Chapter 13
Footnotes
Cowanshannock

1. "greenbriar"- a thorny climbing shrub having a yellowish green stem and thick leaves, with small bunches of flowers. It is common in the United States, and is also called cat-briar.
2. Vide sketch of Plum Creek Township.
3. Appointed by Co. Charles Campbell, contractor for the militia of Westmoreland county Pennsylvania who was to be paid eight-pence per ration on account of the stations being so small, as stated in Campbell�s letter to Gov. Mifflin, August 13, 1791.
4. Colonel of the 11^th regt. Pa. Vols., in the war of 1861.
5. Letter from Benjamin R. Bradford.
6. Letter from Hamlet Totten.
7. Who on account of ill-health resigned September 1, 1879, and a call extended to Rev. Ephraim Miller, Cincinnati, Ohio, who entered upon his duties October 1.
8. See sketch Kittanning borough.
9. See general sketch of this county.
10. See sketch of Presbyterian church, Rural village.
11. See sketch of Burrell township.
12. See sketch of Wayne township.
13. He was first assessed as an innkeeper in 1838. His was probably the second tavern kept within the limits of this township.
14. Eneid, Lib.I, 436.

Source: Page(s) 286-309, History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania by Robert Walker Smith, Esq. Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883.
Transcribed December 1999 by Pamela Clark for the Armstrong County Smith Project.
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