Person:John Pevehouse (1)

Name	John Pevehouse
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	Abt 1747	prob. Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Marriage	Abt 1775	Pennsylvaniato Catherine Smith
Death^[1]	1 Mar 1806	Wayne County, Kentucky

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Will of John Pevehouse

Transcription of Will of John Peavyhouse, 1806 Wayne Co., KY:

My last will & testament hereby revoking all others as ... wills or testaments by me heretorfore ... in ... whereof I have hereunto set my name and ... the 19 day of March 1819.

I give all my rite and ... in the land of the county aforesaid to my son John after my death and accept my testament as long as I live; likewise one young breeding mare to raise, all the benefit of his own kind, not to sell him without will. LIkewise, I give my son, George M. another young breeding mare to make out of her what he can for his own benefit after my death to be his. ... but not to sell her without my will. I likewise give another young mare to my son Daniel to raise and to benefit out of her what he caan for his own benefit but not to sell her without my will, after my death. I likewise give another young mare to my son Christopher to raise all the benefit out of her for his own benefit but not to sell her without my will.

This is my last will ... this day of 1 March 1806.

Attest: William Gates (or Jones); William ... and Joseph Hen.... Wayne Co., State of KY, March ... 1806 ... ratified by Joyn Pevehouse Sr...

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Records of John Pevehouse

Daniel and John Pevehiser paid tax in that Twp. in Bucks County, Pennsylvania until 1784.

Fifth Series, Vol. 8, p399, John Pevehouse served 2 months in Penn. Militia, 8th Co., 5th Battn., June 1782 in Northampton Co. (Formed out of Bucks)

Fifty Series, Vol.. l, p 333, John Pevehouse among a long list of deserters of the First Penn. Battn., commanded by Lt. Col. Turbett Francis. They deserted from Fort Loudon on 25 Aug. l764. (s/b 1784?)

Bucks County Book of Allegiance Oaths taken mostly by Germans contains the name of John Pevehouse, on date of 1 Oct. 1776.

Fifth Series, Vol.2, p249, Penn. Rifle Reg. Col. Samuel Niles commanding, was name of John Bevehouse, 1.9 May 1776

Ibid, p 265, his name on muster roll - quartered at Ft. Island

Ibid, p 272, on Payroll, Aug. 1776

LAND GRANTS FOR John Pevehouse, from N.C. in Tennessee :

Book 4, No.877, p 747, date 17 Nov. 1790, 100 acres on the waters of the Watauga River., Bk. B, p 190, date 17 Nov. 1790 190 A. Bk. B., p 219, Land sold in 1795.

John Pevehouse was ordered by the Court in Nov. 1788 to work on the road near Doe Creek in Washington Co., Tenn.; was on tax Roll of Carter Co., Tenn. in 1798.

Ibid, p 275, Sick Sept. 1.776

Same Series, Vol.4, John Bevehouse member Penn. Continental. Line from Northampton Co.

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