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ley, a commissioner for examining the navigation of 

 the Susquehanna River, and subsequently, with 15. n- 

 jainin Rittenhouse, to examine the Schuylkill River. 

 On th<- 27th of June, 1791, he wrote t<» Governor Mif- 

 flin that he was at New Town with Colonel Timothy 

 Pickering to meet the Oneida and Onondaga Indians. 

 They were on their way to Painted Post, where the 

 meeting was to be held. In Augusl of the same year, 

 li»- wrote a long letter from Port Franklin, where he 

 met Cornplanter and other <-lii<-t's on public business. 

 ■ one time lived at Muncy, and assisted in making 

 an early map of Pennsylvania. On the 14th of April, 

 he was appointed by Governor Mifflin one of the 

 flrst associate judges of Lycoming county, and resigned 

 February L6, L798, on account of contemplated change 

 of residence. 



Major Allium has been described as being a tall, stout . 

 muscular man. and very active in his movements. Be 

 had lilm- eyes, light hair, a florid complexion, and a 

 Bmooth-shaven face. Be was verj benevolent, and 

 loved to aid the needy ami unfortunate. The frontis- 

 piece portrait is reduced from an oil painting by Peel. 



Tin I: f Commercial Viticultun 



Nicholas Longworth, at Cincinnati, received cuttings 

 of the Catawba from Adlum in 1825, ami thereupon the 

 -'•'•oud era of viticulture, west of the Alleghenies, began. 

 The flrst attempt, at Vevay, New Barmony, Vincennes, 

 ami other places, was beginning to feel insecure. A 

 better variety than the Cape grape, and a surer one 

 than thi- European kinds, was wanted. The Catawba 

 seemed to answer the demand. Longworth, who had 

 coin.- from N'\\ Jersey, \\;i- the disseminator and pro- 



