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Brother :
We, the Nanticokes, and Conoys have wiped away all the grief from the eyes of our great warrior Seneca George. We show you this belt, wherewith we joined you in wiping his eyes.
Brother :
Last fall, Sir Wm. Johnson and all the Governors kindled a coun- cil fire at Fort Stanwix. They sent for all his Indian brethren, as far as Allegheny, to meet at this council fire. It was his business when they met to find provision for them, and he did so. But they killed one six years old steer for me, and I have had no satisfaction for it .- If you think proper to consider this matter and allow me satisfaction, I shall think well of it.
Brother :
To-morrow I intend to leave you. I was in hopes you would send me a squaw to me to warm me at night. Perhaps you have one to keep you warm ; but as you did not send me one, I must go home to my own as fast as I can. But you know the custom is, that you must give me a little bread to eat on the way,
Col. Francis then spoke as follows;
Brothers, Seneca George, Last Night, and all you my brethren :
I am really rejoiced to hear all the good things you have said, and to find that the governor's message to you with his small present of goods, have wiped away all the tears from your eyes, and confirmed in your hearts the old friendship and good will you have your brothers, the English. All who are present with me rejoice on the same account. You see I have caused to be written down on paper all the good things you have said, that I may send them directly to the governor, who will put them in his heart and remember them the first time you speak together.
Brother :
As to what you say about a squaw, I have really none here. We keep all ours in Philadelphia, and we are as desirous to get home as you are. I am sorry that we have so little provisions here ; but you shall, this very evening, have all that I can get for you. I will kill one of our best cattle for you. I will send you all the flour I have left to make cakes on your way, and I will give some powder and shot to your young men to kill a little deer to eat with your cakes as you go along. I shall likewise send you a little walking stick (the Indian phrase for rum) and I am sorry I cannot make it long enough for a setting pole;
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but really our rum keys begin to run very low-however, I will make the stick as long and strong as I can. Brother Last Night, I will con- sider'what you say about your steer, and look what there is in my purse when I go home to my lodgings from this council fire.
Col. Francis having finished the above which was received with great cheerfulness and many signs of approbation by the Indians, Mr. Frederick Weiser desired Col. Francis that he would be pleased to de- liver the folowing short speech to Seneca George :
Brother Seneca George :
Now the business of the Governor is finished-the son of your old brother and friend, Conrad Weiser, desires me to speak a few words to you.' Myself and all the children of Conrad have had great grief and many tears for the unhappy death of your son, and our tears have run down our cheeks in greater abundance, because a cousin of ours, the sister's son of our father Conrad has been suspected of the mischief. He is soon to be tried by the English laws, and if he should be proved guilty, which we hope he may not be, we are willing he should suffer the same punishment as if he had committed the crime against a white man.
Brother :
This matter has grieved and surprised us greatly, for neither the man who is said to have done this, nor any of our family, have ever had any difference with our Indian brethren, and time will show whe- ther this man is guilty or not; and as we do not wish to screen him from justice, we desire you will not entertain in your hearts any ill will against any of the family or children of our old friend and broth- er, Conrad Weiser, on account of this one man, who, if he is guilty, must have been carried away by a very evil spirit towards the Indians, and different from the spirit of all his family. As a mark of our love to you, I, who am the eldest son of your old friend Conrad Weiser, de. sire you will accept this small present from his family, to wipe all tears from your eyes.
A present from Mr. Weiser.
Seneca George having sat after this speech ihree or four minutes in a deep silence, with his eyes fixed on the ground, and tears visibly flowing from them, got up and spoke as follows :
Brother :
I have really been pleased with what the governor has spoken by you, Col. Francis, for making up this sad affair. Now, as to what has been said by the son of Conrad Weiser, I am glad to see one of his sons, and to hear him mention a little of the old friendship and love that was between us and our brother, his father. Yes, old Conrad was in- deed my brother and friend. He was a counsellor of the Six Nations, and knew all that passed between them, or was in their hearts. I am very glad the tears have flowed from the eyes of his children, as they have done from mine, on account of this unhappy affair, which has certainly been a great grief to me : for, he that is lost, was a son that lay near to my heart. He was all the child that I had; and now I am old, and the loss of him has almost entire y cut away my heart. But I am yet pleased my brother Weiser, the son of my old friend, has taken
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this method to dry my tears. I assure my brother Weiser, this matter shall be remembered no more against his family to their hurt, but I will look upon it that an evil spirit got into the mind of the person who did it.
All the while Seneca George was delivering the above, he kept ad- vancing still nearer and nearer to the table where Col. Francis, Mr. Weiser, and the other gentlemen sat, and his action and whole beha- vior was surprisingly great. That part especially where he spoke of his son, wasunderstood, even before interpreted, by the tone and man- ner in which it was delivered. When he came to the last part, where he declared he had no ill will to the family of the Weiser's, he sprang forward with a noble air of forgiveness ; and shaking Mr. Weiser by the hand, I have, said he, no ill will to you, Mr. Weiser ; nor to yon, Col. Francis ; nor any to you, father, (meaning Dr. Smith) ; nor any to you, (meaning Mr. Stewart); and shaking every one by the hand, then spreading out his arms, and turning quite round to all the com- pany ; nor have I any iil will to any of you, my brothers, the English.
That manly spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation which Seneca George showed on this occasion, by his looks and gestures, and whole action, made some of them at the table cry out, as he ran up, holding out his hand to them, " This is noble ;" for here his speech stood in need of no interpreter.
A conference with the Delawares, inhabiting the Big Island and West Branch of Susquehanna.
During the conference with Seneca George and his friends, Colonel Francis had great uneasiness on account of the Delaware chief Newa- leeka, and about 42 of his friends, who had come down the West Branch on a rumor that there was to be a general treaty at Shamokin, and that the governor was to be there.
The Nanticokes and Conoys refused to admit them into the confer- ence, and said they had no business with it, while the others complained that they had waited many days last past of their hunting season, and were now starving for hunger.
Col. Francis sent Isaac Still to bring three or four of their chiefs to a private conference; who being come, told him that since they could not see the governor, nor hear from him, they intended to proceed to Ohio. Col. Francis told them the governor was not at Philadelphia, but gone on a long journey, but that he would carry any message they had to the governor, and that they might not be wholly disappointed, he would give them some provisions and a little " Walking Stick," to help them back to their hunting-place.
The Chief then desired Col. Francis to carry this message, viz :
That they would return home and hunt awhile a few skins to make a pair of breeches for the governor, which they would bring down in the fall, to have a talk with him according to an old custom, for they now longed to see him, and had many things to say.
It was then found necessary to give them some flour, &c., and to get them away as well pleased as possible, for the inhabitants became apprehensive that they would kill cattle or do some hurt, for want of provisions, and on account of their disappointment in their journey .- Prov. Rec. U. p. 70-73.
CHAPTER XV.
DAUPHIN COUNTY.
Preliminary remarks --- Erection of counties --- Dauphin separated from Lancaster county --- Original extent and boundary of Lancaster --- Er- ection of townships within the limits of Dauphin and Lebanon, viz : Peshtank or Paxton, Lebanon, Derry, &c. Names of taxables of 1750, or of early settlers --- Miscellaneous-Hanover township erect- ed ; early settlers in.
As early as 1682, three counties were organized in the Province of Pennsylvania, viz : Philadelphia, Buch and Chester. In 1729, Lancaster county was erected; and it then comprised all the territory west and north of Chester county, between the Schuylkill, north of the boundary line of Chester and the Susquehanna, and all west of the Sus- quehanna. Lancaster county was gradually reduced ; first by the separation of York county, in August, 1749; Cum- berland in 1750, Berks in 1752, Northumberland, which was erected out of parts of Lancaster, Cumberland, Berks, Bed- ford and Northumberland, in 1772 ; and by the organization of Dauphin county, which was separated from Lancaster, by the acts of March 4th 1785, and by erecting Lebanon in 1813, formed out of parts of Lancaster and Dauphin.
The extent and boundary of Lancaster, at the time of its organization is given, in the following extract from the Pro- vincial Records.
" At a council held at Philadelphia, May 2d, 1729 : pre- sent, the Honorable Patrick Gordon, Esq., Lieut. Governor, Richard Hill, William Fishbourn, Clement Plumsted, Thos. Lawrence, and Samuel Hazel, Esqrs.
A return being made by the order of Council, dated the
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20th February last, for running a division line in the county of Chester, and settling the boundaries of the county to be erected in the back parts of this province towards Susque- hanna, pursuant to the minutes of council of the 20th of said February, the same was read, approved and confirmed, and is in these words :
Pursuant to a warrant from the Hon. Patrick Gordon, Esq. Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania, and counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex, upon Delaware, bearing date the 22d day of February last past (1729)-We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, met together, on the 17th day of March, 1728-29, near the head of the northern branch of Octoraro creek, and with the assistance of John Taylor, surveyor of the county of Chester, run a line from the said branch to the river Schuylkill, according to the courses following, viz : Beginning on a corner, marked white oak standing on the eastern side of the said branch, on the land of John Minshall, thence northeast by north, five hun- dred and eighty perches to a chestnut oak, standing on the top of a barren mountain, at the head of the branches of the said Octoraro creek, thence along the said mountain, north- east by east, three hundred and forty perches to a chestnut tree ; thence north, northeast, four hundred and forty per- ches to a white oak by a branch of Pequea creek, thence continuing the same course along the said mountain four hundred and eighty perches to a chestnut oak, thence north by east seven hundred perches to a white oak tree near a small branch of Brandywine creek, thence north by west six hundred and sixteen perches to a chestnut tree standing on the top of a mountain at the head of the western branch of said Brandywine creek, thence east northeast along the said mountain two thousand two hundred and twenty perches to a chestnut tree near the western branch of the French creek, thence northeast by east three hundred and fifty perches to a red oak, thence northeast one hundred and ninety perches to a chestnut oak, near another branch of the said French creek, thence northeast by north two thousand one hundred perches to a corner marked white oak, standing by the said river Schuylkill, about three quarters of a mile below the house of John Burroughs .- Signed
Henry Hayes, Samuel Hollingsworth, Philip Taylor, Eli- sha Gatchel, James James, John Wright, Tobias Hendricks,
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Samuel Blunston, Andrew Cornish, Thomas Edwards, John Musgrove.
And the upper parts of the province described as afore- said, are hereby declared to be erected, and are accordingly erected into a county by the name of LANCASTER COUNTY."
When Lancaster county was laid off from Chester, John Wright, who had settled on the present site of Colum- bia, some time in 1726, named it Lancaster, after the county Lancashire, England, where he came from in 1714. John Wright had first settled on his arrival in the Province, in the lower part of Chester county .- His. Lan. co. 240.
Soon after Lancaster had been organised, the magistrates, viz : John Wright, Tobias Hendricks, Samuel Blunston, An- drew Hornish, Thomas Edwards, Caleb Pierce, Thomas Reid and Samuel Jones, Esq., inhabitants of the county, met, to settle and agree upon the names and boundaries of townships. This meeting was held June 9th, and the Court confirmed the names and boundaries, at the August term of 1729. The names of the townships then organized, are Drumore, Sadsbury, Martock, Conestoga, Hempfield, Earl, Warwick, Manheim, Lancaster, Leacock, Lampeter, Salis- bury, Derry, Peshtank, and Lebanon.
The boundaries of the three last were as follows : Derry, the township of Derry, beginning at the mouth of Cone- wago, thence up Susquehanna to the mouth of Suataaro, thence up Suataaro to the mouth of Quetopohello, thence south on a direct line to Conewago, and down the same to the place of beginning.
PESHTANK-The township of Peshtank, beginning at the mouth of Suataaro, thence up the river to Kehtohtoning hill above Peter Allen's, thence eastward by the south side of said hill to the meridian of Quetopohello mouth, thence on a south course to the mouth of the same at Suataaro, and down Suataaro to the place of beginning.
LEBANON-Lebanon township, beginning under the afore- said hill, at the northeast corner of Peshtank, thence by the said hill easterly to the meridian of the west line of Tolpe- hockan manor, thence southerly and by the said line to the hills bounding Warwick township, thence by the said hills and township westerly to the corner of Derry and Conewa- go, thence northerly by Derry and Peshtank to the place of beginning.
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Derry township was divided prior to 1750 into the "West End of Derry," and the " East End of Derry." The names of taxables and early settlers in the East End in 1750, are the following, viz,: 1
James Semple, James McKee, Joseph Candor, Thomas Hall, James Clark, Randel Boo, John Allison, James Shaw, Robert Ramsey, James Russel, Thomas Boman, James Chambers, Hugh Carrithers, James Carrithers, Robert Brat- chey, Hugh Black, Thomas Black, David Black, Robert Chambers, James Long, David Campbel, James Ireland, Pat- rick Down, John Vanlier, Robert Carrithers, William Bradin, Charles Neely, Arthur Chambers, John Tice, John Laird, David Caldwell, Andrew Morrison, John Thomson, Alex. Robeson, John Nicom, John Kerr, William Blackburn, An- drew Lockert, David McNair, James Wiley, Christian Sad- dler, William Mitchel, Moses Wilson, Michael Howry, Mo- ses Patterson, James Russel, William Sterret, Robert Arm- strong, John Welsh.
The taxable and early settlers of the "East End of Der- ry," at the same period, were James Galbreath, Esq., James Wilson, James Campbell, James Walker, John Walker, H. Walker, John McCord, David McCord, William Robeson, Archibald Walker, David Tyler, John Orr, John Rinagel, William Wilson, James Miller, William Boyd, Robert Boyd, John Cosh, William Sayers, George Eby, David Mitchel, Leonard Denie, John McColloch, Charles Conway, David Shenk, David Kleim, Michael Hover, Honnes Palmer, Henry Peters, Hans Ketrin, Charles Clark, Thomas Mackey, An- drew Moore, James Foster, Robert McClure, Hugh Hall, Thomas Rutherford, William Rea, John McQueen, John Rea, Neal McCallester, Christian Schneider, Neal Daugherty, Thomas Logan, George Miller, John McCallester, Joseph White, John McClelland, Robert Mordeck, Moses Potts, Da- vid Jonson, Jacob Reif, Jacob Longnecker, Andrew Rowan, Hugh Hayes, Patrick Hayes, John Kerr, Duncan McDon- nell, Thomas Wilson, James Wilson, John Campbel, Mr. McClan, Mr. Sloan, John Maben, Patrick Kelly, James Dun- can, William Hays, John Foster, Robert Foster, David Fos- ter, Wilson Cooper, John Strean, John Cochran, Hans Adam Nei, Jacob Sailer, Hugh Miller, John Godfrey, Thomas Ai- ken, Anthony Hempel, Conrad Wisan, John McColloch, John Gingerich, William Miller, John Moor, John Hays, William
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Huston .- PESHTANK, was divided into the " West Side of Paxton," the " South End of Paxton," and the " Narrows of Paxton." The taxables and early settlers of the West Side, in 1750, were the following:
William Thorn, Hugh Montgomery, Robert Dugan, Tho- mas Sturgen, John Johnson, John Harris, James McNight, James Reed, James Armstrong, Robert Chambers, John Da- vis, James Harris, David Carson, William McCalley, Jaines Toland, Andrew Steen, John Cochran, Alexander Jonson, Thomas Foster, Esq. James Aiken, James Allcorn, Thomas Simson, James Polke, James Potts, George Gillespy, Alex- ander McCay, John Cavit, Andrew Caldwell, John Scott, Samuel Price, Patrick Gillespy, Jeremiah Sturgeon, Robert Montgomery, John Caldwell, Robert Smith, Jos. White, John Neal, John Dougherty, George Gabriel, John Carson, Sam- uel Hunter, John Daily, Samuel Simpson, Samuel Martin, Thomas McArther, James Colier, Thomas Larnar, Andrew Stuart, Samuel Campbell, Alexander Sanders, Robert Curry, Moses Wain, Jos. Ross, John Smith, James Thorn, William Armstrong, William Calhoun, Thomas_McCormick, John Wiggins, John Wiley, Andrew Cochran, Robert Potter, Wil- liam Thorn.
The taxables and early settlers of the South End, were William Kirkpatrick, Thomas King, Thomas Meays, Wil- liam Steel, Robert Tyler, Hugh Stuart, Peter Fleming, John Shields, Kennedy Kanix, John Gray, William Harris, Rich- ard McClure, John Wilson, Oliver Wiley, Samuel Galbreath, Martin Shults, David Shields, Moses Dickey, H. Mckinney, H. Seller, Valentine Starn, Thomas Dugan, Alexander Brown, James Lusk, John Means, Andrew Hanna, George Shiets, Timothy McNight, William Sharp, H. McElroy, John John- ston, Charles Gordon, John Montgomery, Timothy Shaw, Matthew Gordon, Andrew Huston, Samuel Woods, John Welsh, Alexander White, John Morrow, James McNight, Francis Jonson, James Wilson, William Dickey, Patrick Kinney.
Taxable and early settlersof the Narrows were John Kelton, Mr. Murray, Robert Armstrong, John Armstrong, Thomas Gas- ten, William Foster, Thomas Clark, John McKenne, Robert Clark, Thomas Adams, Halbert Adams, John Watt, George Clark, James Reed, James English, John Geven, James Bas-
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kins, Thomas McKee, Charles Williams, John Mitchell, John Lee, a trader.
At the August Court, 1729, at Lancaster, James Pattison, Edmond Cartlidge, Peter Chartier, John Lawrence, Jonas Davenport, Oliver Wallis, Patrick Boyd, Lazarus Lowry, William Dunlap, William Beswick, John Wilkins, Thomas Perrin, and John Harris, prayed to be recommended to the Governor to trade with the Indians. Their prayer was grant- ed, and they recommended.
March 5, 1730-ordered that Thomas Gardener, consta- ble of Pashtank, be allowed 18 pence. Taxes assessed in Paxton township for 1736, amounted to £22, 10, 7. For 1737, £21, 2, 10. Samuel Montgomery was collector this year. For the year 1738, £27, 0, 6. For 1739, £13, 5, 9-William McMullin, Collector. For 1740, £9, 13, 8- John Willson, collector.
October 30, 1739, the county commissioners agreed to hold an appeal, January 4th, 1739-40, at Thomas Lenix's, in Paxton, for the upper end of Lancaster.
January 8, 1744, the commissioners held an appeal at the house of John Harris, in the township of Paxton.
December 30, 1747, the commissioners again held an ap- peal at the house of John Harris .- Com. Book of Lancaster co. in Secretary's Office, Harrisburg.
At the February session, 1736-7, upon a petition of the inhabitants of Lancaster county, Hanover township was er- ected-divided on the west from Paxton to Beaver creek, from its mouth to the mountain, from Lebanon on the east, and Derry on the south by Suataaro creek, from Beaver mouth to the forks, thence by the north branch thereof to the mountain. Prior to 1750, Hanover township was divided into the " West End of Hanover" and the "East End of Hanover." The taxables and early settlers in 1750 of the West End, were the following ---
Joseph Rogers, Seth Rogers, Hugh Rogers, Samuel Ster- ret, Jas. McKoit, James Beard, Robert Porterfield, Mathew Thornton, William Rogers, William Thomson, Samuel Todd, George Jonson, John Brown, John McCavit, James McCav- it, Thomas French, James French, James Finney, Thomas Sharp, John Sharp, John Dobbins, Mr. McCowen, John Hill, Philip Robeson, James Brown, Willian Erwen, Samuel Bar- net, Alexander Montgomery, Thomas Bell, Samuel Robeson,
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James Riddle, Thomas McQuire, John McCord, Robert Houston, John Gamble, John Henry, Thomas McClure, Wil- liam Barnet, Andrew Wallace, Richard Jonston, Josias Wi- ley, John Snodey, John Cooper, Thomas Cooper, Francis McClure, Michael Neal, H. Hart, Robert Humes, James Robinson, James Rippert, Mathew Snodey, John McCormick, James Wilson, John Strean, Robert Park, Hugh Wilson, Jas. Wilson, Robert Wallace, Robert Snodgrass, Wm. Mc- Clenahan, David McClenahan, sen., Danl. Shaw, Samuel Stuart, Robert Love, William Laird, John Hutchinson, Sam- uel Young, James Finney, John McNealey, James McCon- nel, Thomas Russel, Charles McClure, John Woods, Andrew Woods, Matthew Tyler, Andrew Walker, Robert Martin, " James Wilson, George Miller, John Miller, John McClure, Patrick Gracy, William Cooper, Thomas Martin, John Stu- art, Thomas Robeson, James Wallace,/Michael Wallace.
The taxables and early settlers of the East End of Hano- ver, at the same period, were the following, though many of them would now fall within the limits of Lebanon county :
Jacob Musser, Peter Hettrich, Melchior Henry, Thomas Proner, Henry Bachman, Conrad Clatt, Anthony Rosebaum, Jacob Mosher, Esau Ricker, William Clark, John Sibbins, John Schwar, James Young, John Gilleland, Peter Hailman, Widow Work, Frederick Hoak, Jas. Sloan, Widow Gille- land, Jacob Sops, John Sops, Rudolph Hake, Joseph Hoof, Benj. Clark, Killion Mark, George Tittel, Isaac Williams, Adam Clannean, John Casnet, James Williams, Anthony Tit- tel, Dennis Keril, Mathias Boor, John Sloan, Daniel Ankel, William Young, Abraham Williams, James Clark, Martin Lichty, Adam Roth, Ludwig Shits, John Stewart, John Fos- ter, John Andrew, Walter McFarland, Joseph Brechtbill, William Robison, Philip Kolps, Onwal Jagel, Thomas Croil, Alexander Swan, Alexander Thomson, John Graham, Samu- el Ainsworth, John Martin, Barnet M'Night, Widow Brown, John Humes, Andrew M'Keehan, Thomas Brewster, John Thomson, James Graham, John Cunningham, William Cun- ningham, Christopher Sies, John Meyers, Patrick Brown, John Andrews, John Strein, Antony M'Crath, George Shet- ley, Walter Bell, Leonard Long, Adam M'Neely, John M'- Clure, John Henderson, William Woods, John Porterfield, Robert Haslet, John Crawford, William Watson, Henry Gantz, James Greenleaf, John Craig, Hugh M'Gowen, John
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Dickson, Joseph Willson, Adam Miller, Edward M'Murray Jacob M'Cormick, John Ramsey, James Stewart, Humphrey Cunningham, Robert Kirkwood, James M'Coorey, William Thomson, Thomas Strain, Mathias Plank, Jacob Steiner, William Stoner, James Todd, John Young, James Dixon, Robert Bryson, William Bryson, Daniel Andrew, David Ste- venson, William Cathcart, William Crosby, Benjamin Ains-' worth, Patrick Bowen, Adam Harper, Lazarus Stewart.
In noticing the remarkable incidents and leading events that transpired before the erection of Dauphin county in 1785, the writer does not confine himself to the present limits of the county, but embraces those that happened within the limits of Lancaster, north of the present southern boundary of Dau- phin county. The same course will be pursued in the history of Cumberland and the other counties.
CHAPTER XVI.
DAUPHIN COUNTY ESTABLISHED, &c.
Dauphin county erected and named-Boundary in 1785-Reduction of, in 1813-Present boundary-Variety of geological features-Geology of-Acres of land in-Productions-Live stock-Cereal grains, &c., &c .- General statistics-Synopsis of the census of 1840-Descrip- tion of streams-Public improvements, &c.
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