I'll let you know what I find. Thank-you for all of the information. There is a Cumberland County Historical Society. The Hamilton Library in Carlisle does research for a $50 fee for each family researched. They are listing all of these related family names with family files there. I might spring for it, but I would rather wait until my next vacation and then spend some time there. I'm a little surprised that there is so little information on this family. Maybe they had all girls or they were not historically significant, but there should be some record of them, since there were not that many souls living in the area at the time. According to another family researcher, William Evans was a Colonel, not a private? There is a mention of a Colonel Evans on the old Chester County Website. He was in the Revolutionary War. He collected fees, etc from people that they considered unsympathetic to the cause. Michele ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carolyn K Shearer" <cks@pa.net> To: <PAPERRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 10:50 AM Subject: [PA-Perry] Evan, Linn, Elliott > DAR Patriot Index shows William Evans, b c 1749, d 1811, married Rachel Bonner, Pvt, PA. I could not find a will for a William Evans for that date (or anything close) in Franklin or Cumberland County. Perhaps he died in Mifflin or Centre. I do not have the will abstracts for those counties. > > I did find this in my notes which may provide more clues: > Cumberland county Will Abstracts, F. Edward Wright > THOMAS, WILLIAM, yeoman. September 1, 1774/21 September 1774. > Wife Ann. > Dau. Ann Thomas. > Dau. Catherine Elliott and her husband Thomas Elliott. > Emas(?)_ Thomas, widow of son John Thomas and her two sons, John and > William Thomas. > Dau. Jean and her husband Henry Lewis. > A sum to repair the Presbyterian Meeting House at the Limestone Ridge, Terone Township, Sherman's Valley. > Dau. Elizabeth and her husband James Evins. > Exs.: Joseph Williams of Monahan Township, York Co. and Wm. Penrose of Warrentown Township, York Co. > Wit: Robert Robinson, George Blanck, Will. Holiday. B. 180-181. > > Thomas Elliott (c1730 -1815 Ickesburg, Cumb, now Perry Co) married (1) Catherine Thomas, and (2) in 1779 at Centre Presbyterian Church, Mrs. Jane (Holiday) Holiday. Thomas and Catherine had a son Charles (1769-1846) who married Ann Linn, daughter of William Linn and Martha Scott, and granddaughter of Rev John Linn (1749 Marsh Creek, York, now Adams Co-1820 Sherman's Valley) of Centre Pres. Rev John Linn also had a son Rev James Linn (1783-1868) who was the Presbyterian minister at Bellefontaine for 58 yrs. The John Blair Linn who wrote the Centre County history was closely related to this family- can't remember right now, but will check it out if you are interested (and not completely confused by all the tangled lines) > > The point here is that the Sherman's Valley Presbyterian families were closely tied to the Centre County ones. Please let me know if you find anything on William Evans - would like to add him to my file of Franklin County connections. > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

----- Original Message ----- From: cunhel To: PAPERRY-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 1:32 PM Subject: Re: [PA-Perry] Evan, Linn, Elliott I'll let you know what I find. Thank-you for all of the information. There is a Cumberland County Historical Society. The Hamilton Library in Carlisle does research for a $50 fee for each family researched. They are listing all of these related family names with family files there. I might spring for it, but I would rather wait until my next vacation and then spend some time there. I'm a little surprised that there is so little information on this family. Maybe they had all girls or they were not historically significant, but there should be some record of them, since there were not that many souls living in the area at the time. According to another family researcher, William Evans was a Colonel, not a private? There is a mention of a Colonel Evans on the old Chester County Website. He was in the Revolutionary War. He collected fees, etc from people that they considered unsympathetic to the cause. Michele ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carolyn K Shearer" <cks@pa.net> To: <PAPERRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 10:50 AM Subject: [PA-Perry] Evan, Linn, Elliott > DAR Patriot Index shows William Evans, b c 1749, d 1811, married Rachel Bonner, Pvt, PA. I could not find a will for a William Evans for that date (or anything close) in Franklin or Cumberland County. Perhaps he died in Mifflin or Centre. I do not have the will abstracts for those counties. > > I did find this in my notes which may provide more clues: > Cumberland county Will Abstracts, F. Edward Wright > THOMAS, WILLIAM, yeoman. September 1, 1774/21 September 1774. > Wife Ann. > Dau. Ann Thomas. > Dau. Catherine Elliott and her husband Thomas Elliott. > Emas(?)_ Thomas, widow of son John Thomas and her two sons, John and > William Thomas. > Dau. Jean and her husband Henry Lewis. > A sum to repair the Presbyterian Meeting House at the Limestone Ridge, Terone Township, Sherman's Valley. > Dau. Elizabeth and her husband James Evins. > Exs.: Joseph Williams of Monahan Township, York Co. and Wm. Penrose of Warrentown Township, York Co. > Wit: Robert Robinson, George Blanck, Will. Holiday. B. 180-181. > > Thomas Elliott (c1730 -1815 Ickesburg, Cumb, now Perry Co) married (1) Catherine Thomas, and (2) in 1779 at Centre Presbyterian Church, Mrs. Jane (Holiday) Holiday. Thomas and Catherine had a son Charles (1769-1846) who married Ann Linn, daughter of William Linn and Martha Scott, and granddaughter of Rev John Linn (1749 Marsh Creek, York, now Adams Co-1820 Sherman's Valley) of Centre Pres. Rev John Linn also had a son Rev James Linn (1783-1868) who was the Presbyterian minister at Bellefontaine for 58 yrs. The John Blair Linn who wrote the Centre County history was closely related to this family- can't remember right now, but will check it out if you are interested (and not completely confused by all the tangled lines) > > The point here is that the Sherman's Valley Presbyterian families were closely tied to the Centre County ones. Please let me know if you find anything on William Evans - would like to add him to my file of Franklin County connections. > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237