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Persoonlijke gegevens David Isaac Cash 

• Hij is geboren op 15 augustus 1766 in Towanda, Bradford County, PA possibly.
• Hij is overleden op 12 april 1813 in Sheshequin Township, Bradford County, PA, hij was toen 46 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in a pasture behind the Gillett homestead, on the right side of the Ulster bridge to the south, Sheshequin Township, Bradford County, PA.
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 4 december 2022.

Gezin van David Isaac Cash

Hij is getrouwd met Sally Gore.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 9 april 1792 te Ulster, Bradford County, PA, hij was toen 25 jaar oud.

Notities over David Isaac Cash

1.  From Charlie McCabe of Pine City, NY November 11, 1995 to Marlene Cash:

      "Isaac born 1766, often referred to as 'Esquire' or 'Captain' enters Bradford County, PA about 1790 along with many other Connecticut settlers,
     many of whom had first settled at Wyoming.  Bradford County early settlement is closely associated with the Connecticut settlers of Wyoming,
     but I find no evidence of Isaac's presence there after the battle. He probably came directly from Orange County to Bradford County as did many
     others. He appears as an early settler and landholder in 'Tioga Point', now Athens, PA., purchasing land in 1791 (only twenty-five years old) and
     soon moves down the Susquehanna River seven or eight miles to Ulster, PA. where he becomes a large landholder.  At that time there was still
     much controversy between the Connecticut and Pennsylvania settlers over land ownership. ; Present day 'Cash Creek' runs through Ulster.

     He is intimately associated with several other Connecticut families who were early settlers in Sheshequin across the river from Ulster. These
     families included the Gores, Kinneys, and Spaldings.  He married Sally Gore in 1792/93.  She was the daughter of "Judge" Obadiah Gore who had
     three brothers and two brothers-in-law killed at Wyoming.  "Judge" Gore was born ca 1744 in Norwich, CT, son of Obadiah, born c 1714, probably
     Roxbury, MA; son of Samuel born 1681; son of Samuel born 1652; son of John Gore and his wife Rhoda, who settled in Roxbury about 1635."

2.  From the History of Bradford County, PA:

     "Captain Isaac Cash was a prominent citizen of Ulster and one of its early settlers.  He was the oldest son of Daniel and Mary (Tracy) Cash, and
     was born in Orange County, NY, August 15, 1766. At the battle of Wyoming Daniel Cash volunteered to go east to solicit aid to repel the impending
     attack.  On his return he met the fleeing fugitives, among them his wife and her little children.  They went back to Orange county, and after the war
     was over returned to Wyoming, where he died in 1789.  Isaac Cash was among the early settlers in Athens, having settled on the Point, on the farm
     afterwards owned by General Welles.  He sold his improvement in 1791, and moved to Ulster while yet a single man.  He settled on the farm next
     above Mr. Holcomb, and which Solomon Tracy (his mother's brother) owned, of whom Mr. Cash purchased it by deed dated August 8, 1791, and is
     described as lot No. 3, of Ulster, in Old Sheshequin.  His grandson, S. S. Lockwood, now lives on the farm.  Here he married Sarah, youngest
     daughter of Judge Gore, of Sheshequin.  He was an active, energetic man, dealing largely in lumber and real estate.  He was appointed justice of the
     peace, and held the office until the time of his death, which was April 12, 1813; his wife died two weeks before him, viz., March 28.  Of the eleven
     children left orphans by the sudden death of both their parents, Anna married first Dr. Robert Russell and second Col. Edmond Lockwood.

3.  At some point Duke de la Rochefoucault made a tour of northern Pennsylvania. The following is from his journal on his visit to the Towanda and Ulster area (Translated by II. Newman.)

      "This planter (Solomon Tracy) occupies an estate of five hundred acres, only thirty of which are yet cleared.......  He wishes to dispose of his
     plantation, which he holds from the State of Connecticut; the price he demands is five thousand three hundred and ninety dollars; that is to say, about
     ten and three-fourths dollars per acre.  Another land-holder (probably Mr. Isaac Cash), at whose house we stopped to procure directions about the road,
     intimated to us a similar design, as he mistook us for jobbers.  His planation consisted of three hundred acres, sixty of which are cleared, with corn and
     saw mills, which he estimated at one thousand three hundred dollars.  He asked for the whole estate two thousand six hundred dollars, which is
     tantamount to eight and one half dollars per acre.  The state of agriculture here is no better than in other parts of Pennsylvania, and even worse than in
     many of them, all the plantations being in that infant state where the soil yields rich crops without cultivation.  The settlers, too, are doubtful whether their
     rights to their possessions will be confirmed, have much business on their hands, and are in general little able to advance money for the improvement of
     their lands, so that they give themselves hardly the trouble to plough up the ground.  For this purpose they make use of oxen, the medium price of a yoke
     of which is seventy dollars. ; Wheat commonly sells for one dollar a bushel, rye for four shillings, and oats from two shillings sixpence to three shillings.
     There are two schools in the neighboring country, which are both kept by women, who teach needle-work and reading.  To learn to read, therefore, is the
     only instruction which boys can obtain here.  These schools are maintained solely by a fee of five shillings a quarter paid by each scholar. ; They are
     evidently insufficient, but they are schools, and these are very rare yet in Pennsylvania.

     No place has hitherto been set apart for religious worship.  Those who desire to perform this assemble in private families, and engage a preacher for a
     yearly salary, which, however, is very small.  Families of Methodists constitute the principal part of the inhabitants.

     On the other side of the river stands New Sheshequin, a small, neat town, containing about twelve houses, which are either built of rough logs or
     boards. It is located on a very pleasant plain.  The justice of the peace, surgeon, and the pastor of the neighboring country reside in this place. It
     contains shops; in short, all those things which are found only in principal towns.

     The road from Old Sheshequin to Tioga, which had been represented to us as a very bad one, proved, on the contrary, very good.  Here the farm houses
     lie closer to each other.  Near Tioga the river of the same name discharges itself into the Susquehanna.  The site of the town, or rather the eight or ten
     houses which are so called, is about two miles distant from the confluence of the two rivers......  The price of land in the neighborhood of the town is eight
     dollars per acre, when, out of three hundred acres, the proportion of fifty or sixty are cleared of wood.  The town shares are sixteen yards in breadth and
     fifty in depth, and cost twenty dollars.  The price of wheat is seven shillings sixpence per bushel; rye sells for six shillings, and oats from three to four
     (Pennsylvania currency).  Some venison excepted, which at times comes to market, no fresh meat has been seen at Tioga since last autumn. The
     merchants of the place carry on an inconsiderable trade in hemp, which they get from the upper parts of the river, and send to Philadelphia by
     Middletown. We were informed that the shops at Asylum prove very hurtful to the trade of Tioga--a complaint which gave our fellow-traveler, who keeps
     a shop at Asylum, no small satisfaction.  Last year there were three inns in Tioga, but at this time there was but one; we found it crowded with travelers
     from the Jerseys, Pennsylvania, and New York, who intend to settle on the lakes.  After a scanty supper, we were all obliged to take up with two beds;
     more were not to be had on any terms.  The sheets, which had already served three or four travelers, were, according to the landlady's account, very
     clean; and so indeed they are called in all the American inns, when they are in fact totally unfit for use.  Yet, on the other hand, we enjoyed the special
     favor of being permitted to lie down in boots, as those of our party really did who, like myself, preferred taking their repose on the ground wrapped up in
     a blanket...

     Near the confines of Pennsylvania a mountain rises from the banks of the river Tioga in the shape of a sugar loaf, upon which are seen the remains of
     some entrenchment; these the inhabitants call the Spanish ramparts, but I rather judge them to have been thrown up against the Indians in the times of
     M. de Noville.  One perpendicular breastwork is yet remaining, which, though covered over with grass and bushes, plainly indicates that a parapet and a
     ditch have been constructed here."

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