Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-05-08
OLD TIMES.

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NJ THE INDIANS SOLD THE COUNTRY
WHAT They Cor FOR IT-VERMIL-
LION AND JEWsHARPs-TIIE OLD SET
rLERs-THE WAY THEY SETTLED
THE VALLRY-AN ENTERPRIsING
| GIRL m MEN's CLOTHES CHALKING
! ACCOUNTS sN MEMS HATS.
&e., &C., &c.
In the County Court of Augusta is the
record of the deed made by the Chiefs OF
the Six Nations fora great partof Virginia,
| which then included Ohio large portion
| of the Western States and Pennsylvania
1t was recorded at the County Court Of
Augusta held at Pittsburg, now in Penn
sylvania. and is signed by all the Chiefs
| and witnesses The deed was made at
Logtown on the Ohio, August the I'd,
1749, and the Indians signing it represent
ed the six united nations. The splot of
land'' was given in consideration of
3'24O strouds, IA kind of blanket 400 Duff
field blankets, 400 pair of half thickness
stockings. 200 shirts, 20 pieces OF callicoe,
20 pieces of calimancoe, IA kind OF wooden
stuff,l 20 pieces Of embossed serge, 90
pounds of vermillion, so gross gathering,
SO pieces ribbon, so dozen knives, 500
pounds gun powder, 1000 pounds of bar
lead, 5000 gun fiints, $4,000 pounds brass
kittles, pounds thread, 1000 needles,
TEN DOZEN JEWS HARPs,
20 dozen tobacco tongs, and 100 pounds
tobacco And for this and another SINH
lar lot. the Indians do grant bargain sell
alien, release, ensoesse, rattle and fully
confirm unto His Most Sacred Majesty
George the Sd, King OF Great Britains
France and Ireland, and Defender OF the
Faith and so forth,'' the immense terrific
ny. But, this grant is not to interfere with
any land granted in March, 1881, by
Charles the I'd, King Of Great Britain, &C.,
to civilian Penn, Esq, in the part of
country known us Pennsylvania" The
deed was agreed upon at Fort StanWix,
and was signed by Alebrow,
MOHAWK CHIEF,
who makes the sign OF something like an
OWL lllUCI1SlSu lCpl CoCllt q PlCSS Va ouOCl,
which his name meant, Sennghors, (the
stone, of the Oneidas, Sagnanisen, Ia
cross,) of the Tuscaroras, Chenog-heaten,
ia mountain of the Onondagas, Tagaaia,
(the pipe,) of the Cayugas and Gastraux,
(the high hill,) of the Senecas. The wit
nesses were William Franklin, Governor,
and Fred Smythe; the Chief Justice Of New
Jersey; Thomas Walker, Thomas Walker,
Jr., and John Walker, of Virginia, Rich
ard Peters and James Tilghman Of the
Council of Pennsylvania James Chew and
f. Fitch, of Connecticut; John Weather
head, of New York; John Simmer, Cap
tain of the 10th regiment, and John But
Ter, "interpreter for the Crowne." Then
the document was taken before the rector
of st. Paul's Church, Philadelphia, and the
solemnity of the Church attached to it,
and the thing was considered done. The
Indians then walked off with their vermil-
lion and jews harps, and the white men join
ed in a congratulatory tod over having
thrown open an immense territory to wins
key and lawyers and country papers and
cholera and all the other blessings of Civil
Zation.
In the Circuit Court of this county is the
record of the suit of Alexander Culton and
Robert Stuart against Joseph Borden about
a land grant in 1887. One Of the Witness
es, Mrs. Mary Greenlee, testified that she
and her husband and brother started to
locate in Beverly Manor, and
cAMPED AT NIGHT ON LEWIS CREEK.
Borden came to the camp at night and told
them he had a grant of 10000 acres an
James River, and would give any man a
thousand that would conduct him to it.
He struck a light and showed his papers
verifying what he said Her brother, a
surveyor, took up the offer, and going "to
the house of John Lewis in Beverly Manor
where Stanton now stands" closed it.
They went over to the James River and
found Borden's land for him. He was Civ
ing every man settler who built cabin
100 acres of land, SO "a serving girl named
Milholler
DRESSED HERSELF IN MEMS CLOTHES
and built several cabins, thereby securing
several hundred acres Of land. The gov
eminent agent was astounded to find so
many men named Milholler, and the dis
covery of the trick ''created much mirth
among the settlers. The highest number
of cabins any one settler was allowed to
build was forty, but they caught Miss
Milholler before she got her full allowance.
Ore James Patterson was the agent of the
government at Williamsburg, Governor
| Goode was then Governor,) who kept his
account with the settlers ''by taking
A PIECE OF CHALK
and marking ON their hat" the number OF
acres they had taken up. He was much
puzzled in settling Miss Milholler's &C
count. Mrs. Greenlee settled near the
forks of the rivers that empty into the
James at "Red House." Beatty made the
first survey of the tract, and gentleman
the witness thought, Governor Gooch's
son-in-law 'got on a frolic" and gave him
his interest in the land.
LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF 4
CHURcH.-On Tuesday last, the corner
stone of the Methodist Church at Waynes
boro, was laid in the presence of a large
number of spectators, notwithstandi ng thu
heavy clouds that overhung the scene. A
delegation of forty members from Staunt OF
lodge, A. F. M, were present by invitation