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Birth: 1750, Germany Death: unknown Tuscarawas County Ohio, USA Solomon was the son of Aaron Delong ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The following is based on the research of long time Delong researcher the late John D. Baldwin III: SOLOMON (4-3) was born in Germany (per son Jesse's 1880 census), in the 1750's (1830 census). In that brother Aaron Jr. is known in settler's records in Ohio as a Penna Dutchman (ie. Deutsch = German) who spoke with a German accent, Solomon's grandson Espy was likely in error when he wrote in 1898 that "Solomon Delong, the father of Jesse, comes of French descent, having emigrated from France to Maryland, near Baltimore, from thence to Philadelphia; from there they went to West Virginia, before Wheeling was built, there being nothing there but a blockhouse where Wheeling now stands." France is likely wrong; the migration route may well be correct. 1772 - his father had reached what is now Washington Co., PA, then claimed by adjacent Ohio Co., (W)Va, according to the survey of his land in 1781. 1776 - Solomon served early in the Revolutionary War, was at Fort Liberty from Sept 9, 1776 to Jan 1, 1777. He appears in Capt. Thomas Gaddis' company (Gwathmey: "Virginians In The Revolution". He appears on payrolls of the Virginia Continental Line (VA State Library: "Revolutionary Soldiers of Virginia"; War dept. Folio 349,2 (ibid)). Penna. Service is for some reason noted in Newman's Maryland Rev. War records of miscellaneous revolutionary service of persons in other states (p. 135) He was refused a pension as he served in a regiment which was not of the Continental Establishment ("Rev. Soldiers Who Lived in Ohio"; this is odd in light of VA Continental Line records). 1781-2 - Md. about this time Ann LeMasters (per gr-son Espy) b. Germany (son Jesse's 1880 census) in the 1760s (1830 census). There is nothing to support the claim they md. ca 1770 - this is an estimate faultily premised on son Jesse's assertion in old age that he (the fifth child) had been born in 1776 (he was b. ca 1790). (Barbra Jean (Baker) Hathcock has name Nancy Ann LeMasters) 1783 - about this time the family was among those squatters who illegally crossed the Ohio and built cabins. His grandson Espy's letter continues: "They crossed the Ohio river and built their cabin on Short Creek, where Bridgeport now stands. At that time there (were) no other white families on the Ohio side of the Ohio river, they were quite frequently driven back to the blockhouse for refuge from the hostile Indians." In a later paragraph he added "He settled at Bridgeport, on Short Creek, in the year 1775. His son Jesse was born there the first of May 1776". (Prob. wrong) There are three points to be challenged here, the date, the location, the reason for return to the Virginia side. There is nothing to document such an early date. Espy probably suggested it based on Jesse's birth in Ohio, which however was ca 1790, not 1776. The location is challenged by the writer of "Historical Collections of Harrison County - First Settlers in Ohio" following his presentation of Espy's letter: "From this letter, it would appear that Jesse Delong was not born in Harrison County at all. It may also be remarked, that, if he was born on Short Creek, he could not, as his son states, have been born at the site of Bridgeport, in Belmont Co.; for Short Creek runs through Warren township, Jefferson County, and enters the Ohio at Warrentown." From this, we can conclude Jesse was born in Ohio (as supported by his census statements) but ca 1790, not 1776. And it was either in Short Creek Twp., present Harrison Co. or Bridgeport in Belmont Co., which were not the same location. The third point of contention was being driven back across the river by Indians. We will see below that Solomon was driven back by federal troops. One descendant or local historian wrote several years ago that the cabin was burned by Indians. Perhaps someone combined the fact of Solomon losing his cabin (to the troops) with Espy's report than the settlers were frequently driven back to the blockhouse by Indians. The same story says Solomon's Bible was lost when his cabin 'near the blockhouse' was burned. But as will be seen below, the squatters were given time to remove their possessions. "Historical Collections of Harrison County - First Settlers in Ohio" states that it is improbable anyone would have been born in Ohio in 1776, but that in two or three years later a number of settlements had been made in Ohio, with the first attempt to drive the squatters out being Oct 1779, but the first we find Solomon in Ohio is 1785 though of course he could have made earlier efforts at settlement there. 1785 - Details of the 1785 round of evictions came to me in 1972 from a Mrs. Rohde, descendant of Solomon Jr. It is an "excerpt from a photostat that Gary had. It has no title and I do not know from what book it was obtained". I am rearranging the order in which these partially undated excerpts reached me. Apr 13, 1785, Ensign John Armstrong to the Commander (Lt Col Joseph Harmar), written I presume at Ft McIntosh "on my return from Wheeling". "Sir: As the following information through you to the Honorable, the Congress, may be of some service, I trust you'd not be displeased therewith. It is the opinion of many honorable men (whom I coversed on my return from Wheeling) that if the Honorable the Congress don't fall on some speedy method to prevent people from settling on the Lands of the United States west of the Ohio, that country will soon be inhabited by bandits whose actions are a disgrace to human nature. You will in a few days receive an address from the Magistracy of Ohio County (VA) through (which) most of those people pass; many of them are flying from justice. I have, Sir, taken some pains to distribute copies of your instructions, with those of the Honorable, the Commissioners for Indian Affairs into almost every settlement west of the Ohio and had them posted up at most public places on the east side of the river, in the neighborhood through which these people pass. Notwithstanding they have saw and read those instructions they are moving to the unsettled country by forties and fifties. From the best information I could receive there are at the falls of Hawk Hawkins (Hockhocking) upwards of three hundred families. At Muskingum, a number equal. At ... Towns there are several families and more than fifteen hundred on the rivers Miame (Miami) and Siota (Scioto). From Wheeling to that place there is scarcely one bottom on the river that has one or more families living thereon. In consequence of the Advertisement by John Amberson, I am apprised meetings will be held at the times therein mentioned. That at Mengons and Hagline Town mentioned in my report of yesterday, the inhabitants had come to a resolution to comply with the requisition of the Advertisement. The supposed distance from this place to Wheeling pursuing the river, is seventy miles... etc. John Armstrong, Ensign". The following sequence of documents pertains to actual eviction attempts and would seemingly have occurred after the above letter of Apr 13 1785. However, the sequence begins when Ens. Armstrong was down river and ends with a letter of April 1785 by Colonel Harmer at Ft. McIntoxh. The first two documents are not dated byt are likely both in April - in the third document a month's extension to the original deadline of (April?) 19 is granted. Ensing John Armstrong to someone in authority at Fort McIntosh "..after taking prisoner a man who was violently opposed to having his house destroyed and his family ousted... destroy his house he would build more in the course of a week. He cast many reflections on the Honorable, the Congress, the Commissioners, and the commanding officer. I perceived him to be a dangerous man and sent him under guard to Wheeling. Finding most of the settlers in this place were tenants under the prisoner, I gave them a few days after which they promised to move to the eastern side of the Ohio, and that they would demolish their buildings. On the evening of the 4th, Charles Norris, with a party of armed men, came to my quarters in a hostile manner and demanded my instructions. After conversing with them for some time and showing my instructions, the warmth (ie hostility) with which they first expressed themselves appeared to abate, and from some motive lodged their arms with me". Rohde states her original then covered more of the hostility which the Ensign encountered, then she continued quoting. "I then proceded on with caution but had not got far before the paper no. 1 was handed me by one of the party, to which I replied I would treat with no party, but intended to execute my orders. When I arrived at the town, there were about fouty men assembled who had deposited their arms. After I read to them my instructions, they agreed to move off by the 19th inst. This indulgence I thought proper to grant, the weather being too severe to turn them out of doors. The 6th I proceeded to Haglin's or Mercer's Town, where I was presented with paper no. 2, and from the humble and peaceable disposition of the people, and the impossibility of their moving off immediately, I gave them until the 19th, and believe they will generally leave the settlement at that time. At that place I was informed that Charles Norris and John Carpenter had been by the people elected Justices of the Peace, and they had I found, Precepts, and decided thereon. I then proceeded on till opposite Wheeling, where I dispossessed one family and destroyed their buildings etc etc..." John Armstrong, Ensign. This next document is likely either paper no. 1 or paper no. 2 mentioned in the preceding. It was submitted to Ensign Armstrong who forwarded it to Col. Harmar at Fort McIntosh in Beaver. "Sir. Agreeable to the order we have received for removing off the lands to the west of the Ohio, we are preparing to execute the utmost diligence but find it will be impracticable to entirely clear off the place. According to our engagements with Ensign Armstrong when we received the orders, which if you will condescend to take under your consideration, we will make no doubt you will readily grant, for we have neither houses nor land to move to; have every necessity to procure by our own labour, for the support of our families and stock, for we have no money. Therefore if you can consistent with your honor allow us a few weeks more to move off and prepare dwellings to move to, we shall greatly acknowledge the favor. We have sent a full representation of our distressed circumstances by way of a petition to Congress, and whatever orders and Regulations they in their wisdom may think proper to prescribe we shall as in duty bound obey. Therefore the furtherest time we request is till we know the resolutions of congress in regard to our petition, which is you grant, we request the favour of you to send us your pleasure and directions by the bearer Mrs. James Cocran, which will be gratefully acknowledged by your humble servants, Subscribers: Thomas Tilton, John Nixon, Henry Cassill, John Nowles, John Titon, John Fitzpatrick, Daniel Menser,, Zephenia Dunn, John McDonald, Henry Shiff, SOLOMON DELONG, Charles Ward, Fred'k Lamb, John Rigdon, Geo. Atchinson, Hanes Piley, Walter Cain, Jacob Light, James Welcams, Jesse Edgerton, Nathaniel Parremore, Jesse Parremore, Jacob Clark, John Custer, Thomas McDonald, James Custer, John Castleman, James Clark, Adam House (AH his mark), Thomas Johnson, Hanamer Davis, William Wallace, Jos. Reburn, Jon. Mapins, Wm Mann, Wm Kerr, Daniel Duff, Joseph Ross, james Watson, Abertions Bailey, Charles Chambers, Robt. Hill, James Pauf, William McNees, Arch Barbson, Wm Bailey, Jonas Amspoker, Nicholas Decker, John Platt, Benj Reed, Jos Godard, Henry Conrod, Wm Carpenter, John Godard, George Rene, John Buckabah, Daniel Mathews". Sometime in April 1785, Col. Harmar responded to the petition. "Fort McIntosh, April 1785. To all those persons who have settled on the Lands of the United States, westward of the Ohio river contrary to the Orders of Congress. I have received your representation by James Cochran and must inform you that my instructions are positive in driving off by force all persons who presume to settle upon or survey the Lands of the United States. As you inform me that you have sent a petition to Congress upon the subject, and upon a consideration of your present distressed circumstances, I am induced to forbear sending any troops for one month from this date to dispossess you, or until further orders from authority. At the same time, you must be as expeditious as possible in preparing to remove yourselves as I am confident that the Honorable body of the Congress, will not grant the prayer of your petition, in which case I shall be under the necessity of executing my orders. Signed, Joseph Harmar, Lt. Col. Comd". 1785 - Son Aaron was perhaps born in Ohio during this period. His age was given as 65 in the 1850 census. The informant did not know his place of birth. 1786 - It was apparently not until April 1786 that action was taken in regard to the April 1785 eviction procedings (unless there is an erroneous date here). On a list of houses destroyed is that of Solomon Solomon Delong four miles from Norisstown ("Federal Land Series" Vol. 1 p. 149 #2525 27 Apr 1786 D/164/193.) Apparently on the same p. 149 is "Samuel Delong - at Wheeling". I know of no Samuel and think this may be a duplicate of the Solomon entry, or perhaps a sencond property occupied by him. I cannot locate Norisstown. 1786 - The Northwest Ordinance opened the Ohio lands for settlement soon after, and Solomon was back, assuming he had ever actually been driven out. His son John, whose birth best fits in the 1786-7 period, was born in Ohio (per a son in 1880) and daughter Mary b. Apr 1788 was also (per her own censuses). 1790 - It is unclear whether son Jesse, b. ca 1790, was born in Bridgeport, Belmont Co., Ohio (across from Wheeling) or at Short Creek which is a ways inland in today's Harrison Co. (In 1898, Jesse's son Espy wrote that his father had been born at Bridgeport on Short Creek which cannot be correct). 1797 - he apparently had some business back in Penna., he was a plaintiff, Washington Co. Court records. 1811 - Solomon Delong, Sr. recorded Steubenville Land Office for land in Tuscarawas Co., Ohio Oct 12. I do not know if this was the same as, or different from, the 160 acres he held in the SW Qtr Sect 26, Tusc. Co. Note that he was in One Leg Twp. in 1820 and Union Twp. 1830. In 1898, his grandson Espy wrote that "The length of time (Solomon) lived (in Bridgeport or at Short Creek) is not exactly known. From there they came to Little Stillwater about two miles East of Dennison (which is Union Twp.) and entered a tract of land of 160 acres... that at the present time is owned by Mr. Kinsey." Note Espy overlooks the period at One Leg Twp. Perhaps the 1811 acquistion was at One Leg, while the 160 acres of Sect 26 was the land known to Espy in Little Stillwater. 1820 - One Leg Twp., Tusc. Co., OH 1830 - Union Twp., (Tusc. Co., OH?) 183_ - he died at Little Stillwater farm (per Espy)(2 miles east of Dennison, Union Twp., Tuscarawas Co., OH), I assume in this decade as he was not enumerated in 1840. 183_ - Ann returned (or went?) to Harrison Co. to live, near Franklin, or Tappan (per Espy) 1850 - She died near the age of 100 per Espy, however she was not head of a household in 1840 nor is she enumerated in 1850. She likely did not reach that great an age. Espy also accepted his father Jesse's story that he was born 1776, making Jesse 106 at death rather than a more likely ca 92. Marguerite Delong of Cambridge Ohio once wrote that Ann was buried near Marietta. This seems unlikely (Marguerite was of the Vol. 3 family, not this group). CHILDREN OF SOLOMON & ANN (LEMASTERS) DELONG: 4-3-1 SOLOMON JR. b. Oct 1783; md. Margaret McKinney. 4-3-2 AARON b. 1784-5, place unknown but perhaps Ohio as his father was one of the petitioners, apparently April 1785, to delay squatters eviction from the Western side of the Ohio river. He was age 65, bp not know, in the home of his sister Mary in Franklin Twp., Harrison Co., OH in 1850. 4-3-3 JOHN b. prob. in the 1786-7 slot; md. 1st Sarah Croy, md. 2nd Margaret Welch. According to "Jefferson Co., Ohio First Settlers" V 22, p 85 OR & PF Delong, Solomon by the year 1785 had settled on the west bank of the Ohio River. 4-3-4 MARY b. Ohio, Apr 22, 1788. She had two husbands William Edwin McClish (md. 1812) & Arthur Chinworth (md. 1828) 5 children by 1st & 3 by 2nd. 4-3-5 JESSE b. ca 1790 (not 1776), md. Nancy Wagoner. 4-3-6 NANCY b. May 11, 1793, d. Tuscarawas Co., OH, Jul 4, 1862. Middle name Ellen per C. Clark. Md. Mathias Wagoner b. MD, Nov 10, 1790; d. Jefferson Co., OH, Oct 13, 1848 (all per Michael Hamersley, PO Box 3939, Chula Vista, CA 92011 (date?)). An unsourced FGS, very poorly written, says Mathias was son of John Wag(g)oner and Mary Catherine-? Tanner-? (sic). The marr. is in Tusc. Co., Jan 27, 1814. 4-3-7 SARAH b. 1794-1800, Short Creek, Jefferson (now Harrison) Co., Ohio; d. Harrison Co., Ohio 1836-1840; md. Tuscarawas Co., OH, Dec 3, 1812 William Johnson b. PA, Jul 19, 1780; d. Harrison Co., OH, Jan 6, 1857, bur. Deersville Cem., Harrison Co., OH, son of Abel and Anne (Alexander). 4-3-8 ABRAHAM b. 1796; md. 1st Elizabeth Fisher, 2nd Sarah Fisher. 4-3-9 ISAAC b. prob. 1797-8; md. Sarah Dickerson, prob. 2nd Elizabeth Hiatt. Probably daughters: 4-3-10 JANE md. Tusc. Co., OH, license Sep 16, 1823 James Angus McAdue or McAdow. 4-3-11 MARGARET md. Harrison Co., OH, Sep 15, 1825 Kerr McClintock. Note: according to http://traveltusc.com/files/gene/union.pdf there once was a (UN149) Delong (family) Cemetery with 13 unmarked fieldstones; skeletons unearthed by bulldozer making a road. Remains in possession of Dennison mortician Ross Lindsay, who believes they were members of a Delong family. (date of this unknown) Family links: Parents: Aaron Delong Children: Jesse DeLong (1776 - 1882)* Solomon Delong (1783 - 1869)* Mary DeLong Chinworth (1791 - 1876)* Nancy Ellen DeLong Waggoner (1794 - 1862)* Abraham Delong (1796 - 1871)* Isaac Delong (1798 - 1852)* Jane McAdow Delong Divan (1807 - 1846)* Sibling: Aaron Delong* Solomon Delong (1750 - ____) *Calculated relationship Burial: Unknown Specifically: likely on farm in Union Twp., Tuscarawas Co., OH Edit Virtual Cemetery info [?] Created by: Roy Delong Record added: May 29, 2013 Find A Grave Memorial# 111371483
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