Message from: Margery to Lori........ Perhaps some on the HUSTON / HOUSTON Lists will glean some information from her message. ____________________________________ From: mafreas@gmail.com To: LJSLumpy@aol.com CC: Gigisboys@aol.com Sent: 1/10/2008 9:00:55 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time Subj: RE: PML Search Result matching 'John Huston' You have made my day many times with your articles. My maiden name was Margery Huston. I have traced my ancestry back to Capt. Joseph Huston who is said to have come with Gentleman John Huston and his mother from Northern Ireland in about 1730. Joseph was 7 at the time, probably orphaned. Joseph may have spent time in Cumberland Co., as his wife’s mother and step-father did, but is more likely to have settled in or near Peach Bottom, PA. He married Margery Cunningham, daughter of Sarah Margery & Barnett Cunningham, though the widow Sarah Margery Cunningham was now married to Hugh Torrance. Both families plus other Cunningham children of Sarah and Barnett went over the mountains to Westmoreland Co., which later became Fayette Co., PA in the 1770s. Their children included William, Agnes, John, Joseph, Jr., Sarah, Margery and Mary. My ancestor was John. It is my belief that Capt. Joseph was the son of a William who perhaps died before the migration to this country and that his grandfather was a John, perhaps not the John you have mentioned as possibly the father of the so-called Gentleman John Huston, but closely related. I do not believe William of Voluntown had a son Joseph but I believe the blood line is closer than the apparent relationship. In any case, these people appear to have been sticking pretty close to a variation of the patronymic naming: first son for father's father, second son for father's grandfather, first daughter for father's mother, second daughter for mother's mother, etc. If Capt. Joseph followed that pattern, his father was William and his mother Agnes, his grandfather Huston, John. Also wife Margery, we have seen was daughter of Sarah. There is no Barnett for Margery's father, but since these children are known only from their father's will in Westmoreland Co., PA, and not from baptisms, there could well have been a Barnett or other children who died and were not recorded in the will. I have followed this family from Fayette Co., PA, to the Paris, KY, area where Capt. Joseph proved 1,000 acres but came home to PA and died before his title there was perfected, but where son William tried to prove his father's land claim to himself as eldest son, and where brother John actually moved and lived on some of that land before removing on to Ohio. John's son Joseph moved From Ohio to Illinois and his son Jospeh from there to eastern Iowa where a great uncle from Uniontown, PA, had proved some land. My grandfather Joseph Mahlon moved from eastern Iowa to the little village of Greenfield, IA where I was born. These early families were obviously close through the Cunningham connection but not as close as were the Cumberland Co. bunch. Still I believe they were related. Have you ever run across anything of Joseph Huston of Peach Bottom? I know there were 2 Josephs in Cumberland, but I haven't been able to connect either to Joseph of Peach Bottom. The Peach Bottom mention comes from the Torrence genealogy which called it Peach Bottom, VA -- but there isn't one of those in VA. Peach Bottom, PA, however is in the very heart of the area where the Scot Irish were crossing the Susquehanna from Lancaster Co., PA into York Co, PA, south of present day Rt. 30. Muddy Creek was a big crossing place. Our farm in PA (which we just sold) was less than 10 miles from Peach Bottom and the continuation of Muddy Creek crossed our farm. The first Presby Church in the area was there and the second even closer was Round Hill, later moved to Crossroads, PA. None of this is very far from Cumberland Co., maybe 30 miles or so. Enough for tonight. Margery Huston Freas -----Original Message----- From: pmlbounce@rootsweb.com [mailto:pmlbounce@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of LJSLumpy@aol.com Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 12:23 AM To: mafreas@gmail.com Subject: PML Search Result matching 'John Huston' ===================================================================== A result of your requested PML search. To refine or cancel this search, please visit http://pml.rootsweb.com/ ===================================================================== Source: HOUSTON@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [HOUSTON] Christopher Hustin >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, 1905 p 676 THE HUSTON FAMILY. The earliest appearance of the name Huston in Cumberland county was in 1743. In February of that year some of the inhabitants of East Pennsboro township petitioned the court at Lancaster for action in the case of a proposed road and among the names on the petition appears that of John Huston. A history' of the Virginia Huston’s, written by Samuel Huston, states that John Huston came to America from Ireland about the year 1735 and first settled in Pennsylvania. About the year 1745 he and his family removed to Rockbridge county, Va. John Huston had a son Samuel who married Elizabeth Paxton and by her had nine children, among whom was a son Samuel who became the famous Gen Samuel Huston of Texas. In July 4 1848, a Democratic meeting was held at Carlisle at which General Huston, then United States Senator, was the guest of honor. He was the principal speaker of the occasion and the Chairman of the meeting. Hon. John Clendenin in introducing him to the audience closed with the words, “The Democracy of Old Mother Cumberland delight to do him honor and bid him a hearty welcome to the home of his ancestors”. If, as early as 1848, in the mans presents it was publicly said without contradiction that Old Mother Cumberland was the home of Gen. Huston’s ancestors it can now be accepted as a settled fact. And as the John Huston on the road petition was the only John Huston known to have been in the county prior to 1762 and can also be accepted as a fact that he was the grandfather of General Huston. When in 1750 the county was formed, there were among its taxable Christopher Huston and Samuel Huston both were located in the part of East Pennsboro township that is now Silver Spring. Christopher was there as early as 1744 as is shown by the records, and in 1748 was tax collector for the township. Whether these Huston’s were relatives of the aforesaid John Huston cannot definitely determined, but being all of Scotch - Irish nationality, and settling in the same section and near the same time, the presumption is that they were. They could have been brothers. In November of 1752 Samuel Huston took over a warrant for a tract of land, the survey of which was returned the following March. The tract contained 240 acres and was bounded on the south by land of John Sample; on the east by John Carson and Richard Peters; on the north by Robert Carrithers ; and on the west by John McClellan. The chain of title shows that this land has been divided up into farms which are now owned by Abraham Gutshall and Harry W. Shaull. This Samuel Huston was married to Isabel Sharon, of whose former history but little can be ascertained. It is known that James Sharon, and after him his son James, lived upon and land owned a tract of land in East Pennsboro, immediately to the west of where Samuel Huston located, but the last of the family disappeared from the locality soon after the Huston’s came. On September 15, 1784, Samuel Huston made his will, which was probated on Oct. 12th same year. In it he names four sons: William, Samuel, John and Jonathan. John and Jonathan he designates “my two younger son.” Although not mentioned in the will it appears from other court records that he also had a son James. No daughters are named, but it is well authenticated fact that there were five as follows: Margaret, Anne, Isabella, Mary and Jane. As near as can be ascertained these ten children ranged in order of age as follows; William, Samuel, Margaret, Mary, Anne, Jane, James, Isabella, John and Jonathan. There is nothing to show that William and John ever married. A William Huston was captain in a regiment of Cumberland county militia called into service in August, 1776, under Col. Frederick Watts, and it is probable that he was this William Huston. He disappeared from the East Pennsboro list of taxable in 1795. John Houston lived upon the old Huston homestead, bequeathed to him by his father, till his death. He died in 1811, and his estate became involved in litigation which was not terminated until in 1828. Samuel married Esther Waugh, and by her had children as follows: John, Samuel, James, Richard, Esther, and William Margaret married John Huston, a son of Christopher Huston, and by him had the following children: Jonathan,, James, John, Samuel, William, Anne, Isabella and Mrs. Kirkaid. John Huston purchased a tract of land in West Pennsboro while West Pennsboro yet included Dickinson and Penn townships. A few years afterward he moved to this newly acquired possession and he and his descendants were long some of the most prominent and influential people of that part of the county. Mary the fourth child married John Mateer, who's name upon the early records is spelled McTeer . The Mateers were also some of the earliest settlers on the north side of the Conedogulinet creek in East Pennsboro, in the same neighborhood that the Huston’s lived. Afterward they moved to the part of Allen township that is now Lower Allen... Note...There are many more pages to this account of the Huston history BUT no mention of Janet. There is a good chance she went by the AKA Jane and is mentioned above. Through the years there have been many suggestions on her parentage but none with substantial evidence. Probably at this early date there was probably a connection somehow. CARPE DIEM, Lori ; ) in Arizona formally from Washington, PA. CHUCKLE: The simplest way to look younger is to hang out with old people In a message dated 1/9/2008 4:18:31 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, dion.houston@us.army.mil writes: Hello all, I found the following entry in a wills CD from ancestry.com... Pennsylvania Wills, 1682-1834 HUSTIN, CHRISTOPHER, East Pennsborough. April 26, 1783/14 December 1784. Wife Susanna. Granddau. Janet Smith. Son Christopher. Son-in-law James McKinstry. Son-in-law John McCullough. Sons John, James and William Huston. Exs.: wife Susanna and son John Huston. Wit: Walter Buchanan, James McKinstry, Robert Cree. D. 242-243. What's interesting about this is that it shows a variant spelling for the father, but the sons have the normal for the time and place spelling of Huston. Anyone have any information on this individual? I'm looking for the ancestry of my James b. 1760 Cumberland Co, PA died 1836 Washington Co, PA. This James I believe to have a brother John and both lived in Canton, Washington, PA in the 1800 census. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HOUSTON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489