In 1744 David Priest accepted a warrant of a 400-acre land tract, which was sold in 1756 to the Willis family. In 1807, Henry Mosser and William Culbertson laid out the village into 120 lots. A ferry, originally owned and operated by John Harris Jr., was operated in New Market continuously through multiple owners and eventually the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1740 until about 1820.
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History of York County, Pennsylvania1886 · page 642Read the page →
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and used up a large amount of timber from York County. ' He laid out the town of New Citmberland in 1814. Much of what is now fertile land below New Market, was at one time a swamp, with the Marsh Run passing through it. Farther down is a small stream called Rattling Run, named after " Jim Rattler," a colored man, who had a cabin
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History of York County Pennsylvania From the Earliest Time to the Present1886Read the page →
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uation £2,620 in money, which was the highest in the township. The ferry mentioned extended across the Susquehanna below the present site of New Market, in Fairview, and the land owned was afterward known as the Simpson property, later as the Haldeman estate. Eli Lewis who afterward founded the town of Lewisberrv owned
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