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Index to Annals of the Buffalo Valley 

Section I - Introduction and the Colonial Period 

INDIAN TRIBES - SHIKELLIMY - LOGAN - 
ABORIGINES OF THE VALLEY THEIR VILLAGES AND PATHS - 
PURCHASE OF 1754 - PENN'S CREEK MASSACRE -
SOURCES OF EMIGRATION TO THE VALLEY - 
PURCHASE OF 1758.
 

PENN TOWNSHIP SETTLERS - WILLIAM GILL - 
MURDER OF WHITE MINGO - WILLIAM BLYTHE - 
PURCHASE OF 1768.
 

OFFICIALS - FIRST SURVEYS IN THE VALLEY - 
JOHN EWING, et al. - OFFICERS SURVEYS - 
ORIGINAL SETTLERS.
 

EARLY SURVEYS - SETTLERS FROM PAXTON - SCULL'S MAP.
 

GREAT FLOOD - PENN TOWNSHIP SETTLERS - 
GEORGE GABRIEL - FIRSTMILLS BUILT - 
DREISBACH'S CHURCH - MICHAEL WEYLAND.
 

Section II - The Colonial Period (cont.) 

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY ERECTED - OFFICIALS - 
BOUNDARIES OF TOWNSHIPS - SUNBURY LAID OUT - 
FIRST ROADS - CONNECTICUT CLAIM - 
WILLIAM SPEDDY - LUDWIG DERR - DEATHS.
 

SETTLERS - ROADS - 
BUFFALO CROSS-ROADS CHURCH - 
EJECTMENT CASES.
 

POTTER TOWNSHIP ERECTED - POLITICAL DOCUMENTS - 
CROSS-ROADS CHURCH - TITZELL'S MILL - 
ENNION WILLIAMS' JOURNAL.
 

PENNSYLVANIA CONVENTION - 
ASSESSMENT LIST OF BUFFALO - 
REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE INAUGURATED - 
ROLL OF CAPTAIN JOHN LOWDON'S AND 
CAPTAIN JAMES PARR'S COMPANIES.
 

Section III - The Revolutionary Period - Part I 

WHITE DEER TOWNSHIP ERECTED - ASSOCIATORS - 
SECOND BATTALION - COLONEL POTTER - 
INHABITANTS OF PENN'S - CHURCHES OF THE VALLEY -
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION - 
INCIDENT AT DEER'S TRADING - HOUSE -
MINUTES OF THE COUNTY COMMITTEE - 
ROLL of CAPTAIN WEITZEL'S COMPANY - 
FOURTH BATTALION OF ASSOCIATORS - ROLL OF CAPTAIN 
JOHN CLARKE'S COMPANY - ROSTER OF TWELFTH PENNSYLVANIA.
 

Section IV - The Revolutionary Period - Part II 

OFFICIALS - MINUTES OF THE COMMITTEE OF 
SAFETY, CONTINUED - MAJOR KELLY AT PRINCETON - 
ROLL OF CAPTAIN B. WEISER'S COMPANY - 
MATTHEW BROWN - PAOLI - GENERAL POTTER'S LETTERS.
 

LIST OF INHABITANTS - INDIAN TROUBLES - 
GREAT RUNAWAY OF l778 - COVENHOVEN'S NARRATIVE - 
JOHN BASHOR KILLED - INCIDENT OF QUINN FAMILY - 
MONMOUTH BATTLE - JAMES BRADY'S DEATH - 
COLONEL HARTLEY'S EXPEDITION.
 

Section V - The Revolutionary Period - Part III 

DEATH OF CAPTAIN JOHN BRADY - 
INDIAN OUTRAGE'S IN THE VALLEY -
JOHN SAMPLE AND WIFE KILLED - 
CAPTURE OF FORT FREELAND - 
DEATH OF CAPTAIN HAWKINS BOONE.
 

INHABITANTS OF BUFFALO, WHITE DEER, AND PENN'S - 
INDIAN TROUBLES - DAVID COUPLES KILLED - 
ATTACK AT FRENCH JACOB'S MILL - 
GEORGE ETZWEILER AND OTHERS KILLED - 
ROLL OF CAPTAIN THOMPSON'S COMPANY - 
PATRICK WATSON AND BALTZER KLINESMITH KILLED - 
PETER GROVE'S PURSUIT OF THE INDIANS - 
BARBER'S MILL BUILT.
 

NARRATIVE OF CAPTAIN JAMES THOMPSON - 
CAPTAIN CAMPLETON KILLED - 
LETTER FROM GENERAL POTTER - 
STORY OF THE EMERICK FAMILY - 
ROLL OF PETER GROVE's AND MCGRADY's COMPANIES - 
CHRISTIAN HETRICK AND DAVID STORM KILLED.
 

Section VI - Post Revolutionary Period 

INDIAN INCURSIONS - REZNER KILLED - 
MAJOR JOHN LEE KILLED - 
HISTORY OF LEE'S FAMILY, AND WALKER'S -
DEATH OF CAPTAIN CASPER WEITZEL.
 

STATE OFFICIALS - ELECTION RETURNS - 
CONTESTED ELECTION - 
REVEREND CYRIACUS SPANGENBERG - 
THE BRADY FAMILY.
 

JOE DISBURY - BEAR'S MILL (NOW HOFFA'S) ERECTED -
FLOOD OF 1784 - CAPTAIN LOWDON'S ROLL - 
DEATH OF COLONEL SAMUEL HUNTER
 

LEWISBURG LAID OUT BY LUDWIG DERR - 
BOUND OF - FALL ELECTION - 
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP ERECTED - 
WIDOW SMITH'S PETITION - MILITIA
 

SLAVES IN THE VALLEY - 
PICKERING'S VISIT AT GENERAL POTTER'S - 
BUFFALO VALLEY SOLDIERS AT SARATOGA - 
FIRST FULLING-MILL ERECTED.
 

Section VII - Years 1787 - 1793 

FAMILIES IN WHITE DEER HOLE VALLEY -
ANDREW GREGG's WEDDING - 
CALL TO REVEREND HUGH MORRISON - 
MEMBERS OF HIS CONGREGATION.
 

DREISBACH CHURCH - ROADS - 
HOUSES IN LEWISBURG - 
MATTHEW LAIRD'S FAMILY.
 

BOUDE FAMILY - FIRST RESIDENTS OF BEAVER TOWNSHIP.
FIRST GERMAN REFORMED PASTOR - MANUFACTURERS, &c. -
DEATHS OF MAJOR LAWRENCE KEENE AND 
GENERAL JAMES POTTER.
 

OFFICIALS - SURVEY OF THE SUSQUEHANNA 
FOR INLAND NAVIGATION - 
NEWCONSTITUTION, AND ELECTIONS UNDER IT.
 

LIST OF STATE AND COUNTY OFFICIALS - 
ADDITIONAL TAXABLES - DEATH OF DOCTOR 
WILLIAM PLUNKET - Mrs. SAMUEL MACLAY'S FAMILY LINEAGE.
 

EAST AND WEST BUFFALO TOWNSHIPS ERECTED -
MIFFLINBURG AND NEW BERLIN LAID OUT - 
NOTICE OF REVEREND J. G. PHREEMER, - 
SIMON SNYDER'S DAM CONTROVERSY - 
DEATH OF CAPTAIN ANTHONY SELIN 
AND M. J. ELLENKHUSEN. 
 

ADDITIONAL TAXABLES - 
YELLOW FEVER IN PHILADELPHIA - 
FALL ELECTIONS - DEATHS IN THE VALLEY.
 

Section VIII - Years 1794 - 1799 

FIRST BAPTIST SETTLERS - 
SAMPLE OF MR. MORRISON'S SERMONS - 
REVEREND GEORGE GEISTWEIT - 
EXCITEMENT INCIDENT TO THE WHISKY INSURRECTION - 
COUNTY POLITICS - ELECTION RETURNS -
FLAVEL ROAN'S POETRY.
 

HENRY SPYKER'S HOUSE - POLITICS - 
JAY'S TREATY - GEORGE KESTER AND 
ANNA M. SMITH'S REQUESTS FOR SCHOOLS - 
DEATH OF WILLIAM IRVINE,
AND NOTICE TO HIS FAMILY.
 

BISHOP NEWCOMER VISITS THE VALLEY - 
LIST OF INHABITANTS OF EAST BUFFALO. 
LEWISBURG, NEW BERLIN, WEST BUFFALO, 
WHITE DEER, AND MAHANTANGO.
 

WHITE DEER ELECTION DISTRICT - 
BOOKS' FISHER'S, AND BARBER'S MILLS BUILT - 
GREENVILLE LAID OUT.
 

THE PRESBYTERIAN GRAVE-YARD AT LEWISBURG -
FERRY LANDING DISPUTE - 
POLITICS - DEATH OF CAPTAIN JOHN LOWDON.
 

HARTLETON - SKETCH OF COLONEL THOMAS HARTLEY - 
LISTS OF TAXABLES - MARTIN DREISBACH - 
THOMAS WILSON.
 

Section IX - Years 1800 - 1807 

INHABITANTS OF NEW BERLIN AND LEWISBURG - 
SKETCHES OF THE NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY BAR - 
DANIEL SMITH, EVAN RICE EVANS, CHARLES HALL, &c.
 

REJOICING AT JEFFERSON'S ELECTION -
CONDITION OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN THE VALLEY.
 

RESIDENTS IN FREEBURG, MIDDLEBURG, &c. - 
ST. PETER'S CHURCH, IN KELLY, 
AND RAY'S CHURCH BUILT - 
TABULAR STATEMENT OF ELECTION RETURNS - 
DEATH OF JOSEPH GREEN.
 

JENKINS' MILL ROAD - ADDITIONAL RESIDENTS - 
FLAVEL ROAN'S JOURNAL.
 

CONTEMPORARY NOTICES OF THE PEOPLE OF THE VALLEY -
HENRY SPYKER'S FORM OF WRITING THEIR WILLS - 
DOCTOR JOSEPH PRIESTLY - 
COLONEL WILLIAM COOKE.
 

SUDDEN ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - 
ORDINATION OF REVEREND THOMAS HOOD - 
FIRST ACADAMY BUILT AT LEWISBURG - 
DUEL BETWEEN JOHN BINNS AND SAMUEL STEWART -
POLITICAL PARTIES IN 1805.
 

ADDITIONAL RESIDENTS OF EAST BUFFALO, 
LEWISBURG, WHITE DEER, AND WEST BUFFALO - 
FIRST METHODIST CAMP-MEETING.
 

PENN'S CREEK IMPROVEMENT LOTTERY -
EXTRACTS FROM BINNS' ARGUS -
COUNTY CONVENTION - 
GERMAN HIGH SCHOOL IN BUFFALO TOWNSHIP -
ROAN'S JOURNAL - JOHN AURAND - 
CHARACTER OF THE LEGAL BUSINESS AND SKETCHES 
OF LEADING CIRCUIT LAWYERS, BY LATE 
GEORGE A. SNYDER, ESQUIRE.
 

Section X - Years 1808 - 1811 

THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ORGANIZED - 
POLITICAL AFFAIRS - 
SIMON SNYDER ELECTED GOVERNOR -
DEATH OF JOHN BRADY, (SHERIFF,) AND 
NOTICES OF HIS FAMILY.
 

OFFICIALS - RESIDENTS - ROAN'S JOURNAL - 
ELECTION RETURN - MARRIAGES AND DEATHS 
 

COUNTERFEITERS ARRESTED - LANGS' SUICIDE - 
DANIEL DOUDLE - ROAN'S JOURNAL - 
NOTICE OF NATHAN EVANS.
 

HARTLEY TOWNSHIP ERECTED - 
PRESBYTERY OF NORTHUMBERLAND FORMED - 
IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE COOPER - 
REVEREND YOST HENRY FRIES - DEATH OF 
HONORABLE SAMUEL MACLAY, AND NOTICE OF HIS FAMILY.
 

Section XI - Years 1812 - 1818 

DIVISION OF THE COUNTY AGITATED - 
LEWISBURG INCORPORATED - ROAN'S JOURNAL - 
ROLLS OF CAPTAINS JOHN DONALDSON'S AND NER 
MIDDLESWARTH'S COMPANIES - REVEREND JUST HENRY FRIES, PASTOR AT MIFFLINBURG.
 

UNION COUNTY ERECTED - OFFICIALS - 
EFFORTS FOR A UNION OF THE ALBRIGHT 
BRETHREN WITH THE UNITED BRETHREN - 
SCHOOL-HOUSE LOT IN UNION - 
LEWISBURG IN 1813 - RE-SURVEY OF THE TOWN.
 

LEWISBURG BRIDGE CHARTERED - 
FIRST COURTS HELD AT MIFFLINBURG - 
BATTLE OF CHIPPEWA - 
CAPTAIN EVANS AT FORT MCHENRY - ROSTER OF 
LIEUTENANT COLONEL GEORGE WEIRICK'S REGIMENT - 
ROLLS OF CAPTAINS HENRY MILLER, JACOB HUMMEL,
VALENTINE HAAS, JOHN BERGSTRESSER,
AND NER MIDDLESWARTH'S COMPANIES.
 

COURTS HELD IN NEW BERLIN - 
UNION TOWNSHIP ERECTED - 
ST. PETER'S CHURCH, KELLY - 
DEATH OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM GRAY, OF BUFFALO.
 

HENRY SHAUP'S NEWSPAPER - 
SUSQUEHANNA BIBLE SOCIETY FORMED- 
LEWISBURG BRIDGE BUILT - 
A NEW CHURCH AT CROSS-ROADS -
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION - 
SIMON SNYDER'S LETTER TO GEORGE KREMER - 
JUDGE COOPER TRANSFERED TO THE 
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
 

POLITICAL - ELECTION RETURNS - 
LEWISBURG BRIDGE - HENRY SPYKER, ESQUIRE -
COLONEL WILLIAM CHAMBERLIN.
 

DELAWARES AND SHAWANESE REMOVE WEST 
OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
 

Section XII - Years 1819 - 1825 

DIFFICULTY IN MR. FRIE'S CHURCH - 
BANK SUSPENSIONS.
 

[NOT SUBTITLED.]
 

GOVERNOR HEISTER'S APPOINTMENTS -
GENERAL ITEMS.
 

CERTAIN LAWS - NEWSPAPERS NOTICED - 
DEATH OF WILLIAM CLINGAN, ESQUIRE, 
HONORABLE ANDREW ALBRIGHT, AND HENRY PONTIUS.
 

GENERAL ITEMS - ELECTION RETURNS - 
CHRISTIAN CHAPEL AT LEWISBURG - KELLY TOWNSHIP 
 

KELLY TOWNSHIP ERECTED - 
STATE ROAD FROM BELLEFONTE TO THE 
MOUTH OF WHITE DEER CREEK - POLITICAL - 
THE CLOWN AND ROPE DANCER AT NEW BERLIN -
SNYDER'S HEIRS V. SIMON SNYDER - 
SHOW OF WAX FIGURES - TRIAL OF SAMUEL JOHNSTON.
 

GEORGE KREMER'S ARTICLE IN THE "COLUMBIAN 
OBSERVER," AND HENRY CLAY'S CARD - 
RECEPTION OF MR. KREMER AT LEWISBURG - 
WEATHER RECORD - PECULIARITIES OF THE BAR - 
THE SHOWMAN AT NEW BERLIN - 
WITCHCRAFT FARCE IN BEAVER TOWNSHIP.
 

Section XIII - Years 1826 - 1834 

LOTTERY ADVERTISEMENTS - 
FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION - 
MURDER OF JACOB SWINEFORD - WEATHER RECORD - 
BISHOP NEWCOMER'S DEATH - POLITICAL - 
OBITUARY.
 

CANAL MEETING - DEBATING SOCIETIES - 
MIFFLINBURG ACADEMY ESTABLISHED - 
BOROUGH OF MIFFLINBURG INCORPORATED 
 

LIST OF ATTORNEYS - CANAL LOCATED - 
LEWISBURG AND MIFFLINTOWN TURNPIKE LOCATED.
 

UNION HICKORY NEWSPAPER - 
SUPREME COURT PERSONNEL - 
AN UN-PUBLISHED OPINION.
 

WEATHER RECORD - JOHNNY MORTON - 
CENSUS OF 1830 
 

CROSS-CUT CANAL - 
FIRST TEMPERANCE SOCIETY FORMED IN THE VALLEY -
BETHEL CHURCH ORGANIZED.
 

LEWISBURG PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BUILT - 
LAURELTON CHURCH ORGANIZED - 
SKETCH OF COLONEL JOHN KELLY.
 

METHODIST CHURCH IN LEWISBURG DEDICATED - 
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH COMPLETED, AND THE 
GERMAN CHURCH COMMENCED - RAIN OF FIRE - 
COURT AND LAWYERS.
 

ECLIPSE OF THE SUN - ANTI-SCHOOL MEETING - 
ELECTION RETURNS.
 

Section XIV - Years 1835 - 1855 

DEBATE IN THE LEWISBURG TEMPERANCE SOCIETY -
COLONEL KELLY'S MONUMENT ERECTED WITH IMPOSING 
CEREMONIES - FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATIONS.
 

POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS - 
ACCIDENT ON THE FOURTH OF JULY.
 

FIRST ABOLITION LECTURE IN THE VALLEY - SHOWS -
REPORT OF THE UNION COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
 

LOCUST YEAR - BUCKSHOT WAR.
 

AURAND'S HOTEL BURNED - POLITICS - 
OBITUARY NOTICE OF REVEREND J. H. FRIES 
 

WEATHER RECORD - STATE ROAD FROM HEBERLING'S 
TO ELK CREEK, CENTRE COUNTY, LOCATED - 
CENSUS OF 1840.
 

DEATH OF JAMES MERRILL, ESQUIRE - 
DEVELOPMENT OF IRON ORE IN THE VALLEY - 
NEWSPAPERS - POLITICS - DANVILLE ENCAMPMENT - 
NOTICE OF WILLIAM HAYES - MILLERISM - 
CAMP POTTER - LIBERTY PARTY FORMED - 
FURNACES BUILT - DEATH OF WILLIAM L. HARRIS - 
DAGUERREOTYPES INTRODUCED - RAILROAD MEETING - 
ACCIDENT AT TURTLE CREEK - 
LIST OF VALLEY SOLDIERS IN THE MEXICAN WAR - 
VOTE ON LICENSE - DEATH OF JOHN LASHELLS, ESQUIRE,
AND GENERAL R. H. HAMMOND - 
LEWISBURG UNIVERSITY CHARTERED - 
HIGH's MILL BURNED - THE LAST BATTALION - 
TAXABLES AND VALUATION - CENSUS OF 1850 - 
SUSQUEHANNA RAILROAD COMMENCED - 
FIRST COMMENCEMENT AT LEWISBURG - 
RAILROAD EXCITEMENT - 
UNION COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY FORMED - 
LEWISBURG, CENTRE, AND SPRUCE CREEK 
RAILROAD COMPANY CHARTERED - 
GREAT FIRE AT LEWISBURG - 
DEATH OF HONORABLE GEORGE KREMER - 
UNION FURNACE AT WINFIELD ERECTED - 
ERECTION OF SNYDER COUNTY - 
VOTE IN FAVOR OF DIVISION - VOTE ON THE 
LOCATION OF THE COUNTY SEAT.
 

Section XV - APPENDIX. 

Lists of County Officials: Executive, 
Legislative, & Judicial 1814 - 1878 

JAMES F. LINN'S NECROLOGY LIST: 1826 - 1877 
 

Section XVI - APPENDIX. 

COMPANY E, FIFTY-FIRST PENNSYLVANIA.
COMPANY H, FIFTY-FIRST PENNSYLVANIA.
COMPANY K, FIFTY-FIRST PENNSYLVANIA.
COMPANY D, FIFTY-SECOND REGIMENT.
COMPANY E, FIFTY-THIRD REGIMENT.
COMPANY A, ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIRST REGIMENT.
MISCELLANEOUS.
COMPANY E, ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SECOND REGIMENT.
COMPANY D, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH REGIMENT.
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.
TWENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT, EMERGENCY TROOPS.
TWO HUNDRED AND SECOND REGIMENT.
LIST OF SOLDIERS BURIED IN THE SEVERAL 
CEMETERIES IN UNION COUNTY.
COMPANY D, FIFTH RESERVES.
COMPANY B, FIFTH RESERVES.
COMPANY C, FIFTH RESERVES.
COMPANY B, SIXTH RESERVES.
COMPANY H, SEVENTY-SIXTH REGIMENT.
COMPANY C, ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST REGIMENT.