Joseph Mitchell, Capt.

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Source: from EARLY HISTORICAL EVENTS IN THE DELAWARE VALLEY, by John T. Bradley ; ( A series of historical articles of interest to everyone who resides in the Delaware section of the county ).: 1820 Charter member of Damascus Manor

The work of constructing a wooden bridge was at once commenced by a man known as Major Wheat. As the structure had but one center support, or pier, its own weight soon caused it to fall. Undaunted by their failure and to profit by it another bridge was commenced in 1820 by the same builder the charter members being the same, viz: William Tyler, Benjamin Conklin, Moses Thomas, Joseph Mitchell, William Brown. This company was made an incorporate company at the completion of the second bridge, when a charter for a toll house and gate at the end of the bridge was also granted them. This second bridge was a two-pier structure and it was completed the following year, 1821. This one gave better service than the preceding one and stood the test until the spring of 1840. All the bridges thus far seemed in some way to be of faulty construction. The year following the collapse of the second Wheat bridge, 1847, a bridge known as the Benton Bridge was constructed. In the spring of 1848 the New York state span went down. Connected with the falling of this span was a humorous incident that rightly belongs in here. An Orange county drover with an unusually large drove of cows had just passed over the structure. The drover thought the toll taker charged him an exorbitant sum to get his drove across and it put him into a very bad humor. Near the village he met a man who proved to be Ellory T. Calkin and to him told his grievance. Why, said Mr. Calkin, they charge me as much. But said the drover they did not charge it for me, they made me pay cash down. And then and there he breathed a rather hot prayer for the Bridge Company and wished that the structure might fall before he got out of sight of it and this is the span that did fall before he and his drove had gotten to Roper's Hotel about three miles away.

From the Mail Box by Arthur N. Meyers: Record of the Mitchell-Tyler and Calkins families: The following interesting letter was written by Bezaleet Mitchell in 1879 to a man by the name of Draper: My father, Joseph Mitchell, was in the war of 1812. He went in as Lieutenant and afterwards was made Captain. There was another Tory of whom it has been said that he mad his boast that he waded shoe deep in blood at the battle of Wyoming. His name was Joseph Parks, I have often heard our folks tell about him. I went this winter to see an old lady; some ninety-four years old, who told me she knew this Parks well and had heard him brag, when he had been drinking a little, of his wading in blood at Wyoming. I have been trying to get the life of Tom Quick, but have not come across one yet. As soon as I do, I will send it to you. My brother, Nathan, was born December 19, 1805. I was born March 22, 1810.

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