Andrew Van Slyke chased the frontier. Born in New York in 1797, he first went to Illinois, where he met and married his wife, Electra Norton in 1824. Leaving the Northwest Territory in the 1830s, he traveled with his family to southwest Missouri. Then in the early 1840s, he moved south into Arkansas and thenContinue reading “Andrew Van Slyke | Gone to Texas”
Category Archives: Settler Colonizer
William Garrison | America, Liberty, Wabash
William Garrison (about 1810-1858) with his brothers, helped to establish a small Euro-American town in Wabash County, Indiana in the 1830s. A series of treaties in the early 1810s and 1820s displaced the Miami and Delaware peoples, allowing Euro-Americans to settle Indiana, migrating from the southeast border of Ohio farther north and west to theContinue reading “William Garrison | America, Liberty, Wabash”
William Goff | Cape May Connections
William Goff, a native of Ireland, who came to America during the colonial days preceding the Revolution, and during the war was employed by the government as a ship carpenter. Shortly after coming to this county, he married Prudence Passenger, a courageous colonial maid… John Goff [his son] was born in New Jersey previous toContinue reading “William Goff | Cape May Connections”
Levi Garrison | Symmes Purchase
After the Revolutionary War, Levi Garrison emigrated from New Jersey into Pennsylvania and into Ohio. In 1798, he received 108 acres from John Cleves Symmes in the Colerain Township as part of the Symmes Purchase in southwest Ohio (C1, 4) Symmes Purchase John Cleves Symmes was the father-in-law of William Henry Harrison (9th President inContinue reading “Levi Garrison | Symmes Purchase”
James Crookham | Artificer
In the biography of James Crookham’s grandson, he recounts that his grandfather made arms for George Washington during the war. War records indicate that he served in the Pennsylvania Regiment of Artillery and Artificers near Carlisle, PA at Washingtonburg. He enlisted in November of 1778. Capt. Thos. Wylie certified his attendance on the muster rollContinue reading “James Crookham | Artificer”
James Crookham | Huntingdon, PA
The Continental Army recorded the desertion of James Crookham in April 1780. He had been listed as a bombardier, matross, and artificer stationed at Carlisle, PA during the war. He appears shortly after the war in the tax records of Bedford and Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Huntingdon County was formed from Bedford County in 1787. BothContinue reading “James Crookham | Huntingdon, PA”
William Crookham | South Ward
William Crookham is included in the 1774 Tax List for the South Ward of Philadelphia. It is unclear how he is included, in that he seems to appear as a sub-item for the taxes of Charles Marshall who owed approximately 79 pounds. South Ward, Philadelphia The South Ward was bordered by Water and Chestnut Streets,Continue reading “William Crookham | South Ward”
Asa Lake | Prisoner of War
In his grandson’s biography, a few sentences describe the role of Asa Lake in the Revolutionary War. In a previous post, I recount the land purchases Asa Lake made after the war in northwest Ohio on the Lanape land; the Lanape, or Delaware Indians, had been removed by the US Government to Kansas and Oklahoma.Continue reading “Asa Lake | Prisoner of War”
Asa Lake | Western Reserve of Ohio
Asa Lake (d. 1843) lived in Vermont during the Revolutionary War, migrated to Ohio around 1800, first in southeastern Ohio in Jackson County, before traveling to Hancock County in northwestern Ohio, where he died. In the History of Hancock County, Asa Lake was recorded as the first settler in Delaware Township, purchasing land in SectionContinue reading “Asa Lake | Western Reserve of Ohio”
Jethro New | Battle of Cowpens
Jethro New enlisted in the 2nd Delaware Regiment and fought in the Battle of Cowpens (Jan 1781). The battle was turning point in the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War, as it was a decisive victory for the Continental Army. Battle of Cowpens Cowpens is located near the border between the Carolinas in the backcountryContinue reading “Jethro New | Battle of Cowpens”
Finding the Yellow Bricks 