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Report No. 5. Of a road from Brookville to Matson's mill. Confirmed by the court and ordered to be opened twenty-five feet wide. May 10, 1831.
May Sessions, 1831
Petition No. 1. For a road from Moses Knapp's mill to intersect the Sandy road at or near W. Godfrey's. Reported. December 13, 1831, approved and ordered to be opened.
Petition No. 4. For a road from the thirty- fourth milestone on the Susquehanna and Waterford turnpike road to or near the house of Joseph Mccullough. May 10. 1831. Feb- ruary 8, 1832, read and approved.
Petition No. 5. For a road from Troy to
intersect the Olean road at John McAnulty's. May 9, 1831. Read nisi February 8, 1832.
May Sessions, 1832
Petition No. 1. For a road from Squire McCullough's shop to David Butler's. De- cember 12, 1832. Read and approved nisi.
Report No. 7. Of a road from Shield's lane to the road running along Red Bank creek. Viewers report of road January 31, 1833. Confirmed May 11, 1833.
May Sessions, 1833
Petition No. 2. For a road from Shoe- maker's to intersect the road from Hance Robinson's to Troy. December 12, 1833, ap- proved.
December Sessions, 1833
Petition No. 2. For a road from Thomas Barr's on the Olean road to the Union school- house. May 13, 1834. approved.
1834
Petition No. 1. For a road from Port Bar- nett on the Indiana road to the Ceres road at or near Punxsutawney. February 12, 1834. September II, read nisi, January 12, 1847, ordered to be opened.
Petition No. 2. For a road from a public road leading from Brookville to Kittanning at the county line to Mckinstry's sawmill, near the mill of John Robinson. February 12, 1834. December 13. 1843, approved and ordered to be opened fifty feet wide.
May Sessions, 183.4
Petition No. 1. For a road from Israel Gray's fulling mill and carding machine to a point at or near where the Olean road crosses Little Mill creek. September 11. 1834. June 11. 1835, ordered to be opened twenty feet wide.
Petition No. 2. For a road from the bridge over Mill creek to the house of William Mc- Cullough in Pinecreek township. September 11, 1834. Opening order issued October 23. 1835, to be twenty feet wide.
Report No. 3. Of a road from Ball's mill on Tionesta to the Hepler Camp road near the four-mile tree. Viewers report in favor of road November 15. 1834. Opening order issued October 16, 1835.
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May Sessions, 1835
Petition No. 1. For a road from Robert P. Barr's on the turnpike to Andrew Vasbinder's improvement on the North Fork. December 16, 1836. Read and ordered to be opened fifty feet wide.
Petition No. 6. For a bridge across Red Bank creek, where the Brookville and Hamil- ton road crosses. February 13, 1836. View- ers report in favor, March 8, 1836.
Petition No. 7. For a bridge on Big Mahon- ing. February 13, 1836. August 20, 1836, report in favor and county to pay one hundred and eighty dollars.
Report No. 10. Of a road from John Hoover's mill to intersect the Ceres road at or near Daniel Graffius's, Jr. May term ap- proved.
Petition No. 2. For a road from James Ross's to intersect the Brockway road at or near St. Tibbetts'.
Petition No. 3. For a road from the tan- yard of John W. Jenks in Punxsutawney to the sawmill of Willian Campbell. Approved May 10, 1836.
Report No. 8. Of a road from the west end of Morrison's Lane to the west end of John Kennedy's. Viewers report in favor of road ( no date) 1835. May 10. 1836, read and confirmed.
The pioneer county bridge was petitioned for January 19. 1836; approved by the court, September, 1836. The bridge was let by the commissioners December 15, 1836, to Messrs. Thomas Hall and Richard Arthurs, contrac- tors. The contract called for the completion of the bridge by September. 1837. The accepted contraet bid was seven hundred and ninety-five dollars. When finished the bridge was a good solid structure, but was a curious pile of wood and stones. This pioneer county covered bridge was a wooden one. made of pine timber. It was erected across Red Bank creek in the borough of Brookville, a few feet west of where the present iron structtire on Pickering street now stands. There were no iron nails used in its construction, and only a few handmade iron spikes. The timbers were mortised and tenoned, and put together with wooden pins. This was a single-span bridge of one hundred and twenty feet in length, with no center pier, and of the burr- truss plan. It had two strings of circle arches, resting on the stone abutments. Many mem- ories clustered around this bridge for the old citizens, but time has effaced the bridge and will efface the memories. On its planks gen-
erations met, passed and repassed, and from its stringers fishers dropped many a hook and line.
September Sessions, 1836
Petition No. 2. For a road from Vas- binder's improvement to Frederick Hetrick's. May 10, 1836. December 17, 1836, read and confirmed.
Petition No. 3. For a road from Mill Creek road near John Wilson's to Maize's Gap on the Clarion river. September 16, 1836. May 10, 1837, read and approved.
December Sessions, 1836
Petition No. 2. For a road from the house of James Smith to intersect the Ceres road at or near the farm of William Smith. De- cember 16, 1836. October 14, 1837, viewers in favor of road. May 16, 1838, confirmed.
February Sessions, 1837
Petition No. 1. For a road from AArm- strong & Reynolds' mill at the mouth of Maple creek to Thomas Mechan's farm, on line of Jefferson and Venango. February 14; 1837. July 24, 1837, viewers report in favor of road. September 15, 1837, read and confirmed nisi.
May Sessions, 1837
Petition No. 1. For a road from Daniel Elgin's to the turnpike near the Widow Mills's. May 10, 1837. Confirmed September 15, 1837
Petition No. 2. For a road from the road from Whitesville to Punxsutawney, one-half unile east of Whitesville, to intersect the road from Hamilton's to Brookville near Henry Philliber's. May 10, 1837. September 25, 1837, confirmed nisi. Order issued December 23. 1837, for opening to John C. Ferguson, and to be paid him.
Petition No. 3. For a road from the Smeth- port and Milesburg turnpike, where it crosses Clarion river, to the mouth of Spring creek. May 10, 1837. September 15, 1837, read and confirmed nisi.
Petition No. 5. For a road from John Bowers's to James H. Bell's gristmill. May 10, 1837. September 15. 1837, read and con- firmed nisi. February 10, 1845, on the appli- cation of George R. Barrett, deputy attorney- general, the court order and direet that the road be opened forty feet wide.
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September Sessions, 1837
Petition No. 2. For a road from David Dennison's to the seventy-first milestone. Con- firmed May 16, 1838.
Petition No. 10. For a bridge on Mahoning creek near Charles C. Gaskill's. September. 1837. The county builds this bridge. John Hutchison, foreman. The court approve the finding of the grand jury and direct the with- in-named bridge to be recorded as a county bridge. December 13, 1837.
December Sessions, 1837
Petition No. 2. For a road from the forks of Jones's run to intersect the Olean road about one mile east of Mr. Gorden's near the Black Swamp. December 13. December 18, 1840, confirmed. Order to open. April 24. 1811.
Petition No. 3. For a road from Thomas Wilkin's to Ebenezer Carr's. December 12, 1837. Read and confirmed May 16, 1838.
Petition No. 6. For a bridge across Red Bank creek at or near Carrier's mill. Decem- ber 12, 1837. Approved by the grand jury. and the county to assist in building the same. February 16, 1838.
February Sessions, 1838
Report No. 3. Of a road from Curry's lot to John Bell's in Perry. Viewers report in favor of road February o. 1838. February 16. 1838, confirmed nisi. May 17, 1838, con- firmed.
May Sessions, 1838
Petition No. 1. For a road from Benjamin Shaffer's to David Milliron's. Read and con- firmed February 16, 1839.
Petition No. 2. For a road from Dennison's to William McConnell's. May 17, 1838. Con- firmed December 14. 1838. Ordered to be opened fifty feet wide, December 15, 1843.
December Sessions, 1838
Petition No. 4. For a road from the twen- tieth milestone on the Susquehanna and Frank- lin turnpike to the Sandy Lick creek at the Irish Town path. December 14, 1838. May 15. 1839. read and confirmed.
May Sessions, 1839
Petition No. 1. For a road from Wake- field's, in Pinecreek township, to the district
line near Andrew McCormick, Snyder town- ship. Approved nisi December 10, 1839.
Petition No. 2. For a road from Aaron Fuller's to the Brookville and Hamilton road near Mr. Holt's. May 14, 1839. Read and confirmed nisi December 13, 1839, and ordered to be opened February 10, 1840.
Petition No. 3. For a road from Hance Robinson's mill to the Armstrong county line near the land of Hulet Smith. May 14, 1839. Read and confirmed nisi September 10, 1839. Order to open October 7, 1840.
Petition No. 4. For a road from Daniel Elgin's, in Eldred township, to the mouth of Spring creek in Ridgway township. May 14, 1839. Read and confirmed nisi December II, 1839.
Petition No. 6. For a road from the borough of Brookville to the Beech Bottom on Clarion river. May 14, 1839. Read and confirmed December 13. 1839.
Petition No. 8. For a road from the upper end of the Clearfield and Armstrong turnpike. east of Punxsutawney, to intersect the old State road at or near John McHenry's. May 14. 1839. Read and confirmed December 13, 1839.
September Sessions, 1839
Petition No. 1. For a road from the farm of Levi G. Clover to the Olean road at or near James Cochran's. September 11, 1839. Read nisi 1839. Ordered to be opened May 22. 18.10.
Petition No. 8. For a road from the twelfth milestone on the turnpike to intersect the road half a mile east of John McGhee's. September 11. 1839. May 12, 1840, confirmed and ordered to be opened fifty feet wide.
Petition No. 9. Of a road from the south- cast corner of the Graham lot on the Punx- sutawney road to intersect the turnpike at the northeast corner of Andrew Barnett's land. Viewers report in favor of road August 23. 1839. Petitioned for May 15, 1839. Decem- ber 13. 1839, read and confirmed.
Report No. 16. Of a bridge across the Big Mahoning creek at Bell's mills. Viewers in favor of bridge November 30, 1837. Petitioned for September, 1837. County appropriated two hundred and fifty dollars to build said bridge. David MeCormick, foreman. Court concur September 11, 1839.
December Sessions, 1839
Petition No. 1. For a road from Richards' mill on the Brookville and Beech Bottom road
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to intersect the Brockway road at or near the farm of Almon Sartwell. December 10, 1839. May 12, 1840, confirmed.
Petition No. 3. For a road from the Hog- back road near Frederick Lantz's to intersect the Brookville and Indiana road at or near T. S. Mitchell's store. Approved by court, December 16, 1841.
Petition No. 4. For a road from T. S. Mitchell's on the Indiana and Brookville road to intersect the road that leads from Irvin Robinson's to the Indiana county line. Decem- ber 13, 1839. Confirmed December 18, 1840.
Petition No. 5. For a road from John Quiggles's to the Big Mahoning creek, where the line between James Solesby and William Campbell crosses said creek. Read and con- firmed February term, 1841.
Petition No. 6. For a road from the road that has been of late made from the twentieth milestone to Sandy Lick creek to the Beech- woods road, one and a quarter miles from the twentieth milestone road. December 9, 1839. Confirmed May 12, 1840.
Petition No. 7. For a road from the Waterford turnpike one half mile east of the twenty-fifth milestone to David Losh's grist- mill. December 9, 1839. Confirmed May 12, 1840.
February Sessions, 1840
Petition No. 1. For a road from the Brock- way road at or near S. Tibbetts's to the Beech- woods road at or near James Ross's Lane. February 11, 1840. Confirmed May 12, 1840.
Petition for a road to Shaw's from Ross's Lane, September, 1836. Confirmed to these points May 10, 1837.
May Sessions. 1840
Petition No. 3. For a road from the Brock- way road at or near Peter Richards's smith shop to the Beechwoods at or near the top of Mill Creek hill. May 13, 1840. February 10. 1841, read and confirmed to be opened fifty feet wide.
September Sessions, 1840
Petition No. 5. For a road from the Clear- field county line near Robert Dixon's to Osborne mill. September 11, 1840. Read and confirmed February 10, 1841.
Report No. 9 .- Of a road from the road leading from Barnett's to Punxsutawney, about one mile south of Barnett's, to the old
Indiana road, near the Five Mile run. Viewers report in favor of road, May 12, 1840. Sep- tember 17, 1840, read nisi. February 10, 1841, read and confirmed.
(See also chapter on Barnett township, for bridges.)
ACTS OF ASSEMBLY RELATING TO ROADS, ETC. SUSQUEHANNA AND WATERFORD TURNPIKE, OLEAN ROAD, ETC.
1812 .- Incorporation of the Susquehanna and Waterford Turnpike Company author- ized; governor of Pennsylvania to subscribe one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in the stock of said road.
1814 .- Supplement to said act extending the time for subscriptions to the stock of said company three years from the 22d of February. 1815.
1818 .- Supplement extending the time five years from March 20, 1818.
1821 .- Governor of Pennsylvania. on behalf of the State, authorized to subscribe fifteen thousand dollars, in addition to the amount before subscribed, to the Susquehanna and Waterford Turnpike Company. By a report made in the Pennsylvania House of Repre- sentatives, March 23, 1822, it appears that the contemplated length of this road was one hundred and twenty-six miles, one hundred and seventeen of which were completed at that date. About twenty-six miles of this turnpike were laid out within the limits of the county of Jefferson.
April 4, 1831 .- An act was enacted and approved authorizing the commissioners of Jefferson county to alter a certain part of the Susquehanna and Waterford Turnpike road : "Section 1. Be it enacted that the commis- sioners of Jefferson county be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to lay out and make one mile and ten perches of turn- pike road through the village of Brookville in said county, said road not to exceed five degrees from a horizontal line, and to be con- nected with the Susquehanna and Waterford turnpike road at both ends." This law author- ized a change in the pike in Brookville from Jefferson street to Main street. The Com- monwealth awarded the contract for this work to Thomas and James Hall, who completed the change.
1838 .- Susquehanna and Waterford Turn- nike Road Company authorized to open their road one hundred feet wide through marshy places, "so as to let the light and air upon the same."
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In 1792 the first stone turnpike in the United States was chartered. It was constructed in Pennsylvania, in 1794, and ran from Lancaster to Philadelphia. It was completed through to Pittsburgh in 1804 and was the wonder of America. In this year, also, began the agita- tion in Pennsylvania for internal improvement. an agitation that resulted in a great era of State road, canal and turnpike construction, encouraged and assisted by the State govern- ment. From 1702 until 1832 the Legislature granted two hundred and twenty charters for turnpikes alone.
These pikes were not all made, but there were completed within that time, as a result of these grants, three thousand miles of passable roads. The pioneer turnpike through our wilderness was the Susquehanna and Waterford turnpike. On February 22, 1812, a law was enacted by the Pennsylvania Legis- lature enabling the governor to incorporate a company to build a turnpike from the Susque- hanna river, near the mouth of Anderson creek, in Clearfield county, through Jefferson county and what is now Brookville, and through the towns of Franklin and Mead- ville, to Waterford, in Erie county. The governor was authorized to subscribe twelve thousand dollars in shares toward building the road. Joseph Barnett and Peter Jones, of Jefferson county, and two from each of the following counties, Erie, Crawford, Mercer. Clearfield, Venango and Philadelphia, as well as two from the city of Philadelphia, were appointed commissioners to receive stock. Each of the counties just named was required to take a specified number of shares, and the shares were placed at twenty-five dollars each. Jefferson county was required to take fifty shares.
The war of 1812 so depressed business in this part of the State that all work was delayed on this thoroughfare for six years. The company commenced work in 1818, and the survey was completed in October of that year. In November, 1818, the sections were offered for sale, and in November, 1820, the road was completed to Bellefonte.
The commissioners employed John Sloan, Esq., to make the survey and grade the road. The survey was begun in the spring and finished in the fall of 1818, a distance of one hundred and four miles. The State took one third of the stock. James Harriet, of Mead- ville, Pa., took the contract to build the road, and he gave it out to sub-contractors. Some took five miles, some ten, and so on. The bridge over the Clarion river was built in 1821,
by Moore, from Northumberland county; it was built with a single arch.
In March, 1821, an act was passed by the Legislature appropriating two thousand, five hundred dollars for improving the road. Ap- pointments were made in each county through which the road passed of people whose duty it was to receive the money for each county and to pay it out. Charles C. Gaskill and Carpenter Winslow represented Jefferson county.
Andrew Ellicott never surveyed or brushed out this turnpike. He was one of the com- missioners for the old State road.
Our turnpike was one hundred and twenty- six miles long. The individual subscriptions to its construction were in total fifty thousand dollars, the State aid giving one hundred and forty thousand dollars. This was up to March, 1822. The finishing of our link in November, 1824, completed and opened one continuous turnpike road from Philadelphia to Erie. Our part of this thoroughfare was called a "clay turnpike." and in that day was boasted of by early settlers as the most convenient and easy- traveling road in the United States; that, in fact, anywhere along the route over the moun- tain the horses could be treated to the finest water, and that anywhere along the route, too. the traveler, as well as the driver, could regale himself "with the choicest Monongahela whisky bitters," clear as amber, sweet as musk, and smooth as oil.
"Immediately after the completion of the turnpike milestones were set up. They were on the right hand side of the road as one traveled east. The stones when first erected were white, neat, square, and well finished. On each stone was inscribed, 'To S. oo miles. To F. oo miles.' Of course, figures appeared on the stones where ciphers have been placed above. S. stood for Susquehanna, which is cast, and F. for Franklin, which is west."
Brookville was thirty-six miles from the Susquehanna river, and Franklin forty-six miles.
In the early days of the turnpike, Oliver Gregg, with his six horses, and Joseph Mor- row, with his outfit of two teams, were regularly employed for many years in carrying freight from Philadelphia to this section. It took four weeks to reach here from Philadel- phia, and the charge for freight was about six dollars per hundred pounds. A man by the name of Potter in later years drove an outfit of five roan horses. Each team had a Cones- toga wagon and carried from three to four tons of goods.
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1819 .- The Olean State road was authorized by the following act of Assembly: "An act authorizing the governor to appoint commis- sioners for the purpose of laying out a State road from the town of Kittanning to the State line, in direction to the village of Hamilton, in the township of Olean, in the State of New York, and also from Milesburg in Center county to Clarion river in Jefferson county.
"Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the governor be, and is hereby authorized and required to appoint three commissioners, one of whom shall be a practical surveyor, to view, mark, and lay out a State road from the town of Kittanning, in the county of Armstrong; thence on the nearest and best route to the State line, on a direction to the village of Hamilton, on the .Allegheny river, in the township of Olean, in the State of New York ; and the commissioners so appointed shall proceed to perform the duties required of them by this act on or before the first Monday in June next, and shall make out and deposit a copy of the draft of said road in the office of the clerk of the court of Quarter Sessions in each county through which said road shall pass, and the said clerks shall enter the same in their respective offices, which shall be a record of said road ; and from thenceforth the said road shall be, to all intents and purposes, a public highway, and shall be opened and kept in repair in the same manner as roads laid out by order of the court of Quarter Sessions of the county through which said road passes."
Section 2 provides for the oath of the com- missioners, their pay, and the settlement of their accounts.
Sections 3 and 4 pertain only to the other State road mentioned in the title of the act.
"Approved-the twenty-third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen."
1821 .- Appropriation of eight thousand dollars to the Olean road by the nineteenth section of "An Act for the Improvement of the State," which reads as follows :
"Section 19. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of eight thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the opening and improving a State road, recently laid out from the town of Kittanning in Armstrong county to the State line, on a direction to the village of Hamilton. in the State of New York, which passes through Armstrong, Jefferson. and
McKean counties, to be expended in the said counties through which said road passes in proportion to the distance it passes through the same respectively. And the governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the State treasurer in favor of the following named persons-that is, for that part of the said road which lies in Armstrong county in favor of David Lawson and James Cochran, Armstrong county ; and for that part of said road which lies in Jefferson county in favor of John Sloan, Jr., of Armstrong county, John Matson, and John Lucas, of Jefferson county ; and for that part of said road that lies in Mckean county in favor of Brewster Freeman and Joseph Otto, of Mckean county, who are hereby appointed commissioners to receive and expend the said sum in opening and im- proving the said road within the limits of the counties to which they are appointed to super- intend, etc.
"Approved-March 26. 1821."
1819 .- State road from Kittanning to the mouth of Anderson's creek, in Clearfield county, authorized by
"An act to authorize the governor to ap- point commissioners to lay out a state road from the town of Kittanning in a direction to the mouth of Anderson's creek.
"Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the governor is, and he is hereby authorized to appoint three commis- sioners, one of which shall be a practical surveyor. to view, mark, and lay out a State road from the town of Kittanning; thence by the nighest and best route on a direction towards the mouth of Anderson's creek, in Clearfield county, to intersect a road from Bellefonte to Erie. And the commissioners so appointed shall proceed to perform the duties of their appointment at such times as the gov- ernor shall direct. And they shall make out and deposit a draft of said road in the office of the clerk of the court of Quarter Sessions in each county through which said road shall pass, and the said clerks shall enter the same in their respective offices, which shall be a record of said road, and from thenceforth the said road shall be to all intents and purposes a public highway, and shall be opened and kept in repair in the same manner as roads laid by order of the courts of Quarter Sessions of the counties through which said road passes.
"Approved-January 27, 1819."
1821 .- Appropriation of twenty-five hun-
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dred dollars to the State road from Kittan- ning to Anderson's creek, Clearfield county, by "An Act for the Improvement of the State."
"Section 18. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the purpose of opening and improving a State road re- cently laid out from the mouth of Anderson's creek, in Clearfield county, to the town of Kittanning, in Armstrong county, which passes through the counties of Clearfield, Jef- ferson, Indiana, and Armstrong, to be ex- pended in the same counties through which said road passes in proportion to the distance it passes through the same, and the governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the State treasurer in favor of the following named persons, that is, for that part of said road which lies in Armstrong county in favor of James Hannagan and Joseph Marshall, of Armstrong county ; for that part of said road which lies in Indiana county in favor of James McComb and William Travis, of Indiana county ; for that part of said road lying in Jefferson county in favor of Charles C. Gaskill and Carpenter Winslow, of Jefferson county ; and for that part lying in Clearfield county in favor of David Ferguson and Moses Boggs, of said county, who are hereby appointed commissioners to receive and expend the said sum in opening and improving the said road within the limits of the counties to which they are appointed to superintend, and the said commissioners shall each be entitled to receive as a full compensation one dollar and fifty cents per day for every day they shall be neces- sarily employed in performing their respective duties.
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