Notebook - Virginia No. 4, Part 1

Crumrine, Boyd. Virginia Court Records in Southwestern Pennsylvania, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1974.

Minute Book of the Virginia Court Held at Fort Dunmore (Pittsburgh) for the District of West Augusta 1775-1776.

Note: in copying these minutes no portions will be omitted, save certain lists, here and there, containing the names of cases called and unintelligible memoranda concerning them, with nothing identifying the parties, the causes of action, or the localities whence they came.

The formal organization of the court - His Majesties Writ for adjorning the County Court of Augusta from the Town of Staunton to Fort Dunmore, and with a new Commission of the Peace and Dedimus and a Commission of Oyer & Terminer and Dedimus from under the hand of John, Earl of Dunmore, his Majesties Lieutenant & Governor in chief, bearing date the Sixth day of December One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy four, directed to . . . Samuel McDowell, George Moffett . . . Alexander Robertson . . . David Shepherd . . . Gentlemen, being read, & thereupon, pursuant to the said Dedimus, the said George Croghan, John Campbell, John Connolly, John

Ahnentafel #492 - (--?--) Tewalt

(--?--) Tewalt  - backtracking to Generation 9 

Other spellings: Teewalt, Tivault, Tivult, Devault Dewalt

Born: ca. 1740
Died: Unknown

Buried: Unknown

Married: Unknown

Possibilities:
1762 - Philadelphia, PA - Baptismal record in First (Trinity) Reformed Church - Daniel Dewalt & wife Susanna Grebil parents of Petrus, b. 21 May 1762, baptized 11 July 1762, Georg Meyer & wife sponsors.

1781 - Oct. 21 - Hampshire Co., WV - Land warrant for 288 acres issued to John Devault by Governor of Virginia:

Beverley Randolph Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia.  To all

Ahnentafel #720 - Richard Clark

Richard Clark

Born: ca. 1680
Died: 1743 New Jersey

Buried: unknown

Married: Hannah (--?--) some say Craig & others Terrell

Records:

1743 - May 17 - Elizabeth, Essex County, New Jersey - Richard petitioned the probate court to be relieved as executor of his father's estate because of "being sick and weak."  Apparently, pretty sick . . . 

1743 - May 20 - Elizabeth, Essex County, New Jersey - Richard made his will:

In the name of God amen. The Twentieth Day of may in The Sixteenth year of ye Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, King over Great Britain &c. anno Domini one Thousand Seven hundred and forty three I Richard Clark, Senr. of the Borrough of Elizabeth In the province of East New Jersey yeoman Being weak in Body but of sound and perfect mind and memory, Thanks be given unto Allmighty God, Therefore calling

Notebook - Pennsylvania No. 5, Part 2

Closson, Bob & Mary Closson. Surname to 52 Westmoreland County, Pa. Cemeteries, Vol. I, no imprint.

• Blackburn - Rehoboth Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Rostraver Township
• Blackburn - Parnassus Presbyterian Church Cemetery, City of New Kensington
• Blackburn - United Methodist Church Cemetery, Sewickley Township
• Coy - Emanual Evangelical & Reformed Cemetery, Franklin Township
• Coy - Middle Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant Township
• Coy - Pine Run Church Cemetery, Washington Township
• Coy - St. Clair Cemetery, Greensburg
• Coy - St. James Lutheran Church Cemetery, Bell Township
• DeWalt - Harrison City Cemetery, Penn Township
• DeWalt - Sewickley Presbyterian Cemetery, Sewickley Township
• Dewees - Mars Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Sewickley Township
• Deweese - Long Run Presybeterian Church Cemetery, North Huntington Township
• Fitzgerald - Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Allegheny Township
• Fox - Middletown United Methodist Church Cemetery, Hempfield Township
• Fox - Harrold Lutheran Church Cemetery, Hempfield Township
• Fox - United Methodist Chruch Cemetery, Sewickley Township
• Fox - Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery, Hempfield Township

Ahnentafel #688 - (--?--) Parrish

(--?--) Parrish

Born: unknown
Died: unknown
Buried: unknown

Married: unknown

Notebook - Pennsylvania No. 5, Part 1

Bell, Herbert. History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1891.

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Eshleman, Frank. Historic Background & Annals of the Swiss & German Pioneer Settlers of Southeastern Pennsylvania, & Of Their Remote Ancestors, from the Middle of the Dark Ages, Down to the Time of the Revolutionary War, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.

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Fulton, Eleanore. An Index to the Will Books & Intestate Records of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 1729 - 1850, Southern Historical Press, Inc. 2018

• Fox, Christian 1793 
• Fox, Christopher 1788
• Fox, Edward 1739 
• Fox, James 1748
• Fox, John 1752
• Fox, John 1786

If these are English Foxes, they are not our line. 

• Galbraith, John 1753, Book B, Vol. 1, page 98
• Galbraith, John 1769, Book C, Vol. 1, page 174
• Galbraith, Robert 1746, Book A, Vol. 1, page 129

In Memoriam - Mervin Lathrop

Mervin Lea Lathrop

Born: January 25, 1935, Wayne City, Wayne Co., Illinois
Died: October 1, 2019, Granite City, Madison Co., Illinois

Married: Thelma Coil, December 18, 1955, Keenes, Wayne Co., IL

Mervin was the youngest son of Roscoe & Viola (Brown) Lathrop.