John Fleming and Susan Chatham

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Husband John Fleming ¹

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           Born: Abt 1761
     Christened: 
           Died: 17 Feb 1817 2
         Buried:  - Great Island Cemetery, Lock Haven, Clinton Co, PA

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         Father: [Ancestor] Fleming (      -      )
         Mother: 

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       Marriage:  - Chester Co, PA

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Wife Susan Chatham ³

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           Born:  - Dublin, Ireland
     Christened: 
           Died: 26 Nov 1824 2
         Buried:  - Great Island Cemetery, Lock Haven, Clinton Co, PA

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         Father: Col.  Chatham (      -      ) 3
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 F Elizabeth Fleming ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: 10 Oct 1804 2
         Buried:  - Great Island Cemetery, Lock Haven, Clinton Co, PA

         Spouse: John McCormick (1748-1844) 4

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2 M Joseph Fleming ¹

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

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3 M Hon. John Fleming ^{3 5 6}

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 1863 or 1872 3 5
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Ann Alexander (      -Aft 1878) 5 6
           Marr: 1829 5

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General Notes: Husband - John Fleming

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Prominent among the early settlers of the West Branch valley was John Fleming. He was a descendant of the Earl of Wigton, a Scottish nobleman. In 1773 he entered on the possession of the large tract of land lying between the Susquehanna River and the Bald Eagle Creek, on which the city of Lock Haven now stands and part of the borough of Flemington, which he had purchased of the Rev. Dr. Francis Allison. After his demise, his land, containing over sixteen hundred acres, was divided among his five sons and three daughters.

A grandson of Sir Thomas Fleming, who came to Virginia in 1616, removed, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, to Chester County, Pennsylvania, and located on lands that were known as the London Cross Roads. Here his son John married Susan Chatham. About the year 1765 Col. Chatham and his son-in-law, John Fleming, visited the West Branch Valley. The former purchased a body of lands on what is now Chatham's run, and from whom, it is said, the run derives its name. In 1773 John Fleming bought the tract of land, containing over 1,600 acres, in the warranty name of Dr. Francis Allison. There either was erected, or Colonel Chatham built a mill on Chatham's run, and there lived out the balance of his days. John Fleming built a house near where the southern abutment of the dam was afterward located, the hearthstones of the chimney of which were found by the work-men in making excavations for the abutment. In 1798 he was appointed associate judge of Lycoming county by Governor Mifflin. Judge Fleming died in the house at the south end of the abutment in 1777, leaving to survive him six sons and three daughters. By a provision in his will the tract of land in the warranty name of Dr. Francis Allison was in 1784 divided into nine shares or purparts, one of which was taken by each of the children. The Lot No. 1 extended from the confluence of the Bald Eagle creek and the west branch of Susquehanna river to the eastern line of what is now the Fleming farm. The city of Lock Haven is built on lots No. 4 and No. 5, and Flemington borough is also upon a part of this same land.

Some of the dates given in the above sketch seem incompatible. John Fleming apparently had a son named John and perhaps the two John Flemings have been confused.

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General Notes: Wife - Susan Chatham

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She was born in Dublin, Ireland, and came to America when an infant.

1 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 561.

2 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 568.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 563.

4 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 521, 561.

5 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 109.

6 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 174.