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Facts and Events
Working timeline
1774 - patents land in present Washington County, PA
[National Genealogical Society Quarterly (1959) 47: 133]
1774 - Cherry's fort is built
[Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men (Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), 74.]
Bef 1779 - family had moved west by 1779
[Frederick Co., Virginia deeds 1:529, cited in Edgar B. Sims, Sims index to land grants in West Virginia (reprinted Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2003).]
1781/82 - ensign in David Reed's company of militia
1781 - Washington County, PA tax list [Pa. Arch. Series 3, XXII: 773]
- Thomas Cherry, 800 acres
- Thomas Cherry, 200 acres [son]
1783 - Washington County, PA tax list [source?]
- Thomas Cherry, Sr., 800 acres
- Thomas Cherry, 200 acres
ca 1786 - Thomas Cherry dies.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Crumrine, Boyd; Franklin Ellis; and Austin N Hungerford. History of Washington County, Pennsylvania: with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Apollo, Pennsylvania: L. H. Everts & Co.; Closson Press, 1882; 1984)
855.
... Thomas Cherry emigrated from near Bristol, England, with his wife and three children, in 1770, and settled in Frederick County, Md. In 1774 he came to what is now Mount Pleasant township. He built a cabin about one hundred rods west of William P. Cherry's present residence. At this place he lived but a short time after making his entry. He was found dead at a spring near the place, with a bullet hole through his brain and his empty gun beside him. His scalp was not taken. His own gun was discharged, and the character of the wound led to the conclusion that his death was accidental ...
- Commemorative biographical record of Washington County, Pennsylvania: containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and of many of the early settled families. ( Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers, 1893.).
... Thomas and Mary Cherry were born near Bristol, England, and emigrated to America in 1770, first settling in Frederick county, Md. In 1774 they moved to Mt. Pleasant township, Washington Co., Penn., where he erected a log cabin. He was a spy in the Revolutionary war, and one morning was found lying dead by the spring near the cabin, scalped by the Indians; his son John was also killed by the Indians the following year. In 1774 Fort Cherry was built on the home farm, containing three log buildings, one twenty-five feet square, and the smaller ones arranged in a triangular manner. This was used some years as the residence of the Cherry, McCarty and Rankin families. ...
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