Crawford County, Pennsylvania

Crawford County Genealogy
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CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY Ashville Methodist Episcopal Church marriages—Crawford County residents 26:99*
Ripley Methodist Episcopal Church marriages (1885-1894) 26:97

O HIO

ASHTABULA COUNTY Ashtabula—newspapers (1843-1848) 2:72
Conneaut—newspapers (1835-1875) 2:72; 7:1, 128c

P ENNSYLVANIA

Statutory divorces (1769-1873) 21:53

ALLEGHENY COUNTY
Martin family deed 27:110

CRAWFORD COUNTY

City of Meadville City of Titusville Boroughs Townships

Generally

Adoptions

1859-1881 12:1

1881-1890 16:51

Appearance dockets (1800-1811) 9:99

Apprenticeships and Indentures 16:79; 26:69

Baseborn children (1800-1818) 21:143

Bibliography 1:1, 108c; 21 inside back cover of Feb. issue

Bigamy cases 19:97

Boroughs 20:91

Businessmen (1850) 6:87; 29:49

Cemetery custodians (as of 1980) 3:88

Census (federal)

1790 17:20

1800 18:46

1810 18:87

1820 20:21

see also Mortality Schedules, below

see also Septennial Census of 1800 21:13, 99

Churches—Presbyterian 11:89

Civil War see Veterans, below

Coroners’ inquests 2:1

1800-1861 18:9

1862-1869 18:113

County home

Inmates (1874) 10:29

Reports (1852-1875) 19:45

County jail

inmates (1807) 3:22; [repeated] 23(2):51

Courthouse records 1:1

Deaths

1852-1854 1:62

Railroad fatalities (1866-1887) 8:115

see also Oil Creek Baptist Ass’n. minutes 1866-1916 27:120*

Demi-mondes of the Oil Region 31:70

Desertions 29:87

Draft 14:47; 16:25, 105; 19:69

Feme sole traders 17:52. 130c

Estates see Probate records, below

Formation 1:1, 108c; 9:103

G.A.R. Posts (1895) 13:61; 14:60c

Habitual Drunkards 20:149

History

1848 (by William H. Davis) 31:24

Questionnaire—1850 29:27

Historical boundaries

Boroughs 20:91 [with maps]

County and townships 20:41

Holland Land Company tracts 18:53,79

Indentured servants/apprentices 16:79; 26:69

Internal Revenue assessment (1862) 28:17

Itinerant preachers

Rev. Benjamin Excell 1866-1868 7:123

Rev. Lucian John Mayer 1860-1866 23(2):34

Rev. James F. Perry 1872-1884 3:1

Rev. Pontious 1877-1892 24:110

Rev. George Stuntz 1825-1830, 1837, 1857-1865 25:10

Jail see County jail, above

Justices of the Peace—marriage records

Wilson Dick 1840-1845 27:17

Lakes, privately owned 27:87

Letters, unclaimed (1793-1800) 28-40

Lunacy petitions (1846-1862) 9:40

Marriages

1852-1854 2:81

by Cyrus Adsit, J.P. (1874-1879) 31:1*

by Wilson Dick, J.P. (1840-1845) 27:17

by William Charles Wygant, J.P. (1877-1905) 31:5*

various 31:1

Married Women petitions 17:81

Medical

malpractice (Dr. Kellogg, 1839) 26:101

Militia rolls (1793-1795) 17:127

Mortality Schedules

1850 5:17

1860 8:1; 9:102c

1870 8:91; 9:65

1880 16:8, 89

Name change (1890) 16:88

Naturalizations (1800-1829) 10:83

Orphans’ Court, Docket A

1800-1808 23:1

1809-1821 24:83

1821-1830 27:1

see also 25:153c

Political boundaries 1:1, 108c; 9:103; 18:35

Prisoners (1807) 3:22; [repeated] 23(2):51

Probate records

Renunciations (1800-1899) 19:31 [A-D], 77 [E-K]; 20:6 [L-R], 108 [S-Z]; 21:162c

Wills

1800-1805 3:64

Unprobated 1:47; 2:105c; 19:8

Prostitutes of the Oil Region 31:70

Railroads—fatalities (1866-1887) 8:115

Residents

1790 U.S. census 17:20

1793-1795—militia rolls 17:127

1798—taxpayers 5:100

1800 U.S. census 18:46

1800 septennial census 21:13

1800 tax duplicates 19:19, 121

1810 U.S. census 18:87

1820 U.S. census 20:21

1850—businessmen 6:87; [repeated] 29:49

1863-1864—draftees 14:97; 16:25, 105; 19:69

1875—Eighteen-Twelvers 10:18

1881—Eighteen-Twelvers 19:96

1888—born before 1820 1:14

1914—prominent 28:127

See also County Home residents

Runaway apprentices 26:69

Runaway brides 29:87

Septennial census of 1800 21:13

Slaves 20:19

State legislation index (to 1892) 7:76

Tax rolls

1798 (Mead Twp.) 5:100

1800 19:19, 121

Townships

Unclaimed letters (1793-1800) 28:40

Veterans

Civil War

150th Regiment, Company C 28:136

Census (1890) [partial] 32:109

Discharges 1:5

G.A.R. Posts (1895) 13:61; 14:60c

Medical Register of Examinations 25:12

Reluctant recruit 22:62

See also Draft 14:47; 16:25,105; 19:69; 25:95

Revolutionary War 17:1, 91; 19:55, 119; 21:34; 30:7c, 43

Spanish American War—discharges 1:5

War of 1812 (in 1875) 10:18

See also serving Erie Co. 14:39, 108

Veterinary Register 8:15

Vital statistics

Deaths

1852-1854 1:62

From obscure newspapers 9:60

See also Coroner’s Inquests 2:1; 18:9, 113

Marriages (1852-1854) 2:81

Wills see Probate records, above

CITIES
MEADVILLE

Belgian glassblowers 4:6, 16:126c

Baptisms

Emmanuel United Church of Christ

1867-1868 24:27

1887-1895 25:127

Trinity Lutheran Church (1865-1890) 21:120

Unitarian Church (1831-1845) 11:18*

Buchanan hoax 25:15, 154c; 28:47c

Cemeteries 27:18

Hebrew 31:136

Churches

Emmanuel United Church of Christ 24:27; 25:127

St. Agatha’s Family Book 22:11

Second Presbyterian Church 15:85

Trinity Lutheran Church 21:37, 120

Unitarian Church 11:16

City Health Department

Deaths—1880–1892 see Deaths, below

Sanitation record 1866 32:45

Civil War volunteers 22:48

Deaths

City health records

1880-1882 14:1, 61

1883-1884 15:37

1885-1886 17:21

1887 18:98

1889-1889 19:9

1890 19:90

1891-1892 20:137

Emmanuel United Church of Christ

1868-1879 24:48*

1887-1892 25:147*

Second Presbyterian Church (1849-1874) 15:85

Trinity Lutheran Church (1866-1890) 21:40*

Unitarian Church (1831-1857) 11:17*

Indigents

Supported—1825-1832 31:52

Vaccinated—1860 31:46

Jewish families (pioneer) 31:118

Marriages

Second Presbyterian Church (1840-1863) 15:19

Emmanuel United Church of Christ

l1868-1879 24:**

1887-1892 25:144*

Methodist Episcopal Church (1866-1868) 7:103

Trinity Lutheran Church (1866-1890) 21:37

Unitarian Church (1832-1844) 11:20*

Pioneer Jewish Families 31:118

Police records (1865-1866) 10:47

Poor children

supported (1825-1832) 31:52

vaccinated (1860) 31:46

Social register (1914) 28:127

Substandard housing (1860) 32:57

Swimming Sunday (1834) 32:12

TITUSVILLE

Artillery Company—1827 31:23

Birth register, Dr. Barr (1857-1869) 12:61

Cemeteries

Pioneer Park 16:38

Demi-monde 31:70

G.A.R. Post—1895 13:73*

Holland Land Company sales 18:79

Italian Decorators 33:60

Kellogg, Dr. Isaac 23:33; 26:101

Oil families 1:41; 2:22, 66, 107c; 4:28, 106c; 5:93; 7:17, 20, 26; 9:81; 10:113c; 11:27; 12:53c;

14:60c, 70; 20:1, 121; 22:21, 73; 27:93; 28:1; 31:13; 32:1

See also 11:94; 12:57c; 14:60c

Prostitutes 31:70

Soldiers’ orphan school (1874) 2:87

Titus family 20:1, 121; 25:152c

BOROUGHS
Note: for incorporation & boundaries of all boroughs, see 20:91

Adamsville

Shenango Ref. Presby. Ch.—session minutes (1834-1867) 13:1, 101

See also relatives of Adam Owry 11:78

Blooming Valley

school children 1851-52 30:134

1890 Census of Veterans 32:118*

Cambridge Springs

social register, 1914 28:127

1890 Census of Veterans 32:130*

Centreville–1890 Census of Veterans 32:113*

Cochranton

Adams family 23:5; 24:145c

Associate Reformed Church—records 5:107

Cemetery inscriptions 28:50; 29:56, 130

Cochranton Times vital statistics (1880-1881) 22:111

Early families 6:63; 7:126c; 9:49

High School Alumni (1904) 7:70

Presbyerian Church—deaths 1:105

Thanksgiving—1879 25:52

1890 Census of Veterans 32:124*

Conneautville

Courier—vital statistics (1851-1863) 2:50

High School—history, alumni (1898) 4:88

Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church 9:1, 70

1890 Census of Veterans 32:122*

Townville—Calvary Episcopal Cemetery 3:22*

Saegertown—County Home 19:45

Tryonville—Cemetery 4:45

TOWNSHIPS
Note: For formation and boundaries of all townships, see 20:41

Athens Township–1890 Census of Veterans 32:110*

Beaver Township

cemeteries 2:15, 107c

Isherwood family 16:1

1890 Census of Veterans 32:114*

Bloomfield Township

1890 Census of Veterans 32:119*

Conneaut Township

Quakers see 21:111

1890 Census of Veterans 32:126*

East Fairfield Township

cemeteries 1:29, 108c; 2:105c

East Fallowfield Township

Adams family 32:86

Hartstown Cemetery 12:49c

Fairfield Township

Conneaut Cemetery 4:67

Elson family 29:6

May family 16:114

Vensel/Wenzel family 29:13

Greenwood Township

Benjamin Dickson (1756-1839) 30:43

Hayfield Township

Adams, Hiram & Mary family 30:128

Cole Cemetery 30:54

Country Club land 1:98

Dickson, James & Barbara (Brown) family 30:18

Frazier families 30:45

Kilday family 27:89

Rodgers Cemetery 13:56

Mead Township

1798 tax rolls 5:100

North Shenango Township

Registered voters (1887) 17:111

United Presbyterian Church 7:103

baptisms (1857-1897) 24:136

Oil Creek Township

St. Stephen of Hungary R.C. Church marriage 28:109

Randolph Township

Brawley Cemetery 2:33, 107c

Guys Mills—Waid funeral records (1900-1906) 19:65

Hatch Cemetery 24:52

Presbyterian church—1825-1856 26:1

Richmond Township

First Baptist Church (1842-1874) 12:22

Wheelock family and cemetery 28:111

Rockdale Township

Overseers of the Poor 1827—Henry Bagley 23(2):64

1890 Census of Veterans 32:136*

Rome Township

Maple Grove Cemetery 13:27

Sadsbury Township

Barber Cemetery 18:41

BatesBattes/Betts family 26:15

Cravath Cemetery 33:46

Hughes and Shotwell families 26:20; 28:141

South Shenango Township

cemeteries 5:27

Shenango Reformed Presbyterian Church—session minutes (1834-1867) 13:1, 101

See also relatives of Adam Owry 11:78

See also Samuel Bennett's siblings 21:131

Sparta Township

Walling family 28:102

Spring Township

Foster Cemetery 10:79*

Hall, Ebenezer, J.P., marriages 17:43

Thompson Cemetery 10:80*

Steuben Township

cemeteries 3:31, 93c; 4:45c

Tryonville Cemetery 4:45

Waid Cemetery 2:67; 4:105c

Summit Township

Adams Church records 3:53

Lupfer Cemetery 13:24

Troy Township

Maple Hill Cemetery 30:8

Marriages (1864-1869) 2:31

Union Township

Perkins Cemetery 31:100

Perkins family 31:101

Some Families of “Dutch Hill” 30:75

Zion/St. Stephen’s Church baptisms (1838-1857) 30:67

Venango Township

cemeteries 2:57

Zion Church records

baptisms (1819-1871) 18:23

burials (1829-1830) 1:97

confirmations, communicants 18:76

Vernon Township

Dunham Cemetery 32:95

Dunham family 32:96

Johnson family 30:114

Johnston Cemetery 11:43

Quigley Cemetery 11:47; 12:13c; 14:50c

VanHorne, Cornelius 25:96, 125; 26:100c; 28:49c; 31:40

Winkett, John letter (1850) 25:125

Wayne Township

cemeteries 1:85; 2:106c

Cochranton Cemetery 28:50; 29:56, 130

Lubold family 26:122

School children—1898 27:77

West Shenango Township

cemeteries 3:67

Woodcock Township

Coulter Cemetery 22:44

Dunn family 30:57

Jones family 28:87, 99; 30:114c

Roudebush family 21:21

Woodring family 19:1

See also Civil War drafts 14:97; 16:25, 105

ERIE COUNTY Septennial Census of 1800 21:105*

Tax duplicates (1800) 19:137*

Townships (1800) 20:41 & back cover

MERCER COUNTY Families

Nelson 29:21

Pew, John 26:90; 28:49c

Sheakley 24:14; 154c

French Creek Township

Milledgeville—cemetery 6:1; 12:53c

Mercer

Soldiers’ Orphan School (1877) 6:51

Septennial Census of 1800 21:99*

Tax duplicates (1800) 19:121*

Townships (1800)

20:41, 62* (Neshannock), 73* (Salem), 74* (Sandy Lake and Sandy Creek), 87* (West Salem), & back cover

VENANGO COUNTY
Allegheny Twp

formation & boundaries (1798-1822) 20:43*, 64*

Septennial census (1800) 21:102*

Cherrytree Township

Elijah Stewart’s descendants 14:70; 21:161c

formation & boundaries (1806-1822) 20:48*, 64*

Concord Presbyterian Church (1842-1870) 10:21

Families

Stewart 14:70; 21:161c

Irwin Township

formation & boundaries (1795-1801) 20:59*

Septennial census (1800) 21:102*

Oil region prostitutes 31:70

Plum Township

formation (1806-1822) 20:66*

Septennial Census of 1800

21:13, 20* (Mead & Oil Creek Twps.), 102* (Allegheny & Irwin Twps.)

Sugar Creek Township

formation & boundaries (1801-1822) 20:78*

Tax duplicates (1800)

19:20* (Mead Twp.), 29* (Oil Creek Twp.), 135* (Allegheny Twp.), 142* (Erie Twp.)

WARREN COUNTY
Septennial census of 1800

21:21* (Oil Creek Twp.), 104* (Allegheny Twp.)

Tax duplicates (1800)

19:20* (Mead Twp.), 131* (Irwin & Allegheny Twps.)