Lived and is buried about 3½ miles southeast. On December 9, 1822, he made a trail through the woods to the new county seat, carrying a crosscut saw. Arrived at Huntingdon, he sawed a door in the new log courthouse and thus, as Chairman of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, opened the first session of the court.

Marker is at the intersection of East Main Street (Business U.S. 70) and Buena Vista Road, on the right when traveling east on East Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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