Joseph Montgomery

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Husband Joseph Montgomery ¹

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         Father: [Father] Montgomery (      -      )
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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Montgomery

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A settlement was made in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, in 1802, near the present line between Mill Creek and New Vernon townships, by Joseph, John, James, and William Montgomery, from Juniata County. Their tract contained 400 acres, and John and William's land extended into Mill Creek township.
In 1803 or '04, after a cabin had been built, their mother came to the clearing with three younger members of the family: two sons, Archibald and Charles, and a daughter, Martha. James, at this time, was but seventeen years old, and remained at home with his mother and the younger children, while the older sons built cabins for themselves near by. Only a portion of the family became permanent settlers, however; William left shortly after selecting the land.

A portion of the Montgomery farm had been cleared by the Indians upon the arrival of the settlers, and there was a cornfield upon the tract later owned by Archibald, son of John Montgomery, upon Sandy Creek bottom. On the right side of the road, in passing to New Vernon, there is an unusually rocky field. About fifteen rods away from the highway there are two large mounds of earth and rock, one of which still retains the appearance of having been, at one time, a square embankment, and there are numerous cinders visible upon its surface. A magnificent butternut-tree spreads its branches over the other timber, and a stump of a sassafras, no less than eighteen inches in diameter, is rotting away near by. A small stream winds through a ravine at the north, and indications of an old road appear wandering up the sloping bank. It is all that remains of the Montgomery improvement, and the cinders, which appear scattered among the dust of former years, mark the spot where Charles Montgomery's blacksmith-shop once stood. The land is the most worthless, perhaps, of any in the county, and Mr. McCutcheon, who pointed out the ruins, remarked, that he wondered where the family found room enough between the stones for a garden. The scenery around the place is very romantic, and the trees are of magnificent size.

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 67.