a soldier's life and return to his family. He had been but a short time at home when he was attacked with the nervous fever which in a few days deprived him of his life. The property he left to sustain his family was altogether in cash, which he had put on interest. Payments were made to my mother

Moses Palmer. Adam Miller of Somerset County lodged at Peter Byer's on King Street, and John M. Hunter of Lycoming Co., at Adam Weaver's on N. Queen Street. Jas. Bullock the Clerk of the House lodged with the Treasurer; Jas. Webb the assistant clerk at Weaver's; the Sargent at Arms at James Alex

(9) Fordney began to cut it up in 1855, by selling the greater part of the tract to Christian Kieffer by deed dated April 2, 1855, and recorded in Book H, Vol. 8, p. 564, Retaining only a small block out of the heart of it with no street fronts. Christian Kieffer immediately cut it up further by

natural feature within her boundaries. To record, therefore, this important phase of the past industrial activi- ties of the county, which have in a large measure contributed to its great wealth, and which as one of its aspects stands unique in the mining history of the United States, (namely, a mine and