George Findley and Elizabeth [Unk]

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Husband George Findley ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1756
     Christened: 
           Died: 7 Sep 1814 - East Wheatfield Twp, Indiana Co, PA 3
         Buried: 

       Marriage:  - near Hagerstown, Washington Co, MD

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Wife Elizabeth [Unk] ^{1 3}

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died:  - East Wheatfield Twp, Indiana Co, PA
         Buried: 

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Children

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1 M James Findley ^{1 4}

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           Born: 16 Dec 1777 - Franklin Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 30 May 1837 - East Wheatfield Twp, Indiana Co, PA 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Parmelia Dill (1792-Abt 1862) 1 4

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2 F Isabella Findley ¹

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            AKA: Isabelle Findley,3 Isabella Finley 5
           Born: 28 Jan 1784 - Hagerstown, Washington Co, MD 3
     Christened: 
           Died: Bef 1880
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Andrew Reynolds (      -Bef 1880) 3 6

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3 F Elizabeth Findley ^{7 8}

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           Born: 28 Jan 1784 - Hagerstown, Washington Co, MD 1
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1880
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Archibald Mathews (Abt 1784-1851) 3 9
           Marr: 1806 1 3

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General Notes: Husband - George Findley

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He is supposed to have been of Scotch origin. He crossed the mountains and located at the Pumroy and Wilson settlement, in what is now Derry township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1764. The following year he crossed the Conemaugh river to what later became East Wheatfield township, Indiana County, settling on a tract of land later owned by George H. Mathews, which comprised 200 acres of land. The selection was "tomahawked," and his rights were as valid in those days as under the more cumbersome surveys of later years. His visits to his land were as frequent and his stay on it each time as long as the troublesome times would permit. When the Revolutionary war broke out he had a clearing of about ten acres, on which he had erected a log cabin. There is a tradition in the family that when he visited his future home with a bound boy, by name George Farmer, to look after some cattle, the Indians surprised them, and Mr. Findley was wounded through the left arm, but escaped, while the boy was captured by the savages and scalped; the Indians came the next day and buried the body near the run which adjoins the homestead. In 1784, as soon as conditions made it safe to do so, Mr. Findley settled permanently on this farm with his family, and continued to make his home there, although frequently forced to seek shelter at Fort Ligonier or Palmer's Fort. Here he rounded out his useful life, becoming interested along various lines, for in 1784-85, he built a gristmill which is supposed to have been the second in the county, and in 1788 he added a sawmill to his plant. He cleared off much of the land, and was noted for his energy and industrious habits, and his thrift made possible the accumulation of a comfortable fortune. His death occurred on the farm he had redeemed from the wilderness, when he was fifty-eight years old, his remains being interred on his homestead.

1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 421.

2 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 776, 1024.

3 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 776.

4 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 690, 776.

5 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 427.

6 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 421, 427.

7 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 421, 462.

8 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 173.

9 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 365, 372, 421, 462.