William Grier

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Husband William Grier ¹

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1 F Sarah Grier ¹

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           Born: Abt 1779
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           Died: 13 Apr 1866 1
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         Spouse: Isaac Miller (      -1805) 1

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General Notes: Husband - William Grier

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From the beginning of peace in western Pennsylvania after Pontiac's war (1764), he was engaged as a packer, that is, one who transported commodities upon pack-horses and pack-mules. When passing along one of the ancient trading-paths, in 1767-68, stopping at a convenient place to lunch and feed his team, he found at a short distance a spring bubbling out from the roots of a large elm-tree. So well pleased was he with the site, and the spring of such marvelous excellence, that he marked the elm, and when, shortly after, the land-office was opened for applications, he, on the 3d of April, 1769, asked for a warrant to issue to him for a large tract surrounding this tree and spring. Upon this tract he settled, and some of his descendants owned it for over one hundred years thereafter. In 1882 the memorable tree, long preserved, with its blazing to be seen, had almost entirely passed away, but from its decaying roots still bubbled the spring perennially which had slaked the thirst of the heated harvest-hands for above a hundred harvests, and which never has failed in the driest season.
This farm lay near the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, just a short distance from Beatty Station, and about three miles west from Latrobe.

1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 640.