Re: Shaffer/Shaver families who lived in Augusta Township Northumberland PA.
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Shaffer/Shaver families who lived in Augusta Township Northumberland PA.
mary pullin 6/15/04
A road from Mahantango to Sunbury on the east side of the
Susquehanna was petitioned for at August sessions, 1774. John Clark,
Peter Almaug, Leonard Kerstetter, Jonas Yocum, Michael Shaver, and John
Shaver were appointed viewers. Their report was confirmed at the
corresponding term of court in the following year; it provided for a
bridle road twenty-one feet wide, "beginning at John Heckert's on
Mahantango creek," thence passing in order Peter Yocum, Casper Snively,
Fiddler's run, Anthony Fiddler, Peter Weiser, Samuel Weiser, Mahanoy
creek, Hugh McKinley, William Biles at Biles's creek, Auchmuty's, Adam
Christ, Christian Ferst, Hollowing run, and Shamokin creek, "to William
Baker's house on the road already laid out and confirmed from Sunbury to
Reading." This was the first road leading from Sunbury to the southern
part of the county. It was twenty miles one hundred thirty-nine perches
in length, and did not deviate from the bank of the river to any extent
in any part of its course.
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