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Descendants of Father '1st Gen' McBrayer

54. MALINDA⁴ MCBRAYER (JAMES³, JAMES², FATHER '1ST GEN'¹)^51,⁵² was born October 10, 1819 in Louisville, KY, and died March 09, 1899 in MO. She married JOHN PATTERSON October 19, 1836 in Anderson Co., KY. He was born July 04, 1809 in Frankfort, KY, and died July 02, 1873 in Lawrence, KS.

More About MALINDA MCBRAYER:
Burial: Martinsburg, MO ?

More About JOHN PATTERSON and MALINDA MCBRAYER:
Marriage: October 19, 1836, Anderson Co., KY

Children of MALINDA MCBRAYER and JOHN PATTERSON are:

	i.		RICHARD H.⁵ PATTERSON, b. July 08, 1838.
	ii.		NAOMIE PATTERSON, b. May 10, 1840; d. June 06, 1903, Gold Hill, OR; m. JOHN BAILEY.
	iii.		JOHN NEWTON PATTERSON, b. August 16, 1842.
	iv.		DERIUS PATTERSON, b. October 18, 1845.
	v.		HENRY TAYLOR PATTERSON, b. June 1847; d. July 05, 1910, Douglas, WY.
	vi.		JAMES PATTERSON, b. September 22, 1849.
	vii.		LAVINIA PATTERSON, b. April 15, 1852.
	viii.		LUCY 'SUSANNA' PATTERSON, b. April 06, 1854; d. 1933; m. DENNIS LARIMIE; d. 1921, British Columbia, Canada.
	ix.		SYLVESTER PATTERSON, b. May 15, 1857, KS; d. Abt. 1875.

Notes for SYLVESTER PATTERSON:
He was supposedly captured by Indians.

222.	x.		EMMA 'EMILY' PATTERSON, b. July 13, 1859, KS; d. 1917.
223.	xi.		MARY ANN PATTERSON, b. June 01, 1863, Leavenworth, KS; d. May 18, 1940, Moberly, MO.

55. JOHN⁴ SLOAN (MARY³ MCBRAYER, DAVID², FATHER '1ST GEN'¹) was born 1774 in Franklin Co., PA, and died March 16, 1852 in Westmoreland Co., PA. He married ELIZABETH STEEL January 1797 in Franklin Co., PA. She was born March 10, 1767 in Franklin Co., PA, and died 1854 in Salem Twp., Westmoreland Co., PA..

Notes for JOHN SLOAN:
Buried in the cemetery at Congruity Church, Derry Twp., PA.

Notes for ELIZABETH STEEL:
She is buried in the Congruity Run Church cemetery.

More About JOHN SLOAN and ELIZABETH STEEL:
Marriage: January 1797, Franklin Co., PA

Children of JOHN SLOAN and ELIZABETH STEEL are:

	i.	ROBERT SWAN⁵ SLOAN.
	ii.	ELIZABETH SLOAN, m. JAMES MCKELVY.
224.	iii.	MARY SLOAN, b. January 08, 1798, Franklin Co., PA; d. May 22, 1859.
225.	iv.	JAMES SLOAN, b. May 14, 1806, Salem Twp, Westmoreland Co., PA; d. January 24, 1886, Washington Twp, Westmoreland Co., PA.
226.	v.	JOHN S. SLOAN, b. 1822, PA; d. March 1878, PA.

56. DAVID⁴ REID (ESTHER³ MCBRAYER, DAVID², FATHER '1ST GEN'¹) was born January 1772 in Antrim Twp, Franklin, Pennsylvania, and died February 1863 in Wheatland Twp, Indiana, Pennsylvania. He married ELIZABETH MITCHELL Bet. 1794 - 1795 in Franklin, Pennsylvania. She was born Bef. February 18, 1773 in near Shippenburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania, and died May 17, 1852.

Notes for DAVID REID:
1. 1850 AND 1860 census, Kosciusko Co, IN
2. Copy of deed showing signatures of David and Elizabeth
3. Sexton list for Bethel United Protestant Church, Centerville, Indiana Co., PA, copy after FGR 32;
4."Indiana County, 175th Anniversary History," Clarence D Stephenson, Vol. IV, 1983, pp 292,293, after FGR 32;
5. "David Reid, His Ancestors and Descendents," Ezra Ray Whitla, prepared before 1917, copy in possession of Robert Reid;
6."Life Of an old Political Journalist" by T.S. Reid. 1870, copy included after T.S. Reid FGR
7. "History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania," J. A. Caldwell, 1880
8. Letter, Reid Stewart, 26 Nov 1988, in possession of Robert Reid, after FGR 64;
9. Will of Andrew Reed, transcript included in Source 8;
10. "Revolutionary Ancestors," Dr. Reid Stewart, partial copy in possession of Robert Reid after FGR 64;
11. "Pioneer Families of the Conococheague Settlement, The McBrayer-Reed -Reid Family of Antrim Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania," Reid Stewart, Draft, 1991, copy in possession of Robert Reid;
12. Will of David Reid, Indiana Co., PA, Will Book 3 p. 64, # 1903;

He was named in father's will, given farm in Indiana Co., with brother, Thomas;

DEATH:
date, references David's will made January 17, 1857, and probated March 6, 1863. David's will was recorded in Indiana Co., PA, Will Book 3, p. 64:

BURIAL place; Bethel Associate Reformed (now United Presbyterian)
cemetery, however there are no stones, David's will requests being buried
beside his wife in that cemetery "as convenient as posible to the grave of my
beloved companion".
--Source 10; place; Bethel United Presbyterian Church Cemetery;
--Source 11; place; Bether A.R. (later U.P.) Cemetery but there are no
stones;

CHRONOLOGY:
--1782- "At the age of ten while driving a supply wagon for the Continental troops, David broke his leg in an accident which gave him a lifelong limp.
--1794-- "--he came into W. Pa. with Federal troops under Gen. Lee to quell the Whiskey Rebellion. David liked the area and came back to settle;
--1794; he served in 1794 with Gen. Henry Lee's army sent to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion:
--1807: Listed on the tax list for 1807, p. 452;
--1808; "David became one of the founding elders of Bethel Associate Reformed (now United Presbyterian) Church--"
--1814-1815; Member, PA House, representing Indiana, Armstrong and
Jefferson Counties.
--1819; David willed the property in Indiana County by his father, with his brother, Thomas;

BIOGRAPHPY:
--Source 6; "My father, David Reid, was the oldest member of a family of six brothers and five sisters. -----and of course was only four years old when American Independence was declared. His father had no particular love for Johnny Bull, and had him out at the age of ten years as teamster in hauling
provisions for the Colonial army (during the Revolutionary War). He had his thigh broken far from home, while out with the teams, from which cause he had a halt in his gait as long as he lived.
He was a good scholar for the times of his youth, was a good surveyor and geometrician."
This source also tells about David Reid going to Ohio soon after the Revolutionay War to survey 25,000 acres of land for his father, and of being driven back home by Indians;

--Source 7; p. 424; "There were three graves, side by side, on that part of the old `Reid Farm,' now owned by T.S. Reid, one large and two smaller, with rough head and foot stones and a well shaped separate tablet on each grave.

Trees from fifty to one hundred years old had overgrown these graves, when first discovered by those whose traditions we are now recording. Not only were the graves an evidence of an unkown and extinct population but there also were found the charred foundations of burned buildings, and enormously large apple trees, one of which is still living and bearing on the old Reid farm."----

By a spring on a part of the Reid Farm now owned by William Alexander, near to Thomas Crawford's line, there had been a house of considerable dimensions, and a garden of about an acre in extent, over which there were large trees growing, over sixty years ago. . . ." Caldwell, p. 424. Note:
my recollection is that the size of the house could be determined by old ashes.

--Source 7; p. 425; "Within the past century, David Reid and a few others whose names we were unable to ascertain, were soldiers in General Lee's army, and were sent by President Washington into Westmoreland county, to regulate the "Whiskey insurrection." Reid and some of his comrades requested and received their discharges without returning to the east. Of these soldiers, Reid was the only one who made a permanenet settlement in what is now West Wheatfield township. After building a cabin and clearing some ground, he employed "Davey" Inyard to make further improvements, and gave him his cabin in which to live.

He then built the first hewed log house in the township, with a shingle roof and a stone chimney. He then returned to Franklin County and married Elizabeth Mitchell a cousin of the noted Dr. Robert Mitchell of "Abolition" fame. He returned with his wife, and had lived about ( p. 426) eighteen months in his new house when it was robbed and set on fire during their absence at their sugar camp. The fire was discovered from the top of the river hill, on the Westmoreland side, by Rev. James Wakefield, a local Methodist Episcopal minister. He hastened with all speed, dashed his horse through the river, and
arrived only in time to see that it was the work of incendiaries. At first he supposed the occupants had been taken prisoners, and that his own life and liberty were in danger. But after a second thought, (as he was accustomed to tell it,) he hoped for their safety, and soon found them busily engaged in boiling sugar, ignorant of the fact that they were destitute of the means of procuring a loaf of bread other than by the charity of their neighbors. None of these had anything to spare, and a majority of them had not even bread for their families. Pack horses were immediately started out, and as soon as Reid could arrange for the keeping of his live stock, he left his wife at Mr. McGuire's and followed with his own horses. Instead of overtaking the horses first started, he met his father with ten of his horses laden with beds, bedding and other necessaries for housekeeping, and then the horses he had sent, laden with flour. His father told him to go on and pack what he could bring, and he and the man with him would go and take care of his wife and stock till his return.
"When he got back he found his wife very comfortaly situated in "Davey" Inyars's cabin, the latter having left some time previously. They remained in this cabin till their new one was partly finished, removing to accommodate Isaiah Van Horn, who had arrived with a large family from east of the
mountains."

--Source 7; p. 217--Bethel Unied Protestant Church, Wheatfield township "It is thought that the congregation was organized about the years 1808 to 1810, by the election and ordination of the following named persons as ruling elders, viz: Allan Graham and David Ried [sic]-----".
Early history or records of this church are given as an approximation to the truth -- "the first years of its existence are very imperfect."

--Source 4; It is said that, after his discharge from the Army, he bought some 25,000 acres of soldiers bounty warrants in Ohio but lost most of it at the hands of unscrupulous land agents (another source states the lands were acquired by his father after the Revolution). He then moved to a tract in W. Wheatfield Twp. and was one of the founding elders of Bethel Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in 1808.
"It has been said that, while serving in the PA House, Reid introduced a bill to construct a canal from Phila. to Pittsburgh but he was ahead of the times and the idea was treated as a joke (I: 316). A Democrat, he had some warm disputes with his Federalist neighbors (I: 218-219). He had a boatyard
along the Conemaugh River (I: 135; III: 68)."

--Source 5; "He lived in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, (as a boy). David Reid was but about 10 years old at the time of the Revolutionary War, but notwithstanding his age, drove a commissary wagon for the Continental Army. From my understanding, he was not an enlisted soldier. He was injured while
so engaged and had the right thigh broken so that he was always lame thereafter. In 1794, under General Lee, he went to Western Pennsylvania to help suppress the Whiskey Rebellion. His father was quite wealthy for those days and at the close of the Revolutionary War seccured 25,000 acres of land warrants from the soldiers. My great-grandfather (David) endeavored to locate this in Ohio near what is now Bucyrus, but was prevented from completing the survey by Indians. The work he did was such as to cloud the title to the land, and I have in my possession a letter to his brother, Robert Reid, to him stating he had been offered $500.00 to relinquish their rights to this land. This letter was written October 23, 1837. Later land was located under these warrants, but the surveyor made a grand mistake by which 15,000 acres of it was lost, and heirs were cheated out of the balance by the agent who was handling it for them.
"David Reid moved to the west of the Alleghany Mountains shortly after the Revolutionary War and settled in the Ligonier Valley in Indiana County. Before moving west had married Elizabeth Mitchell, who was born and brought up near Shipenburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. All his children were born and
raised in the Ligonier Valley, and his old homestead is now owned by my second cousin on my grandmother's side, Dr. Ray Alexander of Bolivar, PA. I was advised a few years ago by one of the relatives that the old log house built by my great grandfather and his father was still standing;
"After moving west across the mountains he seems to have experienced the full measure of hardship, having lost his first home, together with all its contents by fire. Wild beasts were plenty and unfriendly Indians were close neighbors.
"After moving across the mountains he was appointed Justice of the Peace for the territory west of the Alleghanies, then an entire wilderness.

--Source 8; "As a youth he went to western Ohio to view land owned by his father, but Indians' presence sent him back east"
---"David and Elizabeth settled in Wheatfield Township, Westmoreland, (now Indiana) County, PA. Their farm was situated in a loop of the Conemaugh River near Centerville.
--Source 10; David ---"settled near Centerville, W. Wheatfield Twp., Indiana Co., PA. David had been elected one of the original elders of this congregation in 1808. He had six sons and four daughters."
--Source 11; "David and Elizabeth settled in Wheatfield Twp., Westmoreland (now Indiana) Co., PA. Their farm was siutuated in a loop of the Conemaugh River near Centerville. David became one of the founding elders of Bethel Associate Reformed (later United Presbyterian) Church in 1808. Elizabeth was mostly blind most of her life, but this did not hinder her activities."

WILL:
Made January 17, 1857; Probated March 6, 1863;
In the name of God Amen, I, David Reed, of the Township of Wheatfield & County of Indiana and State of Pennsylvania being in good health of body andof sound and disposing memory, (praised be God for the same) and being desirous to settle my wordly affairs, while I have strength and capassity (sic) so to do, I do make and publish this my Last Will and Testament hereby revoking and making void allformer wills by me at any time heretofore made. An firtst and principally I commit my soul intothe hands of my Creator, who gave it and my body to the Earth to be interred in the burying Ground at Bethel Church, as
convenient as possible to the Grave of my beloved companion, at the descretion of my two daughters whose names are Ruth and Elizabeth, who I leave as my sole heirs and Executores of all my earthly possession (sic), both Realand Personal except my interest in the piece of land in Westmoreland county, owned jointly by me and John Bennet's heris & William Graham is agent for me in this piece of land. I hereby publish and declare that it is my desire that my Interest of that Piece of land shall revert to my youngest son Robert Reed and the residue of my Real Estate has already been conveyed by deed bearing my signature, of the Homestead to my two daughters Ruth and Elizabeth & I would further state all the Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Fowls, Household & Kithchen Furniture, Stoves, Looms, Wheels, Beds and Bedding, Galsses, Tables,Tubs, Barrels, Buckets, in a word all the (page 65) matters about the House, I give and bequeath to me two daughters, Ruth & Elizabeth as their own dues for service rendered to me in my last afflictions. And I do herby nominate and constutite these my two daughters Ruth & Elizabeth my Executors of this my Will and hereby revoking and making void allformer and other Wills & Testaments. In Witness Whereof I the said Testator, David Reed have to this my Last Will and Testament set my hand and seal this Seventeenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven A.D. 1857
David Reid (Seal)
Signed, Sealed and published and declared by the said Testator David Reed, as and for his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us, who in his presence and at his request, and ith the presence of each other have subscribed our names, this 17th day of January A.D. 1857. Attested by the following witnesses
Jacob Gamble
Emily Thompson
Appendix--David Reid's Will 1863
Indiana County ss) Be it Remembered That on the sixthday of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight-hundred and sixty-three, before me, John H. Lichteberger, Deputy Register for the Probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration in and for said county was duly proved and therefore approved the foregoing instrument of writing as and for the Last Will and Testament of
David Reed late of Wheatfield Township, said county, deceased, by the Oaths of Jacob Gamble, Esq. and Emily Thompson, the subscribing witnesses thereto.
Same day, Letters Testamentary issued to Ruth Reid and Elizabeth Reid, the Executors in said Will names. They having first been duly sworn according to law.
Jno H. Lichteberger, Depty Register

More About DAVID REID:
Died 2: Centerville, PA
Burial: ⁵³

Notes for ELIZABETH MITCHELL:
1. Letter, Reid Stewart, 28 Jan 1997, with family history, copy in possession of Robert Reid, after FGR 64;
2. Letter, Reid Stewart, 26 Nov 1988, in possession of Robert Reid, after FGR 64;
3. "Revolutionary Ancestors," Dr. Reid Stewart, partial copy in possession of Robert Reid after FGR 64;
4. "David Reid, His Ancestors and Descendents," Ezra Ray Whitla, prepared before 1917, copy in possession of Robert Reid;
5."Indiana County, 175th Anniversary History," Clarence D Stephenson, Vol. IV, 1983, pp 292,293, after FGR 32;
6. "Pioneer Families of the Conococheague Settlement, The McBrayer-Reed-Reid Family of Antrim Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania," Reid Stewart, Draft, 1991, copy in possession of Robert Reid;
7. "History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania," J. A. Caldwell, 1880;
8. "Life Of an old Political Journalist" by T.S. Reid. 1870, copy included after T.S. Reid FGR

BAPTISM:
--Source 1; date, place; baptized by Rev. John Cuthbertson at Rocky Spring in Cumberland, now Franklin Co., PA;
--Source 3; date; by Rev. John Cuthbertson;
--Source 5; date;
--Source 6; date, place; by Rev. John Cuthbertson at Rocky Spring, Letterkenny Twp., now Franklin Co., PA;

DEATH:
--Source 1; date; contains a reference to an obituary in "The Preacher" , 30 Jun 1852, p. 103; her last illness was protracted;
--Source 2; date; prior to 1857;
--Source 5; date, prior to 1857;
--Source 6; year, prior to 1857;

BURIAL:
--Source 1; place; Bethel Associate Reformed (later United Presbyterian) Cemetery; no stones;
--Source 3; place, Bethel United Protestant Church Cemetery;
--Source 6; place; Bethel A.R. (later U.P.) Cemetery, but there are no stones;

BIOGRAPHY:
--Source 2; "Elizabeth was nearly blind most of her life but this did not hinder her activities.
--Source 5; At the age of 22 she lost her sight;
--Source 4; "----Elizabeth Mitchell was born and reared in Shipenburg, Franklin Co., PA;" (Franklin County was actually a part of Cumberland County after 1750. It is now on the county line and is parially in Franklin County and partially in Cumberland County. Andrew Reid resided in Antrim Twp,
Franklin County. His son, David, and Elizabeth may have been married in Shippenberg in Franklin County before they moved to Ligonier valley.)
--Source 6; "Elizabeth was nearly blind most of her life, but this did not hinder her activities.
--Source 7; p. 425--"He (David Reid) then returned to Franklin county and married Elizabeth Mictchell a cousin of the noted Dr. Robert Mitchell, of "Abolition" fame. He returned with his wife, -------"
--Source 8; "My mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Mitchell. She was also of Scotch-Irish descent. She was born and brought up near Shippensburg, in Franklin County, Pa. She was a remarkable woman, and deserving of a fuller notice than can be given in these few pages. In her youth she was fond of
reading, and acquired a store of general information far in advance of the most of her sex. Her memory was such as to astonish all who conversed with her. She lost her eyesight at the age of twenty-two years, to such an extent as to deprive her of her fondest amusement (reading), and yet in old age she could repeat whole pages of books she had read in her youth. She connected whith the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in her youth, of which she was a sincere and conscientious Member during life, and died at the age of eighty years, with the brightest hopes of eternal bliss. She could repeat more scripture than ninety-nine hundredths of those who have the benefit of their eyesight. She
could repeat most, if not all of the Psalms, and nearly all of serrmons she had read in youth and heard in after life. She was very strict in the observance of the Sabbath, not joining in any other than religious conver sation, and never failing to admonish and reprove others who did so in her presence. What she
lost by the affliction of blindness, was in a great measure balanced by an acuteness in the distinction of sounds and in the argans of hearing. Although she could not distinguish one person from another by sight, she could reconize any of her family or neighbors by their voice, and was always so correct in
naming persons with whom she met, that comparitively few were acquainted with her calamity."

Marriage Notes for DAVID REID and ELIZABETH MITCHELL:
One source says marriage occured in Wheatfield, Indiana Co., PA. (Dan Cook)

More About DAVID REID and ELIZABETH MITCHELL:
Marriage 1: Bet. 1794 - 1795, Franklin, Pennsylvania
Marriage 2: 1794, Wheatfield, Indiana Co., PA

Children of DAVID REID and ELIZABETH MITCHELL are:

227.	i.		ANDREW⁵ REID, b. W. Wheatfield Twp, Indiana, Pennsylvania; d. Bef. 1880.
	ii.		ELIZABETH A. REID, b. W. Wheatfield Twp, Indiana, Pennsylvania.

Notes for ELIZABETH A. REID:
"Elizabeth was unmarried in 1857 and lived with her sister Ruth on the family farm. --1884--Source 1; puchased property from her brother Thomas S. Reid in Centerville. (See Indiana Co., PA., Deed book 123, p. 84)

228.	iii.		ESTHER REID, b. W. Wheatfield Twp, Indiana, Pennsylvania.
	iv.		MARTHA REID, b. W. Wheatfield Twp, Indiana, Pennsylvania.

Notes for MARTHA REID:
She was not mentioned in her father's will in 1857, so likely deceased by then.

RUTH REID, b. Abt. 1796, W. Wheatfield Twp, Indiana, Pennsylvania; d. November 21, 1882.

Notes for RUTH REID:
abt 1796; named for her maternal grandmother; Ruth resided on her father's farm near Centerville, Indiana Co., PA;

More About RUTH REID:
Died 2: 1880

229.	vi.	THOMAS S. REID, b. August 01, 1808, Wheatfield Twp, Indiana Co., Pennsylvania; d. October 18, 1888, Pennsylvania.
230.	vii.	REV. DAVID FULLERTON REID, b. August 05, 1810, W. Wheatfield Twp, Indiana, Pennsylvania; d. December 13, 1880, Indiana, Pennsylvania.
231.	viii.	JESSE MITCHELL REID, b. July 17, 1812, Wheatfield Twp, Indiana, Pennsylvania; d. August 14, 1851.
232.	ix.	WILLIAM M. REID, b. 1814, Wheatfield Twp, Indiana, Pennsylvania; d. 1865.
233.	x.	ROBERT M. REID, b. February 22, 1820, W. Wheatfield Twp, Indiana, Pennsylvania; d. November 25, 1890, Clark, Washington.

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