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v. Thomas Jefferson, b. October 17, 1800. He received a good education, and was appointed a midshipman in the U. S Navy. He passed a few years in the service, but having little inelination for a man of-war life, he resigned and returned to Harrisburg. where he lived in quiet re- tirement until the close of his life, which terminated on the 10th of August, 1878. He was genial and generous, affable and entertaining, and a student his whole life long. Mr. Harris married in 1859, Eliza Stine, of Harrisburg, but she died within a year thereafter
vi. Robert, (1st) b. January 29, 1804; d. March 8, 1804.
vii. Robert, (2d) b. Mareh 21, 1808. He was a physician and practiced his pro fession at Harrisburg a number of years. He died there on the 19th of December 1863, unmarried.
viii William Augustus, b. August 21, 1810. He is an Episcopalian minister, resides at Washington, D. C., and the last survivor of the children of Robert llarris. He married Catharinc Butcher, and their children were-James Otey, Catharine, William and Robert.
MARY HARRIS, daughter of John Harris and his wife Mary Reed, was born 1st of October. 1770, at Harris' Ferry. She was an active and energetic woman, and closed a life of four score years on the 20th of August, 1851.
She married JOHN ANDRE HANNA, a na- tive of Flemington, New Jersey, where he was born about 1760. He was the son of Rev. John Hanna and his wife Mary McCrea. He received a good education under the direction of his father, and was partly educated at the College of New Jersey. It is probable that he came to Pennsylvania as a tutor, afterwards studying law with Stephen Chambers, of Lancaster, a noted lawyer of his day, and was admitted to the bar of that county in 1784. Upon the formation of the county of Dauphin, he located at Harrisburg, where his marriage to a daughter of the Founder of the new town, gave him a prestige and prominence he would perchance not otherwise have had. With this influence of family, and his great natural abilities, he soon became the leader at the bar. Prob- ably an active participant in the War of the Revolution, he had a decided taste
for military affairs. He commanded one of the first companies raised in Harrisburg, and during the so called Whisky Insurrec- tion of 1794, was in command of the sec. ond brigade of the Pennsylvania ferces. The same year he was elected to Congress, and up to the time of his death served in that illustrious body. He died, somewhat suddenly, on the 18th of July, 1805, and his rema ns repose in the cemetery at Harrisburg. General Hanna was a man of rich promise, was a leader of the anti-federal party, and the colleague of Gallatin, Smilie, and other Pennsylvanians, then quite prominent in the political affairs of the nation. He was a gentleman in manners and deportment and eminent in his life work. The children of Gen. Hanna and his wife Mary Harris were:
¿. Esther Harris; d s. p.
¿¿. Eleanor; d. s. p,
iii. Sarah Eaton; she married in 1820, Richard Templin Jacobs, who died No- vember 25, 1842. He was a prominent merchant of Harrisburg. Their children were Samuel, Henrietta, James, George W., and Eliza. The latter was twiee married first toA. K. Cornyn, a lawyer and secondly John J. Clyde, of Harris- burg.
20. Henrietta: d. 1840, unm.
v. Caroline Elizabeth; b. 1795: d. 1880, at Harrisburg. She married in 1813, Joseph Briggs, of Silvers Spring, and they had John Hanna, m. Julia Ann Todd; and Mary, m. Hon. John J. Pearson.
vi. Francis Harris; m. John Carson Mc. Alister, and lefr issue.
vii. Juliann C ; m. John Fisher.
viii. Mary Reed; m. Hon. John Tod. He was the son of David Tod and Rachel Kent, and born in Suffield, Hartford eounty, Connecticut, in November, 1779. His father was a Scotchman by birth and a man of an original turn of mind, pro fessing much shrewdness, and a dry kind of wit, many of his sayings being famil- iarly repeated years after his decease. His mother was native
of the town of Suffield. Young Tod re- ceived his preliminary education at the public schools of the village, but his classical education was pursued under the direction of the Rev. Mr. Gray,
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pastor of the Presbyterian church of the town. His rapid progress in his studies enabled him on examination to enter the junior class of Yale College where he graduated two years afterwards with great credit and honor to himself. After graduating he entered the office of his brother, George Tod, then a practising lawyer in New Haven, and it is said was also a short time in the office of Gideon Granger, Postmaster General under President Adams. He was admitted to the bar of Hartford in 1800. Shortly after he went to Virginia, where he filled the position of tutor in a family in one of the southern counties of that State. In 1802 he located at Bedford, Penn- sylvania, where he did some cleri- cal labor in the prothonotary's office, and the same year admitted to the bar there. His praetice rapidly increased, and such was his standing and popularity in the county that he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Com- mon wealth of Pennsylvania in 1808, serv- ing in that body until 1813-the last two sessions being speaker of that body. In 1813 he was elected member of the State Senate, of which he served as presiding officer from 1814 to 1816 He was re elected in 1816, but resigned the office December 20, 1816. In 1820 Mr. Tod was elected a member of Congress, and again in 1822 The tariff question wasthe seading measure of Congress during the session of 1823 4 His speeches on the subject-particularly his opening speech, delivered on the 10th of February, 1824, and that with which he closed the debate on the Sth of April-are remarkable: the first for the data, facts, statistics and other important information it conveys-the second for its powerful and persuasive reasoning, fervid eloquence, wit and satire, all expressed in chaste and elegant language. Few subjects have eli - cited more masterly and brilliant displays from American statesmen. On the 8th of June, 1824, he was appointed president judge of the 15th judicial district, and thereupon resigned his seat in Congress. In May, 1827, he was appointed by Gov. Shulze a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania He had been engaged with two other judges in holding a court at Lancaster, and becoming ill, hastened
to his home at Bedford, where, after a brief illness, on the 27th of March, 1830, in the 51st year of his age, he breathed his last. The character of Judge Tod was that of a plain, practical republican -- a downright honest man. Without the least ostentation or disguise he remark- ably exemplified, in a Spartan simplicity of manners, the truth of his own senti- ments-that there may be a social equal- ity in the intercourse of men on all proper occasions without at all interfering with the difference conferered by intellect and education. He was too humble to think himself wiser than others, and too honest to account himself better. The children of Mary Recd Hanna and John Tod were Julia Ann m. John Il. Briggs; Rachel m. samuel A. Gilmore, of Butler; Isa- bella m. William M. Kerr, and Hen- rietta. Mrs. Briggs and Mrs. Kerr, both widows, resideat Harrisburg,
TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS In Shoop's Church Burial Ground.
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Brightbill, Henry, b. June 22, 1773; d. Oct. 20, 1846.
Brightbill, Mary E., w. of H., b. April 9, 1767; d. Oet. 23, 1844.
Bamberger, Catharine, b. Nov. 25, 1785: d. Aug. 12. 1789.
Brenton, Eva, formerly wife of Henry Cassel, b, Aug. 27, 1804; d. Mareh 3, 1874.
Balthaser, Mary Catharine, w, of J., b. Oct, 19, 1780; d. April 12, 1869.
Balthaser, John, b. Nov. 25, 1779; d. Oct. 4, 1856.
Cassel, Frederick, s. of F., b. Mar. 17, 1764; d. April 21, 1814.
Cassel, Henry, b. Dec. 10, 1798; d. Oct. 1, 1858.
Cassel, Luey Ann, d. of Henry, b. Mar. 19, 1802; d. Jan. 25, 1854.
Eppler, David, b. Aug. 27, 1752; d. Aug. 13, 1837.
Eppler, Catharinc, w of D., b. Aug. 20, 1738; d. Nov 20, 1822.
Ewing, John, b. Apr. 17, 1788; d. Dec. 29, 1866.
Ewing, Elizabeth, w. of J., b. Nov. 9, 1783; d. Sept. 17, 1851.
Ewing, John Christopher, s. of J. and E., b. May 29, 1817; d. Mar. 9, 1834.
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Ewing, Jonathan, s. of J. and E., b. Sept. 23, 1827; d. Jan. 7, 1844.
Elser, John, b. Aug. 7, 1771; d. Apr. 21. 1838.
Elser, Susan, w. of J., b. Nov. 5, 1773; d. July 27. 1830.
Elser, Peter, s. of John and Susan, b. Jan. 5, 1805; d. Jan. 11, 1837.
Elser, Catharine, d. of J. and E., b. March 7, 1806; d. June 23, 1830.
Felty, Thomas, b. Jan. 19, 1727; d. Jan. 23, 1796.
Felty, J. Michael,'b Jan. 1, 1754; d. July 28, 1838.
Felty. Maria E., b. Sept. 18, 1772; d. Dec. 25, 1841.
Felty, John, b. Aug. 30, 1770; d. May 28, 1826. Felty, John Peter, b. Nov. 19, 1773; d. Nov. 30, 1858.
Felty, Mary Catharine, b. July 21, 1781; d. Dec. 12, 1857.
Felty, Catharine, b. Sept. 17, 1775; d. Aug. 12, 1840. Felty, Catharine, b. Feb. 6. 1787; d. April 9, 1814. Felty. Jacob, b. Nov. 3, 1806; d. July 7, 1868
Felty, Catharine, b. July 13, 1804; d. March 16, 1808.
Felty. John, s. of J. and C., b. Nov. 16, 1813; d. Dec. 4, 1835. Fackler, John, b. Feb. 10, 1760: d. June 14, 1829.
Fackler, George, b. March 23, 1803; d. April 18, 1843. Fackler, Susan. b. March 30, 1807; d. Aug. 2, 1848. Fackler, John Harman, s. of Geo. and Susan, d. May 9, 1832, aged 23 dys. Farling, Jacob, b. Dec. 24, 1753; d. March 28, 1832.
Farling, Salome, w. of Jacob and d. of Jacob Hubler, b. April 4, 1759; d. April 17. 1832.
Farling. Salome, d. of J., b. Dec. 24, 1795; d. Dec. 2. 1841. Forney, Joseph, b. April 17, 1778; d. April 17, 1833.
Fritchey, Frederick William, b. March 7, 1799; d. March 1, 1847.
Fritchey, Anna Maria, b. May 11, 1809; d. May 3, 1842.
Garman Barbara, w. of J., b. Nov. 10, 1758; d. March 2, 1835.
Garman, John, b. May 24, 1760; d. Sept. 1, 1822.
Garman, George, b. March 17, 1783; d. Sept. 22, 1841.
Garman. Rebecca, w. of G., b. Jan. 1, 1787; d. April 29, 1854.
Garman, Mary Ann, d. of Jacob and Eliz., b March 7. 1838; d. Feb. 16, 1843.
Garman, John, s. of Jacob and Elizabeth, b. Dec. 2, 1824; d. Feb. 28, 1843.
Garman, Sarah Barbara, d. of J. and E., b. March 1, 1828; d. June 6, 1830.
Garman, Jacob, s. of J. and E., b. Sept. 6, 1829; d. Dec. 3, 1832.
Garman, John, b. March 19, 1818; d. April 28, 1854.
Gaiman, Catharine, w of Geo., b. Feb. 10, 1824; d. June 11, 1863. Garberich, John, sen., b. Aug. 11, 1769; d. July 23, 1839.
Garberich, Barbara, w. of J., sen., b. Aug. 17, 1769; d. Jan. 4, 1846. Gerberich, John, b. Mar. 17, 1794; d. July 7, 1855.
Gerberich, Elizabeth, w. of J., b. Sept. 23, 1791; d. March 14, 1834.
Gerberich, Lewis, s. ot J., b. Feb. 14, 1827; d. Dec. 15, 1834. Gray, Elizabeth, b. Nov. 18, 1817; d. March 30, 1832.
Garverick, Susan, b. Nov. 26, 1804; d. Dec. 4, 1857.
Gramm, Frederick, b. Oct. 21, 1837; d. Nov. 8, 1862. Hain, George, b. Jan. 15, 1757; d. May 31, 1832.
Hain, Catharine, d. ot John Miller, b. Sent. 8, 1765; d. Feb. 4, 1822. Hain, John, b. Nov. 5. 1815; d. Fcb. 1, 1848.
Hain, Mary, d. of Geo. and Sarah, b. Au- gust 16, 1823; d. Oct. 26, 1859. Horstick, John, b. Sept. 18, 1786; d. April 20, 1848.
Horstick, Annie E., w. of J., b. Oct. 20, 1792; d. Aug. 24, 1851.
Haverstick, John, b. April 2, 1791; d. Sept. 7, 1850. Haverstick, Susan, w. of J., b. Feb. 16, 1801; d. Dec. 5, 1860.
Haulman, Jacob, s. of John and Susan, b, Nov. 29, 1804; d. -- , 1822. George Keever, , b. Dec. 19, 1775; d. June 2, 1855.
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Kline, Jacob, b. May 22, 1790; d. July 2, 1856.
Kline, Barbara, w. of J., b. Dec. 24, 1790; d. July 24, 1856. Kline, Esaias, b. April 14,1817; d. Jan. 7, 1863.
Kline Catharine, b. March 2, 1818; d. March 30, 1859,
Kline, Adam W., b. Oct. 20, 1849; d. Dec. 24, 1860.
Knepley, Margaret, w. Conrad and d. of Jacob Millisen; b. May 10, 1796; d. Feb 23, 1851.
Louck, Elizabeth, b. April 12, 1767; d. Aug. 12, 1821.
Landis, Susan, b. Feb. 30, 1793 ; d. Mar. 8, 1855. Lesh, Peter, b. Jan. 24, 1792; d. Aug. 24, 1851.
McCornaek, Dominant, b. May 11, 1761; d. Sept. 11, 1803.
Millisen, John, b. Nov. 24, 1771; d. Sept. 11, 1831.
Millisen, Jacob, sen., b. Oct. 1, 1773 ; d. Mar. 1844.
Millisen, William, b. Dec. 10, 1189; d. June 24, 1846.
Madder, Daniel, b Sept. 16, 1787; d. August 18, 1848. Madder, Catharine Weiser, b. July 23, 1783; d. Aug. 11, 1858. Madder, David, b. June 28, 1785; d. Dec. 19, 1856. Madder, Sarah, w. of D., b. Sept. 9, 1799; d. Aug. 28. 1823.
Malder, Susan, w. of Moses, b. Sept. 16, 1814; d. Oct. 27, 1852.
Meyers, Christian, b. August 18, 1792; d. August 18, 1857.
NOTES AND QUERIES
Relating to the History of Dauphin County.
XLVII.
INFORMATION IS WANTED, relating to the following old citizens of the county, for the purpose of preparing proper bio- graphieal sketches. Any data whatever will be thankfully received. Now and then some of our readers "take us to task" for not publishing sketches of this person and another, but the facts are, it is extremely difficult to gather up the records of those recentl y deceased, while of those who passed away fifty or
sixty years ago, it is an arduous and frequently a fruitless labor. We are desirous of preserving somewhat of the history of our old citizens, and if those who have information of these per. sons of the long ago will communicate the same, they will greatly aid our ef- forts.
Jacob Hise, coroner, from October 22, 1827, to April 7, 1834.
Joseph Clendenin, b. 1777; d. Novem- ber 16, 1818. Was com. notary public, May 10, 1816.
Michael Krelil, coroner, April 16, 1818, to Oet. 30, 1818.
Dr. Samuel Meyrick, of Middletown. Dr. Isaac Mckinley, in Hartisburg, 1796.
Dr. Jonathan Neely, who died at Fort Hunter, February 1, 1827.
John Paul, jr., app. deputy surveyor, July 19, 1830.
THREE NOTED EARLY DIVINES.
[The biographical sketches herewith given, are presented as part of the history of the early Presbyterian churches in this locality. They were able and learned men, who labored earnestly in the Mas- ter's vineyard. They lived in a time when religious belief was re.chrystalizing and although more or less peculiar in their presentation of their theological views, we can say this for them- they were convinced they were right- and we honor them for their sincerity. ] REV. JAMES ANDERSON.
James Anderson a was native of Scotland, born November 17, 1678; was educated under the care of principal Stirling, of Glasgow, and ordained by Irvine Presbytery, No- vember 17, 1708, with a view to his set- tlement in Virginia. He sailed March 6, 1709, and arrived in the Rappahannock on the 22d of April following; but the state of things there not warranting his stay, he came northward, and was received by the Presbytery September 20. He settled at New Castle. In 1714, out of regard to the desolate coudition of the people in Kent county, he was directed to supply them monthly on a Sabbath, and also to spend a Sabbath at Cedar Creek, in Sussex. He subsequently ministered in New York, but owing to some
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difficulties in
the congregation
there, he desired a removal. He was
ealled September 24, 1726, to Donegal, on the Susquehanna, and accepted it. He was installed the last Wednesday in All- gust, 1727. In September, 1729, he gave every fifth Sabbath to the people on Swatara, and joined the congregation of Derry, thus becoming the first settled pastor over that church, until the call to Rev. William Bertram, in 1732. He died July 16, 1740. In the language of Pres- bytery, "he was high in esteem for eir cumspection, diligence and faithfulness as a Christian minister." The Rev. Mr. Anderson married February, 1712-13,
Suit Garland, daughter of Sylvester Garland, of the Head of Apoquinimy. She died December 24, 1736. He
then married . Rachel Wilson, December 27, 1737. His son Garland Anderson married Jane, daughter of Peter Cheva- lier, of Philadelphia; but died early. His daughter Elizabeth married Samuel Breeze, resided in New York, and was a woman of great excellence. A brother of the Rev. Mr. Anderson was John An- derson of Perth Amboy, who in 1712 was made one of the Council of the Province of New Jersey He died in March, 1736, aged seventy three, being then Presidont of the Council.
REV. SAMUEL BLACK.
Samuel Black was a native of the north of Ireland, born about 1700. He studicd theology prior to his emigrating to Amer. iea, and was subsequently licensed by New Castle Presbytery. The Forks of Brandywine in Chester county was formed into a separate congregation in 1735, and in September same year, Done- gal Presbytery gave them leave to invite Black to preach as a candidate for settle- ment. He was called October 7th, and ordained November 18, 1735. A portion of his people preferred complaints against him September 2, 1740. This was just at the time of the extraordinary effects produced by the preaching of White- field. Most of the allegations were not sustained, but after a rebuke and suspension for a season, he was restored, and afterwards released from the pastoral relation. The new congregation of Cone- wago, between Middletown and Mount
Joy called him in October 1741, and he was installed the second Wednesday in May following. He made occasional visits to Virginia as a missionary, and was sent to Potomac in 1743. Diffieul- ties arose in his flock at Conewago and they asked to have the Rev. John Steel, who was supplying Conestoga, sent to them. North and South Mountain in Virginia (the former six miles west of Staunton) asked for him, March 6, 1745. He was dismissed from Conewago in April, but in the tall they sought to re- gain him. A division took placc. Those who left him obtained one fifth of the time of the Rev John Roan, pastor of the New Side churches of Paxtang and Derry. In 1747, he, with Revs. Thom- son and Craig was directed to take the oversight of the vacancies in Virginia. In 1751 he was directed to supply Buf- falo settlement and the adjacent places four Sabbaths. He took charge of the congregations of Rockport and Moun- tain Plain before 1752. He died August 9, 1770.
REV. RICHARD SANCKEY.
Richard Sanckey, a native of lhe North of Ireland, was born about 1712. He studied theology at Glasgow under Prin- cipal Stirling, and came to America in the summer of 1735. He was taken on trial by Donegal Presbytery the 7th of October, same year, licensed October 13, 1736, and sent to the church on Manada creek. This congregation is first men- tioned in October, 1735, Lazarus Stewart appcaring to supplicate in its behalf the next year? The Rev. William Bertram, of Derry, moderated the call which was brought to the Presbytery for Mr. Sanekey by John Cunningham and Robert Green, June 22, 1737. From that time onward the congregation is styled Hanover. Mr. Sanckey accepted August 31, 1737, but it appearing that his trial sermon was tran- seribed out of books to give a false idea of his ministerial powers, and contained most dangerous errors, the Presbytery rc - buked him and delayed his ordination. The Rev. George Gillespie remonstrated with the Synod not to countenance such levity especially as Mr. Sanckey had sent the notes to Henry Hunter "who had preached them to his own overthrow."
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Hunter had passed himself off as an or- dained minister of the New Light Pres- bytery of Antrim in the bounds of Lewes Presbytery, and the synod find-
ing his credentials of license genuine, but that
he had not been ordained, that he had been guilty of prevarication, and also that money had been given him to go to the Bishop of London for orders, resolved, nem. con., not to countenance him, especially as there was "ground to suspect his princi- ples," until he had gone through the or- dinary course of trials in some of their Presbyteries. He acquiesced; and com- ing before Newcastle Presbytery with notes stolen from heretical divines, he was rejected. The Synod blamed the Pres. bytery of Donegal for not taking notice in their minutes of Rev. Mr. Sanckcy's plagiarism, or censuring him on that ac- count, but as he had been sharply re- buked, and his ordination delayed a con- siderable time, they declined to lay any other burden on
him. He was ordained August 31, 1738. For a period of twenty-one years Mr Sanckey continued in the pastoral care of Hano. ver church. On June 6, 1758, having re- ceived a call to the congregation of Buf- falo, in Virginia, and designing to re- move there, he applied for and received his credentials from the Presbytery. Ac- companied by many of the Hanover peo- ple, he removed in 1760, where he joined the Hanover Presbytery, and served his congregation faithfully and well. He presided at the opening of the Synod of Virginia in 1785; lived to a good old age, respected by his people and his brethren in the ministry. We have endeavored to secure additional information in regard to him, date of his death, etc., but have failed.
W. H. E.
EVENTS AT HALIFAX IN 1824.
An Interesting Letter of 'Squire Davies.
[In a recent number of Notes and Queries we gave from the docket of John Davies, Esquire, a list of the marriages performed by him-while justice of the peace -and also a brief sketch of that schoolmaster of sixty years ago. Since then we have found the following, writ ten by him to Joseph B. Meetch, then a resident of St. Francois county, Missouri.
Although, as will appear, it was simply a friendly letter, yet its reference to several local occurrences transpiring in the neigh- borhood of Halifax induces us to tran- scribe the entire letter for our readers. ]
HALIFAX, June 19, 1824.
DEAR SIR :- I have the pleasure of ac- knowledging the receipt of your favor, dated 30th April, received last mail. I nced not inform you that your letter gave me exquisite satisfaction. The contents thereof were highly interesting, as it gave me much useful information of a country which I heretofore had but a very imperfect knowledge of : and it relieved me of a doubt which myself as well as your friends have had for some time, that is, that you had long since paid the debt we all owe to nature.
Before I proceed further, I must be the means of communicating what I am confident will give you a pang-your pious old mother is gone to reap the rewards of the faithful, and is now, without doubt, "where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary be at rest." Sbe died as she had lived, a Christian, leaving a bright testi- mony behind her, that your loss was her infinite gain She departed this lite two years ago last May. Your father is yet living but does not enjoy good health. He has had several severe spells since the death of your mother, and is now quite indisposed, though I believe not dangerous. Your brother-in-law, Thos. H. Trump is also deceased-he died of typhus fever last October. Your sister has lived with your father front some short time before your mother's death, and has been left with three children, one of which was born a short time after the death of her husband. Your father and several of your sisters have embraced religion, and become pious members of the Methodist church.
Since the death of your mother, your brothers John and Benjamin have farmed your father's place until the last spring. John is now working at his trade in Mil- ton, Northumberland county. Benjamin is at home, but in very bad health. Your father has rented out his mansion place and farms the back place himself. Of your brother Daniel I can give no ac- count. Since you left this there has not
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been the most remote account of him. It is supposed that he is dead also.
Since you left us many of your old friends and acqaintances have gone to that country "from whence no traveler returns." The following are some with whom you were acquainted; Old Nich's Boyer, Philip Shepherd, Adam Swigart and wife, Wm. Noblet and wife, Adam Wilt, Robert Peat, Theodore Burr, Henry Long, (hatter, ) old Michael Bower and John Bower. As the death of John Bower was rather a tragical one, I shall attempt a more minute detail. Last August in one of his usual ine- briating fracases, he agreed to ride a race on the unfortunate race ground, where a few years since a friend of your own was killed. Poor Bower had scarcely mounted his favorite horse Barney, when he became affrighted, consequently un- manageable, ran off, came in contact with a tree, and at, or nearly at, the place where Brubaker was killed, instantaneously on the spot. Lis brains were dashed out, and his scull and head smashed in the most shocking nian- ner. He has left a helpless family, and his property in a highly embarrassed situ- ation. Among other misfortunes and casualties permit me to mention my own. Last November was a year, I unfortu- nately broke my leg. Dr. Dorrance set it, or attempted to set it, but through igno- rance failed in the attempt. After suf- fering the most excruiting pain for ten weeks, I was compelled to send to Harris- burg for a Doctor, and undergo a second operation. I was confined to my bed for four months, and am yet a cripple.
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