Person:Samuel Huston (5)

Name[2]	Samuel Huston
Alt Name	Samuel Houston
Gender	Male
Birth?	1710	Northern Ireland
Marriage	20 Jul 1728	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Isabella Sharon
Alt Death[1]	15 Sep 1784
Death[1]	12 Oct 1784	Cumberland County, Pennsylvania

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Overview

Based on: Source:Anonymous, 1905, some editing and reformating for continuity and clarification.

In November, 1752, Samuel Huston took out a warrant for a tract of land [on Conadoguinet Creek in Cumberland county]. The survey...was returned the following March. The tract contained 240 acres and was bounded on the south by lands of John Sample; on the east by John Carson and Richard Peters; on the north by Robert Carrithers; and on the west by John McClellan. The chain of title shows that this land has been divided up into two farms which are now owned [1905] by Abraham Gutshall and Harry W. Shaull. [3]

This Samuel Huston was married to Isabella Sharon, of whose former history but little can be ascertained. It is known that a James Sharon, and after him his son James, lived upon and owned a tract of land in East Pennsboro, immediately to the west of where Samuel Huston located, but the last of the family disappeared from the locality soon after the Hustons came.

On Sept. 15, 1784, Samuel Huston made his will, which was probated on Oct. 12th, same year.

Children

In [his will Samuel] names four sons:

William,

Samuel,

John and

Jonathan.

John and Jonathan he designates "my two younger sons." Although not named in the will it appears from other court records that he also had a son James. No daughters are named, but it is a well authenticated fact that there were five, as follows:

Margaret,

Anne,

Isabella,

Mary and

Jane.

.... There is nothing to show that William and John ever married.
William Huston. A William Huston was captain in a regiment of Cumberland county militia called into service in August, 1776, under Col. Frederick Watts, and it is probable that he was this William Huston. He disappeared from the East Pennsboro list of taxables in 1795.
John Huston. John Huston lived upon the old Huston homestead, bequeathed to him by his father, till his death. He died in 1811, and his estate became involved in litigation which was not terminated until in 1828.
Samuel Huston. Samuel married Esther Waugh, and by her had children as follows:

John

Samuel

James

Richard

Esther and

William.

Margaret Huston. Margaret married John Huston, a son of Christopher Huston, and by him had the following children:

Jonathan

James

John

Samuel

William

Ann

Isabella and

Mrs. Kinkaid.

John Huston purchased a tract of land in West Pennsboro while West Pennsboro yet included Dickinson and Penn townships. A few years afterward he moved to this newly acquired possession and he and his descendants were long some of the most prominent and influential people of that part of the county.

Mary Huston. Mary, the fourth child, married John Mateer, whose name upon the early records is sometimes spelled McTeer. The Mateers were also some of the earliest settlers on the north side of the Conedoguinet creek in East Pennsboro, in the same neighborhood that the Hustons lived. Afterward they removed to the part of Allen township that is now Lower Allen. John Mateer was a captain in the war of the Revolution. John and Mary (Huston) Mateer had issue as follows: Samuel Huston, John, Andrew, Alice, Isabella, Mary and Ann. Andrew, the third son, married Ann, a daughter of John and Margaret (Huston) Huston, of Dickinson township. He was a useful and prominent citizen of the vicinity of Lisburn during all of his active life, was long justice of the peace and universally known as "Squire Mateer." John Huston died in April, 1780, aged fifty-four years; his wife, Mary Huston, died in February, 1812, aged seventy-three years, and the remains of both and also those of many of their descendants, are buried in the cemetery of the Silver Spring Church.

Anne Huston. Anne Huston, the fifth child, married James Gibson, but nothing is known as to where they lived or what family they had.

Jane Huston. In 1761 there came to America from County Antrim, Ireland, a scholarly young man named John Creigh, who for a time found employment in the family of Samuel Huston. Jane, the sixth child of Samuel and Isabella (Sharon) Huston, married this young Irish tutor and by him became the mother of a most illustrious family. John Creigh subsequently became a lawyer at Carlisle and rose to great distinction and usefulness. At the commencement of the war for American independence he joined the patriot army and speedily was advanced to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In June, 1776, he was a representative of Cumberland county to the convention which declared that the Colony of Pennsylvania was free and independent of Great Britain. He afterward served with his regiment in New Jersey and participated in the battles of Germantown and other engagements. After returning to his home he was chosen an associate judge, also a ruling elder of the Presbyterian Church at Carlisle, and held both offices up to his death. John and Jane (Huston) Creigh had the following children: Isabella, Thomas, Samuel, John, Mary and Elizabeth. The Creighs for three generations figured prominently in the social and business life of Pennsylvania. The son John graduated from Dickinson College and from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania. He afterward lived at Landisburg, Perry county, where for twenty years he practiced his profession, and part of that time engaged in the manufacture of iron. He married Eleanor Dunbar and had a large family. One of his sons was the Hon. John D. Creigh, of California; one Dr. Alfred Creigh, of Washington, Pa., and another Rev. Dr. Thomas Creigh, who for fifty years was pastor of the Mercersburg Presbyterian Church.

Person:James Huston (15). James Huston, the son who was not named in his father's will, in September, 1785, bought a farm at the head of Penn's creek, in what is now Center, but at that time was yet included within the bounds of Cumberland county. In the deed conveying it the seller is designated as "James Huston, of Philadelphia, innholder;" and the purchaser as "James Huston, Jr., distiller, of East Pennsboro, Cumberland county." "Junior" here does not indicate that James Huston, of East Pennsboro, "distiller," was a son of James Huston, of Philadelphia, "innholder," for there is a record in the orphans court of Cumberland county showing that he was a brother of John Huston, who in the will of Samuel Huston is designated as one of the testator's "two younger sons." He in all probability was a nephew of James Huston, of Philadelphia, "innholder." James Huston was born in 1758, served in the war of the Revolution, and from 1780 to 1786 appears regularly on the East Pennsboro tax list as a freeman. He then disappears from the records and never re-appears in Cumberland county as a citizen. He removed to his farm in Penn's Valley, married, and ever afterward lived in that part of the State. He married Catharine Ewing, whose father, James Ewing, was one of the early settlers of the vicinity of McCormick's Fort, in Huntingdon county. In 1782, when about twelve years old, Catharine Ewing was captured by the Indians and for seven days marched through the wilderness in rain, sleet and snow to Canada. She was taken to Montreal and there held a captive until after the war, when she was exchanged and sent to Philadelphia. From Philadelphia she finally found her way back to her home. James and Catharine (Ewing) Huston had issue as follows: Samuel, Mary, Thomas, Isabella, Catherine and Margaret. Four of these children married and raised large families. Some of their descendants are yet living in central Pennsylvania, but many have scattered to distant parts of the country and not a few have won fame and distinction. ^[4]

Isabella Huston. Isabella Huston, the eighth child, on Oct. 14, 1765, married James Clendenin, Rev. John Conrad Bucher performing the ceremony. James Clendenin was the youngest child of John and Janet (Huston) Clendenin and Isabella Huston's first cousin. By him she had children as follows: Jonathan, John, Margaret, William, Jennie, Mary, Annie, Isabella and James. Her first husband died while she was yet a young woman and she afterward married Nathaniel Eckels, a widower, who by his former marriage also had a family. Isabella (Huston) (Clendenin) by Nathaniel Eckels, her second husband, had two sons, William and Francis Eckels, who lived in Silver Spring township, were prominent and influential citizens and raised large families, and some of their descendants reached high public positions in the State and Nation...

Jonathan Huston. Jonathan, according to his father's will, was one of the two "younger sons" of Samuel Huston. It is probable that he was the youngest child. He and his brother John jointly received all the lands of their father's estate, but at some time must have made partition of them, for when in 1808 John made his will he severally owned the farm originally located by his father, while Jonathan was sole owner of the farm adjoining him on the north. Jonathan married Margaret Rankin McIntyre and always lived on his farm in Silver Spring township. He died Nov. 10, 1830, near the place where he was born, aged seventy years. His wife died Aug. 24, 1846, aged seventy-six years. Their remains were first interred in Pine Hill graveyard, but subsequently removed to the cemetery of the Silver Spring Church, where their resting-place is marked by tombstones which are still in good condition.

Among the improvements that Jonathan Huston made upon the farm he long owned was a large stone house of a type common to the period immediately succeeding the Revolution. This he built about the year 1821, on an elevated point, where it stands to-day as a landmark of the past and a memorial to the man whose industry and enterprise erected it. After his death the farm became the property of his heirs, who in April, 1847, conveyed it to Jacob Deemy. Since then it has had several owners and for the past twenty-five years has been the property of James Angeny.

Pine Hill Graveyard

From Source:Anonymous, 1905

Upon the land for which Samuel Huston obtained a warrant in 1752 is a burying-ground which in its time has been famous. It is located in the western part of the farm - now owned by Abraham Gutshall - near the edge of a precipitous hill. Originally it was in a dense wood of tall pine trees, from which circumstance it has been known, almost from the first, as the Pine Hill graveyard. Something of it still remains, but the wood about it has been cleared away to the very brink of the hill and the little shrunken graveyard is left up in a field where it is exposed to the danger of being farmed over and entirely obliterated. That neglected burying-ground now contains not a single tombstone upon which anything can be read, yet to the many descendants of the first settlers of that part of the county it is hallowed ground. Within its narrow confines reposes the dust of Samuel Huston and his wife Isabella Sharon; their nephew, Capt. John Clendenin and his wife Elizabeth, who was an aunt of John C. Calhoun, and members of the Huston family of the second, third and fourth generations. It is also the resting-place of several Revolutionary soldiers who were buried with the honors of war, and whose funerals were probably the most ostentatious and memorable events that that quiet section of the country ever saw. Interments of persons dying in the neighborhood were made in it as late as 1845, about which time the burying places connected with the neighboring churches began to be preferred, and the prestige of Pine Hill graveyard began to wane.

The Still House

From Source:Anonymous, 1905

A little north from the present farmhouse, at the head of a hollow, a spring rises which until recently was the water supply for both the house and for the stock at the barn. Its presence originally determined the location of the buildings, as the first settlers always built near running springs. Just below that spring there once stood a still house which will bear mention in these annals, for James Huston, before he purchased of James Huston, "innholder," the plantation in Penn's Valley, in it acquired the title "distiller." After James Huston removed to his possessions in Penn's Valley the distilling was continued by his brother, John Huston, who in May, 1787, bought of Thomas Johnston, distiller, "one Still and Head and worm, eight mashing Hogsheads, three shingling Bags and one fether bed," as may be seen from the bill of sale, which is a matter of record. Pennsylvania distillers in those days lacked reverence for the excise laws, and in 1794, when President Washington and his army came to Carlisle, to subdue the Whiskey Rebellion, John Huston and some of his more adventurous neighbors retired within this still house, and barricading its doors and windows watched through port-holes with loaded guns ready to fight and shoot if any soldiers came to disturb them. No soldiers, however, came or a bloody tragedy might have been enacted. This old log still house afterward was turned into a tenant house which in 1849 was torn down and a more modern dwelling-house erected in its stead. This second building in its turn also grew old and was removed, and now the spot where once stood an historic still house is farming ground and bears no vestige of ever having been otherwise occupied.

References

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Biographical annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania: Containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and of many of the early settled families. (Chicago [Illinois]: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1905).

   Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, gives Will date as 15 September 1784, and probate date as 12 October 1784.

2. ↑ Contemporary documents (e.g., land records) show the "Huston" spelling of the name. have not examined the will as yet. User:Qualla6 March 2010
3. ↑ This parcel is shown in the survey plat as being located on the north side of a bend in the Conodoguinet Creek. It may be possible to more precisely place this property by examining the survey records for the adjacent landowners, particularly those whose property would likely border this same stream.
4. ↑ It seems a stretch of the data to consider this James Huston to be a son of Samuel (5). The fact that Samuel did not name a son "James" in his will would seem to require an explanation. The statement That "there is a record in the orphans court of Cumberland county showing that he was a brother of John Huston, who in the will of Samuel Huston is designated as one of the testator's "two younger sons" looks to be a circular argument. It is not obvious from the excerpt that "John Huston brother of James" was the John Huston mentioned in Samuels will; same name, but plausibly a different person. The James Huston who is described here is probably the person who acquired land near James Silver (probably in the vicinity of Silvers Spring Meetinghouse on the southside of the Conadoguinet) in 1772. The patent on this property was granted to a John Orth in 1785. This is consistent with James leaving the area about that time. James Huston, presumably transferring his warrant and survey to Orth prior to his departure. This transaction shows that James Huston was an adult in 1772.

Notes

Notebook:Samuel Huston (5)

The following data need to be verified and conclusions validated. If this Samuel is indeed the father of William Huston who settled Houston's Fort in Southwest Virginia, then he is most likely kin to Person:Christopher Huston (1). The following data point to Samuel being the son of Robert Huston, son of Christopher, but the ages do not seem compatible, as Robert would have been a minor in 1726, and so could not have fathered Samuel. So, if this is indeed the father of William of Houston's Fort, then the connection must run in some other manner. Documenting original sources of information for Samuel is needed in order to determine whether he can be reasonably considered th father of William of Houston's Fort. Q 21:19, 26 March 2010 (EDT)

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Husband's Name 
Samuel HUSTON (AFN:1XRG-M86)  Pedigree  

Born:  15 Sep 1704  (listed as 1784 on Familysearch.org, which is obviously incorrect, s/b 1704?)
Place:  Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Penn. [Area not settled until well after this date]
Died:  1784  Place:  Philadelphia, Pa. 
Married:  20 Jul 1728  Place:  Philadelphia, Pa. [This may  be from 1st Presbyterian marriage records in PA.]

Father:  John HUSTON (AFN:20FD-069)  Family  
Mother:  Margaret CUNNINGHAM (AFN:20FD-07H)   

Wife's Name

Isabella SHEARON (AFN:1XRG-M9D)  Pedigree  

Born:  1708  Place:  Bedford, Essex, Massachusetts 
Died:  1792  Place:  Philadelphia, Pa. 
Married:  20 Jul 1728  Place:  Philadelphia, Pa. 

Father:  Ebenezer SHEARON (AFN:20FD-0DJ)  Family  
Mother:  Susannah HOWLETT (AFN:11KS-KKL)   

Children 

1. Sex Name

M  Samuel HUSTON (AFN:1XRG-MCS)  Pedigree  

Born:  Abt. 1735   Place:  <Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Penn.>  

2.  Sex  Name  
F  Margaret HUSTON (AFN:1XRG-MD1)  Pedigree  

Born:  Abt. 1737   Place:  <Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Penn.>  
Died:  1831   Place:   

3. Sex Name

F  Anne HUSTON (AFN:1XRG-MF7)  Pedigree  

Born:  Abt. 1741   Place:  <Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Penn.>  

4.  Sex  Name  
F  Jane HUSTON (AFN:1XRG-MGF)  Pedigree  

Born:  Abt. 1743   Place:  <Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Penn.>  

5.  Sex  Name  
F  Isabella HUSTON (AFN:1XRG-MJT)  Pedigree  

Born:  Abt. 1760   Place:  <Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Penn.>  

6. Sex Name

M  John HUSTON (AFN:1XRG-MK2)  Pedigree  

Born:  Abt. 1762   Place:  <Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Penn.>  

7. Sex Name

F  Mary HUSTON (AFN:SWLR-5K)  Pedigree  

Born:  1739   Place:  <Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Penn.>  
Died:  12 Feb 1812   Place:  , Cumberland Co., Pa  

8.  Sex  Name  
M  William HUSTON (AFN:1XRG-MBL)  Pedigree  

Born:  1729   Place:  Philadelphia, Pa.  
Died:  1803   Place:  Clinch River, Lee, Virginia  

9. Sex Name

M  James HUSTON (AFN:1XRG-MHM)  Pedigree  

Born:  1758   Place:  <Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Penn.>  
Died:  6 May 1801   Place:   

10.  Sex  Name  
M  Jonathan HUSTON (AFN:1XRG-ML8)  Pedigree  

Born:  1760   Place:  <Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Penn.>  
Died:  10 Nov 1830   Place:   

This Samuel Houston is too old to have been a son of John Houston and Margaret Cunningham. According to several sources, he is the son of Robert Houston, brother of John Houston.

The Samuel Houston, son of John Houston and Margaret Cunningham married Elizabeth McCroskey. [[1]]