Journal of Samuel Maclay, While Surveying the West Branch of the Susquehanna, the Sinnemahoning And the Allegheny Rivers, in 1790
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John Jordan was one of the early settlers there in 1806. The party operatiu!^ the salt works was known as the Lycoming Salt Company. Judge Burnside was one of the owners, and a man named Webb was president. 26 JOURNAL OF HON. SAMUEL MACLAY. of 50 yards. We then took up a point of the mountain alon^ what we supposed to be an Elk path but soon found new and old Indian marks along it. As soon as I reached the top of the hill, I took out the instrument and took the corse to the uper forks of the Cr...eek of which I had a tolarable Distinct view, and found that we were nearly N. W. from the forks and about 4| or five miles Distant. Hicks and Semor then set the compass to strike Toby's creek and agreed in the corse; the corse the set was N. 14 W., But as the Indian path was newly marked, and, as we supposed by the Indians whose marks we had seen at several places along Sinema- honing, and as we expected that they had come from Toby's Creek it was thought advisable to follow the path. It took neai'ly a north- east Corse; we followed it about three miles.
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