Frederick Pershing Monument, Westmorland, PA 1923
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Frederick Pershing Monument, Westmorland, PA 1923
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Posted: 19 Aug 2004 10:26PM GMT |
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Surnames: Pershing, Weygandt, Eyestone, Armel
Frederick Pershing was born in the Kraischgau District of the Rhine Valley about 1724. He immigrated to America on the ship JACOB and landed at the Port of Philadelphia on the second day of October, 1749 with other Huguenot immigrants who had bound themselveles as "Redemptioners" to pay Captain DeGrove of the JACOB for their passage.
Having earned his Redemption he married Maria Elizabeth Weygandt of Baltimore, Md. in 1755. He was naturalized while a resident of the township of Hamiltons Bann, in York County, Pennsylvania, in 1765.
In 1768 after the treaty of Fort Stanwix the Colonial Assembly authorized the land office to accept applications of settlers for located within the boundaries of the "New Purchases" which included territory that is now Westmorland County. In the fall of 1768 FREDERICK Pershing visited the locality of his future home on the banks of Nine Mile Run about three miles south of Youngstown and located a "Tomahawk Possession". He then returned to his family in York County, where he spent the winter of 1768-69. In the spring of 1769 with his wife and children, Christian, Peter Frederick, Conrad, Elizabeth and Christena, he emigrated to Westmorland County. On the third day of April, 1769, he took formal possession of his Tomahawk Possession which he called "Coventry". There he built a log cabin and one of the first grist mills west of the Allegheny Mountains.
He assisted in the building of Lochry's Blockhouse near the junction of Nine Mile Run and Loyalhanna Creek, and the defense of the community in the various Indian uprisings in Westmorland County between 1769 and 1774.
He died at Coventry in 1794 and was buried at Smith's Graveyard near Pleasant Unity.
His descendents now numbering almost seven thousand desire to perpetuate the memory of their ancestor, because he, with his contemporaries, set up a new civilization in the wilderness and secured for them the blessing of American citizenship.
Courtesy: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Having earned his Redemption he married Maria Elizabeth Weygandt of Baltimore, Md. in 1755. He was naturalized while a resident of the township of Hamiltons Bann, in York County, Pennsylvania, in 1765.
In 1768 after the treaty of Fort Stanwix the Colonial Assembly authorized the land office to accept applications of settlers for located within the boundaries of the "New Purchases" which included territory that is now Westmorland County. In the fall of 1768 FREDERICK Pershing visited the locality of his future home on the banks of Nine Mile Run about three miles south of Youngstown and located a "Tomahawk Possession". He then returned to his family in York County, where he spent the winter of 1768-69. In the spring of 1769 with his wife and children, Christian, Peter Frederick, Conrad, Elizabeth and Christena, he emigrated to Westmorland County. On the third day of April, 1769, he took formal possession of his Tomahawk Possession which he called "Coventry". There he built a log cabin and one of the first grist mills west of the Allegheny Mountains.
He assisted in the building of Lochry's Blockhouse near the junction of Nine Mile Run and Loyalhanna Creek, and the defense of the community in the various Indian uprisings in Westmorland County between 1769 and 1774.
He died at Coventry in 1794 and was buried at Smith's Graveyard near Pleasant Unity.
His descendents now numbering almost seven thousand desire to perpetuate the memory of their ancestor, because he, with his contemporaries, set up a new civilization in the wilderness and secured for them the blessing of American citizenship.
Courtesy: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia