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John Lindsey of Brown County, Ohio B 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.
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