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H. L. SNYDER, Editor and Publisher,Shepherdstown. W. Va.Wm. B. SNYDER. Local Editor and Business Manager.Thursday. - - October 7, 1915.As to the burden, be content to bear it until thou come to the place of deliverance ; tor there it will fall from thy backot itself.—Bunyan. _They say that President Wilson opens his cabinet meetings with prayer. We have long thought that he must have an especial source of strength and wisdom.THE present administration seems to be coming out pretty strong tor equal suiirage. Why shouldn’t it ? It is sensible and fair on every other public question. •-It transpires that the name ot the German submarine commander who so cruell y torpedoed the steamship Arabic is Schneider. We are ashamed of him—he is no relative of ours.His enemies are quarreling with Governor Hatfield because he is unwilling to pay that alleged Virginia debt. But it is nothing to the way they’d carry on if he’d yield to the hold-up.In Pittsburg several crooked election officials have been arrested tor illegal methods of handling the ballots. What’s the use ? There are not jails enough in State to hold one-tenth of the crooked politicians of that city.THE leaven is working even in NewYork. An increase of $300 in the Stateretail liquor license brings this license upto $1 .SOU yearly, and it is said that 600saloons w ill be forced out of business inManhattan and Brooklyn. •--THE pay of the common soldier in theTrench army is to be increased to fivecents a day. We hardly think this isenough we should hate to stand up infront ot those deadly Germans and beshot at for five cents a day. «-The lines against alcohol are being tightened in England An order to go^ I^inhar 11 Hi fnrhtilc anv n#»r-Some Interesting Facts.Editor Register—Through the courtesy of Mr. W. H. Martin, ot “Maple Shade, the old “Lower Farm” of Shepherd fame, I have read very fully the accounts of our early ancestors and their dealings with William Brown, a merchant of Shepherdstown. Va.t between 1777 and 1783. William Brown married Elizabeth Shepherd, a daughierof Thomas and Elizabeth VanMetre Shepherd, the founders of Shepherdstown. Elizabeth Shepherd was born 1738 and died 1788. William Brown died 1801. leaving a large family : Sallie Brown, b. 1771, d. 1845, m. Rev. Wm. Eaty ; Wm. Brown, b. 1774; Mary Brown, b. 1768, m. John Grove; Thomas Abraham Brown, b. 1767, d. 1768; Elizabeth Brown, b. 1764; John Brown, b. 1763; Shepherd Brown, b. 1776, d. 1825; George Brown, b 1777; Hannah Matilda Brown, b. 1781, m. Dr. Evans.This old account book, found while making repairs at the Lower Farm, contains the names of many of our distin-guished citizens of Revolutionary times.In 1781 Edward Rumsey and his son Charles had an account.In 1783 James Rumsey, the inventor in w hose memory the State of West Virginia is erecting a monument on the cliffs ot Shepherdslown, also had an account.Oidistinguished Revolutionary officers, I find the following names :1777, Captain William Morgan.1777, General Lee.1779, Colonel Robert Carter Willis.1779. General Horatio Gates.1777, Captain William Darke.1777. Captain James Strode.1782, Captain Rulhertord.1777, Captain Nicholas Mclntire.1778, Colonel John Lewis.1778, Major William Darke.1780, Captain Hugh Stevenson.1780, Captain Joseph Swearingen.1784, Captain Thomas Swearingen.1784, Captain John Marks.1784, Captain Edward Davis.1776, Captain Abraham Shepherd.I7S3, Benoni Swearingen.I7S0, Colonel William Morgan.1784, Captain Richard Ranson.1782, Captain James Kearney.1731, Colonel Washington.1782, Captain Benjamin Rankins.1781, Captain Charles Morrow.17S3, Captain William Vestal.
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Shepherdstown Register
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Thu, Oct 07, 1915
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