It's all relative…
My grandmother, Elsie, knew all but what turned out to be two of the names of my grandfather’s aunts and uncles and who all of the girls married. What she didn’t know was the name of my grandfather’s grandfather, nor did she know who his grandmother might be- but thought that her name might have been Ruth. When I began the search for my elusive Moore family, I spent hours at the library searching for Moore families in Ohio who had children with the names that my grandmother had written on the back of an envelope for me. So started the search for finding two of my maternal 2nd great-grandparents, Charles Moore and Jane Johnson.
Eventually, I did find my maternal 2nd great-grandparents on the different censuses, but that is a long and frustrating story. Once I had collected the information from the censuses from 1860 through 1910, and then tracked down each of the siblings and their families on the subsequent censuses, I felt that I had a fairly good picture of who this family was. The next task that I had set for myself was to track down when Charles and his wife, Jane, had died and where they might be buried which involved pouring through cemetery books for four counties. Why four? Because the family moved many times over the years back and forth between those counties – Jefferson, Carroll, Columbiana, and Coshocton – all in Ohio. This was no easy task when you’re dealing with Moore names like Charles, William, Thomas, and James. My initial efforts were not very successful. I then started looking for marriages and found the one for Charles and Jane in Jefferson County, Ohio dated 01 January 1852.
But probably the single best thing that I did when researching my Moores, was to send away for Charles’ Civil War pension file from The National Archives. I got the form from the library, filled out the information for his regiment, Co. G. 122nd OVI, mailed it in and waited.
And waited. And waited some more. At the time, it cost me $25.00, which I thought was an enormous sum. Now, that price is $80.00 for the first 100 pages and then, $0.70 for each page over that. Approximately five months later, I received the package in the mail with the documents. Although there are many pension files online now, the information for Charles still is not. That makes me feel pretty good though because I don’t have to feel that I would have been able to obtain them easier and cheaper if I had only had the patience to wait. And besides, who knew that we’d have so much information available to us online?
I didn’t. I can’t remember if I even had a computer then, and I was an “early adopter.” Recently, while spending a few hours on a rainy Saturday afternoon in the comfort of my home, I became frustrated because I wasn’t having any luck finding any new information…until I remembered how long it used to take me to discover one little fact during a library-a-thon or a tromp through a cemetery with two kids in tow. Yes, I realized that I had become a bit spoiled with the wealth of information that we have available at our fingertips these days.
The first paper was the “Ex-Soldier’s Pension Claim” and it revealed a lot of information that I had not known before. It told me where Charles and Jane were living in 1890 – New Somerset, Ohio. That he was born in Muskingum County, Ohio on the 12th day of March in 1824. It gave a physical description, stating that he stood 6’1/2”, and with a light complexion, dark hair, and black eyes. I was so excited!
The bulk of the papers in the packet were affidavits having do with Jane attempting to collect a widow’s pension after Charles had passed away. I realized from the signatures that a lot of these were written by family members and that they had confirmed the names that my grandmother had passed to me on the back of that envelope. Another important piece of information, that I have still found no record of anywhere else, is Jane’s date of death, 05 March 1917 – as seen in the above document. Among the affidavits was one signed off by the attending physician, B.F. Collins, M.D. and the undertaker, J.H. Paisley stating the Charles had died “from injuries received in a runaway” and the date of 8 August 1893.
Charles is buried in the cemetery of the New Somerset United Methodist Church in Jefferson County, Ohio. As a veteran, his headstone was provided by the government.
The most unexpected thing that I discovered from these papers was that Charles had been captured on 15 June 1863 at the 2nd Battle of Winchester and spent some time in Andersonville Prison. His health deteriorated rapidly there and he contracted scurvy. When he was released from Andersonville and examined by a doctor, he was given a furlough of twenty days in order to regain some health back.
And then it was back to the war. And, almost unbelievably, he was captured again in May of 1864 at the Battle of the Wilderness.
At some point in the future, I plan to write a blog post about his experiences within his time served, but am presently trying to get access to a book that was written by a man who served in the same regiment, The Civil War letters of the late 1st Lieut. James J. Hartley, 122nd Ohio Infantry Regiment. Until then, I’m (slowly) reading the official war record of the 122nd.
Charles was no spring chicken when he enlisted. He was a 38-year-old man and it is apparent that the war took a great toll on him. His health was poor after he returned home and that made it difficult for him to do manual labor.
Charles and Jane had nine children, five boys and four girls:
Wesley, born in May of 1849, married Sarah Catherine Landers, m2. Mary B. Rose.
Mary, born 25 September 1852, married 1) George W. Ossler, married 2) James C. Wallace.
Thomas, born September 1854, married Elizabeth E. Cameron.
Sarah Ann, born 14 February 1856, married John C. Duke.
Emma, born 04 July 1858, married Joseph Walker Griffith.
Charles “Tally”, born February 1859/60, married Mary Elizabeth Wilson.
James H., born 04 April 1862, married Ida L. Simpson.
Lucinda, born 04 April 1862, married Neil Liggett.
William Grant, born 01 April 1865/66, married Nancy Jane Hale. (My line.)
It should be noted that I have heard of the possibility that Wesley may have been adopted and that his original birth family may have been McClain. I have found no evidence to either support that or refute that. Wesley names his parents as Charles Moore and Jane Johnson when he marries his second wife, Rose. My grandmother had thought that, perhaps, Mary had been married to an Ott or an Orr before her marriage to James Wallace. I have not found that information either. (New information! Edited to add that the first marriage was to George W. Ossler.)
Charles’ parents (and also Jane’s) have not been proven so far. I suspect that I have found Charles’ family on the 1850 census in Jefferson County, Ohio, and there is a Charles of the correct age in that household, but I haven’t found any real proof that would link him to that head of household, Charles. Even if this family would prove, the Sarah Ann who is listed as the wife of Charles (the father) would not be the mother of my Charles because this marriage took place in June of 1846.
So, until more (pun intended) information surfaces, I am still looking into Moore and Johnson (Johnston) lineages trying to figure out who we spring from.
This is my Week #21 post for Amy Johnson Crow’s
52 Ancestors 52 Weeks Challenge.
The optional theme for week 21 was “Military”.
Sources:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3884w+cwh00166))
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?gmd:2:./temp/~ammem_CjE3::
http://www.archives.gov/research/order/order-vets-records.html#order1
I have a lot of “brick walls”. Don’t we all? I have a handful of ones that are driving me to the point of insanity and I keep revisiting them, over and over and over and over…
My 4th great-grandfather, Silas Myers, and his wife, Catherine Eades, are one of those brick walls that I keep banging my head against. There just has to be a way to positively document who their children were and to move back in time beyond this couple. There are plenty of researchers that have been looking into these two for years. So…it’s not from a lack of interest from the descendants nor a lack of determination that the particulars of this family have been so elusive. Thanks, in part, to DNA testing, many of us have found each other and are puzzling this out together. This gives me hope that one of us will have a break-through in this line sometime soon.
For this post, I’d like to lay out a lot of everything that I think that I know about these two in the hope that there are others out there, somewhere, to make connections to. If you think this is a part of your family, please, comment and let’s compare notes. You Myers researchers that are out there, don’t hesitate to correct me if I’ve got something wrong here. After 30 years of looking at these two, my notes are, quite frankly, a mess!
What we do know for sure, is that Silas Myers and Catherine Eades were married 06 March 1806 in Columbiana County, Ohio. We don’t know who the parents of Silas or Catherine are and there are no obvious candidates in the Columbiana County, Ohio area appearing about the same time as Silas and Catherine do. We’re looking at Silas being born about 1788 in Virginia and Catherine being born about 1790, also in Virginia.
Acting on a hint from a fellow Myers researcher, I looked at two names of Eades persons who were married in Columbiana County near to the timeframe when Silas and Catherine married.
Nancy Eades married Thomas Cross 15 Feb 1810.
James Eades married Phebe Whitacre 12 February 1812.
I found that it was difficult to trace Nancy and Thomas Cross, only finding that they had at least one son, James, born about 1820 and that he married (at age 70) to one Mary Oesberger on 21 August 1890 in Van Buren County, Michigan, and that’s about it.
James Eades also proved difficult to find, at first, until I realized that he was appearing on censuses as James “Ades”. Consistently. That gave me pause because I had always pronounced Eades (in my head) with a long “e” sound, not a long “a” sound, but I can see quite clearly how that might also be a pronunciation of Eades. Or we could just be dealing with the whim of whoever was writing the names both on the census and in the marriage register. I haven’t found any documents that James might have signed, yet. James and Phebe had at least seven children that I have identified and I noticed that they had a daughter named Nancy, and a daughter named Catherine, and, possibly, a son named James.
The most interesting thing about James is that he had a sister by the name of Linna (very important) and that she married, yes, Phebe’s brother, Cornelius Whitacre on 20 Dec 1811 in Columbiana County. Her last name is spelled as Ades in the record. Both Cornelius and Linna Whitacre are buried in the Cool Springs Cemetery in Columbiana County. It is associated with the West Fairfield Friends Meeting. Both of these families have been identified as living in Virginia previously, Loudoun and Frederick counties, and the Whitacres seem to be associated with several Quaker Meetings. Because I didn’t find Catherine Eades as a sibling to James (nor Miss Nancy, who married Thomas Cross), I’m looking to see if I can find a cousin connection by pouring through Quaker Meeting records. I think this is going to take a bit of a while. I am not familiar, at all, with looking at these records.
I found another item of interest in a family genealogy booklet by the name of History of Cornelius Whitacre and Linna Ades Whitacre & Their Descendants, July, 1916; written by M. Jeanette Haley.
Another clue! Perhaps. At present, I am looking into trying to find some Baptist church records in the vicinity of Loudoun County, Virginia. If this Ades family turns out to not be connected to my Eades family, it won’t be the first time that I’ve taken a wrong turn in trying to flush a family out. The things that I keep in mind are that, for one thing, it gives me experience in researching other types of records that I might not have explored. And for another, at least I’ll know what I’m not looking for and I can close that avenue for that line. I’ve found family in stranger ways.
So back to Silas, we know that he bought land in Columbiana County 27 Oct 1804 because we have Ohio Land Grant records. Notice that he is listed as being from Columbiana County (CB).
Notice, also, that listed just above Silas is the name, Lambert Myers. Lambert is also the name of Silas and Catherine’s firstborn son (that we know of) and is my line, my 3rd great-grandfather. This Lambert Myers who bought land in 1811 in Columbiana County has been giving me fits for more than 30 years. In my head, I felt that there was surely going to be something linking him and Silas together, but so far, there has not been. Note that the record lists him as being from Loudoun County, Virginia (LO). This Lambert married Mary Eveland in Loudoun County, Virginia and, among other children, had a son Lambert about 1812.
Lambert (from Virginia) had a brother Jonathan, who paid the taxes on the land that Lambert bought in Ohio, but unlike Lambert, actually lived there also. Right down the road from our Myers’. Jonathan also had a son named Lambert, born about 1811. People confuse Jonathan’s Lambert and Silas’ Lambert a lot. And sometimes, even manage to give (Virginia) Lambert the death date and place of Jonathan’s Lambert. But…I digress, and we’ve not even touched on the Mahlons in Virginia or how a bunch of these families are related to the Schooley family. So, no connection has been made to these Myers families yet that might say that they’re kin. But I’m hanging on to my notes because these are Quaker families also.
Another thing we know about Silas, for sure, is that he served in the War of 1812, 2nd Regiment Hindman’s Ohio Militia. The above is the only paper that I’ve found relating to his military service.
It, also, appears that Silas did not leave a will because one has not been found yet. So we are left to try to piece together who the children of Silas and Catherine are. When I first started this family history journey, I knew of my third great-grandfather, Lambert, and that he had a brother, Mahlon. After coming into contact with others researching the same family, I’ve been trying to come up with likely candidates to be Lambert’s siblings using census records, proximity, migration, and naming patterns. Now, we also have the added information that we can deduce from looking at DNA matches. While most of this DNA information won’t tell us with certainty who the child of who is, what it can tell us is that we are related, and can help us to verify the paper trail.
Following is a list of who I think that those children are. I think that my list might differ some from others’ in some ways, but I feel comfortable with this one (birth dates may be approximate):
1. Lambert (1811-1895) married Susannah Crawford 1830.
2. David (1812- ) married Margaret Crawford 1828.
3. Mahlon (1813-1869) married Rebecca Hackathorn 1837, married Elizabeth Partlow 1856.
4. *Elizabeth (1815-1848) married Lewis W. Clark 1839.
5. Linnea (1816-1900) married John Heston 1837, Married Henry Criss 1852.
6. Sarah “Sally” (1820-1898) married Ebenezer (Eber or Eben) Clark 1839.
7. Nancy M. (1823-1920) married Emmor (Emmar) Clark 1844.
8. Mordecai (1828-1913) married Miriam Emmons 1851.
9. **James Andrew (1832-1919) married Clarissa Spencer 1858.
* Elizabeth marrying Lewis Clark is the newest bit of information that I’ve stumbled upon. I have had the name Eliza listed as a child of Silas and Catherine for years, but never made the connection to this marriage until last week. Please keep in mind throughout this post that, in the absence of proof of these relationships, what is being done is to try to reconstruct likely scenarios. I have a book of Carroll County, Ohio Early Marriages from 1833 to 1849 and have skipped over this piece of information for years. After learning of Nancy and Sally Clark’s husbands, it jumped right off of the page at me. It makes total sense since Lewis is a brother to Eber and Emmar.
The Clark family lived right next door to Christian Hackathorn and Catherine Phillis, parents of Rebecca Hackathorn who married Mahlon Myers. If this relationship doesn’t prove out, I will be greatly surprised. Elizabeth and Lewis had two children. A daughter, Nancy, born in 1844 and a son, Eber, born in 1847. Elizabeth died 11 June 1848 and her daughter, Nancy, 5 days later. They are both buried in Upper Glade Run Cemetery. The 1850 census finds Lewis living in his brother Emmar’s household in East Township, Carroll County and his son, Eber, living down the road in the household of one Elizabeth Reed, along with her children, Amos and Hannah. Who was Elizabeth Reed? It turns out that she was Elizabeth Edwards, daughter of John Edwards and Hannah Whitacre. Yes. She’s the sister of Cornelius and Phebe, who married into the Ades family.
And what does all of this prove? Nothing. These instances could all be huge coincidences, but I like to compare it to a bunch of jigsaw puzzle pieces that look pretty much the same and after trying diligently to make them fit – realize that the pieces might belong in another box.
** James Andrew. The general consensus amongst most of the Myers researchers that I am in contact with is that Mordecai is the youngest child of Silas and Catherine and that James is a grandson. But for me personally, I feel that I need to keep him on the list as belonging to Silas and Catherine. If our estimates of Catherine’s birth date are close to correct, she would have still been at childbearing age with James perhaps being a “menopause baby.” The parents on James’ death certificate are listed as “Unknown.”
In the above snippet from the 1850 census. We find James with Catherine and Silas and, also, a Mary, aged seven, which would make her date of birth about 1843. We pretty much all agree that Mary is a grandchild, but who did she spring from? In the above example, we also see Mahlon and Lambert and their families. Both of the Marys belonging to them are accounted for. Linnea had a Mary who was born about 1831, but she would have been a Heston. It seems as if Nancy had a Mary or Marianne, but I don’t have a date of birth for her and she would have been a Clark. It appears that Nancy’s firstborn was born in 1846- and was a son. Mordecai had a Mary born in 1852 and James had a Mary born in 1862. So who does this Mary belong to? I have had an uneasy feeling that we might be missing a child (or children) of Catherine and Silas only because of the fact that they were married in 1806 and the first child that we know of, Lambert, wasn’t born until around 1811. Realizing that infant mortality rates were high during the early 19th century, that fact didn’t bother me too much until I started trying to place Mary somewhere into a known family.
After the 1850 census, the Myers family started to spread out. Silas & Catherine and others of the family traveled down to Meigs County, Ohio to take up residence. Some went over to East Liverpool, Ohio, some went out west, and others didn’t stray too far from where they were born. I ran across a 1905 local history concerning the San Joaquin Valley out in California and found an entry for Mahlon’s daughter, Mary, where it was mentioned that her grandfather, Silas “was at one time a planter and owned slaves, but being opposed to the bondage of the negro he removed to Ohio, where he freed his slaves.” So far, I have not found Silas in a single document anywhere in Virginia, although I’m certain that there are possibilities that I have not researched yet.
There is other evidence that has surfaced from Linnea’s descendants, that Catherine Eades parents were Cyrus Eades and a Mary, or perhaps, Mary Sophia, or vice-versa. This comes in the form of handwritten notes in an old account book. This account also mentions that they came from Wales because they were being persecuted for their religion and that they arrived the same year as William Tell. I’m pretty sure that they meant William Penn. William Penn arrived at New Castle, Delaware on 27 October 1682. If the reference to William Penn is correct, and understand that I am a poor math student, then I’m figuring that Cyrus and Mary (or Sophia) are a few generations back from being the parents of Catherine, perhaps great-grandparents. Or that Cyrus and Mary could be Catherine’s parents, but that their families arrived around 1682.
I always take a family’s history, published or not, with a grain of salt unless there are documents to back information up. They usually provide good clues, but I have found many things mistakenly written about members that just didn’t prove out to be true. Sometimes, it’s difficult to separate the fact from the fiction. Which is, after all, what we’re trying to do here.
Silas and Catherine both passed away in Meigs County, Ohio in the year 1875. Catherine on January 15th and Silas on May 11th. I do not know where either one are buried, but I assume them to be in the Chester/Pomeroy area. I’m expecting that at some point, the stories of Silas and Catherine and their origins will come to light because we’re not really dealing with ancient history.
In the meantime, I’ll just keep trying to put this puzzle together…
This is my Week #19 post for Amy Johnson Crow’s
52 Ancestors 52 Weeks Challenge.
The optional theme for week 19 was “There’s a Way”.
Perhaps it has something to do with the large percentage of farmers and coal miners in my own family history that explains why the wills that I find are few and far between or, perhaps, I just have not found them all yet…but I do love to find a good will!
Some will are better than others as far as the information that they give up. Some are crazily vague – “…bequeath to wife…” with no mention of her name! Ugh! There are times when I’m browsing through the wills and probate records at familyserach.org, I’ll just read through other wills that might catch my eye, even if they don’t belong to my family. That might make it seem as if I have too much time on my hands, but it’s refreshing to just back away from my own research at times. Sometimes, I even stumble upon information that helps me a lot with my own research.
I haven’t been able to find a will for David Withrow, but I did find this will of his son, Hugh. It’s a great will because he gives up so much genealogical information.
It might just be me, but when I’m trying to transcribe anything with old handwriting, I have a hard time with going back and forth from the original document to the Word document. I know that at least part of it is that I’m dealing with trifocals (not much to be done about that!), and part of it is my impatience with not being able to immediately find the spot where I left off when I look back to the original document on the screen. So one day, I grabbed this tiny little digital recorder that I have…
…and then I just read the will out loud, noting if there was something that I wasn’t sure of, and spelling out anything that I might not remember the spelling from the document. Then I just hooked up the recorder to a USB port on my laptop and using my Express Scribe software that I have for transcription work, typed out the will. That went well and lowered my level of frustration a LOT! As a final proof, I’ll pull up the transcription side-by-side with the original:
And this is why Hugh’s will is so wonderful.
I Hugh Withrow of the county of Carroll in the State of Ohio do make and publish this my Last Will and testament in manner and form following that is to say:
First it is my will that my funeral expenses and all my just debts be fully paid.
Second I give devise and bequeath to my beloved wife Susan Withrow in lieu of her dower all and singularly of my real estate and all the livestock horses, cattle, sheep, hogs etc by me now owned also all the household and kitchen furniture and other items not particularly named and otherwise disposed of in this will during the time she shall remain my widow. She however first disposing of a sufficiency thereof to pay my just debts as aforesaid. But if she should marry again it is my will she should have one third of my real and personal property then remaining to dispose of at her pleasure and if she should die my widow it is my will that she shall still have the disposal of one third of the property as above mentioned. And the remaining two thirds to be disposed of in the following manner to wit.
First, I give and bequeath to my brother Charles Withrow fifty dollars. Forwith I give devise and bequeath to my brother Samuel Withrow fifty dollars. Third, I give devise and bequeath the remainder of the two thirds of the above specified to the following eleven persons equally, to wit William Withrow my brother, John Withrow my brother and his son Hugh Withrow, James Withrow my brother and his son William Withrow, Boston Withrow my brother, Elizabeth Small my sister wife of Thomas Small, Catherine Earls my sister wife of William Earls, Jane Taylor my sister wife of John Taylor and her son James Green, and Hannah Whitla my sister wife of Hugh Whitla.
Sixthly it is my will that my father-in-law Mordecai Bond have peaceable possession of the five acres he now occupies on my farm in East Township Carroll County during his natural life.
Lastly I hereby constitute and appoint my said wife Susan Withrow and James Withrow, my brother Jonas Lumm and James A. Ball to be the Executers of my Last will and testament revoking and annulling all former wills by me made and ratifying and conforming this and no other to be my Last will and testament.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this eighteenth day of February A.D. eighteen hundred and forty one.
Hugh Withrow
Signed published and declared by
the above named Hugh Withrow as
and for his last will and testament
in the presence of us who at his
request have signed as witnesses
to the same.
Jonas Lumm
James A. Ball
The first thing that impressed me is that he has given everything to his wife as long as she’s his widow and that if she does remarry, she still gets to a keep a third and to dispose of that on her death as she wishes. He also names his father-in-law. Which gives us his wife’s maiden name. And then, bless his heart, he names all of his brothers and sisters and who the sisters are married to. This helped me to list David and Elizabeth’s children. This is so important while piecing together the family considering that all or most of their children would have left home by the time of the 1850 census and a name was noted for everyone in the household. Since Hugh doesn’t list any of his own children, we have to assume that he either had no issue, or that there were no surviving children. This will also helped me fill in a blank that I had concerning Hugh Whitla in connection with my Hackathorn family providing me with his wife, Hannah’s, maiden name. So even though we don’t have David’s will, his son has kindly presented us with a lot of information on David’s family.
David Withrow is my 5th great-grandfather on my mother’s side. I had written a post earlier this year about his wife, Elizabeth, and how I didn’t know what her maiden name was. This is something important to me because she is in my direct matrilineal line and I’d kind of like to get past her. I was contacted shortly after this blog post by a cousin who shares these 5th great-grandparents and have received some good hints, like that Elizabeth might also have gone by the name of Isabelle according to a short biography on one of David’s grandsons (and in his direct line) in a Richland County source. (Thanks, Randy!) Acting on that tip, I started looking at the children of David and Elizabeth to see what they’d named they’re children. Any named after their grandparents? Why, yes! Daughter, Hannah, gave birth to a daughter named Elizabeth I. Whitla. Son, James, had a daughter named Elizabeth and another daughter named Isabell. Son, Samuel, named a daughter Isabell. This looks to be like more than a coincidence. So at this point in time, I am searching for an Elizabeth Isabel, or perhaps an Isabel Elizabeth.
David married his second wife, Catherine Morrison, on 28 December 1824 in Columbiana County, Ohio. I’m assuming that Elizabeth passed away sometime between the birth of her last child, Boston, born 1817 in Beaver Falls, Beaver County, Pennsylvania and David’s marriage to Catherine, so to find her death date is also on my list of things to research. David and Catherine are buried at Glade Run Cemetery in East Township, Carroll County, Ohio.
Also on the research that needs to be done list is finding David Withrow’s parentage. We know that he was in Beaver County, Pennsylvania before moving to Columbiana (now Carroll) County, Ohio, because we find his name on a petition – along with that of Charles Phillis and that of Jacob Hackathorn.
To the Honorable Court of Quarter Sessions for Beaver County: —
The Petition of stmdry Inhabitants of South Beaver Township in
Beaver County most respectfully sheweth that your Petitioners labor
under considerable Difficulties and Inconvainancjrs in attending Town-
ship meetings, working on Public roads and Township officers performing
their several offices — ^from the Distance they have to Travel occasioned
by the Excessive Largeness and Extensive bounds of said Township. .
Your Petitioners respectfully Prays your Honors would take the
Premises into consideration and grant them relief by Dividing the afore-
said Township into Two Townships by a Division Line, to wit beginning
on the line of the State, at a deep gully between James Grorrel’s and Jehu
Coulson’s thence a Direct course to Alexander Reed’s Including said
Reed in the Division next the Ohio river from thence to George Conkle’s
striking B ready’s run at the East side of said Conkle’s Plantation In-
cluded in the above Division, thence down the north side of the Bottom
of said run to Big Beaver creek, the Division next the Ohio river to be
called Ohio Township and the other Division to retain the name of South
Beaver Township,— or whatever other names or Division line, as to your
Honors may appear most practicable, &c.
And your Petitioners shall ever Pray. —
David Drennan, William Duncan, James Drennan, Chas. Phillis,
Alexander Reed, Neal McLaughlin, David Withrow, Samuel Robb, James
Grimes, James Freel, Henry Woods, John Cotton, Henry Corkendall,
James Phillis, Thomas Blackmore, Paul Reed, Henry Barnes, Joseph
Smith, James Cotton, Ezekiel Moore, George Mason, Sen’r, William
Reed, John CHndinning, Alexander Grant, John Bavington, John Himter,
Edward Neville, Solomon Carlile, John Hampton, Wm. Steel, Saml.
Calhoon, George Mason, Jesse Smith, Abrm. Buskirk, David Calhoon,
James Witacre, Saml. Caughey, John Shireers, Benoni Dawson, Robert
Barnes, Philip Mason, Thos. Hoyt, Willum Calhtme, Jacob Hackathom,
John Cross, Robert Himter, John Campbell, Benjamin McGaffick, John
McGaffack, Charles Beventon, Alexander Todd, Thomas McCoy, Daniel
Martin, H. Johnston, Jonathan Grant, James Kennedy.
This petition was presented at the November Sessions, 1804,
and the court at the same Sessions appointed David Drennan,
Henry Kuykendall, and Samuel Caughey as viewers to enquire
into the propriety of granting the petition. A return was made
by the viewers at February Sessions, 1805; and at the same
Sessions a remonstrance was presented against the division of
the said township, which was held under advisement by the
court until the May Sessions. Samuel Caughey filed a dissent
from the return of the other two viewers. At May Sessions,
1805, the court confirmed the report of the viewers and divided
the township, **the south part of the division to be called Ohio
township and the other to retain its original name of South
Beaver.”
That’s the one thing that you can count on with genealogy…there’s always something else that needs to be found out. And there are always new ways to work that make life easier for us. What are some of your favorite tricks for working with old manuscripts? Please share in the comments.
This is my Week #18 post for Amy Johnson Crow’s
52 Ancestors 52 Weeks Challenge.
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