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USA > Pennsylvania > Lebanon County > History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical > Part 77
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quitted and forever discharged, have granted, bargained, ook, released, alliened, enfroffed, and confirmed, and by these presents do grant, bar- suin, sell, allien, release, enfeuff, and confirm unto them tbe said Jacob Awl, Joshua Eller, Andrew Stewart, James Cowden, and William Brown, their heirs und assigns four certain lots of ground in the afores tid town of Harrisburg, marked on the general plan of said town Nos. 120, 121, 142, 143, situated and bounded as follows Beginning at a corner whera Raspberry Alley intersects Market Street, theace along the line of Mai- ket Street to the line that divides lots Nos. 141 and 142; thence on the saine division line crossing strawberry Alley to Walnut Street ; thence on the line of Walnut Street to Raspberry Alley ; thence down the line of suid alley to the place of beginning."
Other conveyances were made at the same date, one of which refers to the " Ferry Lot," that "in consideration of the sum of five shilling-," John and Mary Harris also conveyed to Jacob Awl, Joshua Elder, Andrew Stewart, James Cowden, and William Brown, in trust for the use of the public, " a certain lot of ground in the town of Harrisburg called and known as the .Ferry Lot,' beginning at a post marked for a corner on the line of Front Street, thence north 37 degrees east 10 perches to a corner ; thence 53 degrees west 4 perche- to a corner ; thence south 37 degrees west 10 perches to the place of be- ginning, containing one quarter of an acre, together with all and -ingular the rights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments, and appurtenances whatsoever there- unto belonging."
With these conveyances was a map or draft of the town, a copy of which, made a few years subsequent. is reproduced for this volume. The original plan in- cluded all the ground inclosed within the following lines : From the Susquehanna River out Mulberry Street to Dewberry Alley, up to Cherry Alley, out to Fourth Street, up to Walnut Street, into High Street ( which was laid out back of the old arsenal), up to the Maclay line on the lower side of South Street, then in to the river, and down to the beginning, and is certified to in the following words :
" We, the suthecribed commissioners appointed to carry into effect the proposals of John Harris respecting the laying out of the county town for the county of Danphin, do hereby mak- known that the said town, with respect to the size of the lota, disposition of the streets, lanes and alleys, and the choice of the public grounds, was laid out ander our . direction and inspection agrevably to the adjoining plan of the said town, the said lots in general containing about one quarter of an acre each. and extending in front 521y feet with a depth of 210 feet, with some unavoidable variations in particular courses, as may easily be seen by inspection, the whole being laid down from a scale of 200 feet to an inch. Witness our hands the 14th day of April, 1785.
" JACOB AWL, " JOSHUA ELDER, " ANDREW STEWART, "JAMES COW DEN, " WILLIAM BROWN."
Another conveyance was made at the same time (July 6, 1785) by Harris to the commissioners, in trust for the use of the commonwealth in case the seat of government should be fixed at Harrisburg, four acres and twenty-one perches of land, being that portion of the Capitol Park south of the South Street line. The deed conveying this trust recites :
" In consideration of the sum of tive -hillings, grant, bargain, sell, re- lease, and enfrott, and confirm unto Jacob Awl. Joshui Elder, Andrew Stewart, James Cowlen, und William Brown, their heirs ind assigns, in trust for public use, and much purposes ux the Logulature shall hereafter direct, a certain lot or piece of ground, situated in the sail town of Har-
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risburg, in the said county of Dauphin, marked on the general plun of the sald town ' Public Ground,' situated and bounded as follows: Beginning at a post marked for a corner on the lines of Third an 1 Walnut streets; thence along the said Walnut Street north thirty-soy 0 degrees east seventeen perches and a quarter to a post marked for a corner ; thence north thirty-five degree. west thirty-ous perches to a back onk : thence south fifty-seven degrees west twenty- three perches to a post marked for a corner on the line of Third street : thence down the said street south forty-five degrees cast thirty-seven perches to the pinre of beginning."
Deed Book A contains many conveyances of John Harris, and we must give him eredit for his care and watchfulness over the interests of the future people of the goodly town which would bear his name. The first John Harris died in December, 1748, and was buried in the inclosure on the bank of the Susque- hanna. The deed of conveyance of this burial-lot by the commissioners is as follows :
"This indenture, made the twenty-eighth ily of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, between Jacob Awl, Joshua Elder, Andrew Stewart, James Cowden, and William Brown, all of the county of Dauphin and Commonwealth of Pennsyl- vania, gentlemeu, of the one part, and John Harri-, of Harrisburg, county and State aforesaid, of the other part, witnesseth : That the said Jacob Awl, Joshua Elder, Andrew Stewart, Jamies Cowden, and Willian Brown, in consideration of the sum of five shillings, lawful pioney of Pennsylvania, to them in hand well and truly paid by the said John Harris, at and before the execution of the-e presents, the receipt whereof Is hereby acknowledged, and from the payment thereof the said John Harris, his heirs, executors, administrators, assigns ate fully acquitted . and forever discharged, have granted bargained, sold, released, enfeufed, and confirmed, and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell, and release, enfeoff, and confirm unto him, the said John Harris, his heirs and as- signs, a certain lot of ground, situate on the common or front street of the town of Harrisburg, where John Harris was buried, beginning at a mulberry-tree on the southwest side of the stone dwelling-bouse of the said John Harris, thener from the said mulberry-tree on the north side so as to contain fifteen fect square. together with all and singular the rights, liberties, privileges. boreditaments, and appartenances whatso- ever to the same belonging or in anywise appertaining, and the rever- sion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and profits thereof, and all the estate, right, title, interest, use, possession, claim, and demand whatsoever, of them. the sand Jacob Awl, Joshua Elder, An- drew Stewart. James Cowden, Rad Wilham Brown, of, in, and to the same, to have and to hold the said lot and premises hereby granted or mentioned, or intended so to be, with the appurtenances unto him, the said John Harris, bis heits and assigns, to the only proper use, benefit, and behoof of him, the said John Harris, his heirs and assigns, forever ; and the said Jacob Awl, Joshua Elder, Andrew Stewart, James Cowden, and William Brown, for themselves, their heirs, executors, administri- tors, and assigns, do covenant, grant, and agree, to atal with the said John Harris, his heirs and assigue, the said described lot of ground, hereditaments, and appartenances against them, the said grantors, their heirs and assigns, and against all and every other person and persons lawfully claiming, or to claim by, from, or under them, or either of then, Jointly and severally warrant aud forever defend by thes . pres- ents. In witness whereof, the parties to these prevents have inter- changenbly set their hands and seals the day and year hrst alove written.
" JACOB AWL, [SEAL.] [SEAL.]
" ANDE. STEWART, [SEAL.] "JAS. CORDEN, [SKAL.]
" WM. BROWN. [SEAL.]
"Sealed and delivered in presence
of us-
"J. MONTGOMERY, " JOHN A HANNA.
" Received, on the day of the date of the above written indenture, uf the therein uanied, the sum of five shillings, being in full for the con- sideration money therein mentioned by n -.
"JALLE AWL, "JAS. COWDEN, "WH. BROWN.
" Witness:
" J MONTNOMERT,
"JOHN A. HANNA."
In more recent years the descendants of John Harris secured from the borough authorities an addi- tional five feet of ground, thus making the grave- yard twenty feet square, which they surrounded by. a handsome iron railing. With all these convoyances by the proprietor for the benefit of the present city, the county, and the State, it would be only a mark of gratitude to place some befitting memorial of the good founder of the town where the ashes of the old pio- neer, whom the former so highlf reverenced, repose.
The late George Washington Harris, in one of the early directories ( Napey's ; of the town, gave the fol- lowing data concerning the town when first laid out:
" When the town wa- first laid out the old orchard belonging to the mansion house extended up to about the line of Mulberry Street. About the intersection of Mulberry Street with Arcond Street was a ridge, from which the ground descended from six to tro feet to the present Market Square, and the water ran from the square upwards and into the river along the channel which is under the bridge now crerted across Front Street above Walnut. At this time the ground above Market Street was chiefly in woods.
" Mr. Robert Harris, who died in the year 1851, frequently saw several bears killed in the river in one day. In the fall of the year they would come down from the mountains to the cornfields, and were quite abund- ant in the neighborhood. It was quite common to see them while riding along the roads. The farmers when going out to plow would frequently take their guns to guard against their deprelations. On one occasion Mr. Robert Harris with his sister, Mrs. Hanna, were playing at the river near the mouth of the inn at the end of Walnut street. A thicket of buches extended up along the run. Some boys came running from a barn on the bank and told them that two beats were coming down the run. They scampered up the bank, when presently the bears came along and took into the river.
" On another occasion a man named Rennick, with some others, went in pursuit of a bear. When the canve approached near to it, Rennick made a struke at the bear with his socket-pole, but missed it. Ho either lost his balance or was drawn overboard by the weight of the pole, and the bear struck him with his paw and tore his cheek open.
" Wild turkeys were also abundant hete at this peri ul. Jobn Itarris shot wild turkeys from the door of his store-house. Beaver and otter were then and afterwards killed along Paxton Creek and on the i-lands in the neighborhood.
"The town as laid out by John Harris extended as far down the bank as Mulberry Street, and the lot on the corner of Front aud Mulberry Streets, owned by the heirs of Valentine Egle, was No. I on the plan of the town. In the course of a few years afterwards extended the plan down to Mary's Alley, which bounds the store-house lot on the upper side. llis executors, in 1"02, extended the plan of lot- farther down.
" There is no house, except the Hartis tension on Front street, yet standing within the linnts of Harrisburg which is certainly known to have been erected before the town was laid out.
" John Hamilton erected the Bret permanent enibellislunent to the town, after Harris' stone house, by building a brick house at the upper corner of Front Street and Blackberry Alley and the large establishment for his store on the corner of Market Square and Market Street, which was known a few years ago as the * Washington House, but since replaced by a new structure, termed the 'Jones House' Mr. Hamilton carried on an extensive trade with the Western settlers. In place of the pres- ent rapid mode of conveying merchandise and passengers to Pittsburgh, he kept large numbers of horses and mules, and every few weeks ht4 caravans set out " for the West,' ladened with salt, powder, lead, etc.
" The first clergyman established in the town was Rev. Joseph Mont- gomery, a Presbyterian. His first discourse, it is said, was delivered in the lot where recently stond the ruins of the Presbyterian Church on a pleasant afternoon in the month of June. The congregation-the en- Inte villaze-were sheltered by two or three large apple-trees and some toble oks, the primtive growth of the forest.
"Chief Justice Vek an re Hled here for some time, at least when Congress sat at York. He lived in a substantial one-story log house. . short distance alove what is now Locust Street. He wore an ummense corked bat, and had wrest deference shown him by the country people and the straggling Indians, who had their village a short distance from
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the town. When he and the other judges of the Supreme Court came to the town to hold court numbers of the citizens would go out on horseback to meet them aud escort them to town. Sometimes otte of two hundred people would attend on this occasion. And each morning while the chief justice was in town holding court the sheriff and con- stables escorted him from las lodziigs to the court-room. When on the bench he sat with his coche hut on, and was dressed in a scarlet Rown."
The town was called by the founder HARRISBURG, and the minutes of the second court held in the town are dated Harrisburg. On the 3d of August, 1786, the following appear- : "The name of the County Town or Seat of the Courts is altered from Harris- burg to Louisbourgh in consequence of the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth so styling it in the commissions of the Justices of the said Town." This was surely a piece of impertinence. When the act of Assembly was passed in 1785 estab- lishing Dauphin County, it fixed the >eat of govern- ment near Harris' Ferry. As John Harris had laid out the town, and offered lot> therein for county pur- poses, the privilege was accorded him of naming the town. But Chief Justice Thomas MeKean and some other of the judges of the Supreme Court conceived
Dauphin of France, the town should be called Louis- burgh, after Louis XVI. At this time the prejudices of the people ran high in favor of France for the aid that kingdom had given America during the Revolu- tion. Besides, Judge MeKean and John Harris had had a personal difficulty, which occurred about the time the former was leaving Harrisburg, after his residence here; and, perhaps, being influenced by motives of hostility towards Mr. Harris, Mr. MeKean strongly urged that the town should be called Louis- burgh. Accordingly, in the first precept for hold- ing the courts here the court was directed to be held at Louisburgh. John Harris, however, told the judges that they might "Louisbourgh" as much as they pleased, but that he would never execute a title for any lot in any other name than that of Harris- burg, and his determination prevailed.
In September, 1786, occurred the "Pumpkin flood.". The bottom lands on the head-waters of the river, and especially of the North Branch and in New York State, had been planted principally with pumpkins. These came down in enormous quantities. E-quire Montgomery, who was a clerk in the recorder's office as early as 1790, frequently stated that " for two whole days the river looked as if a person could walk over it on pumpkins." Small houses, hay-stacks, grain- stacks, with chickens on them, etc., came down in great numbers.
There is a question in regard to the height of the water at that flood compared with the flood of 1865. It is supposed the water attained about the same level in each. In the Pumpkin Hood flats passed from Harris' Ferry across Second Street to the hills. At that time there was a brick-yard north of Paxtang Street east of the eanal above the old creek bridge.
The sheds were probably on the highest spot. In that flood the only part of the shed- visible was the eomb. At the bank of the river in front of Chestnut Street, before the filling up done of late years, there. was a first and second bank ; the first bank has been almost obliterated. The " Pumpkin flood" was about half-way between the first and second bank. In 1826, when the engineers were locating the Pennsyl- vania Canal on the ground between Paxtang Street and the mouth of the ereek, Abraham Bombaugh, who had seen both the floods of 1784 and 1786, told them they were locating the canal too low; they seemed surprised, but he told them that he had seen the water over the whole of that ground deep enough to drown them where they stood.
The population of the town minst have increased wonderfully. In the assessment for 1785 the return for Lower Paxtang included Harrisburg, and it is only in 1787 that the assessments of Louisburgh and Middletown appear distinctively from the rural por- tion of that township. One hundred and forty- three names are recorded in Louisburgh, showing a population of about six hundred persons. The words
a proper understanding of the list.
LIST OF TAXABLE INHABITANTS OF LOUISBURGH FOR 1787.
Jacob Allen, b. [blacksmith].
John Ebbit, saddler.
And'w Armstrong, jail keeper. James Elliott, locks[ mith).
Jus Anderson, saddler. John Ewigh.
.Ias. Beatty, weaver.
Jolin Ebert, saddler.
Alex. Barr, mason. Persifor Frazer, carpenter. Henry Fulton, storekeeper.
Samuel Boyd, storekreper.
Conrad Bombangh, tavern. George Fridley, smith.
Edward Burke, s hoe maker.
John Boyd, carpenter.
John Brooks, joiner.
Andrew Forrest, doctor.
Rowley Frazer.
Henry Broner.
Samnel Berrybill, cabinet maker.
Robert Barr, marble m.son.
Jus. Burns.
Adam Boyd, Jent [Gentleman].
Henry Beader, b[rewer],
M. Balsley, Pl. [Plasterer].
John Cooper, joiner.
Martin Creer [Greir]. William Crabb, lavern.
Jolin A. Cumfort, hatter.
Christian Cunkle [Kunkel].
·· Peter Craybil [Greybill], distiller. John Crenmer [Kremer], mill- wright.
Andrew Conlter, mason.
Michael Kapp, commissioner.
John Cain [ Kean], Esy.
Jos. I'h inibers, stonemason.
Jolin Chambers.
John Clark.
John Connally, tailor.
Peter Denig, wheelwright.
Richard Dixon, blacksmith.
Jamey Duncan Taylor.
John Dentzell, doctor.
Wm. Dickey, silversmiith.
Dr. Dill.
J.s. Floydl.
Jarob Henning, hatter. Peter Harper. George Erwin [Irwin], storekeeper.
Moses Gilmore, storekeeper.
John Galbraith.
William Glass, joiner.
Alexander Gruydon, prothoty.
William Graydon, Esq., attorney.
Peter Her ha, doctor.
William Hinson.
John Hogg [lloge).
George Hoover, carpenter.
Valentine Hurtor [Horter],
butcher.
John Hatner, shoemaker.
Adam Hocker, tavern.
John Harris.
[J] Joseph Henry, Esq., attorney. George Haier [Hoyer], tavern.
John Hanniton.
John Hefley, shoetosker.
John A. Hanna, E-q .. attorney.
George Hutman, b'atter].
William Ingram, wheelwright.
James Mc Namara, shoemaker.
Anthony Lopsy.
Widow Rizer (Geiger), black- BDsith j.
John Kela | Keeler]. Richard King, mason. George Mchintey.
Samuel Millward.
Jesse Gilbert, tavern.
Samnel Grimes, tavern.
George Firestone, taylor.
Francis Forgisson [Ferguson].
the notion that as the county was called after the ' in brackets are necessary additions to the original for
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Fred. Meredith Morgan, shop- maker.
Joseph Montgomery, Esq., re- corder.
Criger Martin.
William Moore, Carp. Moses Moss, doctor.
John McClelland, storekeeper. John Mechesney [ McChesney] Jas. Mitchell.
William McClintock.
William Murray, carpenter. Patrick Murray, taylor.
John Norton, joiner.
Andrew Newman, joiner.
Adam Natcher, tavern.
Balzer Natcher, tavern.
George Nox [Kn. x].
Alexander Powers.
William White. Henry Wouster.
Jolin Pool, carpenter.
Jacob Mish, tanner.
Samnel Weir, tavern.
Margaret Wiley.
Geo. Robson, storekeeper.
Geo. Redish.
John Watt, brickmaker. Jacob Wilschance Welshanze] Jacob, Weaver, tavern. Hannah Wickersham, widow.
Jeremy Rees. William Stewart, painter. Adam Snider, carpenter.
Adam Zantzinger.
Batchelors.
Frederick Hasg. Nicholas Bowers.
Frederick Feals. William Duncan.
John Harris.
James Boggs.
Richard Still.
Jacob Beasted.
Sainuel Good.
William Wanlass.
Other names of bachelors are added in different penmanship, but they have been rejected, as they do not appear on any subsequent roll.
CHAPTER II.
Harrisburg in 1787-In 1788-The Federal Seat of Government-Har- risburg erected into a Borough-First Assessment of the Borough- Whiskey Insurrection-Address of the Burgesses to President Wash- ington, and his Reply.
IN July, 1787, the Rev. Manasseh Cutler, on his way to the Ohio, passed through Harrisburg, and left this description of the place in his journal : "This is a beautiful town. It contains about one hundred houses, all built in less than three years, many of them brick, some of them thiee story, built in the Phila- delphia style; all appear very neat. A great num- ber of taverns, with handsome signs ; houses all two- story ; large windows. About one-half of the people are English. People were going to meeting; they meet in private houses ; have no churches yet. Peo- ple appear very well dressed, some gay." This was the second year from the founding of the town, and is a pretty good description of the place at that time. Middletown and Lebanon were larger towns, but the location of the county-seat at Harrisburg gave an impetus to its growth and prosperity, and it was in a few years ahead of its rivals, and has rapidly main- tained its supremacy.
The next account of Harri-burg is in April. 1788, when John Penn, son of Thomas Peun, and grand-
son of William Penn, made a journey from Philadel- phia to Carlisle to look after some of the Proprietary estates there. He set out from Philadelphia on the 6th of April, 1788, on horseback, reached Reading the next day, where he tarried until the 9th, when he pursued his way towards the Susquehanna. We now quote from his journal :
" April 10. Rose by six o'clock, and after breakfast set out in order to sleep at llarrishmrg, the chief town of Dauphio County, and which was propused to be the seat of government. Passed some mills a few miles from thence, at Tulphocken Creek, which afterwards meets the road somewhat farther in a very picturesque sput. On the eastern side of this is a most elegant new Lutheran Church. On the western is a Cil- vani-t's, called here, by way of distinction, A Presbyterian, Church. After riding through a village I came to Lebanon, a handsome town. containing some hundred inhabitants. This place is decorated ly a spire, and the houses are well built, many of thetu stone or brick. It not being distent enough, the horses were baited at Millerstown, a small village half-way, and twenty miles from Harrisburg, or Harris's Ferry. About sunset I had a hne view of this town from an high part of the road, the river Susquehanna dowing between its woody and cultivate ! banks close to the town. Mr. Harris, the owner and founder of this town, informed me that three years ago there was but one house built, and seemed to possess that pride and pleasure in his success which Eneas envied.
"* Felices illi, quorumi jam mæDia surgunt "
"Though the courts are held here generally, Lebanon is infinitely larger. The situation of this place is one of the Anest I ever saw. One good point of view is the tavern, almost close to the river. This was the house which stood alone so many years. It is called the Compass, and is one of the first public-houses in Pennsylvania. The room I bad is twenty-two feet square, and high in proportion.
" April11. After breakfasting, about eight, with Mr. Harris, we walked together to the ferry, when he gave me two pieces of information, one of an island be purchased of us, which the war prevented us from con- firming to him, and the other of the delinquency of one Litso, who wishes to detain the money due in part for a farm over the susquehanna, though there is an inchmbrance in our favor on it to the amount of six or seven hundred pounds, going on upon interest. The waters being high, we ferried across with difficulty, and almost dropped down to a very rapid part below the landing place, but at length escaped a disk- greeable situation. About two miles from the river passed the house of Whitehill, the Assemblyman, and arrived about three at Carlisle, seven- tren miles off."
Mr. Penn remained at Carlisle until the 13th, when he commenced his return to Philadelphia. He thus proceeds :
"April 13. Ro -- early in order to see a cave near Conedogninet Creek, in which water petrines as it drops from the roof. Returned and pur- sued my route to a place called Lisburn, tho' it proved somewhat ont of my way. Just at this spot the country is romantic. The name of the creek running thro' it, Yellow-breech's Creek, may, inderil, be unworthy of it. From hence the road lay thro' woods till the Susquehanna, and Harrisburg at a distance, denoted that the ferry was at hand. I crossed the river about three and a half o'clock, surrounded by euchaut- ing prospects. The ride to Mid Hetown is along the eastern bank, and exhibits a striking example of the great, in the opposite one, rialng t) a vast height, and wooded close to the water's edge for many miles. From this vast forest, and the expansive bed of the river navigable to its source for craft carrying two tous burdens, the ideas of grandeur and imuietaity rush forcibly upon the mind, mixed with the desert-wilderness of an un- inhabited scene. The first particular object on this road is Simpson's house, the owner of the ferry where I crossed. It is on a rock across the river. At Middletown I put up at one More's, who was a teacher fir- merly at Philadelphi of Latin and Greek. He talked very sensibly. chietly on subjects which discovered him to be a warm Tory, and friend of pissive obedience. Until e many Tories, he is an enemy of the now Constitution. Hate the Great swatira joins the Susquehanna, and a very fine mill is kept at their confluence by Mr. Frey, a Dutchman, to whom I carried a letter from Mr. D. Clymer.
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