Person:Francis Silvers (1)

Records in Carlisle, Pennsylvania

• SILVER SPRING TAVERN - Oliver Pollock Tavern - Location - 6395 Carlisle Pike - Tavern - Standing - 2-story stone - :Built 1797 - Tavernkeepers were John McCurdy 1771-1776, David Briggs 1796-1804.

History - The original tavern burned in November 1796. The new tavern 40’ by 33’ was built by Oliver Pollock before 1798.

• Robert Callender, the original landowner on which Silver Spring Tavern is built, died in 1776. The executors wrote in the Pennsylvania Gazette dated 2 Oct 1776,

"TO BE SOLD - 1,200 acres of excellent limestone land situated in East Pennsborough Twp. on great road leading from Harris Ferry to said town of Carlisle whereon are erected and built an excellent merchant mill and sawmill adjacent... now in tenure of Mr. Francis Silver, on a never failing stream of water known by name of Silver Spring. Oliver Pollock purchased the property.

Reverend Manasseh Cutler traveling to the Northwest Territory stopped at the tavern. He was the founder of Marietta, Ohio. He says "We went 7 miles from the Susquehanna River to Pollock’s Tavern. A fat Irishman gave us a grand dinner, but one horse fared badly; intolerably dear."

During David Brigg’s tenure as tavernkeeper, a disastrous fire occurred. It was reported in the 11 Nov 1796 edition of Klines - "CONFLAGRATION - the Silver Spring Tavern, property of Oliver Pollock, Esq., which was kept by Mr. Briggs, took fire and was consumed. Charles Smith, Esq., one of the lodgers and in adjoining room went where several Indian chiefs lodged who joined him in the cry to the other lodgers."

• Note - Francis Silver married Jannet Sample the daughter of John Sample of East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania. Samuel Semple Sr., was an uncle to Jannet Sample who married Francis Silver, and a brother of John Sample of East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania.

SAMPLE, Samuel on the 01 Aug 1766 applied for 300 acres of land on the Little Juniata, adjoining land applied for by Joseph Silver of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Francis Silver applied for the land in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on Apr 1, 1766.

Samuel Semple Sr., also operated a Tavern in Carlisle, before he and his son Samuel Semple Jr., began operating the Tavern at Fort Pitt.

• Discussions of speculator James Silvers' land purchases in now-Cumberland County c.1735 dismiss warrants to Joseph Silver as a "straw man," that is, Joseph was not a brother but a front for additional warranting by James himself. But it should be noted that one of the George Brandons, possibly this Joseph Silver's father-in-law, was at a vendue in the Silver's Spring area in 1739 and that Presbyterians from York County travelled to Silver's Spring for church until the Monaghan congregation at Dillsburg was given the go-ahead in 1760.

• Schaumann, Merri Lou Scribner. Taverns of Cumberland County Pennsylvania 1750-1840. (Lewisberry, Pennsylvania: Cumberland County Historical Society, 1994).

Samuel Semple Jr. also operated a Tavern in Carlisle, before operating the Tavern at Fort Pitt.

• Newberry Library

30 Dec 1772 Order to Pay Samuel Semple, Jr. - Order (Logstown, Pa., 1772 Dec. 30) instructing Robert Callender to pay Samuel Sample Jr. twenty pounds, and letter (Fort Pitt, 1781 Sep. 7) to an unknown addressee regarding the supply of provisions to Fort Pitt.

1.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). The Samples / Semples Family.

   Hereditary Sempill Lords of Blackburn, Kirkhouse, and Long Dreghorn & Clan Sempill

   
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Francis Silver, Sr, in Find A Grave.

   Francis was the son of Capt. James Silver (c.1702-1776) and Hannah (?) Silver. One source says that he was the first white child born west of the Susquehanna River.
   
   Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Applications for Land Warrants:
   
   1 Aug 1766 - Francis Silver, 300 acres on Juniata and below lands applied for by James Silver, Carlisle, Apr 1766
   
   1 Aug 1766 - Joseph Silver, 300 acres on Little Juniata and adjoining land applied for by Francis Silver, Carlisle, Apr 1766.
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   Francis [1st] married Janet "Lucy" (Semple) Silver (1743 - 1775/76) in 1762 in Silver Spring Presbyterian Church, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and they had five children. Lucy was the daughter of John Semple/Sample.
   
   Francis was a private in the Pennsylvania troops during the American Revolution, and he was a prisoner on the ship 'Jersey'.
   
   Francis [2nd] married Mary (Hackett) Silver (1760 - May 1825) of Pennsboro(ugh), Pennsylvania, in 1778.
   
   In 1798, Francis Silver and his family, including Lucy's son, Francis Silver, Jr., (1775-1852), moved to Falling Waters, Berkeley County, (now) West Virginia.
   
   In 1803, Francis Silver, Sr., and Francis Silver, Jr. were both taxpayers in Berkeley County.
   
   Francis and Mary had 10 children, all of whom are mentioned in their mother's will which was probated in Berkeley County, (now) West Virginia in 1825.
   
   
   Family links:
   Parents:
   James Silver (1702 - 1776)
   
   Spouse:
   Mary Hackett Silver (1760 - 1825)*
   
   Children:
   Hannah Jane Silvers Gilfillan (1770 - ____)*
   Francis Silver (1775 - 1852)*
   Ann Silver Sharff (1787 - 1859)*
   Thomas J B Silver (1800 - 1873)*
   Lucetta Silver Logan (1802 - 1880)*
   
   *Calculated relationships
   
   Burial:
   Old Falling Waters Cemetery
   Falling Waters
   Berkeley County
   West Virginia, USA
   
   Created by: myta
   Record added: Feb 07, 2011
   Find A Grave Memorial# 65300089

3.   Schaumann, Merri Lou Scribner. Taverns of Cumberland County Pennsylvania 1750-1840. (Lewisberry, Pennsylvania: Cumberland County Historical Society, 1994).
4. ↑ "International Genealogical Index (IGI)," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:9JQC-P6Y : accessed 2015-06-09), entry for Francis Silver.

   Francis Silvers, GENDER Male, BIRTH 1735 / 1740, Silver Spring, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, DEATH 1815, Falling Waters, Berkeley, Virginia, BURIAL Falling Waters Presbyterian Cemetery, Falling Waters, Berkeley, Virginia, MARRIAGES (1) SPOUSE Lucey Jennet Simple, MARRIAGE 2 November 1758, Christ Lutheran Church, York, Pennsylvania

5.   Taverns of Silver Spring Township
   http://silverspringlpc.wikispaces.com/file/view/TAVERNS+OF+SILVER+SPRING+TOWNSHIP.doc
   Source - Silver Spring Township Conservation and Preservation Committee
   http://silverspringlpc.wikispaces.com/