. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. urts of this County, whosewarm and friendly feelings, benevolent, upright and virtuous conduct,learning and intelligence have rendered him esteemed and respected by allwho knew him, and whose loss will be much and sincerely felt by hisnear relations and friends, and by the society in which he lived: Therefore, Resolved, Thatin testimony of our regard for his memory, themembers composing this meeting will walk in procession at his funeral to-morrow, and will wear crape on their left arms for the space of thirty days. He w
. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. urts of this County, whosewarm and friendly feelings, benevolent, upright and virtuous conduct,learning and intelligence have rendered him esteemed and respected by allwho knew him, and whose loss will be much and sincerely felt by hisnear relations and friends, and by the society in which he lived: Therefore, Resolved, Thatin testimony of our regard for his memory, themembers composing this meeting will walk in procession at his funeral to-morrow, and will wear crape on their left arms for the space of thirty days. He was of Scotch-Irish ancestors, who were among the earliestsettlers in Northampton County, Pa. His father and mother,Moses and Agnes Hemphill, were born there, the former on No-vember 11, 1746, and the latter on January 16, 1750. Theson, Joseph Hemphill, was a surveyor, and emigrated to Beaver,then in Allegheny County, sometime prior to 1798. A com-mission appointing him Major of Militia — now in the possessionof his grandson the Hon. W. B. Dunlap — was issued to him. Millard F. Mecklem. President Judge, i8g5-i8g6 History of Beaver County 327 Thomas Mifflin, dated December 26, Fromthis it would appear that he was a fixed and well-known citizenat that date. His residence at Beaver five years before that iscertain, as it is known that his cousin James Fullerton visitedhim there in 1793. He soon added to his occupation of surveyorthe business of tavern keeping and general merchandizing; andat his death he was the possessor of one of the largest estates inthe county. His surveys of farms throughout the county fre-quently turn up even at this late day, and the attorneys ofto-day are continually tracing titles to property back to hisownership. The title to much of the property in Beaver, Bridge-water, and Rochester was vested in him at the period of his March 8, 1803, he was commissioned by Gideon Granger,Postmaster-General, postmaster of Beavertown; and
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