John Lindsey of Brown County, Ohio b. 1774, d. 1847
Report prepared by Susan Grabek 16th June 2011
http://mimpickles.com/lindsey/hezekiah/proof/john_lindsey_report.pdf
Proof that John Lindsey, b. 1774, was the son of Hezekiah Lindsey, b. 1747
John Lindsey was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania on 25 February 1774. 1,3 He died in Brown County, Ohio in 1747. 2 In this report, it will be proved that John Lindsey was the son of Hezekiah Lindsey, who was born in Virginia in 1747. Hezekiah Lindsey moved to Westmoreland County sometime in the early 1770’s. He served as a Revolutionary War soldier in the Fort Pitt area of today’s southwestern Pennsylvania. 3
After the war, Hezekiah Lindsey settled in Campbell County, Kentucky. 4 He moved across the Ohio River to Clermont County, Ohio in the early 1800’s. 5 Hezekiah’s son, John Lindsey, settled nearby in Brown County, Ohio. 6
Hezekiah Lindsey died intestate in Clermont County circa 1826. 7 To date, no probate record has been found for Hezekiah. Though there is no probate record, proof that John Lindsey was the son of Hezekiah can be found in several source documents. In 1839, John Lindsey of Brown County, Ohio made an affidavit for Alice Beasley Chalmers to help her obtain a widow’s pension for the Revolutionary War service of her husband, Andrew Chalmers. In his affidavit, John Lindsey stated that he had lived in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania as a young boy. John also stated that his father’s farm in Westmoreland County was adjacent to land owned by John Callahan, the stepfather of Andrew Chalmers. 8 Land records from the Pennsylvania Archives confirm that Hezekiah Lindsey owned land adjacent to the tract owned by John Callahan in Westmoreland County. 9
John Lindsey of Brown County, Ohio was undoubtedly the son of Hezekiah Lindsey of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania and Clermont County, Ohio.
Endnotes
1. Source documents to prove that John Lindsey was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in 1774:
In this endnote, it will be shown that John Lindsey was born in 1774, and that he lived in Westmoreland County as a young boy. In endnote 3, it will be shown that Hezekiah Lindsey was living in Westmoreland County by 1770, and that he lived there throughout the Revolutionary War. So if John Lindsey was the son of Hezekiah Lindsey, he would have to have been born in Westmoreland County. Information in endnotes 7 and 8 will prove that John Lindsey was the son of Hezekiah Lindsey.
NARA Publication M804; File #W4152: Revolutionary War Pension application of Andrew Chalmers, pp. 63, 65, and 68 (Footnote.com page numbering). The following are my transcriptions of excerpts from pages 63, 65 and 68.
Page 63:
The State of Ohio Brown County SS.
“Before me the undersigned one of the justices of the peace and for the above named county personally appeared John Lindsey of lawful age who being first duly sworn on his said oath states: That he the said Lindsey is well acquainted with Alice Chalmers and has been acquainted with her since he was a small child. That he believes she is a cousin of him the said Lindsey that the said Alice lived at the house of the father of this deponent a short time after the revolutionary war the precise year he does not remember but supposes it must have been sometime before the year 1788…”
“…sworn to and subscribed before me this third day of August 1837…”
Page 65:
The State of Ohio Brown County SS. [note: date was 20 August 1839 – a citation follows]
“Personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas of Brown County Ohio now in session John Lindsey of said County aged sixty five years on the twenty fifth day of February now last past who being duly sworn according to law on his said oath states that Alice Beasley now Alice Chalmers whom he understands is an applicant for a pension lived at the house of the father of this deponent in Westmoreland County in the State of Pennsylvania…”
Page 68:
“The State of Ohio Brown County Court of Common Pleas August Term A D 1839 present Hon. John Winston Price President Judge and David Johnston – Benjamin Evans and Henry Martin Esquire - associate judges of said court.
On the 20 th day of August in the year aforesaid the Court aforesaid in open Court ordered the following entry to be made upon their journals to wit. The Court orders it to be certified that John Lindsey Esquire who has this day in open Court sworn and subscribed to an affidavit in support of a claim of Alice Chalmers for a Pension...”
2. Source documents to prove that John Lindsey died in Brown County, Ohio in 1847:
The History of Brown County, Ohio Containing A History of the County; Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Map of Brown County; Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc. (Chicago: W.H. Beers & Co., 1883) p. 535: “John Lindsey was born in Pennsylvania February 28, 1774…He died April 9, 1847, aged seventy-three years one month and twelve days…”
Brown County, Ohio Probate Court, Estate packet #9212-A (John Lindsey), p. 3: On 1 May 1847, letters of administration were granted to James and William Lindsey to administer the estate of John Lindsey.
3. Source documents to prove that Hezekiah served as a Revolutionary War soldier in the Fort Pitt area of today’s southwestern Pennsylvania, and that he had arrived in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania by the early 1770’s:
NARA Publication M804; File #S41770: Revolutionary War Pension application of Hezekiah Lindsey, pp. 5-6 (Footnote.com page numbering). Below is my transcription of an excerpt from pages 5-6:
The State of Ohio Clermont County
Be it remembered that on the 5 th day of June one thousand eight hundred eighteen personally came before me Alexander Blair a judge of the Court of Common pleas and for said County Hezekiah Lindsey aged Seventy one years and being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists deposeth and saith he enlisted in the army of the United States in the County of Westmoreland and State of Pennsylvania in the Company commanded by Captain Uriah Springer in the _ Regiment commanded by Colonel John Gibson in the Virginia line in Continental Establishment that he served in the American Army three years the full time that he had enlisted for that he obtained his discharge from the Army at fort Pitt now Pittsburgh Pa that some years after the War he transmitted the said discharge to the state of Virginia to obtain his land warrant but that he never obtained any land for his services. the deponent offers the annexed deposition of Andrew Chalmers as evidence that he never obtained any Pension and hereby relinquishes any pension heretofore allowed by the Laws of the United States – And this deponant the said Hezekiah Lindsey on his oath the aforesaid declars that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his Country for support.
his Hezekiah (S) Lindsey mark
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Deed Book A, page 414 (FHL microfilm #0929165). 7 Feb 1783: Ezekiah Lindsy of Hempfield Township to Isaac Mason, 300 acres on Mounts Creek …“it being the same land I live on in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy”…
4. Source documents to prove that Hezekiah Lindsey moved to Campbell County, Kentucky after the Revolutionary War:
Mason County, Kentucky 1792 tax list, page 14. (Campbell County was formed in 1794 from portions of Mason, Harrison, and Scott Counties.) Hezekiah Linsley was listed as paying a poll for one male over age 21, and a poll for one male between 16 and 21 years old. Source: Web page titled “Early Mason County Tithables”: http://kykinfolk.com/mason/masontax.html , (this web page is part of a larger website, the Mason County, Kentucky Gen Web), accessed on 5/27/2011.
Mason County, Kentucky 1793 tax list. Source: Web page titled “ Mason County, Kentucky Tax Lists, Abstracted from Filmed Originals”, (which is part of a larger website, the Mason County, Kentucky Gen Web), accessed on 5/27/2011. Hezekiah Lindy is listed in the abstraction of 1793 tithables: http://kykinfolk.com/mason/tax.html#1793
Campbell County, Kentucky 1798 tax list. Hez Lindsey was listed as paying a poll. Source: Web page titled “1798 Property Tax List A-L”, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kycampbe/propertytax1798.htm , (which is part of a larger website, the Campbell County, Kentucky Gen Web): http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kycampbe/index.htm , accessed on 5/27/2011.
Campbell County, Kentucky 1800 tax list. Hezekiah Lindsey was listed as paying a poll for one male over the age of 21, and for two males between the age of 16 and 21. Source: Web page titled “Property Tax 1800, Book 1”. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kycampbe/propertytax1800.htm (which is part of a larger website, the Campbell County, Kentucky Gen Web): http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kycampbe/index.htm , accessed on 5/27/2011.
Campbell County, Kentucky 1801 tax list. Hezekiah Lindsey was listed as paying a poll for one male over the age of 21, and for two males between the age of 16 and 21. Source: Web page titled “1801 Property Tax List-Book 1” http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kycampbe/propertytax1801.htm (which is part of a larger website, the Campbell County, Kentucky Gen Web): http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kycampbe/index.htm , accessed on 5/27/2011.
5. Source documents to prove that Hezekiah Lindsey moved across the Ohio River to Clermont County, Ohio in the early 1800’s:
Below are excerpts from pages 398-399 of History of Clermont County, Ohio: with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1880). Hezekiah Lindsey’s name appears in red type to make it easier to locate.
“…In the fall of 1796 and the following year a number of settlers came into what was the old township of Ohio. James John located at the mouth of Nine-Mile Creek, and Rodham Morin near Isaac Ferguson's, to which place his father, Edward Morin, with a large family, came the following year. Regarding these settlers and the settlements which followed, and the incidents of their pioneer life, the Hon. John Shaw said: "And soon after came Hezekiah Lindsey , Jesse Swem, Archibald Gray, Nathaniel Donham, William Abercrombie, John, Jacob, and Daniel Light, Alexander Robb, and John, Abner, and Joseph Fagin. These were all from Pennsylvania except the Morins, who were from Virginia. Mr. Morin, Mr. Lindsey , and Mr. Swem had been soldiers of the Revolutionary war, and perhaps some of the others named...”
"…The first settlers in what is now the northern part of the small territory of Ohio township were Amos and Robert Haiaes, Levi Moss, William and Hezekiah Lindsey , Rodham and John Morin, John, Robert, Amos, and Abel Donham, Reuben Laycock, John Snider, John and Abner Fagin, Edmund and Caleb Lindsey, John Cox, Sr., Edward Chapman, William Hardin, David White, Dr. Joshua Porter, Neely Gray, Hamilton Miller, Zebulon Applegate, Mr. WiShart, and Lewis Miller. I recollect all of the above except Alexander Robb, 1saac Ferguson, Nathaniel Denham, William McCandless, James Whitaker, William Abercrombie, and Mr. Wishart ; they died before my day. I think they were all here before 1812…”
“... Hezekiah Lindsey and his family came with Isaac Ferguson from Pennsylvania, and lived near him in Kentucky; and after coming to Clermont settled below him on the river- bottoms. He died about seventy years ago, leaving sons named Manley, John, Philip, Hezekiah, William, Elijah, and daughters who married Joshua Brown, of Ohio ; John Fisher, of Monroe ; John Gilman, Elijah Mattox, and Jesse Swem, all of Pierce. John Lindsey and his brother Philip settled in Brown County…”
From page 404: “…Of the early elections no records have been preserved, but at the election for county commissioners, April 2, 1804, when William Simonds and Samuel Lane acted as judges and Shadrach Lane was clerk, 37 votes were cast; and at the October election the same year, John Fagin, Jacob Ulrey, and William Abercrombie were the judges, and Robert Townsley and Samuel Shepard clerks, and the total number of votes was 26. A year later Morris Witham, James Ward, and William Abercrombie were the judges, Edward Miller and Robert Townsley the clerks ; and the following were the voters : George Fagin, John McCleary, John Morin, Patrick Fagin, Abel Donham, Nathan Nichols, Rodham Morin, John Snyder, Tophel Apple, John Day, William Apple, Jesse Swem, Chapman Archer, Hezekiah Lindsey ,…”
6. Source documents to prove that John Lindsey settled in Brown County, Ohio:
Below is an excerpt from page 535 of The History of Brown County, Ohio Containing A History of the County; Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Map of Brown County; Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc. Chicago: W.H. Beers & Co., 1883.
“John Lindsey was born in Pennsylvania February 28, 1774, and married Elizabeth Lucas, daughter of Robinson Lucas, but whether in Virginia or Kentucky, or after his father-in-law came to Ohio, we have been unable to learn. He came to the territory now constituting this township about 1801 or 1802, and settled on land now owned by Joseph List, and, with his brother Phillip, who lived with him, cleared a small field. He and his brother shortly afterward bought a tract of land on West Fork, he taking the farm now owned by M. A. Courts, and on which he lives, and Phillip taking where Charles Elschlager lives...”
Records of Brown County - Georgetown, Ohio Roll D3 Deed Book 7-18-1801 to 9-14-1814, pg. 365 (FHL Microfilm #359400) 4 Dec. 1810: Joseph and Nancy Kerr to John Lindsey, for $225, 150 acres in Clermont County on the west fork of Straight Creek. Witnesses: Amaziah Davisson and Reuben Knowls. Note: This land lies in Franklin Township in today’s Brown County, Ohio. (Brown County was formed in 1817 from Adams and Clermont Counties.)
Brown Co., OH Deed Book E5, Pg. 172 (FHL microfilm #361773) 16 Nov. 1825: John Lindsey and wife Elizabeth to Hezekiah Lindsey, for $100, 100 acres in Brown Co. on White Oak Creek, adjacent to John Rich, part of a 500 acre survey entered by John Lindsey, No. 10784. Witnesses: Uriah Springer and Elijah C. Sollenberger. (This land lies in Scott and Franklin Townships)
Brown Co., OH Deed Book E5, Pg. 173 (FHL microfilm #361773) 20 Nov. 1825: John Lindsey and wife Elizabeth to William Lindsey, for $100, 100 acres in Brown Co. on White Oak Creek, adjacent to John and Henry Spiers, part of a 500 acre survey entered by John Lindsey, No. 10784. Witnesses: Uriah Springer and Elijah C. Sollenberger. (This land lies in Scott and Franklin Townships)
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7. Source documents to prove that Hezekiah Lindsey died in Clermont County circa 1826:
Index to Final Pension Payment Vouchers, compiled 1818 – 1864, NARA Record Group 217, NARA Catalog ID # 2733385. Hezekiah Lindsey of Ohio was issued a last and final payment for a military pension in the third quarter of 1825.
NARA Publication M804; File # 41593 : Revolutionary War Pension application of Patrick Grogan.
Page 50: 17 September 1824 - Hezekiah Lindsey of Clermont County, Ohio gave a deposition to support Grogan’s claim that he had served as a Revolutionary War soldier. Lindsey stated that Grogan had served in the Ninth Virginia Regiment for nine months in 1778 or 1779.
Page 44: 12 August 1828 – William Shepherd stated that Hezekiah Lindsey had given a deposition a number of years earlier, and that Lindsey had since died.
Hezekiah Lindsey was alive in September of 1824, but deceased by August of 1828. Given that a final pension payment was issued to Hezekiah near the end of 1825, it seems logical to conclude that Hezekiah Lindsey died circa 1826.
8. Source documents to prove that John Lindsey of Brown County, Ohio was the son of Hezekiah Lindsey of Clermont County, Ohio:
The first record below, an affidavit made by John Lindsey in Brown County, Ohio in 1839, establishes that John Lindsey grew up in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Part of the affidavit (page 65) appeared in endnote 1, above. It is repeated here with more of the excerpt for contextual understanding. Page 66 of the deposition identifies the location of the farm that John Lindsey’s father owned in Westmoreland County.
NARA Publication M804; File #W4152: Revolutionary War Pension application of Andrew Chalmers. Below are transcriptions of excerpts from pages 65and 66. Page 68, which established that John Lindsey’s affidavit was made in 1839, was excerpted in endnote 1, is not repeated here.
Page 65:
“The State of Ohio Brown County SS. Personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas of Brown County Ohio now in session John Lindsey of said County aged sixty five years on the twenty fifth day of February now last past who being duly sworn according to law on his said oath states that Alice Beasley now Alice Chalmers whom he understands is an applicant for a pension lived at the house of the father of this deponent in Westmoreland County in the State of Pennsylvania and was hired by the mother of this deponent to work about the house for his mother. This deponent distinctly remembers that Andrew Chalmers came to his father’s house to visit the said Alice and afterwards the said Andrew Chalmers and the said Alice Chalmers with others along with them left his father’s house in said County and at the time they did so it was reported and talked about in the family that they were gone to be married…”
Page 66:
“…Said marriage of Alice and Andrew Chalmers took place before the year seventeen hundred and ninety (1790) but he cannot state the exact day or year in which it took place. His reasons for stating that it took place before the year seventeen hundred and ninety (1790) is this that the father of this deponent lived upon a certain farm in Westmoreland County Pennsylvania which farm adjoined a certain farm that belonged to John Callahan who was said to be step father to said Andrew Chalmers and Andrew Chalmers lived with him after he came from the war until his marriage and in the year seventeen hundred and ninety (1790) the father of this deponent removed from the farm he lived on at the time said marriage took place to another farm about three miles off from the first…”
8. Source documents to prove that Hezekiah Lindsey was the person who owned land next to John Callahan in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania prior to 1790:
Images on the following pages are from a Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania township land patent map, and also from individual tract surveys that were downloaded from the Pennsylvania Archives land records website.
Pennsylvania Land records show that Hezekiah Lindsey lived on land that was adjacent to land owned by John Callahan in Westmoreland County.
The image above is a colorized portion of a warrant map of East Hungtingdon Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania showing the adjoining lands of John Callahan (blue), George Shilling (pink), and Hezekiah Lindsey (yellow). Source: Early Landowners of Pennsylvania: Westmoreland Co. Patent Maps, CD by Ancestor Tracks.
Following are images of individual surveys of the plats shown above, which will identify the names of the landowners.
John Callahan owned the tract shown above (#73 on the East Huntingdon warrant map). Callahan's survey shows that his neighbors to the south were George Shilling and Hezekiah Lynn, who was actually Hezekiah Lindsey (see the Shilling surveys that follow).
Source: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Land Records: Copied Survey Books. Survey Book C-35, page168.
Image URL: http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-114CopiedSurveyBooks/Books%20C1- C234/Book%20C035/Book%20C-035%20pg%20338.pdf
George Shilling owned the tracts shown above (#90 and #92 on the East Huntingdon warrant map). The survey on the left shows that Shilling’s neighbor to the northeast was John Callahan, while the survey on the right shows that Ezekiah (Hezekiah) Lindsey was the former owner of the tract to the east, and that John McFadden was the present owner of the tract.
Source: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Land Records: Copied Survey Books. Survey Book C-198, page187 and Survey Book C-209, page165.
Image URL’s: http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-114CopiedSurveyBooks/Books%20C1- C234/Book%20C198/Book%20C-198%20pg%20373.pdf http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-114CopiedSurveyBooks/Books%20C1- C234/Book%20C209/Book%20C-209%20pg%20329.pdf
Hezekiah Lindsey at one time owned the tract shown above (#93 on the East Huntingdon warrant map). Hezekiah’s neighbor to the north was John Callahan, while his neighbor to the west and south was George Shilling. John Lindsey stated in his 1839 affidavit (endnote #5, above) that his father had moved to another farm about three miles away before 1790.
Source: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Land Records: Copied Survey Books. Survey Book C-79, page193.
Image URL: http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-114CopiedSurveyBooks/Books%20C1- C234/Book%20C079/Book%20C-079%20pg%20388.pdf
Conclusion
Because John Lindsey of Brown County, Ohio stated that his father owned a farm adjoining John Callahan in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and because land records show that Hezekiah Lindsey was an adjoining owner to Callahan, Hezekiah Lindsey must have been the father of John Lindsey of Brown County, Ohio.