John Busheon, "Delaware Births and Christenings, 1710-1896"
Name: John Busheon
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 07 Dec 1760
Christening Place: HOLY TRINITY OR OLD SWEDES CHURCH,WILMINGTON,NEW CASTLE,DELAWARE
Birth Date: 17 Sep 1760
Birthplace:
Death Date:
Name Note:
Race:
Father's Name: Andrew Busheon
Father's Birthplace:
Father's Age:
Mother's Name: Cathrina
Mother's Birthplace:
Mother's Age:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C50586-1
System Origin: Delaware-ODM
GS Film number: 908217
Reference ID. "The Records of Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church, Wilmington, Del., from 1697 to 1773"
WILMINGTON, DEL.,
Translated from the Original Swedish by
Horace Burr, with an abstract
OF THE ENGLISH RECORDS
FROM 1773 TO 1810.
PUBLISHED BY THE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE.
1890.
page 595
Record of the Children Baptized by Rev. Andrew Borell
John, born September 17th, baptized December 7th ; parents,
Andrew and Cathrina Busheon.
also??? [this is the Buschi/Bushy family, below]
Johan Niclas, born October 15th, baptized November 16th ;
parents, John Niclas and Cathrina Bushi.
from the same book...
Pastor Provost Magister Andrew Borell was Swedish
he's also called Rector of the Swedish Church
Borrell is listed on Find a Grave here....
Andrew Borrell
Birth: unknown
Death: Apr. 5, 1768
Burial:
Old Swedes Churchyard
Wilmington
New Castle County
Delaware, USA
Created by: Joz
Record added: Jun 19, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 27685405. Index where John's probate records are listed..
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-31285-16633-64?cc=1992421&wc=M934-J84:n780077401
Johns Testimentary Docket is listed here
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-31309-1622-39?cc=1992421&wc=M934-JYW:n1503804277. The Scioto Gazette
Volume V, Issue 37, Page 3
Chillicothe, Ohio
27 October 1825
NOTICE
All persons indebted to the estate of John Bushong, late of Franklin township, Ross county, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment; and those having legal claims against said estate are requested to present them, legally authenticated for settlement, within one year.
Elizabeth Bushong, Administrix
Aaron Foster, Administrator
25 October 1825
PUBLIC NOTICE,
Is hereby given by the administrators of John Bushong, late of Ross County, deceased, that all the personal estate belonging to said Bushong, at his death (save that part set off to the widow) will, on Friday the 11th day of November next, be exposed to public sale, as the law directs, at the house of the deceased, in Franklin township, Ross county; at which time and place the terms of sale will be made known to the public -- Sale to commence at 10 o'clock.
Elizabeth Bushong, Administrix
Aaron Foster, Administrator
26th October 1825. DEED:
Since a deed dated 8 Oct 1824 from John Bushong and w (warranty) Franklin (twp) to Bayles
Breedlove and John Beshong's estate was Probated 1 Nov. 1825, his death was between those two
dates. Deed #W20-59; Probate Case #00500. Ross County, Ohio.
On Sep 13, 1999, this compiler visited the Ross County Courthouse where he copied the land
desciption in the above deed in Volume 20, page 59 signed by his step-father, John Bushong and his
mother, Elizabeth Bushong who signed with an "X".
All that tract or parcel of land lying and being in the county of Ross and State aforesaid, being part
of Scotts survey Beginning at four sycamores at the mouth of Pattons run running S55W72 poles to
a sugar tree, Thence South 66 degrees 166 poles to a white oak thence 59 1/2 W 64 poles to a
white oak, thenece North 11 degrees E 84 poles to a hickory, thence N65 degrees E 108 poles to a
hickory, thence S51 degrees E 38 poles to a dogwood thence 70 degrees E 42 poles to a white oak
thence 33 degrees East 61 poles to a sugar tree, thence in a direct line to the Scioto River thence
with the meander of the river to the place of Beginning, containing by computation two hundred
and thirty and a half acres, be the same more or less.
NOTE:
the "Scotts survey" mentioned in the above deeed, page 171 of the History of Ross and Highland Counties carries the following: "Survey 235, of twelve hundred acres, made for Charles Scott, September 10, 1800.")
Franklin Township borders and lies southwest of the Scioto River south of Chillicothe and north of the Pike County line.
compiled by Laurence A. Weaver, Jr.
as seen on Rootsweb. JOHN MITCHEL served in the same Company?
Served during the Revolutionary War with the Lincoln County, Kentucky Militia, under the command of
Brig. Gen. George Rogers Clark in the Expedition against the Shawnees in 1781.
A payroll of Capt John Martin's Company of Militia ordered from Lincoln County under the Command of Source: Margery H. Harding, ed. George Rogers Clark and his Men- Military Records
pg 50
John Mitchel May 15 to Aug 18 /32 days 2 Pounds 2 Shillings 8 Pence
http://books.google.com/books?id=pBoRAQAAMAAJ&q=bushon#search_anchor. This is a partial transcription of a law suite filed by John Bushong's heirs, which are listed. The case was not proven.....
A law suite filed by John Mitchel vs Baylies Breedlove (son of John's second wife) filed Apr 17, 1826, recorded Oct 13, 1827 has the following text ".. Your orator further states that some time after the conveyance made as aforesaid the said John Bushong. Nancy Young wife of James Young of age and your orator Jacob Bushong, Jemima Bushong, and Delilah Bushong infants and children & heirs of James Bushong son of John the older and then lately deceased that your orator John Mitchel for a valuable consideration since the decease of the ancestor has purchased all the right and title of the heirs John & George Bushong and James Young and Nancy his wife and has received full release in the law sufficient for the releasing and conveying to him all their right as heirs aforesaid in and to said .."
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The Court of Common Pleas - September Term
Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio
13 October 1827
Suit Instituted 17 April 1826
JOHN MITCHELL ET AL
VS
BAYLIES BREEDLOVE
Pleas held at the Courthouse in the Town of Chillicothe for the County of Ross before the Honorable Gustavus Swan President and James McClintick, Preslay Morris and John Bailhache Esquires associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for County aforesaid on Saturday the 13th of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven and of the state the twenty fifth.
Be it Remembered that heretofore to Wit: The 17th day of April in the year of our Lord 1826 John Mitchell et al by Richard Douglas Esquire filed their certain Bill in Chancery against Baylies Breedlove which said Bill reads in the Words and figures following to Wit: To the Honorable the Judges of Court of Common Pleas in and for Ross County (Ohio) in Chancery, sitting, your Orators JOHN MITCHELL AND SALLY HIS WIFE his wife and Jacob Bushong, Jemima & Delilah Bushong children and heirs of James Bushong deceased, infants who sue by the said John Mitchell their next friend humbly complaining Shew unto your Honors That John Bushong, late of this County died, during his lifetime and previous to and since November 1822 was seized in the fee the following tract of land with the appurtenances lying in this County bounded and described as follows, to Wit: ETC. John buys Lot 15 Ross Co.
Adams County Ohio Deeds - 1797 - 1806
Page 10
1 July 1797
Deed from George Porter of Baltimore County, Maryland to John Bishong of Bourbon County, Kentucky 7 pounds 10 shillings Kentucky money.
In lots 15 in Chillicothe.
Signed George Porter
Witnesses: None
Acknowledged before John Beasley
Recorded 21 February 1798
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provided by Mareetta Brewer. HISTORY OF ROSS AND HIGHLAND COUNTIES, OHIO - 283
The first white settlement made within the limits of this township was in 1798, by two brothers, Thomas and the Rev. John Foster, the latter a local preacher of the Methodist church, and both sons of John Foster, sr., an emigrant from Maryland, who settled at or near the present site of Piketon, now within the bounds of Pike county, the same year. Others of the family came afterwards, or grew up to settle on places of their own. John, one of the sons of the Rev. John Foster, was a captain in the war of 1812. Another son, Thomas C. Foster, born in 1813, still survives, a hardy old veteran of the early day. The first election in the township was ordered to be held at the house of Benjamin Foster.
Soon after the Foster arrivals, probably about 1800, two brothers from Virginia, John and George Johnston, arrived and settled near. The former is noted is having served as justice of the peace for twenty-three years.
Charles Davis came in 1812, and cleared the fine farm now occupied by Sylvester N. Higby, his son-in-law, near the station which bears the latter's name. John and James Davis, brothers of Charles, came later. All the earlier settlements were in this vicinity, on the fertile lands of the valley.
It is impossible at this late day to follow carefully the progress of settlement in this township. An old " estray book," in the possession of Mr. S. N. Higby, and containing records from 1803 to 1839, furnishes, however, some valuable data. The names of some of the early residents of the township, with the dates of their first appearance upon this book, are given below. These dates do not, of course, accurately indicate the dates of settlement, but show, with reasonable certainty, that the persons named were in the township at the time. The orthography of the names has generally been preserved as found:
"1803, Jesse Tomlinson, Alexander Argo, Thomas, John, and Lewis Foster, Elijah Lochard, George Johnston, John Nixon; 5805, Joseph Mounts, Edward Dawson; 1806, Daniel McMullin, William McCorkel, James Huff, John (or Jon.) Berry, John Gooden (or Goodin); 5807, Asa Mounts, Eli and Jesse Ragon, Solomon Fevebaugh (elsewhere De Vourbaugh), Mahlon and James Longshore, Robert Graham, William Pittinger; 1808, Thomas Stewart, John Ragon, Abraham Love, William Elarton; 1809, George Corwin, John and George Bishong, Lewis Rush, Enos Moore, Daniel Bower, John Boman; 1811, Isaac Matthews, George Johnston, jr.; 1812, Thomas Colwell, Allen Nixon, Levi Hodges, Isaac Johnston, Joseph Mathers; 5853, Samuel Phillips, William Summers, Samuel Barney, Robert Hening; Richard Tomlinson, John Heath, Samuel Hibbens, David Lyons, John McMullin; 1815, William Foster, John Wood, Benjamin Phillips, James Miller, James Ransom, William Chinoweth; 1818, Alexander McCrary, Benjamin Summers; 1819, John Mongar, James Cotteral, Thomas Wallace; 1822, Michael Miller, Sebastian Southward; 1825, Joesph Moore, Cornelius Beard; 1826, Lawson Brooks, James Hays, William Anstil, Joshua Parker. [James Critchett is said to have been one of the first settlers on Stony creek.]"
Rev. John Foster was the first preacher in the township; James Greearly the first school teacher; Thomas Tomlinson was the first lock-tender at the State dam, and his brother Richard the first grocer at the settlement here; and Samuel Wilson built and operated the first mill in the township.
The most remarkable character ever identified with the history of Franklin township was one William Hewitt, who had in his day much local celebrity as "the hermit of the Scioto." He was a native, and, probably, during most of his life a resident, of Botetourt county, Virginia, coming of a family said by some to be respectable in position and circumstances, but by others, better informed among them a visitor to his cave in 1837, who had known him in the Old Dominion—to be low, illiterate, idle and quarrelsome. Long after he had grown to manhood, but while still unmarried, probably about the year 1816, a fierce family quarrel, according to the visitor of 1837, resulted in his shouldering his rifle and bidding farewell to his parents, telling them that they should see his face no more a prediction which he verified to the last. Another account, probably the offspring purely of romantic gossip, represents him as a married man at or near the old home in Virginia, returning from a journey unexpectedly, to find upon entering his house such unmistakable proofs of his wife's infidelity that he killed her paramour upon the spot, and fled at once and forever from the permanent society of his fellows. He haunted for several years the then wild regions about the headwaters of the Kanawha, where he is supposed to have begun his hermit career, occasionally, however, taking a boat-load of deer-skins, bear-skins, bear's oil, and other products of the chase, down the rivers to Cincinnati and Louisville, where they were exchanged for ammunition and other simple supplies for his solitary hunter's life. No details of his adventures here are known, as he was invariably reticent concerning his record before coming to Ohio.
About the year 1823 Hewitt made his appearance in the Scioto valley, the lower part of which, back from the fertile bottom and terrace lands, was still mostly in a state of nature. There was, however, a pretty heavy fringe of settlement along the river. Unmindful of this or the proximity of Chillicothe, already a good-sized town, the migratory hermit, after looking about a little, fixed his residence at a cave in Franklin township, situated in the dense forest at the southwestern foot of the dividing ridge, on the west side of the Scioto, and some miles from the river. It furnished but a poor shelter, being simply but a low, shallow den under a shelving rock, which supplied back wall and roof. The sides and front were rudely walled up by the occupant, thus completing a room in which he could not stand upright, but which was sufficient for his purposes. In this he carried on his simple culinary operations, dressed the skins taken in hunting, and slept on a rude couch of skins and blankets. The locality is now close by the track of the Columbus & Portsmouth turnpike, eleven miles south of Chillicothe, and about one mile from the Alma post-office. While this highway was in course of construction, the turnpike company, learning the interesting associations of the spot, ordered the erection of a neat stone monument on the rocky shelf just above the cave, bearing the inscription: "William Hewitt, the hermitt, occupied this cave fourteen years, while all was a wilderness around him. He died in 1834, aged seventy years." The obelisk is plain to be seen from the roadway, and is in a good state of preservation, but much disfigured by the inscriptions of visitors, and to some extent by breaking pieces from it.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OZZ1p4jxDwwJ:www.heritagepursuit.com/Ross/Ross1880P282RFranklin.htm+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us. Bushong Family Land Records
Contributed by: Judy Cassidy
Date Vol/Page Seller Residence Purchaser Residence Price Description/Notes
30 Jun 1798 I-25 Nathaniel Massie Adams Co [Ross Co] Catharine Beshong Adams Co [Ross Co] $10 Lot in Chillicothe; 6 poles in front, 12 poles in back
17 Mar 1800 I-298 James Scott Ross Co Valentine Beshong Ross Co $60 Lot 154, Chillicothe; 6 poles in front, 12 poles in back
22 Jul 1801 I-489 Jeremiah McLene Ross Co Sheriff Catherine Beshong Ross Co Lot 254, Chillicothe, former property of Valentine Beshong; satisfies debt to Lucas Fuller
16 Oct 1804 IV-440 John and Jean Bishong Ross Co Andrew Rogers Bourbon Co KY $300 Lot 15, Main and Paint Streets, Chillicothe; 6 poles in front, 12 poles in back
18 Nov 1817 John and Jennet Bushong, Jacob and Jane Bushong; and George and Martha Bushong and Henry and Isabella; heirs/representatives of Catherine Bushong Ross Co; Barren Co KY Ephraim Doolitle Ross Co $106 Lot 254, Chillicothe; All made their mark, including James Bishong and Margaret McCrery
02 Mar 1821 Duncan McArthur and wife Ross Co John Bushong Ross Co $1 452 acres
02 Mar 1821 John Bushong and wife Ross Co Duncan McArthur Ross Co $200 475 acres
25 Jun 1821 John Bushong and wife Ross Co Duncan McArthur Ross Co $300 120.2 acres
25 Jun 1821 John Bushong and wife Ross Co Richard Thomlinson Ross Co $1 15.2 acres
06 Oct 1824 XX-58/59 John and Elizabeth Bushong Ross Co George Bushong Ross Co $1 121.2 acres
08 Oct 1824 John Bushong and wife Ross Co Bayless Breedlove Ross Co $500 230.2 acres
19 Apr 1824 XXIX-61/62/63 George and Lydia Bushong Ross Co Lawson Brooks Ross Co $600 121.5 acres
October Term,1807
Supreme Court Book, pg 216.
Lucas Sullivant filed a Transcript of the record of a judgement obtained against him by Valentine Bishong:
On 09 May 1807, Valentine Bishong sued out of the Clerks Office at the Court of Common Pleas against Lucas Sullivant of a plea of Covenant broken: damage $130. Sullivant agreed and promised to, and with the said Valentine and his heirs, an inlot and outlot numbered eighteen and eighty in fee simple siutate in the Town of North Liberty by a general Warranty Deed where upon the said Bishong or James Scott should build, on or before the first of June 1798, a good log house not less than 16 feet square and either person or some other on their behalf in the Town of North Liberty for one whole year insuing the first of June.
Valentine avers that he did pay and meet the conditions of the said Lucas the aforesaid; however, Sullivan has not conveyed this property to him.
The jury found for the plaintiff $54.40 in damages. Looking for Mitchel or Mitchell...
FAYETTE CO., KY
TAX LIST 1788
Fayette County, Kentucky (Virginia until 1792)
BISHON, John
MITCHEL, Robert
MITCHEL, Samuel
MITCHELL, John
MITCHELL, Rosanna
MITCHIEL, Moses
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FAYETTE CO., KY
TAX LIST 1788
Fayette County, Kentucky
BISHON, John
http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/fayette/taxlists/tax1788.txt. 1 rods =
16.5 feet
6 poles= 99 feet
12 poles = 198 feet. This is how John Sr. is inedxed - see the scan....
John Bushway Jr
United States Census, 1820
Name John Bushway Jr
Event Type Census
Event Date 1820
Event Place Franklin, Ross, Ohio, United States
Page 270
John E Bushong
United States Census, 1820
Name John E Bushong. DAR Listing
BUSHONG, JOHNAncestor #: A200596
Service: VIRGINIA Rank(s): PRIVATE
Birth: CIRCA 1760
Death: ANTE 10-13-1827 CHILLICOTHE ROSS CO OHIO
Service Source: HARDING, GEORGE ROGERS CLARK AND HIS MEN, P 89
Service Description: 1) CAPT JOHN MARTIN, COL STEPHEN TRIGG
2) LINCOLN CO MILITIA. A pay roll of John Martin's Co of Militia ordered for Lincoln Co Ky under command of Col. Stephen Trigg, 1781
Pvt. Jacob Bushon 21 Apr-27 May 1781;
served 37 days pay 2L 9S 4D
Pvt. John Bushon 21 Apr-27 May 1781;
served 37 days pay 2L 9S 4D
Pay Roll of James Ray's Co. of Lincoln Militia in actual service on Expedition agains the Shawnee, under command of Geo. Rogers Clark, Brig.Gen, 1782
Pvt. Jacob Bushon
served 31 days pay 2L 1S 4D
Pvt. John Bushon
served 31 days pay 2L 1S 4D
Source: George Rogers Clark And His Men, Military Records, 1781-1784, by Margery H. Harding, Frankfort Historical Society of Kentucky 1981, pages 88, 89, 186 - document 164. The 1790 Census Fayette County, Virginia
Bishong Jacob Fayette 2/27/1790
Bishong Jno. Fayette 2/27/1790. John's second wife, Elizabeth Breedlove Bushong
Know all men by these presents, That we Elizabeth Bishong, Aaron Foster, James Latta Jr., and David Breedlove, all of Ross County, and State of Ohio, are held and firmly bound unto the State of Ohio, in the penal sum of One Thousand Dollars, current money, to the payment of which, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.
Witness our hands and seal, this 24th day of October 1825.
WHEREAS, The Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid have this day appointed Elizabeth Bishong and Aaron Foster Administrators of all and singular the goods and chattels which were of John Bishong, late of said county, deceased. Now the conditions of the above obligation is such, that if the above bound Elizabeth and Aaron, Administrators as aforesaid, shall and will faithfully perform all the duties required of them by law, then this obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.
ELIZABETH BESONG, Her X mark
A. FOSTER
JAMES LATTA JR.
DAVID BREEDLOVE, His X mark
Signed, Sealed and Delivered in the presence of
The Court
Attest:
N. Fullerton, Clerk
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Copied in the Hancock County Ohio Library by Mareetta Brewer. John and Jeanette sell property - Lot #15
Ross County Ohio Deed Book 4
Pages 440 - 441
16 October 1804
John & Jean Bishong to Andrew Rodgers
Lot 15
THIS INDENTURE made this sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and four BETWEEN John and Jean Bishong of the County of Ross and State of Ohio of the one part and Andrew Rodgers of the County of Bourbon and State of Kentucky of the other part.
WITNESSETH That the said John and Jean for and in Consideration of the sum of Three Hundred Dollars current money of the United States, to them in hand paid, the receipt whereof they hereby acknowledge and forever aquit and discharge the said Andrew , his heirs, Executors and administrators hath granted, bargained, sold, aliened and confirmed and by these presents, do grant, bargain, sell alien and confirm unto the said Andrew his heirs and assigns forever, all that tract or parcel of Land lying and being in the County of Ross State of Ohio in the town of Chillicothe known and distinguished on the plan of said town by No. Fifteen lying on Main Paint Street. TOGETHER with all improvements, water courses, profits and appurtenances whatever to the said premises belonging or in any wise appertaining and the reversions, remainders and profits thereof and all the estate right, title, interest property claim and Demand of them the said John and Jean Bishong of in and to the same. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, hereby conveyed with all and singular the premises and every part and parcel thereof with every of the appurtenances unto the said Andrew his heirs and assigns forever to the only proper use and behoof of him the said Andrew his wife and assigns forever. AND the said John and Jean Bishong for them, heirs, Executors and Administrators, do covenant premises and agree to and with the said Andrew , his heirs and assigns, by these presents, that the premises before mentioned now are and forever hereafter shall remain free of and from all former and other gifts, grants, bargains, sales, Dower right and title of Dower, Judgements, Executions, title trouble, and incumbrances whatsoever done or suffered, to be done by them the said John and Jean Bishong and their heirs all and singular the premises hereby, bargained and sold with the appurtenances unto the said John and Jean Bishong and their heirs all, all and every other person, persons whatever, doth and will warrant and forever defend by these presents.
IN WITNESS Whereof, they, the said John and Jean Bishong have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.
JOHN BISHONG, Seal
JEAN BISHONG, Seal
Signed, Sealed and delivered in the presence of us.
STATE OF OHIO
ROSS COUNTY ss
Before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County.
Personally appeared the within named John and Jean , Jean Bishong and being separately by me examined, acknowledged the within Signing and Sealing to be their act and deed for the use and purpose therein mentioned.
Given under my hand and seal this 16th day of October 1804.
JOHN G. MACON, Seal
Received and Recorded 17th October 1804. The Scioto Gazette
Chillicothe, Ohio
Volume VI, Issue 14, Page 3
First published Thursday 16 November 1820
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
Lost out of the subscriber's pocket yesterday morning, in the visiting of the Courthouse, a red Morocco Pocket Book, containing 25 bank bills of the state Bank of Kentucky, and many valuable papers; among which are a note of hand on William Kelly for 85 -- one on James Bushong, for 81 and some cents; one on John Bushong Junior, for 85 and some cents, with some credit on the two last mentioned notes -- also, a county order for 82; and sundry other papers of no value whatever to any one but the owner. Whoever may have found the same, and will leave it together with its contents, at this Office, or Mr. Fitch's tavern, shall receive the above reward.
JOHN BUSHONG
Nov. 16
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The Scioto Gazette
Volume V, Issue 37, Page 3
Chillicothe, Ohio
27 October 1825
NOTICE
All persons indebted to the estate of John Bushong, late of Franklin township, Ross county, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment; and those having legal claims against said estate are requested to present them, legally authenticated for settlement, within one year.
ELIZABETH BUSHONG, Administrix
AARON FOSTER, Administrator
25 October 1825
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PUBLIC NOTICE,
Is hereby given by the administrators of John Bushong, late of Ross County, deceased, that all the personal estate belonging to said Bushong, at his death (save that part set off to the widow) will, on Friday the 11th day of November next, be exposed to public sale, as the law directs, at the house of the deceased, in Franklin township, Ross county; at which time and place the terms of sale will be made known to the public -- Sale to commence at 10 o'clock.
ELIZABETH BUSHONG, Administrix
AARON FOSTER, Administrator
26th October 1825
provided by Mareetta Brewer. John Bushong was a Farmer. Married in Stanford
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS That we JOHN BESHONG and JOHN SUMMERS are held and firmly bound unto his Excellency the Governor of Virginia in the Sum of Fifty pounds Current money, to the payment whereof will truly to be made to the said Governor and his Successors we bind ourselves our heirs Executors and Administrators Jointly and Severally firmly by these presents.
Sealed with our hands and dated this 6th day of April 1785.
The Condition of the above obligation is such that whereas there is a Marriage shortly intended to be Solemnized between the above bound John Beshong and Jannet Summers. For which a license has issued. Now if there be no Lawful cause to obstruct the said Marriage then this Obligation to be Void or else to remain in full force.
JOHN BISHONG, His Signature and Seal
JOHN SUMMERS, His signature and Seal
Sealed and Delivered in presents of:
WILLIS GOEN. A brother, Jacob...
Name: Buschon
Gender: Male
Baptism/Christening Date: 25 Apr 1762
Baptism/Christening Place: Fredrick, Fredrick, Maryland
Birth Date: 17 Dec 1761
Birthplace: Fredrick, Fredrick, Maryland
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Name Note:
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Father's Name: Andreas Buschon
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Mother's Name: Catharina
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C71182-1
System Origin: Maryland-EASy
Source Film Number: 13931
Reference Number: pg25
Collection: United States Census, 1880. John Bushong was married to Janet Summers in Lincoln County, Ky then moved to the part of Adams County Ohio that later became Ross Co., Ohio. He operated a keel boat on the Scioto River according to Court records (I have copies of these records). Ginny Derhamer. Groom's Name: John Beshong
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Bride's Name: Elizabeth Breedlove
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Marriage Date: 14 Nov 1822
Marriage Place: Ross,Ohio
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M51320-1
System Origin: Ohio-ODM
Source Film Number: 281637
Reference Number:
Collection: Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958.
John Bushong, born December 07, 1760 in Wilmington, Delaware; died October, 1825 in
Franklin Township, Ross County, Ohio. He was the son of Andrew 'Andreas' Bushong, Sr. and Catherine Bushong. He married (1) Jannet Summers April 06, 1784 in Lincoln County, Kentucky.
She was born Abt. 1761, and died Abt. 1817 in Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio. She was the daughter of
Patrick Young and Isabella Todd Young Summers. He married (2) Mrs. Elizabeth Breedlove November 14, 1822 in Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio. She was born Abt. 1772.
Notes for John Bushong:
Listed as "Johny Beshong" in marriage index #229. Listed as "John Bishong" in marriage index #2.
He served in the Revolutionary War and fought against the Shawnee Indians who were employed by the British. On November 20, 1781, he qualified as too poor to purchase land at the state price, so he was granted four hundred acres, on the Big Benson Creek, March 18, 1784. In Lincoln Co. John married Jannet Summers. She is believed to have been born in Virginia in the 1760's. John and Jennet raised tobacco and other crops in Lincoln Co., which later became Franklin Co.
In the 1790's John and his family moved to Chillicothe, Ross Co., Ohio. They are noted as one of
Ohio's first families. Ohio was still in the Northwest Territory and not a state. John, according to Court Records, operated a keel boat on the Scioto River and homesteaded a farm near Chillicothe of about two hundred and thirty acres. Its location was described as follows:
Beginning at the sycamores at the mouth of Patrus, now running south 55 poles to a sugar tree, thence
south 166 poles to a white oak, thence east 64 poles to a white oak, thence south east 38 poles to a
hickory.....thence in a direct line to the Sciido River, then with meanders back to the place of beginning.
On their farm they raised one of the oldest and most valuable apple orcahrds in Ross County. The farm
was said, after John's death, to be worth $3500.
In 1822, John, who was described as old and infirm met and married the widow, Elizabeth Breedlove,
November 14. John died in 1825 about 65 years old ( and probably was buried in Ross County. A law suit filed October 13, 1827 by John and Jennet's heirs alleged that Elizabeth married John only to get his property and to keep it from his children. The case was not proved.
John and Jacob were privates in the Revolutionary War serving with the Lincoln County, Kentucky
Militia in 1781 and 1782. Also there is evidence that these two brothers were under the command of
Brig. Gen. George Rogers Clark in the Expedition against the Shawnees in 1782.
Census 1810
Individual: Bushong, John
County/State: Ross Co., OH
Page #: 002
Year: 1810
Census type code: Tax List
Census 1820
Individual: Bushons, John, Sr.
County/State: Ross Co., OH
Location: Franklin Twp
Page #: 270
Year: 1820. Served during the Revolutionary War with the Lincoln County, Kentucky Militia, under the command of
Brig. Gen. George Rogers Clark in the Expedition against the Shawnees in 1781.
A payroll of Capt John Martin's Company of Militia ordered from Lincoln County under the Command of Col. Stephen Trigg, 21 Apr to 27 May 1781
Mens Names: Jacob Bushon
Rank: Pvt
When Joined: Apr 21 1781
When Discharged: May 27 1781
Days in Service: 37
Dayly Pay:
Amount of Pay: 2 Pounds 9 Shillings 4 Pence
Mens Names: John Bushon
Rank: Pvt
When Joined: Apr 21 1781
When Discharged: May 27 1781
Days in Service: 37
Dayly Pay:
Amount of Pay: 2 Pounds 9 Shillings 4 Pence
Source: Margery H. Harding, ed. George Rogers Clark and his Men- Military Records
pg 88, 89
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further, no Bushong is listed as serving in the Revolutionary War, here .. http://www.barrencoky.com/Military/roster_b2009.htm. The First Census of Kentucky
Compiled by Charles B. Heinemann
Genealogical Publishing Company Inc.
Baltimore
1981
Originally published 1940
Page 12
1790
Jacob Bishong
County: Fayette
Tax List Date: 27 February 1790
John Bishong
County: Fayette
Tax List Date: 27 February 1790. John Bushong - listed as Jno Bishong on Jury in 1798, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio
from Ross County - Bench and Bar
CHAPTER XI.
(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE)
BENCH AND BAR.
THE bar of Chillicothe from the earliest days has been famous for the ability of the lawyers that composed it. Marietta, of course, has the distinction of being the place where court was first held in Ohio, where Fearing and the younger Meigs and their contemporaries began the practice. Cincinnati, almost as old as Marietta, and for many years the Queen City of the West, drew to itself brilliant talent and soon outstripped its Scioto valley rival in numbers at least of practitioners of law. Lancaster was the seat of a remarkable group of jurists, and when Columbus became the capital of the State there was an inevitable gravitation of lawyers to that center. But Chillicothe had some notable lawyers at the founding of the State and she has ever since been the home of men distinguished in this field of professional effort. Settled largely by Virginians and North Carolinians, she partook in some degree of that tendency in the South that. impels young men to law and politics--a tendency that present industrial conditions favor, but, which was much stronger at the beginning of the last century.
It. does not. appear that there were any lawyers among the party of first settlers of Chillicothe, though the doctors and preachers were represented ; but some of these first comers served upon the bench as justices in the first courts, and the lawyers were not long in following the advance guard.
Upon the organization of new counties Governor St. Clair appointed, under the provisions of the Territorial laws, a number of justices of the peace, five of whom should constitute a quorum for holding court. This body of justices was required to meet three times a year, and hence received the name of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace.
"The first court held in this county convened at Chillicothe on the fourth Tuesday of December, 1798. It was called the court of common pleas for the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, and was presided over by `gentlemen justices' commissioned by Gov. Arthur
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St. Clair. Thomas Worthington, James Scott, Samuel Finley, William Patton, Elias Langham, James Ferguson, John Guthrey, James Dunlap, Robert Gregg, Isaac Davis and Reuben Abrams, were appointed justices by commissions which bore date, October 11, 1798. James Scott, Samuel Finley and James Ferguson soon resigned; but the others served until the judiciary was reorganized under the State constitution, and even after that event, Patton and Abrams, with Felix Renick, Isaac Cook, and others, served the State long and well as associate judges of the court of common pleas.*
"At the opening of the first term of this court, there were present of these justices, Worthington, Scott, Finley, Patton and Langham. Edward Tiffin was the prothonotary, or clerk, and Jeremiah McLene (afterwards secretary of state) was sheriff. So far as we can ascertain, the only licensed attorneys present at this first court were John S. Will and Levin Belt. The licenses to practice law, granted by this territorial court, were as follows: Robert F. Slaughter in March, 1799, William Creighton and James Montgomery in June, 1799, Michael Baldwin in November, 1799, and Thomas Scott in June, 1801. The first cause docketed was: `Blair vs. Blair. In case. Damages thirty dollars. Daniel Rotruck, special bail.'
"The first jury was empaneled in the case of Kennett vs. Hamilton, and the entry upon the journal is as follows: `A jury was returned by the sheriff, to-wit : Isaac Davis, Jas. Hays, Joseph Tiffin, William McLinahan, Isaac Owens, Jno. Wilkinson, Robert W. Finley, Elias Bootman, Jno. Bishong, Jno. Patton, Benj. Miller and Jas. Kilgore, who, being duly elected, tried and sworn, found a verdict for the defendant.' Truly a model entry for conciseness and simplicity. Failure to agree upon a verdict was rare in those good old times when `rogues were hung that jurymen might dine ;' and the, modern practitioner is often tempted to wish for a, return to the old practice.
"Nearly all the entries in `order book A' are in the neat and correct handwriting of Edward Tiffin ; but at the September term, 1799, the prothonotary tried a deputy, and that deputy, evidently an Irishman who wrote a good hand, but spelled with a brogue, for he always wrote Justice Ferguson's name `Faugorson' and Guthrey's `Gutery,' and closed the daily records of the courts 'adJournments.' His record, however, only fills six pages, when Tiffin resumed the pen, and continued them until the January term, 1803, when, says the record, `Thomas Scott, esq., produced a commission from Charles Willing Byrd, Esq., acting governor, appointing him prothonotary of the county,' after which, having taken the required oath, he assumed the
*This and other paragraphs quoted in this chapter are taken, by permission of Col. William E. Gilmore, from his sketch of the Bench and Bar of Ross county.
To THE HONORABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES
The Petition of sundry of the Inhabitants on the North
side of the River in the district of Kentucky Humbly begs
leave to Represent; that they experience many dificulties in
carrying their Tobacco to the Warehouses already establish'd
by Law at Jacks Creek on the South side of the River Kentucky
and at the mouth of Hickmans Creek, owing to the danger of
discending the cliffs, the badness of the Roads and the Risque
of crossing the River. That there is a Comodious and conven-
iant place for an Inspection below the mouth of Tate Creek on
the Lands of Michael [Bedinger] & nearly where the Main
Road leads by an easy, and safe discent down the Hill to the
said River of Kentucky
We your Petitioners therefore pray, that you would be
pleased in consideration of the Premisses to pass a Law, estab-
lishing a Warehouse on the Lands of the said Michl Bedinger
about three fourths of a mile below the mouth of the aforesaid
Tates Creek, under such Regulations and Restrictions, as you,
in your Wisdom may deem fit and Proper.
And your Petitioners as in duty bound, will ever pray &c
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition: 2nd. Novr. 1789. Refd, to Props Nov.
4th. 1789 Props discharged.
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(find page [ 128 ] .) VA State Land Office Surveys
Book 9, 1784-1787 (FHL film 29,552)
9-529: Jan. 27, 1783, surveyed for Nimrod Dunken, assignee of Geo. Slaughter, 325 acres (indexed 335 acres) by virtue of a Treasury Warrant entered #1605 in Fayette Co. (KY) on waters of Hinkstons fork; chainmen John Sellers, John Bushong; marker Mathew Jeffries. This land assd by Nimrod Duncan to Christopher Summit. Rec. 9 Jan. 1784, Grant issd. (no date) (MAD: later Bourbon or Bath or Montgomery Co. KY; see Shelby Co. KY)
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dobson/ky/kybourbo.htm. First Family of Ohio
1797 Ross County
Bushong John -2 2796 1797 Ross 882
Bushong John -2 2796 1797 Ross 3313
Bushong John -2 2796 1797 Ross 880
Bushong John -2 2796 1797 Ross 881
Bushong John -2 2796 1797 Ross 979. He was baptized on 7 December 1760 in Old Swedes Church, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.
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