John Pomeroy and Hannah Graham

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Husband John Pomeroy ^{1 2}

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            AKA: John Pomroy 3
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         Father: Thomas Pomeroy (      -1776) 1 2
         Mother: Margaret [Unk] (      -1777) 1 2

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• Biographical Sketch: George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 584.
To read a brief biographical sketch of his life and career, click here.

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Wife Hannah Graham ⁴

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         Father: Francis Graham (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Mary [Unk] (      -      ) 4

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1 M Francis Pomeroy ⁴

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2 M John Pomeroy ^{4 5}

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         Spouse: Jane Porter (      -      ) 6

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3 M George Pomeroy ⁴

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4 M Thomas Pomeroy ⁴

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5 F Margaret Pomeroy ⁴

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6 F Mary Pomeroy ⁴

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         Spouse: James Gibson (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - John Pomeroy

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He went to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, before the Revolution, and wielded great power among the early settlers of the region. He was Lieutenant-Colonel of the First Battalion, Westmoreland County Associators, and was so distinguished in resisting the inroads of the Indians during the Revolutionary period that he became popularly known as "the Indian Killer." He took command at Fort Ligonier, Oct. 31, 1777, and was very active in promoting the efficiency of Fort Barr and Fort Wallace, near which he lived. On April 2, 1781, Col. Archibald Lochrey reported that he had just returned from burying a man scalped and killed at Colonel Pomeroy's house; that another man was missing and all of Pomeroy's effects had been carried off. In 1785 Colonel Pomeroy was one of the commissioners to locate a county seat for Westmoreland county. As a Justice of the Peace he had the confidence of the people, and the disagreements of his neighbors were often referred to him for settlement without legal proceedings. In the summer he would dispense justice under a large oak tree near his dwelling. The district where he lived was long known as "Pomeroy's Plains." Mr. Pomeroy obtained a warrant and survey May 20, 1768, for twenty-four acres of land on the Conedoguinet, in Letterkenny township.

Maj. Pomeroy, the great-grandfather of Mrs. Margaret Jane (Boyle) Long, was a Revolutionary hero, and one of the first white settlers of Westmoreland county. The following article taken from a newspaper gives an account of some of his experiences with the Indians at that early date. On the premises of John Cummins in Westmoreland county are a corn crib and pig sty, each of which is built of logs. The logs are thickly punctured with bullet holes, and the bullets that made them are still imbedded in the logs. The logs were cut more than 100 years ago by Colonel Pomeroy, one of the first settlers in what is now Westmoreland county, who built a log cabin in the wilderness with them for himself and family. Pomeroy was a famous Indian fighter, as was Maj. Bell, who lived with his family a mile and a half distant. One day Col. Pomeroy's cabin was attacked by a band of Indians. Pomeroy barricaded himself and family in the cabin, and the Indians besieged them all afternoon, firing frequently into the walls. The firing was heard by Maj. Bell, who crept through the woods to the spot. Seeing that the Indians were too strong for him to attack, he returned home, placed his wife and two children on his two horses, and making a circuitous route through the woods approached Pomeroy's besieged cabin from the rear. He succeeded in signalling the Colonel, and Pomeroy managed to get away from his cabin with his family, under cover of the woods in the rear. His wife and children mounted the horses behind Maj. Bell's wife and children, and the party escaped to Fort Wallace, five miles distant, without the Indians discovering them. Soldiers were sent back to attack the Indians, but they had disappeared.
"The bullet-punctured cabin was occupied by Colonel Pomeroy and his descendants until 1840, when it was purchased by John Cummins, who tore it down and made his pig pen and corn crib out of its historic logs. One of Major Bell's descendants, living in the same neighborhood, has the gun which the noted Indian fighter and Revolutionary soldier used in all of his exploits. One of these is related as an especially able and characteristic feat of the Major, is to the effect that once an Indian, in an endeavor to entrap the wily and greatly-feared enemy of his race, imitated the call of the wild turkey near the Major's cabin. The Major was a great lover of turkey hunting, and his practiced ear detected the difference between the call of the bird and the sound of the Indian call, although the imitation was almost perfect. He took his gun and dragged himself on his stomach through the brush in the direction of the sound. He finally located the call in a tall pine tree, and discovered the Indian perched on a branch near the very top. Major Bell fired, and the Indian leaped high above the tree top and tumbled to the ground. The dead Indian was recognized by the Major as Black Wolf, one of the most daring and bloodthirsty of the Seneca chiefs." [CBRCP-CCJC, 1596]

1 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 566.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 248.

3 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 586.

4 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 249.

5 —, History of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 55.

6 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 250.