LANDLORDS WHO DO NOT LIVE IN TOWN, OR OTHER HOUSES.

Martin Gregor,

Margaret Bolinger, .

In addition to the amount of money so raised, the heirs of John Harris, Messrs. David Harris, Robert Harris, William Maclay and John A. Hanna, paid $1,600, the purchase money, or perhaps something more than the amount which the Landis's had paid for the property.

County of Dauphin,

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Bricker's house,

88

Dr. Fahnestock,

Frederick Youse,

8 14

9 6

Rev. Nathaniel Snowden,

6 0

Rev. Shaffer's house,

8 0

Rev. Hautz,

8 0

"At a meeting of the committee of seven, appointed to superintend and direct the appropriation of the monies raised for the demolition of the mill-dam, and for the further removing the nuisance in Paxton creek, April 8, 1795:

"At Brindle's-Present, Potts, Gilmore, Berryhill, W. Graydon, Dentzell, Bucher, Kean.

"John Kean was appointed Secretary and Treasurer.

"Ordered, that the Treasurer take up the bonds due to Adam Boyd and to George Allen.

"Adjourned to Saturday evening next, at 6 o'clock, at Mr. Berryhill's.

Saturday, 11th.-The committee met and viewed the dam, and adjourned till Monday evening at 6 o'clock, at Berryhill's. "Monday, 13th.-Met, and the members mentioned the names of persons wishing to borrow money. Agreed, that the money be retained in the Treasury a few days longer.

"Agreed, that on Saturday next, at 1 o'clock, the bell be rung, and the inhabitants assemble and demolish the remainder of the dam.

THE MILL-DAM DESTROYED BY THE CITIZENS.

"Saturday, 18th.-The committee met, and proceeded with a number of the inhabitants to the dam. Committee hired four persons to open the bed of the creek twelve feet wide, which was done, and the persons employed were paid six dollars, which was raised by voluntary contribution on the spot.

"Saturday, 25th April, 1795.-The committee met. Peter, John and Abraham Landis attended, and offered to take $2,000 for the water-right, which the committee positively refused.

THE MILL SEAT PURCHASED BY THE CITIZENS.

"April 25, 1795.—Peter, John and Abraham Landis sold to Stacy Potts, Moses Gilmore, William Graydon, Jacob Bucher,

John Kean, John Dentzell, and Alexander Berryhill, of the borough of Harrisburg (a committee chosen at a public meeting of the inhabitants of the said borough, at the court room, on the 7th of April,) sold and conveyed to them their mill, &c., for £2,633 4s. 6d., "to hold and to have the said two pieces of lands, houses, mills, mill machinery, &c."

This sum, as before stated, was raised by taxing the citizens. The payments were made in three annual instalments; one-half of the amount assessed was paid in 1794; one-half the balance in 1795, and the balance in 1796. For example, a citizen taxed £4 had to pay £2 in 1794, £1 in 1795, and £1 in 1796.

It may be remarked that some citizens who refused to contribute to the subscription, were obliged to leave the town. No violence was offered to them, but no one would employ them in their several pursuits, and they at length went elsewhere.

The mill seat, with the privileges of a dam and mill-race, was originally purchased from John Harris, J.r, by the Landis's, April 16, 1790; subsequently they purchased a small piece of land from Gen. John A. Hanna, adjoining that purchased from Mr. Harris.

The mill was erected about one-quarter of a mile below Harrisburg, about as low down as the old "White House," between the "old mill road" and the canal; and the race extended up along or nearly along the present route of the Pennsylvania canal, to a lane which ran across to the ridge, about the upper line of the brickyard field opposite Pratt's Rolling Mill, where the dam was erected.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE MILL-DAM TROUBLES.

Another writer, in describing the mill-dam difficulties, states that "the money raised by subscription was tendered to the Landis's, who refused it. The citizens then prepared for the foreible removal of the dam, and the Landis's threatened to use

force to prevent it. The citizens accordingly marched in a body to the dam, on a cold, snowy day in March. The owners were there with several men, armed with guns, threatening to fire. The citizens, however, advanced into the water, and the dam was soon demolished. The Landis' threatened suit, and the citizens handed them a list of several hundred names to be sued; but the proprietors finally took the money."

ALEXANDER GRAYDON, ESQ., ON THE SICKNESS.

Alexander Graydon, Esq., an uncle of H. Murray Graydon, Esq., of Harrisburg, in his "Memoirs," a work of sterling interest, alludes to the sickness at this place while speaking of the Yellow Fever that raged in Philadelphia. He says:

"Measures were taken in almost every town and village to prohibit the entry of persons suspected of infection; and even fugitives from the seat of it, though in health, were regarded with a jealous eye. Some of the people of Harrisburg were for following the example of their neighbors, though a malady not less fatal than that in Philadelphia was raging among themselves. But the difference was, that one was called a plague, the other but a simple fever. It is somewhat remarkable, that if yellow fever is of foreign origin, as insisted upon by many, that a disease of a similar type should make its appearance at the same time on the banks of the Susquehanna, at the distance of an hundred miles. Shall we say, that the state of the atmosphere which generated the one, was favorable to the diffusion of the other? This, I believe, is the doctrine of those who contend that the yellow fever is of exotic growth, and always imparted when it appears among us. I would venture, however, no opinion on the subject. With respect to the mortality produced by the two diseases, that at Harrisburg was, I believe, in proportion to the population of the place, as great as that at Philadelphia. I cannot take upon me minutely to describe the