Some Pennsylvanians in 1772:
Settlers in Fayette, Greene,
Washington, and Westmoreland Counties
From James Veach's The Monongahela of Old or Historical
Sketches of Southwestern Pennsylvania to the Year 1800 (Pittsburgh,
1910 edition)
In 1772, and until Westmoreland County was established in 1773, Bedford
County encompassed all of southwestern Pennsylvania.
All of present Fayette County — east of a straight line from the mouth
of Redstone to the mouth of Jacob's Creek — consisted of two townships,
Springhill and Tyrone. Here, the division line was Redstone Creek, from
its mouth to where it was crossed by Burd's Road, and from Burd's Road
to Gist's, then Braddock's Road to the Great Crossing. That part of
Fayette County, northwest of Redstone to the mouth of Jacob's Creek, was
a part of Rostraver Township.
The counties of Greene and Washington, west of Fayette, were evidently
included in Springhill.
SPRINGHILL TOWNSHIP John Allen, William Allen, John Armstrong,
Edward Askins, John Artman, Ichabod Ashcraft, John Ally, John Allison,
Samuel Adams, Robert Adams, George Boydston, Peter Backus, Brazil Brown,
James Brown, Dunlap's Creek; Thomas Brown, Ten Mile Creek; Joseph Brown,
Samuel Brown, Adam Brown, Maunus Brown, Thomas Brown, John Brown, Walter
Brisco, Peter Baker, Nicholas Baker, James Burdin, John Burris, Robert
Brownfield, Edward Brownfield, Empson Brownfield, Charles Brownfield,
Jeremiah Beek, Charles Burkham, Henry Beeson, Jacob Beeson, Alexander
Buchanan, James Black, John Barkley, Nicholas Bauk, Thomas Banfield,
Thomas Batton, William Brashears, Joseph Barker, Lewis Brimet, James
Branton, Henry Brenton, John Braddock, Michael Carn, George Craft,
William Case, Adam Cumbert, John Craig, Joseph Caldwell, James Crooks,
William Campbell, John Carr, John Carr, Jr.; Moses Carr, William
Cochran, George Conn, Nicholas Crowshoe, Anthony Coshaw, William
Crawford, Capt.; William Crawford, Quaker; William Crawford, Josias
Crawford, Oliver Crawford, Richard Chinner, Peter Cleam, Jacob Cleam,
John Casteel, George Church, Michael Cox, Joseph Cox, Michael Catt,
Abraham Cills, Anthony Cills, William Conwell, Jehu Conwell, Michael
Cresap, William Colvin, George Colvin, Peter Drago, John Drago, Samuel
Douglass, Jeremiah Downs, Augustus Dillener, Edward Death, John Death,
Owen David, Jesse Dument, William Downard, Jacob Downard, Henry Debolt,
George Debolt, Henry Dever, Lewis Davison, Andrew Davison, William
Davison, William Dawson, Jacob Dicks, Lewis Deem, Henry Enoch, John
Evans, Richard Evans, Hugh Evans, Edward Elliott, Michael Franks, Jacob
Franks, James Fleeharty, John Fisher, James Frame, Nathan Friggs, Henry
Friggs, Hugh Ferry, James Flannegan, David Flowers, Thomas Flowers,
Thomas Gaddis, Samuel Glasby, William Garrat, John Garrard, John Garrard,
Jr., William Goodwin, Joseph Goodwin, Thomas Gooden, John Glasgo, Fred'k
Garrison, Leonard Garrison, Jacob Grow, Zachariah Gobean, John Griffith,
Hugh Gilmore, Robert Gilmore, Thomas Gregg, Charles Gause, Daniel Goble,
Nicholas Gilbert, Andrew Gudgel, Henry Hart, David Hartfield, Jr., John
Hendricks, Henry Hall, John Hall, Adam Henthorn, James Henthorn, Jas.
Henthorn (the less.), John Henthorn, Charles Hickman, Aaron Hackney,
Martin Hardin, Benjamin Hardin, William Hardin, John Hardin, Jr., John
Harman, Geo. Huckleberry, John Huffman, John Harrison, David Hawkins,
James Herod, William Herod, Levi Herod, Henson Hobbs, Samuel Howard,
William House, Philemon Hughes, Thomas. Hughes (Muddy Creek), Thomas
Hughes, Owen Hughes, John Huston, Hugh Jackson, David Jennings, Aaron
Jenkins, Jonathan Jones, John Jones, Thomas Lane, Absalom Little, Samuel
Lucas, Thomas Lucas, Richard Lucas, Hugh Laughlin, David Long, John
Long, John Long, Jr., Jacob Link
Aaron Moore, Joh Moore, Jno. Moore (over the river), Simon Moore, Hans
Moore, David Morgan, Charles Morgan, William Masters, John Masterson,
Henry Myers, George Myers, Ulrick Myers, Martin Mason, John Mason,
Alexander Miller, John Messmore, John Mene, Daniel Moredock, James
Moredock, Adam Mannon, John Mannon, John Marr, William M'Dowell, John
M'Farland, Francis M'Ginness, Nathaniel M'Carty, Samuel M'Cray, James
M'Coy, Hugh M'Cleary, Tunis Newkirk, Barnet Newkirk, Peter Newkirk,
James Neal, George Newell, James Notts, James Notts, Jr., Charles
Nelson, Adam Newton, Bernard O'Neal, Jacob Poundstone, Frederick Parker,
Phillip Pearce, Theophilus Phillips, Thomas Phillips, Adam Penter,
Ricahrd Parr, Henry Peters, John Peters, Christian Pitser, Ahimon
Pollock, John Pollock, Samuel Paine, John Wm. Provance, Ieronemus Rimley,
Casper Rather, Telah Rood, Jesse Rood, Daniel Robbins, John Robbins,
Roger Roberts, Jacob Riffle, Ralph Riffle, William Rail, David Rogers,
Thomas Roch, Edwdard Roland, William Rees, Jonathan Rees, Jacob Rich,
Thomas Scott, Edward Scott, Andrew Scott, James Scott, John Smith
(Dunlap's Creek), John Smith, Robert Smith, James Smith, Phillip Smith,
William Smith, Conrad Seix, Isaac Sutton, Isaac Sutton, Jr., Jacob
Sutton, Lewis Saltser, Samuel Stilwell, William Spangler, John
Swearingen, William Shepperd, John Swan, John Swan, Jr., Thomas Swan,
Robert Sayre, Stephen Styles, Samuel Sampson, Joseph Starkey, David
Shelby, Elias Stone, Obadiah Truax, John Thompson, Michael Tuck, Abraham
Teagarden, George Teagarden, Edward Taylor, Michael Thomas, Henry
Vanmeter, Jacob Vanmeter, John Vantress, John Varvill, David White,
James White, George Williams, David Walters, Ephriam Walters, David
Wright, George Wilson, Esq., James Wilson, John Waits, John Watson,
George Watson, Joseph Yauger, Telah Yourk
Inmates. (Boarders not heads of families.) Richard Ashcraft,
Ephriam Ashcraft, Samuel Adams, John Bachus, William Burt, John Beeson,
Samuel Bridgewater, Coleman Brown, William Brown, Benjamin Brashears,
Richard Brownfield, Benjamin Brooks, Alexander Bryan, William Bells,
Gabriel Cox, Israel Cox, Samuel Colson, Joseph Coon, Robert Cavines,
John Cross, Edward Carn, Christian Coffman, John Curley, Nathaniel Case,
John Crossley, Christopher Capley, George Catt, John Chadwick, Jonathan
Chambers, John Cline, Benajah Dunn, Zephaniah Dunn, Timothy Downing,
Jeremiah Davis, James Davis, Thomas Edwards, Bernard Eckley, James
Fugate, John Guthrey, William Groom, Captain John Hardin, William
Henthron, William Hogland, Edward Hatfield, John Hawkins, Samuel Herod,
John Hargress, Thomas Hargress, Joseph Jackson, Jacob Jacobs, John
Kinneson, Thomas Kendle, William Lee, Andrew Link, Elijah Mickle,
William Murphy, John Morgan, Morgan Morgan, Samuel Merrifield, John
Main, Jr., William Martin, John Morris, Jacob Morris, George M'Coy, John
M'Fall, Alexander M'Donald, William M'Claman, John Pettyjohn, Baltzer
Peters, Richard Powell, Thomas Pyburn, John Phillips, Thoams Provance,
Thomas Rail, Noah Rood, William Spencer, Alexander Smith, Francis
Stannater, John Taylor, William Thompson, Jonah Webb, John Williamson,
Alexander White, Benjamin Wells, Michael Whitelock, Jeremiah Yourk,
Ezekiel Yourk
Single Freeman John Brown, Joseph Batton, Isher Budd, David
Blackston, Hugh Crawford, John Crawford, Francis Chain, Wiliam Cheny,
Daniel Christy, James Chamberlain, James Carmichael, James Campbell,
John Catch, John Dicker, John Douglass, Edward Dublin, Elias Eaton,
Alexander Ellener, Samuel Eckerly, Thomas Foster, Jacob Funk, Martin
Funk, Joseph Gwin, Bartlett Griffith, John Holton, Abraham Holt, John
Holt, Joshua Hudson, John Hupp, Cornelius Johnson, Josiah Little
TYRONE William Marshall, James Morgan, Hugh Murphey, George
Morris, Joseph Morris, David M'Donald, Abraham M'Farland, John M'Gilty,
John Notts, Phillip Nicholas, James Peters, Isaac Pritchard, Jonathan
Paddox, Ebenezer Paddox, Noble Rall, Nathan Rhinehart, Samuel Robb,
James Robertson, Phillip Rogers, John Shively, Christopher Swoop, Ralph
Smith, John Sultzer, William Teagarden, John Taylor, John Verville, Jr.,
John Williams
TYRONE TOWNSHIP Jonathan Arnold, Andrew Arnold, David Allen,
Andrew Byers, Christopher Beeler, Henry Beeson, John Boggs, Thomas
Brownfield, Bernard Cunningham,
Daniel Canon, Edward Conn,
George Clark, George Clark, Jr., John Cherry, James Cravin, John
Clem, John Cornwall, John Castleman, Wiliam
Crawford, Esq., Valentine
Crawford, William Collins, George Dawson, Edward Doyle, Joshua Dickenson,
Thomas Davis, Robert Erwin, Thomas Freeman, James Gamble, Reason Gale,
Tomas Gist, Esq., Charles Harrison, William
Harrison, Ezekiel
Hickman, Henry Hartley, James Harper, Joseph Huston, William Hanshaw,
John Keith, Andrew Linn,
David
Lindsay, John Laughlin, Samuel Lyon, Alexander Moreland,
Augustine Moore, Edmund Martin, Michael Martin, Hugh Masterson, Isaac
Meason, Philip Meason, Providence Mounts, William Massey, William
Miller, Robert McGlaughlin, William McKee, Robert O'Guillon, Adam Payne,
Elisha Pearce, Isaac Pearce, George Paull, Andrew Robertson, Edmund
Rice, Robert Ross, Samuel Rankin, William Rankin, Dennis Springer,
Josiah Springer, George
Smith, Moses Smith, Isaac Sparks, William Sparks, John Stephenson, John
Stewart, Philip Shute, Philip Tanner, James
Torrance, Thomas Tilton,
John Vance, Conrad Walker, Henry White, William White, Joseph Wells,
John Waller, Richard Waller, Lund
Washington (brother of
George), George Young
Inmates Reding Blunt,
Zechariah Connell, Peter Castner, Smith Corbit, Francis Lovejoy,
Agney Maloney, Joseph Reily, Edward Stewart
Single Freeman Robert Beall, James Berwick, George Brown, William
Castleman, John Felty, Elijah Lucas, Francis Main, James Mock,
Thomas Moore, Patrick
Masterson, Alexander McClean, Daniel Stephens, William Shepherd
Uncultivated Lands George Washington, 1500 acres; John A.
Washington, 600 acres; Samuel Washington, 600 acres; Lund Washington,
300 acres; Thomas Gist, Esq., 600 acres; Nicholas Dawson, 300 acres;
Sniveley's Administrators, Halvert Adams, Joseph Hunter,
Rostraver Township
Benjamin Applegate, Daniel
Applegate, William
Applegate, Thomas
Applegate, Alexander Bowling, Andrew Baker, Samuel Burns, James Burns, Isham Barnett, Morris Brady, Samuel Biggon, Samuel Beckett, Edward Cook,
Andrew Dye, James Devoir, John Dogtauch, William Dunn, Peter Elrod,
Peter Easman, Paul Froman, Rev. Jas. Finley,
Samuel Glass, Samuel
Grissey, John Greer, James Gragh, Christopher Houseman, Thomas Houseman,
Thomas Hind, Peter Hildebrand, Joseph Hill, Llewellen Howell, Deverich
Johnson, James Johnson, Jacob Johnson, Joseph Jones, John Kiles, John
Kilton, Andrew Linn, William Linn, Nathan Linn, Frederick Lamb, John
Miller, Oliver Miller, Abraham Miller, Alexander Miller, Alexander
Morehand, Alexander Mitchell, John Mitchell, Jesse Martin, Morgan
Morgan, Robert Mays, Daniel McGogan, James McKinley, Robert McConnell,
Ralph Nisley, Dorsey Pentecost, Benjamin Pelton, David Price, John
Perry, Samuel Perry, Joseph Pearce, John Pearce, James Peers, Andrew
Pearce, Edward Smith, Samuel Sinclair, Henry Speer, John Shannon,
Michael Springer, Richard Sparks, William Sultzman,
Van Swearingen, Wiliam
Turner, Philip Tanner, Joseph Vanmeter, Jacob Vanmeter, John Vanmeter,
Peter Vandola
ROSTRAVER Adam Wickenhimen, David Williams, George Weddel, John
Weddel, James Wall, Samuel Wilson, James Wilson, Isaac Wilson, John
Wiseman, Thomas Wells, James Young
Inmates Benjamin Allen, Nathaniel Brown, Benajah Burkham, John
Bleasor, Samuel Clem, Thomas Cummins, Benajah Dumont, Samuel Davis,
Thomas Dobin, Hugh Dunn, Peter Hanks, Joseph Hill, Joseph Lemon, William
Moore, John McClellan, Felty McCormick, Martin Owens, Abraham Ritchey,
Peter Skinner
Single Freeman William Bolling, Jesse Dumont, John Finn, Isaac
Greer, Moses Holliday, Peter Johnson, Ignatius Jones, Thomas Miller,
Jacob McMeen, Baltser Shilling, Levi Stephens, Cornelius Thompson,
Robert Turner
Reprinted from American Genealogy Magazine, Vol.
5, Nos. 1 & 2
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