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The following is extracted from the Daily News Huntingdon Co Pa pg 6 dated 9-4-1948
Some years ago I told of visiting the cemetery of falling Springs Presbyterian Church in Chambersburg to see the grave of Col. Patrick Jack, who has been credited by some historians as being the fabulous Captain Jack of Juniata Valley fame. A pointed stone, probably four feet in height, marks the graves of Patrick Jack and his family; the plot but a few feet distant from the walled-brick enclosure of Benjamin Chambers (founder of the town) and his family. Just recently, a second visit was made to the same cemetery.
The Patrick Jack marker shows that he died in 1821 aged 91 and the latter aged 85 years.
Had Col. Patrick Jack been the noted "Black Hunter of the Juniata," his daughters would undoubtedly have verified the claim, as they were living in an age when the story was well known and subject to considerable controversy. Old Franklin County historians would apparently have good reason for their belief that Col. Jack, while a distinguished fighter against the Indians, was not the Captain Jack so romantically associated with the Juniata Valley.
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