George Shilling and Anna Lawton

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Husband George Shilling ^{1 2}

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           Born: 24 Feb 1781 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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           Died: Feb 1860 - Mercer Co, PA 3
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         Father: [Unk] Shilling (      -      )
         Mother: Unknown (      -      )

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth McBride (Abt 1787-1836) 1 4 - Westmoreland Co, PA

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   Other Spouse: Jane McFarland (      -Bef 1860) 5 - Aft 1836

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Wife Anna Lawton ³

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Children

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1 M Miller Shilling ³

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General Notes: Husband - George Shilling

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He learned the blacksmith trade, and also served an apprenticeship to shoemaking in early youth, but after he was married he followed farming and blacksmithing. In 1814 he removed with his mother, wife, and four sons to Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and settled on a tract of 500 acres where the borough of Wheatland would later be located. [HMC 1888, 873]
He was a member of the Baptist Church; in politics a Democrat.

He came from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1814, and located on or near the present site of Wheatland. He bought of John Thompson 290 acres of land, against which the New Bedford Land Company held a warrant claim. Suit for ejection was brought against him in the Mercer County courts, and he won. The case was carried to the Supreme Court at Pittsburgh, by which the decision of the lower court was reversed on the ground that Thompson in securing the patent recognized the validity of the warrant claim and took his risk. After many years' experience in one of the most celebrated and bitterly contested lawsuits ever prosecuted in Western Pennsylvania, Mr. Shilling had finally to buy the land a second time to quiet the title, paying $2,120 for a 400-acre tract. It was worth the price to get it, and the children made the money to pay for it by raising crops of corn and rye.

He was among the early pioneers in Hickory township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, going there in 1814, taking his mother, wife and four sons, and locating on a tract of five hundred acres, upon which the borough of Wheatland was later located. There he spent the remainder of his years, engaged in agricultural pursuits. In church faith, he was Baptist, while in politics, he voted the Democratic ticket.

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 873.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 899, 613.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 874.

4 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 458, 613.

5 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 713, 874.