... Jesse Christie was a lieutenant in Colonel Moore's New Hampshire regiment during the Revolution; was a deacon in the Congregational church at New Londonderry, N.H., and was always known by that title.
The Christies were in New Hampshire in 1717 and are of Scotch Irish descent. In 1818 Deacon Jesse, Major Robert and James Christie (the latter being a young man about twenty years of age), went overland from Vermont, where they had lived a short time, after leaving New Hampshire, to Springfield, Ohio, and settled in that country when the Indians were the principal inhabitants. From Pittsburg these early settlers travelled in crude flat boats to Cincinnati, and many a shot was exchanged with Indians along the banks of the Ohio river. Five generations of Christies have lived and died at Springfield.
James and Laura Beardsley Christie;
Jesse (brother of James) and Martha Lowry Christie, and
Mary (sister of James and Jesse), who married Louis Bancroft, were all married at Springfield, Ohio, and all lived to celebrate their golden weddings in that place. ...
