. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . is a stone structure, thirty byforty feet, two and a half stories high. It was erectedby Col. Burd prior to the Bouquet expedition of 1763,and, unless the residence of Peter Allen, at the footof Peters Mountain, is in existence, is probably themost ancient edifice within the limits of the countyof Dauphin. The place was named Tinian byCol. Burd, and is certainly one of the historic man-sions of our State. The most notable men of theFrench and Indian and Revolutionary wars we
. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . is a stone structure, thirty byforty feet, two and a half stories high. It was erectedby Col. Burd prior to the Bouquet expedition of 1763,and, unless the residence of Peter Allen, at the footof Peters Mountain, is in existence, is probably themost ancient edifice within the limits of the countyof Dauphin. The place was named Tinian byCol. Burd, and is certainly one of the historic man-sions of our State. The most notable men of theFrench and Indian and Revolutionary wars wereentertained at Tinian right hospitably, and theassociations which cluster around that famous build-ing, whose owner was a man of mark in Provincialdays, claim its preservation in this volume. Theold iron knocker of Col. Burd remains on the frontdoor, while the interior presents little change. Ithas never been remodeled. One-half a mile to the east of Tinian is Wal- nut Hill, the home of the Crouchs and some particulars the progressive spirit of the agehas changed it. It, too, was erected a century ago,. TINIAN, RKSIDENCE OF COL. JAMES BURD, 1764. and, as the residence of Capt. James Crouch, of theRevolution, Edward Crouch, a representative in Con-gress, and Benjamin Jordan, a State senator, all rep-resentative men, has an historic interest. SWATARA TOWNSHIP. The court at their September sessions in the year1799 issued an order to commissioners to view LowerPaxtang township and report to the next sessions aline dividing said township as nearly as might be forthe convenience of the people into two equal parts ;to which the commissioners made return that theyhad made a division of the said township by a line. Beginning at the Paxtang Creek, where the breastof Landis mill-dam formerly stood ; thence south 85degrees east 192 perches to a hickory in the land ofJohn Neisley; thence south 76 degrees east 375perches to a black-oak in the land of Joshua Elder,Esq.; theuce so
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