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A Short Account of the Fab/Ill? A SHO RT ACCO UNT O F TH E / ? “ FAB ILL ? Q \U QMSB Y P I TTS B URG H OLE / E R QEMSEY PA GB ' ' To forget one é a nces tors is to be a b r ook without a Wi th o u t a root — N ES E MA! I M CHI . I AL B AN N Y Y . , ' ' ' OEL MUNS EL L S S ONS P UB L I S H ERS J , PR EFACE. A cknowledgment is gratefully rendered to M rs . O li veretta A O . Wharton , Dr . J oseph . Phillips and others of the family for assistance rendered in the preparation of this volume . The brief statement concerning the M ahon family is based , largely , on a more extended account written a number of years ago , loaned to the author by David W . M ahon , c Esq . , of Washington , D . C . The fa ts given in Mc Allister regard to the family have , as their main A . authority , old family letters loaned by F . M itchel , J . Esq . , of East Orange , N . , corroborated by informa A . tion furnished by Dr. Francis H . Orme , of tlanta , Ga 0 . O . P . i r o o h n r sb Pen P c tu e f J O m y. B H on T M H OMAS EL LO N. y the . S no portrait of J ohn Ormsby of Pittsburgh is i u A in ex stence , the following graphic pen pict re I S of him will be appreciated . I t contributed by the H on . Thomas M ellon of ex judge of the court of common pleas of Allegheny county : I n reply to your no t e requesting my reminiscences a of your great great gr ndfather , J ohn Ormsby , I regret to say that I had no personal acquaintance with him as he died several years before I came to Pitts burgh , yet I have been in a position to hear so much about him from a reliable source that I feel con strained to give you such information as I have . -in- A M y informant was my mother law , M rs . nna W inebi ddl e. née B N egley , She spent the last years l of her life in my family and delighted , as m ost c ear headed old people do , in telling about events and neighbors and friends of her youth . The Ormsby family were her neighbors and intimate friends when ‘ ’ she was in her teens , as she related , and according to her narrative J ohn Ormsby . the head of the family , was quite a character. H e was among the leading men of the town and was looked up to with defer ence , but was rather too aristocratic to be a favorite 8 A 5507! A rm a ni of Me with the rough and ready inhabitants of the frontier . The town was of small dimensions then , as she de i t A ll and scribed . east of Wood street north of roth street would have been assessed as rural and agricultural if the present law of taxation had been in force then . ecu li ariti es I I n regard to M r . Ormsby and his p have heard her describe them so often that I can almost fan cy I see him : a fi ne- looking man of medium size with a military air , rather haughty of manner but ex c eedingly kind and obliging to his neighbors and ‘ ’ friends . H e was always addressed as Colonel , not out of mere courtesy but be c ause he had held that office in the British army prior to the Revolutionary war. H e was regarded as a high - toned gentleman of the old school even then , about the beginning of the A s present century . a military man he was very par ’ tic u l ar about his dress , whether in citizen s clothes or with any of the insignia of his profession about him . H is military taste appeared in the fashion of his hat and other w ise when he appeared in full dress at parades or on other public occasions. H e would then have his dress sword in his belt and was noted for his immaculate breast and sleeve ruffles and the bright ness of his shoe and knee bu c kles ; but excepting elegance in quality and texture there was nothing peculiar about this for such was the fashion of dress at that time among those who were able to afford it and wished to be regarded as gentlemen , and even the dress sword at his side was not regarded as for display . The fighting spirit was then still in the ascendant and it was well understood that M r. Ormsby was quite willing and ready to meet an antagonist with a similar c h er weapon if oc asion required it , but according to account of him he was too much of a gentleman to ' b F a m zly of Or ms y . 9 give an insult and his opponents in politics or other ‘ ’ c wise had too much respe t for Sweet Lips , as they w called his s ord , to provoke a quarrel . i Wh lst he lived in town , his landed interests here o n lay mainly the south side of the M onongahela . H e had several plantations over there , comprising between two thousand and three thousand acres , lying between the south end of the present S mith fiel d u street bridge and Six M ile ferry , and extending so th ward over the hills , in some places two miles , covering , in part , the whole of the former boroughs of South Pittsburgh , Birmingham , East Birmingham and w Ormsby , and the greater portion of the to nship of w e Lower St . Clair , and , as know , a good deal of this property yet remains in the possession of his descendants . H e procured a portion of the bottom * land to be cleared and cultivated as his landed estate , and was regarded at the same time as a large land owner east of the mountains , on the J uniata . ! H e considered landed possessions essential to the position of a gentleman , as was then , and still is, the sentiment of the English aristocracy . Such was the way he appeared to one who saw him frequently at home and in public and fully knew the estimation in which he was held by his fellow citizens ; for , in a town of i m ts . ro i moderate size , such as Pittsburgh then was , p nent citizens are always well known to one another . Homestead Farm . 11m 1ted 1 Originally to the farm of three hundred acres near Bedford , where he lived i m m e d 1a tel y after his marriage , but later comprehending many h u ndred acres ; one recorded transfer alone being for twelve hundred acres . e s The Ormsby tates were largely augmented in the time of Oliver Ormsby , who M V E owned , besides , large tracts in Beaver , ercer , enango , Crawford and rie C 1n c i n na ti i counties , Pennsylvania ; in the towns of , Ch llicothe and Hamilton , G Y C i r c l e s v 1l l Ohio ; in reene county near ellow Springs , Ohio , and between e and M Columbus , same state ; in Lawrenceburg and near adison , Indiana ; and about fi - fteen hundred acres nearly opposite Big Bone lick in Indiana , twenty two miles by land from Cincinnati . O RMSBY. n O H N O RM S BY , the origi al of the name to J settle in western Pennsylvania , was born in I re land in 1 72 0 ; he was the son of Oliver Ormsby by his wife Deborah Barry , daughter of Colonel Barry . H e came of an ancient and honorable family , the first of the name of whom we have record being , Kt. Sir Richard de Ormesby , , who held the lands * of Ormesby in the county of Lincolnshire , England . The king gave him , after the Conquest , all the lands he possessed before . H e had son , K t. Sir William de Ormesby , , who had two sons , one of whom was , Sir Oswald de Ormesby , Kt who was the founder of the priory of Ormesby in the time of H enry I I , and had son , Kt. A na Sir Oswald de Ormesby , , who , by his wife statia had son , a Rich rd de Ormesby , who had son , A nsketill A de Ormesby , who , by his wife gnes Langton , had son , A William de Ormesby , who , by his wife nne M eeres, had son . Kt. A Sir J ohn de Ormesby , , who , by his wife nne , i L amw orth Kt daughter of Sir N cholas of Leake , . , had son , * No . Harl . MS , B . M. , 1408 . 1 2 A 57207 ! A ccou n t of Me Roger Ormesby , said to have been third son , who had son , Richard Ormesby , who had son , Portow n Robert Ormesby, of , who had son , W illiam Ormesby , who had son , J ohn Ormesby , who , by his wife H eron , had son , William Ormesby , second son who had son , i n Philip Ormesby , of Portney , Lincolnshire , who had son , Thomas Ormesby , a younger son , who came over to I reland early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth . H e was living in the year 1 569 . H e married a daughter c of H enry M alby , son of Sir N icholas M alby , hief commander of the English forces in Connaught in the * time of Queen Elizabeth .
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