John Culbertson

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Husband John Culbertson ¹

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           Born: Abt 1680-1690
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           Died: Nov 1756 - Shippensburg, Cumberland Co, PA 1
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         Father: William (?) Culbertson (      -      ) 2
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Children

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1 M John Culbertson ^{1 3}

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           Born: 1710 4
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           Died: 11 Nov 1767 - East Caln Twp, Chester Co, PA 4
         Buried:  - Brandywine Manor, E. Caln Twp, Chester Co, PA

         Spouse: Eliza Rogers (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 1731 - Philadelphia, PA 5

         Spouse: Abigail [Unk] (      -      ) 5

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General Notes: Husband - John Culbertson

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He emigrated to America in 1712 or before and settled in Londongrove Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He landed at New Castle, Delaware, and at once settled in Chester County with his brother Robert. Tradition says he had four sons but given here are facts taken from Will and Deed Records. First appears on tax records in 1713, in Chester Co. (Records of New Castle Co., Del. show that no Culbertson lived in Delaware at this early date.) His name does not appear on the tax books after 1726. Margaret Culbertson, who married in 1739, Robert Jackson at St. Paul's Episcopal Church at Chester (Pa. Col. Arch.) was either his daughter or niece. Whether or not he was the father of John Culbertson of Brandywine Township, Chester County, is a question, yet it is almost certain that he was. He left no will in Chester, Lancaster or Cumberland counties and no administration of his estate and no deeds to or from him. Many settlers located on lands in Pennsylvania before 1734 and paid taxes on same but could get no warrants until 1734. There is no warrant to this John Culbertson. John Esq. of Brandywine Township, may have been his son, and probably was, and he left him in Chester County in 1727-8 (he would then have been 17 or 18 years of age); or John Esq. may have been a nephew and may have been raised in Chester County by his uncle Andrew or Robert, of Kennett Township.
John moved to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1727-8 to what was later Shippensburg, Cumberland County. Wing's History of Cumberland County, states, "Among the first twelve settlers at Shippensburg in 1730 were John Culbertson." Dr. Eagle in Queries on Culbertsons of Culbertson Row, states, "In the Indian foray, among the settlers killed in Nov. 1756 at Shippensburg was John Culbertson." John Culbertson in a letter dated at Shippensburg May 7, 1756, writes Col. Burd, "that he had talked with an Indian at Big Cove, who had been captured at Ford Littleton and that this Indian was in the Battle of Sideling Hill, April 2, 1756, and that the Indians lost 17 killed and 21 wounded." John seems to have been a scout for Col. Burd.
There is no deed or court record to show that Oliver Culbertson was a son of John Sr. or Shippensburg. It is my opinion that Oliver was John's son and a nephew of Irish Andrew of Shippensburg.
There was a John Culbertson, Augusta Co., Va. in 1753-4. This was John Culbertson of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, no doubt. No record of his appears prior to this in Orange County, Virginia, or Augusta County, Virginia. It is my opinion that he left Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in the spring of 1751 with Andrew Culbertson and went with him to Augusta County, Virginia. The only record we have of him in Augusta County, is in Order Book No. 5, p. 20: "Nov. Court 1755, David Stuart vs. John Culbertson. John removed from Augusta County and returned to Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. [Culbertsons, 17]

1 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 16.

2 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 13.

3 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 544.

4 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 17.

5 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 18.