Clymer Weir Cox Genealogy » JOHN (PA 1734) GRIER (1712-1784)

Persoonlijke gegevens JOHN (PA 1734) GRIER 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1712 in Northern Ireland.
• Geloof: Presbyterian.
• (Military Service) in Captain In Rev. War.
• Hij is overleden op 31 december 1784 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, hij was toen 72 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Joseph Grier
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 3 juni 2023.

Gezin van JOHN (PA 1734) GRIER

Hij is getrouwd met AGNES (PA) CALDWELL.

Zij zijn getrouwd.

Kind(eren):

1. Martha Caldwell Grier  1750-1832 
2. Susannah Caldwell Grier  
3. Nathan Galdwell Grier  1760-????

Notities over JOHN (PA 1734) GRIER

[The Greir or Grier (12) family, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, made their
appearance in Bucks county about 1735-40, and their descendants in future
years, were found in Plumstead, New Britain, Warrington and Warwick. The
first to come were Mathew and John Grier from County Tyrone, Ireland. They
settled in New Britain township, and in 1743, purchased 150 acres jointly,
on the east side of the Swamp road, now the Dublin turnpike, and erected a
dwelling at what is Grier's Corner. These two immigrants were born 1712
and 1714, respectively. They later extended their holdings up the Swamp
road to the present line of Broad street in Hilltown township. In 1744
Mathew purchased 250 acres on the east side of the Swamp road, in
Plumstead, and in 1752, Mathew conveyed his interest in the New Britain
and Hilltown lands, to his brother John, who extended his purchases unt
he owned at his death, about 500 acres in contiguous tracts.*]

(12) This name has three spellings, Grier, Greir, and Greer. The first to
spell the name "Greir" was John Stewart Greir, of Warrington, and is so
spelled in the signature to his will. The Warrington family still spell
the name Greir. The Plumstead family spell the name Greer.*

[Mathew Grier, the elder, ancestor of the late James H. Greir, of
Warrington township, married Jean Caldwell, born 1717, daughter of James
Caldwell, who owned an adjoining farm fronting the Stump road, and his
brother John Greir married her sister Agnes Caldwell. Mathew Grier died
1792, leaving three sons and three daughters:
1. John, born 1743, and died 1814, married Jean Stuart
2. Susannah, born 1749, married Joseph Greer, supposed to have be
cousin, died 1823 and Joseph Greer died in Hilltown, 18
3. Mathew married Sarah Snodgrass, died 1811
4. Agnes, married first Major William Kennedy, who was killed in t
capture of Moses Doan, and second Cephas Child
5. Mary, born 1760, married Josiah Ferguson, 1779, died 1844
6. (No name for third son, possibly an error).
John and Agnes Caldwell Greir were the parents of eleven children:
1. Mathew, born October 1743, died September 11, 1818
2. Martha, married John Jamison, 1768
3. Jane married Joseph Thomas, 1768
4. Rev. James Grier, born 1750, died 1791
5. Joseph, born 1752
6. John died in infancy
7. Nathan died in infancy
8. John, born 1758, died 1831
9. Rev. Nathan, born 1760, died 1814
10. Cornelius died young
11. Frances, born 1762, married James Ralston.

While the descendants of Mathew and John Grier are generally engaged in
agricultural pursuits, the family is represented in trade and the learn
professions, and is especially noted for the number of sons it has
furnished the gospel ministry. John Grier, probably the descendant of
Bucks county ancestry, who removed to Chester county, 1796, had three sons
in the ministry, the eldest, John Hayes Grier, born February 1788, and
died 1880, at ninety-two, graduated at Dickinson College in the class of
James Buchanan. In 1814 he took charge of the Pine Creek and Lock Haven
churches, Clinton county, and was the first minister of any denomination
to settle at Jersey Shore, Lycoming county. He was a successful teacher,
and several of the leading men of the West Branch were educated by him. He
was married four times and the father of eleven children, seven survivi
him. James Grier, son of the first John, was pastor of the Deep Run church
and died there. His son, John Ferguson Grier, born 1784, graduated with
first honors, 1803, studied theology with his uncle Nathan, opened a
classical school at Brandywine Manor, and was licensed to preach by the
New Castle Presbytery. Nathan Grier, brother of James of Deep Run, born
1760, graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, 1783, and was licens
to preach, 1786, married a Miss Smith, a great aunt of General Persifer F.
Smith, one of the most distinguished officers in the Mexican was, 1846-48.
He died at Brandywine about 1815, leaving two sons, both of whom entered
the ministry, Robert and John. The latter succeeded his father at
Brandywine, where he officiated for half a century, the former dying in
Maryland, while pastor of a church near Emmettsburg. Joseph Grier, a
brother of Nathan, had two sons, Mathew and John; the former was a
physician, and died at Williamsport, the latter studied for the ministr
was thirty-five years a chaplain in the United States Navy, and fath
the Reverend M. B. Grier, one of the editors of the Presbyterian. The late
Justice Grier of the Supreme Court of the United States, is claimed as a
member of this family. In the old burial ground at Princeton, New Jerse
is a grave stone bearing the inscription," In memory of Jane, relict of
Mathew Grier, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, died December 31, 1799, ag
eighty-three years."*]
[The members of the family were prominent in Revolutionary times. T
young men enrolled themselves with the militia, or associators and some of
them saw active service. John Grier, Sr., was a Colonial Justice of the
Peace, 1764-67, and, after the colonies took up arms against the mother
country, he was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1776. His
son, Col. Joseph Grier, was active in the pursuit and capture of the Doane
outlaws, and it is related that owing to his activity against them, on one
occasion they made him a visit at night, took him prisoner, and forcibly
held his manacled hands in the flames until burned to a blister.
On the corner of the farm now belonging to Andrew Shaddinger, at the
intersection of the River and Durham roads, two miles from Smith's corner,
there stood a small log church an hundred years ago. It is spoken of as
the "Deep Run church," the name of an older and larger congregation, in
Bedminster. Its history is wrapped in much mystery. It was probably an
offshoot of the Bedminster congregation, and the division is said to ha
been caused by some disagreement among the Scotch-Irish members on
doctrinal points. We have a tradition that some held to the tenets of t
Kirk of Scotland, which others of the congregation did not assent to, a
hence the separation. The Plumstead congregation was called "Seeders," and
when there was a division in the church this organization joined the New
Brunswick Presbytery. This little church was probably organized before, or
about, 1730, and held together for half a century, but the names of only
two of its pastors have come down to us. In 1735 Reverend Hugh Carlisle
preached there and at Newtown, and two years afterward he refused a call
to become the pastor at Plumstead, because these two churches were so f
apart. How long he served them, and by whom succeeded, is not known.
Carlisle came from England or Ireland, and was admitted into the New
Castle Presbytery before 1735. He removed into the bounds of the Lewes
Presbytery in 1738, but is not heard of after 1742. The last pastor was
probably Alexander Mitchel, and when he left the surviving members
probably returned to Deep Run. Mitchel was born in 1731, graduated at
Princeton in 1765, was licensed to preach in 1767, and ordained in 1768.
It is not known when he was called as pastor, but he left about 1785, a
went to the Octoraro and Doe Run churches, in Chester county, where he
preached until 1808. Mr. Mitchel did two good things while pastor at
Octoraro, introduced stoves, and Watts's psalms and hymns into his
churches, both necessary to comfortable worship. On one occasion his
congregation took umbrage at a sermon against a ball held in the
neighborhood, and on Sunday morning the door was locked and the Bible
gone. Nothing daunted, he sent his negro servant up a ladder to g
a small window over the pulpit. As he was about to enter, the negro
stopped and said to his master: "This is not right, for the good book
saith, "He that entereth not by the door into the sheep-fold but climbe
up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.'" Some remains of the
Plumstead meeting-house are still to be seen; a portion of the foundati
can be traced, and a few gravestones, without inscription, are lying
almost buried in the earth. The house was about twenty-eight by sevente
feet, and the lot contained near half an acre. John L. Delp, of
Norristown, remembers when the log house was standing.

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ID: I44177
Name: Archibald FINLEY 1
Sex: M
Birth: Bef 8 Jan 1686 in Armagh, Ireland 1
Death: 11 Mar 1750 in New Britain Twp, Bucks, Pennsylvania 1
Note: Archibald Finley arrived in Philadelphia, PA 28 Sep 1734. In 1736, he moved to Bucks To., PA. J.V. Thompson Journals, vol. 13, p. 222-223: Albert Finley France of Annapolis, Md writes May 15, 1925 large envelope 6th page saying the Penna Archives & records he received from Bucks Co, show that Archibald Finley & his family landed at Phila, Pa Sept 28, 1734 along with his brother Michael Finley & his family & with these other Ulster Scots viz: Archibald & Henry Kelso, John Barclay (father of Martha Barclay) William Walker, married John Finley) (note that6 he does not spell it Barkley) William Walker & his three sons Richard, Robert & John, the Weirs, Wallaces, Barnhills, Griers & Darrochs & settled in the upper part of Warrington, Warwick & New Britain Tps, Bucks Co, Pa. This Archibald Finley, Archibald Kelso, Thos Kelso & Henry Kelso contracted with Geo Fitzwater abt 1736 for 500 A of land in New Britain Tp along the N.W. side of the present upper state Road. Geo Fitzwater died testate & by mutual agreement among the four above parties 151 A 53 P was allotted to Archibald Finley off the end toward the county line & which recently was the property of Elias Sellers. Archibald Finley built a house on this land & died in it Mch 11, 1749-50 before a deed was made & on Dec 11, 1750 the Exrs of Geo Fitzwater made deed to his widow Margaret Finley & his two eldest sons John & Henry Finley as Exrs of Archibald Finley decd. His will is dated Mch 11, 1749-50 states that he is very sick directs his wife & two sons above named be Exrs & that his estate be divided among his wife & children, Simon Butler & Isaac James are apptd trustees. Witnesses to will are Robert Labor, Henry Kelso & James Finley son of Michael.

Father: Robert FINLEY b: Bef 4 May 1634 in Incharvie, Fife, Scotland
Mother: Margaret LANDER

Marriage 1 Margaret KELSO
Children
John FINLEY b: 27 Jun 1722 in Armagh, Ireland
Henry FINLEY b: 18 Apr 1726 in Ireland
Alexander FINLEY b: 12 Jun 1730 in Ireland
Agnes FINLEY b: Oct 1737 in Bucks, Pennsylvania
Archibald FINLEY b: 8 Dec 1738 in Pennsylvania

Sources:
Abbrev: Finley Family
Publication: Cites several sources:
Torrence and Allied Familes, by Hargis
Court Records

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