Elizabeth McDaniel

Elizabeth McDaniel's maiden name given in the "History of Carbon County PA" is Hicks. In her daughter's 1855 burial information the name of the mother is given as Elizabeth Johnson. She has not been found under either name in Bucks County records to date.

Her 1844 obituary states she "came from" Perkesy in Montgomery County. This location is likely around today's Perkasie, Bucks County. This early location was originally a manor grant, and was compromised by land which included Hilltown Bucks County, Rockhill and part way into Montgomery County. The exact boundaries are unknown.

Elizabeth and Robert McDaniel had the following children, all born in Northampton now Carbon County:

Rachel, b. March 23, 1788

Nancy, b. abt. 1789

Mary, b. abt. 1790

James, b. November 2, 1792

Lydia, b. abt. 1793

Elizabeth, b. February 1, 1795

Robert, b. unknown, no further information Unknown son, no further information Unknown daughter, no further information

Rachel married Charles Haney, b. abt. 1785 possibly in New Jersey Mary married Conrad Solt, settled in Carbon County James married Lydia Klotz, settled in Carbon County Lydia married Joseph Musselman, died unknown, possibly Ohio Elizabeth married Christian Klotz, she died in 1826 in Carbon County

The notes I have on Elizabeth Hicks/Johnson follow:

The confusion regarding the surname of Hicks vs Johnson arises from a mention in the Carbon County History by Matthews and Hungerford, pub. 1884.

In that publication the surname of Elizabeth is given as Hicks, she is stated to be a Quakeress in her daughter Elizabeth's information under Christian Klotz, her husband. In the burial inforamtion of her daughter Rachel McDaniel Haney, who died in 1855, (Rev. Bauer's records, LCHS), the maiden name of Rachel's mother is given as Elizabeth Johnson. The only Elizabeth Johnson I have found who MIGHT fit Elizabeth's origins is a burial

record of the Montgomery Baptist Church, Montgomeryville PA:

Montgomeryville Baptist Graveyard.

Johnson, Elizabeth wife of Jacob d. 6-2-1811, age 68 years. Sarah, Catherine, Elizabeth, daus. of Jacob & Elizabeth.

Age 68 at death calculated back from the date of death shows a birth year of

about 1743 for Elizabeth Johnson the mother of Sarah, Catherine and Elizabeth. The Carbon County Elizabeth was born in 1767-8, when the wife above would have been 24. No further information regarding this family has been found. This record is found in the burials of Montgomery Baptist Church

at the Spruance Library in Doylestown at the Mercer Museum. No connection between this Elizabeth, daughter of Elizabeth Johnson and Elizabeth wife of Robert McDaniel is assumed.

Other than the mention of Elizabeth in the History of Carbon I found the:

Obituary of Elizabeth McDaniel

March 26, 1844 Edition of the "Carbon County Transit" lodged at Dimmick Library, Jim Thorpe PA

On Tuesday, March 5th. At her residence in Mahoning Twp., Carbon County, Elizabeth, consort of Robert McDaniel at the advanced age of 76 years, 6 months, and 21 days.

"Originally from Perkesy, Montgomery Co., she at an early period of her life, in 1773, came into the vicinity of Gnadenhutten, then a Moravian Missionary settlement of Christian Indians, and with the rest of the Pioneers of that unhappy hamlet, lived for many years exposed to the terrible inroads of the savage, who in the Revolutionary struggle seldom hesitated to kill by tomahawk, scalping-knife or torture any defenceless family they encountered in their bloody forays. None but the sharers in the stirring and startling events that characterized that period, can form an adequate idea of the risk and the constant uncertainty of life; and many a time was she, with the neighboring families, compelled to fly to the tangled

thickets at the base of the Blue Ridge, a wretched shelter from the stealthy

foe, who measured his prowess by his scalps. She was familiar with the tragical history of many an ill fated frontierman, but used to narrate with more than wonted earnestness, the story of the capture of a neighboring family, Simers by name, who were rescued only by a mere chance, by a few militiamen. On this occasion, a man by the name of Gable was disabled by a gun wound, and he was tomahawked and scalped. It pleased God to soften the hearts of these savages towards the family of Benjamin Gilbert, Mr. Lloyd, and others, and they carried off with them the brother of the massacred man,

together with Mr. Lloyd.

Her last days were her best. She was the mother of 9 CHILDREN - 3 SONS AND 6

DAUGHTERS; AND NUMBERED AT HER DECEASE 28 GRANDCHILDREN AND 24 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN".

Notes:

In husband Robert's obituary the number of living children, grand children and great grandchildren states;

9 CHILDREN, 27 GRANDCHILDREN AND 27 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. Therefore the number of grandchildren as 28 in 1844 is correct, one grandchild, a daughter

of son James died between 1844 and 1847, and 3 great-grandchildren must have

been born in the same period.

William Davis in his History of Bucks County PA states the following:

"New Britain, like Hilltown, was peopled by immigrants who came up through Philadelphia, now Montgomery County, who were part of the flanking current that met the English from the lower Delaware. Between 1700 and 1725, a number of Welsh families settled in the upper part of Philadelphia about Gwynedd and North Wales and naturally enough they soon found their way across the county line into the fertile territory of New Britain, and Hilltown, which then bore the name of Perkasie, or Perquasy.' It is interesting that the spelling of Perkasie shows as Perkesy in the 1844 obituary, and this information states that the area of the original Perkasie

covered both Hilltown and New Britain. So Elizabeth could have come from anywhere in the areas of Northern Montgomery to Quakertown and Hilltown in any direction...if the obituary is correct. Still, that leaves the question of where she was born up in the air!

Matthews and Hungerford in their 1884 "History of Carbon County PA" state that Elizabeth was born on the Lizard Creek. This is not the case since Perkesy, was the manor grant including today's Perkasie Bucks County PA.

This location actually borders on one side, the property of Richard Thomas,

father of William Thomas who married the widow Mary Custard after the murder

of her husband George about 1754/55, William Thomas being the man with whom Elizabeth was placed likely at age 6. At the time of his marriage William Thomas was about 19 years of age and Mary (Rhodes) Custard was about 46 years of age. The History also states that Elizabeth was placed...when a young girl with William Thomas. If she arrived in 1773 as stated in her obituary, she was placed with William Thomas and wife Mary Custard Thomas, whose home in Carbon was confiscated in 1776 or 1778 due to his Loyalist activities during the Revolution. William and Mary had one known daughter, Rebecca who married George Crosley after the Revolutionary war. This couple settled in and stayed in Carbon the rest of their lives.

William was arrested for Tory activities in 1776, his property was confiscated shortly after the arrest and sold. One of the buyers was George Crosley, this man was a patriot and had married William Thomas' and the widow Mary Custard Thomas' only child, Rebecca. George and Rebecca Crosley's

children moved to Columbia County at some point after the revolution.

William's brother Josiah who also lived in the Lizard Creek valley, had a daughter Cassandra who married Samuel Hicks of Richland Bucks Co. , this couple also moved to Columbia County. Hicks Ferry is named after this Hicks family, it is just above Berwick. The families herein are so intertwined with inter-marriages and family connections that a separate genealogy would be necessary to do a full outline. There are so many clues but so little firm documentation at this point to make a clear and understandable interweaving without years of research.

William Thomas fought with the British in the Revolution. He was with the British the battle of Yorktown in 1783 and left with the evacuating soldiers

for NY. He then left NY and went to Digby NS, as did his brothers Joshua and

Evan, and resettled in New Brunswick, which was created out of land within the boundaries of Nova Scotia shortly after the arrival of the Loyalist refugees in 1783. It is not known if Mary Custard went to NS, she would have

been about 74 at that time and she later appears in the will of Thomas Pascal of Philadelphia in 1787, probated in 1790, as: "to those in my service...Mary Custard and Mary Custard Thomas". Mary Custard was Mary Custard Thomas' daughter by George Custard, who was killed by the Indians in

Northampton County in 1755, her first husband. Mary remained single leaving her lands in Northampton Co. to her neice Cassandra Thomas Hicks who was a child of Josiah Thomas and had married Samuel Hicks of Bucks County. They too moved to Columbia County between the 1790 and the 1800 census'. William Thomas' mother was Elizabeth Walton, of the Byberry Waltons and Mary Custard

Thomas' maiden name was Rhodes. The Paschals were intermarried with the Rhodes family and that is likely why he took Mary Custard Thomas and daughter into his household after the confiscation in 1776.

Notes:

William Thomas was a son of Richard Thomas and Elizabeth Walton of Hilltown.

Richard's parents are Evan Thomas and wife: from Wales.

Known children:

Richard Thomas, b. likely Wales

Evan Thomas Jr.

Richard and Elizabeth resided in Hilltown PA, on a property which today borders Rt. 313 and ran across Rt 309 near Souderton. William received land in Norhampton now Carbon County PA from his father about 1752.

Information regarding the Walton family of Byberry, in relation to Elizabeth

Thomas, wife of Richard Thomas states:

Richard Thomas' wife was Elizabeth Walton of the Byberry Waltons, daughter of Joshua Walton and Catherine Albertson, Joshua Walton was the son of Daniel Walton and Mary Lamb of Byberry.

Children of Richard Thomas and Elizabeth Walton are:

Joshua, married Martha Custard, moved to New Brunswick, Canada, Loyalist Josiah married Hannah Custard, moved to Salem Twp., Luzerne William married Mary Rhodes Custard, Penn Twp., Carbon, on to New Brunswick,

Canada, Loyalist

Hannah married Henry Kocher, lived in Carbon County, descendants in Luzerne,

Carbon, Monroe and elsewhere

Martha, lived with her uncle Jonathan Walton in Warminster PA, had son Jonathan Thomas, illegitimate Evan, married unknown, name of wife possibly Mary, moved to New Brunswick Canada in 1783, Loyalist Levi, who stayed in Hilltown PA and moved first to Penn Twp., Carbon County after the war, and then on to Luzerne County near the home of Josiah or Jesse Thomas at Salem.

An account of the Walton family shows Elizabeth's father Joshua Walton's

lines:

DANIEL WALTON, the third of the Byberry brothers, married 6 mo. 21, 1688, Mary Lamb, and remained in Byberry until his death in 1719. He was a consistent member of the Society of Friends and much respected during his whole life. Practically all of the Waltons now residing in Byberry or its vicinity are descendants of Daniel and Mary. Children of Daniel and Mary

(Lamb) Walton:

Samuel, b. about 1690; d. -1760; m. Mercy Waterman Daniel, m. Elizabeth Clifton; children: David, 3d; m. Ann Knight, Jane, m.

Isaiah Walton, a grandson of William; Mercy, m. William Walton, a grandson of William.

JOSHUA, m. Catharine Albertson, and was the father of Jonathan Walton, of Warminster, who by will in 1789 devised one-third of the residue of his estate to trustees therein named, members of Richland Monthly Meeting to invest in mortgage, the interest to be used for a school or schools at Richland. This legacy amounted to practically $950. He also left the bulk of

his land estate to the sons of his uncle Samuel.

Joseph, m. Esther Carver, and settled in Buckingham Benjamin, b. 1693; d. 11-1753; m. Rebecca Homer; children:

Elizabeth, b. 3-27-1725; d. in Chester Co. 1810; m. first, Bryan Peart; second, Benjamin Gilbert, the Indian Captive, Mary, m. Benjamin Walton Thomas Daniel, b. 12-1--1728/29; m. Sarah Gilbert, dau. of Benjamin by a former wife Hannah, no surname known.

Rebecca, m. Joseph Warrington

Sarah, m. Thomas Knight

Benjamin, b. 12-1--1735-36; m. Abigail Gilbert, sister to Sarah, wife of Daniel

Esther, b. 5-31-1738; m. Thomas Walton

William, b. 5-29-1740; m. Lydia Thornton

Nathan, d. unm.

Mary, m. William Homer

According to the Waltons of Byberry, a genealogy publication at Spruance Library Joshua and wife Catherine Albertson had the following children found

in his will:

WALTON, JOSHUA. Byberry. Phila. Co. Yeoman.

April 2, 1773. April 24, 1773.

Wife: Jane. Children: Samuel, Elizabeth, Ann, Josiah [Joshuah?].

Brother: Albertson. Execs.: Jane and Albertson Walton. Witnesses: John Loofbourrow, Samuel Roberts, John Watts. (P:396)

Notice wife Jane listed. According to the Walton Book Catherine had died by 1759. It is probable that Joshua remarried. Albertson Walton, executor of the will of Joshua Walton had allied himself with the Loyalists, was tried and later was aquitted and retained his properties. He died in 1821 at age 90.

No further information regarding William Thomas in New Brunswick Canada has been found. His declaration for compensation from the British Government is on file at the David Library of the Revolution in Washington's Crossing PA, on microfilm. This document shows he owned a great deal of land in Carbon County at the time of the revolutionary war, almost 1,000 acres. He was fined heavily when arrested in Northampton County, his wife and other family

members of the Josiah Thomas family remained on their properties in Carbon then Northampton County, Mary staying until her properties were auctioned off and the buyers took possession. William's brother Joshua, also a Loyalist, who was on part of the property in Carbon when the Loyalist charges were brought against him, filed claims with the British government for a 61 acre farm in Carbon. He too resettled in New Brunswick Canada, and William appears in one land transaction with Joshua in I believe 1787.

By the late 1800's a descendant of Robert and Elizabeth Hicks, Ella May Miller of Fishing Creek, Columbia County PA, had married a descendant of the

Kocher family who descended from William Thomas' sister Hannah Thomas, married to Henry Kocher. Again things have come full circle 250 years later.

Judy McElderry