Notes, Queries, and Corrections

NOTES , QUERIES AND CORRECTIONS. Advertisement* FOR, Private Sale, near to Doylestown, There is a handsome LOT of GROUND ; It buts up to the Stage-Road aide, Is twice as long as it is wide : Of Acres there are just nineteen, Near three are Wood and well fenc 'd in, The residue for plowing pass, Are well manur ’d in grain and grass . The buildings good, the water sure, And very handy to the door, And people say, who 're very dry, As good to drink as any nigh . P There is an Orchard on the Lot, Of Fruit as good as could be got, And now has just began to bear, There ’s peach - trees, plumb, and also pear It all lays near the Oourt-House site, And nearer to the water right, Where plenty from the spring doth flow, For all who either come or go — . S - . G The Mills are near, the Meeting too, Both Stores and Taverns are in view If you get dry for something strong, It can be had ere it is long . — Now if to buy you ’re not afraid, From the description you have had, And if to view the Lot you come, Enquire for Andrew Dennison ; — , He 'll shew the Lot and tell the price And make the payments suit you nice, He ’ll sell the whole or any part, To fit the purse and please the heart. ANDREW DENNISON . New Britain, Aug. 17, 1810. — . A Bucks County, Pennsylvania Advertisement of 1810 Contributed by Mrs George Corson, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania (316 ) . 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX Notes, Queries and Corrections. . 317 OWEN JONATHAN and Patience Owen of Lebanon, Connecticut, moved to Salisbury, Connecticut, about 1744, where he died in 1759 Their children, the first two born in Lebanon, the others in Salisbury, were : William born 1741; * Jonathan, born, 1742 ; Mary, born 1740 ; * Oliver born, 1748 ; Joseph, 1750 ; * Amasa 1753 ; * Eleaser, 1755 ; * Solomon, 1757, Sarah or Submit , born 1759. The published record “ New York in the Revolution ’ shows the names marked * as serving in the Militia of Ulster County, under CoL James McCloughry The records of the War Department at Washington show Amasa Owen as serving in the Ulster County Militia in 1778 and 1779, under Col, McCloughry, and in the Levies of New York, in 1781, under Col. Frederick Wassenfels Paymaster Daniel Britt 's pay - roll of the First Regiment of the United States, under Lieut Col. Josiah Harmar in a Western Department, for the year 1790, shows AMASA OWEN a private in Capt Erkurius Beatty ’s Company for the full period, January 1, to December 31, 1790, apparently indicating that he had enlisted prior to the first of that year and re mained in the service subsequent to the year covered by the pay -roll. On the Cover of this roll is written “ This Regiment of Infantry was in the expedition against the Miami Indians in September and October, 1790. The published records of “ Connecticut in the Revolution ” do not show that the sons of Jonathan and Patience Owen served in that state. In 1767 Patience Owen, of Salisbury, Connecticut, the widow of Jonathan Owen and the mother of Amasa and the others before named, acquired a house and piece of land in Salisbury, per the land records of that township, which show that, in July, 1777, she sold and conveyed the same giving her then place of residence as Westmoreland, in the Colony of Connecticut, which, at that time, was Wyoming Valley, or the present site of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The Wyoming Massacre occurred there in July, 1778, after which many of the Connecticut settlers returned to Connecticut. Oliver Owen and Solomon, sons of Jonathan and Patience, settled in Onondaga County, New York, where Oliver died about 1802, and Solomon was living there in 1810. An Amasa Owen who died in Clermont County, Ohio, about 30 miles east of Cincinnati in 1817, was an elector there in 1803, the first election of that county of which the poll books were preserved. His wife was Sarah Osborn of New York State. The birth dates of their eleven children were from 1783 to 1804. She lived until about 1846. The family records of John Osborn and Eunice his wife of Westchester County, New York, show that their daughter Sarah, born in 1763, married Amasa Owen, but that nothing more was known of them. John Osborn died 1782, and, within a year afterwards, his widow and twelve children moved from West chester County to Mamakating precinct, in Ulster County, New York, which is the locality from which the Owens as noted above served in the Revolution, A tradition as related and remembered is, that Amasa Owen and family came from Pennsylvania, where they were located on an Island near Fort Pitt ( Pittsburgh ) called Owen 's Island, from which they were driven by Indians, “ The Navigor 33 a small book by Zadock Cramer, published about 1810, which describes the rivers Ohio, Allegheny and others, refers to Owings Island, in the Allegheny river, a short dis tance from Pittsburgh. No other information has been found as to this Island. The Osborn family records indicate that two of the sisters of . , , , ’ . . . . G S P - - - 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX Notes, Queries and Corrections. 318 Sarah who married Amasa Owen, married and located at Beech Woods, near Mt Pleasant, in Pennsylvania, being Ellen Osborn, who, in 178&, married Isaac Dowd ; and Hannah, who later married Eliab Farnam This locality has not been definitely identified, but if determined might afford information sought as to Amasa Owen in Pennsylvania With the family record of Amasa and Sarah Owen it is also recorded that Lemuel Barrett a son of Lemuel Barrett and Mary his wife was bom and died in the year 1793, from which it is assumed that they were re lated, and, as the Amasa Owen, born in Salisbury, in 1753, had a Bister Mary, born in 1745, she may have been the wife of Lemuel Barrett Lemuel Barrett was granted a tract of land at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, some years prior to the Revolution, by the Military Commander at Fort Pitt He was a native of Massachusetts and Captain of a Maryland Company in the Revolution He died in Harrison County, Kentucky, within fifty miles of where Amasa Owen settled and died in Ohio It seems probable that the Amasa Owen who died in Clermont County, Ohio, in 1817, was the one who was born in Salisbury, Connecticut in 1753 Any information confirming, or in evidence of the correctness of this conclusion will be appreciated William A Owen, Falmouth, Kentucky . . . * . . . . . . . P - — , WAYNE-GAKJDINEH-MCCALLA . In the Wayne Genealogy, which appears in Some Colonial Mansions by Thomas Allen Glenn, vol ii ( Philadelphia, 1899), there is but slight mention of one of the Wayne intermarriages with Col James Gardiner, and, of the daughter of that union there is practically no mention Mr Glenn wrote me that you would probably be glad to print, as a genealogical fragment, the data of this inter marriage ; Captain Anthony i Wayne married Hannah Faulkner Chil dren : Francis, Gabriel, Isaac, Humphrey, Jacob, William, John , Sarah , Ann, and Mary, Francis 2 Wayne 1690- i 763, eldest son of Anthony and Hannah Wayne, married Elizabeth Jackson, 1692 1771 Children ; Anthony, Abraham, Humphrey, Michael, John, Rebecca Hester and Elizabeth Rebecca 8 Wayne daughter of Francis and Elizabeth Wayne, married Col. James Gardiner, speaker of the New Jersey Colonial Assembly, and a well to-do Tory, who, during the Revolution removed to Long Island Children : Mary, Sarah Wayne and Rebecca Gardiner Sarah4 Wayne Gardiner daughter of Col James and Rebecca ( Wayne ) Gardiner, married, at Pequa, Chester County, Penna,, by the Rev Matthew Lind, Thomas McCalla, bom at Gullypackie, co Antrim, Ireland, 15 September, 1756 ; died at Chester, Chester County, South Carolina, 15 October, 1817 Mrs McCalla died at Chester, 11 April, 1821. Children : Mary McCalla 1776 married Thomas Archer John McCalla 1778 1839, married Susan Vergereau Tennant, Elizabeth McCalla bora 4 January, 1780 ; married ? David McCalla born 1 October, 1781; married Eliza beth Harbison Thomas McCalla, 1783-1815, married Margaret Ramsay Samuel McCalla bora 14 November, 1786 ; married (1) Janet Hemphill, ; married William ( 2 ) Elizabeth Thompson Hannah McCalla 1789 Austin Ebeneger McCalla 1792-1803. James McCalla 1794 married f David McCalla father of Thomas McCalla, owned 1 ( Hazlewood,** & plantation in South Carolina but returned to Scotland and Ireland with S . . . . G , . . . , , - . . . . . , 1924 , , . , - . . . . , - - . , , - , , . , - -. , , Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX 319 Notes, Queries and Corrections. wife and two children. The wife died at Gullypackie, Ireland, near Belfast, at the birth of her eon, Thomas, and the father died a month later Thomas McCalla, with brother David and sister Polly, came to America about the time of the Revolution In Pennsylvania he married Sarah Wayne Gardiner, served in Pennsylvania regiments in the early battles of the Be volution, and, in 1778, removed to Chester, South Carolina, to join his brother, l>avid McCalla, settling first at Captain John Niron *8, afterwards at William Caldwell 's plantations He en listed in Captain John Steele ’s Company, Chester Regiment, South Carolina militia, was wounded and captured at Fishing Creek, 18 August, 1780, held prisoner at Camden, and released at Spartanburg, 24 January, 1781 He was buried, in the Presbyterian churchyard of Chester, beside his wife and brother David McCalla The history of his wife, Pax ah Wayne Gardiner McCalla is written in Ellet 's Women of the American Revolution Paul H McCalla, Chicago, Illinois . . . . —— . - . . . . ALLEN-MILLER. Information wanted concerning the forebears of Betsy Miller who married Isaac Allen son of Daniel and Sarah (Sprague ) Allen of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania Isaac Allen was a soldier in the Wyoming Massacre C W Cantrall, 4707 Fort Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn, New York . , — . . . . P , . - . . , . JENNINGS A Reply See Publications, vol ix, p 90 Thomas Jen nings there enquired for, was a eon of Henry Jennings who came to West Jersey on the ship Kent Gregory Marlow, Master in 1677 The father died in England, before 1731, having an intention to return to New Jersey, where his wife, Susan, and children Robert, Henry, Thomas Susanna and Frances had remained Thomas Jennings married, first, at Haddonfield Friends Meeting, 7th mo , 1731, Ann, daughter of John Bor ton of Evesham, Burlington County, New Jersey In 1735 he removed to Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; to Quakertown, Penn sylvania, 1755 ; to Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, 1756; to near Middle town, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 1757, and thence to Newberry, York County, where he married his second wife, Susanna, widow of Thomas Warren, whose maiden name is believed to have been Mills Issue by first marriage : i Levi born 8 mo 11, 1733 ii, Hannah born 1 mo 17, 1735; died 5 mo, 16, 1823 ; married Jonathan Giffard, and had issue, iii Reu ben born 6 mo 10, 1743 ; married Elizabeth Carvel and had issue, iv Esther , born 6 mo 17, 1747 ; died unmarried , v John bora 10 mo, 22, 1751, at Woodstown, New Jersey; married and had issue, vi Anna, born 1 mo 7, 1756 ; married near Waynesville, Ohio, John Mills, vii Thomas bora 8 mo 19, 1759, at Egg Harbor ; married and had issue For further information see Collections of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, under Jennings E W , . S , . , . - . - G - . . , , . . , . . , . . . , . - . . . . ARMITT-POWEL-SMITH , correctly printed Power . — . . . — . Powel in- , See Publications vol. ix, p. 193 DAVIS, GARDINER FORGERSON, BOWER and HOYLE BIBLE RECORDS, printed in Publications vol ix, pp 160 3, were all oontributed by Grace Rose Bower, wife of William J Kelley, now of New York, and daughter of Rev William Bower of Philadelphia, and his wife Henrietta Sarah Hoyle All but the first record are in her possession ) . 1924 . . . . - . Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX