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BRICKS FROM ENGLAND .- Every now and then when reference is made to some old historic mansion, we are informed that the bricks were brought from Eng- land. This is in keeping with much of our traditionary history and is simply ridiculous. Before Philadelphia was
founded, bricks were made within twenty miles of that metropolis-and why, if this was the case, should bricks be im- ported from England at a period when there was a demand for the shipping of freight. One or two houses in this lo. cality, notably the Carson house, now the residence of Col. L. N. Ott, it is stated, were built of these English bricks. As bricks-good bricks-were made at Middletown before the erection of these dwellings, it is more than probable that the early settlers on the Swatara manu- factured those English bricks.
NICK NAMES FOR STATES -In answer to a query sent us, we give the following- as the appelations to certain Statcs, with - out entering into an explanation as to the- origin of the nick name :
Pennsylvania-Keystone State.
Virginia-Old Dominion.
Massachusetts-Bay State.
Delaware-Blue Hen's Chickens.
Maine-Border State.
Rhode Island-Little Rhody.
New York-Empire State.
New Hampshire-Granite State.
Vermont-Green Mountain.
Connecticut-Nutmeg.
North Carolina-Old North.
Ohio-Buckeye.
South Carolina-Palmetto.
Kentucky-Cora«cracker.
Missouri-Puke.
Indiana-Hoosier.
Illinois-Sucker.
Iowa -Hawkeye.
Michigan-Wolverine.
Wisconsin-Badger.
Texas-Lone Star.
California-Golden.
Colorado-Centennial
Who can furnish us with those of the other States, and the origin of the same ?'
MIDDLETOWN AND HARRISBURG IN 1797.
[In the July number of the "Pennsyl- vania Magazine of History and Biogra- phy" is an interesting journal of the Moravian missionary, Heckewelder, who, in company with 'William Henry, John Rothrock and Christian Clewell, made a visit to Gnadenhutten, on the Muskin- gum, in the summer of 1797. They
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passed through Middletown and Harris- burg on the way westward, and, on their return, through the latter place. We copy that portion which relates to this locality. ]
[April 23d. ] "Arrived at a seasona. ble hour in Middletown, where we re. mained over night. Middletown is an attractive village, having the Susque- hanna on the West side and on the East the Big Swatara creek, which flows into it about a mile below the village. The Square and the cross streets are in good condition, and the streets running North and South are mostly built up. The houses are built of limestone or brick- the majority, however, are frame or log houses.
"On the morning of the 24th, we made an early start, and notwithstanding the rain, had good roads to Chambers' Ferry, where we took breakfast and then crossed the Susquehanna. A half hour is neces- sary to cross this beautiful river, and while doing so, we had a fine view of Harrisburg, situated on the river, about 2} miles to the north of us. The country from Middletown to the ferry is very pleasing and exhibits some fine farms."
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[July 17th ]. "On the next day, after we had our saddles and various other things repaired, we started from Carlisle at 11 o'clock. crossed the Susquehanna and reached Harrisburg, where we spent the night with Mr. Ott. This town has many fine houses, and its situation is advantageous to trade, but is not very healthy on account of the marshy bottoms on Paxtang creek which flows near the town. On the 18th we left Harrisburg at sunrise, arrived in good time at Hummelstown and breakfasted with Mr. Fox. From here we passed through Palmstown and Millerstown to Lebanon."
[The Mr. Ott with whom our travelers spent the night at Harrisburg, on their return from the Ohio country, was Nicholas Ott, senior, who kept the ferry house corner of Vine and Paxton streets. He died in January, 1800. His widow Mary, and son Nicholas. kept the inn for a number of years. Nicholas Ott, the younger, died suddenly about ten miles east of Womelsdorf, on the 5th of
November, 1832, buried there, but sub- sequently disinterred and brought to Harrisburg, where he was again buried on the 13th. His age was fifty years. His wife Margaret, had previously de. ceased in April, 1823. aged thirty six years. Of their daughters, Eliza Kis- secker m. Jacob Dock, of Philadelphia and Maria m. Jacob Baker,
of Louisiana. Of their sons, George is yet living, residing with his widowed sister, Mrs. Baker, near New Orleans; David Kissecker lives in Ly- coming county, this State, while Leander N. is our very worthy fellow citizen, member of the Dauphin county bar, residing in Susquehanna township. * * * * * Mr. Fox, of Hummelstown, was John Fox, Sen., who died May 11, 1816, at Hummelstown, at an advanced age. He was the ancestor of the family in that locality, and in the early history of the county of Dauphin, was a leading and representative man. ]
CAPT. JOHN SIMPSON'S NEIGHBORS, 1776.
[I have before me an account book of my grand father, John Simpson, opened Jan. 1st, 1776, to which many names and accounts appear to have been transferred from an older book. As these names may be of use to you in your histo:ical researches, I have transcribed them be- low. J. S. A. }
Thomas Sturgeon, James Murray,
John Murray, John Bell, Sen'r.,
John Bell, Jr., Isaac Bell,
Thomas Gallagher, Peter Corbett,
Thomas Forster,
Samuel Pogue,
John Cochran,
John Elder,
Charles Stewart,
Cornelius Frey,
John Finlay, Robt Armstrong, Sr.,
Robt. Armstrong, Jr., John Meetch,
Richard Johnson, Michael Yincal,
Alexr. Givens,
Adam Miers,
Henry Mieis,
Robt. McCord,
John Ryen,
John Tice,
John Colligan,
Joseph Colligan,
Jacob Hyman, Alexander Galley,
Samuel Cochran, Patrick Sufferin,
Patrick Marlin, John Bolland,
Robert Smith, John Moore,
Hugh Stephen,
Andrew Stephen,
John Garber,
William Ayres,
James Smith,
John Gowdy,
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Robt. McGill,
Robt. Goudy,
Moses Lockart,
John Brown,
William Smith,
William Boyer.
Peter Brown,
Jacob Tinturf,
Robt. Montgomery, John Cramer,
Martin Fridlay,
Peter Fridlay,
Joseph Brown,
Dauiel Barton,
George Gartner,
Lodwick Minsker,
David Allison,
Martha Simpson,
John Clark, John McFadion.
Other names occur later as follows :
George Bell, 1783.
William Forster, 1784.
Stephen Forster, 1787.
Arthur Bell, 1786.
Andrew Bell, 1782.
Peter Sturgeon, 1783.
Casper Dull, 1784.
James Watt, 1783.
William Clark, 1786.
John Wright, 1785.
Barefoot Brunson, 1783.
William Foulk, 1783
Laughlin McNeil, 1787.
John Thomas, 1784.
John Ayres, 1784.
Adam Cressman, 1786.
Patrick Lafferty, 1778.
Thomas Kennedy, 1786.
John Duncan, 1784
George Strow, 1784.
In Nov. 1783, is the following charge:
"To a hoop for a shaft, wt. 133 1b, laying a gudgeon-his iron-dressing the N-t and making a band for a shaft-his iron, £1 7s 3d." This is against "John Garber" who, I suppose, was the owner of the mill where the election was held Sth July, 1776. There are many "gaps" in the charges in the accounts. Few charges are made in the year 1776; 1777 is almost wholly wanting; a few are found in January to March, 1778; 1779 is almost blank; 1780 and 1781 ditto. From March, 1783, entries are regular for 12 or 15 years. These "gaps" indicate his ab- sence from his shop (he was a black- smith), and he was probably oftener in the Continental Army than I have any account of.
RECORDS OF BINDNAGLE CHURCH.
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ELIZABETH FERNSLER, d. March 10, 1797, aged 8 weeks, 3 days; text, Romans viii:18.
JOHN SICHLER, b. July 18, 1793, son of John Sichler and wife Susanna; spon. sors at bap. Christian Oehrley and wife Catharine; d. Aug. 23, 1797, of dysentery.
CHARLOTTE GRUBER, b. June 5, 1795, dau. of Ludwig Gruber; d. Sept. 12,1797, of dysentery.
ROSINE WILHELM, dau. of Abraham Wilhelm; d. 1798 of small pox, aged 12: years.
MARGARET SPRECHER, b. Jan. 29, 1791, dau. of George Sprecher; d. April 14, 1798, of small pox.
HENRY NYE, b. July 22, 1797; son of Peter Nye; sponsor John Snoke; d. April 17, 1798, of small pox.
GEORGE DEININGER, b. Nov. 1, 1790; son of Michael Deininger; d. April 25, 1798, of small pox.
DAVID DEININGER, b. Feb. 17, 1797, son of Michael Deininger; d. May 21, 1798, of small pox.
ELIZABETH BAUMAN, b. Aug. 7, 1796; dau. of Jacob and Catharine Bauman; sponsors, Michael Zeller and Anna Mary Wilen; d. May 14, 1798, of small pox.
GEORGE KILLINGER, b. Dec. 12, 1794, son of Peter Killinger; sponsors Thomas Oehrley and wife; burned to death May 14, 1798.
JOHN PALM, b. July 25, 1713, at the cloister of Heilbron, in the Kingdom of Wurtemberg, Germany. He was bap. tized and confirmed in the Lutheran church; m. first, in Germany and was blessed with one son; emigrated to America in 1749; m. secondly, Salome Fenger and was blessed with eight chil- dren; she d. in 1764. He m. thirdly widow Elizabeth Kleim and with her he was blessed with one child. He d April. 25, 1799, and was the founder of the village of "Palmstettle" [Palmyra, Leb. Co., Pa. ]
ROSINE HEMPERLY, b. March 3, 1764,. m. 1787, m. Michael Palm; d. April 25, 1799, in child birth, leaving issue seven children.
BARBARA DEININGER, b. 1723, at Aich- holz near Hall, Wurtemberg, Germany ;. emigrated to America with her parents in her eighth year; d. in 1800 aged 76 years and 7 months, of inflamation of the bowels.
JOHN HICKS, b. Aug. 18, 1799, sponsor John Romich; d. aged 11 m.
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NICHOLAS NYE b. June 6, 1742, in Ger- many; emigrated to America with his parents in his eighth year; m. in 1770, Eve Rudisil, lived with her 30 years and was blessed with six sons and six daughters, of whom nine are living; d. Nov., 1800, of suffering on his breast connected with a cough; his sickness was of long dura- tion.
JOHN MALVIER (Maulfair), b. Dec 23, 1796, son of John and Margaret Maul- fair; sponsors at bap. Conrad Meyer and wife; d. of headache, aged four years less five days.
EVE CATHARINE ZIEGLER, b. Aug. 10, 1781; dau. of Peter and Anna Maria Jetter (possibly Etter), d. June 1, 1800.
JOHN ZIEGLER, d. Nov., 2. 1800.
MARY BARTO, b. Aug., 1763; dau. of Jacob Schumacher; m. first Henry Rauch, m. secondly, Anthony Barto.
JOHN FUCHS (Fox), b. 1769; son of Peter Fox; m. 1793, Susanna Vollmer (Walmer); d. March, 1801.
CATHARINE DOLL, b. March 13, 1772; m. March 7, 1789, Lenhart Doll; sponsor at bap., John Cassell; d. July 11, 1801.
HENRY KISSNER, b. April 26, 1772; d. Dec., 1801.
HENRY LANART, (?) b. 1743; d. Dec., 1801.
ADAM KRAMER, b. 1767; m. 1793, Bar- bara Biel; d. May, 1802.
JOHN NICHOLAS GOETZ, b. June 22, 1736; emigrated to America in 1775; son of Jacob and Apolonia Goetz; m. March, 1775, Barbara Mechlin; d. aged 66 years, 7 months and 10 days.
EVE EMMET, (?) b. May 19, 1784; dau. of Andrew and Elizabeth Emmet; d. aged 19 years, 2 months and 6 days.
CHRISTIAN OEHRLEY (Early), b. Jan. 13, 1754; son ot John and Susannah Early : m. 1779, Elizabeth Killinger: God blessed them with fourteen children ; d. aged 49 years, 7 months and 10 days.
ANN MARY LAUDERMILCH, b. 1739, at Muehlbach; dau. of Michael Nest, m., in her 26th year, to Jacob Laudermilch; she was a widow 32 years; d. 1803.
JACOB KIEFER, b. May 6, 1717, at Gersdorf, Alsace, France; m. first in Ger- many and lived in matrimony nine years, when he emigrated to America in 1750; m. secondly Catharine Altman; he d. August, 1804.
SUSAN FERNSLER, b. October 14, 1771; dau. of Joseph Carmany; m. 1791 Peter Fernsler; d. in confinement aged 32 years and 5 months.
ANNA BARBARA GOETZ, b. December 25, 1737, at Goshenhoppen ; dau of Thomas Kohr; m. first Peter Mechlin and was blessed with 3 children; he d. in 1766; m. secondly in 1774 Nicholas Goetz; d. aged 66 years, 8 months and 19 days.
WILLIAM NYE, b. Aug. 19, 1746, in Germany; son of Adam and Elizabeth Nye; m. April 18, 1769, Julianna Ferns. ler. He d. Jan. 1805.
JOHN ADAM DEININGER, h. April 23, 1722, in the kingdom of Wurtemberg, Germany; emigrated to America in the year 1732; baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith in his 26th year; he m. Rosina Diller; she d. in 1780, leaving him eight children. He m., secondly, Widow Elizabeth Nest; d. aged 80 years, 10 months less 7 days.
DORATHEA SPRECHER, b. Aug. 5,1726, in Mertzweiler, Baurischen Pfalz, Ger- many : dau. of . Schalles: emigrated to America in her 14th year; confirmed in the Lutheran faith at the age of twenty years; m. first in 1747, William Blecher; m. secondly in 1759, Jacob Sprecher; d. aged 78 years, 7 months and 12 days.
ADAM REDIG, (?) b. March 17, 1790, son of Adam Redig; sponsor at bap. Adam Weber and wife; d. Sept., 1805.
ELIZABETH RIES, b. July 21, 1773, dau. of Jacob Witzs (?); m. Daniel Ries; d. Mar. 1802.
MARIA JULIANNA HEMPERLY, b. Feb. 16, 1729, in Durlach, Baden, Germany; dau. of Michael and Eve Gassele (?); emigrated to America in her youth; m. first Jacob Bauman; m. secondly An- tony Hemperly ; died Sept. 1, 1802.
MICHAEL ZIMMERMAN, b. May 1, 1725,
Durlach, Baden. Germany; son of John Michael and Mary Zimmerman; he emigrated to America in his 25th year; m. March 15, 1750, Eve Koenig, with whom he lived for 55 years, and was blessed with eight children. He was one of the first members and establishers of the German Lutheran church on the banks of the Swatara, below the mouth of the Quitopahilla creek. He served almost constantly in the church councils. After a long illness he died April 1, 1805.
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EVE CARMANY. b. Oct. 16, 1738, in the kingdom of Wurtemberg, Germany; emigrated to America in her youth with her parents; dau. of Andrew and Eve Frey; m. in her 20th year Joseph Car- many and was blessed with ten children; she d. May 21, 1805.
MICHAEL DEININGER, b. Nov. 18, 1763, son of John Adam and Rosine Deininger; m first, April 21, 1788, Anna Mary Killinger; she d Oct. 1802; m., secondly Eve Ny9. He died at the age of 41 years, 8 months and 8 days
JACOB BIELY, b. Feb 20, 1803; son of Adam and Elizabeth Biely; d. aged 2 years, 8 months and 10 days.
DANIEL HUFNAGLE, b. Aug. 12, 1803, son of Daniel Hufnagle, d. aged 3 years, 3 months and 3 days,
CONRAD WOERTH. b. at Woelstein, Germany; d. Nov. 17, 1824
BENJAMIN OEHRLEY (Early ), d. May 5, 1827, at Gettysburg while attending the Theological seminary; buried at Bind nagle's May 8.1827.
GOTTFRIED WEBER, d May 9, 1827. EVE CHRISTINA CARMANY b. March 12, 1785; d Aug. 15, 1841.
ELIZABETHI LEVY b. March 1, 1768; , 1784, Jacob Levy: d. Jan. 31, 1842. MARGARET PEW (widow), b. Nov., 1767; d. March 27, 1843.
ELIZABETH RICKERT (widow), b.1767; d. Sept. 22, 1843
ADAM BIELY, b. 1763; d. Nov. 6, 1843. JACOB LENTZ, b. June 7. 1759; m. Elizabeth Uhrich; was a soldier in the Revolutionary war; d. March 23, 1845.
ANNA BARBARA SCHEURER, b. Nov. 21, 1784, in Dauphin Co., Pa .; d. Aug. 26, 1847.
MARGARET THOMAS, b. Dec. 8, 1759, in Hanover township; dau. of Jacob Sprecher; d. Oct 28, 1847.
EVE SCHNOOK (Snoke), b. Jan. 26, 1794; dau. of John Snoke; d. March 3, 1848.
MARIA BARBARA GUNDRUM, b. July 25, 1781; dau of John Gundrum; d. March 22, 1848.
WIDOW HURST, b. January 17, 1780; dau. of Gebhardt Zeible: lived with John Hurst in matrimony 44 years; d. March 28, 1848.
MARGARET NYE, b. March 12, 1772; dau of Nicholas _ ye; baptized and con .
firmed a member of the Lutheran church was the mother of two illegitimate chil. dren; d. Feb. 20, 1849.
ANNA MARIA ZIMMERMAN, b. May 24, 1770; dau. of Peter Yoeter; m. July 11, 1792, Gottfried Zimmerman; d. Feb. 8, 1849.
SUSANNA ELIZABETH MEYER, b. Nov. 9, 1776, in Heidelberg township, Lebanon county, Pa .; dau. of Henry Schrack; m. Henry Meyer; she d. Oct. 20, 1849
JACOB LONG, b. July 17. 1791; son of Martin Long; d. Nov. 23, 1849.
CHRISTIANA DEININGER, b. Sept. 19, 1764; dau of Michael Fernsler; m. Adam Deininger , d. Jan. 3, 1850.
GEORGE HEMPERLEY, b Sept. 20, 1797; son of Antony Hemperley; m. Anna M. Yingst; d. April 23, 1850. .
NOTES AND QUERIES.
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REEHM, WILLIAM -A correspondent requests information in regard to William Reehm and his descendants. Mr. Reehm resided in the vicinity of Harrisburg in 1820, but we have no other knowledge of him. Perchance some of our readers have.
"MINTY AND THE CAVALRY" is the title of a very interesting work relating to the Rebellion, by Capt. Joseph G. Vale, of Carlisle. It is principally a record of the Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, Col. George C. Wynkoop, com . manding, the title originating from the name of their last division commander, Brigadier General Robert H. G. Minty, of Detroit, who was colonel of the Fourth Michigan. With this command was the Harrisburg company, which went out with Charles C. Davis as captain. The story is well told, and is an important contribution to the hi tory of the war. "Our boys" should not fail to secure a copy of the work -- which is elegantly gotten up by the publishers-from Major Davis of our city, who we presume is agent for the book.
"GEORGE PHILIP DODDERER AND HIS DESCENDANTS," is a proposed family record by Henry S. Dotterer, of Phila- delphia. George Philip Dodderer came
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to America at least as early as the year 1722. He purchased, on the 22d of De- cember, 1722, a tract of one hundred acres of land, located on the right and left banks of Society Run, thirty-five miles north west of the cityof Philadelphia, in the territory afterwards erected into the township of Frederick, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county, Pennsylva- nia. Subsequently heacquired additional property in the sime locality. The Christian name of the wife of the immi. grant was Veronica. Their children were: Barbara, who married Jacob Markley; Michael; Hieronimus; Bern- hard; Anna, who married (first) Michael Zimmerman, and (second) Jacob Kærr; and Conrad. Their descendants have multiplied and spread over the several sections of the United States. The sur name has been subjected to many changes of spelling. Among the forms that have heen and are used by the different branches are Doderer, Dod- derer, Dotterer, Dottery, Dudderar, Dut- rer, Duttera, Dutterer, Dutrow, Dutro and Totheroh. George Philip Dodderer, the founder, was a worthy representative of that hardy German stock which, hy its unflagging industry and sterling integ- rity, contributed greatly to the growth and permanency of the colony planted by Penn. A pioneer, ne settled in the midst of the Indians, established a home in the wilderness, and reared a family. As new settlers came to the neighbor- hood he became a leading figure in the community. He fulfilled manfully his obligations to the State and ' performed faithfully his duties to the Church. In 1741 he died. Some of his descendants, in the six succeeding gencrations, have done good work, deserving of record and preservation for the emulation of those now on the stage of action and their posterity. The editor is one of our most earnest and painstaking authors, and if this paragraph meets the eye of any person who can furnish information, it will he gladly received.
THE LAST ELDER OF OLD DERRY. Death of David Mitchell at Piqua, O.
We have recently received the follow. ing memorial of David Mitchell Esq., of
Piqua, Ohio, by his pastor. Rev. A. N. Carson, of that placc. In addition to the facts herc given, it may be stated that the ancestors of David Mitchell were early settlers in Derry, and among the tomb- stones in the old graveyard may be found quite a number of the family-perchance four or five generations. The subject of the sketch was an Elder in the church there from 1823 to his removal in 1839, and for threc terms represented Lebanon county in the Legislature, from 1831 to 1834, his residence being a little over the line in Londonderry township, that county. He was the last survivor, not only of that hand of Pres. byterians who worshipped on Spring Creek, but also, at the time of hisdecease the oldest surviving member of the Leg- islature of 1831. Here is the tribute to a good and worthy man :
David Mitchell was born in Dauphin, now Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, January 30, 1792; died at the residence of his son-in-law, Henry Muchmore, on High street, Piqua, Ohio, May 11, 1886, aged 94 years, 4 months and 11 days. At the age of about 23 years he was mar- ried to Mary Porter, near his old home, with whom he lived for more than 64 years. He at once went to the home of his parents after his marriage and made it his duty to care for them in their de- clining years as well as to provide for his own growing family. He
commenced his home as a Christian man, and for 80 years never failed in his devo- tions to Christ and His Church. In April, 1839, he with his family moved to what was then called the small village of Piqua, and in the spring of 1852 moved into the town, and has since resided in this city, interested in its growth and de- velopment all these years. And now, after 64 years of married life, 94 years of earthly existence past, as the buds of spring were opening with new life and beauty, this aged man of God fell asleep in Jesus and has gone to his reward. Six of the twelve children born to him remained to hury the father "as they buried the mother at the age of 85 years. Father Mitchell was more than an ordi- nary man, three times representing his county in the Legislature in the State of Pennsylvania, and serving the Master as
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a humble, devout follower for eighty years, the Presbyterian Church in its highest office (that of Ruling Elder) for seventy years-not always active, having for some years laid off the active duties of the office because of the infirmities of age. Few men were better posted in God's word and in the work of the church. A close student of the Bible up to his very last sickness, and always watching for his ernreh paper the Herald and Pres. byter eagerly reading to remember every - thing in it, even to the advertise ments, saying "these are legitimate or they would not occur in my church paper." It is a great treat to read many of the serap books which he has filled up during the last twenty five years of his life in which he gives his experience as God's ehild, always recording a new con- secration of himself to his Master and his service on each of his birthdays for the last twenty five. In like manner he re- corded his impressions of the sermons he had heard and of the prayer meetings attended, frequently making an ontline of the sermons followed by a comment or eritieism, speaking tenderly of his pas tors and uttering the deepest sympathy with them in their work. May God bless his memory to his church and his family and raise up many more to take his place ! C.
THE IRVINE FAMILY.
As preliminary to a genealogy of the Irvine Family, we give the following, which we find floating through the news- paper press :
The Irvine family of Pennsylvania were men of large brain, fine physique, impos- ing presence and of distinguished gal- lantry and bravery. General Irvine Mc. Dowell derived his first name from that family. Wm. Irvine was born in County Fermanagh, near Enniskillen, 1740; was appointed a surgeon in the British Navy. In 1763 he emigrated to America and set- tled in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he pursued his profession with great success and distinction until 1774, when he took a conspieuons part in the politics of Cum. berland county, from which he was ap. pointed one of its representatives in the provincial convention which sat in Phila- delphia in 1774. In January, 1776, he
was appointed colonel of the Sixth Bat- tallion, afterward the Seventh Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line.
On the 8th of March, 1782, he was ordered to Fort Pitt, in the Western De- partment, for which post he immediately marched with the Second Pennsylvania Regiment to protect the North western frontier, then threatened with British and Indian invasion. He was also engaged in alltying the troubles between the citizens of Pennsylvania and Virginia arising out of the disputed boundaries between those States. These great duties were performed with ability and in- tegrity.
In 1794 he was appointed with Andrew Ellieott to lay out the towns of Erie, Warren, Waterford and Franklin, in which service they were accompanied by a military escort under his command, as the Indians were then averse to the cession of that part of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the convention to form a Constitution for the State of Pennsylvania and was appointed Com- mander in Chief of the Pennsylvania troops to suppress the Whisky rebellion, and commissioner with Chief Justice McKean to treat with the insurgents.
About nine miles north from Ennis- killen, on the banks of Longh Eine, lies the little village of Irvinestown, of about 1,300 inhabitants, by some barbarously named Loutherstown. Some thirty years ago John Irvine, a justice of the peace and depnty lieutenant of the county of Fermanagh, lived here at the family seat, named Roekfield. Among the phy- sieians and surgeons of the village was Gerrard Irvine, and among its merchants was William Irvine. This was the house and these were the Irish representatives of the great American General and states- man, William Irvine. Far away, west from this ancestral house, in Warren county, lies the village of Irvine, named after General William Irvine, where his grandson, William A Irvine. now re- sides, the worthy representative of one of the most illustrions families of the United States, who takes an honest pride in his forefathers and in the old green sod from which they came.
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