Jehu Conwell and Elizabeth Stokely

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Husband Jehu Conwell ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1749 - Sussex Co, DE 2
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           Died: Jan 1834 - Luzerne Twp, Fayette Co, PA
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         Father: [Father] Conwell (      -      )
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       Marriage:  - Delaware

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Wife Elizabeth Stokely ⁴

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            AKA: Elizabeth Stokeley 5
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         Father: Yates Stokely (      -      ) 6
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Children

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1 F Nancy Conwell ^{1 8 9 10}

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            AKA: Mary Conwell 5 7
           Born: 1774 - Luzerne Twp, Fayette Co, PA 11
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         Spouse: William Porter Ewing (1769-1827) 7 8 9 12 13
           Marr: 1791 - Fayette Co, PA 3 5

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2 M Shepard Conwell ^{6 11}

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3 M Yates S. Conwell ²

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            AKA: Yates T. Conwell 6 11
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           Died: 25 Dec 1865 - Luzerne Twp, Fayette Co, PA 6
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         Spouse: Anna Craft (      -      ) 6

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4 M John Conwell ^{6 11}

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           Died:  - Luzerne Twp, Fayette Co, PA
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5 M George Conwell ^{6 11}

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6 F [Unk] Conwell

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         Spouse: Andrew Porter (      -      ) 11

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7 F [Unk] Conwell

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         Spouse: John Arnold (      -      ) 11

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General Notes: Husband - Jehu Conwell

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He settled in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, about 1768.

He and his brother, Capt. William Conwell, settled within the limits of Luzerne township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in June, 1767. One James Bredin was in the territory before the Conwells, who upon their arrival found Bredin living in a log cabin upon a tomahawk claim, where he had girdled a few trees, he having come in the previous April. For a small consideration the Conwells purchased Bredin's claim and improvements, and he departed for other scenes. The land thus taken by the Conwells lay in what became the Heistersburg school district, included within the John McMullen farm. The country was at that time infested by natives and wild beasts, but with neither gave the settlers then any trouble, for the former were friendly, and the latter not so much inclined to pursue man as afraid of being themselves pursued. By and by, however, the Indians began to show signs of hostility, and the Conwells thought it advisable to withdraw for a brief season to a more populous locality. In August, 1772, Jehu returned to his old home in Delaware, in October was married, and in November of the same year set out with his young bride for the Luzerne clearing. Existence was comparatively quiet and uneventful until 1774, when Indian aggressions set in in earnest. Jehu Conwell and his brother, Capt. William, then started the project of building a fort. A site was selected on the Coleman plantation, on the west side of Dunlap's Creek, not much more than half a mile below Merrittstown, on a place later occupied by Harrison Henshaw. There a block-house was hastily constructed, to include within its inclosure the spring near the later location of the Henshaw house. Assisted and directed by the Conwells, the settlers had the fort completed in quick time, and in May, 1794, it was occupied. There appears to be no evidence that the fort was ever attacked, or that the people living in that portion of Luzerne met with serious injury at the hands of the natives, although they were for a time in great terror for fear of Indians. Several children are said to have been born within the fort during 1774. After the autumn of 1774, the clouds of alarm clearing away, block-house life was abandoned, and the peaceful pursuits of the pioneer were pushed forward with renewed vigor.
When the flag of national independence was raised in 1776, Jehu and William Conwell responded to the call, and fought through the Revolution. Happily surviving the struggle they resumed their rural labors, and in good time ended their lives upon the Luzerne lands they had cleared from the wilderness. Jehu died at the age of eighty-six, upon the farm that had been his home for sixty years, and from which he is said in that time never to have removed himself a distance of more than fifty miles. He was married more than sixty years, and had seven children.
With his brother, Capt. William, he rests now in the old Conwell burying-ground upon the George Conwell farm, where lie also numerous others of the same name.
Jehu Conwell was not only a farmer, but a manufacturer and miller. He built a log grist-mill upon Big Run, which was certainly the first grist-mill in the township, and, according to some authorities, the first in the county. Jehu also built a distillery at the same place, and as the business transacted there assumed an appearance of extraordinary briskness, while it attracted many patrons, the locality was given the name of Frogtown, and by that name was known for many years.

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Stokely

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Her family may have come from New Castle, Delaware.

1 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 634, 651.

2 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 541.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 44.

4 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 168, 542.

5 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 651.

6 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 542.

7 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Publisher, 1884), Pg 148.

8 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 168.

9 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 556.

10 Leander James McCormick, McCormick Family Record and Biography (Chicago, IL: Publisher Unknown, 1896), Pg 140.

11 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 634.

12 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 142, 651.

13 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 44, 121.