CHAPTER L 



BIRTH AND EARLY LITE. 



I was born March 22d, 1782, in Dauphin County, 

 Pennsylvania, near where the city of Harrisburg 

 now stands. My parents were both of German 

 extraction. They moved up the Susquehannah River 

 about ninety miles in 1786, traveling in a keel boa' 

 there being no roads or other mode of conveyance. 

 They landed at a place called Farris Creek in what 

 was then Northumberland county, and remained* 

 there about four months, when the Six Nations oi 

 Indians began to trouble the inhabitants on the west 

 branch of the Susquehannah. We then moved back 

 into Cumberland county, five miles from, Harrisburg, 

 on the west side of the Susquehannah. At that time 

 the Indians distressed the inhabitants for about eight- 

 een months. We remained there two or three years, 

 when, the Indians having become peaceable, we re- 

 turned up the river, and stopped at Warry Run, 

 about two miles above the junction of the two 

 branches of the Susquehannah. 



