Andrew Byerly and Unknown

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Husband Andrew Byerly ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - ? Germany
     Christened: 
           Died: Bef 1776
         Buried:  - Brush Creek Cemetery, near Adamsburg, Westmoreland Co, PA

       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Beatrice Guldin (      -      ) 3 4

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Wife Unknown

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           Born: 
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           Died:  - Lancaster Co, PA
         Buried: 

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Andrew Byerly

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He came from Germany to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where his first wife died. He married again and then removed to the site of Harrison City, Westmoreland County.

He was one of Col. Bouquet's scouts at "Bushy Run." He was one of eighteen scouts sent out on the morning of that battle, and was one of but six who were not killed.

He came to western Pennsylvania with Braddock's army as General Braddock's butler. Here he married and settled. [ONW, 176]

A noted pioneer, he located at Lancaster, Pennsylvania at an early date. He served in General Braddock's army in 1755, and from then until 1760 was with the garrison at Fort Bedford. In 1759 he was granted a tract of land on Bushy Run in Westmoreland County, on which a year later he built a cabin, and established a relay station between Fort Pitt and Fort Ligonier. At the decisive battle of Bushy Run in August, 1763, he fought under Colonel Henry Bouquet. He died just prior to the Revolutionary War. [ONW, 1256]

One of the earliest of these settlements, after those at the two forts, was the settlement of Andrew Byerly. Byerly's settlement dates from 1759. It was situated on Brush Creek, contiguous to which was the manorial reservation of the Penns. The order for Andrew Byerly's warrant was the thirty-sixth in number, and called for two hundred and thirty acres. On this spot Byerly seated himself by permit from the commandant at Fort Pitt, and before any other settlers had located between Bedford and Pitt. He accommodated express-riders and military agents on this road. Within the next two years there were three or four neighbors to Byerly. [HWC 1882, 32]

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 73, 91, 354.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 176, 1256.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 73.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1257.