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NGS Genealogy Report (Descendant Ordered) of the Dillon Family of Buchanan Valley, PA

6. Pierre² Delon (Jean¹) was born 1696 in Saulxures, Bas-Rhin, France, and died Deceased. He married Agathe Munier 03 Oct 1724 in Saulxures, Bas-Rhin, France. She was born Abt. 1704 in Saulxures, Bas-Rhin, France, and died Deceased.

Notes for Pierre Delon:
AKA: Pierre Dulon, Petter Delo, Pierre Delon, Peter Delon, Pyter Delon, Peter Dillow

On 16 September 1736, the ship Princess Augusta docked in Philadelphia. The ship's journey originated in the Rhine River Valley of Germany and passengers boarded as far down the Rhine as Rotterdam, port of embarkation. The only only other stop was at Cowes, England. Pierre DuLon, his wife and four children (whose names were not given) were the identified passengers on the lists drawn up by the ship's master, Samuel Marchant. A later typed version of the list had Pierre's name as Petter Delo.

History of the Peter Dillow Family Lineage

Records of Pierre Delon AKA: Peter Dillow

Peter Delon (1696- ??) AKA: Pierre Dulon, Petter Delo, Pierre Delon, Peter Delon, Pyter Delon, Peter Dillow married married Agathe Munier on 3 Oct 1724. Their marriage was witnessed by Jean Martin, Nicolas Delon, and Michel Munier in Saulxures, Bas Rhin.

Children of PIERRE DELON and AGATHE MUNIER are:
Anne Marie Delon.........26 April 1725-dau. of Pierre Delon and Agathe Munier; godfather: Joseph Charpantier; godmother: Marie Poirelle.
Michel Delon........17 September 1726-son of Pierre Delon and Agathe Munier; godfather: Michel Charpantier; godmother: Odile Dieudonne.
Pierre Delon................9 January 1729-son of Pierre Delon and Agathe Munier; godfather: Nicolas Le Boube; godmother: Anne Benoit.
Jeanne Delon..................19 July 1733-dau. of Pierre Delon and Agathe Munier. Godfather: Michel Munier; godmother: Magdelaine Quirin.
Genevieve Delon..30 November 1735-dau. of Pierre Delon and Agathe Munier. Godfather: Nicolas Delon; godmother: Marie Mathieu.

Pierre Delon and Agathe Munier were a family that was aboard the Princess Augusta in 1736.

The Records of Peter Delon in Southeast Pennsylvania are:
Peter Delon.............1736 Arrived in Philadelphia via Rotterdam
Peter Delon.............1736 100 acres surveyed, Lancaster County.
Peter Delon.............1736 100 acres surveyed, Lancaster County.
Peter Dillo(e)...........1736 A Huguenot in Lancaster County.
Peter Dillo(e)...........1745 With Michael Dillo(e) in Lancaster County.
Peter Dello..............1762 Buys 200 acres, Berwick Twp., Yk. County.
Peter Dello..............1762 Taxed on land held in Berwick Twp.
Peter Dillo...............1772 Buys land in Maytown, Donegall Twp., Lanc. County.
Peter Dilow.............1773 State taxes; owns no land, Leacock Twp., Lanc. County.
Peter Dillow............1779 State taxes; owns no land, Leacock Twp., Lanc. County.(Same as above)
Peter Dellow...........1782 Land transaction in Maytown, Lanc. County.
Peter Dillo...............1786 Land deal in Donegall Twp., Lanc. County.
Peter Dillow............1786/8 Private in York County Militia
Peter Dello..............1791 Sponsor for Margaret Marshall, Nov. 27, 1791, at Conowago Chapel: she is daughter of Michael Dello (176? - 1847). *This Peter Dillow was Michael Dillow's brother or cousin. From the records, it appears that there was at least two, and possibly a third Peter Dillow involved in the above records; and at least one Michael Dillow.

*Pierre Delon...........1 March 1722-son of Nicolas Delon (1697-about 1731) and Marguerite Benoit.
*Michel Delon...7 September 1726-son of Pierre Delon (1696-??) and Agathe Munier.
*Pierre Delon..........9 January 1729-son of Pierre Delon (1696-??) and Agathe Munier.

The Records of Peter Dillo, Dilloe and Michael Dillo, Dilloe, Delow, Dillow in Southeast Pennsylvania are:

Pierre Dillo(e).........................1736 Lancaster County, 100 acres of land surveyed.
Peter Dillo..............................1762 Berwick Twp., land purchased.
Michael Dillo(e)......................prior to 1745 with Pierre of 1736, Lancaster County,
Michael Delow.......................1762 Berwick Twp., land surveyed.
Michael Dillow.......................1770 Cumberland Twp., owns land.
Michael Dillow.......................1768 Franklin Twp., land surveyed.
Michael Delow.......................1772 Menallen Twp., payes taxes.

The Current research on the European locations <http://www. mcn.org/2/noel/location.htm> of the Noel, Strasbach, Christian/Chretien, Delon, Gerard, and the Ory <http://www.oryfamilyhistory.com> families who sailed on the Princess Augusta in 1736 indicate that these people came from an area north of Saulxures, in the Vosges in eastern France, which in 1736 was part of the Principality of Salm that was jointly administered by the Prince of Salm and the Duke of Lorraine and did not pass solely to the Prince of Salm until 1751. The last chancellor of the Principality of Salm was a Noel.

Five of the seven families who arrived on the Princess Augusta (including the Delon's, the Noel's, and the Strausbaugh's) have been located in the principality of SALM which is now part of Lorraine. <TEDVONMECHOW@prodigy.net>

The Seven Families Who Sailed On The Princes Augusta In 1736

Jean Francois Chretien\Krichten/Christian age 40 with wife, Ann Noël, and one child.
Peter Dulon\Delon/Dilon age 40 and wife, Agathe Munier and 4 children.
Nicholas Gerard age 30 and his wife, believed to be Jeane Florence. No children were listed.
Eneas Noël age 36 with wife and one child.
Joseph Noël age 56 with wife and 7 children including his son Pierre who was age 16.
Francois Ory age 56 and his second wife, Anna Maria Perchi and 3 children. Francois stayed in Lancaster County, PA.
Nicholas Ory age 26 and single, the nephew of Francois , and a member of the Pigeon Hills group. Nicholas married Ann, the daughter of Nicholas Strasbach.
Nicholas Strasbach age 40 and his wife Catherine Gerard and seven children including his daughter Ann who was 16.

On the Princess Augusta, the ship's Captain Marchant, a name of French origin, in his ships records, singled out seven families and treated these differently than the rest. The seven were the families of Nicholas Strasbach, Joseph Noel, Eneas Noel, John Francis Christian, Peter Delon, Nicholas Gerard, and Francis Ory and his adult son Nicholas.

Of 330 passengers on the ship, these were the only families for which the captain made an addition to his ship's passenger list which indicated whether the male passenger had brought a wife and also included a tabulation of the number of children in each family.

One can only speculate as to the reason the captain did this. It is suspected that these may have been the only families aboard who could communicate in French and thus perhaps the only passengers with whom Captain Marchant could easily converse.

When the males of the Princess Augusta appeared before the Philadelphia Court for clearance, the following of this group signed in their own handwriting: Francois Ory, Nicolas Ory, Jean Francois Chretien, N Gerard, Pierre Dulon, and Joseph Noel, obvious French spellings. Nicholas Strasbach could not write and his name was recorded on the Courts s list as heard by others as Collas Drasbart and Collas Prasbart. On the Captain's lists his name was recorded as Nicolas Trasbart and Nicollas Drasbart. The other males of this group who did not write their own name were Peter Noel, 16 year old son of Joseph, and Eneas Noel, whose relationship to Joseph is unknown.

This group of passengers of the Princess Augusta signed their names in French, found rapport with the captain of an English ship who was probably of French origin, assimilated easily into a German culture on the Pennsylvania frontier, spoke German in their homes and with their German neighbors , in Pennsylvania records were called by the English or German versions of their names, were called French by their descendants, were probable founders of what early writers of the area called a "French Colony", and were Catholics who seem to have gotten along well with their German Protestant neighbors. [Osborne, Chapter 1]

Location of the DELON - DELO - DELAUNE - De L'eau in Loraine, France.
The first Pennsylvania counties were formed in 1682; county names and boundaries did not stabilize until 1878 which means for nearly 200 years they were changing! The three original Pennsylvania counties were Bucks, Chester, and Philadelphia. Lancaster County was formed in 1729. A new county followed rather than preceded settlement patterns. Settlers of areas outside established counties might remain entirely unknown unless their territory was absorbed into a new county during their lifetime.Because of the way that counties were created and developed, a family could be identified over several decades as having lived in several townships or several different counties, without having physically moved an inch.

Of these families, those of Joseph Noel, Peter Delon, John Francis Christian, Nicholas Strasbach, and Nicholas Ory , came on to the settlement north of Pigeon Hills as their first place of settlement of any permanence. Nicholas Ory is the only one of his family known to have come to the Pigeon Hills, however not long after arrival in America he married the oldest daughter of Nicholas Strasbach. The relationship between Eneas Noel and Joseph Noel is unknown. It is believed that Eneas settled in Berks County, Pennsylvania . What happened to the rest of the Ory family and Nicholas Gerard is unknown. [Osborne, Chapter 1]

In those early times the land remained the property of the English Crown. The Penn family had been given proprietary rights to the lands of the colony. The Proprietaries in turn sold rights to occupy and use the land subject to a yearly quitrent. The settlers acquired the permanent right to occupy this land by obtaining a patent deed from the Proprietaries or their agents.

The process was for the settler to find and claim a desired land parcel, and then obtain a warrant for the described land. Next an official survey was made to define the location and determine the amount of land, and finally a patent deed was obtained for the property. The quit rent was usually retroactive to the time the settler started his improvements to the property.

The warrant, survey, and quit rent required cash payment, something many of the early settlers did not have. Therefore it was common for the settler to squat on the land until he could afford the payments.

The need for this delay in obtaining warrants was apparently recognized and the officials more or less permitted a grace period before enforcing the legal process for land acquisition. This unofficial grace period seems to have been about seven years. However, many settlers took no action toward obtaining a warrant for their claimed land until they were threatened with loss of the land, or they had a need of
their own to obtain a legal patent deed for the land. It was said by one early official, the Germans would squat on the best lands and never paid anything until made to do so.

The Lancaster County lands across the Susquehanna River In the Beaver Creek area were not officially opened for settlement until 1736 when the Penns purchased these lands from the Indians. There may been some unauthorized settlers in the area before then. [Osborn, Chapter 1]

The first of the land warrants obtained by one of the Princess Augusta families was that of John Francis Christian (Ll4) in 1744. His land was surveyed in 1745 and showed Strasbaugh (L12) as a neighbor. In the same year the survey draft of John Bready's land (M14) also showed Strausbaugh as a neighbor.

There appears to have been little land record activity in this settlement prior to 1750. The warrants prior to 1750, found to date include: 1738, Jacob Eyler (L12); 1743, John Bready (Ml4); 1744, John Francis Christian (Ll4); 1745, John Bready (K19), 1746, James Reed (H5 & J5), Mathias Bowser (Fl6).

The officials must have then caused some activity. Warranted 1750, Nicholas Strasbach (M12), Nicholas Noel (Kll), Peter Noel (J15), John Nagle (E16), Jacob Eyler (M8); 1751, Melchor Kerbach (Ml6), Nicholas Shearer (Mil), John Hunsinger (NIO), John Noel (MIO); 1754, Frederick Shulla (N13); 1756, Jacob Giles (018); 1762, Peter Delon (K7), John Noel (Hl 7 & Gl8); 1765, John Grove (G19).

Land surveys for the Alsatian families were made in 1745, John Francis Christian; 1751, Nicholas Strasbach; 1753, Nicholas Noel; 1764, John Noel; 1766, Peter Noel, Peter Delon , Nicholas Strasbach Jr, 1767, Nicholas Delon.

Joseph Noel probably died before 1750 and his land warranted by one or more of his sons) Peter, John or Nicholas. No land records have been found for his younger sons Andrew or Joseph Jr in this area. The land (Hl7 & G18) north of York Road, John Noel warranted in 1762 is somewhat of a puzzle. John obtained a deed to this unwarranted land from Hans Hamilton in 1761 . The Hans Hamilton family were on west in Manor of Maske by 1741. Perhaps they settled on this land prior to moving on to Marsh Creek, and the Noel family then occupied the land. Perhaps the deed was needed to obtain clear title to the land which the Noels may have been occupying for 20 some years.

Nicholas Noel was another son-in-law of Nicholas Strasbach . John Heidler, another son-in-law of Nicholas Strasbach, inherited land from his brother Jacob in 1760. John didn't have this land surveyed until 1797.

Nicholas Strasbach inherited his fathers land (M12) in 1753 . He acquired another property (J5) out by Cross Keys in 1765, which he had surveyed in 1766, and in 1768 sold to George Noll. This was a part of the land warranted by James Reed in 1746. Not long after 1768, Nicholas and his son Peter relocated
to Buchanan Valley in that part of York County which later became Adams County. Michael Strasbach, youngest son of Nicholas Sr) acquired land south of Pigeon Hills and off the area covered by the Land Map. Most Strausbaugh families of York County and eastern Adams County, descended from Michael Strasbach.

It should not be construed from the preceding, that these families straggled into this area over a period of time. Study of various records provides evidence the better lands in this settlement were occupied by 1741. Lands taken by Princess Augusta families were some of the best. In order to acquire an almost contiguous group of these prime properties, immediately surrounding the land John Abbott and Jacob Eyler, the whole group of these families must have arrived within a very short period of time, probably in 1738 or 1739, certainly not later than 1740. They were the original warrantees of most of this land.

The Strasbach (Strausbaugh), Noel, and Delon (Dillon) families stayed in this settlement for some time and descendants of the Strausbaugh family still live in surrounding areas. Part of the Strausbaugh, Noel and Dillon families moved to Buchanan Valley in Northwest Adams County and descendants of these Strausbaugh and Dillon families still live in that area.

Some of the second generation of these families were born in the settlement, essentially all reached adulthood and married here. The only marriage between the second generation of these families that might have occurred before they reached the Pigeon Hills was that of Nicholas Ory and Anna Strasbach.

Pierre Dillo(e) had 100 acres of land surveyed in 1736 in Lancaster County.

A second Dellone immigrant came to America 14 years after the Princess Augusta families. This was Nicholas Dellone, who also eventually came to the Abbottstown area and whose descendants remained in the Abbottstown area after those of Peter Delon left the area. Nicholas Dellone was also called "of France", but he was from Alsace and returned to Alsace on several occasions, reportedly once to settle his father's estate. Some historians have suggested the possibility Nicholas was a relative of Peter Delon, however, that they were related, or the degree of relationship, are unknown and unproven. [Osborne, Chapter 1]

More About Pierre Delon:
Emigration: 16 Sep 1736, Arrived at Philadelphia, PA on the Princess Augusta
Name2: Peter Delon
Name3: Peter Dilon
Name4: Peter Dulon
Remarks: Pierre Delon was the Great Great Great Great Grandfather of the children of John Francis Dillon
Witness to Marriage: Jean Martin, Nicolas Delon, Michel Munier

Children of Pierre Delon and Agathe Munier are:

Anne Marie³ Delon, born 26 Aug 1725 in Saulxures, Bas-Rhin, France; died Deceased.

More About Anne Marie Delon:
Christening: 26 Apr 1725, Saulxures, Bas-Rhin, France

ii.

Michel Delon, born Sep 1726 in Saulxures, Bas-Rhin, France; died Deceased.

Notes for Michel Delon:
Godfather: Michel Charpantier, Godmother: Odile Dieudonne

More About Michel Delon:
Baptism: 17 Sep 1726, Saulxures, Bas-Rhin, France

+	29	iii.	Matlena Delon, born Abt. 1727 in Saulxures, Bas-Rhin, France; died Deceased.
+	30	iv.	Pierre Delon, born 09 Jan 1728/29 in Saulxures, Bas-Rhin, France; died Deceased.
	31	v.	Jean Delon, born 19 Jul 1733 in Saulxures, Bas-Rhin, France; died Deceased.

More About Jean Delon:
Christening: 19 Jul 1733, Saulxures, Bas-Rhin, France

vi.

Genevieve Delon, born 30 Nov 1735 in Saulxures, Bas-Rhin, France; died Deceased.

More About Genevieve Delon:
Baptism: 30 Nov 1735, Saulxures, Bas-Rhin, France
Baptism Sponsors: Nicolas Delon, Marie Mathieu
Census: 30 Nov 1735, Saulxures, Bas-Rhin, France

vii.

John Dillon, born 1737 in Lancaster Cty, PA; died Deceased.

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