Robert Montgomery, (Xfer)

Male 1740 - 1806  (66 years)


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  • Name Robert Montgomery  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
    Suffix (Xfer) 
    Birth 1740  Paxtang, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4, 6, 8, 11, 12, 16
    • Harris Ferry
    Gender Male 
    Fact 1 1748  Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [17
    Listed in Will of Grandfather Robert Montgomery 
    Religion 1773  Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [18
    John Roan's Congregation 
    Military Service Abt 1776  Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 16, 19, 20
    Served in Cumberland County Militia; Pvt in Capt James Cowden's Co 4th Batallion 
    Occupation 1780  Paxtang, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [21
    Lancaster County Tax Collector 
    Fact 1 Abt 1785  Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [22
    Served on 1st Jury in Harrisburg 
    Land 1792  Wayne, Clinton, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [16
    Bought land owned by Michael Quiggle; became neighbors 
    Relocated 1792  Wayne, Clinton, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [23
    From Harrisburg 
    Education 1795  Wayne, Clinton, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Opened first school in Wayne 
    DAR Number A079062  [6
    Land 1800  Wayne, Clinton, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [16
    Farmer 
    Will 25 Dec 1805  Wayne, Clinton, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 16, 24
    LW&T 
    Death 8 Aug 1806  Wayne, Clinton, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 11, 12, 14
    Probate 19 Aug 1806  Wayne, Clinton, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 14, 20
    Person ID I4721  MontyHistNotes_III | John Montgomery and Martha Finley
    Last Modified 8 Mar 2024 

    Father Captain; Not sure where this title comes from John Montgomery,   b. 1703, Armagh, Northern Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1785, Paxtang, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Martha Finley,   b. Abt 1703, Northern Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1779, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage Bef 1726  Northern Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2927  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Agnes Nancy Montgomery, (Xfer),   b. 1749, Paxtang, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1822, Wayne, Clinton, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1765  Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 12
    Family ID F3007  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 Mar 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1740 - Paxtang, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsFact 1 - Listed in Will of Grandfather Robert Montgomery - 1748 - Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - Abt 1765 - Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsReligion - John Roan's Congregation - 1773 - Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMilitary Service - Served in Cumberland County Militia; Pvt in Capt James Cowden's Co 4th Batallion - Abt 1776 - Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Lancaster County Tax Collector - 1780 - Paxtang, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsFact 1 - Served on 1st Jury in Harrisburg - Abt 1785 - Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLand - Bought land owned by Michael Quiggle; became neighbors - 1792 - Wayne, Clinton, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsRelocated - From Harrisburg - 1792 - Wayne, Clinton, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEducation - Opened first school in Wayne - 1795 - Wayne, Clinton, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLand - Farmer - 1800 - Wayne, Clinton, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsWill - LW&T - 25 Dec 1805 - Wayne, Clinton, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 8 Aug 1806 - Wayne, Clinton, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProbate - 19 Aug 1806 - Wayne, Clinton, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S696] Montgomery, Clark, Clark Montgomery GED file, (Name: Location: Minnesota; Date: 2009;;), Clark Montgomery GED file.

    2. [S692] Maring, Don, Don Maring Notes To Andrea Adams, (Name: Date: 18 Jun 2008;;), Email from Don Maring to Andrea Adams discusses Montgomerys ofPennsylvania.

    3. [S738] Montgomery, Robert, Will of Robert Montgomery 1806, (Name: Location: Wayne, Clinton, Pennsylvania; Date: 25 Dec 1805;;), Robert Montgomery Will 1806 Includes a discussion of the two different Robert Montgomerys and their families.
      7 Children Named; signed by Andrew Karr, William Williams. SonsJoseph and William Shearer.

    4. [S697] Montgomery, Joseph II, Notes from Joseph Mont II, (Name: Date: 1925;;), Notes written by Joseph Montgomery II; from files located at DauphinCounty Historical Society.

    5. [S38] Bumbaugh, Dorothy transcriber, Historical Review of Dauphin County, (Name: Name: Dauphin County, Pennsylvania Genealogy Transcription Projec;Location: Dauphin, Pennsylvania; Date: 2000;;), Chapter 6 http://maley.net/transcription/.
      http://maley.net/transcription/BioEncyl/BEChapter6contd2.htm

    6. [S739] DAR Ancestor A079062, (Name: Name: Daughters of the American Revolution;;), Robert Montgomery.

    7. [S741] Sink, Robert Montgomery, Email from Bob Sink 2010 Apr 05, (Name: Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia; Date: 5 Apr 2010;;), Bob describes his family line.

    8. [S57] Ancestry.com, SAR Application, (Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations,Inc., 2011.Original data - Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls;;).
      Birth date: 1740
      Birth place:
      Death date: 1806
      Death place: Wayne, Lycoming, Pennsylvania

    9. [S742] Swartz, Mark William, Email from Mark Swartz 1 Dec 2012, (Name: Date: 1 Dec 2012;;).

    10. [S743] Owen, John, Wance-Long-Shaw-Montgomery, (Name: Location: Austin, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA;;), Family Chart created by John Owen.

    11. [S57] Ancestry.com, SAR Application, (Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations,Inc., 2011.Original data - Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls;;), Database online.
      Record for Martha Montgomery

    12. [S575] Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;), SAR Membership Number: 36755.
      Record for Joseph Montgomery II
      Ancestor: Robert Montgomery
      Ancestor: Baltzar Buchecker
      Ancestor: Jonah Thomas
      Volume: 184
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=SARMemberApps&h=443981&indiv=try

    13. [S722] Montgomery, Keith R, Some Notes Regarding John Montgomery and Martha, (Location: Albany, California, USA; Date: 2012;).

    14. [S63] Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1993, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;), Wills, 1772-1907; Index, 1792-1930; Author: Northumberland County (Pennsylvania). Register of wills; Probate Place: Northumberland, Pennsylvania.
      Record for Hugh Montgomery
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=USProbatePA&h=1986018&indiv=try

    15. [S723] Maring, Don, Don Maring Notes on Harry Osborn Line, (Date: 17 Mar 2017;), Posted on Facebook in answer to Harry Osborn comments.

    16. [S744] Oberholser, Connie et al, Notes about Robert Montgomery, (Name: Location: Pennsylvania, USA; Date: Jan 2010;;), Connie posted these notes on ancestry.com; it includes a compliationof informaton from Bob Sink, Don Maring, and Clark Montgomery.

    17. [S34] Faris, David, Descendants of James Montgomery, (Name: Name: Gateway Press, Inc; Location: Baltimore; Date: 1987;;), History written by David Faris.

    18. [S704] Egle, William, John Roan's Congregation, Egle's Notes and Queries p. 848 John Roan's Congregation 1745-1775.

    19. [S433] American Revolutionary War, (Date: 1775-1783;), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War.

    20. [S745] Bryan, Mildred, Email from Mildred Bryan 2010 Jan 28, (Name: Location: Iowa; Date: 28 Jan 2010;;), 01/28/2010.

    21. [S747] PA State Archives Microfilm Roll 2204, (Name: Location: Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA;;), Lancaster County, Paxtang Township. Robert Montgomery appointed asTax Collector.
      Lancaster County Tax Records
      Hanover Township, 1750-1783
      Heidelberg Township, 1751-1783
      Lancaster Borough, 1814
      Londonderry Township, 1769-1783
      Paxton Township, 1750-1782
      Upper Paxton Township, 1759-1783

      The finding aids to the original county records in our holdings can be found at http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/rg47.htm and http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/rg48.htm.

    22. [S749] Dauphin County Pennsylvania Genealogy Transcription Project.
      We may imagine the scene, in a small room in a log house near the"lower ferry," at Front and Vine
      streets, with a jury particularly intelligent – an excellent set of county officers, and such a bar as
      Ross, Kittera, Chambers, Hubley, James Biddle, Hanna, Andrew Dunlop, Reily, Collinson Reed,
      Jasper Yeates, John Joseph Henry, Thomas Duncan and Thomas Smith, most of whom rose to
      occupy the highest positions at the bar or in the Senate – quite a show of famous men to start the
      judicial engine of the new county, with the net result of convicting William Courtenay, a descendant
      of one of the proudest houses of England, and sentencing him to eighteen lashes, fifteen shillings
      fine, and "to stand in the pillory." This instrument of judicial vengeance stood about sixty yards
      below the grave of John Harris, the elder, or just above the ferry house, at the junction of Front and
      Paxtang streets. This, doubtless, was the exact position, as two or three of the first courts were held
      in a building on what is now the southern corner of Front street and Washington avenue. There was
      no citizen of Harrisburg on the first jury, except, perhaps, Alexander Berryhill, but that is not certain.
      Col. James Cowden, of Lower Paxtang township, was the foreman of this grand jury.
      The sheriff of Lancaster county exercised the same office in Dauphin county. The names of the
      jurymen were James Cowden (foreman), Robert Montgomery, John Gilchrist, Barefoot Brunson,
      John Clarke, Roan McClure, John Carson, John Wilson, William Crain, Archibald McAllister, Richard
      Dixon, John Parthemore, James Crouch, Jacob Awl, William Brown, Andrew Stewart, James Rogers,
      Samuel Stewart, John Cooper, Alexander Berryhill. Alexander Graydon was the first prothonotary
      and Anthony Kelker the first sheriff.


    23. [S750] Obituary_Montgomery William Shearer, (Name: Name: Clinton Republican;;).

    24. [S746] Bryan, Mildred, Email from Mildred Bryan 2010 Jan 29, (Name: Location: Iowa; Date: 29 Jan 2010;;), 1/29/2010.