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About this time a log church was built, in which Lutheran meetings were held, and in which, at a later day, Reformed ministers also preached. The first church having insufficient accommodations, it was proposed that the Lu- therans and Reformed should unite in building a new house, in which each seet should have mu- tal interests. Accordingly, on the 24th of November, 1815, Christian Zerbe and George Reininger, trustees in the conveyance made by Jacob Lotz, executor of Philip Stahl, granted the full right unto the members of the Presby- terian congregation (German Reformed) of White Deer township, in common with the members of the Intheran congregation of, in and to the aforesaid premises and church, when built, in consideration of the German Reformed congregation contributing to the building of the church. For some canse a new church was not built at that time, and the old house was used
matil 1819. On the 15th of May that year articles of association were drawn up between the two congregations, setting forth their rela- tions to the property, and a larger log house was built, which was remodeled in 1818, and weather-boarded. This building was known as the "St. Peter's Union Church " until 1877, when the Lutheran congregation decided to creet its own house of worship on a part of the lot above described, and opposite the old church, which, with its marse, now became the property of the Reformed congregation. This was their place of worship until 1879, when it was taken down and the present fine edifice erected upon the site of the old church. The building com- mittee was composed of Henry Eisenhower, Levi Gemberling, George Brown, William Dieff- endorfer and Solomon Rank, who were gen- erously aided by the members of the congrega- tion, much of the labor being voluntarily done. The church is a two-story brick, forty by sev- enty feet, and is supplied with a shapely steeple. The lower story forms a lecture-room, in which a good Sunday-school is also maintained, and which is superintended by Uriah Eisenhower. The second story forms a fine anditorium, whose walls and ceiling are handsomely frescoed. Both rooms are supplied with good organs.
The congregation has about two hundred members and is under the pastoral care of the Rev. W. W. Clouser, who also serves the con- gregations at the Union and Messiah Churches. His predecessors were the Revs. Wiechand, Reed, Bucher, Gring, Kieffer and others named in the sketch of the Dreisbach Church. In 1886 the consistory was composed of Henry Eisenhower and Joseph Mover, elders; Wil- liam Dieffenderfer and Calvin Kieffer, deacons ; and Levi Gemberling, trustee.
ST. JOHN'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURen .- The congregation worshipping in this church were the original owners of the St. Peter's Church, as related in the foregoing sketch, but withdrew in the summer of 1877, to establish itself in a new church building, erceted that year, and which was dedicated with the name at the head of this article. At the time building operations were begun John Grove was a trustee and John Wise, John A. Keiser
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and A. S. Hoch were committeemen to act in behalf of the congregation in securing a sepa- rate home for what was thenceforth to be known as the St. John's congregation. A site was selected npon part of the old church lot, on the opposite side of the street, and a very hand- some brick edifice, forty-five by seventy feet, created at a cost of more than five thousand dollars. It has a basement, fitted up for Sunday- school purposes, and in the second story an auditorium, which is handsomely finished. The fresco work is very fine for a country church, and the furniture and organs are in harmony with the general features of the build- ing. The external appearance is improved by a fine spire, in which is a clear-toned bell.
The members of St. John's congregation first had the same ministry as the Dreisbach Church, and were under the pastoral care of the Rev. J. G. Anspach until 1880, when he was snc- cerded by the present, Rev. S. F. Greenhoe. There are about two Inmdred and fifty mem- bers, having a consistory composed of Jacob Smith, Jacob Kostenbader, John Pawling, Levi Pawling, Uriah Dieffenderfer and C. A. Moll. A Sunday-school of about one hundred mem- bers has J. W. Hoch and L. F. Smith as its superintendents.
A GERMAN BAPTIST meeting-house was built in the Royer neighborhood about twenty- five years ago, in which meetings have been held by that seet with considerable regularity since. The house is a small frame, but has ample accommodations for those worshipping there, the membership never having been strong. No regular minister has been here maintained. A cemetery is connected with the church.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
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JOHN E. MORGAN.
The grandfather of the subject of our sketch, Thomas Morgan, came from Radnorshire, Wales, when nineteen years of age, and settled in Lower Merion township, Montgomery Coun-
ty, Pa., some time before the Revolution. There he married Patience Miller, of an old Friend's finnily, and had issue as follows, viz. : Jolm; Margaretta, who married John Elliott and died in 1850; Renben ; William; and Joseph Charles, the latter of whom became owner of and sailed for many years vessels on the high seas, and was for some eight years in the United States goy- ernment diplomatie service, at Tripoli, Africa. He married Mary Ann Miller, who bore him three children, two of whom now reside at St. Paul, Min. He died in 1860. The fourth child, William, married Mary Evans (also of Friends' stoek, the danghter of William and Mary Evans, whose bones now lie in the old Radnor church- yard, Delaware County, Pa.), in March, 1805, the issne from which union being Thomas, born December 31, 1805, married Ellen Evans and since deceased; Mary Ann, born March, 1807; Patience, born 1809, died 1816; Joshua Evans, born 1811, died 1831; John Elliott, born April 1, 1813, married Catharine Wagner Rodenbaugh, December 22, 1861; Margaretta Elliott, born December 15, 1815, died August 21, 1819; Sarah Potts, born June 6, 1818, married Octo- ber 4, 1853, to William M. Lowman, of Dau- phin County, who died April 13, 1885; William, born April, 1820, died February, 1852; Patience Miller, born February 5, 1824, married Walter L. Trewick, of Harrisburg, Pa., on March 22, 1861.
In the War of 1812-11 William Morgan was captain of militia, and, during those troubulous times, was stationed several months below Mar- cus Hook, to prevent the expected coming of the British up the Delaware River, and with especial reference to guarding the only powder- mills of the country, those of the Du Ponts, lo- ented ucar Wilmington, Del. From papers in possession of the family we copy the following interesting document, viz. :
" Received December 16, 1814, from Captain Wil- liam Morgan, of First Company, Sixty-fifth Regi- ment, First Brigade, Second Division, Pennsylvania Militia, the following articles of camp equipage into the State Arsenal : ninety-seven cartouch-boxes and belts and scabbards; seventy-five haversacks ; ninety- two knapsacks; ninety-four canteens; three water buckets; twenty-seven camp-kettles; twenty-nine mess-pans ; two axes; twenty common tents; three
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wall tents, with flies; fifteen sett poles; four sell wall tent poles; ninety-eight muskets, with bayonets.
" WHATAM ALLEN, " Assistant Brigade Inspector."
Captain William Morgan and his loving con- sort had the happiness of a long life in the so- ciety of a large and useful family, enjoying each other's presence no less than fifty-five years, all of which time was spent upon the okl homestead, and being separated by the death of the father,
On the side of Mrs. Morgan we find John and Catharine (Jones) Wagner were residents of Lower Merion township, Montgomery County, and had issue-Charles, John, William, George, Jacob, Ann (who married Edward Pechin and is now living in Radnor, Delaware County, Pa.) ; Susan J. (who married Elder Jacob Ro- deubangh, as elsewhere stated); Mary Jane (who married Robert Hunter and emigrated to Tas- mania in 1840, where they now reside; their
John & Thorgan
August 28, 1859. Mrs. Morgan did not long | journey occupied six months and Mrs. Hunter survive her husband, following him of whose life she was a part January 8, 1862. Part of the property on which Thomas Morgan settled is now Bryn Mawr, one of Philadelphia's most beautiful suburbs. was the first American lady to land in that far- off' country); and Elizabeth. JJohn married Sarah Johnson, both now deceased; William married Abigail Reese, now deceased; George married Sarah Ann Moyer, of Roxborough, The ninechildren of William and Mary Evans Morgan were born and raised on the family os- tate, locally known as Morgan's Corners, more generally known as Radnor Station, Pennsyl- vania Railroad. and is now deceased. Jacob married and has since died. Elizabeth married Godfrey Hawk, of Sussex County, N. J., where they now reside. Susan J., born July 23, 1808, married Jacob Rodenbaugh, (born February 12, 1812, in Mont-
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gomery County, Pa.), Jannary 7, 1836, and bore seven children, viz .: Catharine Wagner, born November 9, 1836, married John E. Morgan, December 22, 1861 ; Margaret R., born Febru- ary 1, 1838, married Sylvanus G. Bennett, now residing, with three living children, in Lewis- burgh ; Amie Pechin, born Angust 5, 1839, married George M. Slifer, residing, with four children, in Winfield, Union County; John Wagner, born July 1, 1841, married Elizabeth Ammon, residing, with two children, in Lewis- burgh; Mary Jane, born May 4, 1843, married Edwin W. Rawn, now residing, with one daugh- ter, Mary, in Hunterdon County, N. J .; Eliza- beth Hawk, born March 2, 1845, married Dr. William E. Cornog, residing, with one child, Jacob R., in Woodbury, Bedford County, Pa .; Isaac Newton, born October 16, 1846, died No- vember 30, 1847.
Elder Jacob Rodenbaugh has been in active ministry in the Christian Church over fifty years, filling pulpits near Newport, Perry Coun- ty, Pa. ; Gulf Mills, Montgomery County, Pa .; Lewisburgh, twelve years; and in Hunterdon County, N. J., eight years. He was school di- rector in Kelly township some nine years, and, associated with Judge Cyrus Hoffa, was instru- mental in buikling several of the handsome schools now found in the township. He has been married over fifty years, and celebrated his golden wedding on January 7, 1886, (d.v.). His father, Isaac Rodenbaugh, born in Berks County, October 23, 1772, married Margaret Stellwagon, born in Delaware County, May 19, 1772, of the well-known Germantown family, one of the daughters of which family married Edwin M. Lewis, of Philadelphia.
In 1865 Mr. Morgan removed from Delaware County to Chillisquaque township, Northum- berland County, and there lived eight years; thence to Lewisburgh for five years, finally settling down in their present home in 1878. While residing in Lewisburgh Mr. Morgan was elected burgess of that borough, but at the ex- piration of his term of office, desirons of quiet and relief from polities, retired to one of his farms; and it is only from the desire to see the cause of education advanced that he has filled the position of school director during the past
six years, having been president of the board for several years.
Although even now beyond the allotted day, of man, he is hale, hearty and vigorous, and gives personal supervision to his farm proper- ties; and, taking this fact in connection with his well-known life-long abstinence from to- baceo, with its enervating effects, we may de- duce a highly valuable moral. Mr. Morgan is not a church member, but attends the Christian Church at Lewisburgh, of which congregation his wife is a consistent member. His political affinities are Republican. In the pleasant home, overlooking Lewisburgh and the beautiful But- falo Valley, may be found several relies of days long past, among them being a Bible printed in the Welsh language in 1813; a handsome ma- hogany arm-chair, sitting in which the old pa- triot, Charles Thomson, permanent secretary of the Colonial Congress, attached his name to the many interesting documents requiring such sig- nature. This chair was presented by him to Mrs. Margaretta Elliott, at whose death it came into possession of her brother, Captain William Morgan, and thence to his son, our subject. The old rocking-chair in which the nine chil- dren of William Morgan's family were rocked to slumber in their carly years is also an hon- ored inmate of the home wherein John E. Mor- gan lives a calm, happy life, surrounded by lov- ing wife, relatives and friends, doing good as occasion offers and rendering proper account of his stewardship.
CHAPTER X.
WHITE DEER TOWNSHIP.1
THE formation of this township will be found in the general account of the formation of the county. The earliest surveys on the present territory were made on applications dated April 3, 1769, numbered in the order in which they were drawn from the wheel or box, and orders of survey had thereon.
John Hoffinan, in right of Michael Deet, No.
1 By J. Merrill Linn, Esq.
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159, had three hundred acres located and sur- seyed on the run where the White Deer and Kelly township line strikes the river, and ex- tended north from a black oak (of John Fisher's "urvey in Kelly's), at the river, two hundred and forty-two perches. Next north on the river was the Jonathan Pingley, No. 185, sur- veyed October 21, 1769, for James Parr.
William Armstrong had squatted and com- menced an improvement on the land now known as the William Stadden farm, just where the road strikes the run, a half-mile south of New Columbia, at what was known as the Old Ferry, in the year 1769, and he had made an application, No. 711, for three hundred acres at the same place. In 1771 Parr and Armstrong agreed to divide the land in front along the river so as to include Parr's improvement, and Armstrong took the south half, including his improvement. Samuel Dale bought of Parr the northern portion and moved on it, and was residing there in a house near New Colum- bia in 1774.
Hle removed to Buffalo township in 1793, but purchased the other part of Armstrong in 1794.
In the division made by Parr and Armstrong, they encroached on the Ernest Burk land, a tract belonging to Hawkins Boone. April 5, 1774, a warrant issued in the name of Ernest Burk, for three hundred acres, joining Diet- rick Reese, Jacob Reese, Jonathan Pingley and William Armstrong, in Buffalo township, North- umberland County, 20th of April, the purchase money paid to the proprietaries.
On the 11th and 13th of March, 1776, Haw- kins Boone procured a survey to be made imder this warrant, upon the land described, by Hen- derson, the deputy surveyor, who, upon a draft of the survey, wrote the following memorandum : " Draught of a tract as situated in White Deer township, formerly Buffalo, Northumberland County, surveyed in dispute between William Armstrong and Hawkins Boone." Hawkins Boone was killed by the Indians, and his house and papers burned at the taking of Fort Free- land, on the Warrior's Run, on the 28th of July, 1779. In 1785 a judgment was obtained against the administrators of Hawkins Boone, and the land sold to Evans.
This back land included the premises in con- troversy. Accordingly, when, in the year 1773, one Henry settled down on the land in contro- versy, Armstrong drove him off, and in March, 1776, he cansed a survey to be made on his ap- plication by the deputy surveyor, and took in part of the land in dispute.
April 25, 1791, Armstrong conveyed to Dale his application, and on the 4th of May a survey was made for Dale, which extended the lines so as to include three hundred and twenty acres, comprehending more of Boone's survey. Dale also became the owner of Pingley's application. Nargong became the owner of Dale's claim.
In an ejectment brought by Evans against Nargong, it was held that there was enough to show that Boone was the owner of the Burk, having used Burk's name, or he became the owner by purchase immediately after, and that Armstrong, being only the owner of the Pingley, had no right to make an addition to the survey without an order of the Land Office.
Daniel Nargong made an improvement on Dog Run, as it was called, near the site of New Columbia, in 1771. There was an old In- dian fort there. In quite a number of appli- cations of 1769 mention is made of an old In- diaa fort and town on the Deitrick Rees traet. It was laid out May 5, 1818, as a town, for David Yoder, proprietor, (recorded in Deed Book F, page 306). It is a place of about one hundred houses, store, hotel, post-office and ex- press-office, located on the Catawissa and Wil- liamsport road, a branch of the Reading, and contains three hundred inhabitants.
Parr was a lientenant in Captain John Low- den's company, First Rifle Regiment, Colonel Wm. Thompson, and rose to the rank of major; served brilliantly in command of the riflemen under Morgan at Saratoga and Stillwater, and under Sullivan in 1779. The regiment is men- tioned at the siege of Boston, and Parr partie- ularly. The company, having served their term, enlisted for three years or the war under Parr as captain.
North of the Jonathan Pingley survey, which extends two hundred and thirty-four perches along the river, comes the Deitrick Rees survey, made October 23, 1769. New Columbia is lo-
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cated on the southeast corner of it. North of married Captain John Reed, who commanded Deitrick Rees the Jolm Zimmerman application the celebrated " Paxtang Boys ;" he died before 1778 ; their descendants live in Hartley town- ship. Win. Reed's widow married Captain Charles Gillespie, an officer in the Revolution- ary War; she died in Hartley township at her son's, Wm. Reed's, and is buried in the Keister grave-yard. Elizabeth married Dr. Joseph Bakers, who had been a surgeon in the Revolu- tionary War. They sold their place in October, 1798, to James Hepburn, and it is now owned by heirs of Samuel Henderson. Margaret's place passed into the hands of late Daniel Ludwig. was surveyed October 22, 1769, extending from a locust, one Inmdred and fifty-five perches up the river. Robert McCorley purchased and settled npon this tract in 1781; he died in 1793, leaving a widow and children, -- Anna Isabella, wife of Win, Mclaughlin ; Mary Seidel ; Rob- ert McCorley, who died December 11, 1869, aged eighty-six years; James, who died in 1808; Roland, who was still living in 1877 ; and Jacob MeCorley, Esq., member of Assembly 1846-47, who died April 15, 1872, aged eighty- two.
North of the MeCorley place the John Pot- ter application, No. 220, April 3, 1769, was surveyed October 23, 1769, two hundred and twenty acres, extending one hundred and seven- teen perches up the river from black oak of John Zimmerman (or MeCorley place) survey. General James Potter came to Northumberland County soon after the purchase of 1768, and settled upon this place. In 177 4 he removed to Penn's Valley. (See Everts' " History of Cen- tre and ('linton Counties," page 402, for full no- tice of him.) The place is still in the tenure of his descendants, the Ards.
North of the John Potter survey, on the river, the Elizabeth Blythe application was sur- veyed, No. 515, September 26, 1771, running two hundred and thirty-six perches up the river; and north of Elizabeth Blythe the Margaret Blythe, rimming two hundred and fifty-eight perches up to the mouth of White Deer Creek. Wm. Blythe was an Indian trader at Shippens- burg in 1748, and a lieutenant in the French and Indian War in 1758. For his services in the matter of the murder of White Mingo (de- tailed in Lin's " Annals," page 25), he received these two tracts of land, surveyed in names of his danghters. His cabin stood on Red Bank Run, ou the Elizabeth Blythe tract, below late Samuel Henderson's brick house, where he be- gan a clearing in 1769. It is marked on an old survey as standing twenty- five rods from the river on the run. Ile lived to be a very old man, within the reccollection of Roland Me- Corley, who said he was a tall man and in latter years quite blind. His daughter Margaret
North of the Margaret Blythe and north of White Deer Creek, the Charles Iredell applica- tion, No. 594, April 3, 1769, was surveyed and patented to Jesse Lukens in 1774. White Deer Mills Village is on this tract. The survey extended up the river two hundred and seventy perches from the month of White Deer Creek, then called White Flint Creek, to a stone mark- ed II and a sugar-trec.
Peter Smith settled on this tract soon after it was surveyed. Lukens, the rightful owner, bought it in 1772, which was abated by Smith's death in 1773. Smith's widow, Cath- crine, held on to the premises. In her petition to the General Assembly, indorsed as read De- cember 8, 1785, she says, --
"She was left a widow, with ten children, with no estate to support this family, except a location for three hundred aeres, including the mouth of White Deer Creek, whereon is a good mill-seat ; and a grist and saw-mill being much wanted in this new country, at that time, she was often solicited to erect said mills. At length, in 1774, she borrowed money, and in June, 1775, completed the mills, which were of great advantage to the country, and the following summer built a boring-mill, where a great number of gun-barrels were bored for the continent, and a hemp- mill. The Indian war soon after coming on, one of her sons, her greatest help, went into the army, and, it is believed, was killed, as he never returned; the said mills soon became a frontier, and in July, 1779, the Indians burned the whole works. She returned to the ruins in 1783, and was again solicited to re- build the grist and saw-mills, which she has, with much difficulty accomplished, and now ejectments are brought against her by Messrs. Claypool and Morris, and she, being now reduced to such low circumstances as renders her unable to support actions at law, and, therefore, prays relief, etc."
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The facts set forth in this memorial are cer- tified to by William Blythe, Charles Gillespie, I'Mlonel John Kelly, James Potter, the younger, and many other citizens of Northumberland County.
The Legislature, of course, could grant no re- lief, under the circumstances, and the petition wa- dismissed. Ilow long the litigation weut on we are unable to determine; but in 1801, Sich fredell took possession of the premises as tenant of Claypoole and Morris. She is said to have walked to Philadelphia and back thirteen times on this business. Her house was where Dr. Danowsky lived, part of the old stone house being still used as a kitchen. She was buried in the old settlers' grave-yard, which was at the corner of the Dan Caldwell barn. Her bones were disturbed in Mr. Caldwell's time, in erect- ing a sheep-pen, and were identified by old Mr. Huff, by her peculiar, projecting teeth. Some years since an old man came to the place and desired to look about the old dwelling. He -pent several hours about the place. When leaving, he said he had come in from Ohio to see it; that he was a son of Catherine Smith, and that if justice had been done her, they would still own the place.
WHITE DEER MILS .- After the death of Caldwell, the mills were bought by Henry High. April 25, 1850, they were burned and five thousand dollars worth of grain burned with them. It was rebuilt by Henry High, who failed under his misfortunes, and it was sold by the sheriff and purchased by John Bower and Candor. Dr. Danowsky sold to 1. Pardec. Robert Candor dying, his interest was sold to Thompson Bower and J. N. Messinger, who afterwards purchased Pardee's interest. The mill has been entirely refitted as a roller, and run under the firm-name of R. M. Griffey & Co.
Catharine Smith obtained possession as late as 1797. She had three sons, -Peter, John and Ludwig. In 1802 Seth Eredell, tenant under Anthony Morris, had a three-story stone grist-mill there, and furnished flour for the army in 1812-14. After which it passed into the possession of Daniel Caldwell, Esq., who died in possession.
It is fifty by eighty fect, six stories, two reliance Turbine water-wheels, equal to sixty horse-power; also one of R. W. Payne & Son's antomatic ent-off engines, fifty horse-power.
This mill, when owned by Henry High, who had the store and mill, took quite a leap for- ward and quite a number of substantial brick houses were erected, and received the name of Ilightown. The hotel was then built and the bridge over the ercek It is on the Catawissa and Williamsport branch of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad ; population, two hundred and fifty ; nine miles north of Lewisburgh; has express and telegraph communication. Post- office name, White Deer Mills.
Above the place lived one of the most remarkable and prominent men of the valley, Daniel Caldwell. He appears to have come there in 1810, and besides being an active busi- ness man, and accumulating property, he en- gaged in the politics of the day with ardor. Ile was county commissioner in 1813, a mem- ber of the Legislature in 1821, and a member of the constitutional convention, but died August 16, 1836, at the age of sixty, before its deliberations had rightly begim. Mr. Banks noticed his death in the convention, and Mr. Merrill spoke of him. It was said of him, " No man in the convention stood fairer or higher."
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