Hi Jackie & all, Jackie wrote; > You are so right, various versions of this story keep popping up. Here > is the article written by George Mytinger Brisbin. Anne, is William in > this article the one you asked me about? I have never placed him. Does > anybody know? > Jackie Yes this is the William I was asking you about and here's another William. From Barr-Brisbin book info I sent today "William Brisban, the brother, married Elizabeth Watson of Donegal Church. In 1780 he appears in a list of taxpayers of Salisbury Township, Lancaster., (242 acres, value 10'480 lbs.) His son William was a member the Pennsylvania Legislature 1802, 3, 4. Are they one and the same? Are we still havin fun? :-) Anne ---------- > From: Jacqueline Marshall <jmarshal@jlc.net> > To: oldsalt@pilot.infi.net > Cc: BRISBIN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Loyalist Brother of Capt. John & William > Date: Thursday, February 19, 1998 11:46 AM > > Hi George & everybody, > You are so right, various versions of this story keep popping up. Here > is the article written by George Mytinger Brisbin. Anne, is William in > this article the one you asked me about? I have never placed him. Does > anybody know? > Jackie > > George Mytinger Brisbin sent the following information to 'Notes & > Queries Historical and Genealogical' Vol I, page 93. Edited by William > Henry Egle, M.D. M.A. it is an old Pennsylvania genealogy periodical > mostly relating to Interior PA. I have a photocopy of the article sent > by Muriel Brisbin Morrison in 1982. Anne Futch sites the date as > 1899:95. Muriel says that the village of Brisbin, PA is named for George > Mytinger Brisbin. > > Page 94, 'Notes and Queries': "Captain John Brisbin of the Revolution - > (The following communication came into our hands a number of years ago. > The writer was George Mytinger Brisbin, Esq., of Osceola Mills, PA. > Accompanying was the roll of Capt. Brisbin's company, but as this is > published in the History of the Pennsylvania Line in the Revolution, > does not occasion its reproduction here. There are some points, however, > in the letter which are interesting, and hence given. > In compliance with the promise I made you I have carefully copied the > names from my grandfather's roll book, and forwarded them to you. There > is some explanation which I deem necessary and will endeavor to make. > Many of the names are spelled in different ways, where they occur in > different places in the book. Grandfather spells his sometimes Brisben, > and again Brisbin. I think he was unsettled about that time, as to the > spelling of Brisbin. He was from Scotland, and the name in Scotland is > spelled "Brisbane", where the title is still in existance. Dr. William > Brisbane of Philadelphia, is my authority for the Scotch way of spelling > the name. While in Europe he visited Scotland, and had a copy of the > "Brisbane" coat of arms taken, and brought it home. Dr. Brisbane, I > believe, is the son of William Brisbin, who was the son of grandfather. > I have frequently heard my father say, many years ago, that his father > and a brother came to this country together; another brother held a > commission in the English army; that the two brothers at once espouced > the Revolutionary cause and entered the army; the third brother was with > Gen. Howe, at New York, and whenever the opportunity offered showed his > tyranny over those he termed "rebbles". This fact becoming known to the > "rebble" brothers, they determined to alter the manner of spelling the > name, that their descendants might never have the sins of the tyrannical > brother to answer for - hense "Brisbin". Grandfather had been in the > English army before the Revolution, but what service he rendered I never > knew, but he had a large land grant from George III, which was located > on Green River, Kentucky, but during the war his papers became > scattered, the land was monopolized by strangers and lost to him. ... > General St. Clair's name is frequently made mention of in the > accounts of the soldiers, from which I infer the regiment was in his > immediate comand, although my father at one time had a letter from Maj. > Gen. Anthony Wayne, highly extoling, Captain John Brisbin's services, > but that letter was taken to Washington for some purpose and never > returned to him again. > Grandfather raised his company in Lancaster County - disposing of his > farm for the purpose - which, I believe, at that time included the > territory now covered by Dauphin and Lebanon Counties. His headquarters > while enlisting the company was at Harrisburg, although his home was > afterwards at Bird-in-Hand, where my father was born in 1784, after the > war was over, of course, and where grandfather married again, for the > third time. He was a widower during the war. His third wife was a widow > named Wood, who was my father's mother - whether she was the widow of > the Col Wood, who commanded the regiment, I have forgottenif I ever was > informed, but somehow it occurs to me she was. > I have copied a receipt which is in the book of one of the soldiers, > a copy, I suppose, of the many given. It is as follows: > April 10th, 1777 "This is to certify that I have received from Capt. > John Brisbin, of Col. Wood's regiment, in full of all demands, as wages > for my services in said regiment, as witness my hand. Hugh Reed. Attest > - A. Steel." > Grandfather had gone into the continental service in easy > circumstances and come out of it poor, and long after the war was over > he was harrassed by creditors, from whom he had gotten supplies for his > company, but before he died he had paid everything. A copy of a letter > which is qreserved in this book will serve to illustrate what I have > asserted. It is as follows, to wit: > "Mill Creek, Jan'y 12th, 1783. Sir: I just now received your letter > concerning the tow steers I bought from John Logan. I bought them for > nine pound, Congress money, in the year 1777, the 12 day of July. You > wrote to me I bought them in the year 1776. Sir, I was in Canada that > year. I have sent the depreciation of nine pound by John Craige, Esq., > which was three for one. If you find any error in it, send me word by > John Craige, and your receipt for the money. I am, with respect, your > humble servant, John Brisbin. Mr. Daniel Climer." > This book, made up of the stamp paper, is in a dilapatted and torn > condition, as it naturally should be, after having been carried and used > nightly, from camp to camp all through the eight years' war of the > Revolution, and handled since then for a hundred years, but there is > still enough of it left, strange to say, to make it a very desireable > relic for those interested. > John Brisbin, a son of Capt. John's, was also a soldier of the > Revolution. He settled in Centre County and some of his descendants are > residing there now. > Capt, John Brisbin is buried in old Paxtang churchyard. The > inscription on the stone is as follows: CAPT. JOHN BRISBAN, Soldier of > the Revolution, Who Departed This Life, March 13, 1822, Aged 91 years. > G.M.B." > > > ==== BRISBIN Mailing List ==== > List problems? First, read the Welcome Message that you received > when you subscribed. Feel free to contact Yvonne James-Henderson, > list administrator with questions concerning this list! > mailto:hen1@idt.net > >