I made a very quick check of some things I have here. Aldrich's History of Clearfield County (1887), at page 76-77 records the proceedings of the first session of court held in Clearfield County after it was detached from Centre County. This was in Dec. 1822. A true bill was presented by the grand jury against Absalom Timms for keeping a tippling house. A nolle prosequi was entered. This was the only reference I could find to him in Aldrich's History or Row's 1859 History of Clearfield Co. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Chris Staats <cstaats@sbcglobal.net>wrote: > Brian - > > I'm not sure if you have access to the pension file you referenced, but it > is on Footnote.com (subscription required to view the documents). I took a > quick read through the papers: on 29 Nov 1820, at age 61, he resided in > Bradford Twp, Clearfield County, PA. At that time he had (get this) a "wife > aged 27 years, nine children, of whom but three reside with me, aged eleven, > seven and two years respectively." The filings were handled through Centre > County, which according to the file, handled the judicial matters of > Clearfield County at that time. The initial claim in 1818 was filed in > Armaugh Twp, Mifflin County. > > Absalom also shows up on the list of 1835 PA Pensioners, so assuming this > to be the same Absalom Timms, he would have died sometime after 1835, > although it doesn't list a county, so I don't know if he was still in > Clearfield county at that time or not. > > This is all I had time to check - hopefully it helps focus your search > some. > > Chris Staats > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PACENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >