John Vincent and Elizabeth Doremus

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Husband John Vincent ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 26 Jan 1709 - New Jersey 1
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           Died: 24 Feb 1801 - Milton, Northumberland Co, PA 3
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         Father: Levi Vincent (1676-1763) 1 2 3
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       Marriage: 1 Dec 1733 3

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Wife Elizabeth Doremus ³

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           Born: 13 Jul 1711 3
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Children

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1 M Isaac Vincent ³

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2 M Cornelius Vincent ^{1 2 4}

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           Born: 15 Apr 1737 - Newark, Essex Co, NJ 1 4
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           Died: 16 Jul 1812 - Milton, Northumberland Co, PA 4
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         Spouse: Phoebe Ward (Abt 1739-1809) 4

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3 F Rachel Vincent ³

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4 F Elizabeth [1] Vincent ³

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5 F Elizabeth [2] Vincent ³

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6 F Jane Mary Vincent ³

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7 M Benjamin Vincent ³

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8 M Peter Vincent ³

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General Notes: Husband - John Vincent

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He lived in New Jersey until his children grew to adulthood, then came to Pennsylvania with his son, Cornelius. The Vincents were the first settlers on Warrior Run, Northumberland County, coming from New Jersey in 1772.
John Cornelius and Peter Vincent came with Peter Freeland, who settled on Warrior Run three or four miles from its mouth, the Vincents settling on the West Branch about a mile below the mouth of the Run. These pioneers built log cabins and began improvements, forming a nucleus around which other settlements were made. Freeland built a small grist mill on Warrior Run in 1773, having brought the necessary iron with him from New Jersey. In 1775, when it became apparent to Freeland, the Vincents and other settlers, that the Indians were becoming bolder and more troublesome, Fort Freeland was built on a rising piece of ground about half a mile from where Warrior Run Church later was built. The fort, which afterwards became famous, was a stockade enclosure and ranked as one of the principal defenses in the valley above Fort Augusta. On the morning of July 28, 1779, the fort was attacked by a force of 100 British soldiers and 200 Indians, the defending force consisting of twenty-one effective men, a large number of women and children relying on these few men for protection. Of the brave women in the fort, there were two, Phoebe Vincent and Mary Kirk, who began moulding bullets for the rifles of the defenders, continuing until every leaden dish or spoon had been melted. After a stout resistance, Captain McDonald, the British commander, offered terms of surrender, in order to prevent a massacre when the fort should finally fall, which was inevitable. Captain Lytle, of the defending force, and John Vincent, went out to meet him under a flag of truce and arranged the terms of surrender, one of the articles reading: "All men bearing arms to surrender themselves prisoners of war and to be sent to Canada." John Vincent was one of the old men allowed to remain, being then in his eightieth year. His wife was a cripple and unable to walk. He carried her from the fort to the lower end of the meadow and there they remained during the rainy night without cover or shelter. In the morning he caught a horse, which came to them, made a bridle from hickory bark, placed his wife on the horse and succeeded in making his way in safety to Sunbury. Notwithstanding their hardships and exposure, the wife lived until 1788, while John survived her thirteen years, dying in 1801 at the age of ninety-two years.

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Doremus

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She was a member of the Doremus family of New Jersey.

1 —, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Bios 231.

2 —, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Erie, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1896), Pg 550.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1525.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1526.