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Nouvelle France (New France). At four places along the Allegheny River they buried leaden plates, the inscriptions on which claimed the country for the king of France, whose coat of arms was engraved thereon. One leaden plate was also buried on the Ohio river. The place of burial of one of these plates was mistaken until Rt. Rev. Msgr. A. A. Lambing, the noted Catholic historian, cleared up the error. He also compiled a history of the French occupation of Fort Du Quesne, and the religious services conducted therein by the chaplains, including the obsequies, on July 10, 1755, of Bojeau, the victor of the battle of the Monongahela, sometimes called "Braddock's Field."
Some Early Conveyances of Land.
One of the early conveyances of land in this region was that of John Penn to John Anderson in 1786. This land is now, the writer believes, in possession of Laguori Cassidy.
Another early deed was that of Emmor and Deborah Bradley and Richard and Thomassin Thomas to Patrick Dawson, Wheatfield, 307 acres on Clearfield Creek one-half mile east of Chest Springs, date December 12, 1800, recorded June 16, 1805.
There is an apparent error about the name Chest Spring, or Chest Springs. One story is that the name originated from the fact that two chestnut trees stood near the spring. The other circumstance was that it was derived from Chest Manor, a reservation of several hundred acres of land held for their own use by the Penns, which included the spring, and extended as far as the Bradley school-house in Allegheny Township. This opinion is held by P. J. Little, Esq., as well as by the writer.
A singular reservation is that in a deed of land formerly Penn Manor near Johnstown. The one-fifth of all the gold and silver ore to be delivered at the "pitt's" mouth is reserved.
From the record of the conveyance of land by Henry Krise and Mary, his wife, of 5 acres and 25 perches of land (the land on which St. Augustine's church and rectory are built), to Rt. Rev. Michael O'Connor, consideration $50.00, that of Krise's title to it is as follows: "It being part of a larger tract of land surveyed in the name of Henry Krise
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