Chapter 11
Pine (Including Boggs)
Footnotes
1 Ă¢Â€Â“ It was further shorn of the greater part of its remaining territory
by the organization of Boggs township, June 10, 1878, by a line extending from
a point on the Allegheny river, about 125 rods in an airline below the mouth
of Whisky runĂ¢Â€Â”south of the telegraph officeĂ¢Â€Â”to the upper southwest corner
of Mahoning township, at the bend of the Mahoning creek, in the eastern part
of the Wallace tract, No. 4143, leaving only about one-sixth of the territory
in Pine township. Samuel Mateer was appointed judge, and George W. Goohen and
Sharon Quigley inspectors of the first election of township officers, and that
election was ordered to be held at the house of Samuel Mateer, July 6. The
vote on the question of the division of Pine township was 160 for and 159
against.2 – Heckewelder
3 – See sketch of Allegheny township.
4 – See sketch of Kittanning borough
5 Ă¢Â€Â“ The third, a neat frame edifice, was erected in 1878, in the grove on
David Devers’ farm on the Wallis tract, No. 4147.6 Ă¢Â€Â“ Alexander Laughlin, Jr., died in June, 1878. He provided in his will
that the furnace might continue to be operated by his brother and copartner,
without dissolution, for ten years.7 – See sketch of Valley township
8 – See sketch of Valley township
9 Ă¢Â€Â“ No. 4534 was the southernmost. The other three lay north of it in the
following order: Nos. 4533, 4580, 452810 Ă¢Â€Â“ Robert Morris, mentioned if this chapter and the one on Wayne
township, as the warrantee of several large tracts of land, was born in
Liverpool, England, January 31, 1734. His father, prior to 1749, emigrated to
this country and settled in Maryland. Soon afterward he sent for his son, whom
he placed in a school in Philadelphia. He was Washington’s secretary of the
treasury during the revolution, and his skillful financiering undoubtedly did
as much toward establishing American independence as did Washington’s military
achievements or Franklin’s diplomacy. His large private fortune was used to
sustain the credit of the young nation. Notwithstanding the splendid and
priceless services of this true patriot, his closing years were permitted to
be darkened and his life shortened by the operation of that inhuman law which
punished debt by imprisonment. After three years and six months’ incarceration
for a debt he was unable to pay, he was released in 1801, under the provisions
of the bankrupt law passed that year. He died May 7, 1806.Source: Page(s) 247-258, History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania by
Robert Walker Smith, Esq. Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883.
Transcribed December 1998 by Jim Wise for the Armstrong County Smith Project.
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