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Descendants of William Pringle

Generation No. 1

1. WILLIAM¹ PRINGLE was born January 22, 1744/45 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and died June 22, 1829 in Pressel Cemetery, Greenfield Twp, Blair Cnty, PA. He married MARY WERTZ December 20, 1765 in Lancaster Co, PA.

Notes for WILLIAM PRINGLE:
A. (Taken from a genealogy in the Cambria County library in Johnstown)
      In the year of 1760, there came to america, from Scotland, three boys by the names of William, Joseph and George Pringle. How they came is an unknown fact.
      These three young men located in Lancaster County of Pennsylvania. (This county was formed in the year of 1729.) They worked amoung the farmers in the county until the Revolutionary War began. William, the ancestor of the Pringle family of Cambria County, united hiimself with the Huntingdon County Militia.
      On the adjoining land of the Pringles in Lancaster County, a farm was owned by a man of Holland decent who's name was Wertz. Mr. Wertz had a daughter named Mary. Ancestor William Pringle worked a shole year for Mr. Wertz. Here, while working, he made acquaintance with the daughter Mary, and as the two young couple were of two different nationalities, neither could speak each other's language. They made an agreement to teach each other the different languages. While doing so William asked for a marriage. Mary was agreeagle upon the consent of her parents, which was agreeable, and the two were married December 20, 1765. They lived in Lancaster County until somtime after 1772, for here we find their daughter Mary being born in Franklin County, Pa. , November 25, 1778. Sometime after this they moved into the Juniata Valley, Huntingdon County and settled at Trankstown. Three years later Elizabeth was born in Huntingdon County, Pa., February 9, 1781.
      William Pringle and Mary Wertz raised a family of eleven children, all of them to wormanhood and manhood, except the first child who was born November 27, 1766, in Lancaster County and died there January 5, 1767. (See children)
      William Pringle, Sr. was quite a hunter. He knew every part of the mountains and had been to the Conemaugh Valley on several hunting trips. Why he was not more noted in the histories of Cambria and Huntingdon Counties we can not understand, for it was his guidance that the road from Frankstown was a success.

B.(Taken from a genealogy in the Cambria County library in Johnstown)
      In 1790, the Governor of Pennsylvania appointed Samuel McClay, Timothy Matlock and John Adlum to survey a road from Frankstown to the Conemaugh Valley. These men needed a guide. William Pringle offered his services, as he had been to the Conemaugh Valley on different occasions. A man by the name of Shirely also wanted the job and he told the surveyors, if they went into the mountains with Pringle, they would all get lost. He also told them, "If Pringle can find ground fit to make a road over towards the Blue Knob, I will give my head for a football". But Pringle piloted them through with great success.
      The William Pringle farm in Huntingdon County consisted of 200 acres (150 acres by location, and 50 acres by a warrant). He was owner of 2 cattle and 2 horses. The assessed valuation of the property was 201 pounds, 9 shillings and 6 pence. This was for the year of 1788. He also belonged to the Huntingdon County Militia under the command of John Holiday, Company 103. The 19th man on the roster found in the PA Archives, 6th series, volume 3, page 444.


More About WILLIAM PRINGLE:
Occupation: Farmer

Notes for MARY WERTZ:
A.(From genealogy in the Cambria Cnty Library, Johnstown, PA)
      Parents from Holland

Children of WILLIAM PRINGLE and MARY WERTZ are:

	i.	UNKNOWN², b. November 27, 1766, Lancaster Co, PA; d. January 05, 1767.
2.	ii.	GEORGE PRINGLE, b. December 06, 1767, Lancaster Co, PA; d. January 16, 1846.
	iii.	CHRISTINA PRINGLE, b. June 19, 1770, Lancaster Co, PA; m. GEORGE CAIRN.
3.	iv.	PHILIP PRINGLE, b. October 20, 1772, Lancaster Co, PA; d. November 18, 1841, Wilmore, Cambria Co, PA.
	v.	MARY PRINGLE, b. November 25, 1775, Conocoheague Valley, Franklin Co, PA.
4.	vi.	SUSANNA PRINGLE, b. February 08, 1778, Juniata Valley, Huntingdon Co, PA; d. 1840, Sandusky, Sandusky Co, OH.
	vii.	ELIZABETH PRINGLE, b. February 09, 1781, Juniata Valley, Huntingdon Co, PA; d. 1812; m. JOHN MORGAN, February 07, 1809, Bedford Co, PA.
5.	viii.	CATHERINE H. PRINGLE, b. April 17, 1783, Juniata Valley, Huntingdon Co, PA.
	ix.	ELVA PRINGLE, b. August 06, 1785, Juniata Valley, Huntingdon Co, PA; d. April 25, 1802, Juniata Valley, Huntingdon Co, PA.
6.	x.	WILLIAM PRINGLE, b. March 19, 1790, Juniata Valley, Huntingdon Co, PA; d. OH.
	xi.	JOHN S. PRINGLE, b. 1804.

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