Benjamin Walters and Catharine Dull

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Husband Benjamin Walters ¹

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Wife Catharine Dull ²

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         Father: Casper Dull (1748-1829) 1
         Mother: Hannah Matieu (1758-1826) 3

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Children

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1 F Margaret Walters ⁴

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         Spouse: John McVey, Jr. (      -1826) 4 5

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2 M John Walters ⁴

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3 F [Unk] Walters

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         Spouse: Jacob Goodling (      -      ) 6

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4 M Caspar Walters ⁶

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5 M Benjamin Walters ⁶

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6 M Lewis Walters ⁶

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7 M Harvey Walters ⁶

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General Notes: Husband - Benjamin Walters

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About 1790, he came to Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, and purchased four hundred and fifty acres of land, embracing the hills and valley on which was an ore-bank. He built on the hill and set out an orchard, long known as the Walters orchard. He married and moved to the valley and built a house, later owned and occupied by Peter Myers. In 1818 he bought a lot in McVeytown, on the river-bank below the hotel, and built there a grain and warehouse. His son John succeeded him in the business, erecting a stone house adjoining and above his father's.
On the 25th of December, 1827, Benjamin Walters leased to Isaac Fisher the right to dig iron-ore and to cart it away; also to build a furnace on the property. The price was one cent quit-rent, to be paid the 1st of April, if demanded, and one hundred dollars per year for every year ore was mined. Thirty acres of the tract was mentioned as containing a bank of iron-ore.

He owned a lot on Front Street, McVeytown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, and in 1818 he purchased a lot of John McVey, on the river side of Front Street (later Water), between the river bridge and the hotel. He built on the latter lot a log dwelling-house down in the hollow and a frame warehouse. From this warehouse grain was loaded into boats by means of a spout. His son, John, succeeded him, and built a stone warehouse and carried on the business for many years. Benjamin Walters once lived on a farm, one mile west of Waynesburg, previous to his residence in the place, and in his old age returned to the valley and built a house, later owned and occupied by Peter Myers, where his wife died. His daughter Margaret married John McVey, Jr., at whose house he died.

1 Editor, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 595, 602.

2 Editor, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 595, 603.

3 Editor, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 603.

4 Editor, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 602.

5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 535.

6 Editor, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 596.