Person:Jeremiah Gard (3)

RELATION: The connection with a Father Jeremiah is listed as POSSIBLE by Margie Gard GRAY of Appleton, WA 98602 See Notes for Brother Gershom Gard. Margie states that Jeremiah was of Uniontown, Fayette County, Penn.

CHR: Parish Christenings for Morristown, Morris, New Jersey.

Died at age 69 years. Buried Oct 1813 in the family cemetery on his farm in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

Jeremiah was taxed for 1 horse and 2 horned cattle at Hanover Township, Morris County, New Jersey (Jun 1778 to Feb 1780 - books 1241 and 1243)

See: GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE OF NEW JERSEY, vols 44, 45, and 46 Revolutionary War Census by Kenn Stryker-Rodda, List II, 1778-1780: "Jeremiah Gard of Hanover." It must have been just about this time or a little after that he left to reside in Pennsylvania.

PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES - 34d series, vol. 23, p. 229 - Rangers on the Frontiers 1778-1783 Westmoreland County, Jeremiah Gard.

GARDS IN AMERICA, p. 7 says that Jeremiah was in Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War and served as a private in an indian campaign. Jeremiah DID settle in Westmoreland County in the southwestern part of Pennsylvania (A part of Westmoreland County later became Fayette County, with the county seat at Uniontown), but resumably after 1778. In 1782 Jeremiah Gard had his residence in Manellen Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (See: GARRET COUNTY HISTORY OF THE GUARD FAMILY by Evelyn Guard OOlsen, printed in the Mt. Savage Newspaper, Allegheny County, Maryland, Thursday 25 Apr 1935)

That he fought in Pennsylvania during the war is found in the PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES, Fifth Series, IV, 742 (List of "Soldiers of the Revolution who received pay for their services" (taken from Manuscript Record, having neither date nor title), under "Rangers on the Frontiers, 1778-1783" which was published in Vol. XXIII, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series...): "Continental Line, Westmoreland County: Jeremiah Gard, private." Jeremiah first fought during the Revolutionary War as a private in Captain Peter Dickinson's Company of Morristown and later in Captain Thomas Carr's Company, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Militia. Ranger 1778-83. Indian fighter. PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES, Series 6, vol 2, Menellon Township, p. 401 - 3rdBattalion, Westmoreland County, Militia, which participated in the Sandusky Expedition, 16 May to 16 July 1782 under the command of Colonel Crawford.

In 1783 Jermiah Gard sold his property in Manellen Township and located in Union Township, Fayette County, in Allegheny region. (GARRET COUNTY HISTORY OF THE GUARD FAMILY by Evelyn Guard Olsen).

Virginia Prosser letter dated 09 May 1979: "I feel the 'Mr Gard' that the Gards etc. mentioning at 'Redstone' was definitely our Jeremiah Gard 1744-1813. They stayed with him on way west and had mail sent to him."

PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES - 3RD SERIES, vol 22, p. 550: Returns of the state tax for the county of Fayette 1785 - Jeremiah Gard (lb)5.0. Return of State tax for county of Fayette 1785 - Jeremiah Gard (lb)10.2 (Vol 22 - p. 610 more about Jeremiah Gard.)

From UNIONTOWN, FAYETTE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA COURTHOUSE: Jeremiah Gard 150 acres of warrent 17 Jan 1793 @ Union Township, File G-228-230 & 232-269; 04 Dec 1805 @ Union Township, File G-139-140: 248 1/2 acres.

Virginia Prosser letter dated 01 Oct 1978: "In the courthouse at Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania the large, oilcloth map shows the name "Droinore." E. C. Davis says Jeremiah (1744-) named the land Dremore. I believe the name was Droinore and at time Dremore became a more common way to spell and pronounce it. It is on map 23, South Union Township.

HISTORY OF UNIONTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, p. 283. Jeremiah Gard purchased lot #23 in Henry's [Beeson] Addition, December 26, 1797 for $25. He owned a tract of land in South Union Township (248 acres) before 1780.

According to Franklin Ellis in his HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA: with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, p. 683: "Jeremiah Gard owned a tract of land in this [Uniontown] township some time before 1780 ["Dremore", 248 1/2 acres, was warranted in 1805: on 02 Jan 1806 Jeremiah Gard received a United States Land Grant to Union Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.] It contained two hundred and forty-eight acres, and was located next to the farm of Thomas Gaddis. In 1791, Mr Gard built a mill on Redstone Creek, which is still standing [author died 1885], and is known as the Hutchinson mill. [In the March Court Session of 1801 a proposed road from Uniontown pas Jeremiah Gard's Mill to Pearis Furnace was opened and cleared 33 feet wide (See: FAYETTE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA ROAD DOCKET]. He was also engaged in the manufacture of scythes, and served as a private in the Crawford expedition. He died upon this place, and left three sons, -- Daniel, Simeon and Jeremiah [actually, as shown by records in the Recorder's office in Fayette County, Jeremiah had other sons, Levi, Lot and William]. They all settled near their father and lived here for many years, but after his death removed to the West." Also in this book Jeremiah was on the tax list of 1783 in Menallen Township, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania and the FAYETTE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA TAXPAYERS, 1785-1799, p. 59 & 66 shows Jeremiah Gard of Union paying taxes in 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, & 1789.

In 1784 he purchased a farm from Henry Beeson, the founder of Beesontown, now Uniontown. This Henry had come to Pennsylvania about 1769 joined by friends from his home in Berkeley County, Virginia and relatives and friends from Eastern Pennsylvania. Jeremiah's neighbors in 1806 were: Thomas Brookfield, Thomas Hayden, James McCopy, Jacob Sutton and Jeremiah Cook. This area of Pennsylvania produced coke and many furnaces existed in the early 1800's. Wharton Furnac was one, which was the address of Timothy and Hannah Weston. (Guardian Vol II, Pg 35).

Jeremiah is probably the GARD mentioned in "The Horn Map Book", vol III: South Union twp. (which abuts both Wharton & Georges) showing 150 acres on the southern tip of a branch of Redstone Creek, warrant 1-17-1793 and patent 1-21-1806. This land is on the very edge of the twp. next to Wharton and adjacent to pieces owned by William, Clark, Roe and Thomas. Jeremiah received a patent of 248-1/2 acres of land in Union twp., PA south, 04 Dec 1805 called "Dremore/Droinore". His land joined that of Rev. Isaac Sutton who was warranted 380 acres in 1786 which was called "Watchtower." Levi Springer lived about 15-20 miles away on land called "Unity" and Samuel Parkhurst lived 20-25 miles on 400 acres called "Jersey Delight," warranted 1785 and patented 1803. Later Jeremiah warranted another 150 acres called "Columbia Necho" in 1806. This piece of land bordered Wharton twp., and his neighbors were Nathaniel Roe, Jacob Thomas and James Williams.

THE RECORDER OF DEEDS, UNIONTOWN, FAYETTE CO., PA:

(DB-C, 794) an indenture 6-28-1796 from Matthias Chips of Union twp. to Jeremiah Gard, Sr. of same place a #100 mortgage given to Ephraim Douglas (Prothonotary)... for land part of a tract called "Suffield" deeded from the Commonwealth to Isaac Sutton and by Sutton to Chips 6-7-1796, adjacent to land of Benjamin Brownfield, James, John & Isaac Sutton, of 22 acres with cottages, gardens stables, etc.;

An indenture (DB-6, 118) 12-26-1797 from Henry and Mary Beeson to Jeremiah Gard, a lot on Cheat Street;

(DB-F, 393) Henry Beeson of Uniontown on Redstone Creek in Union twp. granted part of lot 23, 12-26-1797 to Jeremiah Gard and his wife Experience, for $100, paid by Benjamin Heller, hatter.../s/Jeremiah Gard Experience(X) Gard;

23 Mar 1811, Jeremiah Gard conveyed lot #23 to Henry's Addition (purchased 26 Dec 1797) to Benjamin Hellen;