying out ashes in an empty keg, as he supposed, but which had several pounds of powder in it. Ann married John B. MeCalmont, Esq., nephew of old Judge Me- Calmont. She died in 1819. Joh Lim Thompson died in Venango, leaving a family. William resides in New Brighton, Beaver County.
Farther west by Spruce Creek was the hero of the valley, Colonel John Kelly, whose life has been told on page 101.
Colonel Kelly's land extended from Buffalo Creek all along up Spruce Run to the bend where it turns west of the line of Kelly town- ship.
Joseph Spotts, Sr., settled at Kelly Cross- Roads at the beginning of the century. The brick house was built in 1821 by Joseph Spotts, Ir., who built the store in 1817, where John L. Comp started a store in 1817, for two years, when Lewis Spotts succeeded, and died in about three years. Daniel D. Guldin came there in 1852, succeeded by Thomas Arbuckle, who was there until 1861. Then came Kline & Hock. Samuel A. Walters bought at the death of Spotts. Jas. A. Henry succeeded him. There was a pocket post-office there in 1868, and a regular post-office was established by Kline & Hock. Jacob Baker carried the mail twice a week to Milton. Hock started in at Kelly Point, but coming back to Kelly Cross-Roads, is still there, and the mail is daily.
WEST MILTON, OR DATESMAN'S.
West Milton, or Datesman's, is situated just opposite the town of Milton and opposite the island known in an carly day as Marcus Inl- ings'. The first bridge across the river here was built in 1822 or 1823 by Abram Straub, con- tractor, and stood mutil 1865, when the great flood of that year swept it away. The present
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bridge was built in 1867. In 1831 George Bennage owned the land at the west end of the river bridge, and his house, which stood across the street from where John Datesman now re- sides, was the only house near the bridge. that year John Datesman and JJacob Keiser came up from Northampton County and bought the land from George Bennage at twenty-five dollars per acre. Datesman took two acres at the end of the bridge and Keiser took the rest of the farm and occupied the old house for seven or eight years, when he built the brick house now owned by B. F. Keiser, a short distance south of the old one. In 1834 John Datesman built what has since been known as Datesman's store. The original buikling still stands, though added to and remodeled. The store was opened in the spring of 1835 and from that time until 1882 John Datesman carried on an extensive business in general merchandise as well as a large grain trade. In 1882 he sold the building and store to Ephraim Datesman, his son, who had been a partner with him for some ten or twelve years, and who still conthmies the busi- ness. During the first year Mr. Datesman stored his grain in the loft of the store. In 1835 he put op a substantial grain house which stood until 1859, when the large warehouse, which now stands near the bridge, was built.
For several years from five to ten thousand bushels of grain were bought at this point, the amount increasing until within the last few years it has reached one hundred and twenty- five thousand bushels. The grain was hauled across the river or boated down the river to the Lewisburgh Cross-Cut and shipped by canal, un- til the railroad was built to' Milton. The Cata- wissa extension to Williamsport was built across the river here in 1870 and 1871, and the Sham- okin, Snubury and Lewisburgh Brauch of the Reading in 1882. The latter road has erected a fine passenger transfer station at this place. Through the efforts of John Datesman, a post- office was established, about 1837, at West Mil- ton. He was appointed postmaster, and has been postmaster ever since. The population of the place is something over one hundred.
Melancthon and Harrison Keiser laid out the original first lots in 1872, and since that time a
number of improvements have been put up. B. 12. Keiser laid out an addition in 1883. He also built a grain-house in that year and carries on a grain and coal business at the present time. Meses. Hull & De Long put up a back-mill at this place in 1881 and carried on the business of grinding bark for a short time. Mr. De Long was killed by going into a well they were dig- ging on the premises, soon after a blast had been fired and before the foul air had escaped. Short- ly after the building was destroyed by lire.
In the winter of 1880 and 1881 the Union Pipe Line Company ran a line from Bradford, coming through Union County, to West Milton, where they built two oil-tanks on the Folkner farm. They ran a line across the river and put np loading racks along both the Catawissa and Pennsylvania Railroads. Large quantities of crude oil were shipped over both roads, until the company extended their line south toward Philadelphia in 1883. In 1885 another tank was built, but little oil has been shipped by rail since the line was extended.
Abont a half-mile down the river from the bridge there was for years an old hotel called the " Travelers' Home," kept in 1834 by Hen- ry Zerby, and afterwards by John Werts and by Thomas Green. This was a great place for watermen and was mimo as a hotel nutil about twenty-five years ago, when it was abandoned.
Schools .- As early as 1800 schools were opened in this locality. Flavel Roan taught in Northumberland in 1790, later in Lewisburgh, then in Kelly, in a log school-house at Jamie- Wilson's, now (1886) G. A. Stahl's, where he remained until the spring of 1813. Linn taught there in 1818; John Dunlap, 1825; Peter Harsh, winters of 1832, '33, '34. Another school-house was built about 1809, on the west side of Thomas Howard's farm, Josiah Candor tanght there at first ; -- Train taught here and in a new school-house on the east side of the farm ; Rev. Thomas Hood taught the classics south of Kelly's Point, near the banks of Buf- farlo Creek, in 1805. Among his scholars were Dr. James S. Dougal, of Milton, Pa .; Dr. Wil- liam Wilson, of Centre Conuty; Dr. Thomas Smiley, of Park Avenue, Philadelphia, anther of Smiley's Geography.
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January 14, 1809, Mr. Hood had a public exhibition, well attended. Free schools were established in 1837. The directors were George Meixel, Joseph Spotts, John Inmiel, Jacob Baker, G. Bennage and Daniel Kauffman. Among the teachers are the following: I. G. Gordon, (judge of Supreme Court of Pennsyl- vania), William Leiser, Delos Height, J. M. Mack, Mr. Steninger.
The schools of Kelly township in 1884 had three hundred and five pupils in the five dis- triets, which are named as follows: Pine Grove, Hill, Royer's, Spotts', Hagenbach.
ST. PETER'S CHURCH (REFORMED) .- The early history of this church is an account of a Lutheran congregation formed, or about to be formed, some time about 1800. Before his death, Philip Stahl provided in his will that as soon as proper trustees should be designated, his excentor should convey a tract of land for church and cemetery purposes, for the use of a Lutheran congregation. This purpose was car- ried out when Jacob Lotz, his executor, by deed dated August 13, 1802, conveyed to Chris- tian Zerbe and George Reininger seven acres and ninety-one perches in trust to and for the use of building or creating a school-house and a German Lutheran Church on the same, and for a burying-ground.
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