Chapter 14
Manor
Formed out of the Western Part of Kittanning in 1849-First Township Election - Named from one of the Proprietary Manors - Kittanning afterward Appleby Manor - Ancient Works - Numerous Relics - Speculation in Regards to the Origin of the So-called "Old French Fort" - Soldiers Here in 1777-8 - Correspondence of Officers Relating Thereto - Fort Armstrong - Indian Murders - William Green�s Mill Built in 1789 - "Fort Green" - The Indians Become Aggressive - Measures Taken for the Protection of the Frontier - Cornplanter�s Friendship for the Whites - The Militia - Game - Judge Ross - Other Pioneers - Schools - Postoffice - Cradle Factory - Number of Inhabitants- Village of Rosston - Borough of Manorville - Its Pioneer Settler - Its Industrial Interests - Mercantile - Educational - Temperance - Population of the Borough - Geology of Manor Township
Source: Page(s) 310-345, History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania by Robert Walker Smith, Esq. Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883.
Transcribed January 1999 by Donna Mohney for the Armstrong County Smith Project.
Contributed by onna Mohney for use by the Armstrong County Genealogy Project (http://www.pa-roots.com/armstrong/)
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