Northumberland County, Land Hawkins Boone File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Contributed by Dorothy Mack, 17821 South Airport Way, Manteca, CA 95337. RMack49418@aol.com Transcribed June 16, 1998 by Larry DeFrance, 657 North Warren, Helena, MT 59601. Larry@ns.helenet.com "History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys, Embraced in the Counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder In The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania." In Two Volumes, Vol 1 Philadelphia: EVERTS, PECK & RICHARDS 1886, p. 1135. USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. Hawkins Boone was assessed for 200 acres in Greenwood Township, then in Cumberland County, in 1768. This was just north of Buffalo Township. The boundaries of Greenwood township were defined in July of 1767 as "Beginning at McKee's path on the Susquehanna River; thence down the said river to the mouth of the Juniata River; thence up the Juniata River to the mouth of the Cockalamus; thence up the same to the crossing of McKee's path; thence by the said path to the place of beginning." April 8, 1775, Joseph Nagle, warranted one hundred and fifty acres, including his improvements, adjoining Dunbar Walker, Abram Jones, Hawkins Boone, Everheard Liddick and Joseph Thornton, on the head of Greenwood Run, in Greenwood township, in the county of Cumberland. John Michael Bashor came from Bethel township, Berks County, in 1774, and bought a part of the "Jacob Rees" tract, near New Columbia, of Hawkins Boone. WHITE DEER TOWNSHIP The formation of this township will be found in the general account of the formation of the county. The earliest surveys on the present territory were made on applications dated April 3, 1769, numbered in the order in which they were drawn from the wheel or box, and orders of survey had thereon. John Hoffman, in right of Michael Deet, No. 189, had three hundred acres located and surveyed on the run where the White Deer and Kelly township line strikes the river, and extended north from a black oak (of John Fisher's survey in Kelly's), at the river, two hundred and forty- two perches. Next north on the river was the Jonathan Pingley, No. 185, surveyed October 21, 1769, for James Parr. William Armstrong had squatted and commenced an improvement on the land now known as the William Stadden farm, just where the road strikes the run, a half mile south of New Columbia, at what was known as the Old Ferry, in the year 1769, and he had made an application, No. 711, for three hundred acres at the same place. In 1771 Parr and Armstrong agreed to divide the land in front along the river so as to include Parr's improvement, and Armstrong took the south half, including his improvement. Samuel Dale bought of Parr the northern portion and moved on it, and was residing there in a house near New Columbia in 1774. He removed to Buffalo township in 1793, but purchased the other part of Armstrong in 1794. In the division made by Parr and Armstrong, they encroached on the Ernest Burk land, a tract belonging to Hawkins Boone. April 5, 1774, a warrant issued in the name of Ernest Burk, for three hundred acres, joining Dietrick Reese, Jacob Reese, Jonathan Pingley and William Armstrong, in Buffalo township, Northumberland County, 20th of April, the purchase money paid to the proprietaries. On the 11th and 13th of March, 1776, Hawkins Boone procured a survey to be made under this warrant, upon the land described, by Henderson, the deputy surveyor, who, upon draft of the survey, wrote the following memorandum: "Draught of a tract as situated in White Deer township, formerly Buffalo, Northumberland County, surveyed in dispute between William Armstrong and Hawkins Boone." Hawkins Boone was killed by the Indians, and his house and papers burned at the taking of Fort Freeland, on the Warrior's Run, on the 28th of July, 1779. In 1785 a judgment was obtained against the administrators of Hawkins Boone, and the land sold to Evans. This back land included the premises in controversy. Accordingly, when, in the year 1773, one Henry settled down on the land in controversy, Armstrong drove him off, and in March, 1776, he caused a survey to be made upon his application by the deputy surveyor, and took in part of the land in dispute. April 25, 1794, Armstrong conveyed to Dale his application, and on the 4th of May a survey was made for Dale, which extended the lines so as to include three hundred and twenty acres, comprehending more of Boone's survey. Dale also became the owner of Pingley's application. Nargong became the owner of Dale's claim. In an ejection brought by Evans against Nargong, it was held that there was enough to show that Boone was the owner of the Burk, having used Burk's name, or he became the owner by purchase immediately after, and that Armstrong being only the owner of the Pingley, had no right to make an addition to the survey without an order of the Land Office. (Transcriber's note - this book goes on to state that, "Parr was a lieutenant in Captain John Lowden's company, First Rifle Regiment, Colonel Wm. Thompson, and rose to the rank of major; served brilliantly in command of the riflemen under Morgan at Saratoga and Stillwater, and under Sullivan in 1779." (Page 1341) So apparently, Parr and Hawkins fought together under Morgan.)