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And apparently with land in Monongalia VA (now WV). I am looking for any information on the family described in the following court case. Philip Sr., who moved to Westmoreland PA from Chester by 1782, is first documented 1756 in a militia unit in Vincent Twp. in Chester PA. Both Philip Jr. and Philip Sr. appear in Westmoreland PA tax records by 1782. In 1785, a Catherine Lewis joined the Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in Fayette PA with a letter from the Vincent church in Chester. One of the Philips was in Fayette Co tax records 1785, the other in Washington Co. Philip Jr. moved to Adams Co. OH before 1800 and died there in 1835--but I have no information at all on his siblings, named in the following document.
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Excerpt from : Monongalia County, West Virginia,Records of the district superior
From Page 220
225a- 1814 , Monongalia County Court. Catherine (Lewis) Merrells , Enoch Lewis, Rachel (Lewis) Williams and Philip Lewis, by their attorney Thomas Wilson, petitioned the court to resurvey their land in Scotts Mill Run. Notice to joining land owners , to wit, William Wiley, Charles Murry,Samuel Hanway,Eliab Simson, and Davis Schockley from Catherine Merrells and the others by their attorney ,Thomas Wilson, of intent to petition the court for an order to resurvey the land of Philip Lewis, deceased, “surveyed 23 November 1782 and patented to said Philip Lewis ,deceased, the 16th December in the year 1784” to rectify error in the boundary lines. Constable John Basnett served this notice on the within named on July 1814. Deposition of John Smith : He knew Philip Lewis , the elder, well and he understood that Lewis had four children, to wit, Catharine (Lewis) Merrells, Enoch Lewis, Rachel (Lewis) Williams , and Philip Lewis. He believed these four were the children and the only children of Philip Lewis, the elder, who died intestate and had title to and possessed a tract of land on the waters of Scotts Mill Run by settlement rights, August 1814,
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