[NI002]
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SSN: unavailable
[NI004]
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Was hit by a train in his truck.
[NI006]
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William Haslett, Jacob Myers, James Myers and William Myers were neighbors in
Guitonville, PA in 1880 when the town was founded.
[NI010]
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He and his brother Josiah were blacksmiths and followed their trade with the
indians. Date unknown. After the war they headed the troops who took the
indians to a reservation west of the Mississippi. This was on the western
frontier at the time.
[NI013]
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"C.J" became foreman of the Guitonville (natural) gas fields and moved his
family there in 1910.
[NI015]
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Susan Grove (Graf) lived with James and his wife all of her life.
See notes for Hans Graf.
[NI019]
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Hans Graf (Grove) came from Holland. He was a rich man and fled because of
political intrigue. He had to get away to save his life. Hans and his two
boys were working in the fields when indians attacked. The women were scalped
and left for dead. However, Susan, Hans' daughter was not dead and lived to
be an old old lady. Hans got boys to blockhouse, but was killed by the
indians.
Father: Hans
Children: Susan, Peter and another boy
[NI020]
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Descended from Lord Ponsenby of Ireland. Her husband was Irish and was born
on the ocean under what flag and ship is not known. Elizabeth had a dowery of
7 million dollars.
[NI021]
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Fought in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. He was a carpenter and
millright. He built a mill on Herr's Island, Pittsburgh, also several mills
and churches on Clarion River.
[NI024]
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Was of Scotch descent.
[NI026]
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Married by Rev. Pendelton
[NI028]
SOURCE NOTES:
[gravestone at Rahway] m. (1) Hannah Winans; (2) Elizabeth _____ ; wil
dated 9/10/1765, proved 10/1/1767.
-- Will 9/10/1765, proved 10/1/1765. Wife Elizabeth, son Abraham Clarke
(exr.), grandsons Aaron Clark and Thomas Clarke. Wit. Jonathan Hampton,
Christopher Manlove, Lydia Gastelowe.
-- Thomas was one of the Aldermen named in the first Charter.
-- The IGI records the birth of Thomas' son Abraham (the Signer) twice. One
entry gives his mother's name as Hannah Winans; the other incorrectly
identifies his mother as Margaret Duehurst, who was actually his
grandmother. This entry confuses the Signer with his uncle, Capt. Abraham
Clark.
[NI030]
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One of the original settlers in Guitonville, PA
Was living there when the town was named in 1880.
Brother of Sam? Buried in West?
[NI032]
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Died in Death Valley during Gold Rush of '49
[NI033]
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Relative of Sir Issac Newton?
[NI038]
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Perhaps her middle name was Ridgeway in rememberance of her grandmother
[NI043]
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I don't know but somehow this name should be special.
[NI044]
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Signer of Declaration of Independance.
[NI056]
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Came from Hungary to Cleveland, Ohio USA in 1958 during the attempted
Hungarian revolt against the Soviets.
[NI062]
SOURCE NOTES:
m. 11/2/1692 Margaret Duehurst; m. (2) Hannah ______
-- Will, 1/8/1709-10, proved 8/22/1711. Wife Hannah. Sons Thomas, Abraham,
James, Daniel. Hatfield, in his history of Elizabeth, says there was also
a daughter, Mrs. Day, but she was not mentioned in Thomas's will. Thomas
lived on the Upper or Western road from Elizabethtown to Rahway, about
midway between the villages.
[NI064]
SOURCE NOTES:
Richard 1 Clarke 1635?-4/1697 m. Elizabeth ______
-- The will of Richard Clarke, the progenitor of the Clarks in
Elizabethtown and environs, was made 4/1/1697 and proved in New York
4/15/1697. Letters with will attached were issued to the exrs. in NJ
5/3/1697. The will named wife Elizabeth; sons Richard*, John, Joshua,
Samuel, Ephraim, Thomas and Benjamin. Exrs.: the widow and son Richard
Clarke. Wit. William Janeway, John Glasbrooke, Mary Baker. His estate was
valued at u159.5.1-1/2.
-- *Son Richard Clark Jr. made a deposition 3/22/1741, *aged about
fourscore years* [thus b. ca. 1661] saying that he was born at Southampton
[Long Island] and brought to Elizabethtown by his father when between
sixteen and seventeen years of age. The father was living at Southold, L.
I. in 1675, but does not appear in the Southampton records. E. F. Hatfield
says Clarke came to Elizabeth about 1678, and it is recorded that in that
year he bought Caleb Carwithy's land on Luke Watson's Point. On February
25, 1679/80 he obtained a warrant for 300 acres *in right of himself his
Wife his Sons Richard, John and his Daughter Elizabeth Clarke.* These three
children were old enough (over 14) at that time to have land granted to
their father for them.