Arbre généalogique Smith/Bais » John Larwill (1792-1875)

Données personnelles John Larwill 

• Il est né le 27 septembre 1792 dans Midway Place, Deptford, Kent, England.
• Il est décédé le 19 mars 1875 dans Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA, il avait 82 ans.
• Il est enterré dans City Cemetery.
• Un enfant de William Chilcott Larwill et Mary Gazzam

Famille de John Larwill

Il est marié à (Ne pas publique).

Ils se sont mariés le 31 janvier 1826 à Salem, Columbiana, Ohio, Verenigde Staten, il avait 33 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. ??  1827-1830
2. ??  1830-1918
3. ??  1831-1918
4. ??  1833-1914
5. ??  1835-????
6. ??  1839-1877

Notes par John Larwill

From, "Wooster Republican"
25 - 3 - 1875
Biography of Hon. John Larwill,
by Ben Douglas.
Mr John Larwill was born in Deptford County of Kent, a parliamentary
borough and Naval Port of England on the Thames, three miles south
of London Bridge, in what is London now on the 27th September A.D.
1792.
He descends from stirling old English stock, both on the Paternal
and Maternal side. His parents emigrated to America in the year
1793, when the subject of this sketch was but a year old. They
embarked in a sail vessel and after a tedious passage of ten
weeks, in which they were shook by tempests and adverse gales,
landed at Chester, ten miles below Philadelphia, where
unfortunately they were quarantined for several weeks on account
of yellow fever which so disastrously prevailed that year as
well as in 1798.
The family on their arrival consisted of three boys, Joseph,
William and John, and two daughters Julia R, and Mary B. Larwill.
After landing at Chester they proceeded to Philadelphia where they
remained three or four years, removing from there to Pittsburgh
in 1798. A somewhat patriotic incident was related to the writer
by Mr. Larwill which transpired soon after their arrival at the
latter place which we here introduce.
In the fall of December 1799, a novel but rather impressive
ceremony occurred in the City of Pittsburgh. All the school
children of the City and amongst them, Mr. Larwill then a youth
of 7 years, were organised into a column and marched to the Court
House to attend a sham funeral of General George Washington, who
had died on the 14th of the same month. Mr Larwill remembers it
as being an exciting and affecting demonstration and as having
for its objective the solemnisation of the great event upon the
juvenile mind.
The family remained in Pittsburgh untill the year 1802, when they
removed to Columbiana County, Ohio settling at Beaver Bridge, one
mile from the mouth of the Little Beaver, near the State line, but
in the spring of 1804 going to what was then called Fawcettstown,
now known as Liverpool, in the aforesaid mentioned County.
His father, W.C. Larwill was appointed first Postmaster in
Fawcettstown retaining the office for ten years or until 1814,
when he removed to Wooster.
Though his residence was in Wooster he died in Wheeling, Virginia,
with his daughter Mrs. Julia R. Fawcett wife of our former townsman
John Fawcett. His death occurred November 12th 1832, having
attained the age of 81. He had been admitted to the Bar in 1803,
in New Lisbon, General Beall being Clerk of the Court ordering his
examination.
Mr John Larwill came to Wayne County as early as 1807, and while
his father was yet living in Fawcettstown. He packed provisions
on horseback to his brother Joseph H. Larwill, and his assistants
who had preceded him, and who were then running the County off in
sections for the U.S. Government, they being the first white
settlers in the County. Whilst making one of these trips, John
Harris, subsequently of Canton, O., overtook Mr. Larwill in the
Sandy Valley, now in Stark County, and desiring work, was permitted
to take the place of John Taggart a member of the Company who grew
frightened and panicky concerning the Indians. To illustrate then
the difficulty of making it, a boy not fifteen years old had to cut
a tree across one of the streams to carry his burden over, and then
was compelled to swim his horse. After delivering his cargo he
remained but a week with his brother, then in camp on what was
called Madison Hill, for a few months the seat of Justice, and now
the site of the Cemetery and the Robinson Farm on the Indian trail,
we have elsewhere described running from below Pittsburgh where the
Economists are settled to Sandusky and Detroit. After Joseph Larwill
had completed his survey in the early part of 1808, he returned to
Stark County.

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