History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical, Part 8

Author: Egle, William Henry, 1830-1901
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1046

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Taylor, Samuel, 300; May 20, 1774. Taylor, sarah, 50 ; Dec. 6, 1774. Taylor, John, 222 ; July 26, 1706 .* Ullidig, Valentine, 2001; June 9, 1773. Veech, Jane. Chester), Inn; Nav 25, 1771. Warren, Josep !. . Phita.), Job: Oct. 16, 1770. Walter, John Berbat, HH : March 2h, 117". Way, Jack. if hester, 200 : Dias 23, 1778. Way, Benjinin (Chester), 200 ; May 25, 1773 Way, Ly cha if'leifer), 300; Sept. 24. 1773. Woodside, Jonathan, 175 ; Nov. 9, 1771. Woodside, Jail'at .. Widians, F: PAcs Phila. , 300; & vv. 23, 1773. Ward, wnsannah , Plodla. , 1 9; Nov. 21, 1773. Woodrow. simeon Phil . F. I . T. Williams, Daundel Phala ), 300 . . : 4.

GENERAL HISTORY.

Waggoner, Adam ( Phile. ), 200; April 11, 1774. Williams, Runion ( Phila, 4, 250; April 16, 1774. Willi omus, Edward , Phila, 500 . April 16, 1774. Watson, Win. (Phila.', 300; April 20, 17:4.

. Weaver, Nicholas ( Phila. , 00; April 26, 1774. Wilson, Charles : Philat, 200; April 26, 1774. Williams, Edward : Phila , 400; April 20, 1774. Wolf, Daniel, 100; April 29, 1774. Wirt, JJuhn Adam, 300; June f, 1774. Waggoner, Anlam, 60; June S, 1774 Waggoner, Jacob, 50 ; Nov. 21, 1774. Walker, Benjamin, 300; Jan. 27, 1755. Welker, Michar !. 200; Feb. 14, 1773. Wilson, James, Esq., 200; June 15, 1767 .* Winagard, Lazarus, 100; Jan. 27. 1783. Winagard, Lazarus, Jr., 400; Jan. 5, 185. Willar, l'eter, 300; March 11, ITAs. Young, David, 50 ; Sopt. 4, 1774. v

It is not to be denied that the Proprietaries had a great deal of trouble with their land. The fact is there were too many " original purcha-ers," and the-e seem to have had privileges and advantages which no settler had, and the land-office was for many years in a state of confusion. The following letter from Thomas Penn, one of the Proprietaries, to Secretary Logan, is of valued reference in this connection. The paper was indorsed " Terins for ye Donegallians," but as will be seen were to apply to the townships north of Donegal .- Paxtang. Hanover, Derry, and Lebanon, and is dated " Philada., 234 Jany, 1733."

" LOVING FRIEND: Ou the Receipt of thy Letter & paper read to the Juhabitants of Donnegall, & perusal of them, I found the proposals were disadvantagemis to ns, & Imzan to Consoler the reasons for grant- ing to those people their Lails at a Rate much more moderate than other persons generally pay. 'Tis true some of them antlyed to the Commissioners before their Settlement, whereas others went without thinking that formality Necessary, but there they have been settled 12 or 15 Years, have paid no Consideration for that favour, neither think they ought. All y't can give them room to expect an answer agreeable to their Inclinations must be from the services their old Friend may have done theni, with the joyned to thy Endeavour-, for the Speedy stle't of their Estates, which all reasonable men would have been uneasy sh uld bare bren so long delay'd y't have miade any Valuable Improvements on the Land.

" For my Last answer to any applycations from that Township, I do agree that the lubalitants shall have their Choice of these 3 proposals : " Either to pay 16 : 15 & one Shilling a Hund, oz Quitrent.

15 : & " Shillings Quit, ent. 6 : 10 & 1 penny steri. an acre.

"The persons must thinke Choice before the Ist Day of March next which of these terms they choose to Comply with, & the Consideration money must be that Day paid, or Interest for the Delay, which will be expected shall not be long. The Quitreut commences from the Ist Day .

of March next, pursuant to which I desire requests may be drawn upp, and when thon Shalt know how the people shall choose, I desire to be acquainted therewith."

On the 24th of January, Thomas Penn writes to Secretary Logan on the same subject :

" LOVINO FRIEND : Having Considered the terms I am willing to offer to the Inhabitants of the Townships under thy Care North of Doanegal, as the people are generally unable to pry or ney. I shall agree that from the first Day of March next, three years & a half shall be allowed them to provide 15€ 10 Suit. for each I undred arres, and that no Inter- est shall, at the expiration of that time. he demanded for the Delay; that one-half priiny an acie, Sterl. money, shall be reserved for the quirrent, & that no persons who sball hereafter settle no the Land- in Your Country shall be entitled to any such Length of time, but that all persons wettling withont proper authority shall be removed in auch mauner as the Law directs."

The wanton destruction. or careles-ness, referable to the county officials of Lancaster, extending over

one hundred and fifty years, prev : :. !. wishing more interesting facts relat coaches of the early settlers. Were the a ass ment-s. existence from 1730 to the present ale positiv formation could be obtained as to d the year of removal, as also those o' irth and 3

About the year 1740 the influx of south-Inal so great that family after family remov 1 dowe valley to the Potomae, and beyond ., Virgin the Carolinas, and this tide of emir ... .. WE continued stream until the thunders ftho Ri tion checked emigration to America traced from their resting-place among : ris ve! and friends in the townships of Pax or H. and Derry to their descendants of the press who are prominent among the representativ of the South. The assessment-list- . come .. townships referred to for certain yent print contain double the number of names . . . la . : 7. showing how like bees they swarme ! . in parent hive and sought other, and per-lire, :0 4 congenial localities.

The "act for erecting the upper part of the Pi ince of Pennsylvania lying toward- Conestogue, Donegal, etc .. into a cout. : , law on the 10th of May, 1729, and reci sas

" WHEREAS, A great number of the Inhabitants of . Chester County have by their Petition humbly repres ernur and Assembly of the Province, the gre it Hards Ly being at so great a Distance from the Town of Courts of Justice are beldl, und the Public offices ke and difficult it is for the sol. raul quirt Inhabitants County to secure themselves against the Thefts and i committed upon them by Elle and dissolute pers .s remote party of the Province, and by reason of the _1 . a Court or Prison, do frequently find means of tu .k. FOR the removing which inconveniency, and Relief if itants,

" Be it enacted by the Honurable PATRICK GORDON, E the Province of Pennsylvania, &c., by & with the advi the Freetien of the said Province, in General Assemi !. Authority of the saute. That all and smuggler the L Province of Pensilvania, lying to the Northward of and to the Westward of a lane of marked Trees, ir North Branch of the said Octoraro Creek, North-East Schuylkill, Be erected into a County, and the same i. into a County minted, & from henceforth to he ca COUNTY; And the said Ostoraro Creek, the Line of ma the River Schuylkill, aforesail, shall be the boundary 1 between the said County and the Countys of Chester in " An ! be it further concted by the authority sformand Conuty of Lancaster, shall have and ppjoy all and singu tiens, Powers, Rights, Liberties, Privileges & Imimatini winch any other County within the Pr winer of Pann -;! or ought to enjoy, by any Charler of Pr vilezes, or th Province, or by day other Ways or means whatan over. es the m inherof Representativ . to serve in the G .mer .. 1.1 Prosi co, in which case, it is hereby provided and end. thority storesaid, that, nutil it shall be otherw - order ernor and Avrubly of this Province, the Freethen aul the -aid (monty. quahfied by the Laws of this Pre vin + annually peut at or near the Court House of the the sam . time the other Countries of this Province .hall like Purposes, or at such place where the thets steil sich Court House shall be erected, and there pretend toc

HISTORI Ur DAUPHIN COUNTY,

","ct fuitt Representatives of Delegates to serve them in Is- the same manner, no by the said Charter and Laws of this : ected : which sid four Representatives, when so chosen, 1 1 . ers of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, and sit and . « fully and freely. as any of the Representatives for the *har- within this Province do, may, can, or ought to do.

a further avrete? to the authority aforevid, Thatall Taxes al- wohin the boatals of the said County of Lancaster, by an Act o. A embly of this Province, which are not already paid, shall 's the respective collectors within the bounds aforesaid, and is the hands of the Treasurer of Chester County; and that all ped in the I. - vyin ;. receiving and priving the said Tax s mme Power and Authority, and Lo unger the same penal- stions, for The Collecting und paying the same, as by the i; which the said Taxes were assessed, are expressed and , indl the whole he colle ted and paid as af .resaid.

arther everted by the authority sorrend, That the several i . . >pal Unuter Session of the Peace and trial Delivery, and . of Common Pleas for the sud County of Lancaster, shallte .I kept on the first Tuesday in the mouths of February, M. n,

X. ember, in every year, at sobre proper place within the sand India conven'ont Court House shall be built; and when the .. It and erected in the county af .re- ud. the said several Courts " holden and kept at the wild Court House ou the Days le- asap !: And the Election of Representatives to serve in General A.s ky iv Vressors and all other officers of the said County, why are or ar 'i o pirated to be manually elected, shall be made and elected at Bara. if Court House, at the same time and in the same manner, rter of Privileges and Lawsof the Province of PennesI- ied to be done in the other Counties of this Province. And .91

'o' will for the Freemen of the said County for the first year, ', ' persons for Commissioners for raising County Rates and or 1 . Sail County.

heat, other enacted by the authordy storesend. That it shall and i wfal to and for Colab Porce, John Wright. Thomas Elords, and "7 h-li. or any three of thewi, to purchase and take assurance to od prir Heirs, of a Piece of land, sitnate in some conven ent .. .. . said County, to be approved by the Goveru'r in Trust and 2. « of the said County, and thereon to evert and build, or cause Vatel built, a Court House and Prisen, sufficient to ACCom- to the P.blick Service of the i'd County, for the Ease and conve- Inhabitants.

further enveled by the authority afuresil, That for the De- . arges of purchasing the Land, Building and Erecting the ind Prison aforesand, it shall and may be Lawful to and Re torten.seloners and Assessors of the said County, or a Majority (' ti .a. v. . are hereby required to Assess and Levy so much money tas ir cars, or any three of them, shall judge necessary for pur- t . [ und and finishing the sand Court House and Prison. Pro- he sum of money so raised do not exceed Three Hundred "Fast Money of the Province.

I lys, and be it further enacted by the authority aje resid, " or suit now con, merced and deper ang in the county of ost any Person Jiving within the Bounds of the said County a' ter shall be stavel or discontinued by this Act, or by any - ontainedl, bour the same actions already commenced or le- may be prosecuted, and Judgment thereupon rendered, as if ot been made, and that it shall and may be lawtul for the 4 . Cester County to Issue any Judicial Process, to be directed : d Lancaster County, for carrying on and obtain ng the . 1" Suits; which shetift shall be obliged to yield obedience g of the said write, and make ine return before the Justices av of the said County of Chester, as if the Parties bad been fr - wing within the same."

and John Wright, the forr r a Scotch-Irishman, the latter an English Quaker. Galbraith was elected, and for several years continued to be returned to the Assembly.

Notwithstanding the previous sales and transters of land in Pennsylvania, the Five Nations continued to lay claim to the greater portion of the Province east of the Susquehanna and all lands adjoining.

In the summer of 1736 the sachem- or chiefs of these nations held a great council at Onondaga, in the Province of New York, and as the old claims had not as yet been adjusted, they resolved that an end should be put to all disputes connected with it. They accordingly appointed their sachems or chiefs with plenary power- to repair to Philadelphia, and there, among other things, -ettle and adjust all demands and claims connected with the Su-quehanna and the adjoining lands. On their arrival at Philadelphia they renewed oldl treaties of friendship, and on the 11th of October, 1736, made a deed to John Penn, Thomas Penn, and Richard Penn, their heir-, -neces- sors, and assigns. The deed was signed by twenty- three Indian chiefs of the Onondaga, Seneca, Oneida, and Tu-carora nations, granted the Penns "all the said river Susquehanna, with the lands lying on both sides thereof, to extend eastward as far as the heads of the branches or springs which run into the said SusMiehanna, and all the lands lying on the west side of the said river to the setting of the sun, and to ex- tend from the mouth of the said river northward, up the same to the hills or mountains, called in the lan- guage of said nations Tayamentasachta, and by the Delaware Indian. the Kekachtannin hills." Thus were the claim, of the Indians upon the lands of this part of Pennsylvania relinquished to the Proprie- taries, nevertheless surveys had been authorized to be made, and had actually been made west of the sus- quehanna prior to 1730 by both the Governor of Maryland and the Governor of Pennsylvania. The last-recited deed comprised all that lay within the limits of the Cumberland Valley and the counties of Adam- and York, except that portion north of the Kittochtinny, or Blue Mountain, constituting the northern part of Dauphin and the whole of Perry and Bedtord. That portion in Dauphin, north of the Kittochtinny Mountain, was purchased, including a larger tract of country, in 1749.

The deed of Aug. 22, 1749. is as follows :

" We. Canasatago, Sataginachly, Kanalshyfacayou, at Canechwaden_ run, - ichems or chiefs . f th Indem neion. Fiori Du sta_ers, tayan- the Ich un nation alledem ckers. Peter Ontache x and i'd ri-tien Das- Igrali Watshanin n, and Aun hoaxqua, when's er eine s of the In- lian estaen called the Oney Iers; Town-Twis, hace, ar why and

" ... machinery of the new county was soon in r .: "on, but, as had previously been the case in the tas . of Chester, political matters were warm, ! hegn, -athem or chut of the Indian nomeuted the Myok. Maria it being between the Scotch-Irish and the the latter determined to preserve theice ", and having in a great measure the aid at . ins, especially that portion who were of the . persuasion. in 1731 the political canvass katıck-www.sichemvorbis:dedi cated. the> no; In- at, the candidates being Andrew Galbraith I called the Delawaree; and Be hot tea, At hemor chief of the Indus la.

A DRAUGHT OF LANCASTER COUNTY IN 1730,

WHICH INCLUDED THE TOWNSHIPS NOW FORMING DAUPHIN AND LEBANON GOUNTIES.

Peshtank 80.

Lebanon 24.

Donegal 108.

r .- Al

Tolpehoken 74 .

Hempfield 94.

Warwick 42

The Mentor

Cocollico 38

Conestogo 84.

Earl57.

80.

Robinson

Hartock 31.

Sois 3tury 1

61.

Drumore 65

SUSQUEHANNA.

Manheim 61.

: Salsbury

GENERAL HISTORY.

tion called the Shawanese, In consideration of $500, grant, sell, de., all that tract or parcel of land lying and being within the following limit - and bounds, and thus descrii ed . Beginning at the hills or mountains called In the language of the Five Nation Indiana Tyapuntasachta, or Endless Hills, and by the Delew ore In Hans Ketactany Hills, on the past side of the river Su quehanna, bring in the northwest hne or boundary of the tract of land formerly po rel sed by the sand proprietar oy from the said Indian nations, by their deed of the 11th of October, 1956: and from thence running up the said river by the several courses thereof to the first of the nearest mountain, to the north sile or month of the creek, ca 'ed in the language of the said Five Nation Indians Cantague, and in he language . f the Delaware Indians Magh imoy, and from thence ex' Iling by direct of sten ghi line to be ren feritu the said mountain on he north side of said creek to the main branch of Delaware River at the north side of the creek Lechawachsein, and from thence across Lechawachsein creek afor-said down the river Delaware by the several courses thereut to the Kekachtiny Hills fores il, and fr in thence by the range of sail bills to th . place of bezinning, as Whois fully app Mary by a mar annexed ; and als . all the parts of the rivers Su-quehannah and Delaware from shore to shore which are opposite said lands, and all the Islands in said rivers, &c."

The death of Thomas Lindley, in 1748, who had served in the Assembly for several years, gave rise to another political commotion in Lancaster County. The same year an election was held to fill the vacancy; and the contest was exceedingly bitter. The Seoteb- Irish compelled the sheriff to receive such tickets as they approved, and make a return accordingly. This was not what the Quakers, or those in their interests, were willing to permit. That was a right they reserved to themselves. They were not willing to allow the privilege of free sutfrage to the former. The Assembly investigated the subject, and resolutions were adopted by that body as follows :

" Resolved, That the sheriff having assumed npon himself the power of being sole judge at the late election, exclusive of the inspectors chosen by the farmers of the said county of Lancaster, is illegal. unwarrantable, and an infringement of the liberties of the people of the Province; that it gave just cause for discontentment to the inhabitants of said county ; that if any disturbances followed thereupon, it is justly imputed to his own misconduct.

" Resolved, That the sheriff of Lancaster County be admonished by the speaker."

The sheriff attended, and being admonished, prom- ised that he "would take care and keep the law in future." He thereupon altered the return- to suit the politieal manager- at that time, allowing Samuel Blunston to take his seat. It was an unwarranted assumption of power, and the poor frontiersmen were thus outrageously deprived of their proper represen- tation.

The Germans about thi- time began to look to their rights as well as their interests, and they determined to maintain these with firmness. The influence of their Scotch-Irish neighbors wa- beginning to be felt, and as a consequence feared by the Assembly. The other class of Germans who were allied to the Qua- kers were not in sympathy with the Lutheran, Re- formed, and Roman Catholic Germans. Hence trou- bles arose and serious disturbance at the polls. Or course, it was the " turbulent Irish" of the New Eng- land historians, and the Proprietaries, to settle the matter, or rather to take side, with the political dem- agogues who controlled the law-making power of the

Provincial government, directed, after the organiza- tion of the counties of York and Cumberland, "that their agents should sell no more lands in York and Lancaster counties to the (Soteh]-Irish, and 1) make advantageons overture- to the |Scotebl-Irish settlers in Paxtang, Swatara, and Donegal town-nips to induce them to remove to Cumberland County." The ofer was an exceedingly liberal ove, and some few accepted it where it was to their advantage. but that hardy and determined race were not to be so easily swerved from their duty. They remaine 1. - ave those who desired to follow the fortunes and shot- steps of their friends westward of the Susquehan. a. As events subsequently proved, it is well they did not accept the spider's invitation to the dy.

By direction of the Provincial Government a road or highway was laid out in 1733 from the Schuylkill River through Chester County to the town of Lancas- ter. "At a Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, hell at Lancaster for the county of L.In- caster the first day of May, in the twelfth year of Lis Majesty's Reign, Anno Dom. 1739, before John Wright, Tobias Hendricks, Thomas Edwards, Samuel Jones, Andrew Galbreath, Edward Smout, Thomas Lindley, Anthony Shaw, Samuel Boyd. James Ari strong, and Emanuel Carpenter, E-grs., justices of our Lord the King, the peace of our said Lord the King in the county aforesaid to keep as also diver, Felo- neys, Trespasses, and other Misdeeds in the said County committed to hear & Determine assigned ;" and then and there the following order was made :

" LANCASTER COUNTY, &S. :

" At a Court of General Court of Quarter Savings of the Peace, he'! at Lancaster for the county of Lancaster the first day of May, in the twelfth Year of his Majesty's Reign. Anny D in. 1759, Before John Wright, Tobias Hendricks Thomas Edwar.le, sammei Jon-s. [SEAL.] Andrew Galbreath, Edward am ut. Thomas Lindley, At- thony Shaw, Samuel Boyd, Jame. Armstrong, and Emanuel Carpenter, Esqr -. , Justices of our Lord the King, the peace of our si Lord the King in the County aforesahl to Keep as also divers F-loney -. Trespasses, and other Misdeeds in the said County Committed to, huit & determine assigned.

" Porsuant to several orders of the Court, after views and review - of a road fr in Susquehannah River at John Hatris's Ferry to the Town of Lancaster, the same was at length settled and agreed upon avendre = to the several Courses and Distances following, viz : Beginningata L 'as Tree by the side of the aid River near the said Hattisp. Hansp ; In Ape Sonth eighty-three degrees Easterly 106 ps. to Paxtang Creek ; . ..** North 13 Ds. E. G pe ; then S. 13 D. E. p . S. A.D. E. p .. . > Ds. Et. 22 ps., then $. 76 Ds. Es. 140 p. ; then N. D. 17 267 p. D J hn Forsters Fence; from thence down the sail Fence South of De Et De :", then East 34 pa .; thence N. To D. E. 20 1" , then A. S3 D E. 1; thence S. 35 D'. Et. 804 p. : then 8. 2+ D. E. 112 14. ; then , d'1". to William Renick's run ; then $ 64 Ds. 5. 190 ps. : then $. 19 DA. E. 4. to the corner of Alam Bratten's Fonce then S. a. D. L. f. ; tien 8 61 D. Ex. 24 ps : thence 5. 50 D. Et Tips. then & #2 D. I. . ... thebee 8. 55 De. ES. 192 pe : themen & #4 D. E. Akp. the ich Wil am Craig's Field: then ' 70 Dr. Et. 2ps ; then . S. D. E. I. p., Han 8. 30 Dr. East 240 ps. ; then 8. 06 DJ Et ape: then 8. 35 1. 1 ! : 9 ps: then * 60 Ds. Et 120 15. to Suatarto Creek then . " DIE. 1 . [M. ; then > 45 D' E4. 52 p4 .; then S. 35 De E. b. p. ; then $. +3 D. I.

46 Da. Et. 84 p. : then s. st Ds. E. 52 p4; thence $ 20 D .. E !! ! .. then S. : D. Et 22 ps: then S. 11 De Ex Ou p., to J ha P . . . House ; thence south forty five degrees Easterly two hundred ninetysix

HISTORY OF DAUPHIN COUNTY.

tenho ; thence South fifty-seven degrens Easterly forty-four perches ; then south forty degrees Easterly Line perches, across Comesalgo Creek : thence South twenty four degrees Easterly thirty-four perches; thence South fifty-five degrees Easterly one hundred and six jerches; 8 je, to the turn of the Hill ; tuence Số. TG D'. E. 50 p. ; then s . G7 D'. F. +4 | *. : then S0. 57 It. F. 16 pr; then N. 8+ D. E. 50 p. : then N. $6 I. E4 40 po ; then 8. 77 Et. 5 pt; then 8. 46 I. Et. 12 pe: then S. 19 F. 49 14. ; then $. 77 IP. E4. 62 pr, to Thomas Harris' hour: thence s. 25 Ir. E. 144 pt. : thenice 8. 52 0$, E :. 200 1p.

" The within is a true Copy of the Records in my office at Lancaster.

" EDW'D. SHIPPEN, " Lik."

Some time in the year 1744, John Arm-trong, a trader among the Indians resling on the Susque- hinna above Peter's Mountain, on the east side of the river, with two of his servants or men, namely James Smith and Woodworth Arnold, was murdered by an Indian of the Delaware tribe named Musemee- lin, on the Juniata River. Seven white men and five Indians went in search of the bodies of those mur- lered; after some search found and buried them. The murderer was afterwards apprehended, and de- livered up by his own nation, and imprisoned at Lan- caster, whenee he was removed to Philadelphia, lest he should escape, or his trial and execution produce an unfavorable impre -- ion on his countrymen about to anembie for a conference with the whites at Lan- ca-ter. The Governor directed or required that the property of Armstrong should be returned to his family. He also invited a deputation to attend the trial of Musemeelin, and his exeention, if found guilty. The following deposition of the men who went in search of the remains of the murdered, was certified to before Jamies Armstrong, one of his majesty's justices of the peace for the County of Lancaster, dated at Paxtang, 19th day of April, 1744:

" The deposition of the subscribers testifieth aud saith, that the sub- suribera having a suspicion that John Arnistrong, trader, together with two men, James Smith and Woodwath Arnold, were umndlered by the Indians. They met at the bouse of Joseph Chambers, in Paxtang, and there consulted to go to Shamokin, to consult with the Delaware King and Shickcalimy, and there conteil what they should do concerning the aff .: , whereupon the King and Council ordered eight of their mien to Av with the deponents to the house of James Berry, in order to go in quest of the murdered persons, but that night they came to the said Berry's house, three of the eight Indians ran away, and the next morn- ing these deponents, with the five Indians that remained, set out on their journey praceably to the last supposed sleeping-place of the de- Coasen, and upou their arrival these deponents dispersed themselves in order to find out the corpse of the deceased, and one of the deponents named James Berry, a small distance from the aforesaid sleeping-plice, Came to a white-oak-tree, which had three nutches on it, an I close hy sind tree he found a shoulder-bone, which the deponent does suppose to be John Armstrong's, and that he himself was eating by the Indians, which he carried to the af remaid sleeping-place, and showed it to hia companions, one of whom handel it to the sail five Indians to know whit bobe it was, and they. after passing different sentiments upon it, handed it to a Delaware Indian who was suspected by the deparents, and they testify and say that as soon as the Indian took the hoop in the manel. his noge pashed out with blood, an I dite tly han led it to another. From whence these deponents steered along a path abon! three or four mais the harrows of Jumita, where they suspected the murder to Have : ven comomattel, and where the Allegheny road crossed the pres. bose deponento sat down, in order to e ins it on what ciensures t, take n urine to proceed on a discovery.

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History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical, Part 8

Author: Egle, William Henry, 1830-1901 Publication date: 1883 Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Peck Number of Pages: 1046

Author: Egle, William Henry, 1830-1901
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1046