AREA HISTORY: History of Adams County, Chapter XLII, Adams County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Kathy Francis Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/adams/ _______________________________________________ History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886 _______________________________________________ Part III, History of Adams County, Pages 315-321 CHAPTER XLII. MOUNTPLEASANT TOWNSHIP. The Little Conowago forms the eastern line of this township, separating it from Conowago, Oxford and Hamilton Townships. Conowago Creek, and one of its tributaries, Sweet Run, form the greater part of its northern boundary. This run, with its tributaries, Swift Run and Brush Run, and six little streams running into the Little Conowago flow north and east from the water-shed. White Run, which rises in the northwestern part of the township, flows across Mountjoy Township to Rock Creek. A few other creeks also flow south, from the Hanover Road Ridge, into Rock Creek and Alloway’s Creek. The surface is decidedly rolling, if not actually hilly. The lower districts are distinguished for limestone soil and rock, while the upper districts are marked by red gravel and shale, and beds of greenish sand-rock. The elevation above Atlantic level at Bonneauville is 534 feet. In 1872 iron ore was discovered on the Baughman lands, and in September, 1876, copper ore was discovered on Liver’s farm, near Bonneauville. In 1856 George and Henry Chritzman erected the covered wooden bridge across Swift Run, on the New Chester and Oxford road, for $710. In 1863 Elias Roth built a covered bridge across Swift Run, on the road from Carlisle to the York & Gettysburg Turnpike, for $1,025. The Hanover & Mount Rock Turnpike was authorized in April, 1868. The commissioners were J. W. Gubernator, Francis Pahlman, J. E. Smith, E. S. Reiley, S. G. Sneeringer, D. Geiselman, George Smith and James Devine. The Hanover Junction, Hanover & Gettysburg Railroad crosses the northeastern part of the township, with a station at Dutteras, formerly named “Gulden’s.” Joseph McCreary, constable, made returns, under oath, that the following named persons were the only retailers of foreign merchandise in the township in 1824, viz.: Conrad Weaver, Henry Brinkerhoff, John Miller and Henry Sanders. The number of tax payers (1886) is 569; value of real estate, $628,987; number of horses, etc., 561; of cows, etc., 664; value of moneys at interest, $85,118; of trades and professions, $11,415; number of carriages, 148; of gold watches, 8; of acres of timer land, 1,061. The population in 1800 was 985, and of Managhan, 38 (Hamilton’s lands); in 1820, 1,483, including 3 slaves and 34 free colored; in 1830, 1,498; in 1840, 1,588; in 1850, 1,614 (7 colored); in 1860, 1,766 (2 colored); in 1870, 1,947 (1 colored), and in 1880, 2,138. There was a fort one mile south of Dutteras Station, in 1855, on the old John May farm, and another between Bonneauville and Two Taverns in 1755. The Heltzell farm, two miles west of New Oxford, was granted to John Hamilton June 14, 1763. He erected the first brick house in Adams County, at “Black’s Gap,” where the Hunterstown road forks from the York & Gettysburg Turnpike. Mr. Heltzell, now of New Oxford, took down this old building the last year of the war and erected his present house on the same site. Mr. Haltzell states that the tract called “Managhan” was deeded by the Penns to Hamilton as a portion of the “Manor of Maske.” The name, however, does not appear among the “entries” or “squatters” or “petitioners” residing within the manor in 1742, nor is it probable that Managhan was ever included within the manor boundaries, even in 1763. The assessments for the year 1800, made in 1799, place the total at $176,608, on which a tax of 22.8 cents per $100 was collected. The names of property owners, and values assessed as given are as follows: Mathias Albert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,914 Ignatius Adams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Andrew’s estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,200 Henry Arnold, shoe-maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Daniel Butt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 William Baily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,028 Paul Bart, joiner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Brian Bigham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 John Britten, carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Henry Brinkenhoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 910 Henry Buckhannon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Gilbert Brinkerhoff (1 slave) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,876 Michael Bower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Solomon Chambers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431 Michael Clapsadle, joiner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316 Francis Cassat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christian Cashman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,870 David Cassat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,020 William Cooper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,630 Hannah Cooper, widow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Josiah Clements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,000 Elias Crisman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 958 David Cullen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782 John Croombacker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948 Divas Collins, weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Cashem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Conenover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,300 David Comenyore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Ninnion Chamberlain * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,600 James Driscoll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Joseph Detrich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,365 James Dannel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Garrit Demaree, carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525 Margaret Degraff, widow † . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,254 David Dunner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,573 Jacob Ebert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,586 John Eisenrod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 Henry Eisenrod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,131 John Ewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600 Isaac Ewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900 Ludwick Eighelberger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,122 Robert Ewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,169 Christian Freet, Sr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,610 Christian Freet, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Peter Freet, blacksmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Adam Fuller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,444 David Freeman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850 Mathias Fetherhuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Henry Fargison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Martin Garver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700 Michael Gallaher, tailor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 William Galbreath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720 Robert Galbreath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890 Jacob Gilbert, weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Philip Gilbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Christian Hoffman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540 William Hollobach, tailor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Gasper Hansel, weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ------ Helemley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joseph Hilt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,611 Maj. James Horner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,512 Hezekiah Hockdalem, Sr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Hezekiah Hockdalem, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,264 John Hoggeman, weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 John Hambarger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,400 Aaron Heggeman, weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Christopher Holobach, Jr., weaver . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Christopher Holobach, Sr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759 Daniel Hoopert, tanyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,530 Andrew Johnston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,720 Henry Klum, carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 Joseph Klum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,580 Catherina Kitterman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cornelius Knight, blacksmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581 John Klum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,317 Capt. William Kerr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,913 Henry Kip, weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 John Kip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800 Michael Keake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882 George Koch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Henry Little, joiner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Samuel Lilly ‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,123 Thomas Lilly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adam Leonard, blacksmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Leonard, carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896 William Little . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abraham Leister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joseph Lindsay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,867 Daniel Lochery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anthony Little . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 John Little . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Barney Little . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600 Cornelius Lott, weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631 Jacob Laurence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Moses Lockhart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,218 Rebecca McIlvain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607 John and David McCleary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,261 William Malone, carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Stuart Montieth, weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amos McCreary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,166 Michael Marshall, shoe-maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Nicholas Myer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 Lewis Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,061 Andrew McIlvain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,144 Francis Mayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Catherine Myer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John McClain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James McSherry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Hugh McSherry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,100 John McSherry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,580 John Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,424 Catherine Morningstar, widow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Adam Morningstar, blacksmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Andrew Midom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511 John McElip (McKellopp) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 John McIlvain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 John Nosbeck, nailsmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 Arthur O’Neil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Henry Peecher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,779 Martin Pottorf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Henry Pottorf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 John Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 John Patton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Margaret Poffenberger, widow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,020 William Ryan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jacob Runk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 980 John Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,970 Jacob Rider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,516 William Renolds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,580 John Renolds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Mary Reed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810 Michael Sarbach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 John Shriver, gunsmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,544 Jacob Stiteley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Charles Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,624 Philip Slintz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,133 Jacob Slintz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,580 Jacob Sharror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Samuel Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 950 Valentine Stickel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890 Charity Schrock, widow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. Slegel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440 William Sturgen, hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,300 Catherine Schoop, widow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 980 Mathias Spitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,870 Andrew Shanon, weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Sheely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660 Nicholas Sheely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660 Jacob Sheely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,400 George Shuler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 John Springer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 Louis Snoden, shoe-maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Conrad Snyder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,630 Anthony Snyder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 John Tempion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,020 Joseph Thompson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 976 William Torrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,800 Peter Vandike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,100 Michael Widworth, weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 William Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,552 Benjamin Whitley, Sr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,975 David Welsh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Sebastian Wever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 George Wheckert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,800 Eva Wheckert, widow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joseph Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,003 George Wolfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Wolfort, Sr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,228 Peter Wolfort, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,221 William Watson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,593 Ludwick Waggoner, shoe-maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400 Peter Yong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,188 Baltzer Yong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,270 Mary Yong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,537 George Yenowine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,340 SINGLE MEN. Abraham Albert, wagon-maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 John Buckhanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,200 Henry Chambers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806 John Dannel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,125 James Drycoff, tailor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Drycoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexander Ewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Ewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . William Ewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . William Ewing shoe-maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Philip Fleshmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Anthony Fleshmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charles House, weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abraham Hochderben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,264 John Hoopert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Keas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James Lochart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Moses Lochart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alex Leckey, Esq. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,194 David Mercervey, butcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . George McEntire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James McDonnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mathew Marsden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,012 James Marsden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,012 Capt. Robert McIlvain, miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joseph Myar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856 David Neesbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Henry Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Poffenberger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Springer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Snyder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aaron Torrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Torrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Moses Torbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Andrew Whitely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Benjamin Whitely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hugh Watson, weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . William Watson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James Watson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fredric Yong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . George Waggoner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jacob Sherley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Smith, of Mountpleasant Township, who died April 9, 1884, served in Capt. Adams’ company during the war of 1812, and is said to be the last of the old soldiers from Adams County. The Mountpleasant volunteers formed a strong, well drilled command in 1828. The Buchanan Rifles, of Mountpleasant Township, organized in March, 1859. The Union Rifle Company was organized at Mount Rock in January, 1861, composed of men from Oxford, Conowago and adjoining townships. Subsequently the members held a meeting declaring their determination to stand by the Constitution of the Union. This was the first military company organized, in anticipation of civil war, which declared a principle. A. Eckert, delegate from Mountpleasant in the convention of 1834, voted against the adoption of the school law. The Harrisburg Junction, Harrisburg & Gettysburg Railroad passes through the northern part of the township. The postoffices in Mountpleasant are Bonneauville and Redland. CHURCHES. St. Joseph’s Catholic Church of Bonaughtown or Bonneauville was founded in May, 1859, on lands donated by Alexander Shorb. The corner-stone was placed July 31, 1859, and the church was dedicated February 26, 1860. Rev. Basil A. Shorb, a son of John Shorb, of Union Township, who died April 4, 1871, aged sixty-one years, was the first pastor. The vault in which his remains were placed is in the center of the cemetery. Prior to the erection of this building the congregation attended church at Conowago. Rev. Father Pope succeeded as pastor, and to him is due the change of the village name from Bonaughtown to Bonneauville. During his administration the brick denominational schoolhouse was erected and placed in charge of the Sisters of Charity. Father McIlhenny was appointed successor to Rev. Mr. Pope; later Rev. Andrew O’Brien, then Father Shanahan was pastor, and he was succeeded by Rev. Father Gorman. St. Luke’s Reformed Church, near White Hall or Red Land and Bonneauville, was organized in 1846, with twenty members, by Rev. Jacob Sechler. The building was erected in 1846, and dedicated November 22, that year, as a Union Lutheran and Reformed Church. Among the original members were Daniel Kohler, George Bowman, David Biehl and William Goulden, Lutherans. Samuel Swope, Jacob Miller and George Bowman formed the building committee. Salem United Brethren Church, also called the “Stone Church,” was erected in 1845 by the pastor, Rev. Samuel L. Minnick. The preachers, whose names are given in the history of the church at Littlestown, were also in charge of the Salem congregation. The Catholic Congregation of Mount Rock, or Centennial (as the old village was named in 1876), formed a part of the Conowaga congregation up to 1869, when the stone church building was completed at “Mount Rock, over the Hill,” and named “St. Charles.” The land on which this building stands was donated by Charles Smith for church and school purposes. WHITE HALL OR RED LANDS. This is the name given to a postal village in the southern part of the township. Close by there was a military post standing 130 years ago, but by whom erected or in what cause has not yet been ascertained. The settlement of the hamlet dates back about twenty-six years, when the Lohrs and Millers located here; a few years later William McSherry became interested in the location, and built a few dwelling houses and a large three-story business building, which subsequently became known as the National Hotel. Enterprise was carried so far as to introduce a printing office there in 1878, the White Hall Visitor-a little journal devoted to Greenbackism-was started; next came the postoffice, tradesmen’s shops, a large dry goods store, meat market and cigar factory. White Hall sprang up into a village. Its proximity to Littlestown, Hanover, Gettysburg and New Oxford tends, in opposition to its enterprise, to limit its growth. The churches of the several denominations are within easy distance. Red Land postoffice was established in September, 1866 or 1867, with William A. McSherry postmaster. MOUNT ROCK. This place is the center of one of the earliest settlements in Pennsylvania. It is said that over a century and a half has passed away since the first house or cabin was built on the site of the Pohlman dwelling. In 1735 Lord Baltimore patented to Ludwig Schriver the land in this neighborhood, and on this tract he erected the second mill built on the Little Conowago, on the site of the O’Bald Mill. The first merchant at this point was Daniel Lawrence, a brother of George Lawrence, the pioneer tavern-keeper and owner of the old Reed farm of 1754. The era of progress of the settlement dates back to the early part of this century, when Edward Rielly established the first limekiln. He was followed in this industry by John Lilly, who erected a log house on the present Pohlman tract, and made lime manufacture an extensive business. As early as 1730 Samuel Lilly, his grandfather, located part of his land grant in this neighborhood. Samuel Wolf established the third set of kilns. He also erected the brick house, now the property of Peter Noel. The postoffice was established here in 1876, with Miss J. M. O’Neil in charge. The little village is the scene of a busy life, and in it and around it some of the neatest homes in the whole county are to be found. BONNEAUVILLE. The village, formerly called Bonaughton, dates its beginning back to about 1772, when a log cabin was erected in what is called the public square. Elizabeth Sourbeer, whose father built a stone house just west of Bonneauville, in the last century, is now a resident of Martinsburg, Va. In 1810 she attended Squire Brinkerhoff’s log school, which then stood in the square. James Foster also taught there. John Eckert put up a house here about this time, following the example of the first school teacher, who had built himself a better home then the old log cabin offered. The office at Square Corner was removed to Bonneauville in June, 1861, with Ambrose Staub postmaster, vice Jacob Noel, the former officer at the “Corner.” Ezra Noel is the present postmaster. *One female slave $23. †One male slave $30. ‡Female slave.