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A lot of good material has been posted since my last post. Because of the workload, I am unable to comment on many of the important revelations. I will eventually get back to them.
Focusing on the Swearingen connection, I ran across a published Swearingen tree. Below is an excerpt from a Swearingen researcher who has outlined the lines mentioned above. If it is valid, it identifies Van “Maryland Van†Swearingen as the common ancestor to the Swearingen- Carpenter line (Cindy’s) and the Swearingen-Mounts line (Brenda’s). http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilchampa/lineages/lineages5.html
Here is the Quote: (I have added high caps for emphasis.)
“Thomas Swearingen was born in 1665 at St. Mary’s, Md. He died 19 March 1711 in St. Mary’s, Md. Thomas was the son of Gerret Van Swearingen and Barbara De Barrette. He married in March 1687 to Jane Doyne in St. Mary’s, Md. Jane was born about 1669 in Somerset, Md. and died about 1727 in Prince George’s, Md. She was the daughter of Joshua Doyne and Jane Sanders. Thomas and Jane had the FOLLOWING CHILDREN:
1.Thomas Swearingen was born in 1688 in Prince George’s, Md. He died after 12 May 1726 in Shepherdstown, Berkeley, VA. He married Lydia Riley in 1707. She was born about 1691 in Somerset Md. She died in 1764 in Prince George’s, Md. Lydia was the daughter of Margaret Plummer.
2.Van “Maryland Van” Swearingen was born in 1692 in St. Mary’s, Md. He died about Aug. 1787 in Ringgold, Md. He was married on 14 Feb. 1715 at St. Barnabas Church, St. Mary’s, Md. to Elizabeth Walker. She was born on 22 December 1695 in Patuxent Hundred, Anne Arundel, Md. She died after 1767 in Ringgold, Md.
3.Samuel Swearingen was born about 1694 in Somerset, Md. He died after 25 November 1782 in Anson, NC. He married on 14 Feb. 1715 in Queen Anne’s Parish, Md. to Elizabeth Farmer. She was born about 1695 and died in Anson , NC.
4. John Swearingen was born about 1696 in Queen Anne’s Parish, Prince George’s, Md. He died on 2 October 1767 in Rockville, Md. He was married on 9 Feb. 1715 in St. Mary’s, Md. to Mary Ray. She was born about 1698 in Prince George’s, Md. She died in January 1736 in Montgomery, Md.
2.Van “Maryland Van” Swearingen was born in 1692 in St. Mary’s, Md. He died about Aug. 1787 in Ringgold, Md. Van was the son of Thomas Swearingen and Jane Doyne. He married on 14 Feb. 1715 at St. Barnabas Church, St. Mary’s, Md. to Elizabeth Walker. She was born on 22 December 1695 in Patuxent Hundred, Anne Arundel, Md. She died after 1767 in Ringgold, Md. Elizabeth was the daughter of Charles Walker and Rebecca Isaac. Van and Elizabeth had the FOLLOWING CHILDREN:.
1. Elizabeth Swearingen was born on 4 July 1715 in Ringgold, Prince Georges, Md. She died before 20 Aug. 1785 at Frederick, Md. Elizabeth married on 20 June 1734 at Queen Anne Parish, Prince Georges, Md. to Jonathan Simmons. He was born in 1714 and died in 1761 and was the son of Jonathan Simmons and Elizabeth Isaac.
2. REBECCA SWEARINGEN was born on 22 Dec. 1716 at Prince Georges, Md. and died in WV. Rebecca married on 21 Oct. 1738 to Joseph Tomlinson who was born on 12 Oct. 1712 in Ireland. Joseph died on 1 Dec. 1797 at Grave Creek, Ohio County, WV. He was the son of James Tomlinson and Harriett Trowbridge.
3. Mary Swearingen was born on 11 Sept. 1718 at Somerset, Md. She married a Mr. Phillips.
4. John Swearingen was born in Dec. 1721 At Prince Georges, Md. and died on 13 Aug. 1784 at Fayette, Pa. He married on 15 Sept. 1748 in Frederick, Md. to Catherine Stull. Catherine was born about 1731 in Hagerstown, Md. and died about 1830 at Springhill, Pa. She was the daughter of John Stull and Martha ?.
5. Joseph Swearingen was born in 1720 at Prince Georges, Md. and died in 1794 at Abbeville, SC. He was married around 1759 to Mary ?.
6. Sarah Swearingen was born on 20 November 1722 in Somerset, Md. She died on 4 November 1766 at Sheperdstown , Va. Sarah married on 19 June 1743 to Van “King Van” Swearingen. He was born on 22 May 1719 in Queen Ann, Md. He died on 20 April 1788 in Berkeley, Va. He was the son of Thomas Swearingen and Lydia Riley.
7. Van Swearingen was born in 1725 at Hagerstown, Md. He died in 1784 at Middletown, Md. Van married Margaret ? She was born about 1740 and died after 1820.
8. Samuel Swearingen was born on 6 September 1728 at Ringgold, Md. He died at Frederick, Md. Samuel married on 28 May 1752 in Md. to Ann Farrell. She was born in 1723 and died after 1756. She was the daughter of Kennedy Farrell.
9. RUTH SWEARINGEN was born in 1730 at Ringgold, Md. She died in 1795 at Rawlings, Md. Ruth married in 1750 in Md. to Daniel Cresap. He was born on 22 Feb. 1728 in Harve De Grace, Md. He was the son of Thomas Cresap and Hannah Johnson.
10. Drucilla Swearingen was born in 1732 at Somerset, Md. She married in 1753 to Thomas Cresap. He was born on 28 Feb. 1733 at Wrightsville, Pa. He was the son of Thomas Cresap and Hannah Johnson.
11. Charles Swearingen was born on 21 Aug. 1735 at Ringgold, Md. He died on 26 July 1818. Charles married in 1759 at Queen Anne, Md. to Susannah Stull. She was born about 1739 in Hagerstown, Md. and died on 27 October 1820 in Washington, Md. She was the daughter of John Stull.
13. Thomas Swearingen was born about 1739 in Ringgold Manor, Md. He died before 1800 at McCoysville, Pa. Thomas married about 1764 to Mary Baker. She was born 1n 1743 and died in 1800 at Waterloo, Pa. She was the daughter of Mary Head.â€
Brenda and Cindy,
Is this outline accurate? If so, then Thomas Swearingen (b. 1688-of the Ferry) would be the brother of Van “Maryland Van†Swearingen and the uncle of Rebecca and Ruth. From what I have read, “Indian†Van Swearingen would have been the son of Thomas Swearingen (of the Ferry) and first cousin of Ruth and Rebecca. In any case all of these Swearigans are found in close proximity to each other on the Upper Potomac River, in the middle 1700s. Later on, Van “Maryland Van†Swearingen’s descendents move further west to the Ohio Valley.
Bess
Cindy,
Also note from the above outline that Thomas Swearingen (of the Ferry) had a brother named John Swearingen (b 1696). This John had a son named Samuel Swearingen (b 1740) who removed to Western PA and died in 1828 in Beaver County. This bolstes the idea that the Mclanes of Shepherdstown and Nancy Mclane of Beaver County may be related. Bess.
Could “Mount/Mounts/Mountz” also be “Mounce”?
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brockfamily/KinshipNotes-KBTankersley.html
Here Dr Tankersley says —
1. TUKAHO DOUBLEHEAD was born in the middle of the 18th century, and married MARGARET MOUNCE, Chery (sic) Fork, (Helenwood, Tennessee); about 1768. He was murdered in 1807 at Doublehead’s Gap, Kentucky.
On another website he claims the migrations of these Mounce people included going to SC about the same time my Waylands did — 1770s if my memory is right. I need to refind that. He says they were in Ky before that. He also claims they were Cherokee. However there are no records of a real historic “Tuckahoe” who was the son of Doublehead. At one point he also says the early day Troxell was half-Delaware.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brockfamily/ChiefRedBird-byKBTankersley.html
At the above website he shows a letter from a woman who says her father got his Indian blood through his mother Susan Brock. It was part of her application for tribal membership with the Cherokee. In the note she says Susan was said to be “full blood Indian”, not full blood Cherokee. Their application was rejected.
But if these “Mounce’s” used by Tankersley in Ky had been “Mounts” in an earlier generation, it is yet more evidence they may have been Piedmont Siouan, not Cherokee, as so many others are finding out.
I believe these people in South Central Kentucky were Indian, they just were not Cherokee.
Bess and Brenda,
I think I have it wrong. If this is correct, my Carpenter line is “Maryland Van.” Other representations of the line seem to be the same as you found. Too many Thomas, Vans, Rebeccas and Druscillas confuse me. And Rebecca and Druscilla continue into the Tomlinson line. I think I was confusing the Rebecca who marries the Bradies (who are near Harrisburg first).
BTW, there are Bradys in the same cemetery as my Blackfoot ancestor.
That means I share ancestors with Brenda one generation earlier, correct?
Genealogists in the family believe that Nancy was full-blood, but I don’t know. The picture of her son, James Alexander, my gggrandfather, look pretty light, but my great aunt writes that he inherited the Irish coloring of his father. His wife, Mary Lovina Potter, looks more Indian than James Alexander Ralston, Nancy’s son, does. (Potter comes from Maryland also. His wife, Rachal Horner, is my ancestor who was born closes to Blackfoot Town, about 65 miles away.) Their pictures are posted on this forum somewhere. I have read that Nancy was an orphan by one contributor while another said that she had an “illegitimate” birth. However, each admitted that the question of her birth might be solved by the fact that she was Indian.
Eldad Sinkey was known to have said that he was Irish and Indian. He would have been William Green’s gggrandson. I have seen a picture of a Green who lived with this group in Iowa who looks mixed.
I have seen a picture of a Butt from the 30s who also really looked Indian. I also read a request of a pension of a Butt widow of a Rev. War veteren who was being “held with the Mocans in the Shawnee towns.” I assumed that it might mean he was being help with Monacans who might have helped fight the Shawnee.
Brenda:
You asked me about Caven being listed as Cave. I don’t know. I only saw the name in conjunction with the Hickory Grove Cemetery.
I looked up the Cresap letter reference URL. I found it interesting to note the name of the interpreter – Walker. I have always been suspicious of Elizabeth Walker.
I looked up my uncle’s notes on Pamela Mount. She was also known as Millie, but he has no birthdate, but he indicates that she was born in Pennsylvania. She married Joseph Carpenter, Jr. in Monroe County, OH and they live and die in Guernsey County, OH. Father was William, mother was Anne, no dates or further information. He indicates that she would likely have been born around 1810, but could not find further info. I am guessing he was somewhat cursory in his looking. He is meticulous in his Carpenter information. Be interesting to ask if he ever found anything.
Techteach
Welsh, Luther W., Ancestral colonial families : genealogy of the Welsh and Hyatt families of Maryland and their kin : giving the colonial generations of the Howard, Hammond, Maccubbin, Griffith, Greenberry, Dorsey, Van Sweringen, Baldwin, Gaither, Warfield and Duvall families
Independence, Mo.: Lambert Moon Print. Co., 1928, 213 pgs.
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THOMAS SWEARINGEN.
II. Th. van Sweringen2 (Gerritt1), b. in St. Mary’s c1665, d. 1708-12. For some reason he dropped the “van” from his surname and inserted an “a”, writing is Swearingen. He m. Jane —, and settled in Somerset Co. His will, P. G. Co., 1708-1711-2 (Annap. 13.265) named his wf. and 4 sons: (1) Th. (1688-will dated and
proved 1726; Annap. 18.50); (2) “Md.” Van (1694-1803), lived in 3 centuries; (3) Samuel (emigrated to N. C.); and (4) Jn. (Montg. Co., Md.). The chn. of Th. settled in Va., his yngt. son Col. Van of Shepardstown, being the friend of Washington, Jefferson, and other Va. notables. He was a Col. of militia, and in 1777 succeeded Col. Saml. Washington as Co. Lt. of Berkeley Co., Va. (Cartmell’s “Hist. of Lower Shenandoah Valley”). The Swgn. “Fam. Register” is a presentation of the 4 branches established by these 4 sons of Th.
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III. Van Swgn. (of Th. and Jane), called “Md. Van,” was b. 1694, “or thereabout” (His deposition, 3.1.1764, states he was then “aged 70 or thereabout” – Annals of Augusta Co., Va., vol. 1, p. 71); d. c1803, aged 109 yrs. (He lived 19 yrs. after the death
in 1784 of his son Van – Letter of Mr. J. D. Swearingen, below). He m. c1714-15, Eliz. Walker, b. 1695, da. of Chs. Walker, Jr., P. G. Co., and his wf., Rebec. Isaac (Col. Fams. 111, Isaac); settled in Washington Co.; had 6 sons and 6 das.
IV. Jn. Swgn. (of Md. Van) settled in Fayette Co., Pa. His son Marmaduke, captured by the Shawnee Indians when a boy of about 17, remained with them, and was chosen a chief of the tribe before he was 25 yrs. old. He became celebrated as Blue Jacket, the name given him from the hunting shirt he wore when captured. In the battle of Aug. 20, 1794, he was in chief command of the combined forces of the Shawnees and Miamis, but was defeated by Gen. Wayne. In the peace treaty of the following year he was the Indian negotiator and “conducted himself with moderation and dignity” (Howe’s “Historical Collections of Ohio,” p. 294). He m. a Shawnee woman, and had several das. and 1 son, Jim Blue Jacket.
Jim Blue Jacket had sons and das. (among them Chs.), who were removed with the Shawnee nation from Ohio to Kansas in Sep. 1832. The old “Shawnee Mission” is today a part of the suburbs of the 2 Kansas Citys, and “Blue Jacket Spring” and “Blue Jacket Lodge” are names still existing.
Spending the winter of 1897 in Baxter Springs, Kan., the writer picked up the “Baxter Springs News” of Friday, Nov. 6, 1897, and read: “Charles Bluejacket, the venerable leader of the Shawnee Indians, and who has lived south of Chetopa on Friday of last week. Chief Bluejacket was more than 80 yrs. of age and highly respected. The village of Bluejacket, L. T., was named after him.” The Indians descs. of Marmaduke Swgn. still remember and retain the family name of Swearingen. (See “Family Register”).
A bro. of Marmaduke was Lt. Van Swearingen, 1754-1839, of Hagerstown, Md. He was Lt. under Capt. Daniel STull in 1777, and was in Capt. Wm. Herrod’s Co. in 1778. He m. Susanna Greathouse, and d. in Ky., leaving issue (D.A.R. Lineage, vol. 49)
This shows Capt Wm Herrod’s co..
Sue J
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/sgorin/military/pioneer/kyr-204.txt
Thanks, Sue and Stacey,
My line comes through Maryland Van’s daughter, Rebecca, who marries a Tomlinson. One of his daughters marries my ggggg (I think I put enough g’s.) grandfather, John Carpenter. Tomlinson was a surveyor of land for George Washington. I spent a short time a few years ago at the DAR looking up the families of the Tomlinsons and Carpenters. This line, however, did not have a rumor of NA, although I always suspected it. Now I would love to find out about Pamela Mount, who would have been something like my ggggrandmother.
Techteach
Cindy, Bess, Vance, Stacy,
Lots of company over the holiday, but wanted you to know I haven’t forgotten this thread. Will reply after things settle Tuesday. Was looking at the early land transactions around Sheperdstown before the holiday came into full swing…
Brenda
Originally posted by Brenda Ferrell Sampsel
Abraham Bledsloe was also in early Orange, along with the Linvilles and Morgan Bryan & some family.
Some of these Orange Co./Old Fredrick VA names show up in Old Ninety-Six District in SC in 1779, along with a Barnabus & George Mounts. Van Swearingen, Providence Williams, etc. It’s an interesting list to look at……. 96 District was pretty big….Of course it stands out to me because it was a trade center.
Some of these LINVILLE descendants married into my FISHER line. LINVILLE Brothers, David C. (b. 1842 Shelby Co., IN) and William A. (b. 1837 in Shelby Co., IN), married FISHER sisters, Lucinda (b. 1839 in IN) and Hannah (b. 1841 in IN), respectively. Hannah and Lucinda FISHER were the daughters of my 2GGrandfather, Jonathan FISHER, and his first wife, Rachel HOWELL. (When Jonathan FISHER married his 2nd wife and my 2GGrandmother, Margaret WIMMER, David LINVILLE, Jonathan’s son-in-law, was their minister/preacher.)
David and William’s parents were John LINVILLE (b. 1796 in Stokes Co., NC; d. aft. 1870 in Howard Co., IN) and Francis “Franny” CRIM (b. 1800 in Stokes Co., NC, d. aft 1870 in Howard Co., IN). This is as far as I have traced them, but online trees list John’s parents as David LINVILLE (b. ca1765, d. ca1811 Stokes Co., NC) and Dorothy FAIR. David’s parents are Richard LINVILLE (b. 1740, d. 1821 in Stokes Co., NC) and UNKNOWN. Richard’s parents are Thomas LINVILLE (b. 1706 in PA, d. 1773 in NC) and Hannah UNKNOWN.
Stacey
Donegal Presbyter and Conoy Indian town
Cindy,
Indeed, the Donagal Presbytery was connected to Conoy Indian town. This is a significant fact for our research. The original Donegal Church (founded 1718) was located only a mile from Conoy Indian Town (17..-1744). Today, Conoy Indian Town would be located on the Susquehanna River about a mile from the town of Bainbridge. This is in the northwest corner of Lancaster County. (Get a map) The first meeting of the Presbytery was held at the Church on October 1732 and John Thompson was there. Richard Sinkey was there as earley as 1735.
The epicenter of Indian trade on the frontier including South West Pa, the Cumberland valley, the upper Potomac, Monancy, and even the Ohio River was organized out of the Donegal Twp. and the chief fur traders were leaders in the Donegal Church which was located very near Conoy Creek. The traders were operating at a time when the Indians (Conoy, Shawnee. Tutelo, Seneca) were present. They were there during the 1742 uprising.
Therefore, the Sanky/Sinkey and Thompsons you mentioned would have been exposed to the Tutelo who lived and passed through this area in the 1700s. Check out the following site for more details on Donegal and Lancaster county: (make sure to search for these terms- trader, Canoy, Conoy, Donegal, Lowrey, Galbraith, Allen, Harris, Smith, Octorara) http://www.horseshoe.cc/pennadutch/people/scotirish/scotrish.htm
Here is an excerpt from this site :
“Pioneering in the Donegals was somewhat different to that in other parts of Lancaster County, where farming was the staple, almost the only industry. Along what was the frontier, along the river, ferry privileges were almost as profitable as fur-trading licenses’ And generally with a ferry went a tavern. The first and most important ferry in Conoy township was Logan’s, which was established at Bainbridge in about 1730. Old Peter’s road ended at Conoy Indian Town, but a road was cut from there to Logan’s Ferry, or Galbraith’s Ferry, as it was more generally known. ..â€
“Patrick Campbell kept an ordinary near Canoy, Indian Town. He was the first constable of Donegal township after the county was organized. He married Mary, the widow of Capt. Samuel Smith, and, they moved to one of.the Smith farms, that in late years owned by the Engles. There he kept an ordinary, or continued one conducted by Capt. Smith for many prior years. It was well patronized, being near the Indian Town, and also on the Peters road which led to Logan’s ferry. ‘It was the custom of the traders to assemble at Smith and Campbell’s just before starting with their pack trains for the Indian country. They made things lively while they were there.’ They forded Canoy creek at or near where the stone mill stands, that,in recent years’ called ‘Erb’s Mill.’. “
(The person named “Logan†is not Shickelemy’s son.–Bess)
I found several old maps here : http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacahs/maps.htm Funny, none of the names look familiar. My Richard Sinkey was documented as owning land on Standing Stone Creek, 13 miles above Huntington.
Thomson started his career at Lewes, DE, only 22 miles from Blackfoot Town. I wish we could look at the papers he and Richard Sankey wrote. My Richard Sinkey appears about the time Richard Sankey moves south to VA.
Techteach
Bess and Brenda,
The link that Bess posted on the history of Scotch Irish listed a Lazerous Lowery in the Donegal area in the early 1700’s, at the time of Rev Richard Sankey. Tonight I found a Lazerous Lowery in the census for 1790 in Huntington County on the same census sheet as my Richard Sinkey.
Something I read said that the Conoy went on up the Susquehanna to the Juniata. An earlier link I posted, said that the settlers in Donegal settled on land that was cleared by burning. Somewhere on this forum is a speculation that the blackfoot term might have come from the ash on the feet of the Indians who burned the land to raise crops.
http://www.horseshoe.cc/pennadutch/people/scotirish/scotrish.htm
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps/pa/county/s2v4map.jpg
http://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/pa/huntingdon/1790/pgs-110-to-133.txt
The DNA test we ran on Deb’s father came back English. My family’s story is that they NDN came from the Sinkeys.
Techteach
Here is another interesting link. It is excerpts from a chapter on Lancaster County history from a book (Historical Collections of Pennsylvania: A Copious Selection of the Most Interesting, Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches & Anecdotes) published in 1843.
http://www.geocities.com/twincousin2334/Historical_PA_Collections.html
Here are a few quotes from it…
…Lancaster County was first peopled by Indians, remnants of southern tribes driven out by the encroachments of European colonists in Maryland, Virginia and the Carolinas, a few years before, and about the time that Pennsylvania was founded. Six Nations were acknowledged as the sovereigns of the Susquehanna, and they regarded with jealousy, and permitted with reluctance, the settlement of other tribes upon its margin. The Cayuga chief told the Moravians of Wyalusing, in 1765, “that the place they had chosen was not proper, all that country having been stained with blood; therefore, he would take themup and place them in a better situation near the upper end of Cayuga lake.”
Mr. Bancroft, in speaking of the Shawanees, says, “It was about the year 1698 that three or four score of their families, with the consent of the government of Pennsylvania, removed from Carolina and planted themselves on the Susquehanna. Sad, were the fruits of that hospitality. Others followed; and when, in 1732, the number of Indian fighting men in Pennsylvania was estimated to be 700, one half of them were Shawanee emigrants. So desolate was the wilderness that a vagabond tribe could wander undisturbed from Cumberland River to the Alabama, from the head-waters of the Santee to the Susquehanna.” They were some years afterwards persuaded to remove to the lands on Conodoguinet, where a hunting-ground had been assigned them by the proprietary government. Ever restless and quarrelsome themselves and encroached upon by the whites, they retired from one hunting-ground to another, until they joined the French on the head waters of the Ohio, in 1755.
The village of the Conestogas is noted in the early colonial history as the scene of many important councils between the proprietary governors and the Indians of the Susquehanna and the Six Nations. William Penn is said to have visited them once. James Logan was here in 1705; Governor Evans in 1707; Governor Gookin in 1710 and 1711; and Governor Keith in 1721. They were often visited by preachers of various denominations, among whom was Thomas Chalkley in 1705, an eminent Quaker preacher….
…The upper parts of Germany, at the commencement of the last century, contained many Protestant communities, Moravians, Schwenckfelders, Mennonists, or German Baptist, Dunkers or Seventh-day Baptists, and Lutherans, who, after fleeing in vain from one principality to another to avoid persecution, at last, listening to William Penn’s offer of free toleration, found a permanent asylum in this new land….
…The Presbyterians from the north of Ireland came in at about the same time as the Germans, and occupied the townships of Donnegal and Paxton. Collisions afterwards occurring between them and the Germans concerning elections, bearing of arms, the treatment of Indians and the proprietaries instructed their agents, in 1755, that the Germans should be encouraged, and in a manner directed, to settle along the southern boundary of the province, in Lancaster and York counties, while the Irish were to be located nearer to the Kittatinny mountain, in the region now forming Dauphin and Cumberland counties. There was deeper policy in this than the mere separation of the two races. The Irish were a warlike peole and their services were needed in the defence of the frontier.
The Welsh and English Quakers from the head waters of the Brandywine, and the Great valley of Chester County, gradually spread themselves over into Sadsbury township. Robert Barber, Samuel Blunston and John Wright, three Quakers from Chester County, came out in the year 1728 to Columbia, where they had purchased large farms. The Lutherans came in at a later date, about the year 1740 to 1748 and are first heard of about Lancaster. The Moravians began their establishment in Warwick township, about the year 1749. Many redemptioners (people who were sold into temporary service to pay for their passage across the ocean) found their way into this county, where, after working themselves free, they obtaiined small tracts of land on easy terms and became eventually valuable citizens.
Lancaster County, thus settled on the principle of free toleration, by men of widely different races and religions, has continued to prosper, until it has become the most populous and wealthy inland county in the state…
…Bainbridge is an ancient village at the mouth of Conoy Creek, 9 miles above Columbia. It was formerly the site of Dekahoagah, the village of the Conoy or Ganawese Indians. John Haldeman, an early pioneer, first built a mill at Locust Grove, below Bainbridge. This was for a long time the principal mill in the whole region. Flour was then hauled in wagons to Chester, until the people learned to construct and navigate arks…
Litiz is a beautiful village belonging to the Moravians, 8 miles north of Lancaster. It was laid out in 1756. The houses are principally of stone, arranged along one street with a public square in the centre. the square and streets are shaded with trees, and the village has the air of neatness and order characteristic of the sect. The population may be about 400…
I have Haldemans/Haltermans/Holdermans in my direct line (married one of my Joneses) that were from Lancaster/Chester Counties of Pennsylvania and went on to settle in Montgomery County, Ohio.
Stacey
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