THOMAS MIFFLIN LAND PATENT SIGNED 1797 NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA RACHEL GRAYDEN (NOW UNION COUNTY)
THOMAS MIFFLIN and JAMES TRIMBLE. Partly Printed DS: "Tho Mifflin" as Governor and "James Trimble" as Deputy Secretary, 1p, 21 x11. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1797 March 6. On vellum, two-inch diameter paper State seal affixed with red wax at upper left portion. Land patent to Rachel Grayden for 155 acres 17 perches "… monies paid by Jacob Young unto the late Proprietaries at the granting of the warrant herein after mentioned and of the sum of nineteen shillings and nine pence lawful money now paid by Rachel Grayden into the Receiver General's Office of this Commonwealth there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto the said Rachel Grayden a certain tract of land, called 'Troy' situate on the waters of Penns Creek Buffalo Township Northumberland County...Which said tract was surveyed in pursuance of a Warrant dated 8th July 1773 granted to the said Jacob Young whose right in the said tract of land by virtue of divers conveyance and ajourances in the law became vested in the said Rachel Grayden with the appurtenances, to have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with the appurtenances unto the said Rachel Grayden and her heirs to the use of her the said Rachel Grayden her heirs and assigns forever …" Docketed on verso with 1 3/4-inch diameter paper seal affixed with red wax at bottom. [Other names mentioned as adjoining this property include Conrad Weiser and William Johnston.]
On the reverse side: "Enrolled in the Rolls Office for the State of Pennsylvania in Patent Book No. 31, Page 331. Witness my hand and seal of Office the 15 day of March 1797 Mathw Irvin, M.A."
Thomas Mifflin, was born in Philadelphia in 1744. He was a member of the first United States Congress in 1774, was appointed Quartermaster General of the Continental Army in August 1775, and was also the first governor of Pennsylvania elected in 1790 (serving three consecutive terms until 1799). Mifflin was a member of the constitutional convention and a signer of the United States Constitution. He died at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, January 20. James Trimble was the first Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth (1777-1837).
Conrad Weiser, born Johann Conrad Weiser, Jr. (November 2, 1696 – July 13, 1760) was a German Pennsylvanian pioneer, interpreter and effective diplomat between the Pennsylvania Colony and Native Americans. He was a farmer, soldier, monk, tanner, and judge as well. He contributed as an emissary in councils between Native Americans and the colonies, especially Pennsylvania, during the 18th century's tensions of the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War). Weiser arrived in the settlements of Heidelberg and Tulpehocken in Pennsylvania in 1729. He spoke the two European languages, German and English, necessary to survive and prosper in the new colony. As a teenager he had lived among the Maqua Indians in New York as an adopted son of Chief Quagnant where he had learned their language and customs which made him an invaluable asset to the Quaker government. For over thirty years, Weiser negotiated and arranged treaties and land purchases for the Penn family. On November 22, 1720, at the age of 24, Weiser married the young German girl Anna Eve Feck (Faeg). In 1723 the couple followed the Susquehanna River south out of New York and settled their young family on a farm in Tulpehocken near present-day Reading, Pennsylvania. The couple had fourteen children, but only seven reached adulthood.
The Annals of Buffalo Valley on page 181 lists a William Johnston as an inhabitant of Buffalo Township in the beginning of April 1780. A Captain William Johnston is listed among the names of officers in the pay of the Province of Pennsylvania, May 11, 1759 [Ref: Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume II].
Johann Jacob Jung (Young) was born about April 15, 1749 in Gundershoffen, Alsace, France, and died before April 21, 1813 in Black Hole Valley, Washington Township, Lycoming County, PA. He married Maria Barbara Seewagen February 6, 1770 in Gundershoffen, France, daughter of Hans Seewagen and Maria Schmidt. She was born about 1752 in Gundershoffen, Alsace area, France, and died before December 23, 1822 in East Buffalo Township, Union County, Pennsylvania. They had four sons and three daughters—Michael (born in France and not mentioned in his father's will), Jacob, Barbara, a female Young married to Tobias, George, Adam, and Elizabeth. Jacob Young was born 1775 in Strasburg, Lancaster County, and died June 1857 in Buffalo Township, Union County, PA. From the Obituary in Lewisburg Chronicle, June 12, 1857, it mentions that Jacob Young's father removed to what is now called Hall's Island, at the mouth of Penn's Creek, and from there to Black Hole Valley, Lycoming Co. He married in 1796, since which time he has resided on his farm in Union County.
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