AREA HISTORY: History of Adams County, Chapter XXVII, 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 214-222 CHAPTER XXVII. BERWICK TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF ABBOTTSTOWN. This division of the county, including what are now known as Oxford and Hamilton Townships, was brought into the little republic of Adams County in 1800. In 1810 Hamilton Township was set off, and in 1847 Oxford Township was established, reducing the original area of Berwick to about 10,000 acres. The head waters of Hamilton Creek rise in the northwestern part of Berwick, and flow north through Hamilton Township. Beaver Creek rises in the Seibrecht neighborhood, and flows north by east to Abbottstown, where it receives its east fork. This fork and main stream may be said to form the eastern line of the township. The Pigeon Hills and Egg Mountain, the latter entirely native, are weird natural upliftings, bold, rugged and steep, brought forth to relieve the Atlantic slope. With the exception of these hills the township presents a rolling surface. The land is principally red gravel, well cultivated. The geological characteristics are traces of copper and coal in the hills; hydro-mica slate, one mile and a half southwest of Paradise; impure limonite, in the same neighborhood; massive brecciated sandstone, impregnated with iron; limonite; dark blue and white crystalline limestone in Conowago and Berwick Townships, also ferruginous on Carlisle road. In 1848 lignite was found in this vicinity. The number of taxpayers in Berwick Township (1886) is 318; value of real estate, $230,993; number of horses, mules and geldings, 121; number of cows and neat cattle, 149; amount of moneys at interest, $22,146; value of trades and professions, $6,160; number of pleasure carriages, 48; number of acres of timber land, 1,274. The population in 1800 was 1,333; in 1810, 1,799, including what is now Hamilton and Oxford Townships; in 1820, 1,664, including Abbottstown, 312, and Oxford, 142; in 1830, 1,417; in 1840, 1,462; in 1850, 811, including 3 colored persons; in 1860, 869, including 2 colored persons; in 1870, 507; in 1880, 514, and of Abbottstown, 368. In Berwick Township the retailers of foreign goods, wines and liquors, in 1824, were George Bange and Joseph Carl, and of foreign merchandise alone, Joseph Eck and Daniel Heagy. Nicholas Carns, constable, made the returns. The assessment roll of 1799, then including Hamilton and Oxford Townships, contains the following names and statistics of assessed valuation:* *See also names and assessment of Abbottstown. Thomas Acheson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $152 Banard Allewalt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541 Caleb Bails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Nicholas Berlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852 John Bittinger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,584 Joseph Bittinger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,456 Nicholas Bittinger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 George Bard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576 Samuel Baugher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,058 Peter Bruch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,624 Jacob Becker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Michael Bender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600 Michael Babeletz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 Samuel Bowser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528 John Boland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Samuel Bowser, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 John Bohn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624 John Beaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,076 George Beaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460 George Beaker, of John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Martin Carroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,704 Michael Carroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,920 Samuel Clark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Christian Dick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,192 John Dollinger, laborer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joseph Ditto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Fred Decker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744 Peter Deiks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Daniel Deardurf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724 Henry Eckenrode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552 Conrad Eckenrode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888 Peter Galley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 Patrick Galaher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872 Jacob Grasser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488 Valentine Groff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 George Gibe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Thomas Gras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700 George Gram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Edward Hunt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Adam Huppert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Nicholas Hull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474 Joseph Hanantz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 970 John Herman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,154 John Herman, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552 David Herman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 John Henderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396 David Hiwer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862 Philip Hartman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716 Philip Hartman, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Samuel Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528 Joseph Kitchen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436 Richard Kitchen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832 Jacob Kerbach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636 Peter Keplinger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392 John Krim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Martin Kitzmiller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Matthew Karr, laborer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Widow Keffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Andrew Kohler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 936 John Kriehsomer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Peter Kehler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388 Henry Kuhn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,516 John Kroscast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628 Michael Klebsadler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Val. Kolb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 John Karr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808 George Kern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 928 John Knecht . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Peter Lang, or Long . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608 Adam Lang, or Long . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 John Lampin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Hugh Lynch, laborer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Moritz Lorentz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 John Lorentz, laborer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fred Lachman, laborer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Thomas Lilly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,080 Daniel Luhatz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Christian Lentz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,164 Manus McClafferty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 William Mumert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Joseph Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 952 Jacob Mosser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428 Francis Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384 John Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 Andrew Mawser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Frederick Moyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,140 James McClain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Peter Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824 Jacob Mumert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Jacob Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896 Widow McTaggart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,287 Edward McBride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Andrew McIlvain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,192 Mathias Mumert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732 Samuel Mumert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 John Mumert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584 George Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764 William Owings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Widow Patterson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,348 Isaac Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,056 Martin Rudy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Herman Roth, weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bernard Ruppert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Abram Serff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916 David Slagle* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,246 Christopher Slagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,072 Henry Slagle† . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,956 Henry Slagle, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,332 Jacob Shank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Ferd. Shultz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428 Jacob Slagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900 David Sowers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492 Joseph Shultz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456 William Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624 John Stean, weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Fred Stoll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Jacob Sowers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496 Adam Sowers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 Jacob Shetrane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748 William Shetrane, blacksmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 C. Schwobeland, laborer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Suhrback, blacksmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Daniel Slagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,037 Clement Studenbaker, house carpenter . . . . . . . . . . 496 John Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 984 Peter Trine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 William Thompson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544 Peter Traut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 844 John Vandike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460 Peter Vana(r)sdalen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428 John Wundshuld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Leonard Widder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 Caspar Wise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,048 Jacob Weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 John Watsworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 John Wagoner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444 Jacob Wist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764 John Wolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Fred Wolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692 * One negro; value, $30. † Henry Slagle, of Berwick Township, was delegate in the convention held at Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia, June 18, 1775. He was also delegate to the convention of 1776. The schools date back to 1835-36. M. D. G. Pfeiffer, delegate from Berwick to the School Convention of November 4, 1834, voted in favor of adopting the common school system. The State appropriation was $150.64 and the tax $145.84. Directors were appointed or elected prior to 1840; but the records for that period are defective. The township claimed a full representation in the regiments of the Union Army during the terrible years from 1861 to the close of 1865. Howard M. Bittinger, of Abbottstown, was the first citizen who was mustered in with Company E, Second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, the first organized in the county in 1861. The Berlin branch of the Baltimore & Hanover Railroad passes through the northern part of the township and the borough of Abbottstown. The only postoffice in Berwick Township is Abbottstown. BOROUGH OF ABBOTTSTOWN, 1753-1886. This borough is situated in the extreme northeastern part of Berwick Township, at the intersection of the York & Gettysburg and Hanover & Berlin Turnpikes, with its eastern suburbs running into York County. The new railroad, known as the “Berlin Branch Railroad,” completed in 1877, over the Gitt survey of 1875- 76, runs through the borough.* The population in 1820 was 312; sixty years later the census enumerator credited the borough with 318. The elevation at the square, above the Atlantic level is about the same as Hunterstown, or 578 feet. The village was surveyed and platted in 1755 by John Abbott, and ten years after one Jacob Pattison purchased a lot, the first sold by Abbott, but not until 1781 was the era of improvement introduced. The settlement was incorporated in 1835 under the name “Berwick Borough.” The number of taxpayers of the borough (1886), is 147; value of real estate, $98,412; number of horses, etc., 40; of cows, etc., 30; value of moneys at interest, $190,743; value of trades and professions, $7,230; number of pleasure carriages, 34; of gold watches, 14; no timber land. The Harrisburg Telegraph, in its “notes and queries,” published extracts from an old diary, dated May 17, 1775, relative to York County. In this the following passage about Berwick or Abbottstown, appears: “Fifteen miles from York is a small village called Berwick or Abbottstown. One Dutch Lutheran Church with a cupola; all the houses built of square logs. An old, kind Dutch lady gave our horses for breakfast a dish of ‘spelts;’ they are a coarse species of wheat. * * On the Conowago is another settlement of Irish. Mr. Hunter has some relatives here. We dined with them, who were highly civil to us. Twenty-two miles from York is a small village called Huntersville. There is a Presbyterian meeting- house now belonging to Mr. Thompson. Marsh Creek is a fine brook; low banks are lined with tall sycamores.” * Abbottstown subscribed $15,000 and a good share of brains to this railroad enterprise. The following are the names of the residents of Abbottstown, whose property was assessed in 1790: Thomas Abbott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686 Richard Adams, tanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Edward Abbott’s lands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Edward Abbott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 H. Bottenhime, turner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Fred Boyer, merchant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 John Brown, tailor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Fred Bower, weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 F. Berlin, Sr., cord winder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 George Bermif . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 George Bangler, blacksmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 F. Berlin, Sr., cord winder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 F. Baugher, tanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 994 Jacob Bentz, tanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 George Berlin, wheelwright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 George Brown, saddler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Dr. Daniel Becker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 John Bowman, turner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Jacob Bottenhiner, potter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Widow Bottenhiner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Isaac Berlin, gunsmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 James Chamberlain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Christian Dick, weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Henry Decker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Widow Donaldson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 James Duncan, merchant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 John Elder, innkeeper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Jacob Enck, cord winder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 David Erb, tavern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Diedrick Felty, cord winder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 George Fahnestock, merchant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Samuel Fahnestock, merchant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Eliza Fox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Michael Fishall, blacksmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Borins Fahnestock, mills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,116 Jacob Fahnestock, miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Michael Galagher, tailor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Philip Gilwix, blacksmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Thomas Gray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,140 John Hull, carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Philip Hull, nailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 John Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Widow Harding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 John Hersh, hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,174 Eliza Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 George Henry, mason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 John Henry, mason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Sebastian Heafer, mason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Joseph Herman, wheelwright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 George Herman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Fred Hoover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 John Hildebrand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615 Peter Ickes, hotel* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,113 Widow Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Joseph Jonas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516 John Keffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Isaac Kroff, saddler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Casper Kreiger, cord winder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Peter Klunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 John Keener . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Christ Kroff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 John Knight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 John Kesselring, laborer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . George Krim, nailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Joseph Kuhn, cooper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Michael King, hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Tobias Kepner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Ludwig Keffer, estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Richard Knight, hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Jacob Lengifelter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Daniel Lengifelter, mason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Henry Long, wheelwright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 John Lehn, weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Widow Lain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Mathias Martin, blacksmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 David Myer, hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Jacob Noel, tailor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Jacob Nagle, blacksmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 John Nagle, Sr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 John Nagle, Jr., mason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 John Nall, carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 John Phieger, hatter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 John Plinsinger, tailor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 William Patterson, merchant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 John Patterson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Joseph Rebaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Joseph Rebaw, Jr, tailor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 George Reitzle, turner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Widow Richardson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 George Rowenjohn, laborer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Widow Sealy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 John Slagle, tanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 John Sumberland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 James Sumberland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684 William Storgean, merchant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 George Siesholy, potter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Peter Shue, weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 George Schweitzer, carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 C. Schlauch, carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 John Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 C. Seller, carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Jacob Swigart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 John Skitmore, cord winder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Gabriel Smith, merchant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Jacob Sneally, tanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 John Schenck, carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Robert Toyle, hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 John Wate, hatter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Jacob Wolf, cord winder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Sebastian Wise, mill-wright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 John Wetterspoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688 *One Negro, value, $25. The total valuation of township and village, in 1799, was $93,028, on which a tax of 46 cents per $100 was collected by Jacob Lingafielter and Christian Dick. The single freemen of township and village in 1799 were taxed $1 each. Their names are as follows: Christian Nagle, Peter Auchenbeck, Samuel Boler, William Malone, William Bottenhiner, Peter Hallacker, Jere Witt, John Felix, Samuel Jacob, Thomas Radford, John B. Arnold, William Grant, John Wolf, George Schenck, George Seisholtz, Thomas Duffy and John Berlin. The officers of Abbottstown from 1864 (when the records of elections began to show some regularity) to the present time, are named as follows: 1864-Burgess*-Lewis Myers; council*-C. H. Grant, J. Wolf, J. Hafer, H. Mollison, J. R. Henky. 1865-No record. 1866-Burgess-Sebastian Hafer; council-N. P. Grint, J. Asper, M. Yeager, J. H. Fleckinger, Em. Harr. 1867-Burgess-Henry Kobler; council-W. W. Haffer, George Jerdy, George H. Balner, J. S. Kohler, John Motter. 1868-No record. 1869-Burgess-Francis J. Wilson; council-Joseph Weil, M. J. Yager, A. D. Grove, H. Stevens, G. Strubinger. 1870-Burgess-Henry Stevens; council-Jesse Newcomer, J. Cairns, Em. Harr, Joseph Harman, John Dirll. 1871-No election in 1871. 1872-Burgess-W. T. Hafer; council-J. F. Kohler, F. W. Grove, Jacob Hamon, Matthis Wichter. 1873-No record. 1874-Burgess-Henry Miller; council-M. Steffon, J. Weil, P. Langhman, J. Doll, (J. Mallison, G. Strubinger, tie). 1875-Burgess-F. J. Wilson; council-John Noel, John Fowler, Sr., George Myers, J. Kinneman, William Steffon. 1876-Burgess-William Hildebrand; council-Sameul Felix, F. X. Noel, P. Laughman, M. Yeager, C. Shue. 1877-Burgess-Jeseph Wolf; council-Joseph Reigle, H. Meyer, G. Livingston, H. Housholder, S. B. Baughman. 1878-Burgess-Joseph Wolf; council-G. Dellone, S. Felix, D. A. Miller, A. Lillich, Reuben Wolf. 1879-Burgess-W. W. Hafer; council-G. Dellone, A. Gillich, S. Felix, T. McClain, D. Miller. 1880-Burgess-Daniel Felix; council-H. Motter, P. Laugham, G. Livingston, J. Raber, C. Shue, Em. Trostle.† 1881-Burgess-Reuben Altland; council-J. Kinneman, M. Nagle, J. Noel, A. J. Baker, D. A. Miller, G. Dellone. 1882-Burgess-Gregory Dellone; council-J. Morrison, P. Laughman, J. Noel, L. Kobler, D. C. Hollinger, C. Shull. 1883-Burgess-George Dellone; council-S. Felix, P. Laughman, Lewis Kobler, M. Nagle, C. Minter, Samuel Steffan. 1884-Burgess-Reuben Altland; council-Pearson, Lillich, Noel (tie), Berckhimer, Mackley. 1885-Burgess-Solomon Moul; council-Lewis W. Kobler, John Noel. The justices elected within the above period of twenty-one years include Washington Metzgar, 1874; John H. Fleckinger, 1878; Washington Metzgar, 1879; John H. Fleckinger, 1883-84. The borough contains a few manufacturing industries. The manufacture of good cigars at a reasonable prices is a marked feature of its enterprise. * In 1837 Frederick W. Kohler was elected burgess, and Solomon Hartman, H. Eichelberger, S. Haffer, J. Carl and Henry Myers, councilman. In 1840 H. Eichelberger, Isaac Berlin and F. W. Kohler were elected councilmen. † P. C. McCann was secretary in 1880-81. NEWSPAPERS. Two years prior to the organization of Abbottstown as a borough a German newspaper, The Intelligencer, was instituted by F. W. Koehler, and continued regular publications down to 1848. In this year the name was changed to Wochenblatt, under which it was published till its fall in 1850. The Yellow Jacket, a campaign sheet, was issued by N. R. Buckley and F. W. Koehler in 1840, and carried on through the fierce political battles of that year. POSTOFFICE. Over half a century ago the Abbottstown postoffice was the fourth in order of business within the county, the revenue from the sale of postage stamps amounting in 1834 to the large sum of $80.39. At this time, too, the village was a busy place, teamsters and coaches on the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh route filling the village daily with new faces and new outfits. The very nature and extent of this intercourse reduced the postoffice business to something nominal, as the travelers would carry written and verbal messages along the route, and thus save the people the money which a low postal rate would induce into the United States Treasury. When Col. George Ickes was appointed postmaster, and during his administration the stage coach and freighting business gave way to modern means of transportation. The office grew in importance, and when E. H. Stahle was appointed, it was one of the first offices in the county. MISCELLANEOUS. The founder of the village died prior to 1799, and bequeathed his lands - the most valuable tract-to Thomas Abbott, north of the Y. & G. Turnpike, and the less valuable to Edward on the south side. Dr. Abbott Carnes and Calvin Carnes, great-grandchildren of John Abbott, are all the senior representatives of the old family now in the country. Joseph Berlin died in 1879, aged about ninety years. Jacob Wolf, a centenarian, died near Abbottstown in March, 1869, his children, grand, great-grand and great-great-grandchildren then numbering 240. Frederick Wolf, another aged resident, remembers to have seen the figures 1777 over the pulpit of the Emanuel Reformed Church. Mrs. Haner, who died in 1884, aged one hundred and two years, was one of the pioneers. Mrs. Agnes Wolf now resides on the site of the first house ever erected at Abbottstown, some of the material of which was used in building Mrs. Grove’s residence. The stone house on the eastern side of the borough was erected in 1781 (it is supposed by George Henry, a stone-mason). On the building stone is the inscription, “Built by G. H., A. D. 1781.” Not one of the taxpayers of 1799 is now living. Their grand and great- grandchildren, however, perpetuate their names, and many continue to reside in the very district which their pioneer ancestors reclaimed from the wilderness state. CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES. Emanuel Reformed Church was founded by Rev. Jacob Lischey during the Revolution, and it is stated that a house of worship was erected in 1777, such statement being made on the fact that Frederick Wolf and others saw the figures over the pulpit. The first authentic account, however, credits the congregation with erecting a church in 1782, during the pastorate of Mr. Rahauser. What is known as the “Stone Church” was begun August 15, 1847, and dedicated June 12, 1848. The ministers who have served this mission are named as follows: Revs. Rauhauser, John Ernst, 1800-12; F. W. Vandersloot, 1826-31; C. Hefenstein, 1814- 26; S. C. Bennett, 1832-34; D. Zeigler, 1834-35; S. Gutelius, 1835; J. Sechler; I. Hoffeins, 1853; F. W. P. Davis, 1863; A. Spangler; W. F. Colliflower, 1872- 79, and D. U. Wolf, 1880-86. St. John’s Lutheran Church was built of logs in 1782 or 1783, and continued in use until 1829, when the building and records were destroyed by fire, said to have been started by refugee negroes. Jacob Fahnestock and son saved part of the communion service and some articles. On June 30, 1830, the corner-stone of the present brick building was placed, under the direction of Nicholas Henry, George Baugher, John Wolf and Joseph Carl, the building committee, and Rev. Jonathan Ruthrauff, pastor. The roll of ministers comprises the following names: George Bager, 1768; Daniel Schroeder, 1780; J. G. Grob (or Gruph), 1788;-Rabenack, 1804; Daniel Raymond, 1807; John Meltzeimer, 1820; Jonathan Ruthrauff, 1829; Leonard Gerhart, 1837; Peter Scheuer, 1839; William Hailig, 1842; Charles Witmer, 1846; Leonard Gerhart, 1850; D. J. Hauer, 1862; Michael Snyder, 1873; M. Alleman; S. P. Ormby, 1879; John Tomlinson to 1886. Dr. William Hollinger is secretary of the society. The membership is 290, and value of property $5,000. The Catholic Church, known as “Paradise Chapel,” just north of Abbottstown, is referred to in the history of Hamilton Township. The Abbottstown Bible Society was organized October 17, 1869, with Rev. Dr. Haner, president. A G. A. R. Post was recently organized at Abbottstown.