Clermont County Genealogical Society
Record of Clermont’s Illustrious Heroes who Fought the
British in 1776.
The Most Interesting Chapter of War History ever Published.
Many of the sturdy pioneers of southwestern Ohio rendered valiant
service in the struggle for American independence. Clermont
had a
fair proportion of these heroic fathers, whose valor and sufferings are
recounted at the fireside of many a patriotic home of the present
generation.
JAMES ARTHUR
lived in Batavia township, where, in 1805, his daughter, Mary, married
Hugh Ferguson, father of the venerable Hon. James Ferguson, of Clay
county, Indiana, formerly auditor of this county, and owner of the Sun
paper. Mr. Arthur as late as 1840 was living in Ohio township.
ZEBULON APPLEGATE
resided in 1840 in Ohio township, and was like Mr. Arthur on the
Revolutionary pension list.
DOMINCUS ABBOTT
lived south of Mt. Carmel, where he and his brother, Elisha, who served
under General Wayne in the Indian war and expedition, were large land
owners. None of their descendants are left in the county.
DR. RICHARD ALLISON
was born in Orange county, New York, about 1743, served seven years as
surveyor, and was the first established physician in
Cincinnati.
He was with General Wayne’s campaign against the Indians in
1794. In 1798 he removed from Cincinnati, where he had
located in
1791, to Clermont county, where he had several surveys of land, and
settled at the confluence of Stonelick creek with the East
Fork.
There he resided until about 1812, when he returned to the
city.
He laid out the town of Allisonin, but his death in 1816 prevented its
becoming a growing town or the county seat as he expected. He
was
acknowledged to be the greatest surveyor west of the
Alleghenies.
His wife, Rebecca, daughter of General D. E. A. Strong, of the regular
army, subsequently married Rev. Samuel West and became the mother of
the late Major Samuel R. West and Mrs. Rebecca J. E., wife of John
Kugler.
RAMOTH BUNTON
was one of the first settlers of Williamsburg, coming there a year or
two later than the Kains. His son, James, lived and died near
Concord, his daughter, Hettie, married Peter Sears and removed, and
Polly Bunton, who first came to that village with Polly Kain and shared
with her the honor of being the first white woman in Williamsburg,
married Daniel Kidd, father of the venerable Uncle Joe Kidd.
LARRY BYRNES
died at Point Pleasant near the beginning of the present
century.
One of his sons, William, married a daughter of General Presley
Neville, and another son, George, married a daughter of Andrew
Buchanan. Byrnes was an emigrant from the north of Ireland
and
was a “trooper” against the “red
coats.”
WILLIAM BEASLY
was an old man when he came, in 1801, to near Withamsville, and settled
in the Prickett neighborhood.
ALEXANDER BUCHANAN
emigrated to America in 1764, and settled in Washington county,
Pennsylvania. He was an own cousin to the ex-President
Buchanan,
who located in Lancaster, the same State. In 1792 he
emigrated to
Mason county, Kentucky, in 1796 to the mouth of Bullskin in Franklin
township, and in 1799 to Washington township, where he died in 1802,
his wife following him in 1812. His son, William, was the
first
permanent settler in Washington township, having come over from
Kentucky in the summer of 1795. Alexander's children were
William
Alexander, jr., Robert, James, John, married to Margaret, daughter of
Thomas Fee, and father of the present Representative, Andrew, the old
coroner, and Jane, married to William Dixon, Martha, to Thomas
Phillips, and a third girl to Mr. Wilson. He served in all
the
New Jersey battles.
NATHANIEL BARBER
was born in New Jersey in 1760, and in 1809, settled in this county on
the farm lately occupied by his son, Emly, four miles from
Goshen. He died August 4, 1826, and his wife, Ann (Watson,)
March
27, 1827. Their children were Nathaniel, Daniel, Watson,
Emely,
Mrs. Susannah Banghart, Mrs. Lucy Mount, Mrs. Jane Cox, Mrs. Rebecca
Paxton, Mrs. Sarah Gatch and Mary, unmarried.
ADAM BRICKEE
was born in 1862 at the old Redstone fort in Pennsylvania, and was the
son of German parents, who were massacred by the Indians when Adam was
about eight months old. He served sixteen months in the
Revolution and afterwards in the Indian wars, and became with Cornelius
Washburn a faithful scout and spy for the Government against the
savages. In 1796 he built a little cabin at Williamsburg and
followed hunting till 1805, when he married Rebecca Hartman.
He
died on his farm a few miles south of Williamsburg, August 31, 1843,
about the last of the old Indian fighters in all this region.
JAMES CHAMBERS
lived in Batavia township in the Atchley stettlement. He was
a
brother in law of the pioneer Peter Hardin, and one of his daughters
married Joseph Brown.
JOHN CONREY
was wounded in the leg, moved from Virginia to Kentucky in 1790, and
ten years later to the northwestern part of Franklin township, on the
farm now owned by John Trees. He removed to Illinois in 1830,
but
one of his sons, Uncle Steve Conrey, lived in Washington township,
where he had two children.
JAMES CARTER
was a pensioner in Wayne township in 1840, and had a little homestead
on Harvie and Fenn's big survey.
WILLIAM COWEN
was a pensioner in 1840 in Stonelick township, where he settled in 1805
on the farm now owned by John Moore. He was of Pennsylvania
German descent, and previous to coming to Clermont had lived at
Garrett’s Station. He served under Wayne, Mercer
and
Lafayette. He was the father of the late Elijah Cowen, and
was
the last survivor of the Revolutionary soldiers in the township.
SAMUEL COX
a native of Virginia, and settled on the Frank Glancy farm.
He
was in Harry Lee’s cavalry and wounded in two actions by
sabre
cuts. He left two children, Noah and Rebecca.
GEORGE CONRAD
was born in 1765, and was out six months in special militia service
when the American forces were beseiging Yorktown. He came to
near
Milford in 1797, and was one of the three first county
commissioners. His children were Isaac, Abraham, Jacob, and
daughters married to Samuel Shumard and George Ward, of Stonelick, and
John. Bill, of Indiana. Of these Jacob died in 1840, and was
the
father of Moses D, John, William and Mrs. John H. Gest.
DAVID COLCLAZER
was the first man to settle in Monroe township, where, in the fall of
1795, he located at mouth of Indian creek. He removed in
1812,
and while in the county he spent most of his time in hunting, and
supplied many of the early settlers with game as the woods were full of
wild animals and fowls thick on the streams.
JAMES COLLON
was but a boy in the Revolution, but was for nine months a drummer in
the western Pennsylvania regiment from near Pittsburg. In
1788 he
emigrated to Kentucky, and 1808 to Franklin township, and in 1810 to
Tate township, near Mt. Olive, where he died in 1857. In
Wayne's
Indian campaign of 1794 he was a scout and spy and an associate of
Simon Kenton. Of his children William and Robert went to
Indiana,
James and John died in Tate, where Samuel still lives, Rachel was
married to Robert Carr, Keziah to Christian Zimmerman, and JeMima to
Morgan Ford.
JOHN DENNIS
was a pensioner in Monroe township in 1840 and lived on his farm in
Overton’s survey on Boat Run. At an early day he
was a
stone mason in Williamsburg.
ROBERT DICKEY
was the first settler in Jackson township and was born in Franklin
county, Pennsylvania, in 1755. He died in 1840 and was never
married. He came to Clermont in 1798 with his brother in law,
William Hunter. He served all the Revolution and was with
Colonel
Bowman’s expedition against “Old
Chillicothe” in June
1770, where he was wounded in the shoulder. He was in General
Hamar’s expedition against the Indians in 1791.
William
Hunter, who married his sister, Mary Dickey, came to America from
Ireland in 1782. Colonel Dickey was a celebrated Indian
fighter.
HUGHEY DICKEY,
brother of the foregoing, came some seven years latter to Jackson
township. He was in eight battles and the father of six
children
– William, Benjamin, Samuel, Hughey, Elizabeth and Jane, all
of
whom have left the county.
SAMUEL DAVIS
came from the Blue Ridge country, Virginia and settled at the mouth of
Shaylor's run in Union township where he died in 1825. He was
in
the Southern campaign under General Green. He left eight
children, among them were Thomas, who had a distillery and mill, but
went to Indiana; Henry, father of Shadrach, John and William went to
Indiana, Joseph, who died at the mouth of Hall's run in 1855, and who
was in the war of 1812.
DANIEL DURHAM
born near Baltimore, Maryland, came West at the time of the first
settlement near the mouth of the Little Miami river. In 1800
he
built a log cabin, near Tobasco, on his 800 acre tract, to which he
added in a few years 400 hundred acres more. His first child,
Sarah, was married to Jonathan Frazier, near Perin’s Mills;
the
second, Ellen, to Joseph Martin in Hamilton county, near the Clermont
line; third, Elizabeth, to Alexander Morrison, and the fourth, Samuel,
to Susan Ayer, who settled on a tract given him by his father, near
Tobasco.
NATHANIEL DONHAM
was born in New Jersey; removed to Greene county before the Revolution,
in which he served a year, and in 1794 emigrated to Ohio, coming down
the river and landed at the mouth of the Little Miami, twelve miles
above Cincinnati, and in a few years permanently settled in Pierce
township on the waters of Ten Mile creek. He was the
progenitor
of the numerous Donham family in Clermont. He was first
married
in New Jersey to Mary Sutton, and afterwards to Keziah Crossley, of the
same State. By his first marriage he had one daughter, who
never
came West, and three sons, David, John and Lewis. By his
second
marriage there was one daughter, Mary, and six sons, Henry, Abel,
William, Amos, Robert, and Jonathan S., the latter the father of
ex-treasurer Donham and Hon. Perry J. Donham.
ELI ELSTUN
emigrated from Essex county, New Jersey, and in 1805 located on
Harner’s run in Miami township. He was a cooper and
made
barrels for Christian Waldsmith. He had seven sons and four
daughters, Isaac, a cooper at Newberry, John in Stonelick,
William in Miami, Eli, who went to Indiana, Moses, the venerable
magistrate, yet living in Union, Freeman, a cooper at New Richmond, and
Mrs. Ebenezer Osborn, Mrs. John Mann, Mrs. John Eppert and John
VanZandt. He died in 1814 and his widow married Bethnal
Covalt,
an early pioneer. Mr. Elstun’s father and his
wife’s
father, John Payne, also were in the Revolution.
JACOB COX
settled on Shaylor’s Run in Union township, and lived to be
101 years old.
STEPHN FENNELL
was a New Richmond pioneer, and served under General Nathaniel
Greene. He was of Quaker parentage, and in the hour of trial
his
mother said, “Stephen, if thee will go to defend the
liberties of
thy county never let thy mother hear that her son was wounded in the
back,” an admonition worthy of a place with utterances of the
heroic Spartan mothers.
ISAAC FERGUSON
was of the famous house of Ferguson Ireland, and the son of Thomas
Ferguson, who was with Washington at Braddock's defeat. Isaac
served for four years in the "days that tried men's souls," came to
Kentucky in 1784, was in the fight with the Indians in Jackson township
in 1791, with the Kentucky boys under Kenton, and in 1793 crossed over
the river and settled below New Richmond, where he established
"Ferguson's Ferry." He died in 1818, leaving seven sons and
three
daughters. The sons were Isaiah - father of the late
Representative Hon. Ira Ferguson - Zachariah, Hugh, Isaac, Francis,
James and Thomas.
THOMAS FEE
came in 1792 with the Greggs and Buchanans from western Pennsylvania to
Kentucky, and seven years later he removed to Indian creek on the
present David Moreton farm, having passed three years at mouth of
Bullskin creek. His sons were Thomas, William, James, Samuel,
Elias, Elijah, Elisha, Jesse and daughters Sarah and Rachel.
He
was born in 1763, did frontier service in the revolution; was the
progenitor of the very numerous family of his name in Clermont and died
in 1820. He was a zealous Methodist and his pioneer home the
centre of church gathering and intinerant's visits.
ADAM FISHER,
father of the venerable Hon. David Fisher, of Mt. Holly, was born in
1750, near Philadelphia, and was the son of a German
emigrant. He
married Susannah Jones, sister of Thos. Jones, also a revolutionary
soldier. He served eighteen months in the war and his
descendants
in Clermont have his discharge papers attesting his good soldierly
qualities. His life was well depicted in a recent number of
the
Courier, giving an interview with his distinguished son.
LEWIS FRYBARGER,
born in Germany, settled in Penn’s Valley, Pa., and was one
year
in actual service. He came to Goshen township in 1799, and
died
three years later. Of his family went George to Indiana,
Peter to
Iowa, Lewis removed to Warren county, Andrew settled on north side of
O’Banion creek, Jacob died in Warren county. His
daughters,
Eva and a second one were married respectively to Jacob Myers and Jacob
Stroup.
PHILIP FISHBACK
was born in Alsace, then a province of France, about the year 1752, and
his wife was a German woman. He was a Frenchman but spoke
both
German and French, though his children were taught in the latter
language only. He came to America with the French soldiers
under
Lafayette, under whom he fought in the Revolution of 1776. At
the
close of that patriotic struggle he returned home and married his wife
in the adjoining province of Loraine. He again entered the
French
service under Napoleon with whom he crossed the Alps, and under whom he
fought for seven long years, for which he received a medal and an
honorable discharge in addition to his meagre monthly
stipend. He
came to this country in the early part of the century and settled in
Pierce township, where his children were born. They were
George
Fishback, the well known farmer near Olive Branch; Philip, residing at
Cherry Grove, Hamilton county, and Jacob, who years ago went to the
Pike's Peak country, besides two daughters, one of whom never married
but the other married Mr. Gosnecht, whose two children live near
Cincinnati. He having died, she again married a man at
Seymour,
Indiana. This old Napoleonic and Revolutionary veteran lived
between the old Samie Wood's farm and Withamsville, where he died about
1850, nearly one hundred years old. The barrel of his old
gun,
which he carried in the campaigns of Napoleon in Germany and Italy, is
in the possession of his son, George, in Batavia township, while the
son, Philip, at Cherry Grove, has a paper discharge in French signed by
the great Napoleon, testifying to Fishback's brave soldierly qualities,
and recounting the many battles in which he participated.
JESSE GLANCY
served under Washington at Monmouth and Brandywine, and was one of the
storming party of Lafayette in the attack on the British redoubts two
days before the capture of Cornwallis at Yorktown. He was
born in
York county, Pa., and in 1805 came to this county, where he had
purchased 1000 acres of land in Stonelick township. He was
accompanied by his wife, three sons, William, John, and Joseph and his
nephew, James, and his daughter, Elizabeth and niece. William
married Elizabeth Metcalfe and had eleven children. John
married
Elizabeth Shields and had eleven children. Joseph, the third
son, never married. The daughter Elizabeth married
Judge
John Pollock. The nephew and niece, both married and raised
large
families.
JOHN GREGG
came from Greene county, Pa., to Kentucky in 1792, and in 1795 crossed
to Washington township with William Buchanan and built a cabin at where
Neville now is, where they put in a crop of corn. Finding he
had
located on the Neville instead of the Anderson survey, which was to
contain his land, he returned to Kentucky discouraged. His
children were Samuel, George – both of whom afterwards
settled on
Indian creek, Ann Ruth married to Felty Harmon, Margaret married to
Robert Buchanan, Sarah to John Fee and Hannah to Col. John O.
Hamilton. John Gregg was nine months in the patriot
war.
Joseph, the third son, never married. The daughter Elizabeth
married Judge John Pollock. The nephew and niece both married
and
raised large families.
JOHN HULICK
who came from New Jersey to Batavia township, was a pensioner of the
patriot army. He was the father of James, John and Cornelius
– those two remained and died in New Jersey.
Abraham, Mary,
married to Thomas Tate, Jane to Charles Robinson, Martha twice married
and the late Lot Hulick, father of Judge G. W. Hulick.
JOHN HARE
was on the pension list in Jackson township in 1840.
WILLIAM HULING
came from New Jersey and settled on Lucy's Run in Monroe. He
died
in 1826. Of his sons, Samuel settled on the farm now owned by
John Slye, William on part of the home farm, Abraham went to Indiana,
Jacob A. kept the homestead, and Isaac lived on the Ohio turnpike.
CHRISTOPHER HARTMAN
was born in 1750 in Germany at Swintzburg, Hesse Cassel, and when three
years old his parents emigrated to Pennsylvania with his fours sons,
John, Joseph, George and Christopher. The latter was in
Wayne’s Pennsylvania regiment for eighteen months and in the
Brandywine battle. He married in 1776, Mary Hutchinson, of
New
Jersey, by whom he had the following children: William, Isaac, Samuel,
Elizabeth, married to Jacob Roudebush, Catharine, to Ephraim McAdams,
Rachel to John Page, Rebecca to Adam Bricker, and Fanny died
unmarried. Mr. Hartman subsequently served in
Smallwood’s
Maryland brigade. He was the best millwright in southern Ohio
and
died March 16, 1833, leaving a very numerous posterity in Jackson
township, where he kept the first hotel two hundred yards south of the
present residence of J. K. Hartman in a cabin he built in 1802, to
which he came from Kentucky in 1801, having gone there from
Pennsylvania in 1795.
SAMUEL HARLOW
joined the American army in 1778, and took part in the battle of
Cowpens, and was under Lafayette at the capture of Yorktown.
He
was born near Richmond, Virginia, and in 1815 settled in Jackson
township on the farm owned by his son, Cornelius Harlow, who was born
in 1795 and is still living. He went to Kentucky in 1790, in
1805
came to Adams county and then to Clermont. He married a
sister of
Cornelius Washburn by whom he had eight children: John C., Jeremiah,
Louis, Garret, Cornelius, Rhoda, Mary and Rebecca.
ELISHA HOPKINS
came from Maryland from which State he served three years under General
Williams, and settled near Mulberry in Miami township. He
removed
about 1815 to Indiana.
WILLIAM HARRIS
emigrated from Kentucky in 1815 and located on the present site of
Edenton. He had went in 1788 to Kentucky, where he married
Sarah
Rich by whom he had six children, John; Otho, William, Elizabeth, Nancy
and Sarah. He was the first millwright in Wayne
township.
He was in all the battles in New Jersey and Long Island.
SAMUEL HOWELL
was a pioneer in Williamsburg, where he was a saddler by
trade.
He was a drummer in the service. He was the father of William
Howell.
CONRAD HARSH
served in the Pennsylvania reserves. He was born December 17,
1757, in Pennsylvania; married first Eva Hockensmith, and later her
sister Nancy. He came to Ohio in 1802, and settled on the
Iuen
farm just north of Boston. He died in 1846 and his wife in
1849. He was the first blacksmith in Stonelick, and made the
first grain cradle ever made within its limits.
RICHARD HALL
was an ensign in the war, and came from Pennsylvania to Columbia in
1791, and in 1800 settled in Stonelick on the farm owned by John
Smith. In 1794-5, he commanded Geraul’s Station,
which he
filled till after the treaty at Greenville. He served two
years
in the Revolution and came out a captain. He married
Theodosia
Edwards, and his children were Jackson, Richard, Lytle, Elenor, Ruth
and Isabel.
ADAM HOY
lived south of the Shetterly settlement in Goshen township to which he
came in 1801 from Berks county, Pa. He left a son David.
JACOB JORDAN
was born in 1764 in Chowan county, N. C., and in 1804 came to Loveland
and in 1808, he came to where is now the site of Edenton. He
was
out nine months in service while the British were overrunning the
Carolinas. He married in 1785 Mary Valentine and had three
sons
and five daughters. Of his children Nathaniel and Silas V.
are
the only ones that ever settled in Clermont, having located in Wayne
township.
JAMES JOHNSON
is buried at Mt. Zion grave yard in Franklin township. He
came
from Kentucky in 1800 and settled north of Chilo about half a mile on
the Taliaferro survey, where he owned fifty acres. He married
the
widow Waterfield, who was a sister of Zadock Watson, the pioneer, and
the mother of Jacob Waterfield, born March 7, 1790, the father of
William Waterfield, of the Cincinnati Globe Tobacco
Warehouse.
The Waterfield, Watson and Johnston families in 1788 removed from
Maryland to Kentucky, and came to this county between 1798 and
1800. This soldier, who served in the Maryland line, died
northeast of Felicity on the Innis survey, where he owned a little
house. No stone marks his resting place.
JESSE JUSTICE
died in Tate in 1826, having come to Clermont from New Jersey and
purchased seven hundred acres. He was three years in the
Revolution. His eldest son, John, lived on the Colonel Thomas
farm till his removal South; Sabil married Ruhama Blackman and lived on
the Ohio turnpike till his death April 23, 1873; Samuel was a merchant
in Bethel; Robert resided on the homestead, and the other children were
Jesse, jr. and Catharine.
JAMES JOHN
from Pennsylvania settled at the mouth of Nine Mile creek in 1806,
having tarried in Kentucky two years. He died about 1804
leaving
the following children: Thomas, David, Lemuel, William, John, Mrs.
Isaiah Ferguson, and Mrs. James Fitzpatrick, from whom numerous
descendants yet remain in Pierce township.
WILLIAM JONES,
a Revolutionary soldier in the Virginia Line, came in 1807 to Union
township, where he died upwards of 102 years old, on the farm owned by
his son Thomas.
THOMAS JONES
was from Pennsylvania and served in Wayne's brigade. He was
the
brother in law of Adam Fisher, the father of the venerable Hon. David
Fisher. He settled in Washington township and died on Indian
creek in 1827. His sons, George and Henry, died in that
township;
Anthony lived in Felicity, and David and John removed to Indiana.
JACOB LIGHT
was born in Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, was nine months in the
Pennsylvania Contingent, and in 1791 with his brothers, Daniel and
David, descended the Ohio to Columbia. In 1797 he located in
Ohio
township and erected the first cabin on the site of the town of New
Richmond. In 1813 he built a large brick house on the river,
in
which he died. Of his children John died on his farm in 1872,
aged 86; Daniel died in Monroe in 1878; Jacob died about 1870, David
went to Illinois, Peter remained in New Richmond, and Benjamin died in
1875. There were four daughters and seven sons.
BARTON LOWE
was born in 1762, enlisted for three years in June 1779 in Captain
Clement Wheeler’s company, Colonel Joshua Bell’s
regiment,
Maryland line, and served until after Cornwalli’s
capture.
Was discharged at Leesburg, Virginia, when his company was commanded by
Captain Zachariah Berry. Lived with this wife in Monroe
township,
and in 1830 owned no property. Resided with his son.
CHRISTIAN LONG
was in the Pennsylvania State troops, and in 1803 came to Stonelick
township, and settled on the farm now owned by Mrs. Hannah
Leming. He came from Kentucky to which he had emigrated in
1790. He married Polly Pattison, and was the father of the
following children: Mary, Philip, Elizabeth, Nelly, Christina, William
and Rebecca. He was the best hunter on Stonelick and the
first
tinner in the county.
HEZEKIAH LINDSEY
came from western Pennsylvania with the Fergusons and settled on the
river bottoms, near New Richmond. He served in the
Westmoreland
regiment. He died about 1810 leaving children, to wit:
Manley,
John, Philip, Hezekiah, William, Elijah, Mrs. Joshua Brown, of Ohio,
Mrs. John Fisher, of Monroe, Mrs. Jesse Swern, all three of Pierce
township. Captain Lindsey made a dashing record in the
service as
a lieutenant, and in the Pennsylvania State archives is specially
mentioned to Washington’s favor.
DANIEL MOCK
came to Goshen settlement about 1830 from Centre county, Pennsylvania,
having been eighteen months in service. His descendants went
West
half a century ago.
EDWARD MORIN
came from Virginia and settled in the Ferguson settlement, near New
Richmond. He was the father of Rodham Morin, who served under
Wayne in 1794 against the Indians and who fell from a boat in 1830 at
Cincinnati and was drowned. Captain Morin served in Harry
Lee's
light horse brigade.
WILLIAM MALOTT
was of French extraction, was two years in the war, and in 1800 opened
up a farm along the East Fork, in Union township. Of his
sons,
Zedekiah and Thomas removed; Isaac was a ship carpenter in Cincinnati,
and William remained on the homestead.
JOHN METCALFE
served in the Virginia continental line, went to Kentucky in 1792, came
to Ohio in 1798, and two years later bought a big farm on Stonelick
creek, in Stonelick township, now owned in part by Ira
Williams.
He died in 1847. He was a famous backwoods hunter and the
companion of Simon Kenton and Neil Washburn. He had no sons
and
his daughters, Elizabeth married William Glancy, Mary, George
McCormick, Milly, John Hair, and then Timothy Kirby, of Cincinnati, and
Nancy, Joseph Whetstone.
JOHN M’KNIGHT,
the fife major, was a pioneer in Williamsburg. He was the
father
of William McKnight, the tailor and was a brisk, bustling little man
and was wounded in the foot at Stony Point.
HUGH MALOY
a captain in the service, was a pioneer living in Monroe township in
1840. He served three years in an infantry regiment, and was
at
Valley Forge. He was an early settler in Williamsburg, and in
1825 was admitted on a diploma to Clermont Social lodge, F. and A. M.,
No. 20. He was the grandfather of Moreton Mulloy.
THEODORE MALOTT
was of a French family, many of whom settled in Clermont. His brother,
William, below Perins Mills, Daniel was an assistant surveyor to
General Lytle, Peter and John in the Snell neighborhood as did
Theodore, who was out eighteen months in the Revolution with Brother
William in Smallwood's, Maryland, brigade.
DANIEL MORGAN
came from Baltimore city to Goshen township in 1799, having served in
Williams brigade of the Maryland line for two years. He was a
tanner and farmer, owning the now well known Tom Porter farm.
In
1826 he moved to Delaware county, where he died in his eighty-sixth
year. His eldest son, Joseph, served in the War of
1812.
Daniel, jr., went to Illinois, John to Indiana, and Mary lately died in
Wisconsin, aged ninety-six.
THOMAS MANNING
was a pensioner in Ohio township in 1840, and owned a place on the
Green survey which he entered before 1815.
JOHN MILES
came to Williamsburg in 1825, and resided there many years, dying at
the age of 108 years. He was an eccentric man, and oft
expressed
a wish that he would die either on July 4th or January 8th
(Jackson’s victory), and that at his burial a bottle of
whiskey
and a plug of tobacco should be placed in his coffin. He died
on
January 8th and his wife attended to his other wishes.
Although
she was eighty years old, she married again a man named Rupert, also an
octogenarian.
FRANCIS M’CORMICK
served under Lafayette at York county. He was born in
Frederick
county, Virginia, June 3, 1764, and was licensed by the Methodists to
preach in 1792. Three years later he emigrated to Kentucky,
and
in 1797 to Clermont, settling on the Matson farm just north of Milford,
where he bought 1000 acres. He became a famous revivalist and
exhorter, and organized the first Methodist class and society in
Ohio. He died at Salem, Hamilton county, in 1836.
He
married Rebecca Easton in 1789, by whom the following children were
born; Francis Asbury, Charles, George W., Thomas J., and Johnson
– one of these was an adopted child, Mary, married to Thomas
Mears, Henrietta, to Philip Hill, Lucinda E., to General Thomas Gatch,
Nancy, to Mr. Gregg, and Patsey, never married.
JOHN NAYLOR
came to Williamsburg as a deserter from the British army. and so warmly
espoused the American cause that he went out in the war of 1812, and
did good service for his adopted country. He was in the
“Hussars” in the Revolution. He married a
Miss Miller
and moved to Cincinnati and there died.
JOSIAH PRICKETT
was in several battles, and came from his native State, Virginia, in
1791 to Geraul's station, and from thence to the north side of
Stonelick creek in 1801, on the farm now owned by William Roudebush. In
1792 his youngest brother, Richard, was stolen and adopted by the
Indians and became the wealthiest man among the Wyandots and died in
1849 an aged chief.
ELI PORTER
enlisted in February 1777 for the war, and was in Captain William
Vose’s company, Colonel Wood’s regiment, in
Virginia line;
served in this corps three years, when his regiment marched to the
South and was taken at the capture of Charleston, South
Carolina.
He was left behind on a furlough, and his regiment was captured before
he could join it, hence he was then placed in Captain N.
McCalty’s company, 8th Virginia regiment, and served until
Cornwalli’s capture. In 1830 he was living in this
county,
owned no real estate, was a cooper by trade, but from infirmity unable
to work. Then his wife was living but had no children.
JOSEPH PERRINE
in 1805 settled on Barne's run, in Williamsburg township. He
served throughout the war. His sons were, James, the famous
old
magistrate, Arthur and Ralph, and his daughters, Martha married Isaac
Dye, Eleanor, Joseph Holman, Elizabeth, John Gill, and Ann, Andrew
Hickey. He was the grandfather of Colonel J. A. Perrine, of
Bethel, and came from Middlesex county, New Jersey, and his son, James,
married Polly Kain, the mother of the late Mrs. John Jamieson, of
Batavia.
CHRISTIAN PLACKARD
was a pensioner in 1840 in Ohio township, residing with his son John.
THOMAS PAXTON
was born in the dark and troublesome hours of the French and Indian
wars in Pennsylvania, and was an officer for three years in the
Revolution, serving awhile on General Wayne’s
staff. In
1792 he moved from Bedford county, Pennsylvania, to Kentucky, and in
Wayne’s expedition against the Indians in 1794, Colonel
Paxton
commanded the advance guard. He was the first permanent
settler
in Clermont, and erected the first house between the Little Miami and
Scioto rivers near Loveland early in 1795. He was twice
married. By his first wife were born one son, Robert, who
remained in Kentucky, and five daughters, Mrs. Colonel William Ramsey,
Mrs. Judge Owen Todd, Mrs. James Smith, Mrs. Orr and Mrs. Silas
Hutchinson, who all lived near the Paxton grat in Miami. By
his
second wife were born Samuel and Thomas Paxton, the former yet
living. Colonel Paxton was a wonderful man physically and
mentally, and specially adapted to pioneer life. He died in
1813,
leaving a very large estate.
MARTIN PEASE
a retired sea captain of Martha's Vineyard, was born in 1765, and when
a boy of eleven, went aboard a patriot vessel in 1776, and was captured
by the Brittish and held for months a prisoner at Halifax. He
came to near Amelia in 1814, and died in 1858. He was one of
the
forerunners of the big Yankee colony so early planted in and around
Amelia.
AMBROSE RANSON
was born in 1765, in Virginia, and was among the reserves called out to
repel the invasion of Cornwallis, and though but sixteen years old was
present at the capture of Yorktown. He came to Miami township
with Rev. Philip Gatch, with whom for many years he was associated as
one of the associate judges of the common pleas court.
Originally
a brick-layer and plasterer, he bought a farm near Milford, then one
near Newberry, but finally came to within two miles of Batavia where he
died July 12, 1843. He was a member of the M. E. church for
fifty-five years.
LEONARD RAPER
was a soldier in the British army, and was among the men surrendered by
Cornwallis at Yorktown. He was a good man and became a worthy
citizen of the Republic. He and his wife, Temperance, (Holly)
were among the first settlers in the Concord neighborhood. He
followed teaching for many years and died March 18, 1833, aged
eighty-one. Of his sons Holly became sheriff, and William H.,
a
Methodist preacher of distinction. His four daughters were
married as follows: Elizabeth to John Kain, Margaret to John Randall,
Sarah to Thomas Foster and Mary to James Kain.
NATHANIEL REEVES
was in 1840 a pensioner in Batavia township, and lived near Amelia.
PHILIP STONER
early settled in Goshen, and was a man of prodigious strength, who
often exercised his muscular powers in fistcuff, being reputed the best
man in northern Clermont. His wife, Sarah, was living in
Jackson
township in 1840 and drew a pension.
WILLIAM SIMONTON
with his brothers, Theophilus and John, settled near Loveland in
1798. He was from Pennsylvania and served eighteen months in
the
war.
WILLIAM SLOANE
served four years in the war and was a bugler under Wayne in his Indian
campaign of 1794. He was in the Pennsylvania line and was in
the
first Revolutionary regiment raised. He was the first settler
in
Wayne township, and in 1802 located on the farm now owned by John
Graves.
JOHN SNELL:
In 1801, David, Daniel and John Snell came to Clermont, but after a few
months the latter returned and settled in Virginia. The first
two
located on the old Chillicothe road, near Williamsburg. John
was
in Harry Lee's cavalry.
JOHN SWERN
was born in 1756 and in June, 1778, enlisted for nine months in Captain
Thomas Patterson’s company, Colonel Elias Dayton’s
regiment, New Jersey line, and served till March 3, 1779, when he was
discharged at Elizabeth. He married a daughter of Hezekiah
Lindsey and in 1830 she wad dead, all his children grown up and gone,
but Elizabeth – an unmarried daughter. Mr. Swern
lived in
Pierce and had a farm of 110 acres.
JOHN STALL.
His son, George W., in 1806, commanded the crowd in Williamsburg of
Revolutionary veterans who serenaded the traitor, Aaron Burr, at
Kain’s hotel with “rogues
march.” Stall once
owned 1000 acres in Jackson township, now the Hutchinson lands.
ADAM SNIDER
came to Williamsburg in 1795 with his comrade, Adam Bricker.
He
was unmarried, generally kept house by himself, and his cabin had a
ground floor, while the single room of which it was composed afforded a
place for him, his dogs, cats and chickens, all dwelling together in
unity. He lived a long time on the lots now occupied by
ex-County
Surveyor William S. McLean, and was the first and for many years the
court-house janitor.
ABSALOM SMITH
owned a farm in Lytle's survey northeast of Williamsburg, near the
Brown county line, and had served in the Pennsylvania troops.
DR. JOHN C. SMITH
born in Westfield, Massachusetts, in 1757, enlisted in Colonel James
Varce's regiment, 1st Massachusetts, in 1776, served through the
Revolutionary war as soldier in same, and died May 25, 1837, aged
eighty years. His remains are interred in the burying ground
at
Christian church, near Amelia.
WILLIAM SLYE,
a Virginian, settled on the head waters of Bear creek in 1798, but
removed to Monroe township where he died aged eighty-five
years.
He lost a leg at Germantown battle. He had four sons and two
daughters: Samuel, who carried on a saw mill on Twelve Mile creek,
Jonathan, a tanner, who went to Missouri, Joseph, who lived at
Portsmouth, William, who went to Sandusky; one of his daughters married
George Harvey, of Monroe. Is buried at Hopewell, near
Felicity.
ANDREW SHETTERLEY,
of Goshen township, died about 1840, having come there in 1800 from
Centre county, Pennsylvania. His sons were Philip and George,
who
both lived near him, Henry and David, who went to Indiana.
His
only daughter, Betsey, married John Graham, a teacher and the author of
pioneer arithmetic, who also moved to Indiana.
WILLIAM SALTER
located about 1800 in the Smysor settlement, in Miami township, and
died in 1825. He was in the Pavli Massacre, near Philadelphia.
JAMES SHAW
served under General John Neville, and was at Trenton, Germantown and
Brandywine. He came to Kentucky in 1790, and three miles from
New
Richmond purchased big tracts of land. His eldest son, Hon.
John
Shaw, lived in Clermont after 1800, and his father passed much of his
time on the Ohio side of the river.
JOSEPH SHAYLOR
was a major in the war and came to Union township before this county
was organized. He died in 1810, and his family
removed.
Shaylor’s run was named in his honor.
DENNIS SMITH, SR.
came from Pennsylvania and was a captain in the Revolution, and for
services rendered received a warrant for 500 acres in Stonelick, on
which his sons, Joseph, Christopher and David, and his son in law,
James Searles, settled. He never lived here, but returned
after
seeing his children all comfortably located.
EPHRIAM SIMKINS
was born in Orange county, New York, served under Washington, married
Mary Chandler in 1781, and settled in Stonelick in 1805, on the farm
lately owned by this son, David, near Belfast. He came west
with
Samuel Perin, the founder of Perins Mills. He had four
children,
John, David, Archie and Phoebe, wife of Ezra Williams.
LEVI TINGLEY
settled on Poplar creek in Tate in 1804, and two years later opened a
tannery, which he carried on until his death in 1832. He was
in
the New Jersey troops. His sons were Jacob, who died at sea,
and
Benjamin, who was in the war of 1812.
RICHARD TALIAFERRO
was in the Revolution, and also under Gen. George Rogers Clarke in his
memoroble expedition against Vincennes and Kas Kaskia in
1778. He
was employed by General James Taylor to look after his Clermont land,
and in 1802 removed from Kentucky and settled in Stonelick, on the farm
now owned by Jacob Balshizer. In 1820 he and his family
removed
back to Kentucky, but while on a visit to this county in 1885 he was
taken sick, died and was buried on a farm belonging to a son living in
Indiana.
JACOB TEAL
emigrated from Queen Anne county, Maryland, in 1794, with his brother
in law, Joseph Avey, to Kentucky, and settled with his wife, Elizabeth,
in 1798, in Miami township, and the next year located on the hills of
eastern Union township, where now lives Oscar Johnson. He
died
about the year 1845. He was six months in the service, doing
garrison duty near Baltimore city. His children were Philip
(died
young), Samuel, a blacksmith below Perin’s Mills, Jesse and
Jacob
L., the latter the well known magistrate, who died in 1869, and father
of the late Jesse L. Teal. His daughters were Sarah, married
to
Joseph Jaynes, Elizabeth, to William Y, Potter and Ann to William
Voorhis and the second time to John Blair.
JOHN TREES
came to Miller's station in 1801 from Westmoreland county,
Pennsylvania, but a few years later settled near Point Isabel, where he
died in his eight-first year. His name figures very
prominently
in the "Pennsylvania Revolutionary Annals." His son, John,
was in
the War of 1812, and died in 1866, aged eighty-two. The
latter
raised twelve children. Adam, Jacob and Peter, sons of John Trees, Sr,
removed at an early date to Indiana.
SAMUEL VANCE
was a captain in the Virginia line and a brother in law of Major Joseph
Shaylor. He entered, in 1797, a tract of land at the mouth of
Shaylor’s run, in Union township, and lived there several
years,
then removed to Covington, Kentucky, where he died. Major
Shaylor
named a son in his honor – Samuel Vance Shaylor, who was in
the
township up to about 1820.
OAKEY VANOSDOL
was on the Tate township pension list as late as 1840. He
came in
1804 from New Jersey and located on Poplar creek. His sons
were
Oakey, Robert, James, Isaac and Wright - whose descendants are yet very
numerous and influential in Tate and Williamsburg.
THOMAS WOODS
was among the pioneers of Pierce township in the Short settlement, and
at his house some of the early Methodist meetings were held.
He
was in General Mercer’s brigade.
ROBERT WELLS
fought in the struggle for independence. He came in 1807 from
Kentucky to Tate township, dying on the place now owned by William
Wells, some fifty years ago, aged eighty-four. His sons,
Aaron,
Solomon, Isaac, Nathan and Jesse went to Indiana, John died in
Williamsburg, and Robert and Eli on the homestead. One of the
daughters, Anna, married James Callon.
JOHN WHEELER
in 1840 was a pensioner in Ohio township for services rendered in the
Virginia line.
NEHEMIAH WARD
was of the family of that name illustrious in New Jersey's colonial
history. He was in nine of the hardest fights of the
Revolution,
and in 1815 came to Clermont, in Pierce township, where he lived until
his death in 1840, aged ninety-five. His wife, Elizabeth,
became
a centenarian. They were the parents of Elijah Ward, who came
to
near Cincinnati in 1800 and to Pleasant Hill, in Pierce, in 1813, where
he died in 1862. This Revolutionary veteran was the
grandfather
of Elon, James H., Stephen, William, Elijah and John Ward, and of Mrs.
George Idlet.
CHARLES WAITS
owned a farm in Whitaker’s survey, Williamsburg township,
near the East Fork, and also a lot in Batavia in 1826.
JAMES WAITS,
his brother, likewise in the Revolution, resided in Williamsburg, and
was always out to the 4th of July celebrations. The Waits
family
came to the county in 1799.
Transcribed verbatim (typos, misspellings and all) from the Clermont
Courier
July 1, 1885 and July 8, 1885 issues
Submitted by:
Dr. John Charles Tippet
7002 Abbottswood Dr.
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275
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