THE REGISTER OF PENNSYLVANIA. DEVOTED TO THE PRESERVATION OF EVERY KIND OF USEFUL INFORMATION RESPECTING THE STATE. VOL. I. EDITED BY SAMUEL HAZARD, NO. 51, FILBERT STREET. NOTES Of the Early History of Germantown. [CONCLUDED FROM PAGE 284.] Reminiscenses. Old Mr. J. W. about the year 1720, purchased 500 acres of land at 2s. per acre, adjacent to where his descendant now lives; when he afterwards sold much of it at £3 per acre, he thought he was doing wonders-some of it has since been worth 200 dollars to 300 per acre. The price of labour in and about Germantown 60 years ago, was 3s. a day in summer, and 2s. 6. in winter. The price of hickory wood was 10s. to 11s. per cord, and oak was 8s. to 9s. Hickory now sells at $8, and oak at $6, and has been $2 higher. In 1738, a county tax was assessed of 14d. per pound on the city and county, (including Germantown) for "wolves and crows destroyed, and for assembly meir's wages" at 5s. per day. The blackbirds formerly were much more numerous than now; a gentleman mentioned to me that when he was a young man, he once killed at one shot, (with mustard seed shot) 119 birds which he got; some few of the wounded he did not get; they had alighted in an oat field after the harvest, and he was concealed in a near hedge and shot them as they rose on the wing; there was a law in 1700, made to give 3d. per dozen for the heads of black birds, to destroy them. A person, now 63 years of age, relates to me that he well remembers seeing colonies of Indians of 20 to 30 persons, often coming through the town and sitting down in Logan's woods, others on the present open field, S. E. of Lorain's place. They would then make their huts and stay a whole year at a time, and make and sell baskets, ladles, and tolerably good fiddles. He has seen them shoot birds and young squirrels there with their bows and arrows. Their huts were made of four upright saplins with crotch limbs at top. The sides and tops were of cedar bushes and branches. In these they lived in the severest winters; their fire was on the ground and in the middle of the area; at that time wild pigeons were very numerous, in flocks of a mile long, and it was very common to shoot 20 or 30 of them at a shot. They then caught rabbits and squirrels in snares. NO. 19% really pretty skilful; were both Ue Doctors, (according to the superstition then so prevalent in Europe) and were renowned also as conjurors. Then the cows and horses, and even children got strange diseases, and if it baffled ordinary medicines, or Indian cures and herbs; it was not unusual to consult those persons for relief, and their prescriptions which heated them, as resulting from witchcraft, always gave relief! Doctor Frailey dwelt in a one story house very ancient, now standing in the school house lane. On each side of his house, were lines of German poetry painted in oil colours (some of the marks are even visible now); those on one side have been recited to me, viz. Las neider neiden Las hasser hassen Was Gott, mier gibt Mus man mier lassen' Translated thus: Let the envious envy me An idea was very prevalent, especially near the Delaware and Schuylkill waters, that the pirates of Black Beard's day bad deposited treasure in the earth. The fancy was, that sometimes they killed a prisoner and interred him with it, to make his Ghost keep his visits there and guard it. Hence it was not rare to hear of persons having seen a sphoke or ghost, or of having dreamed of it a plurality of times, which became a strong incentive to dig there. To procure the aid of a professor in the black art was called Hexing; and Shronk in particular had great fame therein. He affected to use a diviner's rod (a witch-hazel); with a peculiar angle in it, which was supposed to be self-turned in the hands, when approached to any minerals; some use the same kind of rod now to feel for hidden waters, so as to dig for wells. The late Col. T. F. used to amuse himself much with the credulity of the people. He pretended he could Hex with a hazel rod, and often he has had superstitious persons to come and offer him shares in spoils, which they had seen a sphoke upon! he even wrote and printed a curious old play, to ridicule the thing. Describing the terror of a midnight fright in digging, he makes one of the party to tell his wife, "My dearest wife, in all my life 'Twas juste like tunder, mid de lightening." Mr. K. aged 78, and his wife nearly the same age, mentioned to me, that in their youthful days they used to feel themselves, as if at double or treble the distance they now do from Philadelphia, owing to the badness and loneliness of the roads; they then regarded a ride to the city as a serious affair. The road before it was turnpiked, was extremely clayey and mirey, and in some places, especially at Penn's Creek, there was a fearful quicksand. The superstition then was very great about Ghosts and Witches. "Old Shrunk," as he was called, (George S. who lived to be 80) was a great conjuror, and numerous persons from Philadelphia and elsewhere, and some even from Jersey, came often to him to find out stolen goods and to get their fortunes told. They believed he could make any thieves who came to steal from his orchard, "stand," if he saw them, even while they desired to run away. They used to consult him where to go and dig for money, and several persons, whose names I suppress, used to go and dig for hidden treasures, of nights. On such occasions if any one "spoke," while In those times the sleighing used to continue for 2 or digging, or ran, from "terror," without "the magic 3 months in the winter, and the pleasure parties from ring," previously made with incantation round the the city used to put up and have dances at old Mackplace, the whole influence of the "spell," was lost.-inett's tavern, where his son now lives. It was then Dr. De Witt, too, a sensible man, who owned and dwelt very common for sailors to come out in summer to have in the large house, since the Rev. Dr. Blair's, as well as old Mr. Frailey, who also acted as a physician, and was A copy of it is in the Athenæum library. frolics, or mirth and refreshments at the inns. The young men also made great amusement of shooting at a target. They used no wagons then in going to market, but the women usually went, and rode a horse with two paniers slung on each side of him. The women too carried baskets on their heads, and the men wheeled wheel-barrows--being six miles to market! Then the people, especially man and wife, rode to church, funerals and visits, both on one horse; the women sat on a pillion behind the man. Chairs or chaises were then unknown to them; none in that day ever dreamed to live to see such improvements and luxury as they now witness. The first carriage of the coach kind they ever saw or heard of belonged to judge Allen, who had his country seat at the present Mount Airy college; it was of the Phaeton or Landaw kind, having a seat in front for children, and was drawn by four black horses: he was of course a very opulent man, and a grandee in his generation. The country seats then were few. Penington had his country house where Chew's now stands, and the present kitchen-wings of Chew's house, sufficed for the simplicity of gentlemen of those days. Another country house was Shoemaker's, and is the same now forming the kitchen house, &c. of Mr. Duval's place, near his mansion house, built for Col. T. Forrest. In their early days, all the better kinds of houses had balconies in the front, in which, at the close of the day, it was common to see the women at most of the houses sitting and sewing or knitting; at that time the women went to their churches generally in short gowns and petticoats, and with check or white flaxen aprons. The young men had their heads shaved, and wore white caps; in summer they went without coats, wearing striped trowsers, and barefooted; the old Friends wore wigs. In their day every house was warmed in winter by "jamb stoves," and Mr. Sower of Germantown, (the printer) cast the first stoves thus used perhaps in the U. 8. They were cast at Lancaster; none of them are now up and in use; but many of the plates are often seen lying about the old houses as door steps, &c. A jamb stove was set in the chimney jamb, (or side) in the kitchen fire-place; it was made something like the box form of the present ten plate stoves, but without a pipe or oven, and it passed through the wall of the chimney back into the adjoining sitting-rooms, so as to present its back end (opposite the fire door) in that room. The plate used to be made sometimes red hot; but still it was but a poor means of giving out heat, and could not have answered but for their then hardy constitutions and the general smallness of their rooms in that day.Mr. K. told me that when he was about 13 years old, Betty Chandler of Burlington, then 82 years of age, used to visit his fathers house, and used to say she had seen Philadelphia before Penn and his colony came in 1682.She said it was a great place to gather blackberries and huckleberries; she said there was a great place for shooting wild ducks in a pond or marsh near where the old court house at Second and High street is; [no doubt alluding to that great low ground and deep pond which long within the memory of some of the present aged citizens existed, back of Christ's church and the Baptist meeting, and extending from Church Alley to Arch street. I have conversed with old men who remembered skaiting upon it 60 to 70 years ago, and when the present Reuben Haines, Esq. was building his store at 112 feet west from Second street, in his lot adjoining Christ church on the north side, he was obliged to dig 24 feet for a foundation, and at 14 feet deep he came to to an old subterrene horse stall.] Mr. K. remembers very well, that when he was a lad, there was yet a little company of Delaware Indians, (say 25 or 30 persons) then hutted and dwelling on the low grounds of Philip Kelly's manufactory ground. There • There were three or four earlier carriages in Philadelphia, viz. Norris, Logan, and Shippen. was then a wood there through all the low ground, which now forms his meadow ground and mill race course. Some of the old Indians died and were buried in Concord burying ground, adjoining Mr. Duval's place. After they were dead the younger Indians all moved off in a body, when Keyser was about 14 or 15 years of age. Indian Ben among them was celebrated as a great fidler, and every body was familiar with Indian ISAAC. In going to the city there was a thick woods on the south west side of the turnpike below Naglee's hill, (where Armat's house now stands, called Logan's swamp and woods. The road then went on the low ground to the south westward of said hill and house, at Penn's Creek, (or 3 mile run, now Albanus Logan's place) and at the opposite side of Norris's place began a deep lofty wood, which extended on both sides of the road nearly into the suburbs, and from thence the woods continued many miles up the Delaware. There was then no inlet into the city but by the Front street road. The Second and Third street were not then formed. On the 20th of October, 1746, a great public fair was held at Germantown. In 1762, the Paxton Boys from near Lancaster halted at the market square, preparatory to their intended invasion of Philadelphia, to kill the friendly Indians sheltered there; they yielded to negociation and went home there were several hundred of them. Rittenhouse, the celebrated philosopher, as well as Godfrey, the inventor of Hadley's quadrant, were of Germantown. The latter lies buried on the farm next to Roberts's mill. Captain Miller who was basely killed at Fort Washington, after its surrender, was of Germantown. The old road of Germantown continued in a line with the first bank of Germantown to the S. W. of the present; ran near the poor house, by S. Harveys, up through R. Haines's low lands, and came out by the Concord school house, by the Washington, or Abingdon lane.— Some of the logs now lie sound under ground, back of Justice Johnsons, on which the road runs by the swamp. The quantity of Indian arrow heads, spears, and hatchstill ploughed up in the fields are very great. I have ets, all of flint, and attached to wooden or wythe handles, seen some of a heap of 200 together, in a circle of the size of a bushel; some of them, strange to tell, are those taken from chalk beds and not at all like the flint of our country. The creek on which Wm. L. Fisher's mill stands is the head of Frankford Creek, and was called by the Indians Wingohocking. The creek at Albanus Logans called Penn's Creek, was called Tumanaxamaming, and goes out at the upper end of Kensington. Anthony Johnston, who died in 1923, aged 78, when a lad, saw a large bear come across the road in day time from Chew's ground, then a wood; he has seen abund ance of wild turkies, and has often heard the wolves howl at night near his fathers house; the one rebuilt at the corner of S. Harveys lane. The woods then came up near the house. He has seen several deer in the woods, but they were fast going off when he was young. Near that same house, when the old road passed in the swamp behind it, his father told him he once saw six wolves in day time. After James Logan's house was built, in 1728, at Stenton, a bear of large size came and leaped over the garden fence there. Jacob Keyser, now 68, tells me that he and others pursued and killed a small bear, about 50 years ago, on one of the backlots; it was however then matter of surprise and sport. Mr. Keyser remembers that a Mr. Axe, in his time, killed a bear on Samuel Johnson's place, not far from the Wissahiccon. Foxes and raccoons were then quite plenty. Only about 40 years ago a flock of six wild turkies came to Enoch Rittenhouse's mill, and remained about there till his family shot the whole of them; and last winter, (1822) they shot a lynx there. In 1721, a Bear was killed in Germantown, and so published, and two more nearer to Philadelphia. In the house where Reuben Haines now lives, built by Dirk Johnson, a chief and his 20 Indians have been sheltered and entertained. Anthony Johnson, when a boy, has seen near 200 Indians at a time on the present John Johnson's place, in a woods in the hollow adjoining to the wheelwrights shop. They would remain there a week at a time, and would make and sell baskets, ladles, fiddles, &c. He used to remain hours with them and see their feats of agility.They would go over fences without touching them, in nearly a horizontal attitude, and yet alight on their nimble feet. They would also do much at shooting of marks. One Edward Keimer imitated them so closely as to execute all their exploits. Beaver and beaver dams A. Johnson has often seen. 291 cans in the following order: Washington with the divisions of Sullivan and Wayne, flanked by Genl. Thomas Conway's brigade, entered the town by Chesnut Hill road. Genl. Armstrong with the Pennsylvania militia, attacked the left and rear, near Schuylkill. The division of Genls. Green and Stephens flanked by General M'Dougall's brigade, were to enter by taking a circuit at the market house, and attack the right wing, and the militia of Maryland and Jersey, under Gens. Smallwood and Freeman, were to march by the old York road and fall upon the rear of the right. General Sterling with Genls. Nash and Maxwell's brigade, formed a corps of reserve. Admirably as this attack was planned, it failed from those fortuitous events in warfare, over which General Washington had no possible control. Lieut. Col. Musgrave, of the British army, as the Americans advanced threw himself, with six companies of the 40th regiment, into Chew's large stone house which stood full in front of the main body of the Americans. Musgrave, before the battle, encamped back of Chew's house in The earliest settlers used to make good linens and excellent huts, and Col. Websters regiment, (33d) lay vend them in Philadelphia. They were also distinguish- back of John Johnson's in huts also; they were as regued, even till modern times, for their fabric of German-lar and neat as a town. General Read was for pushing town Stockings. This fact induced the bank of Germantown to adopt a seal, with such a loom upon it.The linen sellers and weavers used to stand with the goods for sale on the edge of the pavement in Market street, on the north side, near to Second street corner. The cheapness of imported stockings is now ruining their business. An obituary notice in the Gazette of the 6th of March, 1823, (we had two years ago a newspaper in Germantown) illustrates the former savage state of our woods, viz. "Samuel Jeffries died the 28th February, in the borough of West Chester, (only 17 miles from Philadelphia) in the 87th year of his age; he was one of the few who could remember so long back as the time when Deer were plenty in Chester county; when a hunter Occasionally killed a bear, and when a few of the native Indians still inhabited the original fields; he was followed to his grave by his brother, now aged 92. Professor Kalm, who visited Germantown in 1748, says: "The inhabitants were so numerous, that the street was always full." Old Mr. W. in 1718 or 20, shot a stout deer between Germantown and Philadelphia, and the rifle he used is now in possession of his grandson. John Seelig predicted mens' lives when requested, by the rules of nativities; and he had a mysterious cane or rod, which he commanded to be cast into the Schuylkill in his last sickness, and which, as the tradition goes, exploded therein! Kelpius too kept his diary by noting the signs of the Zodiac. Doctor Witt left all his property to strangers by the name of Warmer, saying, they had been kind to him on his arrival, in bestowing him a hat in place of his, lost on ship board. Newspaper. The Germantown newspaper, by C. Sower, was printed but once a quarter, and began in the year 1739, and what was curious, be cast his own types and made his own ink! It eventually was printed monthly; but from and after the year 1744, it was printed every week, under the title of the "Germantown Gazette," by C. Sower, junr. and was not discontinued till some time A copy of these papers would be a kind gift to the Germantown Library. Sower published first in the United States, a quarto Bible, in German. in the war. on immediately, but this was opposed by Genl. Knox as against all military rule, to leave an enemy in a fort in the rear. Thus in attempting to induce the surrender of Lieut. Col. Musgrave, the precious moments were lost, and gave Genls. Grey, Grant and Agnew, (who dwelt in Germantown) time to come up with a reinforcement. Much blame, too, was attached to Gen. S.'s division, who was said to have been intoxicated, and to have so far misconceived and broken his orders as to have been afterwards tried and broken. The morn ing was exceedingly foggy, which would have greatly favoured the Americans, had not those, as well as part of Green's column remained thus inactive. Col. Mathews, of Green's column, attacked with great spirit and routed the parties opposed to him, and took 110 prisoners; but, through the fog, he lost sight of his brigade, and was himself taken prisoner with his whole regiment, (on P. Kelly's hill) and his prisoners released. Green and Stephens's division, formed the last column of the retreating Americans. Count Pulaski's cavalry carried their rear. Washington retreated to Skippack creek his loss amounted to 152 killed, and 521 wounded, upwards of 400 were made prisoners, amongst whom were 54 officers. General Nash of North Carolina was slain (a ball struck him and broke his thigh as he rode, and the same ball drove the brains of his aid (Wotherspoon) against the present Sadler's house, near the front corner; it was formerly Walker's Inn in Beggar's town. The cannon which assailed Chew's house, were planted in front of the present John Johnson's house; Chew's house was so battered that it took 4 or 5 carpenters a whole winter to repair and replace the fractures. The front door was replaced and was filled with shot holesit is still preserved there. A cousin of mine who was intimate with General Washington's aid de camp, told me that he told him he had never heard the General utter an oath till that day, and then he seemed deeply mortified and indignant, and expressed an execration at General S as a drunken rascal. The daughter of Benj. Marshall, Esq, at whose house Gen. Washington stopped after the battle, told me he reached there in the evening, and would only take a dish of tea, and pulling out the half of a biscuit, assured the family, the other half was all the food he had taken since the preceding day. The general opinion then was, that but for the delay at Chew's house, our armies must have been victorious, and we should have been sufficiently avenged for our losses the preceding month at the battle of Brandywine, He was buried in the Lutheran ground, and has a head stone. . and would have probably caused the British to evacuate Philadelphia. But Gen. Wilkinson in his late memoirs, who has described minutely the battle therein, and was but a few years ago here on the spot, examining the whole ground, has published his entire conviction that it was a kind providence, which overruled the disaster for our good: for had we been successful and pushed on for the city, Gen. Howe was coming on with a force sufficient to have captured or destroyed the whole American army. He states, that Washington relied on information from a deserter, that Howe intended a movement of his troops towards Fort Mifflin, which unknown to Gen. Washington he had countermanded, and so enabled him to come out in full force. There were as many as 20,000 British, &c. in and about the town under Gen. Howe. He was a fine large man and looked considerably like Gen. Washington: he lived in the present Perot's house, and walked abroad in plain clothes in a very unassuming manner. Gen. Grant occupied the house now Jacob Bruner's, near the lane. The artillery lay on the high ground in rear of the Poor house; two regiments of Highlanders half a mile in the rear of Reuben Haines's house: and the Hessians lay on the Ridge Hill above Peter Robeson's, near the road; all the infantry were on the commons about where J. Price's seat now is. In the time of the battle Gen. Howe came as far as the market square, and staid there giving his commands. Gen. Agnew rode on at the head of his men, and when he came as far as the wall of the Menonist grave yard, he was then shot by Hans P. Boyer who lay in ambush, and took deliberate aim at his star on the breast: he fell structure in that day, and was surprisingly well built. Gen. Howe staid part of his time there. A fence is now standing of cedar boards in Peter Keyser's yard, which is very much perforated with musket bullets in the time of the battle. On the 19th of October, the British army removed from Germantown to Philadelphia, as a more convenient place for the reduction of Fort-Island. After the battle the British Surgeons made use of the present Reuben Haines's hall as a room for amputating and other hospital operations requiring prompt care; and the Americans who were wounded were carried to the hill where Thomas Armatt's house is, and were there temporarily attended by Surgeons, previously to being sent to the hospital in the city. Major Bennett informed me, that Col. Nash, Col. White, Col. Boyd, and another officer killed of the Americans, were all taken to near Montgomery square, and buried side by side at Baptist Meeting-house. Col. White died on the litter. Capt. Turner of N. Carolina, and Major Irvine, and six men, were all buried in one grave, at the east corner of the burying ground by Keyser's. On the N. E. side of three mile run (Fox Chase Inn In them were 30 now) was a wood in time of the war. Oneida Indians, and 100 of Morgan's riflemen, who raised a war whoop and frightened Lord Carthcart when in a conference with M'Lane. here give an abstract from Gen. Howe's report of the Having thus stated facts as related by ourselves, I shall same battle, to wit; The British account of the Battle at Germantown.— 1500 men from Peeks-kill, and 1000 men from Virginia, "The Americans having received a reinforcement of and presuming the British were weakened by detach from his fine horse, and was carried to Mr. Wistar's house where he died in his front parlour. He was a very civil and gentlemanly man. The man who killed him was not an enlisted soldier, and died not long sincements, thought it a favourable time to risk an action. in the poor house. They accordingly marched all night from their camp at Skippack to Germantown, a village of two miles long. The 2d battalion and 40th regiment lay in a line transthis line of encampment, Lt. Gen. Knyphausen, Major verse with this place near a mile from the head of it. In Gens. Stern and Grey, Brig. Gen. Agnew, with 7 British and 3 Hessian battalions, the mounted and dismounted chasseurs, were upon the left of the village, extending to the Schuylkill, the chasseurs being in front. "Major Gen. Grant and Brig. Gen. Matthews, with the corps of guards, six battalions of British and two squadrons of dragoons were upon the right. The first battalion of light infantry, and the Queen's American rangers were advanced in the front of this wing. "At 3 o'clock of the morning of the 4th the patroles discovered the enemy's approach, and the army was immediately under arms. Soon after the break of day the Americans began their attack upon the 2d light infantry which was supported by the 40th regiment. As these were overpowered they retired into the village, when Lieut. Col. Musgrave with 6 comps. of the 40th regiment, threw themselves into Chew's stone house, which although surrounded by a brigade and attacked by four pieces of cannon, he gallantly defended until Major Gen. Grey at the head of 3 battalions of the 3d brigade, turning his front to the village, and Brig. Gen. Agnew who covered Gen. Grey's left, with the 4th bri gade, by a vigorous attack repulsed the enemy that had penetrated the upper part of the village, which was done with great slaughter: the 5th and 55th regiments from the right engaging them at the same time, on the other side of the village, completed the defeat of the Ameri cans in this quarter. Several have told me who saw the dead and dying after the action, lying on the ground there, that some in their last moments were quite insane: but all who could speak were in great thirst from anguish, &c. In Samuel Keyser's garden many bodies were lying: and in the rear of Justice Johnson's, Genl. Morgan of the rifle corps came up with a small body after the action was supposed to be closed, and very daringly and unexpectedly killed 19 Hessians and an officer there, all of whom were buried there, save the officer who was next day removed to the city. Boys were suffered to get very near the combatants on the flanks. Benj. Lehman was one, who has told me, there was no order, no ranks after the first fire, and soon every face was as black as negroes about the mouth and cheeks from biting off the cartridges; and British officers, especially aids-de-camp rode at full rate up and down through the men with entire unconcern as to running over men. The ranks however gave way. When the British burned 17 houses at one time, between Philadelphia and Germantown, in retaliation for some aggressions made they said, by Col. Ayres, from some of those houses, they ordered Stenton house to be included: two men came to execute it, they told the housekeeper there to take out her private thingswhile they went to the barn for straw to fire it, a British officer rode up, inquiring for deserters-with much pre- "The regiments of Du Corps and Donop, being formsence of mind she said, they had just gone to the barned to support the left of the 4th brigade, and one batto hide themselves in the straw-off he went, crying come out you rascals, and run before me back to camp. In vain they protested, and alleged their commissions, and thus Logan's venerable house was spared. This bouse was built in 1727--8, by James Logan, secretary for Penn, and in which he resided; it was a palace-like talion of Hessian grenadiers in the rear of the chasseurs were not engaged, the flight of the enemy preventing the two first corps from entering into action, and the success of the chasseurs in repelling all efforts against them on that side, did not call for the support of the latter. "The first light infantry and pickets of the line in front of the right wing were engaged soon after the attack began.* "The pickets fell back: but the infantry being supported by the 4th regiment, sustained the enemy's attack with spirit, till the army's approach, put in motion the two battalions of British and one of the Hessian grenadiers, with a squadron of Dragoons: and with these Gen. Howe (who was at Logan's) arrived just as the Americans were forced out of the village. Placing himself at the head of the troops, and with Major Gen. Grey (who commanded I presume until his arrival,) they followed the Americans 8 miles on the Skippack road. "The grenadiers from Philadelphia, who had run most of the way to join the action, did not arrive in time. The cavalry had little chance to charge. By the best accounts the Americans lost from 2 to 300 killed, 600 wounded, and 400 prisoners. Among the killed was Gen. Nash and other officers. Brig. Gen. Agnew and Lt. Col. Bird are among the killed. Lieut. Col. Walcot of the 5th regiment was wounded. The return of killed and wounded is stated to have been: Of British, killed 2 Lt. Cols. and 2 ensigns, and 66 soldiers. Wounded 1 Lt. Col. 6 capts. 13 lieuts., 10 ensigns, and 416 soldiers. Missing 1 capt. Speke, and 13 soldiers. Of Hessians, wounded 1 serg., and 23 soldiers." It is remarkable that the Americans should have lost 54 officers as prisoners-while capt. Speke was the only prisoner taken from the British! The British state no deaths of Hessians, although Anthony Johnson told me 19 were killed at the close of the action, and buried in the rear of the present Justice Johnson's garden. A British picket lay in the present yard of Philip Weaver, and several were shot and buried there. The most advanced picket stood at Mr. Airy's and was wounded there. Gen. There are 4 Academic Instructors. 293 sident. There are 2 Academic Instructors. Alleghany College, at Meadville, Pennsylvania, foundGens. Agnew and Bird are both buried in the low-ed in 1815, by Individuals. Rev. Timothy Alden, Preer burying ground, side by side, next to Mrs. Lamb's grave stone, (S. W. side of it) at 10 feet from Rapp's wall, in a line with the S. W. end of his stable. Agnew showed great kindness to the present old Mrs. Summers. Col. Bird died in Bringhurst's big house, and said to the woman there, "woman pray for me, I leave a widow and 4 children." The present Burrill, whose father was grave-digger, told me he saw them buried there. STATISTICS OF COLLEGES IN PENNSYLVANIA. In the last number of the "Quarterly Journal of the American Education Society," there is commenced a Statistical Table of the Colleges in the U. S., from which we extract some particulars respecting those enumerated in this state. 12 Under graduates. CHARTER OF PENNSYLVANIA. The boundaries of the province having been settled, as we have seen by the proceedings published in the two last numbers, a charter was obtained by Wm. Penn from King Charles the second, dated 4th of March 1681, and is as follows: 66 Charles, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. to all, to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: "Whereas our trusty and well-beloved subject William Penn, Esquire, son and heir of Sir William Penn Dickinson College, Carlisle, founded by Individuals in deceased, (out of a commendable desire to enlarge our 1783; President Rev. Wm. Neill, D. D. There are 6 Academic Instructors. 22 Graduated in 1827. 109 Under graduates, viz. 23 seniors. 27 juniors. British empire, and promote such useful commodities, as may be of benefit to us and our dominions, as also to reduce the savage natives, by just and gentle manners, to the love of civil society, and christian religion) hath humbly besought leave of us, to transport an ample colony unto a certain country, herein after described, in the parts of America, not yet cultivated and planted; and hath likewise so humbly besought our royal Majesty to give, grant and confirm all the said country, with certain privileges and jurisdictions, requisite for the good Jefferson College, Canonsburg, founded 1802 by the government and safety of the said country and colony, state, President Rev. Matthew Brown, D. D. 38 sophomores. 12 Students professing religion. 6 Indigent students asssisted. to him, and his heirs forever. |