Negely Family Record

Negely Family Record 95 On the 4th instant, JOHN J. KRIDER, aged 73. On the 3d instant, Mrs. SARAH, wife of Thomas WIGFALL, aged 40 years. On the 3d instant, CORNELIUS, son of Thos. and Ann DURNAN, aged 19 years. On the 2d instant, ELIZABETH, wife of Robt. DYBALL, aged 47 years. On the 3d instant, CHARLES B. HOFFNER, aged 69 years. On the 2d instant, Mrs. MARY MADISON, aged 83 years. On the 3d instant, JAMES ROWAN, aged 37. On the 2d instant, JOHN E. CARVER, aged 57. Negely Family Record Contributed by VIRGINIA STEELE WOOD T HIS Negely family record appears in a copy of the published work, Catechismus, Oder Kurtzer Unterricht Christlicher Lehre, Fiir die angehende Jugend in der Churfiirstlichen Pfaltz und andern Reformirten Orten zu gebrauchen: Samt der Haus-Tafel, Mit und ohne Biblischen SpritchBiichlein. Alles zur Ehre und Lob GOttes. Heidelberg, gedruchkt itn Jahre 1751. Und nun Cu Germanton 1764. [Catechism. Or Short Lessons of Christian Education, For the growing Youth in the Electoral Palatinate and other Reformed Places to be Used together with the House Tablet, With and without little Biblical Phrase Book. Everything to the Glory and Praise of the Lord. Heidelberg, printed in the year 1751. And now in Germantown 1764J The original is located in the Rare Book Collection, Pennsylvania State University Library, State College, Pa. Opposite the title page, two birth dates appear for persons whose names are later repeated. Other birth dates appear on the fly leaf, back of the title page, page following the title page and inside the back cover. One page of notes, perhaps some primitive shorthand, was examined by two language professors at Pennsylvania State University and found to be unintelligible. 96 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine The family data have been transcribed exactly as written in the original. All illegible words appear - - -, and the items in brackets are mine. I am grateful to Charles Mann, librarian of the Rare Book Collection, for calling my attention to this family record, and to Ilse M. Strassmann for a translation of the German title. In his autobiography, Thomas Mellon mentions that his wife's paternal great-grandfather, Alexander Negley, was a Swiss who emigrated to America in 1739, settling first in Bucks County and later in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.* lithe origin of Negeley or Negley is Swiss, the name may have originally been spelled Nageh• [Opposite title page] ZeBedee was Born October the 19 186 [18061 Sarah Pharis wife of George Nagley was born in 1761 [These two entries on the fly leaf tray have been the practicing hand of a child.] Zebedee Kegely [Negely?] was Born 1822 Summ 1summer?1 Paul - - - was Born Sept the 3° in the 1804 [Inside, page I] George Negely his Book 1759 July ye 20 0 day 1796 and these are the names & ages of his children to wit Christens was Born December ye 23. day 1784 John was Born November ye 22. day 1786 Henry was Born November ye 14. day 1788 George was Born February ye 16 day 1791 [Inside, page 2] Elias was Born December ye 23 0 day 1793 David was Born August ye 22 day 1797 Elizabeth was Born October ye 19171 day 1799 Samson was Born May the 12 1802 Paul Ser was Bar [torn) SepttemBer the 3 1804 [Inside back cover, page I, after eight illegible lines] George nogely was Born in the 15° of march in the year of our lord 1760 [Inside back cover, page 2] Sarah Nagely was born the 14 day of january in the year of our lord 1764 Christena Nagely was Born in the 23 day of december in the year of our lord 1784 John Nagely was Born the 22 day of November in the year of our lord 1786 Thomas Mellon and His Times (Pittsburgh, 1885), 114-15; see also Family Record in the Appendix, vii.