. The Pennsylvania railroad: its origin, construction, condition, and connections. Embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . but a committee of inquiry of the National House ofRepresentatives acquitted him from all blame. He resignedhis commission as major-general in 1792. He became reducedin his old age to povert), and applied to Congress for claims on the sympathy of his country were listened towith indifference, and admitted with relucta
. The Pennsylvania railroad: its origin, construction, condition, and connections. Embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . but a committee of inquiry of the National House ofRepresentatives acquitted him from all blame. He resignedhis commission as major-general in 1792. He became reducedin his old age to povert), and applied to Congress for claims on the sympathy of his country were listened towith indifference, and admitted with reluctance. After a longsuspense, he was granted a pension of sixty dollars per died August 31st, 1818, in his eighty-fourth year, and hisremains repose in the Presbyterian churchyard, at Greensburg,beneath a monument erected by the Masonic fraternity in the south side of this monument is inscribed— The earthlyremains of Major-General Arthur St. Clair are deposited be-neath this humble monument, which is erected to supply theplace of a nobler one, due from his country. He died August31st, 1818, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. On the northside— This stone is erected over the remains of their departedbrother by members of the Masonic COAL-MINING AND COKE-BURNING. RADEBAUGHS—GRAPEVILLE—PEXN—MANOR. 159 lives and fortunes. This town was attackedby the savages on the 13th of July, 1782, anumber of its inhabitants murdered, manyothers carried off captive, and the placeentirely burned. Those of the citizens whoescaped took refuge in a fort, which thesavages feared to attack. The town wasnever rebuilt. The lots which composed itwere sold or abandoned, and became mergedin the adjoining farms. Years of cultivationhave obliterated all traces of the early settle-ment which promised so well—nothing re-maining but its melancholy history. Theprisoners taken at the burning of Hannastown were conveyed to Canada, and theresurrendered to the British. Here one
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