Benjamin Fell, Jr. and Rebecca Casner
Husband Benjamin Fell, Jr. 1
Born: 11 Jun 1739 - Buckingham, Bucks Co, PA 1 Christened: Died: Oct 1815 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1 Buried:
Father: Benjamin Fell (1703-1758) 1 Mother: Hannah Scarborough (1704-1743) 1
Marriage: 1760 1
Wife Rebecca Casner 1
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Children
1 M Rev. John Fell 2 3
Born: 8 Sep 1761 3 Christened: Died: - Covington, Miami Co, OH Buried:Spouse: Unknown ( - )Spouse: Elizabeth "Betsey" Meason ( - ) 3 4
2 F Rebecca Fell 3 5
Born: 3 Jun 1763 3 Christened: Died: 22 Jan 1853 3 Buried: - Fell’s M. E. Church, Rostraver Twp, Westmoreland Co, PASpouse: William Beazell ( - ) 5
3 M Benjamin Fell 6 7 8
Born: 28 Oct 1765 - Plumstead Twp, Bucks Co, PA 3 Christened: Died: Buried: - Fell’s M. E. Church, Rostraver Twp, Westmoreland Co, PASpouse: Mary Geyer ( -1853) 6 7
4 M Joseph Fell 3
Born: 18 May 1767 3 Christened: Died: 1769 3 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
5 F Hannah Fell 3
Born: 1 Jun 1769 3 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: William Sponeman ( - ) 3
6 M Peter Fell 3
Born: 30 May 1771 3 Christened: Died: 6 Sep 1839 3 Buried:Spouse: Mary Walker ( - ) 3Spouse: Rizpah Barnes ( - ) 3
7 M Amos Fell 3
Born: 21 Apr 1773 3 Christened: Died: Buried:
8 F Phoebe Fell 3
Born: 25 Mar 1775 3 Christened: Died: Buried: - Fell’s M. E. Church, Rostraver Twp, Westmoreland Co, PASpouse: Did Not Marry
9 M Jesse Fell 3
Born: 20 Sep 1777 3 Christened: Died: Buried: - Fell’s M. E. Church, Rostraver Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA
10 F Jane Fell 3
Born: 2 Dec 1779 3 Christened: Died: Buried: - Fell’s M. E. Church, Rostraver Twp, Westmoreland Co, PASpouse: Did Not Marry
General Notes: Husband - Benjamin Fell, Jr.
He was the second son and sixth child of his father by his first wife.
He married and removed to Plumstead township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he established a tannery and operated it for twenty years. In the spring of 1782 he sold his tannery and extensive tracts of land in Bucks County, and removed with his family to Rostraver township, Westmoreland County, one mile from Webster, and established a tannery on a hill overlooking the Monongahela river. (The deed by which he conveyed his land in Bucks County, dated March, 1782, describes him as "Benjamin Fell, of Plumstead township, Bucks county, Tanner," and Rebecca, his wife, and in October, 1782, he executes a power of attorney to his elder brother, John Fell, to collect any monies that may be due him in Bucks county as "Benjamin Fell of Rostraver township, Westmoreland county, Tanner").
While operating his tannery in Plumstead township, Bucks County, during the Revolution, tradition relates that he offered his supply of leather to Washington's troops to make shoes for the ill-shod patriot soldiers. His grandson, Benjamin Fell Beasell, who died in 1886, well remembered hearing his mother, Rebecca (Fell) Beasell, tell of seeing her father's house filled from cellar to garret with Continental soldiers mending and making shoes for their barefoot comrades at Valley Forge. His devotion to the patriotic cause lost him his membership in the Society of Friends, and some years later, when solicited to seek reinstatement to membership by acknowledging the error of his ways in participating in warlike affairs during the Revolution, he replied that he had done what he conceived to be his duty and if what he had done had aided us in gaining our independence he was not sorry but proud of it. He later joined the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a member of the Pennsylvania assembly from Bucks County in 1781.
He was accompanied to the west by his two nephews, William and Nathan Fell, and took up six hundred acres of land between the Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers, which he called Fellsburg. In 1794, when General Washington went with troops to western Pennsylvania to quell the Whiskey Insurrection, he and his staff made their headquarters for a time at the house of Benjamin Fell.
Within one-half mile of his house stood "Fell's Church," with the old grave-yard surrounding it where many of his descendants are interred. The ground was given by him for that purpose and for the erection of a schoolhouse in 1792. The church was of hewn logs and is said to have been one of the first Methodist churches erected beyond the Alleghanies. A more substantial, large stone church was erected on the same site in 1835 or 1836, and was known as "Fell's Methodist Episcopal Church."
In the old burying ground Benjamin Fell lies buried, a modest stone marking his last resting place with this inscription: "To the memory of Benjamin Fell, a Patriot and a Christian, a Friend of Washington and a Friend of God."
General Notes: Wife - Rebecca Casner
from Plumstead Twp, Bucks Co, PA
1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 14.
2 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 531.
3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 15.
4 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 528.
5 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 567.
6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 13.
7 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 140.
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John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 157.
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