Philip Navy and Mary Heckard

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Husband Philip Navy ¹

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           Born:  - Germany
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           Died: Abt 1824 - ? Crawford Co, PA
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       Marriage: 

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• Note: This may be the same person as : [Father] Navy.

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Wife Mary Heckard ²

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           Born: 
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   Other Spouse: Walter Wood (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 F Elizabeth Navy ²

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           Born: 5 Mar 1809 - Lancaster, Lancaster Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: William Reynolds (1802-      ) 2
           Marr: May 1831 2

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General Notes: Husband - Philip Navy

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He and his wife settled in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, in 1819.

A native born German, in 1821 he came from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to Tract 1354, in the northwestern part of Steuben township, Crawford County. He had exchanged his house and lot at Lancaster for the property, and learned on his arrival that he had paid for the land at the rate of $8 per acre, when it was worth scarcely one-fourth that amount. He was obliged to leave his family at Newtontown, Troy Township, for two weeks, while he cut a road through to his property and erected a cabin. No one was then living within a radius of six miles of his home. He was a cabinet-maker by trade, but his only vocation in Crawford County was preparing the ground and tilling the soil. Oak and chestnut grew on his farm, and these were not felled, only girdled. The small brush and trees were cleared away, and crops planted amid the bare skeletons of the trees. In beech and maple land, owing to the tenacity of life of these trees girdling was impracticable. One day, when ill and without meat, Mr. Navy employed Samuel Winton to hunt for him a day for $1. The huntsman came, killed five deer and returned home seven miles on the same day.

1 Editor, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 653, 1074.

2 Editor, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 1074.

3 Editor, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 654.