Cornstalk Event of 1763

I did a great deal of research on what I called in my ignorance at the time the Clendenin Massacre many years ago.  Later I began calling it the Cornstalk Event of 1763.  Unfortunately, I was not blogging at the time.  Perhaps Blog Sites had not even come into being yet.  However, little by little I would like to add some of my research to this blog site.  I am in the middle of other research that I want to continue, but as part of my poking around on the internet, I found the following page about The Gilmore family who had family members killed in both the 1763 event and also again in 1764.  I wanted a place to put the link:

http://www.bigstonegappublishing.net/THE%20KERR%20CREEK%20MASSACRES.pdf 

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Every year about this time I begin planning where I will go for research in March.  It has to be between Huntington and Boston or actually be in Boston or near West Port, Connecticut or in the area around Philadelphia.  This year the answer came to me in the middle of the night last night:  Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It is a no brainer!  I will put the reasons for my choice in the main body of my blog post.  I will begin with a map of where I might go and what I might do.  

I am going to add a link to a great you tube presentation on the boundaries of Lancaster County as they changed over the years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0JC6JZFUHw

First is the map that started all of this.  I woke up one morning very early and found by chance this map while drinking coffee:

http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~berry/genealogy/newupload/figures/Fig29.jpg

Perhaps the same day but at least soon after, I found that Jacob Elliott dis mou.  Elizabeth was NOT Quaker!  And, of course, that led me to think that she was probably Scotch-Irish?  Now after a bit more research I would add or German?  And this led me to decide to zero in on Lancaster County!  However, Elizabeth is not a very German name,

The below map helps put a location on Lancaster County.  I did not realize that it adjoined Berks County.  Also notice that it adjoins Harford and Cecil MD.  All through the time period I am talking about in this blog post, Lord Baltimore was fighting with Pennsylvania about the border between the two colonies.

The tide of settlement was not to be stopped, however. As early as 1709, a Scot had established himself in present-day Salisbury Township, and an English Quaker family was living in Little Britain Township. It was not until 1710, however, that the first community within the present borders of the county was established. In that year, a group of Swiss Mennonites--the families of Herr, Mylin and Kendig--built a settlement a few miles south-east of present-day Lancaster city. Two years later a band of French Huguenots led by Marie Ferree settled near Strasburg. Two more years passed before the Scot Presbyterians arrived in two waves, one settling in the Donegal area of northwestern Lancaster County an d the other occupying land in the south. These Scots, often called the "Scotch-Irish," came from Ulster in Ireland after being "planted" there by the English in an attempt to subdue the Irish.

Foor a clickable version of this map go to

http://www.usgwarchives.net/maps/pa/county/lancas/usgs/

On the heels of the Scots came a small but influential group of English and Welsh families. The English tended to settle along a band running horizontally across the county between Salisbury Township and Wright's Ferry (Columbia), including Lancaster village. Occupying lands in what later became Caernarvon, Brecknock and Lampeter townships, the Welsh often were found working in iron. By 1717, the entire central portion of Lancaster County was rapidly filling with immigrants from the Rhineland as well, usually employed as farmers or skilled artisans. When Lancaster County became a reality, it was already the most pluralistic and cosmopolitan place in the New World.

https://www.lancasterhistory.org/highlights/articles/lanccohistory.htm 

From Leyburn's The Scotch Irish: A Social History on pages 189 and 190 and 191:

Penn recruited settlers.  He visited personally German lands that had been devastated by the Thirty Years War.  In 1683, led by their ministers, great numbers of families from the Rhine country came to Pennsylvania.  [I may want to look at this date when I am working on my Cassell family.]

Almost three decades later the Ulster Scots began to arrive.  James Logan invited the first group of Ulstermen to come.  ....for they were his "brave" fellow-countrymen. 

In 1720 he wrote:

 At the time we were apprehensive from the Northern Indians....I therefore thought it might be prudent to plant a settlement of such men as those who formerly had so bravely defended Londonderry.....He accordingly gave them an extensive tract of land in Chester (now Lancaster) County and they immediately named their settlement Donegal after the home county in Northern Ireland.

and on page 197:  

The town of Lancaster became an important town and was the point of departure for immigrants headed toward western Maryland and the Valley of Virginia.  There was a ferry run by John Harris across the Susquehanna River in Lancaster County as well as a trading post and an important link to the Great Wagon Road.  The ferry was the beginning of the town of Harrisburg.

The Scotch-Irish continued to push West.  Often they squatted on the land.  Penn's men had always tried to purchase the land from the Indians.  But the Squatters did not wait until the land purchases were made.  By 1754 the Indian trouble began.  Settlers began to move down the great Wagon road rather than west.  Only in the years after the Indian fighting had ended in 1764 did settlers move farther west in Pennsylvania.

The next book I looked at is:

On page 267 Bolton says: 

"A stronghold of Presbyterianism was in the neighborhood of Newcastle, Delaware.  The narrow tong of land.....is shared by Maryland and Delaware....North of these two counties and across the Pennsylvania line are Lancaster and Chester Counties  extending from the Delaware River to the Susquehanna River.  The territory, south a few miles from Philadelphia, became the mecca for Scotch emigrants from Ireland.  These emigrants pushed up through Newcastle County to cross the Pennsylvania line, hoping to escape from Maryland and its tithes.

The mystery of how John and Sarah Elliott were a part of Burlington MM

I have been turning over all the clues that I can think of that have to do with the fact that John and Sarah Elliott were enough a part of Burlington MM to have been given a certificate from  Burlington MM to present at New Garden and Nottingham Lots.  

Here is a blog site that I want to explore:

http://jerseyman-historynowandthen.blogspot.com/2011/08/settlements-of-friends-meetings-in-new.html

The Castle/Cassel/Kassel Family

https://archive.org/details/genealogicalhist00cass/page/n5/mode/2up?ref=ol&q=Johannes&view=theater

According to this book:

Johannes Cassel came to America with his brother Yelles in the ship Friendship from Rotterdam on the 16th of October 1727 with his brother Yelles. He settled in Lancaster County, PA in the vicinity of Columbia.  There were three brothers who were grandsons of Yelles, the Preacher at Kriesheim.  They all came from Kriesheim.  As far as the author knows they were Mennonite

From the same source:  Johannes Cassel, Born 1639, and his wifeMary, came to America in the ship “Jefries and landed at Philadelphia Nov 20 1686.He came with children.  He was 47.  He was a weaver by trade.  He settled at Germantown in the County of Philadelphia.

There is a third brother also found in America and he may have already been in Germantown in PA when the other two arrived.  Much of this book is about the third brother, Hupert.

I am looking at the trees on Ancestry this morning.  I found one that is owned by BarbaraPinkston29.  Barbara is not a dna match to me on Ancestry.  I have not yet checked to see if she matches Mom.  She had Quaker records among her sources for Johannes Cassel born 1639 in Kriegsheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany and died in 1691 in Germantown, Philadelphia

 

Carroll 1765-1815 The Settlements by John Perry Alderman

 The Quaker .io list has been very active through the holiday and I have been very interested in the conversations.  But because of the holiday, I have not had time to participate as much as I would like in the conversations.  Santa brought me the book named in the title of this blog post,  So I will start with this book.

Jacob Elliott and his wife Elizabeth and his children (which included married children with their own families) took a certificate from Center MM in southern Guilford County to New Garden MM near present day Greensboro.  This was almost certainly a move from Randolph County, NC to Chestnut Creek in what is now Galax, Virginia.  I assume that New Garden MM was the closest MM to the area. Below is a map showing where I believe they lived in this time period.  Their land would have been in what is now Carroll County.  But at the time it would have been Montgomery County.   And from that, I was able to place the land no a modern map. 

Land on Which Elliot family lived during the Revolution

Montgomery County, Virginia was huge in this time period extending from the NC border to the Ohio River.

And between Henry County on the East and Washington County on the West.

From New River notes is the following explaining who had settled in this area:

Following the Battle of Alamance, 1771 a group of intermarried families left the Piedmont of North Carolina and moved just across the Virginia border into virgin wilderness along Chestnut Creek and its tributaries. These families were mostly Quakers or disowned Quakers and many of the men had been active in the Regulator movement and participated in the Battle of Alamance. Amongst them was a Baptist named Flower Swift. The largest extended family was the Quaker Cox family. The Cox family was related by blood to Herman Husband. Husband was the best known leader of the Regulation and was a fugitive after Alamance 1771, traveling under the pseudonym Tuscape Death. Possibly amongst the Chestnut Creek settlers was William Rankin, who had been declared an outlaw by North Carolina's Governor Tryon. Almost all of this group came from today's Randolph, Guilford, Alamance and Iredell counties. Before they were in North Carolina, most of their familiess had migrated thusly:

• Chester Co., Pennsylvania and neighboring New Castle Co., Delaware and Cecil Co., MD then moving to York, Adams or Franklin Co., PA, thence to North Carolina
• Harford or Baltimore Co., MD, thence to Monocacy, Frederick Co., MD, thence to North Carolina

A large percentage of the Quakers and non-Quakers were of Scotch or Irish ancestry. The non-Quakers were mostly Baptists.

https://www.newrivernotes.com/carroll_history_1779-1783_flower_swift_company.htm

My new book has information about these families. 

On pages 10, 11, 12 there is great information on where to find land information on this area.  The author spent many years of his life gathering land information and he share with the reader where to look for records

While trying to answer a query about how I knew this land to be that of Jacob Elliott, I reviewed what I read in the book.  I interpret the below as being when the war was over and the Elliott family were ready to move back to Randolph County, they sold the 240 acres on Chestnut Creek to John Williams.  The author has a plat map on page 300 that shows the 150 acres on Chestnut Creek on which John Williams lived.

Who might have traveled with Sarah and John Elliott from Burlington to Nottingham/New Garden?

Lauren has inspired me to look at some ideas of how to explore the idea in the Title.

First.  Who is likely to have received a certificate from Burlington to anyplace c.1722?

Second  Who who is likely to have received a certificate from anyplace at New Garden c. 1722?

Third who might have moved into the Nottingham Lots c. 1722? 

The Elliott family and possible connections to Gloucester Great Britain

In January, 2022 I spent more time on the below.  My gut feeling after more research is that the Quaker Elliott family found in the Gloucester area of England are likely related to the Elliott family found in Westmoreland Virginia with connections to a wife named Amanda Smith.  At this time I believe this to be a dead end for my own research.

 I had dabbled with connections between my John Elliott and his wife Sarah and Gloucester England in a post this fall.  I have become more and more interested in following up on this idea even though it does not seem to be what anyone else suggests and it is based on quite random clues.  It is possible that I will move some of the information from my previous post to this post, but I am not doing that today.  So begin by reading the following:

http://marshamoses.blogspot.com/2021/08/ellotelliott-family-before-move-to-nc.html

Here are some of the ideas that are rolling around in my head that I want to explore:

There is a Guy family both in the area of Bristol and Burlington.  Bristol is about 20 miles from Gloucester.  I will look at the Quaker families in both places to see if I can find other families both places.  Some of the trees on Ancestry have a wife with maiden name Guy for an Elliott male.  The one that they have chosen makes no sense as she died in Great  Britain quite late for this story and she is a niece to William Penn.