The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-01-10
SOME Pho NEER HISTORY

,er's 70 see something about the land.
The surveyors ONCE was kept ut a.
Mi. sPierpoint's about two miles from
1 where we lived. was once there
with my father. There we're several.
gentlemen there from Philadelphia,
getting or locating land AS my
father had been nafhe country above
this place. they applied to him to To-
cate for them, how much / cannot
say. 10, 20 or 10000 acres more or
Hess, My father directed how their
entries should be made. They wish
led i ! pay but he would have nothing.
lItie or they said they might or, would
give me something; finally they gave
me a dollar remember think
hearing my father say that he ex-
lpected they would give me eight or.
item dollars. Next day We started for
Ehome on Slider and Prince with the
dollar in my pocket, II / had q pocket
Ibut before we got home my father
borrowed the dollar and sent me to
Kearn's mill to buy corn with II. 1
believe ] got 4 i-g bushels. i have
loften thought OF this occurrence He
here had an opportunity to get a con-
siderable sum II he would have made
La charge, and although his family
were perhaps on the brink OF suf-
lfering, he preferred leaving 1t to their
Honor rather than charge them. 1t
seems that no situation OF circurn-
stances would change his course.
while living here at william Joseph's
or Johnson's, the last negro, a man
died. While we were living on JOS
eph's land David Morgan, killed the
1.-TWO Indians. They sent my father
q piece OF tanned Indian skin for a
\. strop. sts
went occasionally TO school. 4
suppose a year or two Two boys and
4 myself were one day In the woods
near Owen Davis's orchard They
'lconc1uded to go and get some apples
land / staid back On tdeir return 1
4 helped eat them. This comes the
nearest to stealing anything have
any recollection of in my life, my par
taking Of part. Howl happen TO
remember II SO .ong I cannot say. In
those days FUSED the bow and ar
row, killed squirrels in the corn field.
birds, etc.
Il / was with my father at the rope
works making cords to make hop
jpose. He was preparing to go in to
the Revolutionary army and had got
ready when news came that peace
was made. They had great re-
joicing meeting on the occasion, at
lMorgantown. The Indians were less
ltroublesome than they had been.
People began to stir. about.
\ Harrison county was formed out
lof Monongalia in 1888 or 4. My father
Twas appointed surveyor, we still liy-
! ling on Joseph's farm. Thomas Laid
Hey had brought a store to Morgan
town. my father bought bear skin
Icoat as he had to go to- Williams
! burg to be examined. The morning
before he startel Laidley and Menes
1.-THE storekeepefs came to our house
with believe twenty half joes. in all
1.-Two hundred dollars in gold to send
Ito Richmond to buy land warrants. j
remember hearing my. father say he
WAS ashamed to wear: said coat for
fear people would say he was proud.
OF the old settlers have no recol-
Election. Whether my father was in
A the Revolutionary war or not lido not
know. II he was 1t was while we
lived in the fort. How 1t happened
,that he was called. Major j cannot
lsay. He, j suppose, was in the army
when Daniel Morgan was o wagner
there OF which l suppose you have
heard. II has always been my inn
preston that he was in the Revolu-
tionary army How 1t happened that
he got the appointment OF surveyor
in Harrison I cannot tell, but ! think
he did not electioneer for 1t. have
. omitted to say that sometime before
this he was appointed one Of the COM
missioners to settle the claims to UNI
patented lands In the country Dur
ling this time he obtained a certificate
for his land in the Glades. He also
got two other certificates for land in
Harrison county. may hereafter re-
fer to them In the spring or sum
lmer of 1884 brother John with others
started from the mouth Of Deckcr's
creek in canoes down the river and
went TO the mouth Of Kanawha to
survey for vanderen.
On the return of my father from
Richmond he went to Clarksburg on
his duty Of office. In October fol-
lowing brother John, having returned
from Kanawha, and myself. with the
two celebrated horses, Slider and
Prince, took two loads Of plumber.
was then thirteen years old. Brother
John went up to Jonathan. and goi
two or three more horses to help US
move. knew no person in Clarks'
burg, and was quite lost.
There j met David Prunty and wen
back Of that hill with him to hunt
chestnuts. .Clarksburg was built BY
two rows OF cabins extending from
, near where the court house now Il
to Jackson's house on the east side
2 lof Elk creek. 1t had been built tc
ANSWER for fort. Next day we start
!! ed for home, which day the indians
= attacked believe Mr.. West where
,weston now stands. When We ar
rived at home we gota Mr.. Tlbbs t.
| help us with a horse. We started ant
Ion the first day stayed or lodged or
Toms run two miles belok Smith
!. ton, Next day got to Prickett's set
!. Element. Third day to the Vale,
= river, fourth day just above wher,
! William Martins brick house nov
stands, and the fifth day. we arrived
In Clarksburg in the afternoon, hav'
ing been Ave days ON the read nearly
II II feel like writing l will continue
the narrative although a great par
3 SO far Is in relation to myself. Wher
! Ii think az those times above mention