. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. ll, when they arenot employd in escorting Provisions or Stores, shall em-ploy themselves in scouring and ranging the woods; andI recommend it to the inhabitants to Joyn them fromtime to time for that purpose, and you are to take carethat this, my order, be carryd into full Execution. This station was the old, original, saw mill, in Slating-ton, which stood on the site of the present saw mill, onTrout Creek, some one hundred and seventy-five feet northof the bridge at Main Street. It belonged to the Kernfamily, and was built prior to 1755. It
. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. ll, when they arenot employd in escorting Provisions or Stores, shall em-ploy themselves in scouring and ranging the woods; andI recommend it to the inhabitants to Joyn them fromtime to time for that purpose, and you are to take carethat this, my order, be carryd into full Execution. This station was the old, original, saw mill, in Slating-ton, which stood on the site of the present saw mill, onTrout Creek, some one hundred and seventy-five feet northof the bridge at Main Street. It belonged to the Kernfamily, and was built prior to 1755. It was subsequentlyremoved to the place now occupied by the Slate (mantel)Factory. Nicholas Kern, the first settler, took up this land asearly as 1737, on which he subsequently built his his death, in 1748, the property was equally di- i In Old Northampton. 385 vided, by will, between his widow, six sons and onedaughter, who survived. All the family remained at theplace until the youngest children had arrived at maturity, vSfe^ *3AIM H9IH31. #* when some of them removed to the lower part of thecounty, where their descendants still reside. William andJohn remained at the homestead, taking care of the farmand mills which had been erected on Trout Creek. YVil- 386 The Pennsylvania-German Society. liam seems to have been of a jovial disposition, and givensomewhat to joking. Because of this fact, he was called Trockener, in German, signifying a joker or wit. This,in time, became corrupted to Trucker, so that on theEvans map of 1755, as well as that of Edward Scull of1770, one of the Kern mills, the one in which we are inter-ested, was designated as Truckers Mill. It stoodbeside the only road then existing, an old Indian path,which crossed the Lehigh at a ford some five hundred feetabove the bridge leading to Walnutport. It was knownas the Warriors Path, and the ford designated as theWarriors Crossing. In 1761 a road was laid out, fol-lowing its line, which still exists in Sla
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