Person:Philip Firebaugh (1)

MILITARY: Philip's name appears as a member of Capt. John Rutherford's Third Company of the Fourth Battalion of Lancaster County Militia 19 April 1779. He was ordered to Fort Bedford to protect the frontier against Indians. In 1781 and 1782 he was a member ot the Fourth Company of the Tenth Battalion of the Lancaster County Militia. During this time he lived in Hanover Twp., Lancaster, Pennsylvania (near Harrisburg) which became a part of Dauphin County in 1785.

RESIDENCE: A list of the inhabitants of Elk Lick Twp., Bedford, Pennsylvania of 7 February 1789 shows him there. He had moved from Lancaster (Dauphin) County and had settled in Elk Lick Twp., Bedford County about 1785 in a locality then known as the Glades. On 17 April 1795 Bedford County divided and Elk Lick Twp. became part of Somerset County. He paid tax on 200 acres of land in Elk Lick Twp. in 1796 and the payments continued yearly until 1808.

On 17 August 1799 he bought 100 acres of land in Allegany County, Maryland located south of and bounded on the north by the Pennsylvania-Maryland state line, about 3 miles northeast of the present town of Grantsville. Elk Lick Twp., Bedford County (now Somerset County), Pennsylvania adjoins the tract on the north. He lived on this farm until his death in 1808 or 1809.

In 1808 Philip came to Harrison County, Ohio with his sons and filed entry to a farm in North Twp. about 1 1/2 miles northwest of the present village of Scio. Land: SW 1/4 of Sect. 33, Twp. 12, Range 5 West. On 12 September 1808 he made the first payment on this tract at the U. S. Land Office in Steubenville, Ohio. Philip returned to Allegany County, Maryland to dispose of his property there and to prepare his family to move to Ohio. Shortly thereafter he contracted a fever and died in 1808 or 1809 in Allegany County, Maryland and was buried there. His family then moved to Harrison County, Ohio to the land that he had purchased.

1. ↑ Will of Philip Firebaugh.
2.   1790 Federal Census Elk Lick Twp, Salisbury., Bedford Co., PA. Check 14 names below Firebaugh for a possible John Hendricks..
3.   John Franklin Fierbaugh, The Firebaugh-Fierbaugh Family in America (privately published, Rocky River Ohio 1981) FHC film number 1033751.
4.   F. Rider, American Genealogical and Biographica Index (Vol 53 & 54).
5.   Court Records of Lehigh Co. PA.
6.   1800 US Federal, Allegheny Co., MD
   39 Sandy Creek.
7. ↑ ^7.0 7.1 John Franklin Fierbaugh, The Firebaugh-Fierbaugh Family in America (Rocky River, Ohio:, 1981).

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