Jus' passin' it on............NOT related....know nuttin' about 'em.....enjoy! Clair John 'ßill' Thompson, Sr. Lincoln Park, MI http://www.fuggit.com <---------(Searchable Kelly/Kelley outline and now a link to the 1790 census of Washington Co., PA by Townships) _________________________________________________________ 570 THE HORN PAPERS [by W. F. Horn 1945] JOHN KELLY, of Scotch-Irish lineage, was born in County Donegal, Ireland, May 23, 1691. The Kellys in Ireland were known as the "Protestant Kellys" and claimed no connection with Sir Robert Kelly's lineage in County Limerick, of Patrick Kel'tey's clan in County Tipperary. He immigrated to Philadelphia in 1722 and settled in Lancaster County. He married Jane Auld and had four sons and three daughters: John, Jr., James, Walter, Robert, Margaret, Jane, and Elizabeth. John Kelly, Sr., was an Indian fur trader and settled on the Susquehanna River in 1749, living there un- til Bedford County was set off from Cumberland County in 1771. He then settled on land in what is now Westmoreland County, naming it "Donegal" after his native county in Ireland. John Kelly died in Westmoreland County in 1779, and Jane Auld Kelly died in 1784. JOHN KELLY, JR., son of John Kelly, was born in Lancaster County in 1732. He was an explorer and fur trader west of the Susquehanna in 1751, and was with Captain William Trent at the Forks of the Ohio in March 1754. He returned to his home on the Susquehanna after reaching Wills Creek under Trent in April 1754. In 1771, with his wife and three sons, he settled at Donegal, Westmoreland County. John Kelly, Jr., became a Major in the Revolutionary War and served four and a half years. His wife was Margaret Hand. They had three sons and three daughters: William, John, James, Catharine, Mary, and Jane. He died in Westmoreland County in 1804. Margaret Hand Kelly died in 1826. JAMES KELLY, son of John Kelly, Sr., was born in Lancaster County, October 4, 1749. He married Elizabeth Forester, and to them were born three sons and three daughters: Walter, John, James, Jane, Margaret, and Kate. He was on the Ohio River in 1774. In 1777, he was on the Kanawha River, but later went to Dauphin County where his wife died, and was buried in the Derry churchyard. The children of James Kelley settled in Pittsburgh in 1825. WALTER KELLY, the third son of John and Jane Auld Kelly, was born on the homestead on the Susquehanna River in 1751. He ran away from home in 1770 and went to North Carolina. In 1773, he settled on the Greenbrier, but finding this settlement too near civilization, he advanced to the Kanawha in the autumn of that year and erected a log house and a fur cabin. He had a wife and two children at that time. In 1774, the Indians raided Walter Kelly's home. The wife and children escaped, but he was killed by the Indians. A month after the Battle of Point Pleasant, the widow BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 571 sold the homestead and their one cow and two goats to William Morris, of the Greenbrier settlement, for twenty pounds sterling. The widow and her children then went to her late husband's home at Donegal, Westmoreland County, in April 1775. JAMES KELLY, son of John Kelly, Jr., lived at Donegal, Westmoreland County, from 1824 to 1854. He had one son and three daughters. The son, John Kelly, born at Donegal, Pennsyl- vania, was a soldier in the Union Army in the Civil War. He died at Topeka, Kansas, in July 1912. His fourth daughter, Mary Emma Kelly, became the wife of the author of this history on February 28, 1895. ROBERT KELLY, son of John and Jane Auld Kelly, was born in Lancaster County, December 9, 1735. He became interested in farming and sheep raising. With his father's family, he settled on the Susquehanna River in 1749, and with his brother, John, Jr., at the forks of the Ohio River in 1754. In 1758, he was one of John Gibson's militiamen who reached the forks and found Fort Du- quesne destroyed a week before the advance guards of General Forbes' army reached there. He was stationed at Fort Queen Elizabeth in 1762. In 1769, he and his family located about two miles above Redstone and one mile west of the Monongahela River. In 1770, he settled on a small tract of land in the southern section of Cumberland Township. This land was claimed by James Hanna in 1779 after he returned from the war. By peaceful agree- ment, Robert Kelly then left this place and settled on land claimed bv his wife's sister, Alice Crawford. Robert Kelly patented a tract of land called "Buffalo Flat," warranted April 12, 1785, surveyed August 11, 1785, patented March 17, 1796.