Clymer Weir Cox Genealogy » JOHN SIMPSON SR. (1736-1804)

Persoonlijke gegevens JOHN SIMPSON SR. 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1736 in Northern Ireland.
• Alternatief: Hij is geboren in het jaar 1736 in Ireland.
• Alternatief: Hij is geboren in het jaar 1738 in Northern Ireland.
• Alternatief: Hij is geboren rond 1738 in Northern Ireland.
• Woonachtig:
• May have built the stone home on the Horsham property. Log home was probably there when he moved onto property.
• United States.
• (Noted for) in het jaar 1776 in Delegate to the Convention.
• (Emigrated) rond 1740 in Wtih their widowed mother.
• (Emigrated) voor 1750 in To America.
• Hij is overleden op 16 augustus 1804 in Horsham, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, hij was toen 68 jaar oud.
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden in het jaar 1804 in Horsham, Montgomery County, PA, hij was toen 68 jaar oud.
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden op 16 augustus 1804 in Horsham, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA, hij was toen 68 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in Hartsville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA.
• Een kind van WILLLIAM SIMPSON en JANE UNKNOWN
• Een kind van WILLIAM (NO PROOF) (BUCKINGHAM) SIMPSON en ANN UNKNOWN
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 27 augustus 2023.

Gezin van JOHN SIMPSON SR.

Hij is getrouwd met Hannah Williams Roberts.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 25 november 1762 te Christ Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, hij was toen 26 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. William Roberts Simpson  1764-1803
2. John David Roberts (OHIO) Simpson  1767-1837 
3. Rebecca Roberts Simpson  1769-1805
4. Hannah Roberts Simpson  1770-1848 
5. Ann Roberts Simpson  1772-1832
6. Benjamin Roberts Simpson  

Notities over JOHN SIMPSON SR.

ANCESTOR OF PRESIDENT ULYSSES S. GRANT

http://hsmcpa.org/index.php/resources/the-bulletin/31-volume-1-number-4-april-1938

The only known member of Captain Quee's company was John Simpson, of Horsham, the great-grandfather of General U. S. Grant and owner of the present Hannah Worth and adjoining properties on the Limekiln Pike. He was a delegate to the convention which met at Lancaster on July 4, 1776, to elect the general officers of the Associated battalions of the Province.® It seems safe to assume, how ever, that the other Horsham members of the company were recruited largely from the upper end of the township, where Presbyterian families were predominant, and that they in cluded a number of men who later accepted active service in the drafted Horsham company of 1777

John Simpson, (1732-1804), was a delegate to the convention, 1776, and served with the
Associators at Brandywine, Germantown and Valley Forge. He was born in Ireland; died in Bucks Co.,
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HORSHAM - Horsham, probably named for one of its earliest settlers, Thomas Iredell, whose birthplace was Horsham, Sussex county, England, and who located here not later than 1709, bought two hundred acres of land and built a residence a half mile north of the meetinghouse. He was married, says the Philadelphia records, in 1705, and died in 1734. Robert Iredell, one of his descendants, was many years proprietor of the "Norristown Herald," and in the eighties was postmaster of his borough. The date of his birth was October, 1809.

This is one of the eastern townships in the county, and is bounded on the north by Bucks county. It is regular In form, being from five and one-half miles long by three miles wide; it has almost io,ooo acres within its limits. It is well watered and drained by several branches of the Neshaminy. Milling on these water-power streams used to be very common and profitable. The Doylestown and Wllow Grove turnpike passes through this township; also the Whitehall and Bethlehem pikes touch Its territory.

The pioneer settlements were effected by persons including these: Samuel Carpenter, Mary Blunston, Richard Ingels, Thomas Potter, Sarah Fuller and John Barnes, Their tracts Included half of, the township. The next set of persons who here found homes for themselves were George Palmer, Joseph Fisher and John Mason. These all came in Just before 1710. It should be added that one-third of the township was taken up by Samuel Carpenter, who had more than five thousand acres, obtained of William Penn. The Kenderdine and Lukens families were early in this township and left their lasting Impression on the county, as characters sturdy and of the real worthwhile type of manhood and womanhood, Another was Evan Lloyd, who came from Wales in 1719; he was the minister among the Friends, and built near the meeting-house.

The United States census reports for various enumerating periods have placed the population here as follows: In 1800, 781; in 1840, 1,812; in 1880, 1,315; in 1900, 1,157; in 1920 it was 1,189. In 1883 reports gave the number of business places as one hotel, three general stores, two dealers in flour and feed. There was then a Friends' meeting-house, and two small public halls within the township, where lectures and mass meetings could be held. The villages were then, as now, Horshamyule, Prospectvllle, and Davis Grove. A post office was established in 1816, at Horshamville, with Charles Palmer as postmaster. Forty years ago the village of Prospectville contained eight houses, a store, hail and several shops. A post office was secured here in 1858. The first of all business enterprises at this point was in 1779, when Thomas Roney kept an inn. In later times this place was known as Cashtown. Another place is Davis Grove, within a half mile of the Bucks county line. Here Mary Ball kept an inn in 1790, and her sign was "The Yellow Balls."

With less than sixteen hundred inhabitants, and an agricultural district, at that, there can scarce be found in the country a people of more intelligence and generous social qualities than lived in this township during the last two centuries. Here have been the homes of such noted literary and otherwise distinguished men and women as Sir William Keith, Dr. Thomas Graeme, Mrs. Elizabeth Ferguson, John and Anna Young, Dr. Archibald McClean, Robert Loller, David and Joseph Lloyd, Samuel and John Gummere; John, Abraham and Isaiah Lukens, Hiram McNeal, and the Simpson family, of whom John Simpson was greatgrandfather to General Ulysses S. Grant. This Simpson was tax-collector in the township in 1776, and was a landowner of considerable means, The father of General Grant was Jesse R, Grant, who died in 1873 and the mother In 1882. Mrs. Jesse R. Grant was the daughter of John Simpson, of Montgomery county, and remained here until nineteen years of age, then settled in Ohio, where she married, and among her children was he who was to command the armies of his country and finally be made its President for two terms.

Remembering Ulysses S Grant and his visit to Ireland
History tells us that Ulysses S. Grant was commander of the Union armies during the American Civil War. And Director Steven Spielberg most recently told us during a visit to Belfast, he was quite the confidante of Abraham Lincoln.
He was also the first President of the United States to visit Ireland. Decades before the John F Kennedy motorcade was greeted with streamers, screamers and mild hysteria, President Ulysses S Grant spent five days in Ireland.
Just like the statesmen who followed, including Reagan, Nixon, Clinton and Obama, Grant would have been aware of the huge number of Irish in America who were entitled to vote. But this visit wasn‘t about canvassing œ it was a homecoming.

Farmer Boy
Grant‘s great-grandfather was a man named John Simpson. He was born in a farmhouse in Ballygawley (near Dungannon), County Tyrone in 1738. That same farmhouse stayed in the Simpson family for centuries. Imagine, this is a house that was owned by Simpsons from as far as the 1600s right up until the 1970s.
John Simpson, however, left this island and emigrated to Ohio at the age of 22.

From Ballygawley to Point Pleasant
In Point Pleasant, Ohio, in 1833, a son was born to John Simpson. His name wasHiram Ulysses Grant. The eldest of six children, when Hiram entered West Point Military Academy as a recruit, he was erroneously calledUlysses Simpson Grant, and the name stuck.
Grant went on to be one of the biggest players in theAmerican Civil Warœas General, he accepted the surrender from ConfederateGeneral Lee. In 1869, he became America‘s 18th President. At the age of 46, he was the youngest man ever to hold the office.
After two terms as president, Grant decided a world trip was in order. By then, Grant would been among the most famous Americans in the world, so the two-year journey would have been a huge deal. After a leg of the trip that included Spain, Gibraltar, Portugal, Paris and London, Grant reached Ireland.
A visit home. Sort of...
Grant landed in Dublin on 3 January 1879 and began his five-day visit to the island. He stayed at the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, which continues and continued to be the hotel of choice for visiting VIPs (hence the Grace Kelly, John F. Kennedy, and Peter O‘ Toole rooms). When he visited The Bank of Ireland on College Green (which still stands today), apparently Grant asked numerous questions about banking and monetary policy. Imagine what he‘d ask today?
Later that evening, Grant was made an honorary citizen of Dublin œ a title that would be offered to Presidents Kennedy and Clinton many years later. Grant was given a —tumultuous reception“ in County Londonderry where he received another honorary citizenship. In Belfast he visited the Harland and Wolff shipyard, before returning to Dublin and making for the Far East. If he‘d been around today, he could have seen how that amazing shipyard created the Titanic, and how the ship‘s tragic end is captured from ocean liner inception to demise and legacy in the Titanic Belfast, which are situated on those very docks.
Strangely enough, Grant did not visit his ancestral home in Ballygawley œ maybe he didn‘t have the time? You can, though, as the homestead has been restored to its 19-century glory with mud walls and mud floors. In the farmyard stands a horse-plough and a flat-bed trailer, clues to the pastoral roots of one of America‘s most vaunted leaders.

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