. The Historical journal . e on page 29 of theMay number, joined the great majority on the morning of July 3,1887, aged 93 years, 3 months and 11 days. He retained hisfaculties up to the close. Mr. Derby was the oldest known resi-dent of Williamsport. Major Isaac Craig, quartermaster at Fort Pitt, in a letter toLieutenant John Polhemus, commandant of Fort Franklin, datedPittsburg, May 10, 1794, writes: Doct. Belfour has sent a kegof oysters to my care for you, which shall be sent you by the firstconveyance. These were the first oysters received at Franklin. Philadelphia has the smallest area o
. The Historical journal . e on page 29 of theMay number, joined the great majority on the morning of July 3,1887, aged 93 years, 3 months and 11 days. He retained hisfaculties up to the close. Mr. Derby was the oldest known resi-dent of Williamsport. Major Isaac Craig, quartermaster at Fort Pitt, in a letter toLieutenant John Polhemus, commandant of Fort Franklin, datedPittsburg, May 10, 1794, writes: Doct. Belfour has sent a kegof oysters to my care for you, which shall be sent you by the firstconveyance. These were the first oysters received at Franklin. Philadelphia has the smallest area of any county in the Com-monwealth. It only has 130 square miles, but then it has thelargest population. The Indian village known to the English as Kittanning, wasdestroyed by Colonel John Armstrong, September 8, 1756. The Historical Journal will soon publish a transcript of thefirst assessment of the Borough of Williamsport. The French word Presqu Isle, used when referring to whereErie now stands, simply means a THE HISTORICAL JOURNAL. A MONTHLY RECORD. Out of monuments, names, wordes, proverbs, traditions, private records, and evi-dences, fragments of stories, passages of bookes, and the like, we doe save and recoversomewhat from the deluge of time.—Bacon. Vol. 1. SEPTEMBER, 1887. No. 5. JOURNAL OF SAMUEL MACLAY, 1790.[On April 9, 1790, Samuel Maclay, Timothy Matlack and John Adlum werecommissioned by the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania to examine thehead waters of the Susquehanna, explore tlie streams of the New Purchase, i. Northwestern section of the State lately purchased from the Indians, and to dis-cover if possible a route for a road to connect the waters of the Allegheny witlithe West Branch of the Susquehanna. Samuel Maclay was born June 17,1741, in Lurgan Township, Franklin County. Little is known of liis early 1767-8 he was employed as a deputy surveyor for his brother, Hon. WilliamMaclay. In 1769 he appears as an assistant to h
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