Aaron Boylan, Jr. and Sarah Thompson

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Husband Aaron Boylan, Jr. ¹

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            AKA: Aaron Boyland Jr.
           Born: Abt 1784 - ? New Jersey
     Christened: 
           Died: 1863 2
         Buried: 

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         Father: Aaron Boylan, Sr. (      -      ) 1
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Sarah Thompson ³

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           Born:  - Mercer Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died:  - Mercer Co, PA
         Buried: 

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         Father: Abel Thompson (1757-      ) 2
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 F Lavina Boylan ⁴

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            AKA: Lovina Boylan, Lavina Boyland 1
           Born: Abt 1812 - Mercer Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 1875
         Buried: 

         Spouse: William Bell (Cir 1782/1788-1878) 5

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General Notes: Husband - Aaron Boylan, Jr.

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He was a pioneer settler of Mercer County, Pennsylvania, having secured government land in Deer Creek Township and there cleared a farm. He reared a family of nine children and lived till past the age of eighty years.

He was one of the pioneers of Deer Creek Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, coming from Fayette County, in 1800. His comrade was David Caldwell, the two paddling up the Allegheny River and French creek to the cabin of James Herrington, in Crawford County, by whose direction they found the vacant land on which they settled. They erected two cabins, each twelve feet square, and their provisions were gradually reduced to coarse baked corn dough and nothing else whatever. When the latter stage of their fortunes was reached they started for the nearest settlement for relief, but when they returned with their small stock they were met at the door of one of their houses by a man named Davis, who claimed their land by virtue of the unwritten law, that whenever the fire of a settler went out he thereby relinquished all title to his property. This happened to be Boylan's cabin. Its first occupant appeared to accept the situation, but requested of Mr. Davis the privilege of entering to warm himself, and when the latter left the house for a near-by spring, Mr. Boylan put out the fire and closed the door. He thus regained his title, according to the land law of the times, and held to his property. This sturdy founder of the family in Mercer County became an active citizen with the settlement of the country; held most of the township offices. [HMC 1909, 1091]

1 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1012.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1091.

3 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1013.

4 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1054, 1095.

5 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1012, 1090.