Hi All, I'm looking for more information on Daniel Harper of Mercer Co., Pa. and his children and parents? What I know about his is below. Thanks, Bill First Generation ‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹ 1. Daniel HARPER. Born Jun 1753 in England26. Died 16 May 1831. Buried in Ball Cemetery, Mercer Co., Pa.26. Occupation Farmer. In 1797 he located in Lake township, Mercer county, Pa and was a pioneer horticulturist. He was an overseer of the Cool Spring township in 1807. Is on the 1802 Mercer county tax list for Cool Spring township. Military: Was boatswain on the schooner Liberty under Commodore Smith in 1775, also was a gunner on the Andrew Doria in 1776 in Continental Navy. Recieved a pension in 1818(#S39637) Daniel Harper was both a soldier and a sailor in the revolutionary war.26 He married Elizabeth MILLER, 1788. Born 1765. Died 183326. Buried in Ball Cemetery, Mercer Co., Pa.26. They had the following children: 2 i. Sarah HARPER 3 ii. Mary HARPER 4 iii. Elizabeth HARPER 5 iv. John S. HARPER 6 v. William Robert Roberts HARPER Second Generation ‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹ 2. Sarah HARPER8. Born 29 Jul 1789 in Venango Co., Pa. 3. Mary HARPER. Born 1796. Died 1829. Buried in Ball Cemetery, Mercer Co., Pa26. She married John FEE, 1818. Died 1883. They had the following children: 7 i. Thomas Wesley FEE 4. Elizabeth HARPER. Born 9 Aug 179938 in Cool Springs, Mercer county, Pa62. Died 1 Apr 1881 in Clarksville,Mercer Co., Pa62. Buried in Ball Cemetery, Deleware Township, Mercer Co., Pa26. Religion Methodist. She married Amos Walton BALL49 Rev., son of Caleb BALL & Phoebe WALTON, 14 Jul 1817 in Cool Springs,Mercer Co.,Pa. Born 9 Dec 1792 in Washington Co., Pa. Died 17 May 186126 in Deleware township,Mercer Co., Pa. Buried in Ball Cemetery, Deleware Township, Mercer Co., Pa26. Religion Methodist. He had at least 7 children according to 1840 census. Moved to Delaware township in 1824. Was a justice of the peace of Pymatuning,Hempfield,Otter Creek, and Delware townships for many years. In his later years ,after age 60, he was a minister of a Methodist Episcopal Church in Mercer Co., Pa. Military: He was a veteran of the war of 1812. Served in Dennison and Clark county, PA militia. Pension file WC-19553. They had the following children: 8 i. Phoebe BALL 9 ii. Caleb BALL 10 iii. Elizabeth BALL 11 iv. Amos Walton BALL 12 v. Sarah BALL 13 vi. Francis Ashbury BALL 14 vii. Lucina Rebecca BALL 15 viii. Alfred B. BALL 16 ix. William Fletcher BALL Dr. 17 x. John D.F. BALL 5. John S. HARPER43. Born About 1802. Lived in Alleghenytown, Pa in 1839. 6. William Robert Roberts HARPER38. Born 1807. Died 1858. He married Elizabeth BUCK, 1839. Born 1819. Died 1886. They had the following children: 18 i. Almira HARPER 19 ii. Malissa HARPER Reference Note 8 LDS International Genealogical I ndex Ver. 4.00 Reference Note 26 Mercer County Pa, Cemetery Inscriptions, Sally G. Dufford, Loretta B. DeSantis, Mercer County Genealogical Society, 1984 Reference Note 38 DAR Linage Books, Daughters of the American Revolution. Reference Note 43 Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, Virgil D. White, National Historical Pub. Co., 1990 Reference Note 49 A 20th Century History of Mercer County, Pa., J.G.White, Lewis Publishing Co., 1909 Reference Note 62 Burkes Landed Gentry, American Families with British Ancestry, Genealogical Publishing Co, 1939 William L. Slager Email: [email protected]