'•^J. 0^ :^ / ^x> (, ' " "^ o^ ■.,a'^ _■>} % "^^ "-0 ^^\/ J Zhc ILarfmet, micflnasteis anb Hllieb dFamilies ■^**^i^^^' larimer, IttciWasters anti ailieli ^families COMPILED AND EDITED BY RACHEL H. L. MELLON mvamr ^rinteU for ^rtbate Circulation BY j. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA MDCCCCIII Copyright, 1903, BY Rachel H. L. Mellon t- ".'•?> a->- ^^ :^ To the Memory of My Honored Father and Mother, WILLIAM AND RACHEL McMASTERS LARIMER, And to my Husband, JAMES ROSS MELLON, These pages are affectionately dedicated by RACHEL HUGHEY LARIMER MELLON preface /^Jfci^HE desire to place before the members of my family / 1 and their descendants some facts concerning our ^^i^ progenitors has been accomplished to a greater degree than I thought possible when I undertook the task. Added zest was given to my researches when I became a member of the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and step by step the old Bible records, wills, deeds, and state papers have been searched. I have en- deavored to give merely short sketches of my forefathers, — Larimer, Hughey, McMasters, Sheakley, McCurdy, Creigh- ton, Irwin, King, and McLaughlin, — who settled in Lancaster, York, and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, and the journeyings back to the old homesteads and churches of these counties has been a great pleasure to me. Differing from the trend of most family histories, I have attempted to trace each line of ancestry as far as is possible, without giving prominence to any particular line ; they are, therefore, left open to further research, with the hope that in each family some one may be able to supply addi- tional information.* The members of our early families were descended from the Covenanters, Dissenters, and Reformed Church of the Huguenots, and came to Pennsylvania to enjoy religious freedom. They owned large farms in Lan- caster and York Counties, and were loyal patriots. God-fearing * Any person having authentic records of the surnames of the wives of Robert or Thomas Larimer will confer a great favor by forwarding such infor- mation ; for I feel that we are but making a beginning of our American family records. Address Rachel Hughey Larimer Mellon, 400 North Negley Ave- nue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 7 preface and upright, and prominent in their locaHties. As the march ot civiHzation moved westward after the war of the American Revolution, members of every family, without an exception, settled west of the Allegheny Mountains. Grateful acknowledgment is due to those friends whose efforts have enabled me to collect and arrange the data herein presented. Among these are Mr. Karl A. Saeger, of New York ; Dr. L. C. Loomis, of Washington, D. C. ; Mrs. Eliza McMasters King ; Mrs. Mary McMasters Jones ; Mrs. Annie E. Jones, Mrs. J. McF. Carpenter, and Thomas Galey, of Pittsburgh ; William H. H. Larimer, of Kansas City ; Edwin K. Larimer, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa ; Thomas McMasters Larimer, of Leavenworth, Kansas ; Mr. Calvin Hamilton ; Miss Virginia McCurdyand Mr. Charles McCurdy, of Gettys- burg ; Mr. Watson EUmaker, of Lancaster ; Mr. H. E. Marker, of Greensburg; and Mrs. Louis McFarlane, of Circleville, Pennsylvania. And I also wish to acknowledge with appreciation my in- debtedness to Miss Minnie Foglf Mickley, ex-Registrar Gen- eral of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and gene- alogist, of Mickleys, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, for her valuable assistance in preparing this work. Rachel Hughey Larimer Mellon September, 1903 Contents The Larimer Family The Sheakley Family The McCurdy Family The Creighton Family The McMasters Family The Hughey Family The King Family The McLaughlin Family The Irwin Family War Record Marriages Deeds Wills Addenda . Index of Names PAGE 43 53 61 65 73 79 91 95 99 113 119 127 167 177 %iQt of HUustrations The Larimer Arms ...... Frontispiece Arms, Lorimier, Neufchatel ...... Title-page Genealogical Chart .... Old French Arms, Larmor, Bretagne The Adams County home of the Larimers William Larimer, Jr., No. 23 Rachel McMasters, No, 17 (Mrs. William Larimer, Jr.) . Fac-simile of William Larimer, Jr.'s, note to President Lincoln Conestoga wagon, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia . Rachel H. Larimer, No. 42 (Mrs. James Ross Mellon) Suburban home of William Larimer, Jr., No. 23 Four generations, — Judge Thomas Mellon, James Ross Mellon, William Larimer Mellon, Matthew Mello Homestead of William Larimer, Sr., No, The Larimer brothers . The Sheakley homestead The Thaddeus Stevens house Old tavern-stand adjoining Sheakley farm Ann Sheakley (Mrs. William Larimer, Sr.) James McCurdy's homestead Lane leading to Robert McCurdy's homestead William Creighton's homestead 12 16 18 20 22 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 44 46 48 50 54 56 62 %\et of miustrations The John McMasters homestead Chair of John McMasters, No. 6 . Eliza Ann McMasters, No. i6 (Mrs. Hugh D. King) Mary McMasters, No. 23 (Mrs. B. F. Jones) Annie E. Larimer, No. 38 (Mrs. T. M. Jones) Rachel Hughey, No. 15 (Mrs. John McMasters) . John Hughey' s homestead and spring-house .... Silhouette of Rachel Hughey, No. 15. Robert King's homestead ....... Silhouette of Elizabeth King, No. 9 (Mrs. John Hughey) . Fac-simile of Rev. John King's sermon notes .... James Sheakley, No. 20, Governor of Alaska, 1893-97 . Robert McCurdy, No. 14, Associate Judge of Adams County, 1869-73 Calvin Hamilton, superintendent Gettysburg Cemetery Thomas McCurdy Vincent, brigadier-general by brevet. Picture taken in major's uniform, 1865 William Larimer, Jr., No. 23, brigadier-general National Guard, 1849 Thomas McMasters, No. 20 ..... . Mellon family group ........ W. L. Mellon and family Sarah Lucille Mellon in her mother's wedding-gown, bonnet, and parasol Old oak landmark on Robert McCurdy farm .... Silhouette of John McMasters, No. 6 . Tombstone of Robert King ....... Old Leacock Church, Lancaster County ..... Arms, Lorimier, etc ....... . 12 PAGE 66 69 70 70 70 74 76 78 80 1 10 1 10 1 10 1 12 1 12 1 12 114 T16 118 124 140 162 164 172 James 1R( lasters = = Rache 5, Lis- b. 1835- cour .762; land 1 Board in 1- Irelg ■1 b. March I Down, I Creek, Al 8, 1847, nia ; bur. 1 1 7, at Turtle C |ty, Pennsylvani) 79, in Pittsbi ty, Pennsylvani [ellon. (See T Margaret. ancestors of tbe ILarimcv— flOcflnastcrs Jfamtli?, ant) I)C0ccn^ant0 of 3anies TRoss an& IRacbcl !Huobc^ TLavtnicr fliicllon James McCurdy Will probated May 2, 1771, Salisbury township, Lancas- ter County ; b. about 1 690, in Bushmills, Ireland. Cooke, arrived with her hi about 1717. Set! Lancaster County. William Creighton J. in Leacock township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania ; will probated 1790, in Lancaster County. d. after 1790, in Leacock township, Lancaster County. Patrick McM '. in Scotland ; fled t( land (Drumsnod) ; ,/. county Down, Ireland, Ire- Robert Larimer = Sarah township, York County,* Pcnn- sylvania. b. in Berwick township,York County,* Pennsylvania ; d. after 1772. William Sheakley=Jannet Moor, d. about 1 8 1 o, widow of Jai in Mount Pleas- j Moor, Jr., Mo ant township, j Pleasant townsh York County,* York Count; Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania. Thomas Larimer = Catherine - \. in Berwick township, York County,* Pennsyl- vania ; d, 1816, in Mount Joy township, York County,* Pennsyl- b. in Berwick township, York County,* Pennsyl- vania ; J. in Mount Joy township, York County,* Robert McCurdy = Ann Creighton, b. 1716, in Salisbury township, of Leacock township ; ^. aboui Lancaster County ; d. May 16, \ I 7 3 8 ; ot. May 31, I 76 1 ; d. 1 8 10, in Cumberland town- j before 18 10, in Cumberlanc ship, Adams County, near township, Adams County, neai Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. John McMasters = - (. 1760 ; m. in Mount Pleasant town- ship, York County ;* will made June 10, 1 8 1 1 , in Franklin township, Adams County ; d. 18 I 2, at Gettys- burg, Pennsylvania. Margaret McCurdy, b. 1762, in Mount Pleasant township, York County ;* d. May 12, 1825; bur. in Union Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. ■ McWhinney = , Board Mills ; I i. in county in Ireland. , Down, Ireland. Thomas McMasters = Rachel McWhinney, 1754; m. in Board Mills, Lis- I b. about 1756, burn, Ireland ; ■■/. Jan. 26, 1835. 7;. (2) Sarah Cam Duff, b. 1762 j d. December 11, 183J, in Board Mills, Lisburn, Ireland. county Down, land i d. about 1784, in county Down, Ireland. Joseph Hughey=Jean Irwin (or Erwin), ;. about 1707, in Dru- I i. in Peach Bottom town- more township, Lan- ship, Lancaster County ; caster County, Pa. ; ] m. March 13, 1737 ; i/. will probated October 1 after 1773, in Lancaster 25. '773' County, Pennsylvania. Robert King ■ J. 1705 ; d. June 22, 1 763 ; bur. in Morrison's Graveyard, Drumore County, Pennsylvania. Ann McLaughlin, m. .736. in Peach Bottom township, Lan- caster County, Pennsylvania. John Hughcy = Elizabeth King, i. January 31, 1752, in Drumorctown- b. March 10, 1753, ship, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania ; ! Chestnut Level, Lancaster May 2, 1837, in Plum township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania ; bur. in Beulah Graveyard. County; jr i\"aa a sreat n'eim,m. ^be Xarimcr ifamtli? 1742, until July, 1743. He assisted in the defeat of General Nadasti near Severne ; fought in the affair of Haguenau, and at the siege of Fribourg in 1 744 ; served in the army of the lower Rhine during the winter and during the following cam- paign. He was appointed brigadier of infantry on the first of May. He was at the sieges of Mons and St. Guilian in 1 746, and at the battle of Raucoux the same year. He went over to the Italian army in the month of November, and assisted in the defence of Provence until March, 1747, at which time he left the army. Encamped at first at Guillestre, June third ; on the nineteenth of July he found himself at the assault on the defile of Assiette, marched afterwards to the camp of Cas- tellane, where he arrived August tenth, and on the twentieth went over to the Seine, where he finished the campaign. Created brigadier-general January first, 1 743, he resigned from the Boulonnais regiment, and was employed by the Italian army until August first of the same year. Employed in the German army by letters of March first, 1757, he was engaged in the battle of Hastenbeck and at the taking of Hanover. He returned to France in the month of November, and served no more. (Chronologic Milit., tome vii. p. 283.) He married, by contract of March seventeenth, 1750, Eliza- beth Lorimier. In honor of this marriage, the king made a present to the Marquis de Ruffey of a pension of two thousand livres, re- vertible to his wife. He died in 1 782. (Courcelle, Histoire des peers de France, vol. i. p. ^^. ) Le Sieur de Lorimier was in the corps of Philibert de Cler- mont, surnamed " le Brave Montoison et le chevalier sans peur et sans reproche," in his expedition from the Bretagne, about the year 1438. (Courcelle, vol. vii. p. 64.) Alexander Lorimore, of London, married Anne Thornton, Zbe Xarimer jfamili? born January thirty-first, 1 656-57, daughter of John Thornton, Esq., of Newnham and Brockhall, born 1 589, and his wife Anne, who died 1671, daughter and co-heir of Robert Thorn- ton, Esq., of Downham, in Norfolk. (Burke's Commoners, vol. ii. p. 496.) Mary Lorimer, daughter and co-heir of John Lorimer, Esq., and relict of William Croon, M.D., married, second, Edward Sadlier, second baronet of Temple Dinsley, who died without issue in 1 706, when the baronetcy became extinct. Sir Edward had previously sold the estate of Temple Dinsley to Benedict Ithell, Esq., sheriff of Herts, first George II., from whose family it passed by will to the Harwoods and thence to the Dartons. (Burke's Commoners, vol. ii. p. 563.) The two mottoes of the Larimer arms. Upward and On- ward, bear appropriate reference to the spiritual and mundane elements symbolized by the crest and the shield respectively. The Scotch name Lorimer is from a French word signify- ing makers of bridle-bits, stirrups, and other saddlers' iron- mongery. The first record I can find of the Larimers in York County is that of my great-great-grandfather, Robert Larimer (born about 1698), who had two hundred acres of land in Berwick township, deeded to him by Henry Kinghart, July twenty-sixth, 1750. Robert Larimer^ died intestate, his administrator Andrew Mcllvaine's account being filed in York County, July, 1772. His wife's name was Sarah, and his children were Thomas, John, William (who died before the administrator's account was filed in 1772), Mary, Margaret, Jean, and Robert, a minor. ZTbe Xarinter family Thomas (bom about 1740), the eldest son of Robert and Sarah Larimer, my great-grandfather, married Catherine , of Berwick township, York County, where he died in 1816, and is buried in what is now Mount Joy township, Adams County. The children of Thomas and Catherine Larimer are, as his will mentions, as follows: William, Thomas, Margaret, Mary, Sidney, Nancy, and Elizabeth. Thomas Larimer and his wife Catherine (of Berwick town- ship) lived in Mount Joy township, York County, where he had a farm of two hundred and fifty acres in 1 779, He served in the German regiment during the Revolutionary War. They were stanch members of the Presbyterian Church. The eldest son William, my grandfather, was born in Mount Joy township, Adams County in the year 1771. He married, first, Martha McNease, who died January thirteenth, 1 798, aged twenty-seven years ; second, Ann Sheakley, of Adams County. He removed to Westmoreland County before, 1798, and built the Larimer Homestead near Larimer. He died in September, 1838, and is buried in the Long Run Presbyterian graveyard, North Huntington township, West- moreland County. A little incident in the life of William Larimer, Sr., may be of interest to his descendants. He was considered a very good business man, but unexpected questions often arise, as was no doubt so in this case. I think it will explain matters by quoting two letters, — one from Abram Horbach to William Henry Harrison, and the other from William Henry Harrison, " Old Tippecanoe." -Tr TT TT " Greensburg, May 27, 1819. •' William H. Harrison : *' Respected Friend, — I am sorry to state to you the trouble Mr. Larimer is put to respecting the black girl he sold you. It appears the sale was not legal and an ill-disposed neabor of Mr. Larimer's has maid complaint to our court respecting it. Mr. Larimer is here now tending court. There is a bill 19 Xtbe Xarimcr family found against him for the selling of the girl to you, taking her out of this State. Mr. Larimer is advised by his Attorney to go on to see you and get the Girl back. I feel for Mr. Larimer and in particular for Mrs. Larimer. If you can with any propriety let the girl come back you would confer a particular favor as I feel somewhat interested. ♦* I am Sir, Yours Respectfiilly, ♦' Abram Horbach. "To William H. Harrison. ** Abram Horbach : " Dear Sir, — I have received of Mr. Larimer the three hundred and twenty dollars which I gave him for the Black Girl, Pricilla, and request you to dehver him the bill of sale. • ' Your friend , '* W. H. Harrison. *' North Bend, Ind. " 9th June, 1819.' Mr. Harrison was evidently on his way home to Indiana when this sale was made. ¥¥ Milltam Xarimcr, 3^-, Hlo, 23 1809-1875 My father, William Larimer, was born in the old Larimer Homestead, Circleville, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, on the twenty-fourth day of October, 1809. He married Rachel McMasters, of Turtle Creek, Allegheny County. He was one of the prominent business men of his day. Larimer township in Somerset County, Larimer Station on the Penn- sylvania Railroad, at which place he and Hon. John Covode organized the Westmoreland Coal Company, which is still one of the best in the State ; Larimer Avenue, in Pittsburgh, Larimer County in Colorado, Larimer Street in Denver, and Fort Larimer in Arkansas were all named in honor of my father, and an outline of his hfe, I think, will be interesting to his descendants. ILLIAM Larimkr, Jr., No. 23 XLbc Xarimer jfamtli^ His first business enterprise was with his friend and neighbor John Irwin, of Irwin, in the Conestoga wagon system, by teaming goods between Pittsburgh and Phila- delphia ; then by merchandising as partner with his brother- in-law, John McMasters, Jr. He was in many of the new business enterprises of that time, including banking, and was very successful for over twenty years. He was the first presi- dent of the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad, treasurer of the Ohio and Pennsylvania (now Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago) Railroad, chief proprietor and creditor of the Youghiogheny Slack Water System, chief projector and builder of the Remington Coal Railroad at McKee's Rocks, and a large shareholder in numerous California gold-mining enterprises and overland transportation companies. He identi- fied himself with the antislavery movement as an active abo- litionist, assisted in the organization of the old Liberal party, and supported Birney for President in 1844. From this time up to the defeat of General Scott in 1852 he acted with the Whig party, and took quite a prominent part in the politics of Pennsylvania. He was made major-general of State militia in 1852, and was mentioned as a possible candidate for gov- ernor. He acquired considerable wealth, indeed, a large fortune for those times, being uniformly successful in all his enter- prises. His public spirit, enterprise, and generosity made him hosts of friends. After financial difficulties which reached a climax during the general business depression in 1854, he determined to start anew in the West, and left Pittsburgh for Nebraska in 1855, and was shortly after elected to the Legislature of that Territory. He took an active part in behalf of Republican principles, and the meeting which organized the Republican party in the Territory was held at his house in Omaha. He moved to Kansas in 1 858, remained a few months, and Z\)c Xarlmer ifamtl^ during the Pike's Peak excitement of that year went to Colo- rado. He was one of the founders of the city of Denver, built the first house there, was appointed United States Com- missioner and Judge of Probate for the First Judicial District of the Territory of Colorado, and served for some time. He became well known not only in all parts of Kansas, but throughout the West, being prominently identified with the public interests of Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado for more' than twenty years. While in the Kansas State Senate, 1867-70, it was said of him: "He is earnest in his con- victions, conscientious in the discharge of his duties, and zealously labors for the good of the people he represents." He entered the army at the outbreak of the Civil War, raised the Third Regiment of Colorado Volunteers, and was its first colonel. He served a short time, resigned, and re- turned to Kansas, but soon entered the service again as cap- tain of General Blunt's body-guard. After the massacre of Baxter Springs he was commissioned captain of Company A, Fourteenth Kansas Cavalry, by Governor Thomas Carney. He was frequently spoken of by the press of the State in connection with the gubernatorial chair and United States Senatorship. He took a prominent part in the Greeley campaign in 1872, and was the first man to suggest the name of Mr. Greeley in connection with the Presidency. William Larimer died on the sixteenth day of May, 1875. He was a man of ability, genial and companionable, broad- minded, and always ready to give the best he had, true to his Huguenot descent and principles. To show how ready he was to take an active part in the public affairs of his country, we quote from the Rocky Mountain News, of Denver, Colo- rado, September first, 1862 : ^be Xarimer family? MiUiam Xartmcr's Speecb " The war meeting held here [Central City, Colorado] , Saturday night last, was the largest and most enthusiastic public meeting ever held in the Territory. The meeting was scarcely organized when General Larimer was called for by the immense crowd in attendance. He came forward and was received with hearty cheers and the most kindly feelings. Lights were called for that they might see his face. When these were brought the applause was renewed. The General arose and spoke nearly as follows : *' ' Mr. Chairman and Fellow-Citizens, — I am an old pioneer. I came to this country in the fall of 1858. I am one of the first settlers of our Rocky Mountain Territory. I wrote one of the first letters ever written from this country, — certainly the first ever written from Denver. I had dated my letter, the night before, "Golden City," but after writing it we met and changed the name to Denver, after our governor (now General Denver), — an honor to his country and to his name. Well, Denver is there still, and I believe will be for ages to come. " ' I have often addressed the people of Colorado ; I like to do it ; they are my neighbors and fellow-citizens ; we have been pioneers here together, and together we have explored the country. As I remarked, I have written letters from this country, and for writing these letters I once came near losing my life. I wrote in the winter of 1858-59 that we found gold in the valley along the Platte and Cherry Creek, and we were all looking towards the mountains, and expected to find a "good thing" there, and that we could then dig out from two to five dollars per day. Thousands came here in the spring of 1859 expecting to pick up a fortune at once, without labor. They came without any preparation for what was before them, and almost without clothing and food. There was great suffering, and some even died of starva- tion. Coming here as they did, many were disappointed. It could not be otherwise. Because I wrote those letters a meeting was held at Arapahoe, at which it was resolved to hang me, as well as others who had done the like. But, fellow-citizens, they did nothing to me, and here I am to-night. [Cheers.] "'I am told to-day, all around here, that almost any kind of labor is worth three dollars per day, and that many men are making more, and also that the mines are doing extremely well. I always had confidence in them, and in those who were laboring to develop this country. The American nation has no more enterprising people than they ; for them I am proud of Colorado. " 'I visited you a year ago with your governor and others, and spoke to you 23 Zbc Xarimer family? then under very diiFerent circumstances from the present. Never did I sup- pose I should stand before you under such different circumstances, and bring the message I have for you to-night. Then I came to introduce to you Colo- rado's first governor, and to talk with you of your future prospects. You received me kindly, but your prospects were gloomy. You had been doing well, but had then pretty generally struck the "cap-rock." You were spending thousands of dollars and getting no return. [Cries of "That's so !"] You were getting discouraged, and were fearful lest you would have to give the country up. You bore the frowns of fortune nobly and bravely and as best you could, and you have your reward. Well, as I said, the cir- cumstances are very different now. As I came up into the mountains to-day among you, I found you had got through the "cap-rock;" that the stroke of the drill and the hammer and the sound of the blast had not been in vain, and that you had struck richer pay than ever before, and I was glad to hear it. [Cheers and cries of " That's so!"] That the mines of Colorado are inexhaustible is now a fixed fact. " * But, Mr. Chairman and fellow-citizens, I must not digress further, but hasten to tell you why I have now come among you, and deliver the message with which I have been intrusted. Your country and my country has now, after seventy years of unequalled, uninterrupted, and untarnished success, got down to the *' cap-rock" of her prosperity, and she has sent me to ask your help to assist her in getting through it. Fellow-citizens, shall she have it ? [Cries of" She shall that !"] Her flag, which has floated on every sea and every great navigable river of the globe ; which has been honored and respected by every nation of the world, while none were so haughty as to wish or dare to insult it ; which has been a protection for her citizens in every clime, under whose folds the oppressed of every nation have found a refuge, has been insulted and trampled under foot, — not by a foreign foe, but by those who owe most to it ; who had been respected abroad because it was their national emblem. A great, perfidious, ungrateful, and wicked rebellion has broken out. All because Abraham Lincoln was constitutionally and legally elected President, and because our Southern brothers, who had been accus- tomed from the foundation of the republic to domineer over three millions of people whose skin was a shade darker than their own, and to denounce us, their Northern brethren, as the mudsills of society and as the inferiors of their slaves, and had for many years enjoyed the highest honors of the nation, were now stripped of their high positions for a time, and were no longer lords of the nation. [Cries of " Hear, hear !"] " • Fellow-citizens, I used to be an old line Whig, We used to try, year after year, to elect a Whig President, but were almost always defeated. Twice we 24 Rachel McMasters, No. 17 ( Mrs. William Larimer, Jr. ) ^be Xarlmer ffamili? did succeed, but our Presidents lived but a short time, and soon at best we had to give way to our Southern brethren and the Democrats, who were sure to beat us at the ballot-box next time, and would immediately abolish the protec- tive tariff we had labored so earnestly to establish, and undo everything we had done. But fellow-citizens, we did not get angry and rebel when we were defeated ; we turned in and helped to support the government as best we could, and bore our defeat without complaint. When Lincoln was elected our Southern brothers could not bear to lose their power, even temporarily, but fired upon our country's flag. What has been done since you all know. " ' Your Chairman says you have lost your interest in transpiring events. I do not believe it. Every one of you before me has a brother, a relative, or a near friend who is engaged in this conflict, and every telegram which flashes along the wires brings the news that some one you hold dear has fallen a victim. On every battle-field the green grass is growing on the graves of those you have loved, but will never see again. There is a sore spot in every heart, a vacant seat at every hearth, a mourner at every corner of the street. Can you forget, when this is so, and become unmindful, when every mail comes laden with its messages of woe ? I think not. [Cries of " Never !"] '< < Well, this war has been going on until the present time. Pope and Halleck have been sweeping down the Mississippi ; Butler has occupied New Orleans ; McClellan has been meeting before Richmond and in the swamps of Chickahominy the F.F.V's. All the rest of the South and those wicked leaders have been using every exertion to fill up their ranks and swell their numbers by conscription, and by every other means, from their more ignorant and innocent neighbors. So successful have they been in this that McClellan, with the thousands of brave men under his command, has been able to accom- plish but little, and, notwithstanding the thousands who have sunk in glorious graves there, it has thus far been a drawn battle. ♦* ' Abraham Lincoln has been trying to preserve the Constitution and the Union, sustaining every State in all its rights, whether real or fancied, and to leave slavery untouched wherever it existed, believing that the National Gov- ernment was not responsible for it. He has been moving slowly, and has done everything that could be done to conciliate and assure the South that their institution should be untouched. In this course I have been disposed to stand by the President. Now I begin to think that I can see the hand of God in this matter. Had this war been ended a year ago, slavery would have remained untouched ; the millions who have so long been bowed down by tyranny and oppression would never have scented the air of freedom and uni- versal liberty as it passed on every breeze over the plantations of the South from every far-ofi^ blood-stained battle-field ; but now they have breathed its 25 Zhc Xarimer famili? breath, heard its words, drunk in the spirit, and " as the lightning cometh out o{ the East and shineth unto the West," so has the light of universal freedom flashed tongue to tongue and mind to mind over all the land. " ' Already the chains of the bondman begin to fall, and the Almighty is ushering in His great "year of jubilee." I now believe that this war is never to end until every chain shall fall and every fetter lie broken ; until our flag, with every star replaced, shall again float over our nation, with not a single bondman beneath its folds. What I want now is help for our country in this time of our country's need. When I received my orders to come here and raise the Colorado Third I left without scarcely having had time to say good-by to my wife and children. Missouri was being overrun with guerillas ; Quantrell is reported to be in Jackson County with six thousand men. Price has crossed the Mississippi with twenty-five pieces of artillery, and nobody knows how many men. Kansas and Nebraska, the gateways and store-houses of Colorado, are in danger. They have nobly responded to the call for soldiers, but their soldiers are now away down in Arkansas and Tennessee. There are none left for home protection ; everybody in Leavenworth is under arms ; places of business are closed from three o'clock until seven, and every- body is drilling in the ranks. Congress has done much for Colorado. It has given us a mint, paid the expenses of two terms of our Legislature, given us post-ofiices and mail routes all over this country, and has also given us a rail- road, and now asks for soldiers to defend the border. *« * The President knows your worth. I was in Washington when the news of our victories in New Mexico arrived. The bravery of the Colorado First was appreciated. If it had not been for them we should not be here to-night. Sibley would have emptied Denver and taken everything valuable here, and would to-day have been all over these mountains. General Jim Lane, when he sent me here, said, " One regiment from this Territory would be worth two from the other States. Kansas troops are good, but Colorado's are better." What he said was true. I know it. [Cheers.] The Colorado Second is as good, but is not quite full, and now I have come to raise the Colorado Third. [Cries of "You shall have it."] I could pick out the number for a regi- ment, eight hundred and thirty men, from the crowd before me, but I do not want that number from here. The governor has apportioned the Territory, and two companies have fallen to this county. It is hard to raise recruits where wages are so high, but I have confidence in your patriotism, and I do not doubt that you will furnish your quota. I do not say go, but come. I am ready if necessary to die for my country on the battle-field. I do not wish to follow behind. I want to lead. I want to drill you in the bayonet exer- cise. That is what is feared most. [Cheers.] 26 I [ /^cdU^ -"^^^ ^ .r. (f^h. c/ Jil Fac-simile ok William Larimer, Jr. 's, Noie to President Lincoln, and Answer ZTbe Xarimer jfamtli? ** ' It has been said that here, as well as everywhere else, there have been those who sympathized with secession. I hope the time has come when such persons have ceased to sympathize with rebellion ; they must know that this rebellion will be crushed out. Are there any Jackson men here ? [Cries of "There are."] These are the men I want. That old hero said, " The Union must and shall be preserved.'" So I say, and I say that the time shall again come when the flag of our nation shall float on the breeze over an undi- vided Union, with every star thrice brighter than ever, and cleansed from the pollution of human bondage, with not a vestige of this great treason left. "'Fellow-citizens, I thank you for the kindness with which you have received me and listened to me to-night. I am sorry I have not the talent to arouse you as I could wish, but such as I am I have devoted myself to my country. Good-night.' " The following note to President Lincoln, March sixth, 1861 , is reproduced, with the President's terse reply, "At 5 p.m." : " President A. Lincoln : " What time to-morrow, the 6th, could you see a delegation from the New Territory of Colorado ? Yours, "5th March, 1 86 1. Wm. LaRIMER, Jr." " At 5 P.M." "The Colorado delegation, eight in number, in attendance according to the above appointment." (In lead-pencil.) The description of early days on the plains, an account of a journey to Pike's Peak late in the fifties, is graphically told by my brother, William H. H. Larimer. After an absence of twenty-nine years, my brother visited Denver. In talking about his former residence there, he said, "I came to this place in 1858, when I was seventeen years old. That fall I cut logs for the first building on the site of Denver. They were cottonwoods, and grew about where the Union Station now stands. The cabin was built on the spot now occupied by the Sun building, at Fifteenth and Larimer Streets. It was a rough little affair, but it proved to be the advance guard of one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The party, of which my father, General Larimer, and myself Zbc Xarimer family were a part, came from Leavenworth, Kansas. It consisted of M. M. Jewett, R. E. Whitsett, Charles Lawrence, and Mr. Dorsett. There were sixty in the party originally made up to go to Pike's Peak, but fifty-four of them backed out before the start was made. We were forty-seven days on the road, and I walked every step of the way, driving an ox team." (Denver History.) ¥¥ 3o0epb xarimer, HHo. 44 1851-1894 Joseph Larimer, one of the prominent men of Evanston, Illinois, was born in Pittsburgh, on the sixth day of Septem- ber, 1851. He left Pittsburgh when a small boy, and was brought up in the West, in Leavenworth, Kansas. He came to Chicago and entered the Chicago house of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company when he was sixteen years of age. He was much interested in the public affairs of Evanston, especially in its educational interests ; as a member of the school board he was invaluable. He was a director of the State Bank of Chicago, a director of the State Athenaeum, a member of the Union League, and also of the Builders' and Traders' Exchange. He became manager of the Chicago branch of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company, and under his able administra- tion the business of the house steadily grew, notwithstanding the great development of local manufacturing establishments in competing lines. The Larimer school of Evanston was named in his honor. He married Fannie Louise Sherman, of Waukegan, Illinois, October fourth, 1 876. (Their three chil- dren are : Helen, Robert, and Joseph.) He died at the early age of forty-three, on the twenty-fourth day of August, 1894. 28 ^^ Ebe Xarimer family autobtoorapbtcal Sf^etcb I was bom in Lawrenceville, Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh. At the time of my birth, 1847, ^^^ country was marshalHng its forces on the Texan frontier, preparing for war with Mex- ico. My brother Will remembers seeing my father weighing me, tied up in one of his large red silk bandanas, which seem to have been used in those days for all purposes, from carrying apples to weighing babies. I came into the world the one dark-haired baby of the family, and was considered quite a curiosity, as all the other babies had appeared bald-headed. I was a very romantic child. Lucille, daughter of our family physician. Dr. Marcellon Cote (who was one of the noted practitioners of Pittsburgh), was my childhood's friend, as I had no sister near my age. Lucille and I were much together, our friendship lasting for many years. When I was seven years old our family moved West and I missed my little friend sadly. The journey to the West was made by water. My father had gone to Nebraska in the summer to prepare a home for us, and in October, 1855, we started to join him. We went on the boat "Empire City" (commanded by Captain J. J. Vandergrift) down the Ohio to St. Louis. Our party was composed of my Aunt Martha, with her husband, the Rev. Watson Hughes, and their six children. They, with my dear mother and her nine children, made quite a family party. From St. Louis we went on the boat " The New Lucy" up the Missouri to St. Joseph, Missouri, taking a stage for St. Mary's, where my father met us. On our way to St. Mary's we passed the tribe of Pottawat- omie Indians, who were moving West, being crowded out by the progress of civilization. And as I think of it to-day it saddens me that I was one of the number who were 29 Z\)c Xarimer famtli? driving them from their old possessions. With their famihes and all their worldly goods, — the braves, the squaws, the papooses, and the ponies, — they were especially interesting to us children, being the first red men we had ever seen, and it seemed to me the caravan was miles long. Our new home was across the river from St. Mary's, in Nebraska, lying between the Papillion and Platte Rivers, where once more we were a happy united family. My ambition in girlhood was to be an artist, but lack of oppqrtunity at that time prevented my indulging this taste. From my readings of the Bible, however, I had become thoroughly convinced of the wisdom of God, and from the Book of Proverbs I had selected my life motto : " Trust in the Lord with all thy heart and lean not upon thine own un- derstanding ; in all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths ;" and so I would not allow this disappointment to grieve me greatly, but rather prayed that God would give me of His wisdom that all things might seem well, and that I should learn to trust Him to make all things right. I would impress upon my children and grandchildren that they should hold to their faith in God ; that losing this, they lose all fulfilment of His promises. Christ's teachings, too» are such a guide and help to our right living. Be peacefully inclined to others, and peace and harmony will be your por- tion. The peaceful nature receives many blessings. " With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." " Judge not, that ye be not judged." My education was of the best that a new country could afford, but lacked the advantage of a thorough course, such as might have been obtained at my old home. It was my father's first intention to settle in Kansas, but on account of the border wars for a few years between Missouri and Kansas, he thought it best to take his family to Nebraska. In the spring of 1858 we moved from Nebraska to Leaven- 30 Rachel Hughev Larimer, No. 42 (Mrs. James Ross Mellon) ZTbe Xarimer famtli? worth, Kansas. In June of the same year my sister Annie married Thomas MifBin Jones, of Pittsburgh. My first great grief was this separation from my only sister, who was the idol of the family and who had always taken a particular interest in me. My girlhood days were pleasantly passed in Leavenworth, broken by several visits to our old home in Pittsburgh. It was from Leavenworth that my father and brother Will organized their party for Pike's Peak, travelling with ox-teams six hun- dred miles, and finally camping on the site where the city of Denver now stands. I was married at high noon on Monday, June third, 1867, to James Ross Mellon, of Pittsburgh. Our parents had been lifelong friends. Judge Mellon having transacted a great deal of business for both my father and my grandfather, John McMasters. Of our children, William Larimer Mellon, our eldest son, is a well-known business man in Pittsburgh. He married Mary Hill Taylor, of Staten Island, New York, in 1 896, and has three children. Thomas is the namesake of his grand- father. Judge Mellon, and is a law student of promise. Our daughter, Sarah Lucille, was named after her Grandmother Mellon and my friend Lucille Cote. On the sixteenth day of May, 1903, at the yards of the New York Shipbuilding Com- pany, Camden, New Jersey, she christened the oil steamer " Larimer." She struck the boat such a resounding thwack that the dirt-begrimed workmen threw their caps in the air and cheered her vigorously. My brother Cassius's little daugh- ter, Rachel, who came to us to brighten our lives after Sadie's death, is now the wife of Mr. Reuben Miller, Jr., of Pitts- burgh. I am a charter member of the Twentieth Century Club of Pittsburgh, serving the first five years as its treasurer, and I am now (1903) serving my third year as Vice- President-General 31 ITbc Xarimcr fmnil^ for Pennsylvania in the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Looking back over my life my earliest recollections are of my Penn Avenue home in the city and our country home on Larimer Avenue, East End. My father, being a public-spirited man, entertained many of the prominent visitors to our city, and I recall distinctly the visit of Horace Greeley and an amusing little incident which occurred during his stay with us. Mattresses for beds were then just coming into fashion, and my mother had her beds fitted with both feather-beds and mattresses. Mr. Greeley had a preference for the mattress. On going into his room on the morning after his first night with us the feather-bed was found on the floor ; the maid, not understanding, replaced it each day, only to find on the following morning that it had received the same treatment. Governor Sam Houston, of Texas, was another visitor at our house. He was evidently under obligations to my father, for I remember his presenting to my mother a beautiful bro- cade gown and two miniatures of himself in a gold fi-ame, one in uniform and the other in civilian dress. John B. Gough was another prominent man in whom my father took a great interest, and I recall the boxes in our nur- sery containing books of Gough 's life. My mother, too, was always interested in helping along good works, and did much in her quiet and unobtrusive way. Of my seven brothers I recall very pleasant memories. My eldest brother, John, and my brother Will attended Alexander Campbell's school at Bethany, Virginia. Brothers Ed and Tom were next older than myself, and Cassius, Joe, and George were younger. I remember distinctly my baby brother, Cassius, falling fi-om the nursery window in the second story to the pavement below, and his miraculous escape from injury. Cass, and I had climbed upon a table to close the 32 ZTbc Xarimer yamil^ window, when he lost his balance and fell out. I was so frightened that I hid in a dark closet, where the family did not find me for some time. The visits to the homes of my grandparents were among my childhood's greatest joys. Grandmother McMasters always kept a bevy of grandchildren with her at her home at Turtle Creek. Her will, which is placed among the wills of my grandfathers and great-grandfathers, is proof of her love and interest in her progeny. She left a remembrance to each of her younger granddaughters and grandsons. She always prized our love, and it was her hope that we might not soon forget her after she had passed away. During most of these years in the Pittsburgh home my sis- ter was in Philadelphia at school, and I recall being awakened in the night by my brothers to listen to a letter from her. It may be hard for my grandchildren to realize that in these early days of my life there were no railroads in Pittsburgh ; telegraphs were just beginning to be used ; sewing-machines, telephones, electric cars and lights, and the innumerable in- ventions simplifying work to-day were then unheard of All these have come into use during my lifetime. Our parents taught us obedience while we were very young, and to me it seems there never was a more dutiful family of boys and girls ; we all held a feeling of reverence for both father and mother. Our dear little mother, with delicate form and sweet face, her wit and humor and knowledge of events, was a constant source of pleasure to us. She devoted every minute of her time and thought to the welfare of her family ; we could scarcely coax her to go visiting. We all, including father, consulted her as though she were an oracle, and she always gave us wise counsel. Her sight and hearing were most remarkable, continuing so until her death. When out in the country she could spy a carriage coming miles away without 3 33 Zbc Xarimcr Jfamtli? the aid of glasses of any kind. She could catch every shade of accent in a word, and would astonish us with her play upon it. Her voice was singularly sweet and flexible, and we were delighted when she sang for us the quaint old Scotch and Irish ballads. Her quick and active mind made her an ever ready help in spelling and arithmetic when we were struggling with our lessons. She could recite the Shorter Catechism verbatim, and she told us that while a child she read the Bible and Mat- thew Henry's " Commentaries" to her father (John McMas- ters). My grandmother told me that Rachel (my mother) had the best disposition of any of her daughters. With my marriage I fell heir not only to a loving husband, but to a whole new family of relations. Father and mother Mellon took me to their home, and we lived there for over three years. Our son William was born at their homestead. I have been married thirty-six years. My own parents have passed to the life beyond, but I continue to be blessed with a loving husband and his loving parents. They have ever been kind and steadfast. Mother Mellon has been all that any mother could be to a daughter. The passing away of my beloved brother-in-law, Thomas Mifflin Jones, in 1889, and my only sister, Annie E. Jones, in 1898, were partings full of grief for me. Thomas Mifflin Jones was a partner in the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company^ and a brother of B. F. Jones, the founder of the company. At the time of his death he was at the head of the manufac- turing department. Among the homes dear to my married life are the home- stead in Pittsburgh ; the winter home at Palatka, Florida, where this writing has been completed, and where many happy days were spent in readings with Mrs. Maria Dean and Mrs. Mary Webb, now of Boston, Massachusetts ; and the mountain home at Rachelwood, named in honor of my mother. My senti- ment for this home, built in the primitive forest, where never 34 i I 3 I » i I' 2 ^bc TLariincr famtli^ house had stood before, is very intense ; and it is my wish that, whatever befalls me, this place may remain in the family for generations to come as a memorial to my mother. Rachel H. L. Mellon. ifirst Oeneratiou in Bmcrtca Children of Robert Larimer^ and Sarah , Berwick, York (now Adams) County (administrator's account filed in York County, July, 1772) : 2. Thomas^, born about 1740; died 18 16; will made i 809, probated 1816, at Mount Joy, Adams County ; married Catherine , of Berwick Township, York County. 3. JOHN^. 4. William-, died 1773 ; will made July 14, 1773 ; married Jean King, daughter of Victor King, of York County. 5. Mary% married Andrew Mcllvaine, of York County, Pennsylvania. 6. Margaret^, married Moses Mcllvaine, of York County, Pennsyl- vania. 7. Jean% married John Larimer, of York County, Pennsylvania. 8. Robert^ born about 1754, York County, Pennsylvania. Secont) Generation Children of [2] Thomas Larimer^ and Catherine , Mount Joy, Adams County, Pennsylvania : 9. William', born 1771 ; died September 18, 1838 ; married (i), about 1790, Martha McNease, born 1771 ; died January 13, 1798 ; (2) Ann Sheakley, born May 8, 1783 ; died August 23, 1853. 10. Thomas, JR.^ died 1831 ; will probated in York County, Penn- sylvania. 1 1 . Margaret^ married James Duff. 12. Mary', married Moses Mcllvaine. 13. Sidney', married William Johnston. 14. Nancy', married John Johnston. 15. Elizabeth', married Robert Boyd. 35 ^be Xarimer ffamili? Children of [4] William Larimer^, school-master, and Jean King, Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania : 16. VICTOR^ Deed dated April 9, 1 796, recorded Book 2, O, page 142 ; April 23, 1799, power of attorney to William Gilliland, Esq., Strabane township. 17. Mary', no issue. UbirJ) Generation Children of [9] William Larimer' and his first wife, Martha McNease : 18. Catherine*, born December 13, 1792; died ; married Samuel Flemming ; her only child, Elizabeth, married B. F. Sterrett, and went to San Francisco, California, in 1849. Sev- eral heirs. 19. John*, born September 13, 1796; died December 26, 1873; married (i) Christiana Singer, born 1803; died May 16, 1854 ; (2) Jane Hall ; no issue. Children of [9] William Larimer' and his second wife, Ann Sheakley, North Huntington township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania : 20. Margaret*, born August 1 1, 1801 ; died September 26, 1822 ; married Isaac Taylor, born 1792; died August 21, 1875. Isaac married (2) Elizabeth, born 1806; died August 25, 1877. 21. Thomas*, born January 8, 1804; died 1824, unmarried. 22. George*, born September 4, 1806; died 1864; married Mary Fullerton ; no issue. 23. William*, born October 24, 1809; died May 16, 1875; married Rachel McMasters, born March 17, 1817 ; died September 16, 1879. 24. Martha McNease*, born December 11, 181 1 ; died 1885 ; mar- ried (i) Humphrey Fullerton; (2) Rev. Watson Hughes, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. 25. Washington*, born February 22, 1813 ; died . 26. Hamilton*, born December 4, 1 8 16; died January 2, 1886; married ( i ) Lydia Flemming ; ( 2 ) Harriet Taylor, West- moreland County. 36 9r a- ? r r 5= ^ -. 3 o => . "^i^^ February 2, 1874, Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania. 72. Thomas', born February 20, 1880, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 73. Sarah Lucille', born September 17, 1887, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania. 39 ^be Xarimer ifamilip Children of [43] Cassius Larimer^ and Laura C. Gray : 74. Rachel Hughey*,* born November 24, 1873 ; married Reuben Miller, Jr., June 12, 1895, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 75. William C.*, born September 15, 1876, Turtle Creek, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Child of [43] Cassius Larimer^ and Fannie Stewart, Chicago, Illinois : 76. Cassius^, Chicago, Illinois. Children of [44] Joseph McMasters Larimer^ and Fannie Louise Sherman, Evanston, Illinois : 77. Helen^ Evanston, Illinois. 78. Robert'^, Evanston, Illinois. 79. Joseph^, Evanston, Illinois. Child of [45] George Larimer^ and Margaret Flattery, Cedar Rapids, Iowa : 80. Arthur Edwin*"', Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Siitb Generation Children of [59] Mary McMasters Jones" and W. Henry Raymond Hilliard, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : 81. Raymond', Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 82. Mary', Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 83. Thomas', Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 84. Laura', Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Child of [60] William Larimer Jones^ and Leila Addison Dilworth : 85. William Larimer', Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. * Rachel Hughey Larimer, No. 74, daughter of Cassius, No. 43, made her home with us after her parents' death. — Rachel H. L. Mellon. 40 ^be Xattmer family Child of [61] Thomas Mifflin Jones'' and Mary Brown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : 86. Thomas Mifflin', Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Children of [69] William Larimer Mellon^ and Mary Hill Taylor, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : 87. Mathew Taylor', Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 88. Rachel Larimer', Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 89. Margaret Lederle', Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Zhc Sbeaklc^ iFamfl^ XLhc Sbeahle^ dfamil^ TOilltam Sbcaftlei?, Hlo* 1 1720-1810 rri^'f^ILLIAM SHEAKLEY^ came from the prov- II ML. LI ^"^^ ^^ Ulster, Ireland, about 1 740, and settled ^r^rv in the fertile valley of the little Conawago, in what is now Mount Pleasant township, York (now Adams) County, near the settlement made by the Calverts in Mary- land, but became part of Pennsylvania by the running of the famous Mason and Dixon Line. There were five hundred acres of land in this tract. About 1 792 he sold this land and removed to Franklin township, four miles north of Get- tysburg, where he built the house which is still known as the Sheakley Homestead. During the first threatenings of the Revolutionary War William Sheakley was chosen a member of the General Com- mittee of York County, November third, 1775, to serve one year, " unless they think it expedient to dissolve themselves sooner." His two sons, John and George Sheakley, served in the Revolutionary War as ensigns. William Sheakley, my great-great-grandfather, came to Pennsylvania with a colony of Scotch-Irish. They chose the slate lands, with the pure springs and mountain air to which they were accustomed at home. They brought with them the characteristics of their race ; they were moral, in- dustrious, and intelligent, mostly Presbyterians or Seceders. They were frugal, as the Scotch always are, plain in their 45 Zbc Sbeaklei? family mode of living, but cordial and hospitable. They were universally men of undaunted courage and patriotic feeling, and when the alarm of the Revolution rang through the land it called no truer or more willing hearts than those of the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. William Sheakley's wife, Jannet, died some years before his death, and the loss was greater to him on account of his sad affliction of failing sight, for he was totally blind fully two years before his death. It may be interesting to his descendants to know some- thing of the farm, the Sheakley Homestead in York County : The boundaries of this farm of one hundred and fifty-one acres, sold to William Sheakley by the Hon. John Penn, of Stoke Pogis, in the county of Bucks, in the kingdom of Great Britain, and one of the proprietors of Pennsylvania and the three lov/er counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex, now the State of Delaware, and the Hon. Richard Penn, of Queen Ann Street Parish, St. Mary le Bone, in the county of Mid- dlesex, Great Britain, aforesaid; this land was deeded before the formation of Lancaster, York, or Adams County. The tract of five hundred acres of land was owned by William Sheakley in 1 780, being taxed for two negroes, four horses, and six cattle, paying eighty pounds in Mount Pleasant township, York (now Adams) County. The Sheakley Home- stead farm was bought by the Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, one of Pennsylvania's greatest men, for he has been called the " Father of the Public School System," and was a great abolitionist. He owned this farm for twenty-five years, when it again be- came the property of the Sheakley family, through a daughter of George Sheakley's, Mrs. Hamilton. During the Civil War it was upon this historic farm that the first blood of the battle of Gettysburg was shed, June thirtieth, 1863, when Rhodes's Confederate division swept down from Carlisle and occupied the Sheakley farm for the 46 THAnoEus Stevens's Resii>enc-e and Law-Okkr-e at Gettysburg, Pennsvi Alter sevL-nty years tlie huusc and i: terior decoratinns remain nnc hanjit ^be Sbcakle^ family night, when, on the morning of July first the Federal artillery near Gettysburg opened on them. A solid shot came from the Union cannon, killing several men and wounding many. The wounded were brought to the barn. A stable door was unhinged and nailed across a hogshead placed upon the great barn floor, and was used as an amputation-table. The cattle on the farm were guarded for the use of this improvised hospital, but Lee's defeat and hasty retreat saved the stock, while all the neighbors lost their horses, mules, and cattle, which had been driven towards Virginia. When the Hanover Railroad was built it passed through the old Presbyterian Cemetery in Gettysburg, and the bodies were removed to the new and beautiful " Evergreen Cemetery," on the hill. It is separated from the National Cemetery by a hedge, with steps connecting the two. A number of the Sheakley family are buried here. The grave of my great- grandmother, Margaret McCurdy Sheakley, the wife of George Sheakley, is in this cemetery. (5C0VQC SbcaJ^lci?, Hlo, 3 1760-1812 George Sheakley served in the Revolutionary War as ensign, receiving his commission when he was nineteen years old, June seventeenth, 1779. His will (q.v.) testifies to his kind heart and loving care for his wife, Margaret McCurdy, and daughters, Ann, Margaret, and Nancy. His daughter, Ann Sheakley, was married to William Larimer, Sr., and came with him to the old Larimer home called Mansion Farm at Circleville, Westmoreland County. When a little girl, their home being near the old York Turnpike, she saw General Washington in his carriage, while on her way to school, and later, as a young matron, she entertained many noted people 47 ZTbe Sbeal^le^ jTamtli? who journeyed through Pennsylvania. For the great highway to the West was across the Alleghenies, and the old State Road from Cumberland County, through Carlisle, to Pittsburgh passed south of Irwin and out of the county. Along this road the pioneers of the "Great Northwest Territory" came by the King's Highway, afterwards known as the old State Road, and still later divided into the various tumpikes. They entertained Aaron Burr, but my grandmother did not like him ; she said he was the first man who, in conversation, avoided meeting her eyes. Probably he was at this time on his way to Blennerhasset's, as he went down the Ohio River, and he was no doubt full of his ideas of the new government he was planning. The following will give an idea of what the mountain roads were at this time: The first wagoner, John Hayden, brought a load of two thousand pounds, with four horses, from Hagerstown across the mountain, for Jacob Beman, a merchant. It was one hundred and forty miles, and the teamster was nearly a month on the way ; the route was the Braddock Road. This was in 1 789. It was to such a country Ann Sheakley came as the wife of William Larimer. It is said that the Drumms, Markers, Lamars, or Larimers, had names which were as well to desig- nate a house as that of Welland or Leland, being, as it were, like Governor Panza to the Island, born to it. H. M. Breckenridge, in his " Recollections of the West," says: " I should be guilty of a glaring omission, even in this unshaded outline of by-gone days, if I were to pass in silence that portion of my townsmen who possessed much influence in a land of equality and freedom. I allude to that class who furnish us with militia colonels and generals and members of Congress, or who contribute most to make them, who do the honors of the town and keep up its reputation for hospitality. I allude to the landlords ; they are in reality the only lords we have in Pennsylvania ; they possess a degree of intelligence and respectability of character which justly gives them an influence, in respect to their political and military importance." 48 ^be Sbeahlei? ITamtli^ The border wars were by no means a thing of the past ; the early settlers were in continual contact with the savages. The " cracking of the rifles" of the pioneer was often heard ; it was as much of a hostile frontier as it was at any time during the border wars of the Revolution. The fear of having their children taken or tomahawked and their homes burned by the Indians was constantly before the early settlers of West- moreland. But they trusted the God of their fathers, and the church grew (every community had its own church), although their faith was much tried. My grandmother was a tall, fine-looking woman of a com- manding presence, a very devout Presbyterian. The name Sheakley has undergone slight changes ; in various deeds, wills, and and other documents, the name is written Shakly (before the American Revolution), Shakely, Shakley, Sheakly, and Sheakley. 3ame0 Sbeaklei?, lilo. 20 1829- James Sheakley was born April twenty-fourth, 1829, in Sheakley ville (founded by his father Moses Sheakley), Mercer County, Pennsylvania, where he spent his boyhood. He re- ceived a liberal education. In 1851 he went to California and remained three years in the gold-mines of that State. He removed to Pennsylvania during the excitement of the dis- covery of oil in Western Pennsylvania, and was extensively engaged in the production and shipping of petroleum. He was elected a member of the Forty-fourth Congress, in 1 874, as a Democrat, notwithstanding his Congressional District was largely Republican. 4 49 ITbc Sbeal^lei^ Family Being public spirited, he was always in advance of the times in promoting the cause of education and the good of the people. Thiel College, the public schools, and the City- Water- Works of Greenville, Pennsylvania, his adopted city, stand as monuments of his foresight and enterprise. In 1887 he was appointed United States Commissioner for the District of Alaska, to reside at Wrangell, and was subsequently ap- pointed Superintendent of Schools for Southeastern Alaska. As he proved to be an efficient official, he was retained by President Harrison until 1892, when he was elected by the Democrats of Alaska as one of the delegates to represent them in the National Democratic Convention which met at Chicago, June twenty-first, 1892, and at this Convention he served on the Committees of Organization, Resolutions, and Notification. He resigned his position of Superintendent of Government Schools May twenty-first, 1892, and his resignation was re- ceived with regret by the Commissioner of Education at Wash- ington, D. C. On the twenty-eighth of June, 1893, he was appointed governor of Alaska by President Cleveland, took his seat August twenty-eighth, 1893, and served until 1897, the full term. He resides in Greenville, Pennsylvania, and is one of the few representatives of the Sheakley name in Pennsylvania. jfirst feneration 1. William Sheakley \ married Jannet Moor, widow of James Moor, Mount Pleasant township, York (now Adams) County, Pennsylvania, and had : 2. JoHN^ born January 29, 1755 ; died September 25, 1816 ; married, June 22, 1779, Margaret Jenkins. He left Gettysburg in 1804, and settled in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. 3. George^ born 1760 ; died 1812 ; married Margaret McCurdy. 4. Margaret% married DufF. SO Ann Sheakley, No. 13 (Mrs. William Larimer, Sr. ) ^be Sbcaklei? Ifamilip Secon& (feneration Children of [2] John Sheakley^ and Margaret Jenkins : 5. Margaret^, born June 5, 1780; married James Brust, Sheakley- ville, Pennsylvania. 6. Ann', born May 7, 1782 ; married Hugh Moore, French Creek, Pennsylvania. 7. William', born May 7, 1784; married Esther Wallace, Cham- bersburg, Pennsylvania. 8. Moses', born December 22, 1786; died 1840; married Susanna Linnber, October 29, 18 18. He was the founder of Sheak- leyville. 9. George', born September 2, 1791 ; died 1884; married Mary Wallace. 10. Alexander', born October 14, 1793 ; died 18 14, unmarried. 11. Fanny', born July 23, 1796; married Adam Hill, Jamestown, Pennsylvania. 12. John', born April 8, 1799 ; married Susanna Hayes, Hagerstown, Maryland. Children of [3] George Sheakley^ and Margaret McCurdy : 13. Ann', born May 8, 1783; died August 23, 1853; married William Larimer. 14. William', born 1792 ; died November 17, 1848. 15. Robert', born May 29, 1795; died December 7, 1868. He was a school-master. 16. Margaret', married John Hamilton (grandparents of Calvin and Joseph Hamilton), Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 17. Nancy', married William Bailey, Larue, Marion County, Ohio. UbirO (Beneration Children of [8] Moses Sheakley^ and Susanna Linnber : 18. Malinda*, born May 29, 1821 ; died March i, 1898; married, 1843, Colonel A. J. Christy. 19. Thomas George*, born January 20, 1823 ; died 1878, unmarried. He was Quartermaster U.S.A., in the Mexican War, 1847. Resided in California. 51 Z\)c Sbea?^le^ ffamtl^ 20. James*, born April 24, 1829; married, December 25, 1855, Lydia Long. 21. William Harvey*, born November 10, 1832 ; died July 2, 1902. 22. Mary*, born November 24, 1836 ; died April 2, 1902 ; married Jerome Leech. 23. Susanna*, born May 27, 1838 ; died 1855. 24. Moses*, born August 28, 1840. Children of [15] Robert Sheakley^: 25. George*, unmarried ; served in the Civil War 1861-65. 26. Thomas*, no issue. 27. Eliza*, no issue. Ifourtb (3eneration Children of [20] James Sheakley* and Lydia Long: 28. Ida Bell^ born September 25, 1856 ; died October 22, 1879. 29. Clara Agnes^ born April 8, 1859 ; died December 8, 1 881. 30. Frederick Edwin*, born May 5, 1861 ; unmarried. ^be ^cCurbi2 fnmil^ XTbe mcCuvb^ jfamili? BBOUT the year 1666 the five McCurdy brothers (Patrick, David, WiUiam, John, and Daniel) sailed ►' from Bute, Scotland, in an open boat to the north of Ireland ; Patrick settled in the Cairn, Ballintoy, Antrim County, the others settled in Londonderry County. After the siege John came to America. It is surmised that "John Turk" * was the father of James. Sanies nncCiubi?, IRo, l 1690-1771 My great-great-great-grandfather, James McCurdy, emi- grated to America about the year 1720. His father, probably the one known as " John Turk," took part in the siege of Lon- donderry as the besieged, 1689. They owned a property in Antrim County, about two miles from the "Giants' Cause- way," known as Bushmills. James, after marrying a Scotch lass named Cooke, sailed for Pennsylvania. After a voyage of six months the captain found himself in the mouth of the James River in Virginia. The vessel was put about, and in due time arrived at the head-waters of the Elk River, in Maryland. Their first child was born in Mary- land about 1720. They removed to Lancaster County, Penn- * Called "John Turk" to distinguish him from two cousins of the same name. Several of these brothers eventually came to America. The Con- necticut McCurdys are descended from Patrick. 55 Zhc nncCurb^ ffamili? sylvania, where James McCurdy bought some hundreds of acres of land in Sahsbury township, near the old Pequea Church, where George Whitfield preached. For this land he obtained a general warrantee. One tract of land of which we have an account was of two hundred acres, date of survey February fourteenth, 1 738, Lancaster County. The Episcopal Church attempted to take this land for " glebe" purposes, and a suit was the result, which lasted for seven years in the courts then held in Philadelphia, resulting finally in establishing the McCurdy claim. He died in 1771, leaving four sons. ¥¥ IRobert flDcCurb^, Hlo* 5 1736-1810 Robert was my great-great-grandfather. He was an officer in the Revolutionary War. He married Ann Creighton, of Lancaster County, May thirty-first, 1 76 1 , and in 1781 moved to York (now Adams) County, where he bought a plantation^ paying ten thousand pounds, Pennsylvania currency, and died there May sixteenth, 1810. The manners and characteristics of the early settlers have been very generally inherited by their descendants, many of whom still cultivate the same farms, worship in the same old churches, and hold fast to the rigid and venerated " form of sound words" of the Scotch Presbyterian Church. The Scotch rarely leave their learning behind them. One of the first Latin schools established in the State was taught here by an old Scotchman, who continued the station for many years. He was succeeded by the Rev. Dr. Dobbin, as we infer from the following notice in an old Gettysburg paper of 1804: 56 5 ? K ^be fiDcCurM? Ifamili? " The students of Rev. A. Dobbin hereby solicit the public to favor them with their attendance at the court-house in Gettysburg, where they hope to entertain them with short discourses on interesting and amusing subjects." As late as 1 790 the people from the Gettysburg district had to go to the York post-office, a distance of twenty and thirty miles, for their mail. Margaret McCurdy, daughter of Robert McCurdy, married George Sheakley, of York (now Adams) County. They were my paternal great-grandparents. Milliam flHcCurt)^, IDo, X I 1778-1849 William McCurdy, son of Robert and Ann Creighton McCurdy, was born in York (now Adams) County in 1778. He was married, in 1810, to Nancy King, daughter of Victor King, captain in the French and Indian War, and had two sons, — John and Robert. He was married, in 1818, to Ann Crawford, of Lancaster County. She was related to Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat, and was living when the battle of Gettysburg was fought. General Reynolds, who was one of the first to fall in the battle, was her grand-nephew. Upon hearing of his death, she tried to go to where he was, in spite of her burden of ninety years. William McCurdy was captain of a troop of cavalry militia. The services of this troop were offered in the war of 1812, but on account of the number were not accepted. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1837, defeating Thaddeus Stevens. He was also an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Gettysburg. 57 Zbc flDcCutb^ ifamtli? IRobert flUcCurb^, IRo, 14 1813-1884 Robert McCurdy was born, in 1813, on the McCurdy farm, a beautiful tract of over three hundred acres. He was married in 1846 to Mary Marshall, daughter of the Hon. John Marshall, of Carrols tract, whom he survived seventeen years. He spent his youth on the farm, but his energy and ability led him to seek a more active life, and in 1856 he moved to Gettysburg. He was one of the earliest and most earnest advocates of railroads, and to his influence and personal effort Gettysburg owes its first railroad. On the completion of this line he was elected its president, and held control until the road was sold. As president of this railroad he was brought into communication with many men of national renown during the Civil War and during and after the battle of Gettysburg. His reminiscences of those stirring times were of peculiar interest. In 1869 he was elected associate judge ot Adams County, and held this office until 1873, when it was abolished by the new constitution. In 1871 Mr. McCurdy, who, like his father, was a captain, succeeded him in command of the cavalry troop. He was commissioned by Governor Geary a trustee, to superintend the removal of the Confederate dead from Get- tysburg to the South. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Gettysburg, and a man of deep religious feeling, of earnest piety, upright, kind, generous, and helpful. He died in 1884. jfirst Generation in Hmertca Children of [1] James McCurdy^ (probably son of John Turk McCurdy) and Cooke, Salisbury township, Lan- caster County : S8 Zbc flDcCurbi^ jfamtli? 2. Archibald', died 1792, in Lancaster County. 3. James% Franklin County or Cumberland County, 4. HuGH% Franklin County, 5. Robert^, born in Salisbury, Lancaster County, 1736; died May 16, 1 8 10; married, 1761, in St. James Church, Lancaster, by Rev. Thomas Barton, Rector, to Ann Creighton. They settled in Leacock township, Lancaster County, and after- wards, in 1779, in Adams County, Pennsylvania. Second Generation Children of [5] Robert McCurdy^ and Ann Creighton. 6. Margaret^, born 1762 ; died May 12, 1825 ; married George Sheakley. 7. Mary', married Robert Thompson, 8. Robert% Ohio, 9. Nancy', married Paxton, son of Robert McCurdy Paxton, 10. Martha', married Samuel Taggart, 11. William', born in Lancaster County, 1778; died 1849; married Nancy King, 12. James', married Martha Moore ; their daughter Nancy married John A. Swope, ancestors of Judge Samuel McCurdy Swope, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, XTbirb Generation Children of [11] William McCurdy'' and Nancy King: 13. John King*, born 181 i ; died 1873; married, 1838, Elizabeth McGurley, daughter of Rev. Dr. McGurley, of Franklin County. 14. Robert*, born 1813 ; died 1884; married Mary Marshall. IFourtb Generation Children of [13] Dr. John King McCurdy* and Elizabeth McGurley, Reading, Pennsylvania : 15. Sarah^, married Dr. A. R. Durham, Reading, Pennsylvania. 16. Nancy King'', married Edwin F. Smith, civil engineer, Philadel- phia. 59 ^be (iQcCutM? jfamili? Children of [14] Robert McCurdy* and Mary Marshall : 17. Anna CRAWFORD^ died, 1876; married, 1875, George A. Upton. 18. Charles M.*, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. 19. Mary McLean^ 20. Elizabeth Marshall^, married, 1893, Dr. J. B. Scott, Gettys- burg. 21. Virginia Helen^ Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 22. Grace''. IHon. Samuel flncCur^1? Swopc 1850- Hon. Samuel McCurdy Swope, a descendant of James McCurdy, No. 1 2, was elected President-Judge of the Adams- Fulton Judicial District in 1894. He was born in Gettys- burg, October fourth, 1850; graduated from Pennsylvania College, class of 1872; admitted to the bar in 1876. He married Anna Kate Bentz Stair, of York, Pennsylvania, in 1876. tibe (Treiobton JFamil^e XTbe Cveiobton jFamil's /^P^^HE Creightons were a numerous clan in Fermanah, / 1 Ulster, Ireland ; were descendants of O'Criochan, ^^J^ who were descended from CoUa-da-Chiroch, angli- cised : O'Chreian, O'Geighan, Cregan, Crean, Creighton, Cree- han, Grehan, and Graham. Guillaume Cretin, a poet ; James Crichton ; the admirable Crichton, son of Robert, Lord Ad- vocate of Scotland under James VI., Scotland. Sir William Crichton, Scotch Chancellor. William Creighton was one of the first elders in the Lea- cock Presbyterian Church. Rev. P. J. Timlow, pastor of this church, on Thanksgiving Day, 1 854, said : " Here, to-day, in this place is flowing the blood of the Puritan, the Scotch, the Irish, the Huguenot, the German, the Welsh. Starting, as it were, from different points, yet all converging to one common centre — different families and tribes yet of the house of Israel, with one common place of worship, one faith, one Lord, one baptism." In 1782 the trustees of the church were William Creighton, Colonel James Mercer, Captain George Mcllvain, Henry Slaymaker, and William Porter. William Creighton, of Leacock township, Lancaster County, was my great-great-great-grandfather ; he died in 1790; will recorded November twentieth, 1790, ifirst feneration Children of [1] William Creighton^ (1710-1790) and wife Barbara : 63 XL\)c Creiobton family 2. Mary^, married, January 13, 1767, by Rev. Thomas Barton, to George Lightner, son of Nathaniel and Madeline LaRue Lightner, and had one son, — Isaac Lightner; married (2), Alexander Skiles, and had one daughter, — Mary Ann Skiles. 3. Catherine', married John Hamilton. 4. MARTHA^ 5. Margaret', married Irwin, and had three children, — William, Samuel, and Margaret (Mrs. D.Hayes Agnew, of Philadelphia). 6. Ann^, married, March 31, 1761, by Rev. Thomas Barton, rector St. James Parish, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to Robert McCurdy. (Ann Kratton and Robert McCurdie). ^"W Zhc nncnnastecs jfamili2 Zbc nncflnastets jfamili2 mcMASTERS was a Scotch name, but Charles Hanna, in his " Scotch-Irish," says many Gal- loway surnames are derived from Ireland. Most of the following are corruptions of older names. Among these names occur McWhinnie and McMasters. Mr. John McMasters, of Jersey City, says his ancestors came from Scot- land. As far as I have been able to gather data, and during my visit to the old McMasters home in Ulster, near the town of Saintfield, county Down, Ireland, I found out the follow- ing: Patrick McMasters fled from Scotland to Ireland at the time of the persecution in 1678. I have visited the home near Board Mills, county Down, Ireland, townland Drumsnod. He had two sons, — Patrick and John. We have no record of Patrick's family. John had two sons, — John and Thomas. 3obn flDcriDaetcre, ino» 4 1751-1805 John came to America before the Revolutionary War, and served as a captain during the war. He first settled in New- berry township, York County, Pennsylvania, where he was taxed for one hundred and thirty-three acres of land in i 779. 67 ITbe flUcnUastere yamtli^ He married Jean Irwin, but had no children. After the Revo- lutionary War he bought land in Allegheny County and settled near Turtle Creek. He had a great deal of real estate in Pittsburgh. In 1800 he sent to Ireland for his nephew, John, who was nineteen years old. He made him his heir, and, according to the terms of his will, John received all of the property after his aunt's second marriage. John McMasters was one of the prominent men in the early days of Pittsburgh. On the first page of the Records of Pittsburgh his name occurs as one of the supervisors of the borough of Pittsburgh, April twenty-second, 1794. In the list of borough officers for the years 1794-1802 the chief burgesses were Mathew Ernest, William Gray, John McMasters, John Wilkins, James Brison, Ebenezer Denny, George Stevenson, and Isaac Craig. Thomas McMasters, my great-grandfather, was born in Breseigh, Ireland, and married Rachel McWhinney ; his son, John McMasters, my grandfather, married Rachel Hughey, and nine of eleven children grew to manhood and womanhood. Joseph, the second son, also came to America ; he was a school-master and fought in the war of 1812. The McMasters farm in Ireland was named Bumt Hill, and consisted of twenty-five English acres. There were two half-brothers. My great-grandfather, Thomas McMasters, married the second time, the name of his second wife being Sarah Carn Duff. I visited the Board Mills church-yard in Ireland in 1885, and found the following on Thomas McMasters's tombstone : ** Erected by William C. McMasters, of Belfast, to the memory of his father, Thomas McMasters, of Breseigh, who died Jan. 26, 1835, aged 81 years. Also to his mother, Sarah Carn Duff McMasters, born 1762; d. Dec. II, 1835. Also to two daughters, Susanna and Elinor A." 68 n:be flncflDasters family? 3obn flDcnDa0tcr0, IRo, 6 1781-1847 John McMasters lived at the homestead at Turtle Creek, which was bequeathed to him by his uncle, John McMasters. The property was largely unimproved, but was afterwards im- proved through his sole effort. He built the Black Bear Hotel and the Diamond and Market Street properties in Pitts- burgh about 1822. In 1830-32 he bought the Eagle Hotel, on Liberty Street, and also the adjoining property, on which he erected what was at that time considered the highest row of business houses in Pittsburgh. December fourth, 1813, a meeting was held at his house tc'consider the ques- tion of applying to the Legislature to incorporate a company to build a turn- pike road from Pittsburgh to Greensburg. The farm of eight hun- dred acres of land at Turtle Creek, with its fine cultiva- tion, was of itself enough to show that he was a good farmer as well as a business man. He was a remarkably intelligent and deeply religious man, an elder in the Brush Creek Presbyterian Church, about twelve miles away, to which every member of the family went either on horseback or in the carryall on Sunday morning and prac- tically stayed all day. Through his efforts a branch church 69 Chair or John McMasters, No. 6 ^be oncflRastere ffamili? was established at Turtle Creek which he afterwards attended and supported. The Pennsylvania Railroad had been surveyed and he gave the property for the station, but it was not completed until five years after his death. His daughters often mentioned a resemblance of their father's picture to that of Henry Clay ; he was that type of Scotch-Irish. The silhouette shows his Scotch physiognomy. Although a delicate man physically his energy was such that he would ride on horseback to Pittsburgh to attend to business and back to Turtle Creek the same day. Not many men of the present day would care to ride twenty-five miles a day to attend to their business. An instance of his originality was when, in making his will, he left less to the two daughters who married clergymen. When asked by his lawyer why he did so, he said : " The trouble with ministers is, that when they get rich they get bronchitis." The chair where he read his Bible and had his family prayers is carefully kept by his daughter, Mrs. B. F. Jones, of Pittsburgh, and I am glad to have an illustration of it. I was but three months old when my grandfather died at the homestead at Turtle Creek. Joseph McMasters married Betsy Clugson and settled near his brother John at Turtle Creek. He is the only person I can remember wearing knee-breeches and knee-buckles, and carrying a great silver-headed cane. I remember his coming to Grandmother McMasters's home in Turtle Creek. ITbomae flDcflnasters, IRo, 20 1822-1872 Thomas McMasters, born June fifteenth, 1822, son of John and Rachel McMasters, He inherited some city prop- 70 Eliza x-\nn MrM asters. No. i6 (Mrs. Hugh D. King) Ann-ik E. Larimer, No. 3^ (Mrs. T. M. Jones) Mary McM.asiers, No. (Mrs. B. F. Jones) ^be nncflllaeters jfamilv erty and large tracts of land at Turtle Creek, .\ liere lie was born and lived. He was an active worker in th'-. Republican party, but sought no office for himself He was a member of the United Presbyterian Church, and was widely known as a friend of the poor. He married Miirgaret Markle, November fifteenth, i860. Their only heir is Rachel (Mrs. Mortimer C. Miller, of Pittsburgh). He died from the effects of a car- buncle, November thirteenth, 1872. jfirst (Bcneratton Children of [1] Patrick McMasters\ who came from Scotland and settled at Board Mills, Lisburn, Drumsnod, Ireland : 2. Patrick'. 3. John', Drumsnod, Board Mills, Lisburn, Ireland. Secont) Generation Children of [3] John McMasters^ : 4. John', born 1751 ; died March 4, 1805; married Jean Irwin; married, second, Herron ; no issue. 5. Thomas', born 1754; '^^^'^ January 26, 1835; married (l) Rachel McWhinney ; (2) Sarah Carn DufF, born 1762; died December 11, 1835. Ubir^ Generation Children of [5] Thomas' and Rachel McWhinney : 6. JohnS born March 19, 1781 ; died April 8, 1847; married Rachel Hughey, died January 2, 1865. 7. Joseph*, died at Turtle Creek ; married Betsy Clugson. He was a school-master, and was in the war of 181 2. 71 Ibe nncflnaeters ifamilip Children of [5] Thomas^ and Sarah Carn DufF, of Board Mills, Drumsnud, Ireland : 8. James*. 9. William C.*, Belfast, Ireland. 10. Jennie*. 11. Susanna*, born October, 1837. 12. Eleanor*, born September, 1844; died 1848. 13. Thomas*. iFourtb Generation Children of [6] John McMasters* and Rachel Hughey (first generation of McMasters in America) : 14. JoHN^, born April 15, 181 l ; died August 14, 1858; married Leonora Markle, Braddock, Pennsylvania. 15. Thomas^, born December 2, 1813 ; died March 24, 1814. 16. Eliza Ann^, born February 10, 1815; married Hugh Davidson King, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 17. Rachel^, born March 17, 1817 ; died September 16, 1879 '> ^^^~ ried William Larimer, Jr. 18. Jane^, born November i, 1818; died July 25, 1849; married Rev, Joseph Osborn. 19. Nancy^, born October 12, 1820 ; died August 10, 1883 ; married James Irwin Larimer. 20. Thomas^, born June 15, 1822 ; died November 13, 1872 ; mar- ried, i860, Margaret Ann Markle. 21. Rebecca*, born February 20, 1825 ; died May 22, 1903 ; mar- ried (i) Rev, John W.Duff; (2) James Carlisle, 22. Joseph^ born July 3, 1827 ; died October 4, 1850, unmarried, 23. Mary^ born March 13, 1829; married Benjamin Franklin Jones,* of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. * It perhaps will not be out of place to speak here of the above-mentioned Benjamin Franklin Jones, husband of Mary MacMasters, No 23. While this genealogy was being prepared for the press he passed away. May nineteenth, 1903, aged seventy-nine years. His sterling business qualifications have been a recognized factor in the great iron and steel industry of Pittsburgh for many years. He has been spoken of as one of the prominent business men of the age. Mr. Jones was the founder of the American Iron- Works, now Jones & Laughlin's Steel Company. 72 ^be MuQhc^ jFamfl^ Rachel Hughey, No. i : (Mrs. John McMasters) Zbc IHugbe? jFamili? 3o0epb MuQbei^ 1707(9)-! 773 30SEPH HUGHEY settled in Lancaster County .- about 1730, and belonged to the Ulster settlement of Scotch-Irish. The earliest record in Pennsylvania is the Hughey Bible record, beginning with the marriage of Joseph Hughey and Jean Irwin (Erwin), March thirteenth, 1737. In 1759 Joseph Hughey had two hundred acres of land in Drumore township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He received his first land warrant in 1751. Of the record of the Hughey family of Ulster, Ireland O'Hart says : " O'Haodha, O'Hugh, or Hughes, chief of the Fearnmhoighe, or Fernmoy, a district in the county Down, on the borders of Antrim, in the barony of Lower Iveaghs. The dominant family in Ulidia, when in a.d. 1177 it was invaded by John de Courcy was that of Cu-Uladh, Mac- Duinsleibhe, O'Heochadha, and who was nephew of Rory, the fifty-fourth and last king of Ulidia. The " Cu-Uladh," por- tion of this name has been latinized Canis Ultoniae ; meaning that this chief of Ulidia (which in the twelfth century consti- tuted the " Kingdom of Ulster") was swift-footed as a hound. This, I think, shows that the Hugheys, or O'Heogheys, were of Irish origin, and if any of the family went to France with the Huguenots they were, no doubt, of the Irish family, 75 ^be IHuobe^ famili^ which is probably the reason of the various spelling of the Hughey name * ¥¥ 3obn IKuobe^, Hlo. 7 1752-1837 The Hugheys were Presbyterians. Elizabeth King, the wife of John Hughey, was a sister of the prominent and patriotic clergyman, John King, of the Revolution. John Hughey and his brother Ephraim served in the Revolutionary- War. John was one of the rangers of the frontier, which life no doubt caused him to choose the wilds of what is now Allegheny County as his home, for when he and Elizabeth King settled in Plum township the Indians were in that region. He was a God-fearing man, and when the family of one of his neighbors was murdered by the Indians, and their home burned, he felt that Providence favored him, because his home and family were not molested. My grandmother remembered being carried to Fort Pitt for safety on two occasions. It was a wild country to which they came to make their future home, and the desire for companionship was strong. He sent for his cousin. Colonel Robert Cunningham, of Lancaster County, with whom he served in the Revolutionary War, and offered him half of his farm as an inducement to settle near him. Robert Cunningham was then a bachelor. After years of comradeship he married and raised a large family, and the farm was divided between the Cunninghams and Hugheys. * It is interesting to recall the fact that the Protestants who took refuge in the north of Ireland in the past years were not from Scotland alone ; there were French Huguenots, Hollanders, and English. We must bear in mind that tbere was a nucleus of the native Irish, who themselves became reformed. The Hugheys evidently belonged to a clan of reformed Irish, because they became Presbyterians. Some of the Hugheys of Pennsylvania claim to be of French Huguenot descent. (See Addenda.) 7(> Zbc IKuQbei? famili^ The families of two of John Hughey's brothers went South and settled in North or South Carolina. Ephraim settled south of the Monongahela River, four miles from Pittsburgh. These two families of Hugheys have many descendants in the western part of Pennsylvania. My great-grandmother, Elizabeth King Hughey, was a very handsome, dignified woman, and to her children and grandchildren was the personification of what a lady should be ; and even in the wilderness she had the reputation of elegance and a presence inspiring to the younger generation. She was a faithful mother, and as a matron of the Revo- lution suffered and " bore the burden and heat of the day," while her husband, John Hughey, fought for his country. Robert Hughey, from Ireland, was licensed to preach in the Presbytery of Donegal, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, receiving his license from Ireland in 1773. Whether he was a brother of Joseph Hughey I have no record. ifirst Generation in Hmerica Children of [1] Joseph Hughey^ and Jean Irwin (or Erwin), of Drumore township, Lancaster County, Pennsyl- vania, married March thirteenth, 1 737 : 2. Patrick^ of North or South Carolina. 3. Samuel^, of North or South Carolina. 4. A DAUGHTER'', married William Irwin. 5. Jean'', unmarried. 6. Ephraim^, married Dorcas Nieled. 7. JoHN% born January 31, 1752; died May 2, 1837; married Elizabeth King. Secon& Generation Children of [6] Ephraim Hughey'^ and Dorcas Nieled, who came from Lancaster County and settled, first, in AUe- 77 Zhc IHuobci? ffamili? gheny County, and then in Washington County, 1785, on a tract of seven hundred acres of land four miles south from Pittsburgh : 8. Joseph', born 1780; died 1856; married Jane Kennedy, born 1793; died 1842; daughter of William and Ann (Strow- bridge) Kennedy. 9. Jane', married Hayes. 10. John', of Mercer County. 1 1 . Willison', a surgeon in the United States army ; killed by explosion on steamboat. 12. Rachel', drowned in Gulf of Mexico ; married Shaw. Children of [7] John Hughey'* and Elizabeth King, of Plum township, Allegheny County : 13. Robert', born February 12, 1780. 14. Joseph', born March 24, 1782 ; married Peggy Cavet. 15. Rachel', born September 27, 1784; married John McMasters. 16. John', born February 26, 1787. 17. Jean', born November il, 1789 ; married Thomas Chalfant. 18. William', born February I, 1792 ; married Earle. 19. Elizabeth King', born September 6, 1794; married Solomon Lightcap. 20. Ann', born November 29, 1796 ; married Ananias Chalfant. Note. — ^Joseph Hughey, No. i, died in 1773. A copy of his Land Warrant, Will, and Inventory and Appraisement of his Estate are inserted with other documents in this book. The will of his wife, Jean Irwin Hughey, was found recently among the earliest records of Washington County, Pennsyl- vania (Will Book No. I, page 41), dated April twelfth, 1784. She made her son John Hughey, No. 7, her sole executor. Robert Cunningham and Joseph McDermut were witnesses. This proves that the writer's great-great- grandmother, Jean Irwin Hughey, came with her sons and their families West to what is now Allegheny County about 1780. The aforesaid part of Allegheny County at an early date belonged to Wash- ington County. The above will was recorded in Washington County, thus causing a confusion in the author's records. Rachel Hughev (Mrs. J<>hn McMasters) Of Turtle Creek Silhouette taken about the time of her marriage, 1810 Zbc Ikino jfamU^g I H Zhc Iking ^famtli^ IRobert MwQ 1705-1763 ^J^i^OBERT KING, one of the early settlers of Little IL^ Britain township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, ■ 1% came from Ulster, Ireland, about 1717. He married Ann McLaughlin, of Peach Bottom, Lancaster County, in 1736. At the time of his death, 1763, he was one of the elders in the Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church. One of the tracts of land, of which I have a record, was bought December first, 1750, from the proprietaries of Penn- sylvania (one hundred and thirty acres), Surveyor-General Nicholas Scull and James Hamilton signing the deed or warrant. According to the manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, the families mentioned in Ulster were among the principal families in Ireland at the close of the seventeenth century. Among the Anglo-Irish families who settled in Ireland since the invasion the King family was prominent. Sir Robert King was one of a committee of Parliament sent over as com- missioners to Ulster to rule the affairs of the country, October, 1645. jflrst aeneration in Hmerlca Children of [i] Robert King^ and Ann McLaughlin (married 1 736) : 6 81 Zbc Iking family 2. William^, born October 4, 1738 ; married Isabella Campbell. 3. Susannah'^, killed by the Indians near McDowell's Fort, 1763 ; mar- ried John Cunningham. Their children were Colonel Robert Cunningham, of the Revolution, and Elizabeth. 4. JoHN% born December 5, 1740; died July 15, 1813; married, April 2, 1 77 1, Elizabeth McDowell, daughter of John Mc- Dowell, of West Conococheague ; no issue. 5. Mary', born September 27, 1742; married James McLaughlin. Children : John, James, George, Ann, and Mary. 6. Robert^, born September 24, 1746; died August 14, 1827; married, April 29, 1773, Janet Smith, born 1775, '^^^'^ J^'X 22, 1825, daughter of Rev. Sampson Smith. 7. Ann", born January 22, 1750; married Dr. Jeremiah Nelson, of North Carolina. 8. James", born September 5, 1751 ; died unmarried. 9. Elizabeth^ born March 10, 1753 5 died July 29, 1829, married John Hughey, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. 10. Rachel''^, born September 7, 1754; married Alexander Snodgrass, and had sons and daughters ; lived near Pittsburgh, Pennsjl- vania. 11. George^, born May 5, 1758; married, June 6, 1786, Margaret McDowell, daughter of John McDowell. Seconb Generation Children of [2] William King and Isabella Campbell 12. Robert^. 13. JoHN^. 14. Hugh'. 15. Thomas'. 16. Margaret'. 17. Rachel'. 18. Ann.' Children of [6] Robert King^ and Janet Smith : 19. Sampson', born April 15, 1774; died August 10, 1777. 20. Elizabeth', born January 22, 1776. 21. Sampson S.', born January 14, 1779. Elizabeih King (Mrs. J.-hn Hughey) Of Turtle Creek ITbe Ikino ifamlli? 22. John*, born 1787. 23. Robert^, born 1789 ; died about 1844, in Marietta County, Penn- sylvania. Children of [11] George King^ and Margaret McDowell, West Conococheague, Pennsylvania : Nancy^, born December 10, 1788; married Thomas Carson. Children : Eliza Jane, William, Washington, Thomas, Eme- line, David, and Rose. Eliza Jane married Richard Bard. John', born April 8, 1790 ; died November 23, 1823. He was a physician, and practised medicine in Mercersburg, Pennsyl- vania. He settled in Murfreesborough, Tennessee, where he died. Robert^ born March 18, 1793 ; married Jane Skyles. James^ born October 3, 1798 ; married Jane Morrison. George^, born January 21, 1800; physician; died at Licking Creek, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, 1833, unmarried. 24. 25. Zhc Iking family 3obn Iking, IRo. 4 1740-1813 Bxtracts from tbe XKHritinos an& Sermons ot IRev* 5obn IRino ^urtno tbe IRevolutionar^ Mar Rev. John King was pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, during the Revolutionary War, I have quoted freely from Rev. Dr. King's sermons in Rev. Dr. Alfred Nevin's " Churches of the Valley," published in 1852, for the purpose of showing that the spirit of the people before the " troublous times of the Revolution" was law abiding, and the church and state desired to avert the coming evil, but their constitutional rights were attacked, which caused loyal royalists to see the necessity of asserting themselves ; also that the Revolution was fought by the colonists who were of the people and a people already free, — the English, Scotch, Irish, Welsh, Huguenots, German, not forgetting to mention the small body of fighting Quakers and the non-fighting Moravians, who took the " test oath" and opened their homes and took care of the wounded and fever-stricken who were sent them. Fifteen hundred Hessian soldiers found their last resting-place on the banks of the Monocacy at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Dr. King says : " My father, Robert King, whom I believe to have been a pious man, was careful to educate me in the principles of the religion of Christ. When I was thirteen years old I was put to the grammar school, at which I con- tinued until I had read Greek and Latin classics. Logic and Metaphysics, and Moral Philosophy. After this I spent three years in teaching school. I entered college May 6, 1765, commenced A.B. May 20, 1766, and was licensed to preach on the 13th of August, 1767, by the Second Philadelphia Presbytery. August 30, 1769, I was ordained and installed as "pastor of the church ot upper West Conococheague. " 84 Fac-simile of Rev. John King's Sermon-Notes m- ^ %^» I 6^^ ' Y- n. / f^ ^M I «, i^^ day of December, 1796, between Thomas Larimer Sen. of Mountjoy Town- ship County of York Pa. for the love & affection I bear to my son Thomas Larimer J^ & for the better settling him in the world & for the further sum of Five Shillings to me in hand paid by the said Thomas Larimer J^ A Certain part of the Tract of land in Mountjoy Twp of York Co whereon I now dwell. The part hereby granted bounded &c Beginning at a white oak, a corner of Nicholas Shirley & heirs of Henry Mayer's land & thence by Nicholas Shirley's land to a corner of land 123 Thomas Larimer Jr. 2)ee^0 late of Ludwick Miller thence with Millers land as far as will be sufficient, thence by the other part of the same tract until it intersects Mayes' or Der- borson land Thence unto the place of Beginning, To Contain loo Acres & the usual allowance &c. to be held for and during My Natural life & from and after my decease & to be held by him & his heirs & assigns forever. [This deed was signed before a justice of the peace on the 14th day of December, 1796, and recorded in Book 2 N, pages 106 and 107, the 9th day of January, 1798.] power of Bttorne\? [Victor Larimer, of Mercersburgh, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, gave a power of attorney to one William Gilliland, Esq., of Straban township, York County, dated April 9, 1796, to sell for him two lots of ground adjoining lands of William Scott, Esq., and Cornelius Cozine, or to lease and rent for him. Recorded in Book 2 O, page 142, on April 23, 1799. I fail to find any deeds on record in this case. You will please observe the assessments of this party.] WCC^ 4 This Indenture made the second Day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty Between Hugh Wilson and Thomas Wilson of Cumberland Township in the County of York and State of Penn- sylvania Executors of the Testament and last Will of Thomas Wilson late of Cumberland Township in the County and State aforesaid yeoman Deceased of the one part and Robert McCurdy late of Leacock Township in the county of Lancaster and State aforesaid yeoman of the other part tVhereas by virtue of an order from the Land office at Philadelphia dated the Nineteenth day of June in the year of our Lord 1765. There was Sur- veyed and laid out unto the said Thomas Wilson in his lifetime, to wit on the twenty sixth day of June in the year of our Lord 1765 a certain Planta- tion and tract of land in the said township of Cumberland. Beginning at a Black Oak thence by land of William McCreedy North 40° forty perches to a Black Oak thence North i 3 ° east 1 1 4 perches to a Black Oak thence North 13° east one hundred and fourteen perches to a Black Oak, thence North fifty live Degrees East 44 perches to a Post, thence by land of Robert Work East, one hundred and twenty two Perches to a Post thence South sixty Degrees East fifty nine Perches and a quarter to an Ash thence East sixty six Perches to a stone thence North four perches and seven tenths of a perch to a Post thence 124 S)ee^9 East seventeen Perches to a Post thence South four Perches and seven tenths of a perch thence East (?) eight Perches to a Hickory Grub thence by Land of the Widow Lesley and Hugh Dunwoody South twenty nine Degrees West two hundred and (?) Perches to a White Oak thence by Land of William (Lot ?) Junior South Eighty Degrees West fifty (?) Perches to a Post thence South eighteen Degrees West (?) Perches to a White Oak thence south forty five Degrees West fifty one Perches to a White oak thence (?) Land North forty Degrees West one hundred and fifty seven Perches to a Heap of Stones thence North five degrees west, one hundred and forty six perches to the place of beginning : Containing three hundred and nineteen acres and three quarters of an acre and four perches. And Whereas the said Thomas Wilson, in his life Claimed and improved a piece of land adjoining the above described tract. Reference being had to the said and return now remaining in the surveyor General's Office at Philadelphia may more fully appear. And Whereas the said Thomas Wilson in his lifetime did erect sundry buildings and improvements upon the aforesaid land and afterwards died having first made his Testament and last Will in writing and thence nominated and appointed his two sons the aforesaid Hugh Wilson and Thomas Wilson Ex- ecutors of the said Testament and last Will and thereby authorized the said Lands to be sold by his said Executors within three years after his Decease as by the said Will dated the eleventh Day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight duly proved and remaining in the Registers office at York may fully appear And Whereas the said Hugh Wilson and Thomas Wilson after the Death of their Father the aforesaid Thomas Wilson Deceased to wit the (?) Day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine in pursuance of the directions of the said Testament and last will and by virtue of the powers and authority to them, by the said will given, sold the said plantation and tract of land with the improvements thereon made and erected, and also the claim of the improved and unlocated land adjoining unto the said Robert McCurdy for the sum of Ten thousand Pounds lawful money of Pennsylvania. Now this Indenture Witnesseth that the said Hugh Wilson and Thomas Wilson, executors of the Testament and last will of the said Thomas Wilson deceased, by virtue of the power and authority to them given by the said will and in discharge of the Trust in them reposed by the said Testator and con- sideration of the said sum of Ten thousand Pounds lawful Money of Pennsyl- vania to them in Hand paid by the said Robert McCurdy (?) and delivery (?) bargain, sell release and confirm unto the said 125 H)ee^0 Robert McCurdy his Heirs and assigns the above described Plantation and Tract of Land Containing three hundred and nineteen Acres and a quarter of an Acre and four Perches, and the usual allowance of six Acres per cent for Highways as also all the Claim of the aforesaid Improved and unlocated piece Land adjoining (?) and Andrew Johnston and the aforesaid Surveyed and described Tract Together (?) and singular the Houses Out Houses Build- ings Improvements, Woods, Ways, Waters, Water Course, liberties privileges Hereditaments, Rights, members and Appurtenances, What-so-ever to the same two tracts or pieces of Land belonging or in any wise appertaining and the Reversions and Remainders, Rents, Issues, and profits, thereof and also all the Estate, Right, Title Interest, Possession, Property Claim and Demand what- so-ever either in Law or in equity of him the said Thomas Wilson in his life time and at the time of his Death of in and to the Premisses aforesaid, and every part and parcel (?) and all Deeds Evidences and Writing touching or Concerning the same To Have and To Hold The said two above described tracts of land and Premises with the Appurtenances and (?) unto the said Robert McCurdy his Heirs and Assigns to the only proper use and behoof of said Robert McCurdy his Heirs and Assigns for ever for such Estate and Estates as the said Thomas Wilson in his lifetime and at the Time of his Death held and enjoyed the same under and subject to the payment of the purchase Money Interest Quit Rents and other Reservations due growing due and to be paid out of the same to the Chief Lord of Lords of the Fee thereof And the said Hugh Wilson and Thomas Wilson Executors of the Testament and last Will of the said Thomas. Entered in the Office for Recording of (?) for the County of York on the eighth day of December (?) and Recorded in Book A & page 401 (?) Day of March 1781. Given under my Hand and Seal, Office at York. Archibald McLean, Recorder. Mills Mills Mill of ITbonias Xaviiner, IRo, 2 Hn tbC name of (B0& HmeU, I Thomas Lommer of Mountjoy Township in the County of Adams & State of Pennsylvania, being in my usual health, & of sound mind memory & understanding, Blessed be God for the same, Do make & publish thij my last Will & Testament in manner & form Following, that is to say — Principally & first of all I commend my immortal Soul into the hands of God who gave it & my body to the earth to be buried in a decent & christian like manner at the discretion of my Executors hereinafter named : & as to such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life, I give & dispose of the same as follows Viz. first. It is my will & I do order & direct that all my Just debts Sc flineral expences shall be first paid out of my Estate, by my Executors hereinafter named. Item, I Give & bequeath unto my well beloved wife Catharine the full & free use & priviledge of my whole Estate Real & Personal for & during the term of her natural life — & at her decease, the Personal property to be sold &, (her funeral expences being first paid) the residue thereof I give & bequeath to my seven children to be divided equally amongst them, share & share alike. Item, I Give & devise unto my son William Lorrimer his heirs & assigns forever, all that plantation in Mountjoy Township whereon I now dwell. Con- taining One hundred & seven acres more or less — It being part of a larger tract of land the residue whereof I have heretofore conveyed to my son Thomas Lorrimer, & to my soninlaw Moses McElwain ; this devise subject neverthe- less to the Bequest hereinbefore made to my wife Catharine. . . . Item, I Give & Bequeath to my daughter Margaret intermarried with James Duff, one Bond which I have on my son William Lorrimer for the sum of One hundred pounds, bearing equal date herewith & payable one year after my decease. Item, I Give & Bequeath to my daughter Mary, intermarried with Moses McElwain, one other Bond which I have on my said Son William Lorrimer for the sum of one hundred pounds, bearing equal date herewith & payable two years after my decease. 9 129 IKIliU0 Item. I Give & Bequeath to my other four children viz Sidney inter- married with William Johnston, Nancy intermarried with John Johnston, Elizabeth intermarried with Robert Boyd & Thomas Lorrimer one other bond which I have on my said son William Lorrimer for the sum of One hundred pounds bearing equal date herewith & payable three years after my decease ; to be divided equally between my said four children Twenty five pounds to each of them. And lastly, I do hereby nominate, constitute & appoint my friend George Shekly & my soninlaw Moses McElwain to be the Executors of this my Will, hereby revoking all former Wills, Legacies & bequests by me made, & declaring this & no other to be my last Will & testament — In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the Ninth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred & Nine (1809). Tho' Larrimer [seal] Signed sealed, published pronounced & declared, by the said Thomas Lorrimer to be his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who, in his presence & at his request, have subscribed our names as Witnesses — Moses Jenkins William Shekley A Russell Note before signing — I do also give & bequeath to my wife Catharine aforesaid, one bond which I have on my son William Lorrimer for thirty pounds bearing equal date herewith & payable one month after my decease — but & if my said wife shall not survive me, it is my Will & I order that the said bond shall be given up to my said son William Lorrimer with out payment — Adams county ss Before me James Duncan Esq. Register for the probate of wills and granting letters of Administration in and for the county of Adams in the State of Penn- sylvania, personally Came Alexander Russell one of the Subscribing witnesses to the foregoing instrument of writing and on his Solemn oath doth say, that he was personally present and Saw and heard the therein named Thomas Larrimer sign his name unto and Seal & publish the named foregoing instrument of writing as and for his last will and testament, and at the time of doing thereof he the said Thomas Larrimer was of a Sound and disposing mind, memory and understand- 130 mme ing to the best of his knowledge and belief, and that he Subscribed his name thereto as a witness in the presence of the said Testator and at his request, and that he also saw the other Witness William Shekley subscribe his name thereto as a witness in the presence of the said Testator and at his request at the same time A Russell Sworn and Subscribed before me at Gettysburg the 9th day of September A.D. 1816 James Duncan Reg. Adams county // Before me James Duncan Esq. Register for the probate of wills, and granting letters of Administration, in and for the county of Adams in the State of Pennsylvania, Personally Came William Shekley one of the Subscribing wit- nesses to the foregoing Instrument of writing, and on his Solemn oath doth say that he was personally present and saw and heard the therein named Thomas Larrimer sign his name unto and seal and publish the foregoing instrument of writing as and for his last will and testament and at the time of doing thereof he the said Thomas Larrimer was of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding to the best of his knowledge and belief: and that he subscribed his name thereto as a witness, in the presence of the Testator and at his request, and that he also saw the other Witness Alexander Russell Subscribe his name as a witness in the presence of the said Testator and at his request, at the same time. William Shekley Sworn & Subscribed before me at Franklin township. Witness being sick & unable to attend Sept. 9th 18 16. James Duncan Reg. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, "I County of Adams, j I, Simon P. Stover, Register for Probate oi Wills and Granting Letters of Administration in and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the last [sealJ Will and Testament, together with the Probate thereof, of Thomas Larrimer, late of Adams county. Pa., deceased, as taken from and compared with the original remaining on file in the Register's office of Adams county, Pennsylvania. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of office this Nineteenth day of April, a.d. 1897. Simon P. Stover, Register. 131 mniQ Mill or Mtlliam Xarimcr, Si\, Iflo. 9 Hn tbe name of (Bob, Hmen ; i, wmiam Larimer of North Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, Penna., being weak in body- but of sound and disposing mind do therefore make and publish this my last Will and Testament, in the manner following, that is to say. First. I commend my soul to Almighty God, and my body to be buried at the direction of my family and Executors hereinafter named, and I desire all my just debts and funeral expenses to be paid as soon as may be by my Executors. Second. I desire and will that my property real, personal and mixed be disposed of as follows : — To William, Hamilton, James, Anne Jane, Thomas and Mary E., in the respective portions or shares as hereinafter mentioned — in as much as my daugh- ters Catharine Fleming & Margaret Ann Taylor (in her lifetime) have each received their ftill shares and my sons John Larimer and George Larimer have also received their full shares, and my daughter Martha Hughs being wealthy and needing no assistance therefore I devise to her a present of Fifty Dollars in full of her share. Third. I devise to my son Wilham the residue of the farm in Allegheny County being about One Hundred Acres lying East and adjoining the land that I have conveyed to George, and I charge the said land hereby with the pay- ment of a legacy to Ann Jane, and on payment of the said legacy by my son William, I do hereby authorize my Executors or the survivor of them to execute to the said William his heirs and assigns a Deed in fee for the same. Fourth. I devise to my son Hamilton the lot of ground on which* the stone house is situated being a triangular piece of ground lying within the three roads containing about Four Acres more or less with the appurtenances, which said lot of ground together with what he has already received from me is in full of his share out of my estate. Fifth. I devise to my daughter Jane Ann, One Thousand Dollars in full of her share out of my real estate. Sixth. The Mansion Farm whereon I now live I devise to my sons James and Thomas, said farm is bounded on the East by land of Wm. Hind- man, on the West by Byerly and others, on the North by Byerly, and on the South by Jeffries and Kintick, and contains Two Hundred and Eighty Acres more or less. The said land and farm with the appurtenances to be held and enjoyed by my beloved wife Ann untill my youngest child shall arrive at the age of Twenty-one Years, at which time the estate hereby granted to the said 132 mnie James and the said Thomas shall commence and vest in them, their heirs and assigns, subject to the third of the profits and proceeds of said farm which, from that time, shall be paid and delivered to my said wife Ann during her natural Hfe. Seventh. I devise to my son Thomas Five Shares of stock in the Greensburg and Pittsburgh Turnpike Road Company, and to James Fifty Dollars in stock in the Mt. Pleasant & Pittsburgh Turnpike Road Company, which said stock I hereby authorize my Executors to transfer on the respective books of said Companies to the said James & Thomas as aforesaid. Eighth. I devise to my daughter Mary C. One Thousand Dollars to be paid to her out of my real estate devised to James and Thomas for the pay- ment of which said legacy the said Mansion Farm is hereby charged. And also to my said daughter Jane and Mary two-fifths of all my personal estate after my debts and funeral expenses are paid. Ninth. I devise the rest and residue of my estate to James, Thomas, and my beloved wife Ann, share and share alike, and desire that the family remain together on the farm as they now, and untill such time as they shall respectively commence the world for themselves. Tenth, The legacies payable to Anne Jane and to Mary shall have no interest and shall be payable only upon their arriving at the age of Twenty- one Years, after which time if said legacies are not paid interest ought to be charged. And Lastly. I do hereby constitute and appoint my sons John Larimer & George Larimer Executors of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former Wills by me at any time heretofore made. ^j/f2i.t'i- 4^ et^iO'f^i^F^ [seal] Sept. 8, 1838. Signed, sealed, published and declared as & for Testator's last Will and Testament as at his request in presence of said Testator and of each other we have subscribed the same as witnesses. William Logan. John F. Beaver. Legally proved and approved this Twenty-fifth day of September A.D. 1838, same day recorded and Letters Testamentary issued to the Executors. Executors sworn before John Row, Reg'r. 133 Mill0 State of Pennsylvania, | County of Westmoreland, j I, Samuel C. Stevenson, Register of Wills, in and for State and County- aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the Will of William Larimer as the same remains of record in Will Book Vol. 2, page 408, in my Office at Greensburg, Pa. Given under my hand and official seal this 14th day of July, a.d. 1902. [seal] Samuel C. Stevenson, Register. ¥¥ mm of ratlltam Xarlmer, Hlo, 4 Hn tbe name Ot (30t) Bmen. The fourteenth day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy-three. I William Larimer of the Town of Hanover in the County of York and Prov- ince of Pennsylvania, Schoolmaster, Being very weak in Body but of sound & disposing mind and memory blessed be god do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament. Imprimis. I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it, and my body to the Earth from whence it came, to be Burried in a Chris- tian, and decent like manner at the discretion of my Executrix, nothing doubt- ing but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same by the mighty power of god. And as touching such worldly Estate as it has pleased God to Bless me with, I dispose of it as follows, to wit : First. I order that all my Just debts, and Funeral Expenses be paid by my Executrix in a reasonable Time after my death. Secondly. I give and Bequeath unto my beloved Wife Jane Larimer the One Third part of all my Household Goods. Likewise the One Third part, of my share of my Father (Robert Larimers) Estate which becomes pay- able to me the twenty second day of September next ensuing. Thirdly. I give and bequeath unto my Beloved Children Victor & Mary Larimer the remaining two thirds of all my Estate both Real & Personal Likewise the Remaining two thirds of my part of my Fathers Estate to be equally divided betwixt them share, and share alike, and it is my desire that if my daughter should happen to be carried off by this present disorder that now she labours under that her part shall be equally divided betwixt my Wife, & Son. And further it is my Will and desire that my Executrix may sell by 134 mnie way of Publick Vendue all my Household Goods, and Furniture in a Reason- able Time after my discease. And lastly I do nominate and appoint my Well beloved Wife whole & Sole Executrix of this my Last Will & Testament, Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my Last Will & Testament. Witness my hand and seal the day and year first above written. Wm Larimer [seal] Signed, Sealed, Published, and declared by the said William Larimer, as & for his Last Will & Testament in the Presence of us. Thos Larimer John Larimer. York County, js : Before me Samuel Johnston Esquire, Deputy Register for the Probate of Wills and Granting Letters of Administration in and for the County of York in the Province of Pennsylvania personally appeared Thomas Larimer and John Larimer the two subscribing Witnesses to the foregoing Instrument of Writing and being duly sworn on the holy Evangelies of Almighty God do Depose and say that they were personally present and saw and heard William Larimer, the Testator in the foregoing Instrument of writing named sign seal publish and declare the same as and for his last Will and Testament that at the time of doing thereof the said William Larimer was of sound disposing Mind, Memory and understanding according to the best of these Deponents knowledge and belief and that they there subscribed their Names as Witnesses to the same in the presence of the said Testator and at his request. Tho' Larimer John Larimer. Sworn & subscribed before me at York the 15th day of October 1773. SamL Johnston Dej>. Reg. [A true copy compared with the original at York.] Memorandum. That Letters Testamentary in Common form were granted to Jane Larimer of the Estate of William Larimer, late o^ York County Yeoman deceased. Inventory to be Exhibited into the Registers Ofiice at York at or before the fifteenth Day of November next and an account or Reckoning at or before the fifteenth Day of October next. Given under my hand and the seal of said Ofiice at York this 15th day of October 1773. Sam^ Johnston Dep Reg 135 mine Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, York County, I, John H. Wanbaugh, Register for the Probate of Wills and granting Letters Testamentary and of Administration for the County of York, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true and accurate copy of the last Will and Testament of William Larimer, of the town of Hanover, York County, State of Pennsylvania, as the same remains on file and of record in this office. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and official seal at York, the 19th day of April, a.d. 1897. John H. Wanbaugh, [seal] Register of Wills. ¥¥ IWIlin of 3obn fiDcflnastere, mo. 4 tn tbe name of (30t) BmCn. l, John M'=Masters of the Town- ship of Plum, County of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, Being of Sound mind, thanks be to God for the same, do declare this my last Will & Testa- ment. First, I will that all such debts as I shall justly owe at the time of my disease, and my funeral charges and expenses be in the first place paid by my Executors hereinafter named. Item I devise and bequeath to my beloved neice Rebecca Perry, my four lots opposite the Garrison in Pittsburgh, to have and to hold the said lots to the use of her the said Rebecca and her heirs forever, or one thousand dollars, at her option. And in case she chooses or prefers the one thousand dollars, I will that my Executors sell the lots but not under that sum. I also bequeath to her what her aunt may think proper of the Household furniture, out of what may be in the house at the time of my decease, with all her clothes. Saddle, Bridle and a horse or mare worth one hundred dollars and two cows. Item. 1 give and bequeath to my nephew Joseph M'^Masters five hundred dollars, — three hundred of which 1 have sent to him by Mr. John Grove in Fall last, and since I gave an order in his favor on James Gurthrie, Esquire, of Greensburg for one hundred more. My meaning and intention is that he 136 mniQ should have in addition to the above mentioned four hundred dollars, one hundred more out of that money which is due to me from the Treasury of Westmoreland County, making in the whole five hundred dollars. Item, I give and bequeath to my dear and beloved sister-in-law Hannah Perry, wife of James Perry, merchant of Charlestown fifty dollars. Item, to my brother-in- law John Irwin of Turtle Creek, I leave two hundred dollars in order to enable him to pay some installments due from him to David Wallace for the farm whereon he now lives, to be paid as follows, to wit, on the first day of April, come a year after my desease one hundred dollars, and on the first day of the succeeding April, the remaining one hundred. Item I leave to Polly Duncan, wife of David Duncan ten dollars. Item I leave to my bound boy, Timothy Calaghan two good oxen with their chains & yoke and a horse or mare, — the oxen and the horse or mare to be worth not less than one hundred and fifty dollars in cash to be paid to him one year after my desease. Item I give and bequeath to my nephew John M^Masters, who now lives with me, my farm on the hill called, in the patent Jacobs Ladder, with twenty- five acres of the fields adjoining off the farm on which I now live, to be laid off^ in that manner that will be least injurious to the last mentioned farm and most usefiil to the farmer — to have and to hold to him and his heirs forever. Item I give and bequeath to him one half of the tavern or house and lot in the borough of Pittsburg known by the name of the " Bear." and one half of my Personal Estate, to him and his heirs forever. Item I give and bequeath to my dear & beloved wife Jane M''Masters the other half of the tavern or house and lot described as above with the half of all my remaining estate real, personal or mixed of what nature or kind soever, the personal to her forever and the real to her during the term of her natural life, and in case she shall remain my widow, and die in that state of widowhood, I leave one half of said estate real to her disposal at her death by will. In case she marries that whole of the plantation on which I now live and her half of the '* Bear" shall go to the aforesaid John M'''Masters and his heirs forever, — upon her death (if she continues a widow) the half of the plantation and one half of her half of the " Bear" shall go to him the said John M''Masters, and his heirs forever. Item I leave to John M''Masters son of my late brother Robert M''Masters of the County of Down in Ireland fifty dollars, and if any of the children of my brother James or my brother Thomas bear the name of John, I leave to such children fifty dollars each. And it is my earnest desire and request to all and every person interested or in any way concerned in this instrument, that if any difficulty or doubt shall arise as to the construction of this my last will and testament, or as to what 137 Mills way my intention as to the disposal of my estate that they apply to three or more good men to compare the several parts of this my last will & testament to explain my true intent and meaning and that they be governed by such con- struction as those men amacably chosen may give, & I do hereby appoint my dear and beloved wife Jane M'^Masters and my nephew John M^Masters execu- tors of this my last will & testament hereby revoking all former Wills by me at any time heretofore made, and I do hereby declare this my last will & testa- ment. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this twenty- seventh day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and five. Jno McMasters [seal] Signed and Sealed in the presence of us Robert Galbraith John Thompson N. B. It is my intention and I hereby order that in case my beloved wife Jane should marry after my decease, that she shall hold, injoy and receive the occupation. Rents, Issues and profits of the one half of Tavern and lot in Pitts- burgh called the "Bear" and the one half of the Farm upon which I now live, during her natural life, but that she shall not have any power or authority to convey the same at or before her death but that at her disease the same shall go to my nephew John McMasters before mentioned. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this twenty-seventh day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five. Jno. McMasters. Signed & Sealed in the presence of us Robert Galbraith John Thompson Copp ot probate Allegheny County js. On the fourth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- dred and five, before the subscriber. Register for the probate of Wills &c. , in and for the county aforesaid, came Robert Galbraith and John Thompson, the two subscribing witnesses to the foregoing Will, who being duly sworn ac- cording to law, deposeth and saith that they were personally present & did see John McMasters, the testator. Sign seal and deliver the foregoing as and for his last Will and testament, and they did hear him publish, pronounce and declare 138 MtU9 it as such, and that he was of sound mind and memory at the time of so doing to of these deponents knowledge. Witness my hand for Samuel Jones Reg*^ L. Stewart. ¥¥ mm of 3obn flDcflHasters, mo* I John M'=Masters of Plum Township, Allegheny County being of weak body but of sound mind and memory (Thanks be to God for the same) Do make and publish this my last Will and Testament as follows : First to my beloved wife Rachel I give and bequeathe during her natural life the rents, issues and profits or produce of the farm now occupied by Archi- bald Robinson, Also that occupied by S. Carlisle, and also the homestead farm on which I reside also the Dividends of one hundred shares of Greensburgh & Pittsburgh Turnpike Road Company stock. And I bequeathe to her absolutely to dispose of as she pleases the fiirniture and bedding &c in my dwelling house; and the sum of five thousand dollars in cash to be paid to her by my son Thomas out of the property hereinto devised to him. To be paid to her in annual instalments of five hundred dollars each, without interest. The first instalment to be paid at the expiration of one year after my decease. Second. I bequeathe to my son John the sum of one hundred dollars ; and I devise to Daniel Negley, Duncan Hamilton and William Young merchant, and the survivors or survivor of them and their heirs, all my interest and estate in possession or remainder in the Haslitt property at the two mile run by me purchased of William Haslitt. Also all that Tavern stand and yard and black- smith and Wagon maker shops in the city of Pittsburgh on which property my son John now resides, Said Tavern property to commence on Virgin Alley ninety feet from the corner of Alexander M'^Clurgs property on Virgin Alley and Page I. John M-^Masters. thence in a direct line from Virgin Alley to the large corner post at Greer's corner at the opening into Liberty Street. And including all the ground and buildings between that line and Seventh Street usually rented with and occu- pied by the tavern. To have and to hold to them as aforesaid, and for their use in Trust nevertheless and Special Confidence for the following recited uses and purposes and not otherwise, viz to permit and allow my son John to have and receive the rents issues and profits thereof during his natural life for his own and his family's support, without being subject to the power or control of his 139 IPdliUs creditors. Subject, however to the payment of the sum of Seven thousand dollars with its interest, to William Larrimer being a debt which my son John owes to him and to be paid by my said trustees and my son John out of said rents issues and profits in annual instalments of one thousand dollars each The first instalment to be paid at the expiration of one year after my decease, and further to allow and permit my said son John to make such improvements on said property as he shall think proper, giving my said Son power to manage said property and receive the rents for the uses and purposes aforesaid. And in case on partition of said Haslitt property not being made the same should be sold. Then my share of the proceeds of such sale to be applied to the improve- ment of the Tavern property or the purchase of other property, to be held in trust as aforesaid for the same uses and purposes as the Tavern property aforesaid. And on the decease of my said son John I divise said property to his son John. Page 2. John M^Masters. and his heirs and assigns forever, And provided my said grand son should die under the age of twenty one, and without issue : then I devise the same to any other son of my said son John bearing the same name, and provided my son John leaves no son of that name, I give him power to devise said property by last Will and Testament as he shall see proper, and in case he shall die intestate, — making a will and without a son bearing his name I devise the property aforesaid to his heirs generally without distinction. Third to my daughter Mrs Eliza Ann King & her heirs I devise the fol- lowing designated three houses with their appurtenances fronting on the Dia- mond Pittsburgh viz, the house occupied by M'^Elroy, — the house occupied by having the Bow window, and the house occupied by Carson on the corner of Market Alley, together with the ground on which said houses are erected and the vacant ground in the rear of said houses fronting on Market Alley. Fourth to Mrs Rachel Larrimer and her heirs I devise the two houses fronting on Liberty Street, one of which is occupied by William Schiner, the other by Flaherty, and also the house occupied by at the entrance into the Tavern yard on Seventh Street to have and to hold said three houses with their lots of ground and appurtenances to her the said Rachel Larrimer and her heirs forever. Fifth to my daughter Mrs Jane Osborne and her heirs I divise and Page 3, John M'^Masters. bequeath the sum of five thousand dollars in cash to be paid to her by my son Thomas out of the property hereinafter devised to him, and to be paid without interest in annual instalments of five hundred dollars each, first instalment to be paid one year after my decease. Also all the land including the two farms now 140 John McMast Silhouette taken about the time of his marriage, 1810 Mills occupied by Samuel Davison to extend as far as to the lane that runs from Samuel M'^Cullough's to the creek, and also the piece of land with the appur- tenances supposed to contain four acres, and on which she and her husband the Rev Joseph Osborne now reside. Sixth I devise to my two daughters Nancy and Mary as tenants in common and to their heirs. All that house and lot on the corner of Liberty & Seventh Streets now occupied by Woodson the Barber and also all that lot or piece of ground with the appurtenances now in the occupancy of William Stevenson and known as the " Black Bear" Tavern property in the corner of the Dia- mond. Seventh to my daughter Rebecca I devise and bequeathe the sum of five thousand dollars in cash to be paid her by my son Thomas in equal annual instal- ments of five hundred dollars each out of the property hereinafter devised to him. First instalment to be paid one year after my decease. And all which is not paid within five years after my decease to bear interest from and after the expiration of five years until paid. Also to her and her heirs all that house and lot on Wylie Page 4. John M" Masters, street now occupied by William Curry. Eighth, To my son Thomas and his heirs I bequeathe and devise all those five houses with their lots and appurtenances on Market Street and the Dia- mond, which houses are now occupied by Russell Cannon Kenzie & Albree, and Mrs Ambercrombie, also all that part of the Chalfant land adjoining the homestead place to be divided from the other part of the property hereinafter devised to Joseph by a line commencing at a marked tree on the left hand side of the road as you go to Robert Carothers, thence between the Tavern and the barn to the Creek & over the Creek to the line on the sand bar also one half the wood land on Powell tract, and at his mother's decease I devise to him and his heirs the homestead tract on which I now reside, and on part of which said Carlisle now resides. Also at his mother's decease I bequeathe to him one half my Turnpike Stock before men- tioned. He to pay the respective legacies by me mentioned herein for him to pay out of said property. Ninth I bequeathe and devise to my son Joseph the remaining half part of the Chalfant tract and Woodland on Powell tract, also the remaining half part of my Turnpike Stock. Also those six five story houses fronting on Liberty Street with the yard in the rear, below the line hereinafter mentioned and dividing Page 5. John M^ Masters. this from the Tavern property. Also at his mothers decease, the farm on the hill now occupied by A. Robinson, also all my Hand Street bridge stock to have and to hold to him and his heirs forever. 141 Timille Tenth to my brother Joseph during his natural Hfe and the life of his wife the house and piece of ground he now occupies agreeably to the Article between us and subject to the payment of twenty-five cents a year as hereinto mentioned. Eleventh of the Thirty-five hundred dollars, coming to me from my brother Thomas I bequeathe one thousand dollars to my grand son John Lar- rimer son of my daughter Rachel. Also one thousand dollars to my grandson John, son of my daughter Nancy. Also one thousand dollars to my grandson John, son of my daughter Jane Osborne, and the remaining five hundred together with the six shares Exchange Bank stock transferred to me by Mr. King,, and two hundred dollars to be paid out of the property by me devised to my son Joseph I bequeathe to my grandson John, the son of my daughter Eliza Ann King. My remaining Exchange Bank stock viz. twenty shares I bequeathe to my sons Thomas & Joseph to be equally divided between them. The rest and residue of my property real & personal after payment of my debts I devise and bequeathe to my beloved wife to dispose of as she pleases. If at my decease Page 6. John M'=Masters. there is not sufficient money on hands to pay my debts, the rents of my real estate excepting that devised to my wife is to be applied until my debts are paid out of them before the same go into the hands of the devisees. No advance- ments heretofore made or money paid for any of my children, are to be accounted for or taken any account of by my executors, and if any dispute shall arise respecting this my Will or the devises and bequests therein mentioned, between my devisees or Legatees ; It is my Will that each party disputant shall choose a man until three five or seven referees are chosen as the parties shall require. And the Determination or award of such Referees shall be final and conclusive on the parties. And if any party refuse to choose or designate the number to be chosen then my executors shall nominate and designate the number of referees for such party refusing. And as Executors of this my last Will and Testament, I nominate & appoint my wife Rachel and my son Thomas, and my sons in law William Larrimer Jr and H. D. King. And lastly I bequeathe to my wife and all my dear children my blessing and commend them to the guardian care of our Heavenly Father, to whom I am thank- fial for all his blessing to me through a long life, and especially that all my family are inclined to fear & adore Him, and to lead honest and upright lives in this Page 7. John M'^Masters. present evil world. And now on this thirtieth day of March in the year of our Lord one thou- 142 male sand eight hundred and forty-seven, I do hereby make ordain and publish as and for my last Will and Testament, the foregoing writing comprising eight pages to each of which pages I have subscribed my name, and do now sign & seal the same in the presence ot Samuel Carlisle ) John McMasters [seal] Thomas Mellon j Page 8. Codacil No, one to the forgoing Will & Testament The amount of my indebtedness to the heirs of Michael Walls estate, fifteen hundred & fifty, with six years interest, also fifteen hundred dollars I paid to Heirs of William Shaw Deed, with three years Interest. Also six hundred Dollars I paid to W" Morrison with five years interest. Also five Hundred Dollars I paid to John Stewart with two years Interest which I do Devise and order that my son John shall pay to my Executors as follows First the amount of my indebtedness to Michael Walls Heirs in the term of three years from & after my decease. Second the amount I paid the Heirs of W"" Shaw, In six years from and after my Decease. Third the amount I paid John Stewart & W" Morrison in nine years from & after my decease. All the aforesaid payments to be with interest. And farther I do desire that my Executors shall pay in July next the amount of claim in the hands of Michael Walls Heirs with all interest due at that time. In witness that the codicil No. one, be a part & parcel of my last Will & Testament this fifth day of April one thousand eight hundred & forty-seven I have hereunto set my hand & seal in the presenee of the subscribing witnesses. John McMasters [seal] Duncan Hamilton ) Saml E. Shaw j Allegheny County ss. Be it known that on the 21 day of April 1847 personally came before me P. A. Madeira Register for the probate of Wills &c in and for said County Saml. Carlile & Thomas Mellon the Subscribing Wit- nesses to this will who being by me severally sworn according to law did depose and say that they saw John McMasters the Testator to the foregoing Will, sign seal & publish & declare the said instrument of writing as and for his last Will & Testament, and at the time he did so was of sound and disposing mind to the best of their observation and belief, and at his request and in his presence subscribed their names as witnesses thereto. Given under my hand the above date P. A. Madeira Regr. 143 mniQ Allegheny County ss. Be it known that on the 21 day of April 1847 personally came before me P. A. Madeira Register for the probate of Wills &c. in and for said county Duncan Hamilton and Sam. E. Shaw the subscribing witnesses, to the foregoing Codicil, who being sworn by me according to law, did depose and say that they saw and heard John M^^ Masters the foregoing Testator sign seal publish and declare the foregoing Codicil as part and parcel of his last Will and Testament and at the time he did so he was of sound & disposing mind to the best of their observation and belief and at his request and in his presence subscribed their names as Witnesses thereto. Given under my hand the above date. P. A. Madeira, Register. ¥¥ Mill of IRacbel tiuobei? nDcflnaetcra, Hlo. 15 tn tbe tXame Ot (B0& BmerU I Rachel McMasters of Patton Township, County of Allegheny & State of Pennsylvania, widow & relict of John McMasters late of Township, County & State aforesaid, being of sound and disposing memory and understanding do make and pubHsh this my last will and testament as follows, to wit, ist. Item : It is my will and desire that my Executors hereinafter named, shall pay all my just debts and funeral expenses. Item : I give and bequeath unto Rachel K. daughter of James I. Larimer the sum of Four hundred and fifty (^450) dollars. Item : I give and bequeath unto Rachel H. daughter of John McMasters late of Pittsburg, the sum of Four Hundred and fifty (^450) dollars. Item : I give and bequeath unto Rachel H. daughter of Gen William Larimer the sum of Four Hundred and fifty (^450) dollars. Item : I give and bequeath to Rachel daughter of Thomas McMasters the sum of Four Hundred and fifty (^450) dollars. Item : I give and bequeath unto Annie DufF, daughter of my son in law the late Rev. DufF and my daughter Rebecca, the sum of Three hundred and fifty (^350) dollars. Item : I give and bequeath unto Rachel Carlisle daughter of my daughter Rebecca by her second husband, the sum of Four Hundred ($400) Dollars. Item : I give and bequeath to Willis L. King son of daughter Eliza, the sum of Two Hundred ($200) Dollars. 144 mme Item : I give and bequeath unto H. K. Larimer son of James I. Larimer, I give the sum of Two Hundred ($200) Dollars, Item : I give and bequeath unto Joseph son of Wm. Larimer my Hand Street Bridge Stock. Item : I give and bequeath unto Robert King the sum of Two Hundred ($200) Dollars. Item : I give and bequeath unto the Foreign Missions the sum of Two Hundred (^200) Dollars. Item : I give and bequeath unto John Duff son of my daughter Rebecca my Pittsburg and Connellsville Rail Road Stock. Item : I give and bequeath to my son Thomas my Pittsburg & Greens- burg Turnpike Road Stock, and Exchange Bank of Pittsburg Stock ; also my desk, bookcase. Clock, six volumes of Henry's Commentaries, my large fam- ilv Bible, Three volumes of Erskines Sermons and an equal share with the rest of my children of my late husbands books. Item : I desire that my books in which my name is written shall be equally divided among my five daughters. Item : I desire that all my household fiirniture shall be equally divided among my six children, except what I give unto John and Francis Osborne my Grandchildren. Item : I will and desire that all the residue and remainder of my estate both Real and Personal shall be divided into seven equal shares, which I give and bequeath as follows to wit : To Caroline, Rachel, David and Leonora McMasters children of my son John, late of Pittsburg, One share. To John and Francis Osborne children of my daughter Jane, now deceased. One share. To my daughter Eliza King, One share. To my Daughter Rachel Larimer wife of Gen William Larimer, One share. To my Daughter Nancy, wife of James I. Larimer, One share. To my Daughter Rebecca, wife of James Carlisle, One share. To my Daughter Mary, wife of B. F. Jones, One share. Item : And I hereby authorize my executors hereinafter named to sell or convey either at public or private sale all my real estate situate in the City of Pittsburg and Village of Turtle Creek at such times and on such terms as may seem most advantageous to them, the said Executors, and make Deed or Deeds to the purchaser or purchasers of the same. Item : I hereby appoint James I, Larimer and my son Thomas McMas- ters to be the Executors of this my last will and testament. 10 145 mme In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty seventh day of June a.d. One Thousand eight hundred and sixty four. Attest : Rachel McMasters. [seal] Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of us who in the presence of each other have at the request of the testator subscribed our names as witnesses hereto. John Shaw. Joseph Kunkle. ¥¥ ratll of 3obn IHugbei^, Sr. Hn tbe name Ot (30t>, Bmen. I John Hughey Senr., of Plumb Township Allegheny County takeing into view the uncertainty of life and weak in Body But of Sound mind and memory, do make this my last will and testa- ment in the manner and form as followes. First of all I leave to my two sons John and William the farm I now live on Share and Share alike they Complying with the terms hereinafter mentioned Viz : that they shall pay to me or to my Heirs I leave to Robert Hughey my son fifty Dollars and a feather Bed and Clothes I leave to Joseph Hughey the sum of Fifty Dollars to be paid in two years after my decease and a Bed and Bedclose I leave to my daughter Rachel my mothers the sum of twenty five Dollars to be paid to her in three years after my decease I also leave to Jean Chalfent the sum of twenty five dollars to be paid to her in two years after my decease I also leave to Elizabeth Lightcap my Daughter the sum of fifty dollars to be paid in one year after my decease and I also leave to my daughter Ann Chalfent the sum of fifty dollars to be paid to her or to her Heirs in two years after my desease with one years Intrest on the above sum and the two first mentioned John and William is to furnish me the said John Hughey ther Father with Comfortable boarding and lodeging and Durning my natural life and at their expence to give me a decent Burial and I do Consti- tute and appoint my two sons Robert and Joseph the Exaceter of this my last will and testament hereby Revokeing everything in the form of will or Wills made theretofore in testimony thereof I have set my hand and seal this- 27 day of Sept in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four. loHN Hughey [seal] done in presence of us the undersigned John McMasters Sen. John McMasters Jr. 146 mniQ ]"■ State of Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. I, Fred. W. Edwards, Register of Wills, etc., in and for [seal] said County, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a full and perfect copy of the Original last Will and Testament of John Hughey, Sr., deceased, as the same remains on file, and is of record in my office at Pittsburgh, in Will Book, volume 4, page — . Witness my hand and seal of said office, this 1st day of August, a.d. 1902. Fred. W. Edwards, Register. ¥¥ Inventori^ ant) appraisement of tbe Cetate of 3o0epb IKuabe^ Hn Unventory of the GooJs and Chattels of Joseph Hughey, deceased, taken and aprised By us the subscribers this 22 day of October, 1773. To one chestnut Gelding To one Bay Mair To one Sorel Mair To one Gray Mair To one Brown Horse . One Sorrel Stalying Colt To one Yok of Oxen . To one Red Cow- To one Yellow Cow . To one SSplakt Cow . One Red Heifer One Black heifer with white head One Red heifer with white head One Black heifer with a star . One Black heifer with a spreckled face One Red Steer . Seventeen Sheep £' /. d. 25 00 00 15 00 00 20 00 00 25 00 00 H 00 00 16 00 00 12 00 00 4 15 4 00 4 15 3 15 2 '5 2 05 I 15 I 10 I 10 7 10 147 TOille Six Young Hogs. To one sow and eight pigs To wheat in the sheaf . To Rie in the Sheaf . To Oats and Straw and Indian Foder To flax Seed To Three young Calves To Hay . To flax . To Corn on Stalk To ploughs & Irons & Gears To one harrow . Two forks for stable & Cutting Steel Sundry Edged tools & rings A wool wheel A woman's Saddle & Bridle A mans Sadie A mans Sadie One Duftailed Chest . One papilar Chest Bed, bed cloathes & stead One Chaff Bed clothes & Stead One wool hat One pair buck skins One light Coulord Shiff" Coat & jacket One Brown Cloth Coat & jacket One Brown Cloth Shiff" Coat & jacket One pair black Velvet Breeches To one fly Coat Cleret Colored To one set out Coat One pair of Boots & one pair pumps To sundry Articles Being the plenishing of the Kitchen To Sundry Books To bags & bed Cloths To flour Casks . One Apple Mill . One Bed and furniture One Bed and furniture One Case of Drawers £ s. d. 5 lO 3 lO 4 oo 6 oo I lO 2 05 2 10 lO 00 I 05 8 10 4 2 6 7 6 4 15 12 6 3 10 2 10 I 00 15 05 6 00 00 2 05 04 I 05 1 00 2 10 2 10 12 05 00 06 16 10 10 08 I 00 lO 06 6 8 05 4 00 Mills £ /. d. One table . . 07 6 One chest of poplar . 7 6 One hat . 7 6 One Wig . 7 6 To hogshead and sider . I 15 A servant girls time 6 00 One Servant man's time 7 00 To the plantation 550 00 In all . 800 4 I To cash 26 1 James MULLHOLM To Notes 27 j James Snodgrass. Exhibited into the Register's Office at Lancaster the 25"^ day of October, A7ino Domini J 773' Ephraim Hughey. John Hughey. The Exors and appraisers being duly sworn according to Law before me the same day and Year. Edwd. Shippen, Recorder. »«> Xan^ Warrant to Josepb IKuci? Pennsylvania, ss : By the Proprietaries. Whereas, "Joseph Huey" of the County of Lancaster [seal] hath requested that we would grant him to take up one hundred & Fifty Acres of Land adjoining Henry Cowgill & Jonathan Smith in Drumore Township in the said County of Lancaster for which he agrees to pay to our Use at the rate of Fifteen Pounds Ten Shillings, current Money of this Province, for one Hundred Acres and the Yearly Quit-Rent of One Half-penny Sterling for every Acre thereof. These are, therefore, to authorize and require you to survey or cause to be survey' d unto the said "Joseph Huey" at the Place aforesaid, according to the Method of Townships appointed, the said Quantity of 1 50 Acres, if not already survey' d or appropriated, and make Return thereof into the Secretary's 149 TPdliUe Office, in Order for further Confirmation, for which this shall be your sufficient Warrant ; which survey in Case the said Joseph Huey fulfil the above Agree- ment, within six Months from the Date hereof, shall be valid, otherwise void. Given under my Hand and Seal of the Land-Office, by Virtue of certain Powers from the said Proprietaries, at Philadelphia, this third day of October Anno Domini ly^l. James Hamilton To Nicholas Scull, Surveyor General. ¥¥ Mill of 3o0epb IKuGbei? Hn tbe IRame of G0^, Hmen. This eight day of September Seventeen Hundred and Seventy three, I, Joseph Hughey of Drumore Town- ship and County of Lancaster, Being Sick and wake in Body But of a Sound desposing Mind and Memory Blessed be God for all his Mercys and Calling to Mind that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make this my Last Will and Testament in manar and form following first of all I Recommend my Soul to God who gave it and my Body I Recommend to the Earth to be Buried in a Christian Lick and deasent manner at the discretion of my Executor nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall Receive the same again by the Mighty Power of God — and as tuching such Worldly Estate wherewith all it hath pleased God to Bless me in this Life, I give and depose of the same in the following manner and form after all my just Debts and Funeral Charges be first paid. Imprimis I Give and bequeath into my well beloved Son Patrick Hughey Ten Shillings Pennsylvania Currency to be Paid him in one Year after my decease together with my Brown Stuff Coat and Jacket. Item I give and bequeath to my well beloved Son Samuel Hughey my Brown Thick Cloth Coat and Jeacket and Ten Shillings to be paid as above as also my Surtout Coat. Item I give and bequeath to my Son in Law William Irwin my Light colored Stuf Coat and Jeacket and Ten Shillings to be paid as Above. Item I give and bequeath to my well Beloved Daughter Jean Hughey a Fether Bed and Bed Cloaths to the Value of Ten Pound and a Mear or Gelden to the velue of Six- teen pounds as also a Sedel and Bridel worth five pound, and Lickways five pound in Cash to be Provided and given her in one year after my decease if she requires them, Lickways I order that She shall have a further Sum of Ten Pounds to be leved out of my Estate and paid her within two years after my decease. In case she mereys, but Provided She Remains Single she is not to git it from 150 •umtii0 four years after my Decease and Lickways my case of Drawers I give hur to have them Immediately after my decease. Item I give and Bequeath unto my Well beloved Wife Jean Hughey hir Bead and Bead Cloathes and all the Plen- ishing that is in the Kitchen as also ye Bay Mear and hir own Blew Side Sedel and a Bridle and the best Cow that is about the place and my own chist, and while Both or either of my Sons that shall be Hereafter named Possess My Real Estate She shall have her mear and Cow Cept both winter and sumer as they do their own and whenever she Sees Caus She may Move into the upper End of the House and they my sd. sons or either of them while they hold and poses my Land as Above shall yearly and Every Year Provid and Lay Down at the Doar Fier Wood Sofecent to Serve her — Cut fitting for the Chimney of sd. Hous and Lickways give her fifteen bushels of grean every year. Viz, Eight Bushels of weat and seven of Coarn as also two Barrel of Sider and a Con- venient Little garden fenced in for her uce all which yearly Benefits — She is to incoy Dewring her Neaturel Life while She Continues my widdow. But if my Sons Shall See Caus to Sell and Convey away my said Real Estate She my sd. wife shall heave the Sum of Fifty Pounds Paid or Secured to be paid in proportion to " geehor" payments arising from the Seal of sd. place yearly as the Same Comes deu towards her mentainance. while she Lives if She Con- tinues as above and what she leaves of said money aforesaid is to be at her dis- posal at hir Death, but if she my sd. wife and these my Sons do live together on sd. plantation till the time of hir death, she shall only have Ten pounds at hir disposal and in lick manner I order and allow my said wife and my Sons Ephraim & John and my Daughter Jean that while they See Caus to live together as parent and Children that after providing and maken of there my said Sons or nearly aperal as usual that anything that can be done more shall be my sd. wifs and daughters property as a Reward of their Industry. Item I give and bequeath to my well beloved Son Ephraim Hughey the Gray Mear and his Sedel and Bridel and my Leather Briches and my Little wearing Coat as also the one half of all my Real and personal Estate to be posesed by him his Heirs and Assigns forever after my just Debts and funeral charges together with what Legacys and Bequeathments that is already named or shall hereafter be named is first deducted of the whole Estate and in Lick mannor I give to my Well beloved Son John Hughey his Heirs and Assigns the other half of my said Estate Both Real and personal after deductions is maid as above Together with my Young Soral Coalt & a Sedel and Bridel and my. Black Cloath Britches and do hereby Order that when any of these my said Sons Ephraim and John Hughey Shall See Caus to quet their party of the plantation that the other is to have it at the valuation of three Indefrant men By them Chosen for that purpos or other wayes it shall be put to Seal and the money ariving from 151 mniB the said Seal shall be equally devided Behoten them — and I do Hereby Con- stitute make and appoint my Well Beloved Sons Ephraim Hughey and John Hughey to Be my whole and Sole Executors of this my last Will and Testa- ment & I do hereby Vestuly disalow Revoke and disanul all other Wills and testaments By me maid declaring this to be my last Will and Testament in Witness w^hereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the Year and day first Wretten. Joseph Huey [l. s.] Signed Published pronounced & delivered By the said Joseph Hughey as his Last Will in presence of us the Subscribers James McHullon, James Snodgrass, Moses Irwin. Lancaster County, ss. On the twenty-fifth day of October Anno Domini ///J, Before me the Subscriber Personally appeared the within named James McHullon and James Snodgrass two of the Subscribing Witnesses to the within Will & on their Cor- poral Oath according to Law did declare and say that they were present and Saw & heard Joseph Huey the Testator within named Sign Seal Publish Pronounce & declare the within writing as and for his last Will and Testament and that as the doing thereof he was of Sound mind Memory & understanding to the best of their knowledge observation and Belief. Edward Shippen, Register. Be it remembered that on the twenty-fifth day of October, Anno Domini ^773 ^^ Last Will and Testament of Joseph Huey late of Drumore Township in the County of Lancaster, yeoman, deceased was proved in due form & Law & Letters Testamentary were granted to Ephraim Huey & John Huey the Executors therein named, they being first duly Qualified well & Truly to ad- minister the Estate of the Testator & to exhibit a true & Perfect Inventory thereof into the Register's Office at Lancaster on or before the Twenty fifth day of November next to & to Render a true & just Account of their Adminis- tration when there to lawfully required. Given under the Seal of the said Office. Edw' Shippen, Register. 152 mniQ XKTliU of (Bcorgc Sbeaf^lei^ Hn tbe 5name of (50& Bmen. I George Sheakley of the Township of Franklin County of Adams, and State of Pennsylvania being of sound disposing mind, memory and understanding do make publish and declare the following instrument of writing to be my last will and Testament in manner and form following (that is to say) it is my desire that all my just debts and flmeral expenses be paid as soon after my decease as conveniently may be. And I give and bequeath to my two sons William and Robert Sheakley all my real estate situate Franklin and Cumberland Townships together with all hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging, Also all my stock of horses, horned cattle, sheep and hogs, to be equally divided between them, share and share alike, they paying the different legacies hereinafter specified. And first it is my will and desire that my two sons aforesaid pay to my beloved wife the sum of twenty pounds yearly and every year during the term of her natural life, and it is also my desire that they procure for her a horse creature such as she can ride with safety and comfort, also a milch cow, and that both the horse and cow be kept by them clear of expense to her. And it is further my will that all my household and kitchen fiirniture be equally divided the one half of which to go to my wife aforesaid and the other half to my two sons. 2'*'y And I give and bequeath to my wife aforesaid the black servant girl, Barbara to be at her disposal and her service during the term of her servitude. 3'1'y And I give and bequeath to my Daughter Margaret, married to John Hamilton, the sum of two hundred pounds, to be paid by my sons aforesaid at the end of five years after my decease. ^thiy J giyg and bequeath to my daughter Ann, married to William Larimer the sum of two hundred pounds to be paid by my sons as aforesaid at the expiration of six years after my decease. My reason for making this disposition is that the circumstances in which the two daughters are placed at present is that the oldest can I think better afford to wait a year longer than the younger. 5"''y And to my daughter Nancy I give and bequeath the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds to be paid as aforesaid by my two sons at the time when she shall have attained her seventeenth year, and if it should so happen that she should marry before arriving at that age, then my will is that my sons should pay her at the time of her marriage the sum of fifty pounds, either in a horse and saddle or milch cows or bed and bedding or in household furniture 153 mniQ as she shall desire. But should it so happen that my daughter Nancy should decease before her arrival at the age of seventeen years or before her marriage, my will then is that her bequeathment should revert to or remain in the hands of my sons William and Robert Sheakley. And I do hereby request nominate and appoint my son William and my friend John Eddie to be the executors of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all other will or wills by me heretofore made. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this tenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven. George Sheakley Signed, sealed, published and de- clared by the said George Sheakley, the testator as and for his last will and testa- ment in the presence of us who at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses. Adam Black John Stoner Moses Jenkins ¥¥ Mill of IRobcrt flncCur^1? Hn tbe Iflame of (500 Bmen ; I, Robert McCurdy of Cum- berland township, in the County of Adams, and State of Pennsylvania, being sick in body but of sound and Desposing mind and memory Blessed be God for his mercies. Do make this my last will and Testament in manner following, to wit — Imprimus — It is my will that all my just debts and funeral expenses be first paid. Item. I give and devise to my son William McCurdy all my personal estate except what shall be hereafter e^icepted. Item. I give and devise to my son William and to his heirs and assigns forever one hundred and ninety three acres, neat measure, to be taken oiF that 154 male part of the Plantation on which I now live, which adjoins Robert Work and David Horner including the dwelling house and the buildings adjoint. Item. I give and devise to my son Robert McCurdy and to his heirs and assigns forever one hundred and thirteen acres, neat measure, to be taken from the said plantation, that part which adjoins Robert Thompson to John Kissinger he paying to my daughter Nancy Paxton fifty pounds in three years after my decease. I also give and devise to my said son Robert, one feather Bed and furni- ture, I also give and devise to my said son Robert one milch cow. Item : — I give and devise to my son James McCurdy and to his heirs and assigns forever all the rest and residue of my said Plantation on which I now live at his age of twenty one years ; until which the use and possession of his share shall be in my aforesaid son William, also a horse and saddle and Milch Cow at his age of twenty one aforesaid also a bed and bedding. Item. I give and devise to my daughter Margaret intermarried with George Shekley the sum of one hundred pounds to be paid in three years after my decease. Item. I give and devise to my daughter Nancy Paxton, the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds to be paid her in three years after my decease. Also a Milch Cow. Item. I give and devise to my daughter Martha intermarried with Samuel Taggart the sum of one hundred and twenty five pounds to be paid her in one year after my decease. Item. I give and devise to my daughter Mary intermarried with Robert Thompson the sum of one hundred pounds to be paid her in three years after my decease. Item. It is my will and I hereby direct that all the aforesaid debts and legacies shall be paid and Given by my son William McCurdy except the sum of fifty pounds above mentioned which is to be paid to my son Robert. Item. It is my will and I direct that my daughter Nancy have the privi- ledge of living in the mansion house for six years after my decease and that my son William shall during that term provide her with a horse when neces- sary. Item. It is my will that my grand-son Robert McCurdy Paxton have the priveledge of living in my mansion house aforesaid for the term of three years after my decease and that during that term he shall be supported by my said son William and lastly I hereby constitute and appoint my two sons William McCurdy and Robert McCurdy as executors of this my last Will and Testament hereby Revoking all former wills by me made. In witness 155 TOille where of I have here unto set my hand and affixed my Seal the fifth day of August Anno Domini, Eighteen hundred and five. Robert McCurdy [seal] Signed sealed pronounced and pub- lished in the presence of us at the request of the Testator. Robert Hayes David Horner Robert Major Adams County ss. Before James Duncan Esq. Register of Wills for the probate of Wills and granting letters of administration in the State of Pennsylvania Personally came David Horner and Robert Major two of the subscribing witnesses to the fore- going instrument of writing and on their solemn Oath and affirmation and sev- erally say that they were personally present and saw and heard the therein named Robert McCurdy sign his name unto and seal and publish the forgoing Instrument of Writing as and for his last will and Testament and at the time of doing thereof he the said Robert McCurdy was of a sound and disposing mind memory and understanding to the best of their knowledge and belief, and that they subscribe thereto as Witnesses in the presence of the said Testator and at his request and also in the presence of each other at the same time. David Horner Robert Major Sworn affirmed and Subscribed to before me at Gettysburg the 25*^ day of May a.d. I 8 10. James Duncan Jr. Adams Co. 171 the State of Pennsylvania. I James Duncan Esq. Register for the probate of wills and granting letters of administration in and for the said County of Adams, Do Certify the fore- going to be a true copy taken from and compared with the original remaining in the Register's office at Gettysburg in Testimony where of I have set my hand and affixed the seal of the said office at Gettysburg the 28''* day of May A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirteen. James Duncan Register [seal] 156 umille Pennsylvania, Xant) "CClarrant to IRobert iRiitG By the Proprietaries. [seal] Whereas, *' Robert King" of the County ot' Lancaster hath requested that we would grant him to take up one hundred and thirty Acres of Land adjoining James Siddell and James Bradley in Little Britain Township in the said County of Lancaster for which he agrees to pay to our Use at the rate of Fifteen Pounds Ten Shillings, current Money of this Province, for one Hun- dred Acres and the Yearly Quit- Rent of One Half-penny Sterling for every Acre thereof. These are, therefore, to authorize and require you to survey or cause to be survey' d unto the said Robert King at the Place aforesaid, according to the Method of Townships appointed, the said Quantity of 130 Acres, if not already survey'd or appropriated, and make return thereof into the Secretary's Office, in Order for further Confirmation, for which this shall be your sufficient Warrant ; which survey in Case the said Robert King fulfil the above Agree- ment, within six Months from the Date hereof, shall be valid, otherwise void. Given under my Hand and Seal of the Land-Office, by Virtue of certain Powers from the said Proprietaries, at Philadelphia, this First day of De- cember Jnno Domini lyjo. James Hamilton. To Nicholas Scull, Surveyor General. In Testimony, That the above is a copy of the original remaining on file in the Department of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said Department to be affixed at Harrisburg, this eighth day of April, a.d. 1901. Isaac B. Brown, Deputy Secretary of Internal Affairs. [revenue stamp] [seal] 157 mniQ Unventor^ ant> Bppraisement of tbe Bstate ot IRobert IRing A just and perfect Inventory of all and Singular the goods and chattels. Rights & Credits, belonging to Robert King of Little Britain Township. & a young steer Saddle To Land and Improvements To one Black Cow To one Red Cow To one Black Cow To one Spotted Cow To one Brown Cow To one Spotted Heifer To two young Heifers To one Beef Cow To William's Horse & To one Bay Mare To one White Horse To one Chestnut Mare To one Sorel Horse To one Black Horse To fifteen Sheep To five Hogs To Wheat in the Sheaf To Rye in the Sheaf To oats in the Sheaf To Hay . To flax Seed To Flax . To corn in the Ear To Indian foder . To Iron Utensils for Husbandry To Carpenter's Tools . To one plow & plow Irons . To another plow & plow Irons To one Harrow . To Iron Hangings for Plow To a Grindstone To a Plush Side Sadie . £ s. ^. JOO 2 5 2 5 2 10 3 3 2 10 3 I) 3 15 13 5 i6 10 8 6 10 5 3 I 2 23 2 2 5 10 10 4 19 1 5 10 10 14 6 I 7 14 13 6 15 158 Mills £ d. To a Blue Cloth Side Sadie 2 To an old Sadie . To a cupboard . 6 To Two Bridles . To a Fox Trap . To a Chest of Drawers I 15 To two Frying pans 6 To a Grid Iron . 6 To a Big Wheel . To a chest 12 To a black Reel . To a Keag 6 To a pot .... To a Pot & pot Hooks . To a pot & pot Hook . To a Gridle and Skillet To Pot Backs . To Fire Shovel & Tongs 6 To Pewter I To Wooden Vessels for Kitchen use 6 To a Table To a Gun .... 10 A case of Drawers 2 10 A Desk .... 3 Another Desk 3 A case of Drawers 3 10 To^Weckles". 3 A Wheel .... 2 6 A Chair .... 5 A Dough Trough 2 Bed & Bed Cloathes . 3 7 6 To Bed & Bed Cloathes I 10 A Bed & Bed Cloathes I A Bed & Bed Cloathes 6 12 A Feather Bed & furniture 10 Four bed Steads .... I Sider barrels .... 12 To pair of Stilyards 10 Bells 4 159 Mtll6 £ d. Half bushels & Churns Bee Hives . 14 Bridles .... 6 A Blue Coat, jacket & Drawers A Brown Coat & two jackets A Great Coat . A Blanket .... 6 A pair of old gold sleeve buttons 15 Tobacco Box and Knife To B^gs .... 15 A Servant Lad's Time . 17 10 ATub . I 6 A Bond of 50 L.s due May 1st, 1764 5° A Bond of 50 L.s due May ist, 1765 50 A Bond of 50 L.s due May ist, 1766 50 " " " " " " " " 1767 50 To Bond of 35 L.s due May i, 1768 35 To a note due September i, 1764 . 3 To part of a note I 9 3 To Debts Due by Book 20 I To Cash .... 10 19 3 Appraised by us the 31st day of October, 1763. William Ritchey, Junior. Alex'dr. Duncan. "mwi of 3amc0 nDc(^ur^1? Hn tbe THame of (50& Bmen. I James McCurdy, of Salisbury township County of Lancaster, and Province, of Pennsylvania, Yeoman : Being sick weak in body ; but of perfect mind and memory. Thanks be to God, calling to mind the mortality of the body, and knowing it is appointed for all men once to Die, Do make and ordain this my last will and Testa- ment. That is to say first of all : I give and recommend my soul into the hands, of the Almighty God, who gave it, and my body, I recommend to the Earth, to be burried in a decent Christian Buryal, at the discretion of my Executor. And as touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased 160 TOtlls God to Bless me with ; I give devise and dispose of the same in the follow- ing maner, and form ; First, — I order my just debts ; and funeral expenses be paid Secondly, — I give and bequeath to Archibald McCurdy, my well be- loved son, all my estate, real and personal, lying and being in the township aforsaid ; He paying the several legacies, hereafter Bequeathed to the rest of my children. All of which estate I now dwell on with all appurtances, I give bequeath to my said son Archibald his Heirs and Assigns forever ; Thirdly, — I give and bequeath to my well beloved son, Robert McCurdy, the sum of twenty, shillings, to be paid by my son Archibald McCurdy. Forthly, — I give and bequeath to my well beloved son Hugh McCurdy, the sum of one Hundred and Fifty pounds, to be paid him by my son Archi- bald out of my estate, in manner form following. That is to say Fifty pounds in two years after my decease, until the whole be paid. Fifthly, — I give and bequeath to well beloved son James McCurdy, the sum of three Hundred pounds, to be paid him out of my estate, by my son Archibald immediately after my Decease, with lawful intrest for the same, since my son James setteld on the tract of land he now lives on in Cumberland County. Lastly ; I constitute make ordain my well beloved son Archibald Mc- Curdy, the sole executor of this my last Will and Testament, and all singular my lands messuages and Tenements by him freely possessed to be enjoyed liable to the encumberances before said. And I do utterly disallow revoke, and disannul all and every other Testament, will's bequests and executions, by me in any way before named willd bequeathed ; Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and Testament ; In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 5 th day of March one thousand seven Hundred and seventy (1770). Signed sealed published and declared by the said James McCurdy as his last will and Testament, In the presence of James McCurdy. [seal] Robert Armor. Robert McNeil. James Clemson. [Will probated zd May 1770.] 161 mme mm of iRobcrt mm Hn tbe Ulame of (30D, Bmen. I, Robert King of the Town- ship of Little Britain, in the County of Lancaster and Province of Pennsyl- vania, Yeoman, being mindful of my mortality, do make this my last Will and Testament in manner following, that is to say, I order my body to be buried in a christian and decent manner, at the Discretion of my Executrix and Executor herein after named, and as for such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me in this Life, I give and dispose of the same in the following manner and form, viz. : Imprimis I order, that all my just debts and funeral charges be first fully paid ; Item I order and it is my will that my Wife Ann, if she continues a widow and my son William shall possess and hold in Common my Plantation and Tract of Land whereon I now dwell, situate in Little Britain Township for the term of three years from my decease and for the Term of six years if they both shall agree so to do, after and to commence from my decease my other children Dwelling and being cloathed and maintained out of the same as if in my Life time except Susannah and John. Item I give unto my dearly beloved Wife Ann the sum of Ten pounds Lawful money of the said Province and my best bed and furniture for the same to hold the same During her widowhood and no Longer, and if she should happen to marry then the said Bed and furniture and all other gifts herein after and before mentioned shall Revert and be Returned to my other executor my Son William to be divided amongst my other children and my said Son William in like manner as is here- inafter directed. Item I give unto my daughter Susannah the wife of John Conningham, the Sum of Seven Shillings and six pence. Lawful money of Pennsylvania in full for their share of my Estate. Item I give unto my Grand Children Robert and Elizabeth, the children of John Conningham and Susan- nah his wife, the Sum of One Pound ten Shillings each of them to be paid them when they arrive at the Age or Day of Marriage which shall first hap- pen, by my Executrix and Executor hereinafter named. Item, I give unto my son William King, the sum of Twenty Pounds his Horse, Bridle and Sad- dle. I give unto my son John King the sum of Five pounds as his/]/// share of my Estate. Item, I order that my Executrix and Executor make sale by- way of Publick Vendue of all my Goods and Chattels as soon as they may see convenient after my decease, and my Land at the end of the said three or Six years afores'd, and after paying the Legacys aforesaid I order that the money arising from the said Sales as well as all other my Estate that the same be equally Divided shere and shere alike amongst and between my said Wife if 162 Here C) es I lie Bcxly [■ Robert King,who xliecl June 22cl. iy6'3. Aaed.38 Ycxrs. TclMBSTONE OF RdlSK-RT KlNf; In Mcirrisuirs (jr.i\ eyard, Ci-ntreville, Lancaster County, a quartt-r ot an acre in area, witli beautiful locust-trees surrounding it This stone was found broken at the Ijase and lying flat. We raised it for the purpose of piioiographins, and stood it at the head of mine she continue a Widow and my Son Williamy my daughter Mary, My son Robert, My Daughter A7171, My Son James, My Daughter Elizabeth and Rachel, and my Son George to be paid them by my Executrix and Executor as they Respectively attain to age, or Day of Marriage which shall first hap- pen. But provided nevertheless that if my said Wife Ann shall continue my Widow and any or either of my" sd. children should Dye before they attain to Age or should happen to marry before at Age without the Free Consent and approbation of my said Wife then and in such case I order that the Portion and share of such Child or Children So Dyeing or Marryeing as aforesaid shall be divided equally amongst the Remainer or my Surviving Children who has or shall have obtained their said Mother's Consent and Approbation of their Marriage afores'd. And I empower my Executrix or Executor to Convey my land aforesaid to the Purchaser thereof, their Heirs and assigns forever subject to the Payment of the Purchase Money and Quit rents due to the Lord of the Fee. And I do hereby nominate and appoint my loving Wife Ann and my Son William King to be sole Executrix and Executor of this my last Will and Testament, Ratifying this and no other to be my last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the Tenth Day of May, 1763. Robert King, [seal] Signed, Sealed, Published, pronounced and declared by ye sd. Robert King ye testator, as his Last Will and Testament in the Presence of Mary Saunders, Sam. Steel, Isaac Saunders. Lancaster County, ss. On the Third Day of November Anno Domini 176J, Before me the Sub- scriber, personally appeared Samuel Steel, Isaac Saunders Esquire, two of the Subscribing Witnesses to the within Will, and on their Solemn Affirmation, according to Law, did declare and say that they were present and saw and heard Robert King the Testator within named. Sign, Seal, Publish, pronounce and declare the within Writing as and for the Last Will and Testament and that at the doing thereof he was of Sound and Well disposing mind, memory and understanding to the best of their Knowledge and Belief. Edw. Shippen, D. R. Be it remembered that on the third Day of November Anno Domini 176J The Last Will and Testament o^ Robert King Late of Little Britain Tozanship in the County of Lancaster, yeoman, deceased, was proved in the form of Law and Letters Testamentary thereon were granted to Ann King and William 163 Mills Ki?ig the Executors therein named they being first duly Qualified well and truly to Administer the Estate of the said decedent, and to Exhibit a true and Perfect Inventory thereof with the Register's Office at Lancaster on or before the third Day of December next and to tender a true and just account of their Administration on the said Estate when thereto Lawfully required. Given under the Seal of the said Office By me Edward Shippen, D. R. Abstract of a deed, showing disposition of land of Robert King, Sr. : This tract of land of which Robert King was first possessed, was a Pro- prietory Warrant surveyed to Robert King, Dec. ist, 1750. William King of Township of Little Britain, County of Lancaster, son ot Robert King of same, as executor on 2nd day of April, 1802, and Isabella his wife, sells to John Pyle, yeoman, for Four hundred pounds in gold and silver coin, all that Messuage or Tennement and tract of Land, situate lying and being in the Township of Little Britain, County and State aforesaid, contain- ing 157 acres and three quarters and allowance, be the same more or less, which said described Tract of Land was surveyed to Robert King in pursuance of a Proprietory Warrant dated Dec. the first, one thousand seven hundred and fifty, and said Robert did by his last Will and Testament dated tenth day of May, 1763, and entered in the Register's office November the third, 1763, did order that his said land should be sold by his Executors at Publick Vendue, at which publick sale the aforesaid William King did Purchase for a valuable consideration as in and by said Warrant last will and Vendue List appears. [This deed was executed in presence of Robert King and James McSparran, by William King and Isabella his wife.] ¥ 164 TOtlls Mill of Mtlliain Creiabton %n tbe IFlame Ot (50^ Bmen, November the loth one thousand Seven hundred and ninety I William Creighton of Leacock Township, Lan- caster County and State of Pennsylvania Yeoman being in a sick and weak condition but of perfect mind and memory calling to mind that it is appointed for all men once to die, do hereby make and ordain this my last will and testa- ment in manner and form following that is to say I do in the first place recom- mend my Soul to God who gave it to me and my body to the dust to be buried in a decent manner at the discretion of my Executors nothing doubting of a resurrection from the dead at the last day by the Almighty power of God and with respect to the good things of this World wherewith it has pleased God to endow me, I do hereby dispose of them in the following manner Viz First it is my will that my fianeral charges, and all my other debts be duly dis- charged. Secondly I give and bequeath to my well beloved wife Barbara the full sum of one hundred and fifty Pounds, her Bed and Bed Clothes together with as much of the house and kitchen furniture as she may stand in need of Item, I give and bequeath to my well beloved daughter Mary her thirds of the House and lot in New Holland which I has the right of and Six pounds a year, yearly and every year to be paid to her by my Grand Son Isaac during her Natural life for which he is to give Bond and security to her, but in case that Henry Skiles should by Law or any other means obtain any part thereof it is my will that it be paid to her children. Item I give and bequeath to my well beloved Grand Son Isaac Litner three hundred and Fifty pounds to be paid to him when he arrives to the flill age of Twenty one years together with my Watch, Stock buckle and Knee Buckles, Item I give and bequeath to my well beloved daughter Martha the fiall sum of Two hundred pounds to be paid to her at the Expiration of Two years after my decease. Item I give and bequeath to my well beloved daughter Margaret the full sum of fifty pounds to be paid to her at the expiration of two years after my decease. Item, I give and bequeath to my grand children William, Samuel and Margaret Erwin the full sum of fifty pounds each to be paid to them when the arrive to the full age of Twenty one Years, Item I give and bequeath to my Grand daughter Mary An Skiles one Cow, Item It is my will that the grain now in the Barn together with the Crop now in the ground be equally divided between my beloved Wife and my Grand Son Isaac Litner before mentioned. Item It is my will that my Plan- tation on which I now live together with my Personal Estate be sold by my Executor as soon as convenient after my decease in order to pay the above 165 mwiB bequests, and if any overplush should arise from the sales thereof it is my will that it be equally divided between my well beloved Wife and my daughters Ann Martha and Margaret and my Grand Son Isaac Litner. Item, I will and bequeath to my well beloved daughter Ann the flill sum of two hundred pounds to be paid in one year after my decease, to be paid out of the money that may arise from the sales aforesaid, and I do nominate and appoint Robert McCurdy and William Brisben Executors of this my last Will and testament, disavowing, disannulling and rendring Void hereby Will or Wills testament or testaments by me heretofore made, William Creighton [seal] Signed sealed pronounced, published and declared the day and year above written in presence of George McIlvaine James Hamilton Jun" State of Pennsylvania, County of Lancaster, I certify the foregoing to be a true and correct copy [seal] of the original Will of William Creighton, deceased, duly proven on November 20, 1790, and remaining filed on record in the Register's Office of Lancaster County. Witness my hand and seal of office, June 25, 1902. J. F. Stam, Register. Hbbenba Hbbenba [The writer has enough data from France, England, Ireland, and Scotland of the Larimiers, Lorimiers, Lorimers, O'Heoghys, and Hugheys, to fill a volume. The History of the Ancient O'Heoghy dates back years before Christ, in Ireland. The writer only knows that her ancestor, Larimer, came from Alsace, France, and that the Hugheys came from the north of Ireland. The antiquity of both the names, Larimer and Hughey, is certainly, beyond doubt, very great. The following are short extracts from data translated, possibly for the first time in this country, from very old French works. A few notes have been left in the original. The Arms, " He de France," were the armorial bearings of d'Antoine Charles Lorimier, of Paris, and of Lord William de Lorimier, of Montreal, Canada.] Ube Xorimer 6uU0 Lorimer (French Lormier, from Latin lor urn, a thong), a maker of" bits, spurs, stirrup-irons, metal mountings for saddles and bridles, and generally of all articles of horse furniture. In London, the lorimers, who had previously formed part of another guild, were incorporated by letters patent in 1 7 1 2 ; in the Scottish burghs they have been comprehended as a branch of the corporation of hammermen. Cutlers, locksmiths, and brass-founders have been considered as in the exercise of branches of the lorimer art, and therefore bound to enter with the corporation. The court of session in 1830 held it to be a violation of the exclusive privileges of the lorimer craft to manufacture bits, stirrup-irons, and other me- tallic articles of horse furniture, with a view to silver-plating them before selling. (International Cyclopaedia.) Xorimers ot Scotland DuRAND Lorimer, of Caen, France, witness to a charter in favor of the Abbot and Convent of St. Etienne, a.d. 1080, must have gone to Scotland during the time of, or with, William the Conqueror, from Normandy, France. GoscELiNUS LoREMARius held lands in county Essex at the time of the Domesday Survey. 169 at)t)en^a William the Lion, i 165-12 14, granted lands near Perth to Hugh Lori- MER and his heirs for services performed. Matthew Lorimer sold these lands to William de Len, burgess of Perth, by whom they were gifted to the Abbey of Scone. John Lorimer, clerk, in 1245, released in favor Baldwin Lorimer, of the Abbot of Scone any claim he might c. 1228. have to these lands. John Lorimer, in 1375, sold a house and tenement of land in the Curfew Road, Perth. Alexander Lorimer, in 1494, possessed a tenement in Perth, near the Carmelite Monastery. Katherine Lorimer was a nun at Elcho in 1539. (Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, vol. ii., N. S., p. 421. London.) x:;be Muouenot Xorinters Registers of the French Conformed Churches of St. Patrick and St. Mary, Dublin, Ireland. Huguenot Society of London Publications. Compiled by E. Maynicke Stillman. Registre des Baptemes en I'Eglise Fran^oise, Threadneedle Street, London. Huguenot Society of London Publications. Judie Bultine, fille de Jaque B., et d'Ane, sa femme. Tern, (sponsors) Gilame Gillion, Marie, femme de Jan La Rinnemer, April 17 (1600- 1639). (Vol. IX.) Jaques Lormier, fils de Anthoine L. et Marie Royfay, sa femme. Tem. Jantien Maria, et Marie le Conte, femme de Jacob le Nin, Sept. 26 (1637-1685). (Vol. XIII.) Registers of Walloons' Church, Norwich, England (i 565-1882). Hu- guenot Society of London Publications, vol. i. Anne Lornier (should be Lormier) fille de Jaques Lormier. Tem. Jaques Pion et Marie Mounie, 25 Mars, 1694. Catherine Lormier, fille de Jaques Lormiers. Tem. Jean de Clevier, la vefoe de la Haiete (?), i Mars, 1695-96. Jaques Lormier, fils de Jaques Lormier. Tem. Jaques Lormier son pere (du dit Jaques le pere), la fe'me de Gastin Martino, i Oct., 1699. Ester Lormier, fille de Jaques Lormier. Tem. Lucas Decau, Ester le Mounier, 25 Avril, 1708. FRAN901SE Lormier, fille de Jaques Lormier. L'cnfant a este nommee 170 H^^e^^a Fran^oise par Monsr. Baldy, ministre. Tern. Tho. Delahayze, Fran^oise Ic Mounier, 4 Juin, 17 10. The following is from Agnew's ** French Protestant Exiles :" " On the i8th of June, 1695, in St. Patrick's, Dublin, Monsieur Honorat de Bernarddou, capitaine, to D'lle Marguerite de Najac de Genestre. (Wit- nesses : Ch. de Vignoles, J. Sperandieu de Vignoles, M. David de Poey, M. DE LA RaMIERE.)" (Vol. II., I886.) " Another false allegation was, that after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, persecution had ceased. M. Reneu refers to the refugees by name, who can tell Papists and others a very different and true tale : " Let them inquire of Mrs. Charlotte and Mary, daughters of the SiEUR DE LA Ramiere, who died in the service of England, they will tell them that his castle was pulled down and his woods destroyed, because he held there a religious assembly." (Vol. II., 1886.) Most of the Huguenot refugees who settled in Great Britain and Ireland came there during the reign of Louis XIV., but some of them came before that time. The older refugees were not only from France proper, but also from the regions then designated the "Low Countries," but now known as Holland and Belgium. Part of Belgium was then known as " French Flan- ders," because under French rule, and the inhabitants thereof were, on account of the old French dialect which they spoke, called Walloons. Letters of Denization and Acts of Naturalization for Aliens in England were granted from 1509 to 1603, according to Huguenot Society of London Publications. O'Hart, in his "Irish Pedigrees," 1887, among his lists of Huguenot families who settled in Great Britain and Ireland, is one that gives the names of those who were naturalized from 1 681 to 171 2. It should be observed that the naturalization of a Huguenot refugee is not necessarily the same, or even almost the same, as the date of his arrival on British soil. These lists, by the way, O'Hart has taken from Agnew's " French Prot- estant Exiles." In this list of 1 681-17 12, the Lormier, Larimiere, la Rimiere families are shown to have been naturalized by Letters Patent in Great Britain and Ireland. This was in the reign of King Charles II., and ending in the reign of Queen Anne. But in the reign of William and Mary, the largest number of foreign refugees were naturalized in these countries from 1689 to July 3, 1 70 1. In Queen Anne's time we do not find any long list of "naturalized foreign Protestants," because during the prosecution by Eng- land of the war with France they were recognized as British subjects. At length, however, on March 23, 1709, an Act was passed for their naturaliza- tion, but on February 9, 171 2, that Act was repealed. 171 a^^en^a In England the refugee might obtain his naturalization certificate on taking the oaths prescribed for that purpose, in the Court of Queen's Bench, or in the Court of Common Pleas, or in the Court of Exchequer ; but in Ireland, on taking the prescribed oaths before the Lord Chancellor, the refugee imme- diately obtained his certificate of naturalization. There was a reluctance on the part of England, prior to this time, to pass a general Act of Parliament for the naturalization of Protestant strangers. Charles II. undertook to suggest the step to Parliament in i68l, but legislators were deaf to the hint for a quarter of a century. And so naturalization had to be doled out to individuals by Letters Patent from the king, and by private Acts of Parhament. H)e Xorimier ot CanaOa I. William de Lorimier, Esquire (first settler), Capitaine, Lord des Bardes (in the Canadian records it is also spelled Bordes ; if the former spell- ing be correct, it means that he was Lord oi the Armour of Horses), was Commandant of Fort Rolland in 1705. He was the son of William de Lorimier and Jane (Guilboult) de Lorimier, of St. Leu and St. Gilles, in the Diocese of Paris. He was buried the 29th of July, 1709, in Montreal. 172 a^^en^a He married, on lanuary 27, 1695, at Champlain, Marguerite Chorel, who was baptized in 1666, and buried at Montreal the 28th of March, 1736 ; she was the daughter of Francis Chorel. LoRiMiER, Captain of the Troops, Commandant of the post of Lac- des-Deux-Montagnes. He married Louise La Ferte, and had : John-Claude Lorimier, baptized the 28th of December, 1751, at Lac- des-Deux-Montagnes. Laurent Lorimier, baptized in 1644, was drowned the 29th of Septem- ber, and buried the 1 6th of December, at Lachine. (Compiled from the records of L'Abbe Cyprien Tanquay, in «' Les Families Canadiennes.") Xarremar ot france Paul-Jaques de Chambre, Esquire, Counsellor to the King, Lieutenant- General of the Criminal Court at its sessions at Tartas, was born the 2 1st of September, 17 11. (Extract from Baptistry delivered in form.) He served from the first in the Guards of the King, and married, according to original articles signed privately, the 27th of June, 1735, to D'lle Claire Larremar, daughter of Monsieur Barthelemi Larremar, Barrister in Parliament, and of D'lle Marie-Amande de Bedora, and the issue of this marriage were seven children : 1. Jean- Alexandre de Chambre, Esquire, born the 8th of December, 1739, Lieutenant in the Regiment of Balfunce. 2. Louis-Marie de Chambre, Esquire, born the 15th of August, 1742. 3. Jean de Chambre, Esquire, born the 7th of April, 1744. 4. Bertrand de Chambre, Esquire, born the 12th of September, 1745. 5. Pierre- Fran9oise de Chambre, Esquire, born the 27th of May, 1750. 6. Cecille de Chambre, born the 19th of August, 1738. 7. Therese- Elizabeth de Chambre, born the 5th of February, 1741. Examined and verified by Us, Knight, Counsellor to the King in his Councils, Judge of the Arms of France. (Signed) D'Hozier. (General Armory of France, vol. v. p. 264.) Antoine Charles Lorimier, of He de France (Paris and Environs), Master of the Chamber of Exchequer, Intendant and Comptroller General of the Stables and Liveries to His Majesty Louis XIV. (the mother's name was Marie-Louise Boucher), and his eldest daughter Elizabeth, Countess de Braque, and Marquise de Ruffey, lived at the time of the most stirring events in the 173 Ht)t)cnt)a history of France, the former a courtier at the gay and luxurious court of Louis XIV., the Grand Monarch, during the later years of his reign, and in the atmos- phere of which his family was reared. Then, after the death of Louis XIV., the government was conducted by his kinsman, Philip of Orleans, as regent, during the minority of the king's great-grandson, Louis XV. Philip of Orleans was an unprincipled man ; he resorted to the most iniquitous measures to discharge the immense national debt. The coinage was debased ; many claims were cancelled ; creditors thrown into prison and compelled to pay heavily for their release. The state appeared to be on the brink of ruin, when John Law, a Scotch financier and adventurer, proposed to relieve the public distress by issuing, a paper currency, having as the basis of the credit certain monopolies of trade and the yield of imaginary mines in Louisiana, then a vast territory owned by France in the New World on the Mississippi River. Law's scheme, known as the Mississippi Bubble, was eagerly adopted by the Regent, and the deluded people, with feverish excitement, speculated in Mississippi shares. Crowds were attracted to Paris, and clerks could scarcely be found in sufficient numbers to transact the company's business. But a few months sufficed to prick the bubble. A crash came, thousands were ruined, and the country received a shock from which it did not recover for years. The Ancient History and Genealogy of the O'Heoghy Family, MoNARCHS OF Ireland, AND KiNGS AND Princes OF Ulidia. Lineal Descendants of Milesius, King of Spain, through the Line of Heremon, his Son, First Milesian Monarch of Ireland. Including a Brief Mention of the English Invasion of Ireland, in 117 7, by De Courcy, and some of the Names of his Anglo-Norman Followers who usurped the Posses- sions of the O'Heoghy Family, in Lecale, county Down, and in other Parts of Ulster. Compiled by E. Maynicke Stillman. THE STEM OF THE LINE OF HEREMON, FROM MILESIUS OF SPAIN. I. Milesius. i , I \ I 2. Heber Fionn. 2. Ir. 2. Heremon. Heber Fionn and Heremon were the first Milesian monarchs of Ireland. They reigned conjointly one year, when Heber was slain by Heremon, before Christ, 1698. Heremon was the seventh son of Milesius, King of Spain, but the third of the three sons who left any issue. From him were descended the kings, nobility, and gentry of the kingdoms of Connaught, of Dalriada, Leinster, 174 a^^ent)a Meath, Orgiall, Ossory ; of Scotland, since the fifth century ; of Ulster, since the fourth century ; and of England, from the reign of King Henry II. down to the present time. ♦'The House of Heremon," writes O'Callaghan, "from the number of its Princes, or great families, from the multitude of distinguished characters, as laymen or churchmen, and from the extensive territories acquired by those belonging to it, at home and abroad, or in Alba as well as in Ireland, was re- garded as by far the most illustrious ; so much so, according to the best native authority, that it would be as reasonable to affirm that one pound is equal in value to one hundred pounds as it would be to compare any other line with Heremon." THE ANCIENT PEDIGREE OF THE HEOGHY FAMILY. (short extract) 1. MiLESius, King of Spain. 2. Heremon, his son ; he and his brother Hebcr were jointly the first Milesian monarchs of Ireland ; they began to reign a.m. 3500, or before Christ, 1699. After Heber was slain by Heremon, b.c. 1698, Heremon reigned singly for fourteen years, during which time a certain colony, called by the Irish Cruithneaigh, in English «' Cruthneans," or Picts, arrived in Ireland, and requested Heremon to assign them a part of the country to settle in, which he refused ; but, giving them as wives the widows of the Tuatha-de-Danans slain in battle, he sent them with a strong party of his own forces to conquer the country then called "Alba," but now Scotland, con- ditionally that they and their posterity should be tributary to the monarchs of Ireland. Heremon died B.C. 1683, and was succeeded by three of his four sons, named Muimne, Luigne, and Laighean, who reigned jointly for three years, and were slain by their Hebe- rian successors. Muimne was buried at Cruachan (meaning, in Irish, a little hill), or Croaghan, situated near Elphin, in the county of Roscommon. In the early ages Croaghan became the capital of Connaught, and a residence of the ancient kings of Ireland ; and at Croaghan the states of Connaught held conventions to make laws and inaugurate their kings. There, too, about a century before the Christian era, the monarch Eochy Feidlioch (of this stem) erected a royal resi- dence and a great rath, called *♦ Rath- Cruachan," after his queen, Cruachan Croidheirg {^Croidheirg meaning, in Irish, a rising heart), mother of Maud, the celebrated Queen of Connaught, who, wear- 175 H^^en^a ing on her head '< Aison," or golden crown, seated in her gilded war-chariot, surrounded by several other war-chariots, commanded in person, like the ancient queens of the Amazons, her Connaught forces, in the memorable seven years' war against the Red Branch Knights of Ulster, who were commanded by King Connor MacNessa, as mentioned in the ancient records by Connellen. From Heremon, the youngest of the three brothers, were descended one hundred and fourteen sole monarchs of Ireland ; ... all the kings of Scot- land from Fergus Mor MacEarcarron to the Stuarts, and the kings and queens of England from Henry II. down to the present time. . . . The Milesian invasioji took place Anno Mundi 3005. (King Solomon was building the temple in Jerusalem at this time.) In manuscript Vol. F, 3, 16, in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, we read that MacDonleve O'Heoghy was King of Ulidia (now Ulster) in 1 172 a.d. ... In February, 1177 A.D., Sir John de Courcy, Sir Armorie St. Lawrence, Sir Roger le Poer, twenty-two knights and three hundred foot soldiers, and many of the Irish (according to Lord Lyttleton) marched from Dublin to Ulster, which they captured. Thus the MacDonleve O'Heoghy princes lost their possessions by this English invasion. 4. Unber of "Blames Hiiber ot mames Superior figures after names indicate the generations. Names in italics denote the change by marrriage A Ambercrombie, Mrs., 141 Applegate, Mr., 115 Armor, Robert, 161 Armstrong, Brigadier-General, 101 Atcheson, Rev. A., 116 B Backus, Rev. W. W., 115 Bailey, William, 51 Baldy, Monsr., 171 Bard, Richard, 83 Bardes, Lord des, 173 Barnes, Colonel, 111 Barton, Rev. Thomas, 59, 64 Beaver, John F., 133 Bedora, Marie- Amande de, 173 Beman, Jacob, 48 Bernarddou, Honorat de, 171 Bigham, Robert, 105 Bigler, William, 108 Birney, James G., 21 Black, Adam, 154 Blunt, General, 23, 109 Boucher, Marie-Louise, 173 Boyd, Robert, 35, 130 Bradley, James, 157 Braque, Elizabeth, Countess de, 173 Marquis de, 16 Breckenridge, H. M., 48 Brisben, William, 1G6 Brison, John, 68 Brown, Isaac B., 157 Mary (Jones), 39, 41 Brust, James, 51 179 Hn^ex of Ulames Buchanan, James, 85 Bultine, d'Ane, 170 Jaque, 170 Judie, 170 Burkhalter, Rev. E. R., 116 Burr, Aaron, 48 Butler, Benjamin F., 25 C Calaghan, Timothy, 137 Campbell, Alexander, 32 Isabella {King), 82, 164 Carlisle, James, 72, 117, 145 Rachel, 144 Rachel McMasters, 118 S., 139, 141, 143, 144 Carney, Thomas, 22, 108 Carothers, Robert, 141 Carpenter, Mrs. J. McF., 8 Carson, Thomas, 83 Cavet, Peggy (Huffhey), 78 Chalfant, Ananias, 78 Thomas, 78 Chambre, Bertrand de, 173 Cecille de, 173 Jean de, 173 Jean- Alexandre de, 173 Louis-Marie de, 173 Paul-Jaques de, 173 Pierre-Fran9oise de, 173 Th^r^se-Elizabeth de, 173 Chorel, Francis, 173 Marguerite, 173 Christy, A. J., 51 Clay, Henry, 70 Clemson, 161 Clermont, Philibert de, 17 Cleveland, Grover, 50 Clevier, Jean de, 170 Clugston, Betsy (McMasters), 70, 71 Collins, Hallie (Larimer), 37, 38, 115 Coltart, Mary Jean (Morris), 118 Colyer, Daisy Dean (Larimer), 39 Connellen, 176 Connor MacNessa, 176 Conte, Marie le, 170 i8o In^cx of manics Cooke, (McCurdy), 55, 58 Cot6, Lucille, 28, 31 Dr. Marcellon, 28 Courcy, Sir Jolin de, 75, 176 Covode, Hon. John, 20 Cowgill, Henry, 149 Cozine, Cornelius, 124 Craig, Isaac, 68 Crawford, Ann (McCurdy), 57 Colonel James, 105 Creighton, Ann" (McCurdy), 56, 57, 59, 64, 166 Barbara, 63, 165, 166 Catherine^ {Hamilton), 64 Margaret' (Irwin), 64, 165, 166 Martha', 64, 165, 166 Mary' (Lightner; Skiles), 64, 165 William', 63, 165, 166 Cretin, Guillaume, 63 Crichton, James, 63 Robert, 63 Sir William, 63 Croon, William, M.D., 18 Cruachan Croidheirg, 175 Cunningham, Elizabeth, 82, 162 John, 82, 150, 163 Colonel Robert, 76, 78, 82, 106, 162 Curry, William, 141 D Damas, Joseph Fran9ois, 16 Davison, Samuel, 141 Dean, Maria, 34 Decau, Lucas, 170 De Hass, John Philip, 102 Delahayze, Tho., 171 Demorest, Rev. Dr., 16 Denny, Ebenezer, 68 Denver, General, 23 Dilworth, Leila Addison (Jones), 39, 40, 117 Dobbin, Rev. Dr. A., 56, 57 Dorsett, Mr., 28 Duff, , 50 Annie, 144 James, 35, 129 John, 145 Rev. John W., 72, 117, 144 Sarah Carn (McMasters), 68, 71, 72 1ln^ex of Ulamee Duncan, Alexander, 160 David, 137 James, 130, 131, 156 PoUy, 137 Seth, 122 Dunlap, Mary E. (Larimer), 37, 39, 115 William H., 38 Dunwoody, Hugh, 125 Durham, Dr. A. R., 59 £ Earle, (Hughey), 78 Eddie, John, 154 Edie, Samuel, 122 Edwards, Fred. W., 147 Egle, Dr. William H., 101 Elliott, , 37 EUmaker, Watson, 8 Emile, De Paul, 16 Eochy Feidlioch, 175 Ernest, Mathew, 68 Eschenberg, Bertha (Larimer), 38 Ewing, Brigadier-General, 101 Fergus Mor MacEarcarron, 176 Flattery, Lucas, 116 Margaret {Larimer), 38, 40, 116 Flemming, Lydia {Larimer), 36 Samuel, 36 Freeman, John McFaden, 106 Robert McCurdy, 106 Fullerton, Humphrey, 36 Mary {Larimer), 36 Fulton, Mary, 118 Robert, 57, 118 Galey, Thomas, 8 Galbraith, Robert, 138 Gallagher, George, 39 Geary, John W., 58 Genestre, Marguerite de Najac de, 171 Gilliland, William, 36, 124 GiUion, Gilame, 170 Glen, David, 106 182 1ln^cx of IRanies Gough, John B., 32 Gray, Elizabeth Chalfant, 116 Jennie M. (Larimer), 38 Joseph, 111 Laura C. (Larimer), 37, 40, 116 William, 68, 116 Greeley, Horace, 22, 32 Greenwalt, Captain, 102 Grove, John, 136 Guthrie, James, 136 Hall, Jane (Larimer), 36 Halleck, Henry W., 25 Hamilton, Calvin, 8, 51, 110 Duncan, 139, 143 James, 81, 157 James, Jr., 166 John, 51, 64, 153 Joseph, 51, 110 William Sheakley, 110 Hanna, Charles, 67 Harrison, Benjamin, 50 William Henry, 19, 20 Haslitt, William, 139 Hayden, John, 48 Hayes, , 78 Robert, 156 Susanna (Sheakley), 51 Heber, Fionn, 174, 175 Heremon, 174, 175, 176 Herron, (McMasters), 71 Hill, Adam, 51 Hilliard, Charles M., 38 Laura^ 40 Mary', 40 Raymond^ 40 Thomas% 40 W. Henry Raymond, 38, 40, 117 Hindman, William, 132 Holmes, Rev. Dr., 117 Horbach, Abram, 19, 20 Horner, Da^id, 155, 156 Houston, Sam, 32 Hughes, Rev. Watson, 29, 36 Hughey, Ann' (Chalfant), 78, 146 183 tn^cx of Ulames Hughey, Elizabeth King' (Lic/htcap), 78, 146 EphraimS 76, 77, 106, 149, 151, 153 Jane' {Hayes), 78 Jean=, 77, 82, 150, 151 Jean' (dial f ant), 78, 146 Jolln^ 76, 77, 78, 105, 116, 146, 147, 149, 151, 153 John^ (s. Ephraim), 78 John^ (s. John), 78, 146 Josephs 75, 77, 78, 97, 147, 149, 150, 152 Joseph' (s. Ephraim), 78 Joseph' (s. John), 78, 146 Patrick', 77, 150 RacheP (McMasters), 33, 68, 70, 71, 72, 78, 115, 116, 118, 139, 142, 144, 146 Rachel' (Shaw), 78 Robert, 77 Robert', 78, 146 Samuel', 77, 150 William', 78, 146 WillisonS 78 Hunter, Rachel McMasters, 118 Hunting, Edward L., 38 Huston, Captain, 89 I Ir, 174 Irvine, James, 101 Irwin, Jane (Larimer), 38 Jean (Hughey), 75, 77, 78, 97, 151 Jean (McMasters), 68, 71, 137, 138 John, 21, 137 Margaret (Agnew), 64, 165 Captain Moses, 97, 152 Robert, 97 Samuel, 64, 165 William, 64, 77, 150, 165 Ithell, Benedict, 18 Izard, Mark N., 108 J Jenkins, Margaret (Sheakley), 50, 51 Moses, 130, 154 Jewett, M. M., 28 Johnston, Andrew, 126 John. 35, 130 Samuel, 135 184 1ln^ex of Ulamce Johnston, William, 35, 130 William F., 108 Jones, Benjamin F., 34, 72, lt5 Eliza Goshorne, 115 Fannie Larimer", 38 Jacob A., 115 Mary McMasters" (HiUiard), 38, 40, 117 Samuel, 139 Thomas Mifflin, 31, 34, 37, 38, 115, 117 Thomas Mifflin", 39, 41 Thomas Mifflin^ 41 William Larimer", 39, 40, 117 Kennedy, Jane {Uughey), 78 William, 78 King, Ann^ {Nelson), 82, 163 AnnS 82 David, 83 Elizabeth^ {Hughey), 76, 77, 78, 82, 116, 163 Elizabeth', 82 Eliza Jane (Bard), 83 Emeline, 83 George^, 82, 83, 163 George', 83 Hugh', 82 Hugh Davidson, 72, 117, 118, 142 James^ 82, 163 James', 83 John, 142 Rev. Dr. John=, 76, 82, 84-90, 106, 162 John' (s. George), 83 John' (s. Robert), 83 John' (s. William), 82 Margaret^ 83 Mary= {McLaughlin), 82, 163 Nancy' {Carson), 83 Nancy {McCurdy), 57, 59 RacheP {Snodgrass), 82, 163 Rachel', 82 Robert, 145 Roberts 81, 84, 93, 157, 158, 162, 163, 164 Roberts 82, 106, 163 Robert' (s. George), 83 Robert' (s. Robert), 83, 107 Robert' (s. William), 82 185 linger of lllamc9 King, Rose, 83 Sampson', 82 Sampson S.% 82 Susannah- (Cunningham), 82, 1( Thomas, 83 Thomas', 82 Victor, 35, 57 Washington, 83 William, 83 WilUam^ 82, 162, 163, 164 Willis Larimer, 118, 144 Kinghart, Henry, 18, 121, 122 Kissinger, John, 155 Kumler, Rev. Dr. J. P. E., 116, 117 Kunkle, Joseph, 146 La Ferte, Louise (Larimer), 173 Laighean, 175 Lane, Hon. James H., 26, 108, 109 Larimer, Annie E."* (Jones), 8, 31, 34, 37, 38, 115, 117 Annie E.« (Gallagher), 39 Ann Jane* (Hart; Kemp), 37, 132, 133 Arthur Edwin', 40 Cassius', 31, 32, 37, 40, 109, 110, 116 Cassius", 40 Catherine, 19, 35, 122, 129 Catherine* (Flemming), 36, 132 Charles^ 38 Cyrus", 38 Edwin Jones', 39 Edwin King', 8, 32, 37, 39, 115 Elizabeth' (Boyd), 19, 35, 130 Elizabeth (Sterrett), 36 F^ank^ 38 Genevieve', 39 George*, 36, 132, 133 George' (s. James Irwin), 38 George' (s. John), 37 George' (s. William), 32, 38, 40, 116 Hamilton*, 36, 38, 132 H. K., 145 Helen", 28, 40 James Irwin*, 37, 38, 72, 117, 132, 133, 144, 145 Jean- (Larimer), 18, 35, 122 John, 35, 121, 122, 123 1ln^cx of matnes Larimer, JohnS 18, 35, 122, 135 Johns 36, 37, 132, 133 John\ 38, 110, 142 John McMastersS 32, 37, 38, 109, 110, 115, 142 John McMasters", 38 John Taylors 38 Josephs 28, 40 Joseph Alexanders 39 Joseph McMastersS 28, 32, 38, 40, 116, 145 Julia" (Pierce), 37 Kings 38 Margaret^ (Mcllvaine), 18, 35 Margaret (Duf), 19, 35, 129 Margaret' (Taylor), 36, 132 Martha^ (Marchaiid), 37 Martha McNease' (FuUerton; Hughes), 29, 36, 133 Mary^' (Mcllvaine), 18, 35 MaryS 36, 129, 134 Mary^ (Mcllvaine), 19, 35, 122 Mary Dunlap" (Phipps), 39 Mary Elizabeth* (McFarlane), 37, 132, 133 Mary Fullerton" (McClelland), 38 Nancy' (Johnston), 19, 35, 130 Nancy" (Elliott), 37 Nancy" (Hunting), 38 RacheP (Dunlap), 38, 118, 144 Rachel Hughey" (Mello7i), 7, 8, 35, 37, 39, 40, 115, 118, 144 Rachel Hughey" (Miller), 31, 40, 116, 118 Rachel McMasters, 118 Rachel McMasters' (Hilliard), 38 Roberts 7, 18, 19, 35, 121, 122, 123, 134 Roberts 18, 35, 122 Roberts 28, 40 RushS 37 Sarah, 18, 19, 35, 121, 122 Sidney' (Johnston), 19, 35, 130 Thomas, 7 ThomasS 18, 19, 35, 105, 122, 123, 129, 130, 131, 135 ThomasS 19, 35, 123, 129 ThomasS 36, 37, 132, 133 Thomas McMastersS 8, 32, 37, 39, 109, 110, 116 Victors 36, 124, 134 WashingtonS 36 Williams 18, 35, 36, 122, 123, 134, 135, 136 Williams 19, 35, 36, 47, 48, 51, 72, 115, 117, 129, 130, 132, 133, 134, 153 187 Unbex of Ulames Larimer, WilliamS 20, 22, 23, 27, 36, 37, 107, 109, 110, 115, 132, 140, 142, 144, 145 William", 37 WiUiam', 40 William C", 40 William Dunlap', 39 William H. H.\ 8, 27, 29, 31, 32, 37, 39, 109, 110, 115 William Henry", 39 La Rinnemer, Jan, 170 Marie, 170 Larremar, Barthelemi, 173 Claire, 173 Law, John, 174 Lawrence, Charles, 28 Lee, Robert E., 47 Leech, Jerome, 52 Len, William de, 170 Lesley, Widow, 125 Lightcap, Solomon, 78 Lightner, George, 64 Isaac, 64, 165, 166 Madeline LaRue, 64 Nathaniel, 64 Lincoln, Abraham, 24, 25, 26 Linnber, Susanna (Sheakley), 51 Lippincott, Cyrus P., 117 Sarah Ann, 117 Loches, Comte de, 16 Logan, William, 133 Long, Lydia (Sheakley), 52 Loomis, L. C, 8 Loremarius, Goscelinus, 169 Lorimer, Alexander, 170 Baldwin, 170 Durand, 169 Hugh, 170 John, 18, 170 Katherine, 170 Mary (Croon), 18 Matthew, 170 Lorimier, Antoine Charles, 169, 173 * Elizabeth, 16, 17 Jane de, 172 John Claude, 173 Laurent, 173 Le Sieur de, 17 Lord William de, 169, 172 i88 Unbex of Ulaines Lorimore, Alexander, 17 Lormier, Anne, 170 Anthoine, 170 Catherine, 170 Ester, 170 Frangoise, 170 Jaques, 170 Lorrimer, Thomas, 130 Luigne, 175 Lyttleton, Lord, 176 M McBirney, Rev. E. S., 115 McClellan, George B., 25 McClelland, R. P., 38 McClurg, Alexander, 139 McCreedy, William, 124 McCuUough, Samuel, 141 McCurdy, Anna Crawford' {Upton), CO Archibald, 112 Archibald^ 59, 112, 161 Charles M.^ 8, 60 Daniel, 55, 112 David, 55, 112 Elizabeth Marshall' (Scott), 60 Graced 60 Hugh=, 59, 161 JamesS 55, 56, 58, 112, 160, 161 James% 59, 112, 161 James^ 59, 60, 155 John, 55, 58, 112 John KingS 57, 59 Margaret'^ (Sheakley), 47, 50, 51, 57, 59, 155 . Martha^ {Taggart), 59, 155 Mary^ {Thompson), 59, 155 Mary McLean^ 60 Nancy (Siuope), 59 Nancy' {Paxton), 59, 155 Nancy King^ (Smith), 59 Patrick, 55, 112 Robert^, 56, 57, 59, 64, 105, 124, 125, 126, 154, 156, 161, 166 Robert^ 59, 155 Robert% 57, 58, 59, 60 Sarah' (Durham), 59 Virginia Helen', 8, 60 William, 55, 112 William^ 57, 59, 154, 155 189 Unbcx of Ulames McDermut, Joseph, 78 McDowell, Elizabeth {King), 82 John, 83 Margaret {King), 82, 83 McFarland, Colonel, 110 McFarlane, Andrew L., 37 Mrs. Louis, 8 MacGregor, Rev. Dr. J. W., 116 McGurley, Elizabeth (McC'urdy), 59 Rev. Dr., 59 McHullon, James, 153 Mcllvain, Captain George, 63 Mcllvaine, Andrew, 18, 35, 121 George, 166 John, 105 Moses, 35, 122, 129, 130 McKnight, A. A., 110 McLaughlin, Ann, 82 Ann (King), 81, 93, 162, 163 George, 82 James, 83 John, 83 Mary, 83 McLean, Archibald, 126 McMasters, Caroline, 145 David, 145 Eleanor*, 68, 72 Eliza Ann= (King), 8, 72, 117, 118, 140, 142, 144, 145 James, 137 James*, 73 Jane' (Osborn), 72, 117, 140, 142, 145 Jennie*, 72 John, 67, 137 John=, 67, 68, 71 John^ 21, 67, 69, 71, 106, 136, 138 John*, 31, 34, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 78, 115, 116, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 146 John', 72, 117, 139, 140, 143, 146 Joseph*, 68, 70, 71, 136, 141, 143 Joseph', 73, 141, 142 Leonora, 145 Mary' (Jones), 8, 70, 75, 141, 145 Nancy' (Larimer), 37, 38, 72, 117, 141, 142, 145 Patricks 67, 71 Patricks 67, 71 Rachel, 145 190 tn^cx ot IRatncs Singer, Christiana (Larimer), 3(i, 37 Skiles, Alexander, 64 Henry, 165 Mary Ann, 64, 165 William, 106 Skyles, Jane (King), 83 Slaymaker, Henry, 63 Smith, Edwin F., 59 Colonel James, 85 Janet (King), 83 Jonathan, 149 Rev. Sampson, 82 Snodgrass, Alexander, 82 James, 149, 153 Snyder, Governor, 106 Stair, Anna Kate Bentz (Swope), 60 Stam, J. F., 166 Steel, Samuel, 163 Sterrett, B. F., 36 Stevens, Thaddeus, 46, 57 Stevenson, George, 68 Samuel C, 134 WUliam, 141 Stewart, Fannie (Larimer), 37, 40. 116 John, 143 L., 139 Stibbs, H. B., 116 Stillman, E. Maynicke, 170, 174 St. Lawrence, Sir Armorie, 176 Stones, John, 154 Stover, Simon P., 131 Strowbridge, Ann (Kennedy), 78 Stuart, Jennett, 112 Swope, John A., 59 Samuel McCurdy, 59, 60 T Tackier, Rev., 115 Taggart, Captain, 1 1 1 Samuel, 59, 155 Tanquay, I/Abbe Cyprien, 173 Taylor, Elizabeth, 36 Frances (Larimer), 38 Harriet (Larimer), 36, 38 Isaac, 36 Margaret (Larimer), 38 Mary Hill, 116 195 InDei ot Ulames Taylor, Mary Ilill {Mellon), 31, 39, 41, 116 Mathew, 116 Thompson, John, 138 Robert, 59, 155 Thornton, Anne, 18 Anne (Lomnore), 17, 18 John, 18 Robert, 18 Torbett, John, 106 Tracy, Brigadier-General, 101 TJ Upton, Geor<.'e A., GO V Vandergrift, J. J., 28 Varney, Edward, 116 Luella (Larimer), 37, 39, 116 Vignoles, Ch. de, 171 J. Sperandieu de, 171 Vincent, Thomas McCurdy, 112 W Wall, Michael, 143 WaUace, David, 137 Esther (Sheakley), 51 Mary (Sheakley), 51 Wanbaugh, John H., 136 Washington, General George, 47, 103 Wayne, General Anthony, 103, 103 Webb, Mary, 34 Wejtner, Lewis, 105 West, Benjamin, 118 Mary, 118 Wharton, Thomas, 103 Whitfield, George, 56 Whitsett, R. E., 28 Wilkins, John, 68 Wilson, Hugh, 124, 125, 126 Thomas, 124, 125, 126 Work, Robert, 124, 155 Young, Rev. J. A., 116 William, 139 196 o « o ' ^' V \'mP'^/ ^^^ Mk^. "^ l^l-TTp?^'' ^^ V ' * • ' ' A< ^^- -^^^ wix^ c ^ . Vs^-t^. ./ »iK: "^.^^ -^^ "^/^ 'M^ \.^ #-• 0^ 0-°. -^o s-'V- t-o^ A -"V"-;^'/ ^o ^4 o. S" -Jy* O -^ . . 5 •t ' im°. -^ V ^■ejtvr^.''',. \W- ,v^ * o « o ' <>,>• o A* ^iq. ^^. -J ^.rf^fxfvr*. "*, ^. fs