Chapter 14
Manor
Footnotes
1). That section is in these words and in this orthography: WEE give and grant license unto the said William Penn. and his heires, likewise to all and every such person and persons to whom the said William Penn, or his heires, shall at any time hereafter, grant any estate of inheritance as aforesaid, to erect any parcels of Land within the pvnc aforesaid, into mannors, by and with the licence to be first had and obteyned for that purpose vnder the hand and seal of the said William Penn, or his heires, and in every of the said mannors, to haue and hold a Court Baron, with all things whatsoever, which to a Court Baron do belong; and to hane and to hold view of ffrankpledge, for the conservacon of the peace, and the better government of those parties by themselves or their Stewarts, of by the Lords for the time being, of other mannors to be deputed when they shall be erected, and in the same to vse all things belonging to view of ffrankpledge,"&c.
2). It is possible that that trench may have been dug for the purpose of draining the marsh near the hill, either when that fort and parapet were constructed, or at a later period.
3) Gov. Clinton's address.
4) Col. Mackey's letter in the general sketch of this county.
5) Irving's Life of Washington.
6) Now Bound Brook, on the Raritan river, in Somerset county, seven miles northwest of New Brunswick. The upper part of the village is called Middlebrook.
7) That under Gen. Sullivan's command.
8) By his letter dated June 23, his headquarters being then at New Windsor.
9) See Brodhead's and Lochery's letters in the general sketch of the county.
10) Against the Seneca and Muncy towns on the upper Allegheny. See sketch of Pine township.
11) See general sketch of the county.
12) The ranging companies.
13) See sketch of present township of Allegheny.
14) Pennsylvania claimed under the charter granted by Charles II, and Virginia on that granted by James I.
15) On which Archibald Dickey, and afterward Thos. Correy previously resided. The stone house-the second one on the manor tract-was built by the latter, near the river, about 130 rods above Tub-mill run, in 1821-2.
16) Lieutenant of Mifflin county, Pennsylvania.
17) Declined: John Gray was appointed in his stead.
18) Declined: Robert Stevison, or Stevenson, was appointed in his stead.
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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