DELAWARE WATER GAP Historic Resource Study Slateford Farm

Cover

Preface

Introduction

Chapter One
THE ORIGINS OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTY AND UPPER MOUNT BETHEL TOWNSHIP

Geology and Geography
American Indian Inhabitants
The Penn Proprietors

Chapter Two
PEOPLE OF SLATEFORD FARM

The Sons of William and Hannah Penn
The Province's Surveyor General
A Quaker Merchant
Two Sisters and Two Brothers
"Yeoman" Samuel Pipher
Pipher Land Divided - Mary, Frederick, Peter
Frederick's Western Portion
Peter's Central Section
Slaters and Tenants

Chapter Three
SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES

German Farming Characteristics
Farm Building Characteristics
Agricultural Development - 18th to 20th Centuries
Labor - Black Slavery and White Servitude
Tenancy
Lifestyle of Farming Families

Chapter Four
SLATE IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY

Efforts of James Madison Porter
Porter and Frederick Pipher
Slate Quarrying on Slateford Farm
Technology of Slate

Summary

Notes

Recommendations for Further Research

Repositories Visited During Research

Persons Consulted During Research

Chain of Title for Slateford Farm: 1753 to 1966

Abbreviated Pipher Family Tree

Historical Base Maps

1. Historic Boundary - 1753
2. Historic Boundary - 1753 & 1812
3. 1865 Slateford Farm
4. 1985 Slateford Farm - Existing Conditions Annotations for Historical Base Map 4
5. Historic Quarries

List of Appendixes

Appendixes

List of Illustrations

Illustrations

Annotated Bibliography

National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form

1. Thomas Penn and Richard Penn Patent to Nicholas Scull, August 19, 1754

2. The Last Will and Testament of Samuel Piffer, March 16, 1812

3. Inventory of Samuel Piffer's Estate, 1812

4. Settlement of Samuel Peiffer's Estate, 1813

5. Inventory of Frederick Pipher's Estate, 1830

6. Inventory of Peter Pipher's Estate, 1871

7. Inventory of Aaron Pipher's Estate, 1871

8. Settlement of Aaron Pipher's Estate, 1875

9. Vendue List, Samuel Pipher's Estate, 1896

10. Inventory of Samuel Pipher's Estate, 1896

11. United States Direct Tax of 1798

12. Northampton County Tax and Assessment Records 1789-1834

l3. Number of All Cattle and Milk Cows on Northampton County Farms 1840-1974

14. Number of Farms, Land in Farms and Average Size of Farms in Northampton County 1850-1975

15. Acres and Yields of Corn, Hay, Wheat, Irish Potatoes, Oats and Barley in Northampton County 1849-1975

16. Northampton County 1844, 1884, 1924

17. Farm Tenancy in Pennsylvania 1939

18. Capital Requirements Needed for 100-Acre Farm, 1855

19. Daybook, Slateford - Pipher citations

20. Daybook, Slateford, pp. 48, 49, 224, 225, 261

21. Description of Williams' Quarry, 1858

22. Description of Slate Quarrying, 1883

23. Standard Sizes for Roofing Slate

24. Old Time Slate Quarries Slateford Farm and Vicinity—James S. Yolton, 1984

1. Southeastern Pennsylvania Physiographic Regions

2. Southeastern Pennsylvania Soil Parent Materials

3. The Slate Regions of Pennsylvania

4. Slate Belts - Delaware Water Gap; West Side

5. Map of Pennsylvania by William Scull 1770

6. Scull Map Detail - Northampton County

7. Old Northampton County 1776

8. History Map of the Forks of the Delaware - Chidsey, 1938

9. Map of the State of Pennsylvania by Reading Howell 1790

10. Map of Northampton & Lehigh Counties, Pa. - 1830 by H. S. Tanner

11. Atlas of Northampton County - Upper Mount Bethel Township by D. G. Beers, 1874

12. Nicholas Scull Survey of Northampton County Property, 1753

13. Distribution of Pennsylvania Germans

14. 1930s view of Slateford Farm. Charlotte Cyr Jewell Collection.

15. Louis Cyr on Slateford Farm house porch early 1930s. Charlotte Cyr Jewell Collection.

16. Lower Cyr Farm, 1930s. Charlotte Cyr Jewell Collection.

17. Making Hay at Slateford, 1936. Charlotte Cyr Jewell Collection.

18. View Southeast from Slateford Farm, August 1936. Charlotte Cyr Jewell Collection.

19. Haying, Slateford Farm 1940s. Charlotte Cyr Jewell Collection.

20. Haying, Slateford Farm 1940s. Charlotte Cyr Jewell Collection.

21. Louis Cyr Raking Hay, Slateford Farm 1948. Charlotte Cyr Jewell Collection.

22. Woodshed, Slateford Farm circa 1940-1950. Charlotte Cyr Jewell Collection.

23. Cutting Hay, Slateford Farm circa 1940-1950. Charlotte Cyr Jewell Collection.

24. Slateford Farm early 1950s. Charlotte Cyr Jewell Collection.